"VAWG [violence against women and girls] and Misogyny Everywhere": men's advocate Dr Rick Bradford looks at some of what the UK government is doing. Very UK focused and unfortunately very long, so I would recommend some of his other blog posts first but as always both well researched and insightful.
https://empathygap.uk/?p=4818

https://redd.it/1ua32dh
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"The chivalry hypothesis/thesis" in criminology - has anyone heard of this?

I found out about this via messing about with AI - apparently, the idea that female criminals are viewed as less violent than male ones used to be called "the chivalry hypothesis/thesis," and there are books on it going back to the 1950s and 1920s:

Otto Pollak - The Criminality of Women (1950)

W.I. Thomas - The Unadjusted Girl (1923)

Cyril Burt - The Young Delinquent (1925)

Sheldon Glueck & Eleanor T. Glueck - Five Hundred Delinquent Women (1934) and later Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency (1950)

Mabel A. Elliott - Crime in Modern Society (1952)


Been a hardcore MRA for about 12 years and have never heard of this before.

https://redd.it/1uaayho
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NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani admits he’s using minoxidil to keep hair loss at bay. Here’s how the drug works and some of its possible side effects.
https://pugetpress.com/2026/06/19/zohran-mamdani-minoxidil-side-effects/

https://redd.it/1uabfo0
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Why fathers are important, especially for boys
https://www.centreformalepsychology.com/male-psychology-magazine-listings/why-fathers-are-important-especially-for-boys

https://redd.it/1uadvpm
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A Finnish Court Orders a Woman To Pay Legal Fees For Foreign Men She Says Raped Her
https://dailycaller.com/2026/06/19/finland-rape-foreign-men-court-fees-hospital-drunk/

https://redd.it/1uafqkd
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Carr Hagerman - Out Of The Blue
https://www.outofthebluepodcast.com/p/but-i-do

https://redd.it/1uajiuw
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AI is Used for Hiring - Study Shows it Discriminates Against Men

I've seen lots of posts here that say AI discriminates against men. And we all know AI is used in hiring these days. But this is the first post in this sub I know of that points out that AI carries over is anti-male bias into its hiring practices. The good news is, there are studies like this one that are pointing this out. Unlike lots of anti-male bias, this one is not being kept quiet.

Abstract. Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in hiring workflows, yet most research on gender bias in LLM hiring decisions has focused on English-language, Western-format resumes. This study examines whether pro-female gender bias extends to a Japanese corporate context and evaluates two practical mitigation strategies. Using a counterfactual resume design with 60 Japanese rirekisho-format resumes, 12 name pairs selected on linguistically grounded gender-signal criteria, and five state-of-the-art LLMs (Claude Sonnet 4.6, GPT-4o, DeepSeek-V3, Gemini 2.5 Flash, Llama 3.3 70B), we conducted 43,200 API calls across baseline, prompt instruction, and privacy filter conditions. A crossed random-effects linear mixed model confirms a significant pro-female bias across all five models, replicating Western findings in a non-Western context. A prompt-level gender-neutrality instruction produces no meaningful reduction in bias. A name-reliance analysis formally identifies the candidate name as the primary gender channel: removing the name from the prompt reduces the female effect by nearly its full magnitude. An unexpected incompatibility between the privacy filter and GPT-4o’s content safety filter ̶resulting in a 42% refusal rate ̶ highlights a practical deployment challenge for name anonymization in LLM-assisted recruitment pipelines.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.18649

https://redd.it/1uakviq
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Sexist Double Standards in Restroom Privacy

It's been said many times in this sub that women are allowed to barge into men's public restrooms but men are not allowed in women's restrooms. But apparently this double standard so so strong that it's difficult for a father to parent his young daughters.

Man takes his young daughters into an empty women's rest room to protect them from going into the men's room with him and gets a jerk who yells at him for being in an empty women's room and calls the cops on the father. The good news is the jerk lost his job over this and most, but not all, comments defend the father. So there is good and bad here. One comment said he in that situation let his daughters go in alone, and a woman chided him for doing so. He said damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Man fired by firm after viral video shows him scolding dad for taking young daughters into women's restroom

https://redd.it/1ualnw1
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What if this sub limited female speech?

New rule adopted by askwomen 2 days ago. And the OP announcing this rule has plenty of comments who say this rule is just fine with them. EDIT: I apologize if what I'm about to say is insulting, I'm starting to think some people are actually dumb enough to think I'm suggesting we do that too. I know, I know, hard to believe anyone could be that dumb, but this is the internet you know. Again, I apologize for implying some of you are dumber than a grapefruit.

Furthermore, men are welcome to engage with this subreddit respectfully, and that includes no longer leaving top-level comments. (A top-level comment is a comment in response to the original post, rather than a response to someone else's comment.)

This is a subreddit to ask women questions. It is not a general discussion subreddit or a more broad ask subreddit.

Thank you all for making this subreddit such a lovely place!

https://redd.it/1uamkil
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FVAMB

FVAMB = Female Violence Against Men/Boys

I hate how this issue is often ignored and dismissed, despite it also occuring. I hate in general how violence is made to be a gendered issue when both genders can be horribly violent and abusive to each other. Even if male-on-female instances may be higher, it doesn't change or negate the fact the other way around absolutely happens too and in far high numbers than many realize.

Female violence against men (and boys) is absolutely not uncommon and is massively underreported for several reasons, not the least of which is societal shame and stigma, and men/boys who are victims afraid to strike back knowing their female attacker will still get to play victim and have people siding with her even with her clearly being the guilty one (which you can clearly see in this incredibly infuriating video; a problem even worse today thanks to "believe women." To say nothing how under the VAWA, any kind of violence against men is still counted against women which of course heavily skews and distorts the stats, and it's made even worse with how there's never a distinction made between violence done out of genuine malice versus that done in self-defense for a man/boy defending himself against a female attacker. Let's not forget other problems as well like the Duluth model and how there's very few shelters that even acknowledge or help male victims. Society often still makes light when men/boys get raped by women, especially teachers in schools who violate boys. It's sickening how that gets treated as a joke.

I don't deny male violence against women/girls happens, yes it does and it's wrong. But the other way around also happens, it's also prevalent and it's just as bad. Does it happen as much? Maybe not, but that doesn't change, negate or mitigate the fact it still happens and is still traumatic. The constant dismissal and ignorance of it and the usual rebuttals is just another means to deflect from it and to further divide the genders and further dismiss male issues. Sadly this rhetoric is largely accepted as factual and nobody questions it, which is also a big issue with the issue of misandry and how's existence and severity is frequently dismissed. Misandry exists and is a problem just like misogyny. And likewise, female violence against men/boys also exists and is also a problem just like it's counterpart.

I really hate how violence has been made into a gendered issue pitting both against each other when it's a fact both men/boys and women/girls can be terribly violent to each other and it's a no-brainer to help victims and condemn offenders of both genders. I'm so sick of hearing the usual deflections of "But men are so much more violent," "It's not on the same scale," etc. just acknowledge and condemn it in all forms, frequency and statistics of either be damned.

https://redd.it/1uam3t3
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Janice Flamengo on the glorification of the psychotic man hater, Valerie Solanas, Feminism’s Death Goddess
https://open.substack.com/pub/fiamengofile/p/valerie-solanas-feminisms-death-goddess?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=r89k1

https://redd.it/1uamzzx
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This sub illustrates why modern women are insufferable

I came across this feminist sub on my feed and holy shit, what a bunch of miserable women. Take a look: https://imgur.com/a/jB39Lkc

https://redd.it/1uarsnb
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Question: False Confessions Led to Firing and Systemic Oppression

CW: references to SA and CSA (NSFW)

I was reviewing some documents and came across an instance of what might possibly be an attempt at gaslighting in order to extract a false confession in an institutional context. The authority figure in the power position is speaking to a much younger student. Here is the excerpt, with names and dates obscured, the planted suggestions in italics (or single asterisk quotes depending on the OS formatting):

\> W met with N, student at X, and *told her that she had been >!sexually assaulted!< by C* and should see a school counselor. **After N denied she had been >!assaulted!<**, W asked N for information on *any possible legal improprieties C may have committed against >!his own children!<.* C says that W made these statements to N in (date redacted). He claims they are false because he "did not >!sexually assault!< N."

Needless to say no accounts of >!child abuse!< ever came out of this investigation. The accused employee did lose his employment. He was a single parent with children, living off food stamps (SNAP) and working two jobs at the school. He's been blackballed from his trained field since this happened over a decade ago. I don't know these people personally. I just see a pattern of systemic oppression in this case. I'm asking to see if this type of manipulation against someone's reputation is getting enough visibility, if this is important enough to improve advocacy for single fathers who are targeted in this manner. Thank you for your consideration.

https://redd.it/1uasnju
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The Femosphere celebrates an openly male hating feminist who shot a famous artist eventually leading to his death.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jun/10/i-shot-andy-warhol-mary-harron-director-interview-valerie-solanas-lili-taylor

https://redd.it/1uau1z7
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What I've been witnessing.

When it comes to people actually being misandrist or misogynistic, I see SIGNFICANTLY more people being misandrist.



When it comes to people verbally opposing or calling out hate against men vs hate against women, I see SIGNIFICANTLY more people call out hate against women.


The gender compassion gap at work there perhaps?

https://redd.it/1ub19r1
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The Positive Impacts Fiction can have on Gender Movements

Stories allow people to inhabit experiences that are not their own.

The Handmaid's Tale became so culturally influential b/c it translated a set of social fears into a narrative people could feel.

What would a story look like if it explored male disposability, conditional worth thru the same lens?

My result is a dystopian novella called Beckon the Butler.

A town where to want is dangerous, and to be unwanted is fatal.

Chapter One ("Bang") is here:

https://medium.com/@ipsteak/beckon-the-butler-chapter-one-bang-b22ce72280a6

I'd love feedback from this community, not only on the writing itself, but on the broader question:

Can fiction help men's advocacy in the same way it has helped other social movements?

https://redd.it/1ub0i2j
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Former Matlock Writer Sues CBS, Alleges Racism, Sexual Harassment and Retaliatory Firing
https://www.ibtimes.sg/who-jennie-snyder-urman-matlock-showrunner-faces-lawsuit-over-alleged-workplace-comments-88161?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=article_share&utm_content=article_88161

https://redd.it/1ub2n19
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Is the new UK bill about marriage absolute or it has reliefs?

So UK recently announced the changes.. but I have few questions:

1) If your wife cheats on you, is that a ground that may nullify it?

2) If your wife forces you to divorce by say being emotionally off, no intimacy, other valid violation of boundaries or changing what you all had decided before like habing kids etc..

3) Is it binary like if she doens't have a job, she gets the share, but if she has a job she doesn't?

4) What if the house is not fully paid for? Let's say the man was paying the house in small sums each month, what happens then?

https://redd.it/1uazuer
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Proud of being a man for the first time

I have been reflecting upon this thought for some weeks. I grew up without a father in a house full of unstable women. Whenever one of them was in a bad mood, they made sure that the entire place felt like they were feeling.

I never felt proud of being a man; if anything, I actually felt ashamed. Around me, at school, at home, at university, all I heard was how bad and oppressing men were, how we are literally the root of all evil, and I believed it.

Thus I hated myself, I thought I was gay because people told me all my life I was a bit effeminate; however, I was never attracted to men, I had what you could call feminine mannerism for growing 23 years of my life only around women. I thought I had no masculinity inside me, until I started reading and looking as much inwards as outwards at other men.

I could write more, but what I wanted to say is that, for the first time in my life, I feel so proud of being a man. I feel proud because everything that surrounds me, the computer I am writing this on, the building I live in, the technology I use was built thanks to the intellectual and physical work of millions of men that came before me. Because I am part of their lineage, and without them, society would not be; as matter of fact nothing would be and us humans would be extinct by now.

We carry within a connection to men like Marcus Aurelius, Jung, Nietzsche, Hesse, Debussy, Da Vinci and list goes on and on. All of them men! How could we not be proud of that?

To all men out there, never let women or other men villainize you. You are by nature a being that was built for resilience, not only physical but also mental. You are built to lead and to govern with authority and responsibility,. Govern your own life with that masculine energy (easier said that done). I know the world hates you, but this is what we are built for, to keep going even though all odds are against us.

Peace

https://redd.it/1ub7aaz
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Canada makes femicide first-degree murder as all three major Criminal Code reforms become law
https://www.canada.ca/en/department-justice/news/2026/06/canada-makes-femicide-first-degree-murder-as-all-three-major-criminal-code-reforms-become-law.html?hsid=523ba103-0723-486a-8ebd-7c5df6b47095

https://redd.it/1ub7ybb
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Spain must pay €2.5m to man who spent 15 years in jail for rapes he did not commit
https://www.reuters.com/world/spain-must-pay-25m-man-who-spent-15-years-jail-rapes-he-did-not-commit-2026-06-20/

https://redd.it/1uba728
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