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THE FUCKING ICE REPORT AAAAAAAAAAA

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THE FUCKING ICE REPORT AAAAAAAAAAA

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Breaking The Male Code: After Steubenville, A Call To Action

 (Left to Right): Peter Buffett, Jimmie Briggs, Joe Ehrmann, Tony Porter,  Dave Zirin and Moderator Eve Ensler.

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Sabrina Carpenters new album

"A man's best friend"

If you scroll past enough of the gay men defending this as "women embracing her sexuality" you will eventually find spots of common sense among the crowd.

One group conglomerated as such, a feminist group, reached out to Forbes and called it "regressive".

"This is reminiscent of men treating women like property and pets"

in response, Sabrina said:

Both of her statements contradict eachother

because 1. when people say they DONT like it, she says "idgaf"

and 2. when they DO like it, they're 12-year-old girls. considering that's the age of her audience

to give her some responsibility- when she says this:

“I can’t control that. If you come to the show, you’ll [also] hear the ballads, you’ll hear the more introspective numbers. I find irony and humor in all of that, because it seems to be a recurring theme. I’m not upset about it, other than I feel mad pressure to be funny sometimes.”

she's negating the fact that most of her music is either copied-and wait.. WHAT ballad?

The reaction you get is from 12 year olds who dont know what sex is

what do you mean "YOU criticize it but YOU made this popular"

i NEVER even heard of a "juno pose" which is just a nice word for "sex pose"

yes, Sabrina was probably conditioned to this, but when you're doing sex poses in Infront of 12 year old's- isn't it AWKWARD?

What's annoying about this one is people were like "this is for the queers she's using a strap on!" No, honey, its a vibrator

and someone's mom has to go sit there and watch

much like the time a mother had to reject fuzzy handcuffs on behalf of her 12 year old daughter

Although we must understand that she was likely conditioned into this considering she was in the limelight her whole life, having her appearance nitpicked and being treated like a sex object

Does this mean that this is an ok role model for young girls? UH, no.

especially because of this:

Sabrina's new promotional photoshoot for "man's best friend" shows her mimicking the 12-year-old lolita

she's 26 but sexualizes being a teenager- not to mention TWELVE YEAR OLD lolita

I see a lot of fans arguing in her defense saying 'everyone cares about feminism until its her CHOICE to degrade herself as a dog"

Yeah well it's not MY choice to have the future generation of little girls think that they're sex objects.

The reason they're not "choosing" to be fishermen or engineers is because they have no role models implementing anything other than lace and bows in the status quo.

In response to a lot of her fans calling her new album cover a "play on words" or "ironic"

a good drawing by radfem @a-griffin-in-the-sky shows what it would really look like if that were the case

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June 19th is a federal holiday in the United States known as Juneteenth National Independence Day, commemorating the emancipation of enslaved African Americans. It specifically marks the day in 1865 when news of the Emancipation Proclamation reached Galveston, Texas, effectively ending slavery for the last remaining enslaved people in the Confederacy.

President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863.

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People often jab at Dworkin via her weight — I read obits for her a while back and a surprising number were shitty about it. First her weight is used to discredit her; later, it’s used to explain (justify) her early death.

Dworkin endured an insane amount of stress… like not just her experiences being hunted down by a violent husband, and prostituted and raped and abused. But as she herself says, it is an agony as a woman to perceive reality.

Yet she never looked away — she stayed focused on her mission, and her message, for life. Given that stress predicts a shortened lifespan/healthspan more than basically anything… it makes more sense to attribute her declining health and early death to that. Rather than drawing snide conclusions based on her appearance, as a form of character assassination and depicting her early death as natural and justified

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"I read Jancee Dunn's book the night after I'd hidden in the bathroom, silently sobbing into a towel so I wouldn't wake the baby—or my husband, who was sleeping through his third consecutive night shift that I was somehow pulling alone, despite us both working full-time. I wasn't crying from exhaustion. I was crying because I had just calculated how much child support he'd have to pay if I left him.

This isn't a book. It's a goddamn mirror reflecting the darkest thoughts of every mother who's ever fantasized about abandoning her family at 3AM, not because she doesn't love them, but because she's drowning and her partner is standing on the shore checking his phone.

The Maternal Rage You Feel Isn't Mental Illness—It's Mathematics Dunn ruthlessly quantifies what most parenting books politely ignore: the raw numerical inequality of modern parenthood. When she tracks hours spent on childcare (her: 35 weekly, him: 9) while both work full-time, it's not anecdotal—it's violence. The liberation comes in recognizing your homicidal thoughts aren't hormonal or "crazy"—they're the rational response to systemic theft of your time, sleep, and identity while someone who claims to love you watches from the sidelines.

The "Mental Load" Isn't Just Unfair—It's Killing You Cell by Cell What devastated me wasn't just Dunn's account of doing everything—it was her scientific exploration of what invisible labor does to a woman's brain and body. The constant vigilance of tracking every family need doesn't just make you tired—it restructures neural pathways, elevates cortisol, and accelerates aging. When her doctor finds her blood pressure dangerously high while her husband's remains perfect despite their supposedly "shared" stress, the physiological consequences of inequality are laid bare. You're not imagining it—this imbalance is literally shortening your life.

Your Husband Isn't Just Annoying—He's Been Systematically Trained to Disable You The book's most chilling insight comes when Dunn investigates how her competent, intelligent husband develops "strategic incompetence" around domestic tasks. Her research reveals it's not accidental—it's subconscious warfare honed through generations of male socialization. The weaponized helplessness ("Where does this go?"), the learned blindness to mess, the performance of bumbling assistance—these aren't personality quirks but sophisticated tactics to maintain privilege while appearing supportive. I'll never hear "just tell me what needs done" the same way again.

The Fights You're Having Aren't About Chores—They're About Human Worth Dunn's epiphany comes not in cataloging tasks but in recognizing the existential question beneath them: whose time and peace matter? When her husband unthinkingly preserves his exercise routine while she hasn't showered in days, when he sleeps through night wakings because he "has work" (as though she doesn't), when he requires praise for basic parenting—the underlying message is that his humanity outranks hers. This reframing transformed how I understood my own marriage's breaking points.

You're Not Control-Freaking—You're Preventing Catastrophe The section that left me breathless was Dunn's dissection of "maternal gatekeeping." Her therapist suggests she's "not letting go" of child-rearing tasks—until she documents the actual consequences of her husband's cavalier parenting: a toddler left in soiled clothes for hours, forgotten medications, a child nearly hit by a car while dad texts. The gut-punch: sometimes the "perfectionist mom" narrative masks legitimate terror of what happens when the backup system fails. I've never felt more vindicated about my inability to "just relax."

Romance After Children Requires Blood Sacrifice—Usually Yours Dunn's unflinching examination of post-baby intimacy problems goes beyond fatigue to something darker: the resentment poisoning attraction. Her account of faking interest while mentally calculating how many hours of sleep she's losing made me physically flinch with recognition. The breakthrough comes not through date nights or lingerie but through radical redistribution of invisible labor. Her documentation of how performing oral sex feels easier than asking for help with dishes exposes how parenthood turns sex into another form of female emotional labor.

The Solutions Aren't Cute—They're Nuclear What elevates this beyond primal-scream therapy is Dunn's scorched-earth approach to reconstruction. She brings in hostage negotiators. Corporate efficiency experts. Therapists who specialize in high-conflict divorce. The message is clear: half-measures will fail. Her implementation of NASA's black box system for critical communication during arguments saved not just her marriage but possibly her husband's life. This isn't about better chore charts—it's about dismantling and rebuilding the entire operational system of your relationship.

This book should be handed to every couple in the delivery room, not as celebration but as warning. Dunn doesn't offer gentle suggestions for reconnecting with your spouse—she offers battlefield triage for the psychological trauma that parenthood inflicts on females and marriages."

This book is on my list of books that will forever change how you look at the actions of men (along with "Why Does He Do That" by Lundy Bancroft and others)

I heartily recommend it, even if you don't have or want kids, if you work with women in a mental health or healthcare setting.

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“I wish I could write here that I screamed. That I fought back. I wish I had been the girl with the dragon tattoo.”

#SurvivorSunday Don’t feel ashamed if you didn’t “fight back.” Most survivors freeze when they are being attacked. We believe you

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THEY MIGHT HAVE FIGURED OUT WHATS CAUSING LONG COVID?!?!???

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Posting this again because basically this is my bible

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this is why there is no longer lab research on pornography.

“Countless studies have since shown that exposure to pornography desensitizes men to violence against women, often shaping their sexuality in such a way that they become unable to experience arousal without some element of dominance or violence. The evidence has been so damning that, at times, universities have refused to allow further research on the topic. When a study shows detrimental effects that cannot be reversed, ethics boards will often refuse similar studies to go on. This has happened repeatedly with research on the effects of pornography.”

-Maya Shlayen, Whose Porn, Whose Feminism

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Why does Aotearoa have a significantly better relationship with its indigenous people compared to other anglophone countries like the US, Canada, Australia? (Better being relative of course because its still a settler colony)

Potentially because the population ratio is higher, we make up 15% of the population, and no longer have legally enshrined blood quantum, due to tireless effort from Māori activists.

I still feel weird about insinuating that Māori have it easy here, everything that you'd consider better has been fought for by the blood, sweat, tears, and lives or Māori activists. None of it has been easy, and it still fucking sucks.

Māori make up 52% of the prison population despite being 15% of the population.

Māori life expectancy is 7.3-7.5 years less than Pākehā.

39% of Māori had experienced digital harm in the last year compared to 14% of the general population. This stat is from 2023, it absolutely went up during the time of the Treaty Principles nonsense.

Only 6% of Aotearoa is Māori land. I'll remind you that it used to be 100%.

My people are dying, we are in pain, we are treated worse by doctors, our kids treated worse by teachers, we don't have access to our land, most of us can't speak our own language, so I really don't appreciate you coming into my inbox, demanding I write an essay for you unprompted, and insinuating that it's actually all chill. No disclaimer of 'it's relative' can cushion 'why do you guys actually have it fine'.

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oh.. this writer snapped

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I was watching a documentary called the “State of Alabama vs. Brittany Smith”. It’s about a woman who killed her rapist (who, at the time of his slaying, had her brother in a chokehold). Something in it stuck with me.

When the prosecutor was speaking to her, he asked something along the line of, “Did the [perpetrator] have any visible weapons on him?”

She responded with, “His hands.”

Then he asks again, “Did the [perpetrator] have any-“”

She interrupts him and says, “His penis.”

He speaks again and then she says, “His mouth.”

It just stuck with me because…it’s so right. Men’s hands, especially men’s penises, their mouths, their whole bodies, are weapons, especially towards women. Men are significantly stronger than women physically and yeah, that matters. A woman has no or very little chance of physically defending herself against a male without a weapon, and even that’s very risky depending on the laws in your country. Men use their bodies to hit women, punch women, slap women, rape women, violate women in ways almost incomparable to when used against other men.

Considering how men view women, how they view themselves, how they view masculinity, how they view sex, women and girls have every right to be cautious around men and “picky” about the ones they have in their lives.

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Biden Admin admits to never pressuring Israel

Here is the article that ask was and drop site was referencing.

Some highlights since the article focuses on the disappointment that Biden officials had with how Israel spun their press.

Quote from Former Israeli ambassador Michael Herzog: “God did the State of Israel a favor that Biden was the president during this period… We fought [in Gaza] for over a year and the administration never came to us and said, ‘ceasefire now.’ It never did. And that’s not to be taken for granted.”

This was an investigation from Israel’s own news team. They interviewed 9 Biden officials who acknowledged that they didn’t apply real pressure to Israel.

Israeli leaders bragged about dragging the war in favor of Trump so he could take the credit of getting a ceasefire deal.

U.S. officials pushed a post-war plan modeled on the anti-ISIS campaign, proposing that Arab states temporarily secure Gaza—but Netanyahu blocked it, refusing any role for the Palestinian Authority.

Far-right Israeli ministers Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich openly pushed for reoccupying Gaza and rebuilding settlements. Netanyahu refused to advance alternatives, keeping the door open to their demands.

Israeli officials relished in Biden’s passivity: “We Fought for Over a Year and the Administration Never Said ‘Ceasefire Now’”

Biden aides knew that Israeli was dragging the war: “He’s undercutting it every step of the way,” said Goldenberg. “All the security people are coming out and saying it.”

There were internal discussions in Washington about Biden giving a speech to pressure Israel politically, possibly triggering new elections there—but Biden backed off.

U.S. Covered for Israeli War Crimes and Blocked Aid Report. State Department adviser Stacy Gilbert resigned after being cut out of the process of drafting a legally required arms compliance report. The final version cleared Israel of violating U.S. law—despite overwhelming evidence of aid obstruction. Gilbert called it “shocking in its mendacity,” adding: “Everyone knows that is not true.” Even as settlers looted Gaza-bound trucks and Israel blocked humanitarian aid, Biden certified compliance—and kept weapons flowing.

Biden knew that BiBi was deliberately sabotaging release captive talks to prolong the war. American-Israeli hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin was scheduled for release the day he was executed. Amos Hochstein confirmed: “There’s no doubt… those hostages would be alive.” Netanyahu’s public campaign to retain control over Gaza’s Philadelphi Corridor was viewed by Biden officials as a smokescreen to kill the deal.

Biden Backed Israel Even After Netanyahu Publicly Undermined & Insulted Him. Biden once told Netanyahu he was “full of shit,” and hung up the phone mid-call. But as Ambassador Tom Nides put it: “Biden saw [Netanyahu] as a manipulator, a magician… But he stood by him through the end.” Lol this was some ho shit. In May 2024, Biden announced he was pausing a shipment of 2,000-lb bombs over concerns about their use in Gaza. Days later, Netanyahu accused the U.S. of freezing broader arms deliveries—reportedly pausing Biden’s plans to restore the paused shipment.

Biden allowed Saudi Deal to collapse because of Israel. Biden officials described how a U.S.-Saudi normalization deal—coupled with defense and economic pacts—was nearly complete. But it required Israel to accept a “political horizon” for Palestinians. Dan Shapiro, former deputy assistant secretary of defense, explained: “We always understood that the Israeli government depended on far-right ministers who would try to block that commitment… that might require an election or a coalition shuffle.”

This is a copy and paste job from drop site news but yeah. It’s pretty bad.

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Do we even have a chance not to suffer?

Sources:

Winterberry Family Medicine. (2022, February 22). Kids who want to be thin may gain more weight as adults. Retrieved from https://www.winterberrymedical.ca/2022/02/22/kids-who-want-to-be-thin-may-gain-more-weight-as-adults/

National Organization for Women (NOW). (n.d.). Get the Facts: Love Your Body Campaign. Retrieved from https://now.org/now-foundation/love-your-body/love-your-body-whats-it-all-about/get-the-facts/ 

The Times. (2025, April 28). What’s making our daughters so miserable? Retrieved from https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/daughters-miserable-tgb8cds06