Stacey Hansen @staceyhansen

How bad is administrative bloat in higher ed? At MIT, the “student body has grown by 8% and its faculty by 9% since the mid-1980s. By comparison, the tally of administrators jumped by 189%.”

"All my favorite banned books are promoted as such by the marketing departments of national chains and prominently displayed for sale. My irrepressible independence of thought is a threat to the status quo."

charu @charureadss

2 days ago

I read banned books

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Nothing says “I have my cake and I’m eating it too” quite like detonating a functional marriage, upending your kids’ lives, and entering the post-35 dating market on the advice of multi-millionaire podcast hosts and actresses who face zero consequences for the toxic bile they spout. There is a special place in hell for the women who get obscenely rich telling other women the most catastrophically self-destructive advice imaginable under the guise of female empowerment.

Ezydu @ezradulis

2 days ago

"Call Her Daddy" host Alex Cooper & actress Sophia Bush: if a woman is questioning whether she can do better than her current husband, "the answer is always yes." "This idea that it's too late or you're too old, or who are you to want more, that's patriarchy. That is crazy."

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Why do nihilists who talk about humans being specks of dust on a space rock in the cosmos always zoom out but never zoom in? Our bodies are universe-like structures for microorganisms, who are universes for particles. We are incredibly massive and significant

JK Rowling has just written a beautiful essay that I will link to below. This paragraph holds no punches: “Large numbers of women who’ve never been poor, who’ve never worked the kind of job where they’d be vulnerable to predatory men and who’ve never needed a r*pe crisis centre have spent the last few years vilifying members of their own sex for fighting to retain their hard-won rights and single-sex spaces, in ways that have shocked and disgusted me. I freely confess that I feel an extra layer of abhorrence for any woman who claims to be a feminist while doing it.”

This week a friend asked me: “If teen girls were caught up in a culture-bound mass psychosis, wishing to have their healthy eyes surgically removed, would we still be debating it? Or would we have stopped it right away?” I think it shows our Puritan roots still haunt us. Human sexuality remains the great taboo. We can remove or damage a young person’s capacity for sexual function, and the people who object are the ones accused of being “fixated on genitals.” Naming the loss is treated as more shameful than causing it.

The thing where one is obliged to pretend to believe this obviously false but politically convenient statistic in order to remain a liberal in good standing is one of those things that used to just kinda grate on me but after 25 years has driven me fully up the wall

Rob Henderson @robkhenderson

2 days ago

Parents are paying $400K to send their daughters to a place where they have a greater than 1 in 3 chance of getting raped? nytimes.com/2026/10/20/opi…

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"If a man can be a woman, there is no such thing as a woman. That might not matter to you personally, but it matters to millions of women who don’t have the luxury of pretending that their sex doesn’t matter."

J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling

2 days ago

I wrote a new piece about women’s rights and whether or not I want trans people dead. (Spoiler: I don’t)👇 jkrowling.com/opinions/an-up…

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Free-Thinking Nonconformist Comes Out As Non-Binary Just Like Every Single One Of Her Friends buff.ly/kfrglSS

RFK Jr. Prepares To Delight Trick-Or-Treaters With Mason Jars Of Beef Tallow buff.ly/9qg4n4S

@yamatsullu 4 has me uncertain. So up to 3.

You have no idea how crazy woke 2 is going to get.

New York Post @nypost

4 days ago

NYC bagel shop forced to remove cartoon mascot after influencer calls it 'blackface' trib.al/beZO71F

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99% of women and girls in Somalia have been mutilated in the following way: the clitoris is cut off, along with the inner labia. Then the inner flesh of the outer labia is removed before both sides are sewn tightly together, leaving a hole no bigger than a matchstick for urine and menses to trickle through. All of this is done in childhood, and without any form of anesthesia whatsoever. Sometimes the little girl is given a scrap of leather or a stick to bite down on. The cutters use old razor blades, or sometimes a piece of broken glass. This is only the beginning of a girl’s pain. Most wedding nights in Somalia are aided by “the little knife” — that is, the new husband slices his bride open so that he can penetrate her now cut and bleeding scar tissue. Some men, however, simply batter their way through, tearing that tiny hole open by sheer force. When a woman goes into labor, she’s cut open more widely, then sewn back up afterwards so that when sex resumes she will have to be cut open yet again. This practice leads to countless deaths from infection and a drastic increase in maternal mortality, but Somali men still refuse to marry uncut women, forcing mothers to have their daughters cut or face social stigma. Uncut girls are seen as dirty; the term for clitoris is a playground taunt in Somalia, and girls who are not cut are usually ostracized by their peers. The Somali government recently debated the legality of this appalling custom, and the parliament largely split along gender lines. Female MPs roundly condemned FGM, while male MPs insisted that having a clitoris made a woman more difficult to penetrate, and quoted the hadith in which Muhammad condoned the practice. These are educated men who nevertheless claim that cutting a girl is necessary in order to control her sexuality, and that an uncut woman will be promiscuous and untrustworthy. In spite of the Somali government’s continued support for FGM, foreign aid continues to flow into Somalia unobstructed. The West should refuse to give the Somali government so much as a single dollar until they outlaw FGM and take positive steps to combat the problem. One tactic that has been highly successful involves showing Somali men a video of a girl being mutilated. Because FGM is seen as women’s business, most men have no idea what it entails. Men who watch this video are horrified, and the most common reaction has been “Not my daughter!” This proves that FGM is not hopelessly entrenched in Somali culture. Western pressure and resources could make an enormous difference in the lives of Somali women and girls, and put a stop to this barbaric practice.

Everyone who ever believed men can be magically transformed into women needs to ask themselves how they were able to be so completely manipulated and what else they could be tricked into believing.

Jonny Bell @Jonnywsbell

5 days ago

2026 and Channel 4 are just catching up about David Reimer.

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It's ok to be upset about buildings being burnt to the ground by a rampaging mob, actually.

sara hinkley @boneysoups

5 days ago

to anyone breathless over burning belleépoqueslop: 1883 isn’t ancient history and if you want to get upset about the condition of building take a look at some of the schools

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WAIT. France was hiding their educational resources in the Louis Vuitton store this entire time!

Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇫🇷🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou

5 days ago

French rioters loot Louis Vuitton store located just 2 KM away from the Élysée.

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I don't understand the distinction by many educated people between the burning of buildings and the burning of books. If architecture like literature is an expression of ideas in symbolic form -- which it is, of course --then both are anti-intellectual acts.

Destroying things is quick and easy. Creating things is slow and difficult.

Evil will always seek to destroy beauty because beauty is proof of objective standards and universal Truth. "Beauty is the archenemy of mediocrity." — Dietrich von Hildebrand.

Inevitable West @Inevitablewest

5 days ago

It was beautiful. 150 years old. Burnt to the ground by barbarians.

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Just a reminder that there is nothing wrong with being a masculine girl or a feminine boy. There’s no wrong way to be either sex. Drugs and surgeries are never required.