Female and Minority Men's Rights activists are in your politics, touching your stuff.
"Women are presenting us with this paradox that we won't have sex with you until a different woman has had sex with you. We won't approve of you until another woman has approved of you. So you go — what do I do then?" Hannah Wallen hosts Talk 414 on a post arguing men need to be more social, and the reaction when they are. Also: why "women don't owe you sex" is not an answer to men being shut out of social contact entirely; Alcoholics Anonymous and the concept of loving detachment; and what the Manic Pixie Dream Girl is shielded from. "Women complain that their preferred partners are narcissists. Their preferred partners are the top twenty percent of men. So obviously they are." Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online
"She was a really great mother, and then she was a bad mother when she killed her kids, but then she went back to being a great mother again after that." Brian and Alison talk about the hunt for the holdout juror's identity, and a commentator who reframed the case as being about the women of colour serving time for the same thing. Also: the superchat pointing out that if hormones acquit Lindsay Clancy there are rapists who qualify too; why a juror weighing one piece of evidence against another was treated as proof he was being duplicitous; and the offer the holdout made that shows he was willing to step aside to keep his conscience. "She still believes Lindsay Clancy is guilty. She just admitted it. What happened in that jury chamber to make this woman not vote her conscience? That's the sisterhood in action." Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online
"But he had the hardest time getting off the fact that Lindsay viciously killed her children." "By killing her children, she declared herself innocent." "If I had been on that jury, I would have declared the electric chair for Lindsay Clancy and my fellow jurors." Brian and Alison work through NBC Boston's exclusive interview with three of the nine female jurors from the Lindsay Clancy mistrial, and count out five separate perversions of justice in what the jurors volunteer about themselves. Also: the juror who rated the defense attorney arrogant, entertaining and compassionate all at once, and his pitch for Trump to pardon a state conviction. Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online
"You took the mask off. Now you're mad that men saw and rejected what you showed them. And you can't put the hangover back in the beer bottle." Brian, Hannah Wallen and Dr Randomercam on the mistrial in the Lindsey Clancy case, and a defence attorney who narrowed the holdout juror down to one of three people on air. Also: Gloria Steinem's death at 92 — comparing reactions a year to the day after Charlie Kirk was shot. Corey Walsh, charged with the murder of her two-year-old son, who told police he was the devil. And Shannon Galligan, who hit her ex with a saucepan, strangled him, stabbed him in the arm and forced him out a window with a fractured vertebra — then got a suspended sentence, her defence citing ADHD. "This was rage. This wasn't 'I can't keep track of what's going on, and oh gosh, how did that happen.' This was seething rage and deliberate violence — and she expects to get away with it because, look, I have ADHD, aren't I cute?" "His shoulder brushed hers as he fled the room she was throwing heavy objects in. He got eighteen months. The judge's view was that he should have been brave enough to go out the second-storey window instead." Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online
"That's not toughness. That's just numbness with a flag pin." Brian and Alison read a listicle explaining why conservative men are undatable, and bad in bed, and work through the reasons one at a time. Also: the writer's other blog, and what she's doing around other people's teenagers; why virtue signalling about trans people, immigrants and abortions she'll never need is her way of announcing where she sits; and the point at which the criteria foreclose on every man alive, not just conservative ones. "She's not just talking about conservative men being bad in bed. Any man who can't cerebro his way through her crime minefield is bad in bed. Which leaves her lesbians." "She only exists in relation to everyone else. That's what she's protecting. So if you can't respect the signalling, you don't respect her — because she is literally her position in the web, and nothing else." Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online
"The encouragement of women to be their worst selves — that's the phrase that always comes back to me. It's like they just want women to be awful. And a lot of women, surprise, have in them the capacity to be awful." Brian and Alison talk to Professor Janice Fiamengo about her new book, The Goddess That Failed, on the founding documents of the feminist movement and what they actually say. Also: the Seneca Falls declaration, signed by men, asserting that man's object was absolute tyranny over woman; the Suzanna Danuta Walters essay instructing men how to be despised slightly less; the Redstockings manifesto and where emotional labour came from; and why women who defend a mother who killed her children can't be angry at the perpetrator. "Some of us were alive in 1974. I shopped with my mother, who had a whole bunch of credit cards." Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online
"Chronic bitulism. Not botulism — it's not bacterial, it's a completely different bug. A condition of chronic irrational irritability in which one draws connections between unrelated thoughts and facts, to support a continued bad mood." Brian, Hannah Wallen and Dr Randomercam on GTA VI, and a bond system that tracks time spent together, text replies and mutual attentiveness — with those numbers feeding into story outcomes. Also: the Red Dead patch that penalised players for killing the suffragette, and what the panel reads into a developer doing that; obituaries for Tim Curry, Dolly Parton and Peter Cullen, plus a game of guessing which of the three said what; and a viewer reporting a TikTok defence of Lindsey Clancy — "let's not think about her children as living people for a second, let's think of them as vases." "I don't give a shit about new bands and haven't for twenty years. I don't want to know who Cardi B is and it annoys me. That's how I feel about GTA VI — and now, out of the blue, I know all about it." Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online
"This isn't even a target anymore. It's the smell a target left. You know how radiation leaves a shadow? That's it. And they're saying — hey guys, try to hit it." Brian and Alison read a blog by a woman explaining that men are radicalising, and that feminist men give her the ick. Also: why going to college now reduces a man's likelihood of being married; what the genetic bottleneck argument actually shows; and her stated ask — "I'm asking for someone who thinks I am a person" — set against the 2.3 times more income liberal women want men to earn. "Apparently her personhood is denominated in buckaroos." "I've laid out these minefields of things that could destroy me should he do them. But he shouldn't feel nervous about that. He should be blithely strolling through this minefield as if he doesn't have a care in the world — while caring deeply." Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online
"There's a kind of ghoulish happiness about people they think are bad and dangerous being killed. They were celebrating, but they were also signalling — look at me, I'm saying the thing everyone's supposed to say." Brian sits down with Dr Benedict Beckeld, philosopher and author of Western Self-Contempt: Oikophobia in the Decline of Civilizations, on why cultures come to hold themselves in contempt — and why he thinks it isn't new, or an excess of empathy. Also: macro and micro monomania, his terms for reading all of history through one lens; which class the contempt starts in and how it spreads; the Canadian identity built on not being American; and whether the "weak men create hard times" idiom survives contact with the historical record. "Nothing is more human than taking a good idea too far. Once somebody levels a good point of self-critique against his own community, the next person has to show he's even smarter, and levels a more extreme one." Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online
"It's very important to not notice the thing, because if you notice the thing, it becomes your responsibility. You don't want to be responsible for it, so it doesn't exist anymore." Hannah Wallen hosts with Lauren Brooks, Mike Stevenson and Richard the Lionhearted on what a health system does to the men inside it — assessment regimes, disability payments that come in under the wage they replace, and who is trusted to explain their own symptoms. Also: baby Alfie, held until he died rather than released for treatment abroad; the invisible disabilities that get you accused of faking; and why the panel thinks the male loneliness epidemic is misnamed. "They want him to apply for a job and report to work while he's dying. And the people who assess you aren't trained nurses or doctors. They're just random people they found off the street." Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online
"It's like running a foot race against a seal, on dry land, and the seals are the ones judging it." Brian and Alison watch two debates against Rachel Wilson on whether feminism has done more harm than good. Also: the ten years Marxist feminists spent trying to derive the material benefit men extract from providing for women, and what they built when they couldn't; the "I'm not going to go to your Substack" exchange; and why the pool of married liberal men doesn't behave the way the advice assumes. "It's not a man getting drunk and beating his wife. It's a man not getting drunk, waking up at 5 AM, going to work in the steel mill, destroying his lungs with toxic chemicals, coming home at 10 PM and handing over his pay packet. That is men's oppression of women." Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online
"A male feminist stands on the world stage in a bubbling swamp of volcanic misandry, and he meticulously sets up the firing squad that will execute him." Brian, Hannah Wallen and Dr Randomercam on the women posting in solidarity with Lindsey Clancy, and the copycat cases that followed. Also: how the colour convention flipped, and why the ones who got pink never traded up to red; what Kamala Harris had to be ordered by a judge to hand over; and the argument that amplifying this makes more of it. "When you lie down with dogs that have rabies, don't be surprised if you get bit. Men, you shouldn't support feminists. Whether you do it or not, you're going to get accused eventually." Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online
"Is pink only for you, Byrony? Because you've got the magic feminist spell that makes it non-patriarchal to wear pink?" Brian and Alison go through a creator's back catalogue on the monthly fundraiser stream — a memoir about a marriage to a much older man, a video condemning all men everywhere off the back of it, and the housework studies that keep getting cited. Also: why the further left or right she is, the more he has to earn; what counts as "outdoor work" when repairing a fridge is filed under it; the domestic violence figures for female-breadwinner couples; and a comment arguing feminism freed Afghan women. "A whole lot of American and Canadian soldiers went over there and attempted to bring women's rights. Most of them were men. And almost entirely all of the people who died in the endeavour were men. And feminists did nothing." Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online
"She's got intuition. She also has elite knife-fighting skills — she thinks she's a Barbary pirate. If she reckons she's going to knife-fight a bear, she's displaying incredible delusion about reality." Brian and Alison read a blog by a writer explaining that women choose the bear because the bear is indifferent to them, then work out that nobody asked the bear. "It's like listening to a guy brag about a yacht you know he doesn't have." Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online
"The worst part of a death like that is that all you can do is learn from it. You can't comfort the family. You can promise them you're going to do better, but their family member is still dead." Hannah Wallen hosts with Lauren Brooks, Mike Stevenson and Richard the Lionhearted, on an ITV News investigation into learning disabled and autistic patients dying in NHS care. Adrian Pulton, 56, went into hospital with a broken hip. He was incorrectly listed nil by mouth and went nine days without food. His sister says he told her he knew he was going to die. By the time the family worked out he wasn't being fed, he was too unwell to recover. Also: why knowing something about your own condition makes doctors less likely to diagnose it, what happens to a patient who understands everything and can't enunciate it, and the healthy seventeen-year-old whose family waited years for an answer. The trust's statement said they had undertaken an investigation "to identify any learning points." "If you don't know what NPO stands for, you don't know that your family member has been ordered no food." Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online
"If tomorrow men invent some anti-matter device that produces the twelve additional Earths needed to satisfy women on the left, then by making those women dependent, those men are oppressing them — so now they owe a hundred and forty-four Earths." Brian and Alison respond to an Australian video arguing that feminism is a death trap that will eat itself, and won't do it before it takes millions of unborn children with it. Also: why men on the left have to earn 2.3 times what a conservative man does to get married, the ratchet that makes today's liberal expectations tomorrow's conservative baseline, and what happens when the stay-at-home dad conversation becomes a conversation about what women want. "This is just watching two people argue over something they read on a cereal box. Can we get back into the realm of historical facts, please?" Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online
"Imagine living in a land where the inhabitants sew angel wings on your every opposable joint, reward your every lie, rationalise your every impulse, and treat you not like a child they wish to discipline but as a pet they wish to wear like a precious jewel. There's an upsetting number of women out there for whom I have just described paradise. To me, as an average man, it sounds like hell." Brian, Hannah Wallen and Dr Randomercam on the reaction to Lindsey Clancy killing her three children — including the women insisting her husband must have done it, when she had sent him out on an errand so he'd be gone long enough. Also: Panama criminalising paternity fraud with two to five years and no statute of limitations, the campaign to turn Professor Jason Arday's suicide into a racism story, and the test for whether you're the extremist — ask when it's gone too far, and see if the answer is "never." "You can say I'm a socialist and YouTube will make you a megastar. Say I'm a nationalist and you'll be arrested for hate speech." Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online
"If there's naked flesh, it must have lady parts, I guess." Brian and Alison read an article arguing that AI is biased against women — built partly on a report that more than half of twenty-nine nudify apps, asked to undress a photo of a fully dressed man, gave him breasts instead. Also: the Stanford resume study the article cites and the counter-studies it leaves out, and why no feminist has ever been asked to prove the definition of patriarchy. "I broadly agree that Sam Altman has not invented God. But you'd have to believe Sam Altman is behind a bunch of apps made in Korea or Estonia. She's arrived at the right sentiment by a circuitous path that makes no sense." Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online
"Let them eat cake — and the cake is destroying the civilization that makes cake." Brian and Alison work through a video by a woman explaining that the birth rate is society's fault, and that women are not incubators for GDP. Also: what happens to the argument when you ask who the labour behind the entitlements is, the Neanderthal pelvis and what it was actually built for, why a woman's fiancé might dislike her friends, and the thread that no amount of reading will get through. "The only more free you could be is a ghost, lady." Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online
"The lie in slippery slope is that there are no brakes. The lie in motte-and-bailey is that there is no difference." Hannah Wallen hosts with Lauren Brooks and Mike Stevenson: there is a constitutional right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. There is nothing about a right to the pursuit of death, or anyone else's right to help you get there. Also: what a doctor retiring under pressure from every direction except his patient does to the people still in his waiting room, why "no fault divorce" is really all-his-fault divorce, and the mobility aid you can only use easily if you actually need one. "Steve Jobs pursued all kinds of alternative therapies for his cancer. They didn't work, but nobody was pushing euthanasia on him. Sure, he paid for useless snake oil — but he made the decision." Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online
"Male characters should be as beautiful as possible, but female characters have to be irreproachable swamp donkeys that make you vomit on sight." Brian and Dr Randomercam on two men declaring for the 2027 WNBA draft, one of whom identifies as sometimes identifying as a woman. Also: the Blizzard harassment investigation and what happened to the men reported on, why Ireland has put the manosphere at the top of its priority list, a costume as a genetic category, and the marriage rate at 47 percent. Plus where "women's work" actually comes from. Some women did want to work the coal mines — until rich Victorian women complained they were doing it in unsavory positions and unsavory dress. Men were sent to investigate, came back shocked, told the queen, and laws were passed: "They got those crusty lower women out of the crusty upper women's hair, and the coal mines as well." Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online
"I feel like I'm getting spots in my vision from looking this directly at the epicenter of female thinking." Brian and Alison return to the author of My Dear Stalker, who has a new article: if you approach a woman, she rejects you, and you then stop interacting with her, that's punishing her for her boundaries. She wasn't obligated to keep him around — that would be mean. He is obligated to stay, because otherwise he hates women. Also: what happens when you ask an AI why the man should stay and it can't find a reason either, the friend who resented a man for not wanting her, and a long stretch of REPO with Gabriel afterwards. "Instead of improving my craft as a novelist, I gotta go home, open up my laptop, and write a blog on my Medium shitting on men for however long it takes me." Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online
"Feminism is Marxism with extra steps — take out the capitalist, slot in men, with even less evidence than Marx had." Brian and Alison watch Julia Long's Battle of Ideas talk arguing that trans women are the real manosphere, and that she is being pushed out of the movement she helped build. Also: what happens when the framework you spent fifty years building gets applied to you by someone else, why the pornography argument keeps arriving without a connecting sentence, the domestic violence figures nobody reads past the first line, and a frontier on Venus. "None of this has any grounding. It's somebody's drunken ramblings on a napkin. Some woman had a dream once and woke up really upset at her husband." Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online
"It's illegal to kill yourself because it counts as destroying government property." Hannah Wallen hosts Talk 410, continuing on assisted dying: what happens in Canada when the drug is administered to you rather than by you, and you change your mind after you've stopped being able to say so. Also: why the panel argues a facility that already sells human tissue shouldn't be trusted with the decision, the car dealership that would rather pay a technician a bonus than let him diagnose the fault, and what the medical system does to a patient nobody has bothered to assess. "Someone said women should be worshipped for childbirth, because the cervix does what it's made to do and expands. I pointed out that throughout history women were put on a pedestal and worshipped — and they got mad about it, called it oppression, and now they have to go get jobs." Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online
"Once he gets grey, once he gains a few pounds, God forbid he gets sick — she's out the door like a greased rat out of an aqueduct. And she'll have half his money on the way out." Brian and Alison read a Medium feature on the manosphere, a place where misogyny wears a suit and the influencers are "polished, sham-rich men in Lamborghinis," while playing REPO. Also: which income quintiles the marriage collapse actually reaches, the article author's promise that the fight is against the structure of patriarchy rather than men, and whether that survives finding patriarchy in a man standing on a bridge. "If you can find patriarchy in a man who's about to jump off a bridge — where can you not find it?" Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online
"European kings don't rule. They don't really do anything. They're just ornamental Lego men at this point." Brian and Dr Randomercam on Ceuta, the Spanish enclave on the North African coast, where roughly fifty thousand people crossed in a matter of days into a city of eighty-three thousand. Also: the UK court declining to overturn the puberty blocker ban and what the panel wants to see in the follow-up data, the In-N-Out shooting in Idaho and who the crowd expected to stand in front of them, and the Dick Bell test — the inverse of the Bechdel test, and the search for any film that passes it. "Remember when the cult everyone worried about was the one selling flowers at airports?" Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online
"It's like when my daughter plays dress-up. They're playing with identities — the most extreme version of the thing they're trying to inhabit." Brian sits down with Dr. Hannah Spier, the Norwegian psychiatrist behind the Psychobabble Substack, on what her field does to men and what it hands out to women. Also: why she argues much of the autism and late ADHD now diagnosed in women is poor socialization nobody will name, the diagnosis as a story of redemption, psychiatrists as the gatekeepers who stopped saying no, and what her own maternity leave taught her about the literature on women's wellbeing. "That is when you have a breakthrough — when you get your male client to start crying. That's when you're really going someplace. But men find it quite provoking to sit face to face and chat. Men heal by doing." Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online
The cross-national correlation between gender equality and lower fertility is exceptionally strong (r ≈ 0.81). After the 1960s, a unique mating regime spread across parts of the world—with female emancipation, individual mate choice, and effective birth control—followed by a continuing rise in singlehood and declining fertility. Almost all women still want to reproduce, but many struggle to find a good-enough partner. This article argues from an evolutionary perspective that many men's utility to “free women” has been so diminished that solving the fertility crisis by increasing pair-bonding rates seems unfeasible. A viable means for aiding the survival of low-fertility nations could be to provide women with the economic and social resources necessary for them to conclude that having children alone makes for a better life than remaining childless. Such policies would likely exacerbate male marginalization, but new technologies are on the horizon that could offer men reproductive equality.
We haven't even started yet and I'm already mad
Janice Fiamengo, one of the GOATs of the MRM, recently appeared on another podcast with a psychologist Laura How discussing the harms done by feminism and some folks aren't happy. Namely the feminist channel named Feminist Cat Lady Spinster. Who would have thought she would take issue with this?
Welcome to HBR News where we give the badger treatment to the news of the week! This week we will be talking about the return of Johnny Depp to the silver screen, the Shiloh Hendrix trial reaches a verdict, Minnesota will be using transgender dolls to teach children, and more!
Supergirl was a failure and it was still supported by mostly men. Yet somehow men should be to blame for it's failure, right? Also REPO.
The cross-national correlation between gender equality and lower fertility is exceptionally strong (r ≈ 0.81). After the 1960s, a unique mating regime spread across parts of the world—with female emancipation, individual mate choice, and effective birth control—followed by a continuing rise in singlehood and declining fertility. Almost all women still want to reproduce, but many struggle to find a good-enough partner. This article argues from an evolutionary perspective that many men's utility to “free women” has been so diminished that solving the fertility crisis by increasing pair-bonding rates seems unfeasible. A viable means for aiding the survival of low-fertility nations could be to provide women with the economic and social resources necessary for them to conclude that having children alone makes for a better life than remaining childless. Such policies would likely exacerbate male marginalization, but new technologies are on the horizon that could offer men reproductive equality.
Men are leaving the workforce, and we all need to ask 'what's motivating men to stop taking up the mantle of oppressor?' Wage work was how men established their dominance over women, how men placed women in a position of subservience, how men caged women. Why would men stop doing this? And how do we frame them now as even greater oppressors of women for no longer oppressing women through earning a paycheck?
Welcome to HBR News where we give the badger treatment to the news of the week! This week we will be talking about the newest British Prime Minister Burnham(7th in the past decade), female entitlement, Dua Lipa opens a "banned books" library, and more!
The Voidcat vigil continues. One of the central aspects of the social system of patriarchy is that it teaches men to be insecure. Because patriarchy is at it's core, a dominance-based hierarchy where everyone has to compete for rank and place in an imaginary pecking order, men in particular, can get sucked into this “game.” Yes....really. Also REPO.
The cross-national correlation between gender equality and lower fertility is exceptionally strong (r ≈ 0.81). After the 1960s, a unique mating regime spread across parts of the world—with female emancipation, individual mate choice, and effective birth control—followed by a continuing rise in singlehood and declining fertility. Almost all women still want to reproduce, but many struggle to find a good-enough partner. This article argues from an evolutionary perspective that many men's utility to “free women” has been so diminished that solving the fertility crisis by increasing pair-bonding rates seems unfeasible. A viable means for aiding the survival of low-fertility nations could be to provide women with the economic and social resources necessary for them to conclude that having children alone makes for a better life than remaining childless. Such policies would likely exacerbate male marginalization, but new technologies are on the horizon that could offer men reproductive equality.
This is going to be a difficult episode, but we can handle it.
OH NO THE CONSEQUENCES OF MY ACTIONS! Why aren't men putting themselves in a life ruining risk by approaching women at work? What's the worst that can happen?
Welcome to HBR News where we give the badger treatment to the news of the week! This week we will be talking about the passing of multiple prominent figures like Ann Widdencombe, Lindsey Graham, and more!
The Voidcat vigil continues. Women run cover for other women having standards in order to sabotage those women and the men who are looking to pair up. News at 11. Also REPO.
It's official. Leftism is a genocidal cult that destroys civilization, and it starts with hating men.
If you pass, it's because of male privilege, if you fail it's proof of your misogyny.
Welcome to HBR News where we give the badger treatment to the news of the week! This week we will be talking about a recent clip from the Louis Theroux podcast which exposes a suspicion Depp had about Amber Heard, the Tyler Robinson case begins, Woman Simulator, and more!
The Voidcat vigil continues. Supergirl has officially dropped, and the cope is here. Also REPO.
What do the 4B movement, abortion, child murder, modern writing and ancient Hellenic plays have in common?
This is going to be a difficult episode, but we can handle it.
Men are trying to take better care of themselves, and this is a big problem.
Pearl Davis, whose full name is Hannah Pearl Davis, is an American YouTuber, podcaster, and social media personality known online as JustPearlyThings.Born in Chicago to a successful software engineering family, she rose to prominence in the early 2020s with street interviews, the "Breakup Quiz" series on TikTok, and her debate-style show The Pregame (also called The Pre-Game Show), where she critiques modern feminism, dating, marriage, and gender roles—often taking "anti-feminist" or red-pill-aligned positions that appeal to manosphere audiences.As a woman in that space, she has been described as a "female Andrew Tate" figure, gaining millions of followers by challenging women's expectations around career, independence, and relationships while advocating traditional views.She is now working on an upcoming divorce documentary titled What's In It For Men? (targeted for 2025), which explores the personal and societal impacts of divorce, men's issues in family courts, and related topics; she has run a GoFundMe and begun filming interviews for the project.
The cross-national correlation between gender equality and lower fertility is exceptionally strong (r ≈ 0.81). After the 1960s, a unique mating regime spread across parts of the world—with female emancipation, individual mate choice, and effective birth control—followed by a continuing rise in singlehood and declining fertility. Almost all women still want to reproduce, but many struggle to find a good-enough partner. This article argues from an evolutionary perspective that many men's utility to “free women” has been so diminished that solving the fertility crisis by increasing pair-bonding rates seems unfeasible. A viable means for aiding the survival of low-fertility nations could be to provide women with the economic and social resources necessary for them to conclude that having children alone makes for a better life than remaining childless. Such policies would likely exacerbate male marginalization, but new technologies are on the horizon that could offer men reproductive equality.
We have to talk about the accountability gap, because I'm thick headed and took a few years to come to a conclusion that I should have realized years ago.
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