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#toxicmasculinity

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"Protecting girls" from trans people:

"Hall “screamed and shouted” at the player “you’re a fucking boy and shouldn’t be playing in a girls side...”.

"After the abused player left the field in tears, her father approached Hall informing him he could not speak that way to his daughter, to which Hall reaffirmed his belief that the abused player was a boy and should not be playing in a girls team."

telegraph.co.uk/rugby-union/20

The Telegraph · Dad banned for screaming ‘you’re a boy’ at U12 girl after ‘transgender rumours’By Ben Coles

British Culture...

" two RAF engineers out on a bender in Berkshire."

This is why we can't have nice things, belligerent drunken men. But don't anybody try to change that culture, don't anybody appear woke, for the 'boys will be boys' must be maintained, how dare anyone stop the boys doing what they want!

theguardian.com/society/2025/m

The Guardian · Judge accuses RAF pair of ‘wanton vandalism’ for destroying Paddington Bear statueBy Amelia Hill

Talking about toxic masculinity.

As a trans guy I DREAM of having a beard.
But I also know that my masculinity has nothing to do with it, the same way it has nothing to do with what is -or isn't- between my legs.

Cis guys could learn a thing or two from us in that matter.

theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2

The Guardian · The sudden, surprising rise of beard transplants: ‘This industry is a wild west’By Simon Usborne

Coleman Spilde is right. Essential tv for all: "I’d go as far as to say that "Adolescence" should be required viewing for all teenagers, & certainly a condition of having a phone. If a teen wants to be tapped into the digital echo chamber, they have to know what it can do to them. Goodwill & hope that parents will raise their children correctly aren’t enough when the worlds inside of their phones can undo all of that learning."

salon.com/2025/03/18/adolescen

#ToxicMasculinity
#Incel
#Adolescence

Salon.com · Netflix's "Adolescence" shows what could happen when teenage boys are radicalized onlineThe third episode of "Adolescence" finds misogyny rooted online, and parents shouldn't look away

Coleman Spilde is right. Essential tv for all: "I’d go as far as to say that "Adolescence" should be required viewing for all teenagers, & certainly a condition of having a phone. If a teen wants to be tapped into the digital echo chamber, they have to know what it can do to them. Goodwill & hope that parents will raise their children correctly aren’t enough when the worlds inside of their phones can undo all of that learning."

salon.com/2025/03/18/adolescen

#ToxicMasculinity
#Incel
#Adolescence

Salon.com · Netflix's "Adolescence" shows what could happen when teenage boys are radicalized onlineThe third episode of "Adolescence" finds misogyny rooted online, and parents shouldn't look away

Fascism weaponizes the #ToxicMasculinity trait of never admitting you're wong. This is made even worse by the fact that they were swindled by a tier C grifter from Queens.

Combine that with American Exceptionalism & the desire for comfort over all and ~1/2 of America is still denying the reality in front of them.

#TonicMasculinity is swallowing your pride, listening to those being harmed long before you & speaking up for them. Especially if your voice is louder than theirs.

Amanda Marcotte on guns, violence against women, & #MelGibson: "Recently, Vice President JD Vance complained, "our culture sends a message to young men that you should suppress every masculine urge." He pretended that it's about telling men they can't "tell a joke," when the real problem is men punching women in the face and sexually assaulting them in department store dressing rooms."

salon.com/2025/03/13/the-dange

#ToxicMasculinity
#USPol

Salon.com · "This is a safety issue": The toxic reason why Trump is pushing to get Mel Gibson his guns backRon DeSantis wants to repeal "red flag" laws that help prevent suicides and mass shootings
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@Geri the BBC East of England crime reporter (who also covered the Ipswich serial murders and various others in the region) said he was shocked by the case, but having lived in this region nearly 20 years, unfortunately I almost expect stuff like this to happen amongst supposedly "quiet" middle class white communities (as the old bill are spending a lot of their time watching black/brown/poor people and don't see how #ToxicMasculinity is in the rich areas too (or are part of it themselves)

#BaronTrump is friends with #AndrewTate?

(SOURCE: #IHIPNews, Trump Team Running Defence for HORRIBLE #TateBrothers , 3.26 min. mark)

youtube.com/watch?v=SZtcK64tMF

3.56min mark. Amerikan young males are NOT O.K. A MustWatchVideo

7.39min. #BenShapiro as well as #AdolphMusk are demanding #DerekChauvin :acab: (the murderer of Mr. #GeorgeFloyd) be released.

"Police officers and employees misusing access to police database now account for over half of all cybercrime pros-ecutions in the UK. The harms this can cause are considerable.
Yet police continue to call for encryption to be weakened to allow for greater access to communication data."—Alice Hutchings [Cambridge Cybercrime Centre]

Police Behaving Badly >

cl.cam.ac.uk/~ah793/papers/202