Jack joined a social media group to find online support. Instead he found a culture of toxic masculinity
cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/28911465
Jack had heard a lot about the invite-only social media group Blokes Advice when he decided to apply to become a member. The group pitches itself as a place men can go for support when life gets hard and is affiliated with Better Bloke Project, a men's mental health charity.
But Blokes Advice has also been accused of harbouring a culture of toxic masculinity. It didn't take long for Jack to experience the group's dark side firsthand.
When Jack was accepted into the group, he found all members were required to post a photo of a woman they rated a "10" for attractiveness before asking a question on the chat. He noticed the thread sometimes contained comments that were misogynistic and degrading towards women.
The Intercept has been consistent for years about not declaring it case closed prematurely
More and more men are being sucked into parts of the internet that circulate misogynist content, leaving their families to deal with the wreckage
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/36418433
With surveys reporting that an increasing number of young men are subscribing to these beliefs, the number of women finding that their partners share the misogynistic views espoused by the likes of Andrew Tate is also on the rise. Research from anti-fascism organisation Hope Not Hate, which polled about 2,000 people across the UK aged 16 to 24, discovered that 41% of young men support Tate versus just 12% of young women.
“Numbers are growing, with wives worried about their husbands and partners becoming radicalised,” says Nigel Bromage, a reformed neo-Nazi who is now the director of Exit Hate Trust, a charity that helps people who want to leave the far right.
“Wives or partners become really worried about the impact on their family, especially those with young children, as they fear they will be influenced by extremism and racism.”
Inspired by ‘Hot Girls for Bernie’, a grassroots campaign is rallying behind the democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani
“We out of order? your honor, you're out of order, this whole court is unimportant.” —LP
Liberals in the US make up about 15% of the prepping scene and their numbers are growing. Their fears differ from their better-known rightwing counterparts – as do their methods
You know you love to see a picture of Kropotkin in the paper
That’s a non sequitur. “We can’t trust the US” doesn’t mean “we need nukes” and it doesn’t mean “we need spooks” either.
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Let’s delve into the issue
“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.“
In the US it’s usually euphemised under ‘loitering’ or ‘vagrancy’ or some such rubbish
an American publication
According to Wikipedia, its mostly written and edited in London, and was started in Britain in the 1800s (to raise support for abolishing import tariffs in fact)
This is the premise of Tom Maughan’s short story “Flyover Country”
Fuck Jerome Powell and fuck the Fed. Even if being a reliable servant of capital is slightly preferable to chaos, he’s no friend of the working class.
The first line isn’t from Smith, though the second part is. This is the opening paragraph of Marx’s “Rent of Land” where he’s using quotes from two different authors. Smith and Marx were on the same page about a lot of stuff (including alienation and the labor theory of value!), but the quote is only partly accurate.
Joe Rogan changed. Not all at once. Not in some catastrophic fall from grace. But gradually — the way signals turn to noise when the frequency gets stuck. And now, millions of men are trying to survive a collapsing world by bulking up their biceps and shrinking their imaginations. I saw
From Reddit to the New York Times and TMZ, there’s an ongoing effort to squash the wave of popular anger at for-profit healthcare that Luigi Mangione represents.
Yeah, because punching down isn’t funny
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Congress did though, explicitly. There is a
provision within the Immigration and Nationality Act that exempts noncitizens facing deportation under the government’s “foreign policy” provision. The exception, known as Section 212(a)(3)(C)(iii), says that an individual cannot be deported under the “foreign policy” provision cited by the government if their “past, current, or expected beliefs, statements, or associations, if such beliefs, statements, or associations would be lawful within the United States.”
Source: https://theintercept.com/2025/03/13/mahmoud-khalil-legal-free-speech-deport/
A new bill introduced by Angela Paxton, wife of Texas AG Ken Paxton, would impose privacy-invading age verification requirements on online sex toy retailers.
The government spent years probing allegations that a Dallas HOA created rules to kick poor Black people out and that Texas discriminated against minority residents in Houston after Hurricane Harvey, only to suddenly reverse course under Trump.
Texas’s heavily Democratic 18th Congressional District has an empty seat. State law gives Greg Abbott the power to delay the election to fill it.
Looks like a case for Marty Hench!
If you are considering a trip to the US, please reconsider. Why reward Donald Trump’s America with your tourist dollars?
After a SpaceX rocket exploded, investors offloaded Tesla shares and Doge hit legal roadblocks, the world’s richest man saw his fortune sink by $100bn
In response to the billionaire’s scorched-earth raids on US government agencies, Tesla chargers and showrooms are being targeted
Southwest Airlines will begin charging customers a fee to check bags. It's a significant change for the budget carrier, which built years of advertising campaigns around its policy of letting passengers check up to two bags for free.
A Facebook group for Cybertruck owners is full of videos of people flicking off Cybertrucks.
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Adam Conover, "Elon and Zuck are INSECURE Men"
Cool discussion of fragile masculinity
Lake Oswego police provided Drop Site News with an image of the suspect, who is still at large.
Native American activist moves to home imprisonment after Joe Biden commuted sentence at end of presidency
Students at the university created their own news organization — The Retrograde — after they reached an impasse with administrators regarding oversight and the firing of the campus newspaper’s editor-in-chief.
America’s air safety crisis, our automobile-congested cities, and our lack of high-speed rail and other options make getting places a real (and dangerous) pain in the ass. We desperately need safe, efficient, and enjoyable public transit.
