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Culture critic: ‘Manosphere’ Fears Overhyped
The newest “issue du jour” is the “manosphere,” observes Josh Kaplan at The Free Press, with a lot fear “over the impact that online creators with extreme misogynistic views are having on young men.” But are they being “seriously and irrevocably damaged”? You’ll discover “scant evidence” that the “bigoted and toxic” views of Andrew Tate and so on. are literally “having a serious, long-term impact on the way young men behave in the real world.” Notably, not like “other forms of bigotry,” the “misogynistic rhetoric of the manosphere” doesn’t correlate with elevated “misogynistic violence”; certainly, sexual-assault charges have “halved in the U.S. over the last 20 years.” Without excusing “bigotry or violent ideas,” strive permitting boys “the space to come to their own conclusions.”
Defense desk: Marines’ Dishonest Commandant
Gen. Eric Smith, now the Marine Corps commandant, “probably will go down in history as the second-worst commandant in recent times,” together with his fast predecessor, Gen. David Berger, retaining the “dubious distinction” of worst, predicts Col. (ret.) Gary Anderson at The Washington Times. Berger “enthusiastically embraced the Biden administration’s ‘diversity, equity and inclusion’ policies and created an extensive infrastructure to implement them”; Smith, as his No. 2, Smith “enthusiastically” helped. When President Trump took workplace, Smith “frantically began dismantling the Corps’ DEI establishment” — but additionally lied, claiming the Corps had by no means purchased into DEI. “I fully expected him to be fired,” given the “damage” he and Berger did to the “Marine Corps’ combat readiness,” however he has survived, albeit sidelined after a coronary heart assault. Perhaps it’s higher he function “a bad example than no example at all.”
Rue, Brittainia: Churchill Out, Squirrel In
“If you’re looking for a metaphor for the decline of Western civilization, you could do worse than the news that Winston Churchill, who was often likened to a bulldog or a lion, may soon be replaced in Britain’s public esteem by an actual squirrel,” quips The Wall Street Journal’s Gerard Baker because the UK authorities opts to exchange people on its currency with “wildlife.” Meanwhile, in Northern England, a information booklet instructs academics to not ask college students to “reproduce images of Jesus, the prophet Mohammed” or different key Islamic figures to avoiding offending Muslims. And a “Muslim-protecting” plumber “became the first Green Party candidate to win a parliamentary by-election.” At what level “does Britain stop being counted as the West?”
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Liberal: Dems Falling for New Walz-ian Fakes
Despite Tim Walz’s flop within the 2024 election, some of the Democratic “candidates running in key midterm states have quite Walz-ian profiles,” grumbles The Liberal Patriot’s Michael Baharaeen. Some hope Senate candidates James Talarico (Texas) and Graham Platner (Maine) “embody a ‘new way’ for Democrats hoping to win difficult races” by “cracking the code to winning conservative-leaning rural and working-class voters.” Yet each merely dismiss “cultural issues,” and their assist is “concentrated in urban and coastal enclaves” which might be “culturally distant from much of rural America.” To gain seats within the Senate and “compete” within the Electoral College, Democrats should “expand their tent to include people who hold more culturally conservative positions.”
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Medical beat: Establishment Ducks Trans Truth
Some US “medical associations” have “recently revised their positions” on “medical transition for gender-dysphoric minors,” notes Joseph Figliolia at City Journal. But the American Psychological Association is “attempting a ‘split the difference’ communications strategy”: It walks back its “unambiguous support for pediatric medical interventions” when talking to a journalist, however “refers to ‘affirming care’ interventions as ‘evidence-based’” when talking to an activist. This “fence-straddling behavior reflects the uncomfortable position in which the APA finds itself”: “Caught between the desire to placate its own activist members and the need to address” issues of authorities and policymakers. It’s a “cynical” strategy of “trying to say different things to different audiences” and hoping no one notices.
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
