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The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women

The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein
Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women
By Rebecca Solnit
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This Shonen Anime Fights Toxic Masculinity - Aftermath Wind Breaker restored my faith in the shonen anime by showing that strength can be something more than just physical prowess.

This Shonen Anime Fights Toxic Masculinity
Wind Breaker is a shonen anime where teenage boys talk about their feelings while punching toxic masculinity in the face.
aftermath.site/wind-breaker...

California Meets the Moment The Governor’s executive order supporting the well-being of boys and young men continues post-election momentum

California Meets the Moment
The Governor’s executive order supporting the well-being of boys and young men continues post-election momentum
youngmenresearchinitiative.substack.com/p/california...

Breaking the Silence: A Real Conversation on Men’s Mental Health and the Power of Connection By RahK Lash and DeManuel EdmondsonLet’s be real: too many of us are suffering in silence.For years, men’s mental health has been the elephant in the room — big, loud, and impossible to

Breaking the Silence: A Real Conversation on Men’s Mental Health and the Power of Connection
By RahK Lash and DeManuel Edmondson, A Call to Men
www.acalltomen.org/breaking-the...

First Came Tea. Then Came the Male Rage. The app was meant to make dating safer for women. Data breaches exposing its users show why it was so popular in the first place.

First Came Tea. Then Came the Male Rage.
The app was meant to make dating safer for women. Data breaches exposing its users show why it was so popular in the first place.
By Faith Hill
www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...

Lily's friends shunned her after she was raped. She went to court anyway, and won In New South Wales, just 7 per cent of sexual assault cases reported to police resulted in a conviction. Lily's story offers an insight into how the system treats victim-survivors.

How Lily Steele-Park took her rapist to court and won
Triple J Hack
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

‘He stopped me from talking to male colleagues’: new research shows how domestic violence so often starts with isolation and control First came psychological abuse, then physical, then came sexual abuse.

‘He stopped me from talking to male colleagues’: new research shows how domestic violence so often starts with isolation and control
By Elizabeth McLindon and Kelsey Hegarty
theconversation.com/he-stopped-m... via @ConversationEDU

Why Andrea Dworkin is the radical, visionary feminist we need in our terrible times She was labelled a man-hater, anti-sex and ugly. But she predicted both the ascent of Trump and #MeToo – and her unapologetic attitude is more relevant than ever

Why Andrea Dworkin is the radical, visionary feminist we need in our terrible times
She was labelled a man-hater and anti-sex. But she predicted both the ascent of Trump and #MeToo – and her unapologetic attitude is more relevant than ever
By Julie Bindel
juliebindel.substack.com/p/why-andrea...

A Stoic Antidote to the Manosphere? Ryan Holiday wants to change how we think about self-help and masculinity

A Stoic Antidote to the Manosphere?
Ryan Holiday wants to change how we think about self-help and masculinity
By the Young Men Research Initiative and Charlie Sabgir
youngmenresearchinitiative.substack.com/p/a-stoic-an...

Of course we should stop kids from watching porn | Josephine Bartosch | The Critic Magazine Some things shouldn’t need saying — like don’t let kids watch porn. You’d think this was a moral baseline broad enough to unite everyone from Germaine Greer to the Pope. But BBC articles have framed…

Of course we should stop kids from watching porn
There are valid criticisms of the Online Safety Act — but age verification for porn sites is good
By Jo Bartosch
thecritic.co.uk/of-course-we...

Also see Kingsman’s:
-- Scoping review on “Rites of Passage Programs for Adolescent Boys in Schools” here: www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...
-- Article, “Negotiating masculine identities”, here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
I'm proud to have been her PhD supervisor. : )

QUT - Making men: Year 9 boys' experience of rites of passage program

Making men: Year 9 boys' experience of rites of passage program
Dr Jo Kingsman studied the experiences of Year 9 students in an all-boys Australian school who participated in a year-long rites of passage program designed to equip them for healthy manhood.
www.qut.edu.au/news/realfoc...

Also see the collection on the men and masculinities website XY on men, masculinities and environmental issues, here: xyonline.net/content/men-...
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Why modern masculinity is a climate issue There are gender and class expectations of who takes the lead in climate action.

Why modern masculinity is a climate issue
Planting trees, restoring bikes, and looking after green spaces isn’t just environmental work. It’s emotional work. It’s care work. And changing the narrative on who gets to do it is vitally important.
theconversation.com/why-modern-m...
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The Manosphere Is Fueling Extremist Violence
How governments can counter the mainstreaming of “Red Pill” ideology.
By James Patterson, Foreign Policy
archive.md/lwwHd

Young Men May Not Be as Conservative as You Think Gen Z men in their teens and twenties are leaning further right than ever… or so mainstream media would have you believe. For months before and since the November 2024 election, news articles, podcas...

Young Men May Not Be as Conservative as You Think
By Ava Slocum, Ms Magazine
msmagazine.com/2025/07/25/y...

News and events | New prevention tool: Evidence and ideas for communicating to encourage men to get involved in preventing men’s violence against women and girls

New prevention tool: Evidence and ideas for communicating to encourage men to get involved in preventing men’s violence against women and girls
By Zero Tolerance, UK
www.zerotolerance.org.uk/news/news-ev...

A Faithful Church Response to Domestic and Family Violence. Explore what churches can be doing to be part of the solution to domestic and family violence.
Including a Men's Summit
August 18-19, Melbourne
More information here: www.tencommitments.org.au/conference

Breaking the code: Understanding and confronting complicit masculinity - SVRI Blog by Nathan Msomi unpacks complicit masculinity: men remain silent and benefit from male privilege while perpetuate gender-based violence.

Breaking the Code: Understanding and Confronting Complicit Masculinity
Nathan Msomi reflects on the often invisible role men play in upholding gender-based violence, even when they see themselves as “good men.”
SVRI blog: www.svri.org/faith-gbv-co...

A letter to Sarah Jean de Vries, who disappeared in Vancouver in 1998 One of the victims of Robert Pickton, the serial killer who targeted Indigenous women, many of them homeless, drug using, and prostituted. Sarah's poetry and diary entries tell the story of her life

A letter to Sarah Jean de Vries, who disappeared in Vancouver in 1998
One of the victims of Robert Pickton, the serial killer who targeted Indigenous women, many of them homeless, drug using, and prostituted.
By Julie Bindel
juliebindel.substack.com/p/a-letter-t...

Prevention in teaching and learning (PTL) The Prevention in teaching and learning resources support action in the 'teaching and learning' domain of Educating for equality.

Prevention in teaching and learning: Check out these excellent resources for teaching about violence prevention, including in education, early childhood education, public health, and criminology. By Our Watch www.ourwatch.org.au/universities...

Trump’s History of Misogyny Was Obvious Long Before the Epstein Files Scandal President Donald Trump’s History of Misogyny and Violence Against Women Was Obvious Long Before the Jeffrey Epstein Files Scandal

Trump’s History of Misogyny Was Obvious Long Before the Epstein Files Scandal
Long before that scandal cracked Trump’s image among his base, feminists and violence prevention advocates had been warning about his misogyny and the dangers of normalizing it.
msmagazine.com/2025/07/23/t...

New study finds the gender earnings gap could be halved if we reined in the long hours often worked by men A new study of heterosexual couples in Australia and Germany reveals the economic costs to women when their partners work long hours.

New study finds the gender earnings gap could be halved if we reined in the long hours often worked by men
theconversation.com/new-study-fi...
Journal article: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...

The Trump administration just defunded USAID. Over two decades USAID-supported programs saved close to 92 million lives. Without this support, researchers project 14 million additional premature deaths by 2030
Report in authoritative journal The Lancet: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Gen Z men are turning against porn "Boys and young men are not their fathers nor their grandfathers, this is great news for women and for men," Dr. Thomas Keith told Newsweek.

Gen Z Men Are Turning Against Porn
www.newsweek.com/gen-z-men-tu...

Man Wasn’t Always the Human Default On my recent visit to an archaeological site in Sicily, a past that centred women, and a present that forgot all about it

Man Wasn’t Always the Human Default
On my recent visit to an archaeological site in Sicily, a past that centred women, and a present that forgot all about it
By Kate Jgln
thenoosphere.substack.com/p/man-wasnt-...

Men and masculinities in the primary prevention of gender-based… Policy, regulatory and legislative opportunities for promoting expansive masculinity and working with men and boys to prevent gender-based violence.

Men and masculinities in the primary prevention of gender-based violence: policy brief
This brief outlines policy and legislative opportunities for promoting more positive and expansive forms of masculinity and working with men and boys to prevent violence
www.ourwatch.org.au/submissions/...

Opinion | What right-wing influencer Lauren Southern's memoir reveals about the manosphere's idea of 'protection' The discarding of Lauren Southern by the alt-right demonstrates that the modern conservative ideal of masculinity was never about protection.

She always defended the manosphere. Now, they won't defend her, after she reports Andrew Tate raping her.
The discarding of Lauren Southern by the alt-right demonstrates that the modern conservative ideal of masculinity was never about protection. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Flying under and through the radar: Tactics used by intimate partner femicide perpetrators to evade interventions Intimate partner femicide often emerges from abusive relationships marked by coercive control and intimate partner violence. While research has explor…

Intimate partner femicide: “Understanding perpetrators as the primary drivers of harm is crucial, and the strategies men use to ‘fly under and through the radar’ are key to identifying missed opportunities for prevention.”
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

‘One kid at a time’: How children’s books on male friendship could combat toxic masculinity From Margaret McDonald’s Glasgow Boys to Nathanael Lessore’s King of Nothing, boys take centre stage in this year’s Carnegie-winning titles. Let’s hope that the male protagonists persuade more boys to...

‘One kid at a time’: How children’s books on male friendship could combat toxic masculinity
From Margaret McDonald’s Glasgow Boys to Nathanael Lessore’s King of Nothing, boys take centre stage in this year’s Carnegie-winning titles.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...