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SNIP There in that hotel, a little over four years ago, I was raped by a group of men during a three-day trip I took to Las Vegas with two of my best friends. Of the rape, which lasted all night, I remember both too much and too little. I never did anything about it. I didn’t tell anyone who could have done something about it, either, such as the hotel staff or the Las Vegas police. I never considered taking any kind of action at the time, but ever since the possibility has haunted me as a particularly cruel...

Ninety-one percent. That’s the share of young liberal women who oppose deportations of illegal immigrants. In a country where 61% of voters support deportation efforts, one demographic has positioned itself further from the American mainstream than any other group in modern polling. This hasn’t shown itself in just one issue. It’s a pattern. And understanding it explains a lot about our current political dysfunction. The inversion here is striking. White young liberal women oppose deportations at 94%. Their non-white counterparts? Eighty-three percent opposed. The women who look least like the people being deported hold the strongest opposition. The women who...

There’s a clip going around where some obnoxious woman decides that a guy walking out of a Quik-i-Mart is a nice guy and she takes it upon herself, being the heroine and the main character of the epic saga that is her life, to knock his cup of coffee from his hands. He’s a fairly big guy, fit, and he doesn’t lay her out across the parking lot with a right cross. It’s not that she doesn’t deserve it – she does. It’s that he is still defaulting to the male role in a chivalry system that no longer exists....

An American tourist caught up in a twisted love triangle died after begging his Thai ex-girlfriend to take him back, according to police. Stein Cole, 54, was seen pleading with his much-younger girlfriend, Nan Phawt Ar Cho, 24, to get back together with him on Monday afternoon when things quickly turned deadly, the Mirror reported. While Cole talked with Cho, her current partner, Saw Nay Lin Oo, 26, and three other men, allegedly attacked him outside a shop in Bangkok around 4.30pm. During the vicious ambush, the group allegedly battered Cole, originally from Corcoran, California, to death with a metal...

A bill introduced into the Colorado State Senate last week would make Colorado the first state in the U.S. to fully decriminalize prostitution if it became law. Senate Bill 26-097 would require the entire state to decriminalize “commercial sexual activity among consenting adults,” both for people who buy sex and who would sell it. This would be unique in the U.S., as the only other states with any form of legal prostitution, Maine and Nevada, still have certain rules around it. In Nevada, for instance, prostitution is only legal within licensed houses of prostitution, or brothels, and some counties in...

U.S. Population Growth Slows Due to Historic Decline in Net International Migration January 27, 2026 Press Release Number: CB26-20 JAN. 27, 2026 — Population growth in the United States has slowed significantly with an increase of only 1.8 million, or 0.5%, between July 1, 2024, and July 1, 2025, according to the new Vintage 2025 population estimates released today by the U.S. Census Bureau. This was the nation’s slowest population growth since the early period of the COVID-19 pandemic, when the population grew by a historically low 0.2% in 2021. The slowdown also comes after a sizeable uptick of growth...

Social media has become a driver of information, among many other things, but it’s also provided the single greatest argument toward ending women’s suffrage. I’m sorry, but white, crusty, liberal women have killed the case for the 19th Amendment. Should there be a complete and total shutdown of women’s voting rights until we can figure out what’s going on? Maybe. Look, we know what’s going on, to be honest. We killed their hopes of a Hillary Clinton presidency and obliterated Kamala Harris’ shoddy, inept, and overall shambolic 2024 campaign. With all the whining, ranting, and calls for violence, have you...

Bill Ackman quote tweeted a graph showing the partisan gap between young men and women almost doubled in 25 years. https://x.com/zarathustra5150/status/2011851505834352809?s=20 Women moved radically left. Men stayed roughly where they were. https://x.com/BillAckman/status/2012003297146912926?s=20 Good question. Most answers I've seen are either tribal ("women are emotional") or surface-level ("social media bad"). Neither traces the actual mechanism. Let me try. First, notice what Wanye pointed out: https://x.com/xwanyex/status/2011813443209146730?s=20 We've been told for a decade that men are "radicalizing to the right" and that this is dangerous. The actual data shows the opposite. Men barely moved. Women moved 20+ points leftward. The story we are...

We hear all the time about how young men have lurched rightward, moving toward a fascist view of things. There are endless thinkpieces out there trying to divine why men have become so right-wing. The evidence, they say, is clear: the gender gap between men and women is growing, which obviously shows that something is deeply wrong with men. But...if you dive into the available data, it shows that men have not moved much at all ideologically. The movement is almost entirely among women, who have lurched—dramatically, as a group—leftward. So far left that in many cases, they verge on...

Modern relationships between men and women are dysfunctional. But to understand why, we cannot examine them through the lens of emotion or morality. We need to look at something far more fundamental, our biology. If you look at the natural world, you'll see that there are three distinct categories that demonstrate how two organisms relate to each other. The first is competition, where you are fighting over a limited resource. This is the lion and the hyena fighting over the same carcass. One party's gain is the other party's loss. This dynamic is the classic power struggle where one needs...

Earlier this week, Kevin Downey Jr. wrote about what he calls "affluent white liberal women," or AWFLs, pegging them as the biggest internal threat to America. Not foreign enemies. Not terror cells. Just well-off women with pronouns in their bios and too much time on their hands. He described them as attention-seeking harpies who push extreme gender ideology, drag their kids to medicalized gender clinics, and parade them at sexualized drag shows labeled as "family-friendly." These are the same people, he argued, who want to defund the police, defend criminals no matter how violent or foreign, and censor anyone who...

Divorcing a good man is not an act of bravery but an act of self-destruction that harms many others in the process.There’s a big milestone coming up for a lot of families this year: first divorced Christmas. It might be a challenging day of splitting kids between disparate family events. Or, perhaps, Mom and Dad will behave like adults and both show up to the same gathering in an effort to create some normalcy for their children, who, heretofore, might have had an intact family and simple celebrations.For as long as there has been marriage, there have been some people...

End of transcript beginning at 24:48: "Our old systems were based on a masculine value system. Femininity was valued and it was respected, but it mostly played out in the private sphere. Public life was dominated by men and masculine values. Whether or not there is an important contribution that feminine values can make in reshaping our large institutions still remains to be seen. We are still very early in that experiment. But if you want to diagnose why our cultural decline seems to be speeding up and also understand where it began, look at gender. Our culture and our...

According to a global survey of 130 countries conducted in 2019 (Kramer 2019), the US had the highest rate of children living in single-parent households of any nation in the world, at about 23%, or more than three times the worldwide level of 7% (Figure 1).The prevalence of these cases was markedly lower in neighboring Canada and Mexico (15% and 7%, respectively), and much lower in developing countries, all below 5%.For decades, the share of U.S. children living with a single parent has been rising, accompanied by a decline in marriage rates and a rise in births outside marriage (Livingston...

This one-time Democrat has delivered one of the most scathing indictments I’ve ever seen of the entire leftist cultural infrastructure. Back in 2020, during the George Floyd riots, most Americans first became aware that Democrat women are very troubled. I mean, we’d already heard about “Karens,” a phrase to describe scolding, self-righteous white women. (There is no equivalent phrase for scolding, self-righteous black women, or other minority women, but they’re out there, too.) However, it was during the riots that we suddenly saw women who were no longer merely obnoxious. Instead, they were crazed harpies, screaming at the top of...

This is why we have trust issues.If you’ve spent any time watching Catfish on MTV, you’re probably familiar with the risks of online dating. People posing as someone they’re not is something all singles need to watch out for as they swipe on apps. But apparently there’s a chance you might not be catfished by another person at all—you might be getting scammed by a restaurant. A trend is emerging where restaurants are posing as eligible singles on dating apps to lure users to dine at their establishment. The scam has been dubbed “food digging,” derived from the term “gold...

The big lies of modern feminism have taken a huge toll on women, causing them confusion and frustration. Psychotherapist Jonathan Alpert recently reported that 75 percent of his patients cannot function because they are so triggered by President Donald Trump’s existence. Alpert didn’t specify what percentage of his patients are women, but numerous reports show that leftist women today are especially afflicted with mental illness, misery, and loneliness. Alpert explained that “Trump Derangement Syndrome” matches the clinical symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).[video at link] They can’t sleep. They can’t enjoy life. And yet some psychotherapists actually advise them to isolate...

Welcome to another in our ongoing series of As I Said Twenty Sod-Bollocking Years Ago. Women have inherited the thrones of great powers - Elizabeth I, Catherine the Great, Victoria - and presided over massed ranks of courtiers drawn from the "pale, male and stale" (thank you, David Cameron). But America and its client states are the first in history in which every significant venue aside from ladies' sport is now dominated by women. The west is closer than any society should be to the end of men - which is a big source of the terrible confusion in our...

Richard Cooper @Rich_Cooper 40 yr old women: I have no idea why I can't find a husband... Also 40 yr old women:

Mollie Hemingway -- author, political pundit, frequent guest on Gutfeld!, as well as editor of The Federalist, recently appeared on FOX News and stated that the Democrat party’s base is now primarily made up of angry women. Hemingway is clearly correct, as any honest person who hasn’t lived incommunicado in a wikiup deep in the Brazilian rainforest for the past, say, 30 years, would have to admit. Whenever I see a Prius Subaru vehicle on the road with more than four bumper stickers, I know there is a 95% chance its owner is a member of the far-left community. If...