Barstool founder Dave Portnoy is an internet celebrity turned real life D-list celebrity thanks to his partnership with Fox Sports, and he is the avatar for the crisis of American masculinity. He posted a video over the weekend that I think serves as a metaphor for how Trump got elected. A bunch of aggrieved and broken guys like this gambling their life savings on sports, stocks and memecoins all convinced themselves that a con artist actually cared about them. Now much of the manosphere are realizing that they're the ones who got conned, and some like Portnoy seem to be fraying at the edges.
The guidance from Ofcom, the UK communications regulator, to combat misogynist abuse, coercive control and the sharing of intimate images without consent comes into force on Tuesday and includes recommendations to prevent women being harried online. The measures suggest tech companies enforce limits on the number of responses to posts on platforms such as X, in a move that Ofcom hopes will reduce pile-ons, where individual users are deluged with abusive replies to their posts.
A year after the most openly misogynist presidential candidate in modern U.S. history defeated, for the second time, an ultracompetent woman and brought a politics of unabashed male dominance to the White House and country writ large, it can feel like something of a quaint throwback to remark on why it's important to have women in positions of power.
Women are ruining the workplace. Before women, of course, the workplace was perfect. It was full of trees. There was no need to labor with your hands. You didn't have to wear pants, or any form of clothes. Every kind of animal was there. You could just sit around all day and call, "Quiet. Quiet, piggy!"and nobody batted an eye, except for the pigs. It was your job to name them.
"It's possible that somebody like a Liz Cheney could win if she wasn't in the doghouse with her own party right now. She could be somebody who could run. I think maybe a conservative woman would win faster than a liberal. It's possible, she said. Teta agreed and added that a lot of people think a conservative woman could win long before a liberal candidate."
When he runs out of victims, the young Persian queen Shahrazad volunteers but stalls her own murder by telling the king one captivating tale after another and those become the stories we're reading. As Jeanette Winterson puts it in her new book a dizzying whirligig of memoir, history, philosophy, politics and self-help, loosely tied to commentary on the Nights Shahrazad's feat of creativity refuses the present emergency the contrived drama of a powerful man.
Dear Smacked, My former rep and one of my current reps spent an awful lot of time talking smack about me. I get I'm the boss and I won't always be liked, but as I sat and read the conversation history, I could feel my face burning in humiliation and my stomach twisting in shame. It was like high school. He and she discussed my hair, my body, the sound of my voice, what I wear. I hate to admit it gutted me.
As she reeled from the discovery of a pornographic website featuring AI-generated images of herself naked, the prominent Italian journalist and writer Francesca Barra said the question that struck her the most came from her young daughter. She asked me: how do you feel?', Barra, 47, said. But what I heard was another more subtle question that my pre-adolescent daughter perhaps didn't have the courage to ask, and that was: If it happened to me, how would I handle it?'.
This imbalance has led young men to coin the term 'hoeflation,' the grind of chasing women they might barely fancy, but will date just to escape loneliness.
Set in Japan in the 1960s, Silent Hill f is notable for being the first full Silent Hill game set outside of the series' titular troubled town. Hinako, the protagonist, is one of four teenagers whose lives get turned upside down by terrifying supernatural events that also double as an all too relatable metaphor for the rampant harms of misogyny and the way society devalues the lives of women.
Last week, I learned a new online phrase, courtesy of the Men On The Internet: 'the fridge protects the snacks'. The 'snacks' in question are young, hot, dateable women who are tasty, delectable, moreish. The 'fridge' part refers to their less attractive, more frumpy or larger, refrigerator-dimensioned friends. Charming, right?
