Jennifer Ann's Group

@stopTDV
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Nonprofit #charity focused on preventing teen dating violence. (#TDV)

Our 'Gaming Against Violence' program empowers teens through intentionally designed #prosocial #videogames about these topics:

🎮#Communication
🎮#Connectedness
🎮#Consent
🎮#CriticalThinking
🎮#Gaslighting
🎮#HealthyRelationships
🎮#MediaLiteracy
🎮#Resilience

🎗️ Donate via ActBlue Charities: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/jennifer-anns-group

(companion acct to games.ngo/@stopTDV)

Nonprofit Websitehttps://jenniferann.org
Program Websitehttps://GamingAgainstViolence.org
Game Portalhttps://JAGga.me
Donatehttps://secure.actblue.com/donate/jennifer-anns-group

Kari Lake celebrates #toxicmasculinity:

"Let me hear from the ladies out there.

We're tired of the beta men. We want some alpha men.

We got a number one alpha man in Donald J. Trump."

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13121399/kari-lake-donald-trump-alpha-men-cpac.html

#toxic #karilake #politics #trump

Kari Lake says she's tired of 'beta men' and we need 'alphas' like Trump: Republican stirs up CPAC after bribery tape scandal and claims people 'back east', big pharma and Wall Street are running the country

Conservative hardliner Kari Lake said the nation needs more men like Donald Trump when she addressed a major MAGA gathering on Saturday.

Daily Mail

In 'Adolescence' the central character has been "indoctrinated by voices" like Andrew Tate's and "voices a lot more dangerous than Andrew Tate's."

"This show has the bravery to just peel back the layers and go, let's talk about this thing, because we're still dealing with it today. There are still issues cropping up in the news today."

"It just allows parents, aunties, uncles, even just friends, to engage in the conversation."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwydwzv4qpgo

#toxicmasculinity #manosphere #misogyny #socialmedia #media #prevention #publichealth

Adolescence: Netflix drama hailed as 'flawless' TV

The show is called "an early contender for the best thing you will see on the small screen this year".

seeing another round of "don't favorite posts on fedi"

folks it is a kind and lovely thing to favorite someone's post and anyone who tells you not to be kind and lovely has told you something about themself

it's true that it doesn't particulary increase the distribution of your post but the idea that we're all here to get things distributed as far as possible is pretty weird

In the past, masculinity suggested boys should be strong, brave and confident, and should not act in a way considered 'feminine'.

Have you ever heard any of these phrases before?

"Boys don't cry"
"Man up"
"Don't act like such a girl"
"Crybaby"

One study found women cry between 30 and 64 times a year and men between 6 and 17 times.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/48379047

#toxic #masculinity #emotions

Why do some people say boys shouldn't cry?

SAS: Who Dares Wins presenter Ant Middleton has encouraged his son to not cry in front of others and to control his emotions. But why are boys told this more often than girls?

BBC Newsround

43% of young men watching masculinity influencers found them motivating.

27% of young men watching masculinity influencers reported feelings of worthlessness.

https://uk.movember.com/movember-institute/masculinities-report

#masculinity #socialmedia #toxic #culture @sociology #sociology #influencers

Young Men’s Health in a Digital World

How influential are the influencers?

France ‘should declare toxic masculinity a threat to national security’

An annual report from the Higher Council for Equality (HCE) warns of a growing "masculinity" ideology legitimised by Trump and amplified by social media.

The report singles out Andrew Tate, former kickboxer turned influencer, as a “prime example of the contemporary spread of toxic and sexist masculinity via social media”.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/france-declare-toxic-masculinity-threat-070200379.html

#toxicmasculinity #Trump #socialmedia

France ‘should declare toxic masculinity a threat to national security’

France is lagging behind the UK in tackling toxic masculinity and should declare it a threat to national security, a government report has claimed.

Yahoo News

Healthy, respectful manhood means valuing and respecting women, girls, and LGBQ, Trans, and nonbinary people — and respecting and valuing oneself by striving to live authentically.

https://www.acalltomen.org/healthy-manhood/

Healthy Manhood

Healthy, respectful manhood means valuing and respecting women, girls, and LGBQ, trans, and gender nonbinary people — and respecting and valuing oneself by striving to live authentically.

A Call to Men

Epstein and Thiel had more in common than their hatred of women and love of cryptocurrency.

"[T]he two exchanged more than 2,000 messages over the years and met on multiple occasions. Epstein would ultimately invest some $40 million in venture capital funds managed by Valar Ventures, a firm cofounded by Thiel."

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/peter-thiel-jeffrey-epstein-democracy/

https://web.archive.org/web/20260219174627/https://www.thenation.com/article/society/peter-thiel-jeffrey-epstein-democracy/

#Epstein #Thiel #misogyny #crypto

What Peter Thiel Saw in Jeffrey Epstein

In the extensive correspondence between the Silicon Valley venture capitalist and the late pedophile, both men expressed a deep aversion to democracy.

The Nation

A few weeks of X’s algorithm can make you more right-wing – and it doesn’t wear off quickly

X’s algorithms are an editorial force, shaping what people know, whom they pay attention to, who the outgroup is and what “we” should do about or to them, and what people come to believe.

https://theconversation.com/a-few-weeks-of-xs-algorithm-can-make-you-more-right-wing-and-it-doesnt-wear-off-quickly-276153

#media #toxic #twitter #socialmedia

A few weeks of X’s algorithm can make you more right-wing – and it doesn’t wear off quickly

Elon Musk’s social media platform is boosting conservative content – and it’s having long-lasting effects on how users see the world.

The Conversation