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"Women are presenting us with this paradox that we won't have sex with you until a different woman has had sex with you. We won't approve of you until another woman has approved of you. So you go — what do I do then?" Hannah Wallen hosts Talk 414 on a post arguing men need to be more social, and the reaction when they are. Also: why "women don't owe you sex" is not an answer to men being shut out of social contact entirely; Alcoholics Anonymous and the concept of loving detachment; and what the Manic Pixie Dream Girl is shielded from. "Women complain that their preferred partners are narcissists. Their preferred partners are the top twenty percent of men. So obviously they are." Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online

"She was a really great mother, and then she was a bad mother when she killed her kids, but then she went back to being a great mother again after that." Brian and Alison talk about the hunt for the holdout juror's identity, and a commentator who reframed the case as being about the women of colour serving time for the same thing. Also: the superchat pointing out that if hormones acquit Lindsay Clancy there are rapists who qualify too; why a juror weighing one piece of evidence against another was treated as proof he was being duplicitous; and the offer the holdout made that shows he was willing to step aside to keep his conscience. "She still believes Lindsay Clancy is guilty. She just admitted it. What happened in that jury chamber to make this woman not vote her conscience? That's the sisterhood in action." Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online

"But he had the hardest time getting off the fact that Lindsay viciously killed her children." "By killing her children, she declared herself innocent." "If I had been on that jury, I would have declared the electric chair for Lindsay Clancy and my fellow jurors." Brian and Alison work through NBC Boston's exclusive interview with three of the nine female jurors from the Lindsay Clancy mistrial, and count out five separate perversions of justice in what the jurors volunteer about themselves. Also: the juror who rated the defense attorney arrogant, entertaining and compassionate all at once, and his pitch for Trump to pardon a state conviction. Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online

"You took the mask off. Now you're mad that men saw and rejected what you showed them. And you can't put the hangover back in the beer bottle." Brian, Hannah Wallen and Dr Randomercam on the mistrial in the Lindsey Clancy case, and a defence attorney who narrowed the holdout juror down to one of three people on air. Also: Gloria Steinem's death at 92 — comparing reactions a year to the day after Charlie Kirk was shot. Corey Walsh, charged with the murder of her two-year-old son, who told police he was the devil. And Shannon Galligan, who hit her ex with a saucepan, strangled him, stabbed him in the arm and forced him out a window with a fractured vertebra — then got a suspended sentence, her defence citing ADHD. "This was rage. This wasn't 'I can't keep track of what's going on, and oh gosh, how did that happen.' This was seething rage and deliberate violence — and she expects to get away with it because, look, I have ADHD, aren't I cute?" "His shoulder brushed hers as he fled the room she was throwing heavy objects in. He got eighteen months. The judge's view was that he should have been brave enough to go out the second-storey window instead." Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online

"That's not toughness. That's just numbness with a flag pin." Brian and Alison read a listicle explaining why conservative men are undatable, and bad in bed, and work through the reasons one at a time. Also: the writer's other blog, and what she's doing around other people's teenagers; why virtue signalling about trans people, immigrants and abortions she'll never need is her way of announcing where she sits; and the point at which the criteria foreclose on every man alive, not just conservative ones. "She's not just talking about conservative men being bad in bed. Any man who can't cerebro his way through her crime minefield is bad in bed. Which leaves her lesbians." "She only exists in relation to everyone else. That's what she's protecting. So if you can't respect the signalling, you don't respect her — because she is literally her position in the web, and nothing else." Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online

"The encouragement of women to be their worst selves — that's the phrase that always comes back to me. It's like they just want women to be awful. And a lot of women, surprise, have in them the capacity to be awful." Brian and Alison talk to Professor Janice Fiamengo about her new book, The Goddess That Failed, on the founding documents of the feminist movement and what they actually say. Also: the Seneca Falls declaration, signed by men, asserting that man's object was absolute tyranny over woman; the Suzanna Danuta Walters essay instructing men how to be despised slightly less; the Redstockings manifesto and where emotional labour came from; and why women who defend a mother who killed her children can't be angry at the perpetrator. "Some of us were alive in 1974. I shopped with my mother, who had a whole bunch of credit cards." Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online

"Chronic bitulism. Not botulism — it's not bacterial, it's a completely different bug. A condition of chronic irrational irritability in which one draws connections between unrelated thoughts and facts, to support a continued bad mood." Brian, Hannah Wallen and Dr Randomercam on GTA VI, and a bond system that tracks time spent together, text replies and mutual attentiveness — with those numbers feeding into story outcomes. Also: the Red Dead patch that penalised players for killing the suffragette, and what the panel reads into a developer doing that; obituaries for Tim Curry, Dolly Parton and Peter Cullen, plus a game of guessing which of the three said what; and a viewer reporting a TikTok defence of Lindsey Clancy — "let's not think about her children as living people for a second, let's think of them as vases." "I don't give a shit about new bands and haven't for twenty years. I don't want to know who Cardi B is and it annoys me. That's how I feel about GTA VI — and now, out of the blue, I know all about it." Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online

"This isn't even a target anymore. It's the smell a target left. You know how radiation leaves a shadow? That's it. And they're saying — hey guys, try to hit it." Brian and Alison read a blog by a woman explaining that men are radicalising, and that feminist men give her the ick. Also: why going to college now reduces a man's likelihood of being married; what the genetic bottleneck argument actually shows; and her stated ask — "I'm asking for someone who thinks I am a person" — set against the 2.3 times more income liberal women want men to earn. "Apparently her personhood is denominated in buckaroos." "I've laid out these minefields of things that could destroy me should he do them. But he shouldn't feel nervous about that. He should be blithely strolling through this minefield as if he doesn't have a care in the world — while caring deeply." Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online

"There's a kind of ghoulish happiness about people they think are bad and dangerous being killed. They were celebrating, but they were also signalling — look at me, I'm saying the thing everyone's supposed to say." Brian sits down with Dr Benedict Beckeld, philosopher and author of Western Self-Contempt: Oikophobia in the Decline of Civilizations, on why cultures come to hold themselves in contempt — and why he thinks it isn't new, or an excess of empathy. Also: macro and micro monomania, his terms for reading all of history through one lens; which class the contempt starts in and how it spreads; the Canadian identity built on not being American; and whether the "weak men create hard times" idiom survives contact with the historical record. "Nothing is more human than taking a good idea too far. Once somebody levels a good point of self-critique against his own community, the next person has to show he's even smarter, and levels a more extreme one." Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online

"It's very important to not notice the thing, because if you notice the thing, it becomes your responsibility. You don't want to be responsible for it, so it doesn't exist anymore." Hannah Wallen hosts with Lauren Brooks, Mike Stevenson and Richard the Lionhearted on what a health system does to the men inside it — assessment regimes, disability payments that come in under the wage they replace, and who is trusted to explain their own symptoms. Also: baby Alfie, held until he died rather than released for treatment abroad; the invisible disabilities that get you accused of faking; and why the panel thinks the male loneliness epidemic is misnamed. "They want him to apply for a job and report to work while he's dying. And the people who assess you aren't trained nurses or doctors. They're just random people they found off the street." Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online

"It's like running a foot race against a seal, on dry land, and the seals are the ones judging it." Brian and Alison watch two debates against Rachel Wilson on whether feminism has done more harm than good. Also: the ten years Marxist feminists spent trying to derive the material benefit men extract from providing for women, and what they built when they couldn't; the "I'm not going to go to your Substack" exchange; and why the pool of married liberal men doesn't behave the way the advice assumes. "It's not a man getting drunk and beating his wife. It's a man not getting drunk, waking up at 5 AM, going to work in the steel mill, destroying his lungs with toxic chemicals, coming home at 10 PM and handing over his pay packet. That is men's oppression of women." Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online

"A male feminist stands on the world stage in a bubbling swamp of volcanic misandry, and he meticulously sets up the firing squad that will execute him." Brian, Hannah Wallen and Dr Randomercam on the women posting in solidarity with Lindsey Clancy, and the copycat cases that followed. Also: how the colour convention flipped, and why the ones who got pink never traded up to red; what Kamala Harris had to be ordered by a judge to hand over; and the argument that amplifying this makes more of it. "When you lie down with dogs that have rabies, don't be surprised if you get bit. Men, you shouldn't support feminists. Whether you do it or not, you're going to get accused eventually." Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online

"Is pink only for you, Byrony? Because you've got the magic feminist spell that makes it non-patriarchal to wear pink?" Brian and Alison go through a creator's back catalogue on the monthly fundraiser stream — a memoir about a marriage to a much older man, a video condemning all men everywhere off the back of it, and the housework studies that keep getting cited. Also: why the further left or right she is, the more he has to earn; what counts as "outdoor work" when repairing a fridge is filed under it; the domestic violence figures for female-breadwinner couples; and a comment arguing feminism freed Afghan women. "A whole lot of American and Canadian soldiers went over there and attempted to bring women's rights. Most of them were men. And almost entirely all of the people who died in the endeavour were men. And feminists did nothing." Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online

"She's got intuition. She also has elite knife-fighting skills — she thinks she's a Barbary pirate. If she reckons she's going to knife-fight a bear, she's displaying incredible delusion about reality." Brian and Alison read a blog by a writer explaining that women choose the bear because the bear is indifferent to them, then work out that nobody asked the bear. "It's like listening to a guy brag about a yacht you know he doesn't have." Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online

"The worst part of a death like that is that all you can do is learn from it. You can't comfort the family. You can promise them you're going to do better, but their family member is still dead." Hannah Wallen hosts with Lauren Brooks, Mike Stevenson and Richard the Lionhearted, on an ITV News investigation into learning disabled and autistic patients dying in NHS care. Adrian Pulton, 56, went into hospital with a broken hip. He was incorrectly listed nil by mouth and went nine days without food. His sister says he told her he knew he was going to die. By the time the family worked out he wasn't being fed, he was too unwell to recover. Also: why knowing something about your own condition makes doctors less likely to diagnose it, what happens to a patient who understands everything and can't enunciate it, and the healthy seventeen-year-old whose family waited years for an answer. The trust's statement said they had undertaken an investigation "to identify any learning points." "If you don't know what NPO stands for, you don't know that your family member has been ordered no food." Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online

"If tomorrow men invent some anti-matter device that produces the twelve additional Earths needed to satisfy women on the left, then by making those women dependent, those men are oppressing them — so now they owe a hundred and forty-four Earths." Brian and Alison respond to an Australian video arguing that feminism is a death trap that will eat itself, and won't do it before it takes millions of unborn children with it. Also: why men on the left have to earn 2.3 times what a conservative man does to get married, the ratchet that makes today's liberal expectations tomorrow's conservative baseline, and what happens when the stay-at-home dad conversation becomes a conversation about what women want. "This is just watching two people argue over something they read on a cereal box. Can we get back into the realm of historical facts, please?" Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online

"Imagine living in a land where the inhabitants sew angel wings on your every opposable joint, reward your every lie, rationalise your every impulse, and treat you not like a child they wish to discipline but as a pet they wish to wear like a precious jewel. There's an upsetting number of women out there for whom I have just described paradise. To me, as an average man, it sounds like hell." Brian, Hannah Wallen and Dr Randomercam on the reaction to Lindsey Clancy killing her three children — including the women insisting her husband must have done it, when she had sent him out on an errand so he'd be gone long enough. Also: Panama criminalising paternity fraud with two to five years and no statute of limitations, the campaign to turn Professor Jason Arday's suicide into a racism story, and the test for whether you're the extremist — ask when it's gone too far, and see if the answer is "never." "You can say I'm a socialist and YouTube will make you a megastar. Say I'm a nationalist and you'll be arrested for hate speech." Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online

"If there's naked flesh, it must have lady parts, I guess." Brian and Alison read an article arguing that AI is biased against women — built partly on a report that more than half of twenty-nine nudify apps, asked to undress a photo of a fully dressed man, gave him breasts instead. Also: the Stanford resume study the article cites and the counter-studies it leaves out, and why no feminist has ever been asked to prove the definition of patriarchy. "I broadly agree that Sam Altman has not invented God. But you'd have to believe Sam Altman is behind a bunch of apps made in Korea or Estonia. She's arrived at the right sentiment by a circuitous path that makes no sense." Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online

"Let them eat cake — and the cake is destroying the civilization that makes cake." Brian and Alison work through a video by a woman explaining that the birth rate is society's fault, and that women are not incubators for GDP. Also: what happens to the argument when you ask who the labour behind the entitlements is, the Neanderthal pelvis and what it was actually built for, why a woman's fiancé might dislike her friends, and the thread that no amount of reading will get through. "The only more free you could be is a ghost, lady." Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online

"The lie in slippery slope is that there are no brakes. The lie in motte-and-bailey is that there is no difference." Hannah Wallen hosts with Lauren Brooks and Mike Stevenson: there is a constitutional right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. There is nothing about a right to the pursuit of death, or anyone else's right to help you get there. Also: what a doctor retiring under pressure from every direction except his patient does to the people still in his waiting room, why "no fault divorce" is really all-his-fault divorce, and the mobility aid you can only use easily if you actually need one. "Steve Jobs pursued all kinds of alternative therapies for his cancer. They didn't work, but nobody was pushing euthanasia on him. Sure, he paid for useless snake oil — but he made the decision." Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online

"Male characters should be as beautiful as possible, but female characters have to be irreproachable swamp donkeys that make you vomit on sight." Brian and Dr Randomercam on two men declaring for the 2027 WNBA draft, one of whom identifies as sometimes identifying as a woman. Also: the Blizzard harassment investigation and what happened to the men reported on, why Ireland has put the manosphere at the top of its priority list, a costume as a genetic category, and the marriage rate at 47 percent. Plus where "women's work" actually comes from. Some women did want to work the coal mines — until rich Victorian women complained they were doing it in unsavory positions and unsavory dress. Men were sent to investigate, came back shocked, told the queen, and laws were passed: "They got those crusty lower women out of the crusty upper women's hair, and the coal mines as well." Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online

"I feel like I'm getting spots in my vision from looking this directly at the epicenter of female thinking." Brian and Alison return to the author of My Dear Stalker, who has a new article: if you approach a woman, she rejects you, and you then stop interacting with her, that's punishing her for her boundaries. She wasn't obligated to keep him around — that would be mean. He is obligated to stay, because otherwise he hates women. Also: what happens when you ask an AI why the man should stay and it can't find a reason either, the friend who resented a man for not wanting her, and a long stretch of REPO with Gabriel afterwards. "Instead of improving my craft as a novelist, I gotta go home, open up my laptop, and write a blog on my Medium shitting on men for however long it takes me." Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online

"Feminism is Marxism with extra steps — take out the capitalist, slot in men, with even less evidence than Marx had." Brian and Alison watch Julia Long's Battle of Ideas talk arguing that trans women are the real manosphere, and that she is being pushed out of the movement she helped build. Also: what happens when the framework you spent fifty years building gets applied to you by someone else, why the pornography argument keeps arriving without a connecting sentence, the domestic violence figures nobody reads past the first line, and a frontier on Venus. "None of this has any grounding. It's somebody's drunken ramblings on a napkin. Some woman had a dream once and woke up really upset at her husband." Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online

"It's illegal to kill yourself because it counts as destroying government property." Hannah Wallen hosts Talk 410, continuing on assisted dying: what happens in Canada when the drug is administered to you rather than by you, and you change your mind after you've stopped being able to say so. Also: why the panel argues a facility that already sells human tissue shouldn't be trusted with the decision, the car dealership that would rather pay a technician a bonus than let him diagnose the fault, and what the medical system does to a patient nobody has bothered to assess. "Someone said women should be worshipped for childbirth, because the cervix does what it's made to do and expands. I pointed out that throughout history women were put on a pedestal and worshipped — and they got mad about it, called it oppression, and now they have to go get jobs." Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online

"Once he gets grey, once he gains a few pounds, God forbid he gets sick — she's out the door like a greased rat out of an aqueduct. And she'll have half his money on the way out." Brian and Alison read a Medium feature on the manosphere, a place where misogyny wears a suit and the influencers are "polished, sham-rich men in Lamborghinis," while playing REPO. Also: which income quintiles the marriage collapse actually reaches, the article author's promise that the fight is against the structure of patriarchy rather than men, and whether that survives finding patriarchy in a man standing on a bridge. "If you can find patriarchy in a man who's about to jump off a bridge — where can you not find it?" Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online

"European kings don't rule. They don't really do anything. They're just ornamental Lego men at this point." Brian and Dr Randomercam on Ceuta, the Spanish enclave on the North African coast, where roughly fifty thousand people crossed in a matter of days into a city of eighty-three thousand. Also: the UK court declining to overturn the puberty blocker ban and what the panel wants to see in the follow-up data, the In-N-Out shooting in Idaho and who the crowd expected to stand in front of them, and the Dick Bell test — the inverse of the Bechdel test, and the search for any film that passes it. "Remember when the cult everyone worried about was the one selling flowers at airports?" Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online

"It's like when my daughter plays dress-up. They're playing with identities — the most extreme version of the thing they're trying to inhabit." Brian sits down with Dr. Hannah Spier, the Norwegian psychiatrist behind the Psychobabble Substack, on what her field does to men and what it hands out to women. Also: why she argues much of the autism and late ADHD now diagnosed in women is poor socialization nobody will name, the diagnosis as a story of redemption, psychiatrists as the gatekeepers who stopped saying no, and what her own maternity leave taught her about the literature on women's wellbeing. "That is when you have a breakthrough — when you get your male client to start crying. That's when you're really going someplace. But men find it quite provoking to sit face to face and chat. Men heal by doing." Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online

"There is exactly one solution to all of this, and I'm going to propose it. We need to repeal women." Alison and Brian are joined by TL;DR for week six on the Cambridge paper arguing that solving the fertility crisis requires marginalising men further. TL;DR brings the history: Sylvia Walby's triple system theory, and the claim that the capitalist class invented washing machines and dishwashers to isolate women in the home, before they could develop class consciousness at the communal wash house. Also: the Marxist feminists who set out to derive the material benefit men extract from women's unpaid labour and found a null, and what got built over that hole instead. The Hollywood house concubine of the 1950s. Four models of relationship formation and how each fared against modernity. And the paper's closing proposal, which is to let the top fraction of men reproduce and bill everyone else. Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online

"We won't cover your treatment, but we'll cover your death." "That is what happens when you get government healthcare. You are now enrolled in the HMO from hell." "Anybody who signs an order to do it against the will of the patient should be convicted of first-degree murder." Hannah Wallen, Lauren Brooks and Mike Stevenson on Canada's assisted dying regime — patients offered death before anyone has worked out what's wrong with them — and Alberta's proposed bill barring clinicians from raising it first. Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online

"We cannot condemn the Muslim community. Fair enough. But we can condemn white men for the actions of this Islamist man." "The most dangerous place for a woman is her own home. The home is very dangerous for women — it's just not the man in the home that's dangerous. It's the tub." "A lot of what's coming out of the psychology of men and masculinities sounds more like conversion therapy than anything else. The only way a man can find peace is by renouncing his masculinity and declaring his sinful nature — and he'll never find peace, he'll just have to keep renouncing it over and over." Two targets this week. First, an Islamist drove a van into the Berlin Pride parade, and Alison and Brian trace one commentator's route from that attack to white men being responsible, and from there to men in general. Then: Janice Fiamengo sat down with relationship therapist Laura How to explain why she stopped believing feminism was what feminists said it was. A YouTuber calling herself Feminist Cat Lady Spinster made a video attacking her for it — feminism is really about equality, it doesn't dictate how anyone should live, masculinity isn't linked to mental illness — and Alison goes through it claim by claim, including the screenshot arguing a woman's most dangerous place is her own home. Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online

"Selective Service is stage one of the draft. It's the shopping list. Stage two is when they start calling people up. Stage three is when they send you to war. That's the consumption stage." "I'm not going to shoot you right now, I'm just aiming the gun. That's just not good enough." "When a girl plays with Batman, Batman becomes the girl. He sits down at the tea party and politely eats cake." "You can't unslop slop." Brian, Hannah Wallen and Dr Randomercam on the Selective Service System going automated — pulling names straight from federal databases — and why a draft register nobody has to fill in is a shopping list nobody consented to being on. Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online

"Nobody's going to genuinely cheer for the Stalin cameo. And nobody wants a movie that's 100% Stalin cameos. That's what this is." "How can you possibly complain that men found her repulsive if the point was to create a repulsive character?" "Someone should write a romance book between a radfem and an MRA. You'd make millions." "Isn't that basically just The Taming of the Shrew?" Brian and Alison read a Medium piece blaming men for Supergirl's box office, and take it apart between deaths in REPO. Alison's answer: the writer hasn't read Campbell, the thing she claims men withheld from women isn't in the myth at all — and the women it was aimed at didn't turn up either. Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online

"Men don't need their full set of organs. What kind of entitlement is that — aren't you recovering from your loss of privilege? Do you deserve two kidneys?" "They could have enriched themselves with their leisure. They could have done what the men in Athens did and created a whole new basis of philosophical thought. Instead they turned to the men giving them that leisure and called them their oppressors." "Large language models take the output of academics and bureaucrats and recombine it stochastically to produce the output of academics and bureaucrats. You can't make a welder out of that. You can't make a lumberjack out of that." Brian and Alison on whether sexbots and artificial wombs are the escape hatch anyone thinks they are. Alison's argument is that the women the fertility papers describe aren't behaving like women who want babies and lack resources — if they were, they'd be campaigning for the baby bonuses these authors keep proposing, and they aren't. Also: whether Islam is the most feminist religion, what the ex-Soviet bloc's fertility collapse actually tracked, and the surgeon riddle that AI still can't answer when you reverse the genders. Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online

"Marx says work is the site of oppression, and radical feminists say the person who doesn't work but gains the benefit of the wage earner is the one who's oppressed. So is earning a wage oppression, or is not earning a wage oppression?" "You're dealing with an economy that has gone from being productive and selling things to selling Xerox copies of things — which doesn't require men." "Everyone goes to college because it's time to go to college. Don't do that." Brian and Alison on why men are leaving the workforce, and on a paper that measures it without ever asking the obvious question. The finding they land on: boys opt out by watching men as a class rather than their own fathers, the effect survives moving across state lines, and adult exposure does nothing at all — coefficients indistinguishable from zero. Alison's argument is that nobody studying this will look at the one variable that would explain it, which is men being recast from providers into oppressors. Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online

"For all the brouhaha about climate change, it looks like the most urgent problem is how much women hate men. Maybe we should look into how we could perhaps not teach women to hate men, and then men and women could be happy together — and we could put the robots to more pertinent tasks." "You give your kid a phone, you have just given other people influence over your child. When Google started donating Chromebooks to schools, parents asked whether these things were going to track kids. Oh no, definitely not, we're going to totally respect their privacy. Five years later there was a lawsuit, because they didn't." Brian is joined by Hannah Wallen and Dr Randomercam. A robotics firm is putting a teaching robot called Sally into classrooms, and children will be able to download a portable version to take home for homework. The company was careful to state she shares no designs, blueprints or technology with its parent company, which makes sex dolls. Also this week: a same-sex couple in Ontario are suing their surrogate for around $600,000 after she refused their request to abort at twenty-two weeks, when a scan showed a cleft lip and a minor heart defect. The panel's argument is that this is a strange hill to choose — if your case is that a child with a genetic deviation from the norm shouldn't be born, and your own parental rights rest on a genetic deviation from the norm, you may want to watch where you tread. Plus Kier Starmer's resignation, Dua Lipa's banned books library, and why randomness brings us closer to God. Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online

"You get your own little mood board as a man. You get a mood board and that's your identity. You get a vibe. You don't get masculinity, because you have to renounce that." Brian and Alison work through a Medium article instructing men that the route to freedom runs through renouncing masculinity. Also: how the piece measures every man against exactly two reference points, Andrew Tate and Pedro Pascal; why the most virtuous possible object of concern turns out to be the one with no claim on you; and what a corporate lawyer husband did for a living. "The guy keeping the lights on in my house is doing a lot more for people than this woman. The guy who fixes the sewers is doing a hell of a lot more than any of the sociologists of men and masculinities." "The guys who virtue signal the hardest have the worst graveyards in their backyard." Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online

"This is the weirdest alternative-universe Terminator Skynet fanfic yet." Brian and Alison pick up the Cambridge fertility paper again, which is now proposing round-the-clock childcare complexes and co-housing to persuade urban women to reproduce without men. Also: what two centuries of army load-carriage studies settled about the weight a man can carry indefinitely, why single mothers' fertility falls with every generation — it held up when there were uncles, granddads and brothers to lean on, and doesn't in a man desert — and how liberalising employment law in Korea took the family cartels down with it. "We are a biparental species that engages in pair bonding. A male is what the female is supposed to want. The end. Astoundingly controversial to say here, but this is just first principles." "Nobody at Cambridge sat down with these people and said hold up, wait a second. Nobody even thought this might affect Cambridge's reputation. That's where we are — maybe we shouldn't advocate enslaving half the human race. No, slavery is back in style." Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online

"There's not a pause button on disability. You don't become less disabled because the government decides they want to take austerity measures." The title is the opening line of the M*A*S*H theme. The song's actual name is "Suicide Is Painless." Hannah Wallen hosts with Lauren Brooks, Mike Stevenson, Richard the Lionhearted and Brian, on the UK assisted dying bill arriving in the same year as cuts to PIP and disability support. Also: what happens when a painkiller you've taken for thirty years is withdrawn and nothing replaces it, why pensioners and the disabled end up fighting each other over one budget line, the supply chain that decides whether your medication exists this month, what a newspaper headline about people with learning disabilities not reaching sixty-five actually measured, and the windowless vans that used to pull up outside German homes to collect a disabled relative. "We're living under a tyranny of bastards who tell us they have the technology to detect whether we're using a fan or a television." "Once you come to terms with what you've done, then what you've done is the worst thing that can ever be done. So you just have to keep inventing this forever to stop yourself getting there." Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online

"She's saying hey men, why don't you approach — while she slaps a baseball bat into the palm of her hand. Come on guys, approach, I won't use my mace on your skull. And she doesn't understand why it's not working." Brian and Alison read an article where the author tells men to start asking women out at work again. She wants the approach to happen but she doesn't want to dismantle the risks men run in approaching. She thinks MeToo was a good thing! Also: what happens to the framing when it's female prison guards and male inmates, why anonymous workplace confessionals always stop at the worst example, the copier-room story that turns out to be an awkward conversation, and the enormous unrecognised labour men were already doing to make any of this happen — Barack Obama included. "Women who are rejected are wounded. Men who are rejected are dangerous." "Men can't do enough to free them from the horrors of freedom. Even kidnapping them is insufficient. They'll have to put them in a jar as a brain or something." Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online

"He drove three hundred miles in four hours to a politician's home, clubbed her to death, and drove straight home. And that's definitely not politically motivated terrorism." Brian, Hannah Wallen and Dr Randomercam on the killing of Ann Widdecombe, and a police account that stopped being non-political shortly after insisting it was. Also: a school that removed a boy over an assault allegation without contacting his parents or investigating, later conceded there was no evidence, and is now being sued by his family after his death. Plus the Taco Bell parasite, and why the men women say they want are the ones walking away. "What worries me most about the thunderstorm of Boomer deaths isn't the bereavements. It's Toy Story six and seven — when all the children are dead, what are the toys for?" Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online

"The one thing women don't want is for men to ask what they want. Implicit in asking is that you don't know her — which is offensive, because you should." "Women want all men to give them the super stimulus of a sociopath but still have the custodial nature underneath. Which is impossible." Brian and Alison read an article listing what women really want from men, and play REPO between rounds of it. The author has chutzpah: she wrote a piece declaring a man pursuing a woman is harassment by definition — and a book called My Dear Stalker. Which is exactly what it says on the tin. Also: how you would obtain consent to approach someone before approaching them, why the list forecloses on any man with a heartbeat who isn't a vampire werewolf billionaire, and the return of "look in the mirror and ask if you're actually the good guy." Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online

"We call it the left, but mental sterilization is a better term, considering the outcome." "It's the anti-masculinity party versus the everything-else party. If you're a feminine woman who likes a masculine man, you're in the black category too." Brian and Alison on a study finding that right-leaning people now out-reproduce left-leaning ones, using a tool borrowed from evolutionary biology to measure it. For people born in the early 1900s, political orientation barely predicted family size at all. The researcher treats it as selection. Alison's objection is that nothing is being inherited — it's spreading culturally, which is worse, because there's no ceiling on it. Also: what happened to atheism when it decided religion was bad for women, and the masculine norms inventory beloved of development bankers, on which men flatly reject two of the five and mildly endorse two more — mildly, on a scale running from "I don't give a fuck" to "eh, maybe." Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online

"A profile is a document a person built on purpose. Every photo, every word, and the obvious things they choose to leave out are information." "You basically have to be a Christian in name only for her to count you as one. Kill your babies, trans your kids, all about the Pride flag — that's not quite right, is it." Brian and Alison read a guide teaching women how to detect a covertly conservative man from his dating profile, and a second piece by a man coaching other men on how to pass the test. Also: the fleet of invisible conservative men she thinks secretly want her, why "conservative" here means nothing more specific than "man," the tell she can't say out loud — taller, stronger, greater risk tolerance — and what she is actually selecting for once you take out everyone who protects and provides. "She's cultivating these young women as a sexual resource for the worst type of men in society. The ones who built the financial fatberg, so they can feed on it." Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online

"Remember the Sims, the most popular game in the world in the two thousands? This is the Sims. This is the fucking Sims." Brian and Hannah Wallen on a clip from the Louis Theroux podcast in which Johnny Depp describes a suspicion he had about Amber Heard during the divorce. Also: the opening of the Tyler Robinson case, why the legacy media outlets complaining about YouTube's algorithm have been sitting on the homepage the whole time, and Woman Simulator — a game about ironing socks and not leaving the house, complete with an ankle monitor, which appears to exist mainly so it can be sent to a friend as a joke. "I've sillied myself into a corner. Someone else talk." Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online

"What are you, pro sex trafficking? No. I'm against terrible movies." Brian and Alison read a piece blaming men for Supergirl's box office, when it was women who didn't show up, while playing REPO with Gabriel. Also: why the sex-trafficking subplot exists at all, the writer's one prior credit, whether Tim Poole is really the Grand Poobah of the manosphere, and how the entry requirement for manosphere membership has collapsed to having an opinion while wearing a penis. "When a movie is targeted at women, it's men's obligation to make it successful." "This movie was written by a woman, and it plays like it." Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online

"So you're a solipsist. Nothing exists outside your mind. Fine — stop hitting yourself, then." Brian and Alison are joined by TL;DR for a play by Rachel Cusk in which Medea kills her children because Jason left, and the audience is invited to applaud her. Also: the masculine norms inventory that scores how closely a man resembles Snidely Whiplash, and the Treasury money spent asking Ethiopian men the same. The 94 percent custody figure that traces back to a 1989 Massachusetts study nobody can produce. Warhammer 40K lore. And what would happen to a man in the manosphere who was as misogynist as the ambient feminist is misandrist. "In twenty years I have never heard anyone in the manosphere say you should take men who kill their families and turn them into role models. That's what she's doing." Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online

"My parents have been enthusiastic about this ever since they found out about it. Oh, that would be nice. And I'm like — okay, guys, just don't let them convince you to die." Hannah Wallen hosts on the assisted dying bill for England and Wales, passing its Commons vote while the article they're reading is a year old and describes exactly what happens next. Also: what "a vote for the status quo" is really a vote for, why the same MPs who won't allow the state to execute a mass murderer will allow it for a grandmother with a brain tumour, what Canada and Australia are being used to test, and the suicide statistic that changes completely depending on whether you count attempts or deaths. "The health service is run by machines that hate us and want us dead. The machines are run by people, so it's hard to describe. But it is a machine, and the cogs of it are civil servants." Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online

"We stop poisoning the relationship between men and women, and see if it grows back a bit." Brian and Alison read a Medium piece on "precarious manhood" — the conjecture that masculinity is a status men must continually re-earn, so men should renounce their masculinity instead — and trace the conjecture back to the Psychology of Men and Masculinities field, the field that informs the American Psychological Association's guidelines on how to treat men and boys. Also: the article's freak-show tour of male influencers and the female specimens it declines to compare them to, the optimization treadmill with no finish line, and what happens to the dating pool when heterosexuality itself is defined as oppression. "People so convinced men are evil that they have a freaking scale of how evil are you. And when men say, actually, I don't like any of these things on your scale, they don't conclude the scale isn't describing men. They just do a whole bunch of chicanery to pretend it is." Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online

"Men are almost like Amazon now — you can literally get a guy delivered to your door. So what incentive is there for women to stick it out?" Brian and Alison sit down with Pearl Davis on marriage, divorce, and the question her documentary series is built around: what's in it for men? Also: why the churches that preach traditional marriage stopped preaching any of its obligations, the glass-of-water test and thinking through the symbol, imposter syndrome as a symptom of unearned status, and what happened to her friends' houses and kids that started her asking. "I think we just have more power, so it's worse. Women have always been this way — you're just seeing what women do with extreme power. If you gave women in the fifteen hundreds this kind of power, they probably would have done the same thing." Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online

"The men in the park are free. The government doesn't want you to know that, ladies. You can just take them home." Brian and Alison continue through the Cambridge fertility paper, which has arrived at urban anonymity, mating norms it disapproves of, and the mystery of why women in the circumstance it demands more of aren't breeding in it. Also: what taking chimpanzee promiscuity off the board does to the paper's ancestry argument, why romance is a trillion-dollar industry if women don't want men, the one variable that survives holding education, contraception, abortion and dating apps constant, and the female hominid's unnatural access to central heating. "If your pandas are in an electrified cage, periodically sprayed with water, and they don't breed — don't increase the voltage of the floor. If a female mammal isn't breeding, a zoologist's first conclusion is that something is wrong with her environment. Somehow, in human women, we call it empowerment and keep going." Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online