To ignore the #GED trauma cast upon the US Citizen is to undermine the obvious solution to the illness men are struggling to hide behind their fear of losing #masculinity.
Until we can separate the #gun from the #penis, the exposure to this neglected tragedy will continue to spread around the world.
"Trump and his allies have now apparently decided to drop all pretense and stick to oil. They are publicly messaging and focused on access to Venezuela’s oil reserves as the primary goal of the military campaign."
"Our leader has determined and decreed, that the Constitution, domestic US law, the UN Charter, international law, and Senate ratified treaties with other nations no longer apply in our new Imperial age. The era of law is behind us now. American democracy, the post WWII rules-based order, the Four Freedoms, Pax Americana are now relics of a bygone era."
"We are entering a new age now. An age of force, of power, of MANLY STRENGTH. Stephen Miller declared the arrival of this new age on CNN on Monday night."
Expect a surging surprise stock market in the first half of 2026 going into elections. #SCOTUS decision on #tariffs, pressure to lower rates and divided government could extend the market rally into 2027. Watch the value of #Gold for any signs of extended retraction. #premarket #investing
If your identity depends on someone else’s behavior, then it’s not an identity; it’s a desire to control others. Men who need women to behave in certain ways so they can feel masculine enough define masculinity as power and dominance over women. And that’s really all you need to know about them.
"Researchers using Google Trends search data in a 2020 study found a link between male insecurity and support for Trump. They identified areas with high levels of web searches for erectile dysfunction, penis size, penis enlargement, hair loss, hair plugs, testosterone, and Viagra."
Congratulations to Margaret McDonald and her editors Alice Swan and Ama Badu – winners of the 2025 Branford Boase Award for outstanding debut novel for young people with GLASGOW BOYS, a moving, beautifully written coming-of-age novel exploring the power of identity, community and masculinity.
🎓 Call for Papers: “Rethinking Gender in Inter- and Transimperial Contexts,” 🗓16–17 Jan 2026 at the 📍 University of Freiburg. Explore how gender shaped empire interactions beyond traditional metropole–periphery frameworks. Submissions welcome from history, sociology, anthropology, and related fields. 🚨Deadline: 31 Aug 2025. Please send a 500-word abstract + one-page CV to: [email protected]. Limited travel funding available. Supported by
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The image shows a call for papers by the University of Freiburg for a workshop titled “Rethinking Gender in Inter- and Transimperial Contexts” to be held on January 16–17, 2026, in Freiburg, Germany. The text discusses the significance of analyzing gender within New Imperial History and highlights potential presentation topics, including gendered power in diplomacy, subaltern voices, gender in activism, and gender in migration. Proposals are due by August 31, 2025. The workshop aims to encourage joint publication efforts, supported by the German Research Foundation and the RTG “Empires.” Contact information for submissions is provided.
Inhaltsverzeichnis (Auszug) von WerkstattGeschichte 29/2001: THEMA Jürgen Martschukat, Olaf Stieglitz: Mannigfaltigkeit: Perspektiven einer historischen Männlichkeitsforschung | Jürgen Martschukat: »Ein Mörder aus Liebe«. Über Vaterschaft, Fürsorge und Verzweiflung an der Wende vom 18. zum 19. Jahrhundert | Maren Möhring: Der moderne Apoll | Norbert Finzsch, Michaela Hampf: Männlichkeit im Süden, Männlichkeit im Norden. Zur Genese moderner amerikanischer Männlichkeitskonzepte in der Epoche des Bürgerkriegs (1861–1865) | Olaf Stieglitz: »I was black and I acted as such«. Diskurs, Erfahrung und junge African-Americans im Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933–1942
It’s Friday, and that means only one thing: The chance to sleep later than 6.40am for a couple of days unless you’ve got kids, in which case, sooooorrrry. Oh, and also, it’s #NewstodonFriday, where we share fantastic journalism from indie newsrooms and journalists! We’re kicking off this thread with stories on elections to watch in May in the U.S., Australia and Singapore. We’ve also got stories on the Roganification of the male mystique, library censorship, therapy chatbots, plus an absolute banger from Lyz Lenz, in which she coins the phrase “a conclave of chads,” and we admire and envy her absolute mastery of the English language. Check out the thread, comment, like, follow the accounts we’ve tagged, and subscribe/donate to them. ⤵️
We’ve read more about Joe Rogan in the last couple of weeks than we really wanted to — first, with the Menswear Guy’s story for Bloomberg on his influential physique, and now, with
@Daojoan’s article on the dangers of the Roganified male mystique, and what to do about it. “That pipeline doesn’t stop because we roll our eyes at it. It stops when we block it with something real. The Roganification of masculinity is a symptom. The disease is deeper. But the cure won’t come from debunking or mocking. It will come from reclaiming the terrain of meaning. Of power. Of identity,” she writes. “The future of men is being whispered into a mic. What these men hear next — rage or renaissance — depends on what we build. And whether we build it fast enough.”
“'Told again and again [by traditionalist evangelical leaders] that they are the dominant sex, created to rule over and have dominion over not just women but the earth, the land, its animals, and all things on earth — it’s often a rude awakening for young, White Christian men when they enter the world and find that most created things are not interested in being ruled over by them,' [Angela] Denker writes."
Bloomberg offers a valuable, well-documented discussion of the key role that a number of YouTube "influencers" played in pushing young males towards Donald Trump in the last election:
Men, and particularly white men, have long made up Trump’s core support base. But in November’s election, young men swung especially hard to the right.
"Bloomberg’s investigation into the content being published by big YouTubers reveals a pattern of pro-Trump messaging sandwiched between entertainment-focused content consisting of 'free-wheeling discussions of sports, masculinity, internet culture, gambling and pranks,' making it more digestible for apolitical audiences."
"The strategy worked. Young men, who overwhelmingly supported Biden in 2020, swung hard to the right in 2024, with over 50% backing Trump. Guests like Andrew Tate, Tucker Carlson, and Elon Musk boosted messaging promoting hardline masculinity, distrust in institutions, and criticism of gender politics and vaccines."
I do want to offer a few words of criticism re: something Taylor Lorenz says in the article linked in /3 and /4. The quote I share in /4 is followed by this statement:
"These messages resonated heavily with a generation of young people who have felt overlooked and disenfranchised."
These messages did not resonate with young PEOPLE. They resonated with young MEN.
Young WOMEN did not vote for Trump Young men did so.
That's the very point of what the Bloomberg study finds.
To speak of "young people" is to disguise the reality of what we're dealing with here, and to ignore the fact that gender is central to the political shift that took place in this election, as young men voted for Trump while young women did not do so.
"Our opinions generally have emotional rather than intellectual roots, and indeed rationality largely functions as a post hoc justification. Our political opinions, ultimately, are what we feel about the world, not what we think about it. And in turn, our opinions about particular events have a lot to do with how we feel about the world in general. It’s not an exaggeration to say that most people’s views about the kind of things that happen today are extensions of concerns of their own ego. And consequently, invitations to change their minds because new facts emerge, or because old ideas are discredited by new evidence, are in fact a threat to the strength and even survival of that ego."
"But few people, especially those who have received a decent education, want to acknowledge that their views are based on emotion and not reason. They therefore try to argue".