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• "These male activists have targeted anything that smacks of feminism, forcing a university to cancel a lecture by a woman they accused of spreading misandry...."
• The top 10 posts of 2021 here on the Althouse blog.
• "It is a disgrace that so many women can have been assaulted by so many men, and yet it turns out the only person who will go to jail is a woman."

"These male activists have targeted anything that smacks of feminism, forcing a university to cancel a lecture by a woman they accused of spreading misandry...." Posted: 02 Jan 2022 12:45 PM PST "They have threatened businesses with boycotts... And they have taken aim at the government for promoting a feminist agenda, eliciting promises from rival presidential candidates to reform the country's 20-year-old Ministry of Gender Equality and Family.... The backlash represents a split from previous generations. Older South Korean men acknowledge ​benefiting from a patriarchal culture that​ had​ marginalized women. Decades ago, when South Korea lacked everything from food to cash, sons were more likely to be enrolled in higher education. In some families, women were not allowed to eat from the same table as men and newly born girls were named Mal-ja, or 'Last Daughter.' Sex-preference abortions were common. As the country has grown richer, such practices have become a distant memory. Families now dote on their daughters. More women attend college than men, and they have more opportunities in the government and elsewhere, though a significant glass ceiling persists. 'Men in their 20s are deeply unhappy, considering themselves victims of reverse discrimination, angry that they had to pay the price for gender discriminations created under the earlier generations,' said Oh Jae-ho, a researcher at the Gyeonggi Research Institute in South Korea. If older men saw women as needing protection, younger men considered them competitors in a cutthroat job market." From "The New Political Cry in South Korea: 'Out With Man Haters'/After slow gains in women's rights, the country is facing a type of political correctness enforced by young men angry at feminists, saying they undermine opportunity" (NYT).

The top 10 posts of 2021 here on the Althouse blog. Posted: 02 Jan 2022 12:27 PM PST This is purely based on traffic, not my opinion of the quality of the post. I'll just observe that a lot of these are about women. 1. "Listen to Bari Weiss's podcast about 'The Central Park Karen,' Amy Cooper." 2. "How must it feel to have your name airbrushed from the $8 billion film franchise born of your scribbling in a coffee shop, penniless, while your baby napped?" 3. "I'm pulled into the upper right hand corner of The Washington Post — so dangerous, so syrup-drenched." 4. "My hypothesis: The Bidens deliberately froze Kamala Harris's political career."  5. "The flagship commemoration event to mark the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre was scrapped after three survivors demanded $1 million each to appear."  6. "This is exactly what it feels like to cancel cable. This is not a sketch, it's a documentary."  7. "Activated women hitting new peaks of ineffectuality."  8. "Andrea, Jennifer, and The 2 Williams."  9. "The man accused of beating an Asian American woman during a broad-daylight hate-crime attack in New York City on Monday was on lifetime parole for murdering his mother...."  10. "She's not like other Senators."

"It is a disgrace that so many women can have been assaulted by so many men, and yet it turns out the only person who will go to jail is a woman." Posted: 02 Jan 2022 11:58 AM PST "Where are the people — sorry, men — who flocked to 'Paedophile Island' and flew on the 'Lolita Express'? The grotty liggers who turned up because they knew he had an unquenchable supply of young, willing women? The pervert bankers who took holidays in his waterfront mansion? The celebs who partied with underage models but 'saw nothing'? The most any single man except Epstein himself has suffered in connection with this case is the mild embarrassment of being snapped with him or, as in the case of Donald Trump, once making the mistake of saying he was a 'terrific guy.' And what will Maxwell get? She could get 65 years. We know, obviously, about Prince Andrew, a terminally fat-fingered chaffering drongo who is slowly being comically lost in the snaky coils of Epstein's former towel girl Virginia Roberts Giuffre. Will he ever end up in court? Who cares?" From "Epstein is dead, Maxwell is guilty. Now let's talk about the men who escaped" by Camilla Long (London Times). I agree with the substance of this piece. That's why I'm quoting it. That said, I'd like to talk about grotty liggers and chaffering drongo. Those are 4 great words, and I only know "grotty" — short for "grotesque." So let's research.  It turns out that "liggers" are people who "lig," and "to lig" — which is a dialect variant of "to lie" — means "To idle or lie about (colloquial); also (slang), to sponge, to 'freeload'; to gatecrash or attend parties." That's according to the OED, which gives us the quotes "It's a time for ligging in the streets and doing your thing, man" (1969) and "The Feelgoods, now ligging and gigging around America" (1976). So, yes, obviously, these were grotty liggers. By the way, the OED cites "A Hard Day's Night" as the first recorded use of "grotty": "'I wouldn't be seen dead in them. They're dead grotty.' Marshall stared. 'Grotty?' 'Yeah—grotesque.'" On to chaffering drongo. To "chaffer" is to bargain or haggle. And to call someone a "drongo" — originally a type of bird — is to say they are a stupid fool. Fine to say that about Andrew, but it's a bit unfair to disparage the bird, which seems rather smart:

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