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Young men reveal why they’re single
They’re single but they’re not mingling.
New data from the Pew Research Center has shown that 63% of men under 30 are single – up from 51% in 2019.
COVID isolation and women’s high expectations for something serious are the main reasons they’re avoiding going out and coupling up, young guys say.
“Dates feel more like job interviews now. Much more like ‘What can you do for me and where is this going?'” said Ian Breslow, a 28-year-old high school teacher who lives in Astoria.
Young men reveal why they’re single
11-year-old reads aloud from ‘pornographic’ book
‘I’m a father and I couldn’t do this’
Gay couple beaten in Times Square
A return to chastity?
Man, 26, poses as teen at high schools, now charged with sex crimes
‘I was sucking and cutting at the same time’
Parents speak out about the ‘rush’ to reassign the gender of their kids
Bri, who asked The Post to publish only her nickname for fear of being branded a bigot and doxxed by transgender-rights activists, was horrified — not only by the insinuation her teen would commit suicide if she didn’t transition, but also the fact that the general practitioner issued the warning in front of them both.
But some experts now question the threat that they say is commonly used by medical professionals. They believe many doctors are so scared of the label “transphobe” that they automatically present skeptical parents with a doomsday scenario: “Would you rather have a dead son or a living daughter?” or vice versa.
By contrast, a 2011 study spanning three decades by the respected Karolinska Institute in Sweden found that people who underwent sex reassignment were 19 times more likely to die by suicide than the general population. In the US, a yearlong survey by the National Center for Transgender Equality concluded that those who had transitioned were more likely to have attempted suicide than trans people who had not had medical or surgical treatments.
Parents speak out about the ‘rush’ to reassign the gender of their kids
Elementary school promotes transgender 'top surgery' book for Pride Month. Then complaints come rolling in.
Proud gay dad who wrote kids’ book about families like his sent horrific homophobic abuse
Brazilian teen gives up on becoming a real life KEN DOLL
16 is dangerously young to change your gender
There is no ‘trans community’
I Am Not Anti-Trans
Judge rejects trans lawmaker
Don’t let kids transition at 15, says trans woman
Care for Trans Youth ‘a Sad and Dangerous Fad’
Why having kids doesn’t necessarily make you happier, according to research
Parents often refer to their children as their “pride and joy.” But research tells a different story: Having kids doesn’t necessarily make people happier.
Most parents feel that their children are incredibly important sources of life satisfaction, says Jennifer Glass, professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Austin and a demographer who studies the relationship between parenthood and well-being.
“But that’s not the same thing as happiness, and it’s not the same thing as financial well-being, good physical health or good emotional health,” Glass tells CNBC Make It.
So, why does having kids not provide the happiness that we think it will?
Why having kids doesn’t necessarily make you happier, according to research
WHAT SHE WISHES SHE’D KNOWN ABOUT PARENTING
Mom tells sleeping son's girlfriend to kill herself
'We want Biden out'
Anna Sorokin blasts her father after he tells how he indulged her
Four teens arrested in gruesome elderly carjacking death
Parents Turn In Teen Elderly Killers
Privileged events coordinator, 26, charged with shoving 87-year-old to her death
Angry girl refuses to move for three-time combat veteran, 96
Georgia parent is stopped from reading sexually explicit book about slavery...
Seattle elementary school cancels its annual Pumpkin Parade because it 'marginalizes students of color
A Seattle elementary school has canceled its upcoming Halloween parade and will be banning students from dressing in costumes on October 31, claiming that the annual event ‘marginalizes’ students of color who administrators claim do not celebrate the holiday.
Seattle elementary school cancels its annual Pumpkin Parade
Now moccasins are racist!
...complaint against show over claims producers FIRED them for requesting gender neutral dressing room
Former California state lawmaker indicted on federal bribery charges
Southlake school leader tells teachers to balance Holocaust books with 'opposing' views
Texas House Passes Bill To Bar Transgender Athletes From Women’s Sports
Manhattan junior high school will racially separate students
Student ‘forced to use police escort’
Texas student hits teacher in class
Lawn Boy and Gender Queer: A Memoir - do not violate rules
Why can't the school provide the children with materials to make their own costumes? 13-Oct-2021
Pediatricians say the mental health crisis among kids has become a national emergency
In a letter released Tuesday, the groups say that rates of childhood mental health concerns were already steadily rising over the past decade. But the coronavirus pandemic, as well as the issue of racial inequality, they write, has exacerbated the challenges.
"This worsening crisis in child and adolescent mental health is inextricably tied to the stress brought on by COVID-19 and the ongoing struggle for racial justice and represents an acceleration of trends observed prior to 2020," the declaration from the pediatric groups says.
...national emergency
Parents stage furious anti-LGBT+ education protest
School Board Squirms As Mom Reads Them Gay Porn
...schoolers survey if 'queers' should use the bathroom with 'normal people'
Horrific moment man ATTACKS unruly 11-year-old girl
What Becoming a Parent Really Does to Your Happiness
Mother of 5-year-old called son 'the next Ted Bundy'
States are investigating how Instagram recruits and affects children
Pennsylvania man punches baby in face
Drunk rugby fan 'vomited all over' boy, six
Bogus Social Media Outrage Is Making Authors Change Lines in Their Books Now
As described in an article in Publishers Weekly, readers on Instagram criticized Hilderbrand’s summer 2021 book, The Golden Girl, for a passage in which two teens, Vivi and Savannah, discuss plans for Vivi to hide out in the attic of Savannah’s house without Savannah’s parents’ knowledge: “You’re suggesting I hide here all summer?” Vivi asks. “Like … like Anne Frank?” The two friends laugh at this, but Vivi thinks to herself, “Is it really funny, and is Vivi so far off base?”
On an Instagram post in Hilderbrand’s publisher’s feed, a user who goes by the name “poursandpages” posted a comment (since deleted) denouncing this joke as “horrifically” antisemitic and demanding an apology. Others described themselves as “disgusted” and “gobsmacked in every way with the insensitivity” and accused Hilderbrand of thinking “antisemitism is funny.” After trying to put out these fires via DMs, Hilderbrand issued a formal apology and stated that the line would be removed from the book.
Bogus Social Media Outrage Is Making Authors Change Lines in Their Books Now
We Can Raise Boys To Become Good Men By Treating Them Like Girls
When I was a kid in the 1970s, the “tomboy” was queen — or maybe king. Even a non-sporty girl like me was dressed in the unisex uniforms of white-piped track shorts, Keds, and t-shirts, just like my brother. The lesson I learned from my parents, peers, the media, and the passage of Title IX in 1972, was that I had legal right to everything culturally marked as “for boys.”
But the same access to girls’ worlds has still not been granted to boys. Despite the recent media focus on toxic masculinity, boys still feel insistent pressure to be violent, to shut down emotions, to watch porn, and to have sex even when they don’t want or aren’t ready to. They feel pressure to reject anything associated with what’s culturally marked as “feminine” — kindness, vulnerability, love, seeking help, let alone dolls and the color pink — and pressure to look down on girls and women. Boys learn that “girly” is an insult, and they must at all costs distance themselves from it.
We Can Raise Boys To Become Good Men By Treating Them Like Girls
Cancel Culture’s Condescension Problem
Culture-war obsessives believe it’s their responsibility to protect foolish people from themselves. What happened to individual freedom?
It’s troubling enough that those who wield cultural power have such a strong instinct to silence opponents and anathematize views with which they disagree — and that they so often get away with doing so rather forcibly.
But even more concerning is that, at root, this approach demonstrates deep disrespect for human freedom and resilience, as well as for each individual’s ability to choose how he wishes to encounter other views and decide his beliefs for himself.
Cancel Culture’s Condescension Problem
6 Dr. Seuss books to stop being published because of racist imagery
'These books portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong'
6 Dr. Seuss books to stop being published because of racist imagery
It’s the incendiary bloke-bashing bestseller the French tried to ban. Now, as it reignites the battle of the sexes here, FLORA GILL dares say... I admit it, I hate men
There's many a woman who, after a dreadful first date or a bout of office mansplaining, has uttered the words ‘I hate men’.
I have often heard friends say that very thing. In fact, at some point in her life, I bet practically every woman has said it.
But if pressed on the point, many would add that, of course, they don’t really hate the opposite sex. After all, we have men in our lives we don’t hate — a brother, a father, a best friend.
So when a woman stands up and insists she really does hate men, it causes something of a stir.
I admit it, I hate men
Oprah Winfrey: The 7 books that ‘help me through’ stressful times like these
If you’re prone to doom-scrolling Twitter, or can’t take yet another stressful headline in the news, Oprah Winfrey has some suggestions on what books to read next.
Winfrey recently suggested seven books that are perfect to read right now, or during any stressful moment in life. She values these books “for their ability to inspire and comfort and enlighten,” she said in a video on her Instagram Monday.
“During these times, I know it’s hard sometimes to focus on anything because we’re so distracted by the roar of the news, not to mention the steady hum of our own anxiety,” Winfrey said.
But research has shown that reading can reduce your stress levels as effectively as other relaxation methods. Just six minutes of reading can lower your blood pressure and decrease other stress-related bodily responses, a 2009 study found.
From poetry to spirituality, here are the books that Oprah likes to “revisit time and again.”
Oprah Winfrey: The 7 books that ‘help me through’ stressful times like these
'We should have the right not to like men': the French writer at centre of literary storm
When Pauline Harmange, a French writer and aspiring novelist, published a treatise on hating men, she expected it to sell at the most a couple of hundred copies among friends and readers of her blog.
Instead, a threat by a government official to take legal action to ban Moi les hommes, je les déteste (I Hate Men) has made it a sellout. The first 450-copy print run was quickly snapped up, as was the following two reprints. Now 2,500 copies have been sold.
The publisher, Monstrograph, described as a “micropublishing house” run by volunteers, is overwhelmed and says I Hate Men will not be reprinted again unless a bigger publisher comes to the rescue.
Harmange, 25, is a mix of bemused and shell-shocked to find herself in the middle of a literary and political storm. “I didn’t expect this. It’s been an enormous surprise,” she told the Guardian from her home in Lille, northern France, where she lives with her husband, Mathieu, 29, and Eleven the cat. “It’s the first time I’ve had a book come out. I wrote a novel but it was never published.”
“I just don’t have confidence in them. This comes less from personal experience than from being an activist in a feminist organisation that helps the victims of rape and sexual assault for several years. I can state for a fact that the majority of aggressors are men.”
She added: “If we are heterosexual we are encouraged to like men, but we should absolutely have the right not to like them. I realise this sounds like a violent sentiment, but I feel strongly we should be allowed to not love them as a whole and make exceptions for certain men.”
'We should have the right not to like men': the French writer at centre of literary storm
Why men rape, in their own words: sex offenders in India and what makes it such a dangerous place for women
A study conducted by the Thomson Reuters Foundation in 2018 ranked India as the world’s most dangerous country for women.
The issues examined included sexual violence and trafficking, gender-based social discrimination, lack of access to and control over contraception and childbirth, health care and maternal mortality rates. Mental and physical abuse, religious and cultural facets such as acid attacks, female infanticide, female genital mutilation, and forced and child marriages were also weighed.
Sexual violence against women is an absolute reality in many cultures around the world. In India, however, it is deeply rooted in patriarchal norms and the belief that men are superior to women and that a man should always be a protector of women.
During her interviews, Kaushal found that none of her nine subjects understood the meaning or necessity of consent from a female partner in a sexual relationship or respected them as individuals with their own unique identities. One of them, a serial gang rapist, even refused to accept the idea of rape.
Another subject, a doctor, raped a 12-year-old bedridden patient following an operation, in full awareness of the mental trauma he was causing. The attack left the patient crippled and incapable of talking about the assault for decades out of fear and shock.
Why men rape
Glennon Doyle thinks our kids suck. And it’s all our fault.
New York Times bestselling author Glennon Doyle is unequivocal in her opinion on modern parenting.
In her new book Untamed, she describes how parents receive a ‘terrible memo’ from society as soon as our kids are born.
This memo says that our kids are our saviours and parenting them is akin to a religion. We must give them every opportunity possible and most importantly, we must never allow anything difficult to happen to them.
According to Glennon, not only does this disastrous memo make us parents feel exhausted, neurotic and guilty; but it is also the reason why our kids suck.
Ouch.
The reason our kids suck, she says, is because we no longer allow our children to learn how to lose, or to struggle, or to be rejected.
MamaMia
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing (PTSS) is a 2005 theoretical work by Joy DeGruy (née Leary).[1][2] PTSS describes a set of behaviors, beliefs and actions associated with or, related to multi-generational trauma experienced by African Americans that include but are not limited to undiagnosed and untreated posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in enslaved Africans and their descendants.[1]
PTSS posits that centuries of slavery in the United States, followed by systemic and structural racism and oppression, including lynching, Jim Crow laws, and unwarranted mass incarceration, have resulted in multigenerational maladaptive behaviors, which originated as survival strategies. The syndrome continues because children whose parents suffer from PTSS are often indoctrinated into the same behaviors, long after the behaviors have lost their contextual effectiveness.
DeGruy states that PTSS is not a disorder that can simply be treated and remedied clinically but rather also requires profound social change in individuals, as well as in institutions that continue to reify inequality and injustice toward the descendants of enslaved Africans.
DeGruy holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Communication, a master's degree in Social Work, a master's degree in Clinical Psychology, and a Ph.D. in Social Work Research. She teaches social work at Portland State University and gives lectures on PTSS nationally and internationally.
Wiki
What is 'Post-traumatic slave syndrome'?