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A zombie belief I frequently encounter in woke papers is that there's a tenure-track hiring bias against women in STEM. A new paper combining all research on faculty ratings for identical CVs for men vs. women show that not only is this belief false, the opposite is true.

@SwipeWright Figure cited was from data from 10 yrs ago. Wonder if things are similar or more profound now!?

@JDHaltigan Equality, right!?

Yes. One problem with social media communities, especially Tumblr, TikTok, & Instagram niches is that they create an echo chamber of shared empathetic resonance. At scale, this has spiraled out of control given the female need for social affirmation & belonging.

@LisaBritton Fact Check Status: True✅

International Men’s Day, observed globally since 1999 to address issues like male suicide, father’s rights, and boys’ education, gets zero official acknowledgment from the UN, and I believe it’s a missed opportunity. Instead, we get World Toilet Day. Yes, you read that right: November 19th, which happens to be International Men’s Day, is also the UN’s chosen date since 2013 to celebrate... toilets. I’d like to think this wasn’t a deliberate jab, but the irony stings. Those frustrated with the UN’s approach to boys and men aren’t asking for pity; they’re asking for fairness. The UN has the chance to prove it's listening—not just to women, not just to toilets, but to everyone. I hope they take it. New from me for Evie: eviemagazine.com/post/the-un-is…

Does the UN care about boys and men? Well, it doesn’t seem like it… We’ve had enough. The boys, men and fathers of this world matter, too. It’s time for change. New from me for Evie Magazine: eviemagazine.com/post/the-un-is…

Women initiated physical violence against their partner more than men in every location except Iran, Brazil and Greece.

They turned against blind auditions because selecting people for talent did not produced the desired demographics.

I don’t believe we should force traditional roles on anyone. I’m not here to police personal choices. What bothers me, what feels deeply unfair, is the one-sided shaming. Men are constantly told their desires are problematic, patriarchal, and in need of “unlearning.” Women’s desires are treated as sacred, non-negotiable, and beyond critique. If a man says he wants a feminine, supportive partner, he’s accused of wanting a “bang maid” or a doormat. If a woman says she wants a masculine provider, she’s simply “knowing her worth.” The cultural narrative has no problem with expectations for thee, but not for me. Read my latest: open.substack.com/pub/lisabritto…

Helen Andrews just reminded us how one of the most powerful men in America got destroyed by feelings. Larry Summers — ex-Treasury Secretary, World Bank veteran, elite Democrat, and razor-sharp economist — was Harvard president when he dared speak data at an off-the-record academic conference: men dominate the extreme tails of math aptitude bell curves, and top women often gravitate toward people-focused fields over pure abstraction like theoretical physics. Mainstream science? Yes. Audience reaction? Some women professors said they nearly fainted or threw up. They leaked it anyway, extracted three apologies, and helped force him out. No real rebuttal. Just emotional offense overriding evidence. This wasn’t ancient history — it’s the template for how certain truths became career-ending. We traded open inquiry for protected feelings, and institutions are still paying for it. Personal reflection: Watching competence kneel to curated outrage feels like self-sabotage on a civilizational scale. Have we outgrown this, or does it still quietly control what can be said in elite spaces?

Foreskin care can be taught. Anatomy can be explained. Questions can be answered. What can’t be restored is the choice taken away by a permanent procedure.

@aafp Difficult to truly measure all safety data when our own AFP journal encourages us to not disclose when pills are used. Am Fam Physician. 2023;108(5):519-522. “The use of pills to start this process does not affect subsequent treatment and may be omitted from the medical record.”

Today’s ruling reinstating in-person requirements for mifepristone is an unjustified rollback that restricts access to care, undermines physician judgement and threatens the patient–physician relationship. The AAFP has long supported policies that enable physicians to prescribe medications and treatments via telehealth, which reduce unnecessary barriers to care.

For decades, many textbooks treated the glans as the main source of penile sensation. But Ken McGrath, Senior Lecturer in Pathology, points instead to the foreskin as a primary sensory structure and explains what circumcision removes. Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=DD2yW7…

@GertdeJong15 @UNGeneva Great example is when the USWNT lost to a Dallas 15 and under club in 2017. Great training for the women to go against stronger and faster players than they normally compete against. soccerwire.com/news/fc-dallas…

@UNGeneva If a woman becomes the best player in a sport in the world the best clubs will line up to sign her. But there will always be thousands of men that are better. Because biology.

"Girls can’t do what boys can." 🙄 From classrooms to stadiums, and everywhere in between —girls CAN, girls DO, and girls WILL. The future isn’t equal until opportunities are. Let’s level the playing field #ForAllWomenAndGirls Learn more 👉 buff.ly/0PwSbr0

@JamesLNuzzo The NAEP data has been showing us this for over 2.5 decades, but legislators and not schools have failed to act. Most advocates for gender equity in education only advocate for those programs that clearly benefit female students. Very sad.

"But in contrast with efforts to encourage girls in math and science, which have helped shrink their achievement gap with boys, little attention or effort has been focused on improving boys’ reading skills."

Very important virtual conference on boys happening this weekend! Sign up here: helpingboysthrive.org/what-boys-need…

@CHSommers The pro-female anti-male bias will hinder any attention given to such issue 👇 centreformalepsychology.com/male-psycholog…

The Misogyny Myth by ⁦@JohnTierneyNYC⁩ Just re-read this superb article ⁦in @CityJournal⁩ So good. city-journal.org/article/the-mi…

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