"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."

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"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."

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"The difference between an adult and a child is deliberateness."

Hannah Wallen and Richard the Lionhearted on the domain-specific risk-taking scale, where men score higher on four domains out of five — financial, health and safety, recreational, ethical — and women score higher on the one left over.

Also: the couple who divorced on paper and kept living together to hold onto the benefits, why "boys are stupid, throw rocks at them" got answered with "feminists are stupid, throw facts at them," and the Victorian coal mine story again from the other side.

"If feminists believe society runs on misogyny, why don't they ever make misogynistic arguments for women's rights on purpose? They'd do whatever it took. They make a lot of money on feminism."

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Welcome to HBR News where we give the badger treatment to the news of the week! This week we will be talking about Kier Starmer's resignation, the SPLC official who was LITERALLY in bed with Neo-Nazis, a dad is attacked for being a dad, and more!

The Voidcat vigil continues. "Women suck" by: A woman

Also REPO. Since Mia the Void Cat has warped back into the abyss from whence she came, so we are going to try to have some fun to decompress from all the BS we deal with every day. So we will play the horror comedy game, REPO. We will also be reading an article about men leaving the workforce! Women most affected! Tune in!

What do the 4B movement, abortion, child murder, modern writing and ancient Hellenic plays have in common?

We have to talk about the accountability gap, because I’m thick headed and took a few years to come to a conclusion that I should have realized years ago.

The cross-national correlation between gender equality and lower fertility is exceptionally strong (r ≈ 0.81). After the 1960s, a unique mating regime spread across parts of the world—with female emancipation, individual mate choice, and effective birth control—followed by a continuing rise in singlehood and declining fertility. Almost all women still want to reproduce, but many struggle to find a good-enough partner. This article argues from an evolutionary perspective that many men’s utility to “free women” has been so diminished that solving the fertility crisis by increasing pair-bonding rates seems unfeasible. A viable means for aiding the survival of low-fertility nations could be to provide women with the economic and social resources necessary for them to conclude that having children alone makes for a better life than remaining childless. Such policies would likely exacerbate male marginalization, but new technologies are on the horizon that could offer men reproductive equality.

Welcome to HBR News where we give the badger treatment to the news of the week! This week we will be talking about the massive social media ban in the YooKay, singer and comedian Oliver Tree dies in a terrible accident, and more!

The Voidcat vigil continues. Women are now just telling us they take pleasure in men's pain. What a shocker. Also REPO. Since Mia the Void Cat has warped back into the abyss from whence she came, so we are going to try to have some fun to decompress from all the BS we deal with every day. So we will play the horror comedy game, REPO. We will also be reading an article about men leaving the workforce! Women most affected!