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During an interview with Fox 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul on Tuesday, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) responded to safety concerns around allowing biological men in women’s sports in light of the Payton McNabb incident and the state’s lawsuit over the Trump administration’s push to keep biological men out of women’s sports by saying that “I’ll leave you and your viewers and other people to discuss what happened in one video.” Host Amy Hockert asked, “What do you think about people like Riley Gaines…girls and women who we’ve seen, sometimes videos are circulated of a volleyball player who has a ball...

During a portion of an interview with Portland, Maine ABC affiliate Channel 8 WMTW released on Thursday, Attorney General Aaron Frey (D) said that the opposition to allowing biological men to play women’s sports “is driven, in large part, by a lot of lack of information or misinformation.” Frey stated, “I think some of the public sentiment is being driven by a lot of half-truths or untruths, right? There have been transgender athletes — student athletes in Maine for years, for years and years and years. Safety, privacy have always been a consideration, not just for transgender students, by the...

For the first time in modern American history, more young men than women are claiming religious affiliation. NBC News’ Morgan Radford explores the connection between the religious growth, the rightward political shift and the growing gender gap.

VIDEOLet this video be your warning to NEVER go on a computer date because even if she turns out to good looking, there is an excellent chance you will end up with someone who has gone Full Mental Jacket. Oh, and avoid blind dates as well. Those almost never work out. Ol' PJ once knew a woman who looked like Sophia Loren who set me up on a blind date with her sister. I figured the sister must also give off the same Sophia Loren vibes so imagine my SHOCK when the door opened to my blind date who looked...

Once upon a time, it was fairly common for highly educated men in the United States to marry less-educated women. But beginning in the mid-20th century, as more women started to attend college, marriages seemed to move in a more egalitarian direction, at least in one respect: A greater number of men and women started partnering up with their educational equals. That trend, however, appears to have stalled and even reversed in recent years. Gaps in educational experience among heterosexual couples are growing again. And this time? It’s women who are “marrying down.”

For years, the Democratic political figures, liberal activists, and the resistance movement writ large have drawn morbid comfort from the fact that Donald Trump’s supporters were, frankly, quite old. The Trump phenomenon, they believed, had an expiration date sometime in the near future: Young voters would replace their parents and grandparents as demographics shifted, and all would be right — or rather, left — with the world. The 2024 election has shattered these hopes. Trump’s gains with young people are so massive that Gen Z might as well be called Gen Trump. Data guru David Shor laid bare this stark...

After a handful of underwhelming relationships and dozens of disappointing first dates, Andrea Vorlicek recently called off the search for a husband. The 29-year-old always thought she’d have found her life partner by now. Instead, she’s house hunting solo and considering having kids on her own. “I’m financially self-sufficient enough to do these things myself,” said Vorlicek, a Boston-based accountant. “I’m willing to accept being single versus settling for someone who isn’t the right fit.” She sees her plans for an independent future as making the best of a lousy situation. “I don’t want to sit here and say I’m...

The D.C. establishment seems confused about why President Donald Trump and his administration are doing so well with American voters. Still, if they had been paying attention, Vice President JD Vance explained this months ago. A post from a left-wing account came across my X feed over the weekend. It included a screenshot of an interview with Vance discussing how older Ohio voters understand national conservatism even if they don’t follow along online. [snip] “The left is committed to brain-dead Bidenism,” Vance said. “Biden’s entire political project is harmonizing various parts of the American left that don’t make any sense....

President Donald Trump’s administration is withholding $175 million from the University of Pennsylvania due to the school’s failure to ban men from women’s sports. The White House announced the decision in a post on X Wednesday, citing the university’s “policies forcing women to compete with men in sports.” The $175 million makes up approximately 20 percent of the total federal funds the university received last year, with the payments coming from the Department of Defense and the Department of Health and Human Services, a White House official told The New York Post.

Andrew Tate is a social media figure with a large audience, estimated in the millions. He is an experienced boxer and mixed martial arts fighter. His audience includes many disaffected men and Muslims. His messaging is misogynist and endorses violent death for nonbelievers. In other words, traditional Islam.Recently, President Trump interceded on his behalf with Romanian authorities who were holding Tate and his brother, Tristan, on human/sex trafficking allegations. This has been an ongoing matter since 2022. Andrew Tate holds dual British and American citizenship. President Trump asked that restrictions against Andrew and Tristan Tate be lifted.It’s unclear why our...

By understanding the reasons, scientists hope to help both sexes age better.omen outlive men, by something of a long shot: In the United States, women have a life expectancy of about 80, compared to around 75 for men. This holds true regardless of where women live, how much money they make and many other factors. It’s even true for most other mammals. “It’s a very robust phenomenon all over the world, totally conserved in sickness, during famines, during epidemics, even during times of starvation,” said Dr Dena Dubal, a professor of neurology at the University of California, San Francisco. But...

A man using the girls bathroom at Western Carolina University. Unreal

A new study published in PLOS One found that men and women misjudge what the opposite sex finds attractive. A research team in the United Kingdom asked 144 people — with an average age of 22 — to adjust a 3D model of a man’s or a woman’s face to match their appearance to find out what they believed the other gender finds the most attractive for both short- and long-term relationships. Sharp, bold features like chiseled jawlines are often described as more masculine, while soft, delicate features like full lips are characterized as more feminine — and everyone’s rushing...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer made a direct appeal to young men who shifted sharply to the right in the most recent election in a speech Wednesday in which she continued to call for each major party to work across the aisle. Whitmer delivered her speech just days after sitting next to President Donald Trump at a White House dinner and reiterated her hope to find common ground with him. As a potential 2028 presidential candidate with a national profile built on advocating for women’s rights, Whitmer emphasized that her message was directed “to all young...

Crippling fear of walking home alone in the dark. The deafening sound of the biological clock ticking. The ever-growing gender pay gap. Sometimes it can feel as though there aren't always many benefits to being a woman in 2025 - as generation after generation are discovering the hard way that we can't, in fact, 'have it all'. But if you were to believe everything you read on internet forums, modern-day womanhood can simply be defined by its perks.

Serum testosterone (T) recovery to normal levels is associated with a significant improvement in overall survival in patients with high-risk prostate cancer receiving radiotherapy and long-term androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), according to a study. Abdenour Nabid, M.D. and colleagues randomly assigned 630 patients with high-risk prostate cancer to pelvic radiotherapy plus 36 versus 18 months of ADT (310 and 320 patients, respectively). Serum T was collected at baseline and regularly thereafter. T recovery was defined as return of T to within the normal range value of each participating institution. T data were available for 515 patients who were retained for...

Readers of a certain age will know the answer instinctively. Unfortunately, most people are under a certain age, and very confused about sex, love, and biological imperatives. That's what Louise Perry writes in a new book, excerpted today as an essay at The Free Press. In the essay, A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century sounds a lot like the old guide to sex in the 20th century before The Pill upended everything about humans and sexual relations. Perry argues -- correctly -- that women and men want different outcomes from socialization, and decades of attempting what Erica...

Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) on a new podcast is accusing his own party of being “toxic,” while suggesting it may be unable to win over white male voters. In an appearance on the “Somebody’s Gotta Win” podcast, the senator said Democrats have talked down to voters, and they are seeing that boomerang on them. “I think [Democrats’] primary currency was shaming and scolding and talking down to people and telling them, ‘Hey, I know better than you,’ or you’re dopes, or you’re a bro, or you’re ignorant or, ‘how can you be this dumb? I can’t imagine it.’ And then,...

the Democratic Party’s most fundamental problem: Its brand has become toxic to men. According to the Quinnipiac poll, a staggering 67% of men hold an unfavorable view of the Democratic Party, while only 22% approve. A party that repels 2 in 3 men is not viable. For Democrats to regain their national influence, they must reflect on why men of every color, class, and creed have abandoned them.

From Taylor Swift to Nicole Kidman, many high-profile female celebrities earn more than their partners. Their partners - Travis Kelce and Keith Urban - seem fairly happy with their setups, but a new study has warned that the same isn't true across the board. If you truly want a happy life, scientists from the University of Durham say it's better for the male partner to be the higher earner.