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Myths and conspiracy theories don’t last very long on the internet, but it looks like no one told the Obama administration. The administration recently teamed up with College Humor, an online comedy site, to produce a video to push the White House’s

The upshot of the breathless crusade against the alleged epidemic of campus sexual assaults has been the imposition of baffling “affirmative consent” and “yes means yes” laws in New York and California.

Feminists are in meltdown following the successful funding of The Red Pill, a documentary about the Mens’ Rights Movement by award winning filmmaker Cassie Jaye. How awful!

A transgendered man ‘identifying’ as a woman, who was sentenced to a term in a male jail, has been moved to an all female prison. This is despite a court stressing his “worrying” violent history and it emerging that he

Naughty old Newsweek! This morning I was reading a feature about those terrifying nocturnal blood-suckers, vampire bats, and it dawned on me: under the cover of describing social hierarchies in these misunderstood winged creatures, the magazine has slipped out a devastatingly

Earlier this week, I told you about feminist filmmaker Cassie Jaye’s film about men’s rights, The Red Pill, and how it was struggling to find money after Jaye insisted on being fair-minded instead of hewing to third-wave feminist orthodoxy. My report about the struggles of a

On the face of it, “Why do so many angry women seem to have blue hair?” doesn’t seem like one of the most pressing issues of our time. Yet the more you think about it, and the more time you spend on

There is a documentary film on gender movements currently running a Kickstarter campaign that feminism would prefer never sees the light of day. You may be imagining some amateur film made by buffoons bumbling their way through a hit piece on feminism, but you’d be well off the mark. The film is The Red Pill by self professed feminist Cassie Jaye.

Recently the New York Times featured an article on what makes a modern man. Predictably, there was a lot to make fun of in the article. National Review took one of the first cracks at addressing each point.

While many women remain hesitant to label themselves as “feminist,” Lena Dunham continues to embrace the divisive term.

Huge numbers of women are opposed to fracking because they don’t understand the science behind the process, a leading female scientist has claimed. Men are nearly twice as likely to support fracking as women, research has shown. Professor Averil Macdonald

A student group at Williams College disinvited a conservative speaker after students protested the invitation.

From charlatans asking her to ‘free the nipple’, to men left so confused and impotent by the sexual revolution they can’t accept her advances, one Guardianista gender warrior has had it with the “male feminists” she helped to create. “My name is Kate Iselin.

Bradley Cooper is making moves to address Hollywood’s gender pay gap. While gender inequality has been a hot button issue, particularly in the wake of last year’s Sony Hack, Cooper announced last week he is taking a stand. The star told Reuters he will negotiate his pay alongside his female co-stars in all future projects, Glamour reports.

The New York Times has some advice for parents considering what costume their preteen girls should wear this Halloween: Go “sexy.”

Yesterday, George Lawlor, a student at the University of Warwick hit the headlines after he refused to accept an invitation to his student union’s “Sex Consent training workship.” Today, he is joined in these pages by another Warwick student, Jack Hadfield. Here’s hoping that their voices are just the beginning–and that young men will stand up and say enough is enough.

I am not a rapist. But I’m in my second week as a university student, and already modern feminism and “consent culture” is trying to pin that label on me.

HBO is placing another bet on Girls creator and star Lena Dunham, by ordering a new comedy series pilot about second-wave feminism in the early 1960s.

The United Nations report on “cyberviolence against women and girls,” which called on national governments to censor the internet, was withdrawn for revision earlier this week following widespread criticism and mockery. But a new hashtag by the U.N-created Internet Governance Forum (IGF) designed to spread the concept even further is still scheduled for today.

A French television station has been forced to withdraw an advert designed to promote its female friendly credentials – because the ad was deemed to be ‘sexist’ by feminists on Twitter. The ad campaign, which was scheduled to run for

Last night saw a feminist protest invade the premiere of a pro-feminist film, setting off smoke flares and trespassing on the red carpet in London’s Leicester Square. Police declined to make a single arrest and it has now been revealed the

Feminist activists sprawled out on the red carpet and shouted protest chants at the London premiere of Meryl Streep’s British women’s movement drama Suffragette on Wednesday.

We all know by now that the so-called “gender pay gap” is a feminist myth that won’t die, based on dodgy number-crunching, that no reputable economist takes seriously. As we’ve reported before, contrary to feminist mythology, women under 30 in the

Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos has been banned by his own alma mater, the University of Manchester, from participating in a debate on campus about free speech.

The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has begun an official investigation into the lack of women behind the cameras on Hollywood movie sets.

An extraordinary United Nations report on “Cyberviolence Against Women and Girls” has been withdrawn pending revision by the U.N. Broadband Commission, the body that published it. This followed widespread criticism from across the political spectrum.

The government’s new Parliamentary Women’s and Equalities Committee is to hear evidence from a one-sided panel on the possibility of introducing a “third gender” into the British legal system. Choosing to have no gender on a passport is already allowed

This goes some way to explaining the gap between male and female representation in STEM subjects: a feminist TIME journalist has claimed that “15,000” people attended a Slut Walk for which, by most estimations, barely 300 showed up. In an

I am sufficiently “dangerous” to the “safety” of University of Manchester students that I have to be surrounded by security and any event that features me must be ticketed and the number of seats restricted, according to that university’s Student

Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos was ejected from the Amber Rose Slut Walk in Los Angeles this afternoon. Slut Walkers could be heard yelling to police officers, “Thanks for taking out the trash!”‎ Yiannopoulos was reporting from the event with a film crew, interviewing Rebel Media broadcaster and Canadian libertarian politician Lauren Southern about the feminist movement which protests against “rape culture” and “slut-shaming.”

Feminism in London (FiL), one of the largest feminist conferences in the UK, has seen two major speakers pull out because of “ideological totalitarianism” and “sectarian” “warring feminist factions,” who fell out over an attempt to “no-platform” certain speakers who

Radical cultural authoritarian and Salon contributor Arthur Chu has called for the repeal of a key legal foundation of free and open discourse in the U.S, which protects web hosts from legal liability for third-party comments on their sites. In an article

Oscar-winning actress Marion Cotillard introduced a new conversation regarding feminism this week, arguing the term is divisive and “separates” women from men.

We recently shared news with our readers about one of the most extraordinary reports to come out of the UN in years: a document that compared “cyber violence” to physical violence, and advised national governments to censor the internet on the basis of the whining

In a report released yesterday, entitled “Cyber Violence Against Women And Girls: A Global Wake-up Call,” UN Women, the group behind last year’s risible “He for She” campaign, called on governments to use their “licensing prerogative” to ensure that “telecoms and

A self-proclaimed victory for women’s rights has been won by the University of St Andrews feminist society (FemSoc), after they forced a night in their Student’s Union to change its name from “P.U.L.L”, which they deemed “sexist”, to the more