Today the UK government has confirmed it will implement a long-anticipated ban on social media use for under-16s in the UK. As Maddison Wheeldon wrote for the Canary, this move does little for young people while letting big tech companies off the hook. And girls’ rights charity Plan International UK has added that the ban […]
By The Canary
The oyster farmer is a muscled Homer Simpson — the blunderingly caring lummox doing his best, whom we’re culturally predisposed to hug and forgive while he figures it all out.
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One in five girls say they first experienced unwanted physical or sexual harassment before age 12. That’s the finding of new research from girls’ rights charity Plan International UK. It sits alongside another recent report, which focussed on the pervasive impact of online misogyny. Opinium Research polled 1,000 nationally representative girls and women in the […]
By The Canary
Online abuse and harassment are “constant, corrosive and deeply embedded” for young people across the country. That’s according to a Barnardo’s-commissioned poll of 4,000 young people in the UK about their experiences of online misogyny. The results from thousands of 13 to 20-year-olds show how they experience misogyny online. Over a quarter (28%) of girls […]
By The Canary
1,048 words In their panicked, headlong rush to prove that the Canadian military is capable of defending the northern country’s sovereignty, successive Liberal federal governments under the auspices of Prime Ministers Justin Trudeau and Mark Carney made some terrible mistakes. In their frenetic panic to balloon the overall number of Canadian military personnel, they decided […]
On weeping over a Judge Judy episode, and why that is not an overreaction.
The cops never change. Only the tech toys do. That’s the upshot of this report from the Institute for Justice, which has been tracking what cops have been tracking now that they have always-on access to massive networks of security cameras, including Flock Safety’s controversial offerings, which also include automatic license plate readers (ALPR). The […]
It’s time the Democrats tell the truth and set out a clear vision to remedy the decades of political vandalism that brought us to this perilous, violent moment in our history.
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Andrew Tate, Jordan Peterson and Donald Trump are not random names in Farage’s orbit. They point to a politics that treats women’s equality as part of what has gone wrong. Trading in misogyny and resentment Farage has spent the past two years placing himself alongside men and movements that trade on resentment towards women and […]
By Reform Watch
COLTS NECK, N.J. — Music legend Bruce Springsteen released a statement to clarify that his intentions in the song “I’m On Fire”... Get the full story
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TRENTON, N.J. — Members of the newly formed girl union at the Girl Power company report being subjected to vicious union busting... Continue reading this gem
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A kinder approach to suffering the indignity.
Men are turning to chatbots for romantic and sexual roleplay in rising numbers, and philosopher Isaac Shur thinks the reason has less to do with loneliness than with control. In a new essay for the American Philosophical Association's blog, the Northwestern PhD candidate argues that what men actually want from an AI girlfriend is "fine-grained control over a sycophant" — a partner who never…
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Zara Larsson’s defence of Chappell Roan isn’t just about boundaries, it’s about what happens when a female artist sets them, […]
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He brings the free use secretary a coffee as the day begins, that’s the first surprising thing about the new guy. The rest of the men just ignore her as usual. It might be a special team building day, with a more relaxed approach than in the office, but not much has changed for the […]
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People laughed every time she told him ‘hands off,’ but she was stone cold serious.
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Endless self-denunciation might quench a progressive longing, but it does nothing to make the public safer.
Britain’s MI5 must pay compensation to a woman coercively controlled, abused, and attacked with a machete by a neo-Nazi agent it employed. The agent also had fantasies about eating children. And the victim has warned that MI5 – which was found to have lied repeatedly – was still protecting the abuser. In a story that […]
By Joe Glenton
Starmer knew. And now we know Peter Mandelson was fast-tracked into government despite explicit warnings that his “particularly close” friendship with prolific paedophile, Jeffrey Epstein made him a “general reputational risk”. Keir Starmer chose to ignore red flags about a man who stayed at Epstein’s house after his conviction. And Starmer knew. Mandelson’s vetting was […]
By Rachael Swindon
Labour MP Charlotte Nichols spoke in the House of Commons in opposition to the government’s planned cuts to jury trials. The government have insisted these cuts are essential for swifter justice for victims of rape. On the contrary, Nichols suggests they have pressured MPs to support the bill by implying that those who oppose it have […]
By Maddison Wheeldon
Over 100 Labour MPs have co-signed a letter to the CEO of Travelodge to request a meeting to discuss a sexual assault that occurred in the hotel chain. According to the letter, a woman was sexually assaulted after making a solo booking at the hotel – only for staff to give her attacker a key […]
By Maddison Wheeldon
Imagine what women could accomplish if they did not have to contend with misogyny every day.
A hospital in Abuja, Nigeria. Image credit Oni Abimbola via Shutterstock © 2021.
The Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) has suspended three medical doctors, including…
Reform parachuted-in Gorton and Denton candidate Matthew Goodwin has been accused by a female GB News staffer of sexually harassing her. And Reform boss Nigel Farage is thought to have known about the allegation before he named Goodwin as the party’s candidate in the by-election. Usually, ‘Labour’ PM Keir Starmer tries to mimic Farage, but […]
By Skwawkbox
"We have no record from Hypatia about the circumstances of her life," writes Meg Elison in her review of the 2009 film about the ancient Roman philosoher. "Letters written to her by men are preserved; none of her letters to them remain."
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The right's "scientific" case for misogyny isn't science. It's myth in the sense Roland Barthes meant—political prejudice dressed up as natural fact.