Perhaps my data finding a correlation between pornography use and support for violent extremism shouldn’t be so surprising had we just listened to feminists

Some preliminary data from my recent study finds that not only does pornography use strongly and significantly correlate with attitudes permissive of violence against women, but also with attitudes sympathetic to violent extremism.

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40% of teenage boys believe women lie about domestic and sexual violence: new research An Australian study of anti-feminist attitudes shows up to 30% of boys surveyed expressed agreement with various forms of violent extremism.

Among 13–17 year old boys in Australia:
— 28% agree that violence should be used against feminism
-- 36% agreed with misogynistic attitudes.
-- 25–30% agree with various forms of violent extremism
-- 40% agreed that women lie about domestic and sexual violence.

theconversation.com/40-of-teenag...

Question for all the academics who will read this: do you think of PhD supervision as 'teaching' or 'research'? Why? Please pick one; it's for workload allocation purposes. Please also tell me relevant details like continent, discipline, lab model or no, grant-funded or no. Thanks so much!

Guided missile warheads???

Che Lives!: The Legacy of the Che Guevara in World Politics This book explores the vast and ongoing legacy of Che Guevara in world politics. It is one of the first volumes to explore both historical and contemporary manifestations of Che’s legacy, with an emph...

A lot of liberal denunciation of political violence on this app today. Good time to spruik this new edited volume with a chapter by yours truly on Revolutionary Feminism!

www.routledge.com/Che-Lives-Th...

Grok Rolls Out Pornographic Anime Companion, Lands Department of Defense Contract Grok, the chatbot from Elon Musk's xAI that went full Nazi and declared itself 'MechaHitler,' now offers a sexy anime girlfriend character.

Good lord, I thought this was from the Onion… Nope.

www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

They’re wringing something anyway

Can the Left Have Pornography and its Politics Too? - Progress in Political Economy (PPE) Andrea Dworkin’s book, Pornography: Men Possessing Women, has recently been republished. It addresses the material conditions of women’s subjugation, with specific reference to the political economy o...

This week, the UK government is proposing a ban on pornography that depicts strangulation. Much of the left is handwringing about it. But as Lucy and @drmeljohnston.bsky.social explain, “the left can’t have its whores and politics too.”

www.ppesydney.net/can-the-left...

Someone will need to explain to me the logic of deregulating minimum fees in rates for solar in Victoria as incentivising more competitive rates?

Is this reply missing the sarcasm-indicating random capitalisation?

Well this can’t be good…

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The use of Lime scooters and bikes as weapons of the resistance delights me in ways I can’t describe.

*”ethical” consumption

If no one has coined it yet, I’m calling this “red washing.” The appropriation of revolutionary symbolism by the capital class to promote consumption.

Day trip to Canberra and I’m greeted this morning at the airport cafe with the below sentiment.

To quote @drmeljohnston.bsky.social - “the revolution will be caffeinated.”

Anti-feminism is an prevalent political attitude in Australia. Violent anti-feminism is supported by nearly 20% of Australian men.

Needless to say, recognising our country’s problem with femicide does not amount to a “war on men”

www.australianfemicidewatch.org

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Is Peter Dutton aware that women... can vote? In 2022, Scott Morrison made bungled, offensive comments about women. Three years later, Peter Dutton is just ignoring women altogether.

Can you win with the support of lads and dads alone? No, duh!

That election rap is a bop and I’m afraid it may actually work.

This little piggy: We're mapping this election's pork-barrelling Australia's two major party leaders are feeling generous, hugging babies and making local promises worth hundreds of millions. We're mapping them (not the babies).

As the front benchers of the Labor Party and Coalition criss-cross the country, Crikey is tracking the eyebrow-raising local spending announcements they’ve made along the way.