I Was Once Jane Doe. Blaming Men Didn’t Heal Me
I purposefully drank enough to numb the doubts and fears I felt. Like Jane Doe, I pursued the very thing I later came to deeply regret.I purposefully drank enough to numb the doubts and fears I felt. Like Jane Doe, I pursued the very thing I later came to deeply regret.SKIN IN THE GAME: Sidney Sweeney shrugs off female athletes triggered by naked ad
- Sydney Sweeney's latest ad has some of the world's top female athletes crying foul.
The actress stripped down for a new campaign promoting sports prediction market Novig, strategically covering herself with footballs, boxing gloves, and other sporting equipment beneath the tagline “Just Sports.”
'I can't describe how infuriated I feel when I watch this.'
Poor sports
The joke didn't land with everyone.
The 58-second ad is an obvious appeal to male sports bettors. Sweeney appears nude but covered throughout, delivering betting-related lines as sporting equipment conveniently keeps the commercial suitable for YouTube.
Female athletes have accused the campaign of sexualizing women's sports and undermining the women who have spent their lives competing in them.
British athlete Lucy Davis was among those unimpressed. "I don't know wtf Sydney Sweeney was doing, but it's 2026," she posted, per Variety. "Stop sexualizing women in sport."
Remarks on Davis' social media called her a "new age feminist" and noted she is no stranger to provocative images either.
NCAA gymnast Gracie Kramer was also mocked by readers after she said "Idk what Sydney Sweeney was doing, but this is what a woman in sports looks like," alongside her highlight reel.
Both men and women took issue with Kramer's remarks given her sexualized photos, with one comment on Instagram joking, "How dare you pose with a basketball when you're not a professional basketball player."
Sweeney appeared to call out the athletes for their hypocrisy soon thereafter.
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Body positive
On her Instagram story, Sweeney shared photos of former UFC champion Ronda Rousey, as well as tennis players Serena Williams and Caroline Wozniacki — in addition to male athletes — who have all posed nude for ESPN's "Body" issue.
This was followed by Sweeney posting her own ad.
On the Novig website, Sweeney described the ad as "embracing a fun idea," while noting she is an equity holder in the company.
"The concept is simple: cut through the noise and put the focus entirely on sports. The campaign brings that idea to life with confidence, humor, and a playful edge," Sweeney's statement added.
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Tut-tutting Titmus
Additional Sweeney detractors included Aussie Olympic swimmer Ariarne Titmus, who said she was "infuriated" by Sweeney's ad.
"I can't describe how infuriated I feel when I watch this," Titmus said, per the Guardian. "Not only is it a kick in the face to every woman who has dedicated her life to perfecting her craft, but every woman who enjoys sports for what it really is — teamwork, friendship, dedication, excellence, unity. How do we live in a world where monetising a woman's body and sexualising women’s sport is still a thing?"
Moreover, British sprinter Amy Hunt said, "Sydney Sweeney, this is what women in sport look like," in a post-race interview with BBC Sport.
She was immediately criticized for apparent hypocrisy on her social media photos, as well.
Likewise, Australian water polo player Tilly Kearns wrote on a post: "I absolutely fking hate Sydney Sweeney's new sports ad," Kearns said, before getting similar treatment as the other Sweeney critics on her own revealing post.
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Actress Elliot Page mocked ruthlessly after trying to define 'healthy masculinity'
A decade after starring in "Inception," lesbian actress Ellen Page committed to her most challenging role yet: living her real life as an effeminate, short-haired transvestite named "Elliot Page."
Page had her healthy beasts surgically removed, then announced in a Dec. 1, 2020, social media post, "I am trans, my pronouns are he/they and my name is Elliot."
'Sure sounds a lot like femininity.'
Having now played the role of Elliot for over five years, the biological female — who divorced her "wife" and leaned into her LGBT activism following the "transition" — now apparently feels sufficiently qualified to define what constitutes "healthy masculinity."
As part of a broader media tour for her new LGBT propaganda film, "Second Nature," Page recently sat down with the eponymous host of "It's Open with Illana Glazer" for a heart-to-heart.
After claiming that the "gender binary ... just doesn't exist" and alluding to testosterone's transformative impact on her baseline aggression, Page stated that healthy masculinity is "leaning away from whenever there is some sort of impulse or expectation you've put on yourself to, like, shut down or conform in a way that usually feels like this — like I am closing off."
Page cited the reluctance among some men to smile in photos as typical of such emotional closure.
"To me, healthy masculinity would be, well, you know what — healthiness for anyone to just, you know, love themselves; be able to care for themselves; ideally get rest when they can, you know, like, just the practical basic — drink water, like, eat a banana. You know?" said Page.
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Page, 39, added in her rambling definition that healthy masculinity is "also just, you know, doing what you can to be intentionally and mindfully not letting yourself get, like, swayed or twisted by the rules that I feel like end up, like, leading to so many of the problems that we see that are, you know, do get inflicted by toxic masculinity, violence and abuse, just general cruelty."
The actress, whose memoir details her history of depression and self-mutilation, padded her tortured definition by adding, "Healthy masculinity could just mean a really good cry."
Critics relentlessly have mocked Page's definition, which went viral on social media over the weekend.
Chris Elston, the anti-gender-ideology activist better known as Billboard Chris, quipped, "This is the most female conversation ever."
Not the Bee, the non-satirical news companion to the Babylon Bee, wrote, "Wow, the healthy masculinity she’s talking about sure sounds a lot like femininity."
"It’s so interesting that she embodies every female stereotype while trying to do her best impression of a man," tweeted author and homeschooling advocate Rachel Wilson.
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Feminists’ ‘Unequivocal’ Support For Graham Platner Proves They Love Abortion More Than Women
Want proof that feminism is actually just a front for radical abortion? Look no further than ‘women’s groups’ supporting Graham Platner.How Feminism Created An Insufferable Class Of Supposedly ‘Infallible Females’
The feminists have overplayed their hand. Men and women are finally rejecting their tyrannical, entitled, and condescending mien.Leslie Jones brainwashed? Actress likens marriage to ‘legalized slavery.’
Leslie Jones is not happy with the institution of marriage, and she made that clear in a recent interview with YouTuber Ziwe — where she likened marriage to “legalized slavery.”
When pressed on her stance, Jones doubled down, warning young people against getting married and comparing traditional expectations of wives to oppression.
“I think marriage is legalized slavery,” Jones told Ziwe.
When the interviewer pushed back, Jones responded, “If he is expecting you to be a trad wife, he might as well pull out a whip and a chain.”
“There are young people watching who might be wanting to get married. What would you say to them?” the interviewer then asked.
“Don’t,” Jones replied.
Shemeka Michelle tells BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock on “Jason Whitlock Harmony” that Jones’ position is not born of a healthy mindset.
“I think this is silly. She’s 58 years old, and it really bothers me when we have old women who are just bitter and angry and never been married, alone. She never had children. She wants this same bitterness and anger for young people, saying, ‘Never get married,’” Michelle says.
“How can you even liken marriage to slavery? Marriage is something that God ordained. It’s why he created woman, because man wasn’t supposed to be alone. The fact that she likens it to slavery is just her own bitterness,” she continues.
“She has some residual bitterness for not being chosen,” she adds.
Whitlock couldn’t agree with Michelle more.
“Calling marriage slavery when it’s actually the greatest tool in the pursuit of holiness, that’s what really bothers me,” he agrees.
Michelle points out that Jones’ view of marriage is based on those who enter marriage for the wrong reasons.
“For Leslie to say that, I just feel like she’s never really stepped back and taken a look at herself beyond her physical appearance. But to say, ‘How can I change? How can I be a good wife?’ Because there are a lot of women who just enter marriage for the wrong reason,” Michelle explains.
“They want the big wedding. They want the nice ring. They want to be able to think that they’ll just get to sit on the couch and eat bonbons. They’re not looking at it from an act of service and how I can be a good wife. There are a lot of women who want to get married, but there aren’t a lot who want to be wives,” she continues.
“And this is clear from the way she likens it to slavery. She just has the wrong mindset about it,” she adds.
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No kidding: 'Ecofeminist' course at UVA has students consulting goats and lichen about oppression
An alumni group is questioning the academic value of a course on offer at the taxpayer-subsidized University of Virginia — a course taught by a non-straight poet who apparently encourages students to consult animals about their supposed oppression.
The Jefferson Council, an alumni group "committed to leading the University of Virginia back to Thomas Jefferson’s legacy of freedom and excellence," noted Wednesday on X, "A course titled 'Ecofeminist Poetry & Poetics' being taught this spring at the University of Virginia has students 'listen' to plants and animals to better understand how 'settler colonialism' and slavery 'thrive off of the intrinsic interconnectedness between species.'"
'Birds, goats, willow oaks, and lichen will accompany us through the semester.'
"This is a real taxpayer-funded class," the group continued. "Is this what higher education has become?"
The description for the graduate course on the UVA English department's website — which contains quotes from identitarian feminist and LGBT activist Alexis Pauline Gumbs — states:
This interdisciplinary course will interweave brief readings from ecofeminist theory, ecopoetics, and black and indigenous environmental theories with books of contemporary ecofeminist poetry. This curriculum will encourage each of us to see what happens when we “rethink and re-feel,” writes Gumbs, our own “relations, possibilities, and practices” in conversation with the more-than-human world.
The course syllabus notes that "birds, goats, willow oaks, and lichen will accompany us through the semester as we too attempt to listen across species," reported the College Fix.
University records show that associate professor Brian Teare, a "queer"-identifying climate alarmist who specializes in environmental humanities and "queer theory," has taught versions of the ecofeminist course for several years.
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John Gardner, president of the Jefferson Council, told the College Fix, "It is surprising to the extent that such an inane and clearly agenda-based politicized course could find its way into the curricula of any respectable institute of higher learning."
"It is not surprising to the extent that over the past decade or more the increasingly left-wing politicized faculties of most universities have turned their curricula into woke fantasylands," added Gardner.
'It is more suitable to be a course taught in Orwell’s "1984."'
Teare and the university did not respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.
Gardner referred to three other radical courses at the university that warrant concern: "Women and Gender in the Deaf World"; "Gender, Body Image, and Social Activism"; and "Queer Judaism," which poses the question, "What if we approached Judaism as a queer religion?"
"There are many others with the common theme that they are mostly narrowly focused on allegedly marginalized ‘identity groups’ based on race, gender, or ethnicity and are often intended to promote a predetermined agenda," said Gardner.
The alumni group's president noted that Thomas Jefferson founded the university because "he felt it was important to have an educated and informed citizenry to sustain a successful republic."
Gardner suggested that courses like Teare's "are not meant to follow truth, but to advance a political/social agenda. It is more suitable to be a course taught in Orwell’s '1984' than at Mr. Jefferson’s university."
In 2025, UVA received over $338 million dollars in funding from the state.
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Jim Irsay was the owner of the Indianapolis Colts before he passed away. Now, his daughter Carlie Irsay-Gordon is the team’s new owner — and BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock isn’t thrilled with the attention her presence has been drawing.
“She magically appears as the team’s owner and standing on the sideline. And she is what I’m calling an example of the equalizers and this whole feminist movement we have going on in the National Football League,” BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock comments.
“America, beyond question — American culture, American society — the feminist movement has overtaken everything. And that’s why we have women like Carlie Irsay-Gordon pretending to be some sort of football savant and standing on the sidelines with headsets on and listening to the coaches,” he continues.
“If women can overtake the NFL, that should be a message to you that they can overtake, and they are overtaking, all of American society,” he adds.
And when Irsay-Gordon spoke about the end of their season during a press conference, Whitlock points out that she’s literally reading off a script.
“She’s looking down every fourth word at notes in front of her. She’s reading a script. She’s pretending to be a male leader by reading a script. This is all scripted and intentional,” Whitlock says.
“In 2022, NFL owners put out a statement saying that diversity in ownership was an important goal for the NFL. And so, they’ve been ushering in all of this female leadership into the National Football League,” he explains.
“Anything that’s diverse, anything that promotes something that’s not male, patriarchal, and white, that’s all good. ... Anything that disrupts tradition, anything that disrupts biblical patriarchy, anything that disrupts male authority and leadership, it’s all good. It’s a positive. It’s a sign of progress,” he continues.
While Irsay-Gordon isn’t the first daughter of an owner to inherit an NFL team, Whitlock points out that it’s not the fact that she inherited the team, but the hyperfocus on her while the Colts were off to an 8-2 start.
“She was the hottest thing in the NFL — ‘She’s holding the coaches accountable, she’s on the sidelines during the games, she’s on headsets, let’s do stories about it,’” Whitlock mocks.
“This is the future of the NFL,” he adds.
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How Feminism Became The Biggest Pagan Megachurch In The World
It has an object of worship, which is female autonomy, its own commandments, theological virtues, a sacrament, and even its own form of evangelization.Is the ayatollah a feminist?
The horseshoe theory may have been on full display after the supreme leader of Iran made a surprisingly feminist statement on social media.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei often ponders philosophical and political topics on his X page, most recently critiquing the role of women in Western society. In a string of posts on Wednesday, Khamenei insisted that Islam treats women better than other Western faiths and societies, and even resurrected a 2010s feminist talking point that has long been debunked.
'Women's wages are lower than men's for the same work.'
"Islam's view of women is the opposite of the Western capitalist view," Khamenei said in a post on X. "In Islam, she possesses her independence, her capacity to act & to progress, her identity; in the West, her dignity is not respected, and she is treated as an object in the service of material interests."
There is certainly room to criticize women's role in Western societies, especially in the post-modern era. However, Khamenei conveniently omits the practical application of Sharia law in countries like Iran that tolerate child marriages and require women to hide behind hijabs.
In an even more surprising take, Iran's supreme leader insisted that the gender wage gap was an oppressive reality that Western women have to endure, despite it being both disproven and outlawed altogether.
"Today, in many Western countries, women's wages are lower than men's for the same work," Khamenei said in a post on X. "Today, that's how it is. It's a blatant injustice."
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While criticizing the West, the ayatollah omitted the real, dramatic gender disparities in Iran's workforce.
In Iran, less than 14% of women participate in the workforce, compared to 67% of men. Additionally, a husband can prevent a wife from working at all if he believes it to be "with the family interests or the dignity of himself or his wife."
Iran's law also forbids women from being employed in "dangerous, arduous, or harmful work," with massive underrepresentation in higher professions like parliament. Women are barred from positions like supreme leader, and they cannot be appointed to judicial roles.
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