"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."

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"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."

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"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."

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"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."

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"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?"

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"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?"

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"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."

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"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.

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"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.

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"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.

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