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Prawn of Patriarchy retweeted
On Saturday and five days prior to International Men's Day, women will march for men in Belfast. This is how men and women of goodwill are working towards genuine equality...
Thank you to all of the organisers and to Men's Alliance Northern Ireland.
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Read this amazing story....
After spending most of her life defending the feminist movement, British writer Petronella White writes an article in which she expresses her regret, saying: “I am single and childless and alone. Feminism has let me down and let down my entire generation.”
The writer added in her article: “Every Monday, I meet with a group of friends at one of London’s restaurants. We sit at a table near the window and discuss our lives. We have so much in common—we’re all in our mid-fifties, working women with prestigious educations—but... there’s an emptiness in our lives because we’re all single and have no children. I feel increasingly, as my close friends do, that feminism has let down our generation... and I sometimes think, as my friends do, that the West has outgrown feminist philosophy and that it has become harmful... So where in this world are women like us left to reach our mid-fifties and find ourselves alone? ...
Did you know that one in ten British women in their fifties has never married and lives alone! And it’s a painful and unhealthy thing. My friend Sally, who is 55 years old, said to me: I always feel like an unwanted person as a woman because feminism taught us that the traditional female is a stereotype invented by men to keep us under their control, and based on that, I was hostile to men to the point of pushing them away, and now here I am paying the price for it... I say it clearly: It’s time to rethink this culture and reclaim the traditional culture... Perhaps it’s too late for me and my friends, but we must not allow the women’s movement to destroy the lives of future generations as well.”
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Four uncomfortable truths about women in relationships that nobody talks about:
1. Susceptibility to rumination & negative memory bias: Women score higher in neuroticism and rumination, meaning perceived injuries stay psychologically active much longer. Over time, past vacations and positive memories get reinterpreted entirely through the lens of current dissatisfaction.
2. The speed of emotional detachment:
When a woman brings up divorce, she has usually processed it internally for months, talked to friends or online communities, and mentally ended the relationship long before mentioning the "D-word" to her husband. To her, it's over; to him, it feels completely out of nowhere.
3. Asymmetric social reinforcement:
When a woman vents about her partner to friends or family, she receives immediate validation and belief. When a man talks to his friends about his marital struggles, he is almost universally told: "It's not that bad, go back and talk to your wife."
4. Moral reclassification and out-group hostility:
Once a partner is pushed out of the "inner sanctum" and classified negatively, normal emotional restraints weaken. Research shows women can be significantly more punitive toward those outside their in-group, explaining the sudden shift from a loving partner to profound hostility.
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"Drivers who killed women received substantially longer sentences than those who killed men. As we see in the table below, the average sentence for killing a woman was 9.7 years, whereas the average sentence for killing a man was 4.4 years."
stevestewartwilliams.com/p/b…
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Look at this new research proving, once again, that men do more paid plus unpaid work than women.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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I often hear: “women are injured more” when it comes to intimate partner violence.
And it’s true, they are.
But it’s not so simple.
In US ER data (ages 15–39), 2.63x more women than men were injured by a partner.
But for people 'hospitalised' by IPV, that shrinks to just 1.27x, with injured men twice as likely to be admitted than women (6.7% vs 3.4%).
Why?
Well, because abusive women are more likely to use knives or sharp objects.
28% of men injured by a partner had cut or stab wounds from knives or sharp objects, vs 4.8% of women.
Meanwhile, 88% of women’s injuries came from being struck (vs 58% of men’s), which rarely leads to hospitalisation.
So whilst, yes, the large majority of injuries are against women, when it comes to injuries serious enough to cause hospitalisation, things are not so different.
And this isn't some small limited sample of people.
This is data from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission’s National Electronic Injury Surveillance System All Injury Program (NEISS-AIP) in America.
...an enormous, 20+ year database capturing MILLIONS of IPV emergency room visits.
Source: Gentzis & Dutton, Violence & Victims, Injury severity from intimate partner violence: Data from U.S. Hospitals, (in press).
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UNCONSCIOUS BIAS PERSISTENTLY FAVOURS WOMEN
An Australian Government experiment uncovered something that challenges the stale conventional narratives about discrimination...
In 2017, the Behavioural Economics Team of Australia (BETA) published a randomised controlled trial involving over 2,100 public servants across 14 agencies.
The findings were striking:
🔹 Identifiable female applicants were 2.9% more likely to be shortlisted than anonymised applicants.
🔹 Identifiable male applicants were 3.2% less likely to be shortlisted.
🔹 Removing identifying information reduced the advantage enjoyed by female applicants.
The researchers concluded that discrimination favoured women and disadvantaged men.
This raises uncomfortable questions about three interconnected phenomena:
1. Gamma Bias: The tendency to magnify female disadvantages and male wrongdoing while minimising male disadvantages and female wrongdoing.
2. Gynocentrism: The tendency to prioritise women's experiences, interests and welfare over equivalent concerns affecting men.
3. Unconscious Bias: Automatic assumptions that favour women while disadvantaging equally qualified men.
Broader psychological research also identifies greater protective concern for women, often called the women-are-wonderful effect or male disposability.
These findings deserve attention alongside disparities in male suicide, educational attainment, homelessness and workplace fatalities.
Importantly, BETA examined hypothetical executive shortlisting, not every workplace or recruitment stage. Its findings don't establish universal discrimination.
Nevertheless, gender equality must mean fairness for BOTH sexes.
We can't credibly oppose some forms of discrimination against women while completely ignoring evidence of discrimination against men.
The solution isn't preferential treatment for either sex. It's consistent standards, genuine meritocracy, compassion and evidence-based policy.
Equality requires recognising bias wherever it exists...
#GenderEqualityForMen #GammaBias #Gynocentrism #MensEqualityMonth
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A very insightful comment from Helen Pluckrose.
substack.com/@helenpluckrose…
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The lead author of the paper that I overviewed was a woman. Her name is Paula Braveman. Here is how she explained away public health's interest in male life expectancy using intersectional feminism:
“Shorter life expectancy among men in general, if likely avoidable, would clearly be an issue of public health importance based on the magnitude of potential population impact. However, men as a group have more wealth, influence, and prestige, so this difference would not be a social injustice and, therefore, not a health disparity or equity issue.”
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“If women are behind on a metric, it’s recorded as inequality. If men are behind, it’s recorded as parity. You read that correctly: The index is explicitly designed so that men cannot be seen as disadvantaged, no matter how far behind they fall.”
stevestewartwilliams.com/p/t…
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In einer anonymen Umfrage (zur Hälfte Frauen aus der Allgemeinbevölkerung, zur Hälfte Studentinnen) gaben 39,6 Prozent der Teilnehmerinnen an, sie könnten sich vorstellen, einen Mann fälschlich des sexuellen Übergriffs zu beschuldigen.
31 Prozent kannten mindestens eine andere Frau, die schon einmal eine solche falsche Anschuldigung getätigt hat; einige sogar zwei oder mehr.
7 Prozent gaben zu, selbst schon einmal eine falsche Anschuldigung gegen einen Mann erhoben zu haben.
researchgate.net/publication…
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One of the UN's favourite propaganda techniques is the suppression of male victimization data. In the report that they link in their tweet, you will see that 210 men were also surveyed. To my knowledge, the UN has never published the results from these 210 men. By not publishing the results from these men, the UN is then able to tell a story that only women experience online abuse and harassment.
The suppression of male victimization data is becoming increasingly important because governments are on the move to crackdown against "hateful" or "harmful" online speech directed toward women but not men.
Online abuse is silencing women journalists.
Think about the stories we’re not hearing.
Threats and attacks must have consequences.
This International Day to #EndImpunity for Crimes against Journalists, we say:
#NoExcuse for online abuse.
👉 bit.ly/4yQibvw
ALT The image features a person holding a microphone, facing away, surrounded by digital symbols of negativity such as angry faces and exclamation marks. Text reads: "Nearly half of women journalists report self-censorship on social media due to online violence." Logos for UN Women and For All Women and Girls are present at the top.
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Federal judges gave women sentences 29.2% shorter than men, after controlling for crime and record (U.S. Sentencing Commission, FY2017–2021).
If gender tips the scale in criminal court, what do you think happens in family court? 🤔
More prison time should not be the price of being male.
Women received federal sentences 29.2% shorter than men’s in 2017–2021, according to the U.S. Sentencing Commission.
Women were 39.6% more likely to get probation instead of prison.
Women’s prison sentences were 11.3% shorter.
An Ohio State researcher found women received 5.2% shorter sentences in Minnesota felony cases from 1982–2017, even after accounting for differences between the cases.
When Minnesota's sentencing guidelines called for prison, judges let 56.6% of women avoid it, compared with 39.3% of men.
The federal Commission’s job includes addressing unfair sentencing gaps. It needs to act on its own findings.
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Jail for him, not for her.
North Carolina makes simple assault a Class A1 misdemeanor when a man assaults a woman. A woman assaulting a man commits a Class 2 misdemeanor.
With no prior convictions, he faces up to 60 days in jail. She pays a fine or faces probation.
The law gives male victims less protection and punishes male offenders more severely based on sex.
Sources: North Carolina General Assembly, §§ 14-33 and 15A-1340.23.
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Look at these extraordinary figures, from Lori Laver's blog. He concludes:
Women who commit suicide also kill their children more than 5 and a half times as often as men.
Men in the danger period during and following a relationship breakdown are 40 times more likely to fatally harm themselves than to kill a female partner.
Please circulate this important data.
The Suicide Numbers We Don’t Compare putourchildrenfirst.substack…
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The relationship deteriorated & she falsely accused him or sexual assault & chid abuse. She even stabbed herself several times falsely saying he did it & persuaded a friend to lie & back her up
Sentenced to 3 years
Thank God for CCTV
grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/news/…
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Her son catches sexual predators. He needs to have a chat with his own mother, who gave teenage boys topless lap dances. Fucking unbelievable. You can't make this shit up. Women sexually abuse boys. They. Just. Do.
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What they're not telling you about domestic abuse youtube.com/shorts/ZYam1v-OP… via @YouTube
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Female MIT scientist climbed into famed professor's bed and 'aggressively' demanded sex... before making #MeToo allegation that almost ruined him after he dumped her
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