Perhaps my data finding a correlation between pornography use and support for violent extremism shouldn’t be so surprising had we just listened to feminists

Some preliminary data from my recent study finds that not only does pornography use strongly and significantly correlate with attitudes permissive of violence against women, but also with attitudes sympathetic to violent extremism.

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Among 13–17 year old boys in Australia: — 28% agree that violence should be used against feminism -- 36% agreed with misogynistic attitudes. -- 25–30% agree with various forms of violent extremism -- 40% agreed that women lie about domestic and sexual violence. theconversation.com/40-of-teenag...

Question for all the academics who will read this: do you think of PhD supervision as 'teaching' or 'research'? Why? Please pick one; it's for workload allocation purposes. Please also tell me relevant details like continent, discipline, lab model or no, grant-funded or no. Thanks so much!

Guided missile warheads???

A lot of liberal denunciation of political violence on this app today. Good time to spruik this new edited volume with a chapter by yours truly on Revolutionary Feminism! www.routledge.com/Che-Lives-Th...

Good lord, I thought this was from the Onion… Nope. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

This week, the UK government is proposing a ban on pornography that depicts strangulation. Much of the left is handwringing about it. But as Lucy and @drmeljohnston.bsky.social explain, “the left can’t have its whores and politics too.” www.ppesydney.net/can-the-left...

Someone will need to explain to me the logic of deregulating minimum fees in rates for solar in Victoria as incentivising more competitive rates?

Well this can’t be good…

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The use of Lime scooters and bikes as weapons of the resistance delights me in ways I can’t describe.

Day trip to Canberra and I’m greeted this morning at the airport cafe with the below sentiment. To quote @drmeljohnston.bsky.social - “the revolution will be caffeinated.”

Anti-feminism is an prevalent political attitude in Australia. Violent anti-feminism is supported by nearly 20% of Australian men. Needless to say, recognising our country’s problem with femicide does not amount to a “war on men” www.australianfemicidewatch.org

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Can you win with the support of lads and dads alone? No, duh!

That election rap is a bop and I’m afraid it may actually work.

As the front benchers of the Labor Party and Coalition criss-cross the country, Crikey is tracking the eyebrow-raising local spending announcements they’ve made along the way.

“The American people, they expect action. And that is what they’re getting. And they’ll get the exact same attitude under a Peter Dutton government.” That sentiment aged like prison toilet wine…

Donald Trump expending political capital to try and free Andrew Tate. How can we make sense of this?

A huge welcome to the brilliant @drmeljohnston.bsky.social! Anyone interested in critical political economy, gender, development and security would do well to give her a follow.

After almost a decade of thinking, researching and writing... this came in the post today. 🤓 🥂

Patricia Owens, Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men - @princetonupress.bsky.social, January 2025 press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Just published on APSR First View: "White, Male, and Angry: A Reputation-Based Rationale for Backlash" by Stephane Wolton. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/white-male-and-angry-a-reputationbased-rationale-for-backlash/BEB3DADCC3F7CCC1A7DB49ECDA6787CF

In the history of patriarchy’s reconstitution, actors appear twice: first as tragedy, then as farce. Yet there are things that happen to women that the existence of capitalism cannot explain. We offer feminist dialectics to illuminate the internal relations of & transformation to global patriarchy.

“Have the US election results and the rise of the tech broligarchy got you worried about the morbid symptoms of global patriarchy?” — the latest from @sarameger.bsky.social and Melissa Johnston blogging on their essential read article in @ejir.bsky.social

In the coming days, please don’t forget the crucial role that my posts played in the fall of Bashar al-Assad

“Written on the shell casings were the words ‘deny,’ ‘defend’ and ‘depose,’ according to sources.”

The world’s richest 1% have more wealth than the bottom 95% put together, according to Oxfam. There is no moral justification for this extraordinary level of inequality. It's distorting politics, rigging our markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of people.

When universities hire chief diversity officers, it has *no effect* on the diversity of faculty or university administrator hires. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

feminist/queer political economy starter pack is here - let me know who else I need to add

Instead of performing “ornamental intersectionality,” what would it mean to consider the internal relations of patriarchal, capitalist, and racial oppressions? A great little summary of a knock out article by @abieler.bsky.social and @morton.bsky.social

“ #PoliticalEconomy analysts are missing the elephant in the room: #patriarchy. … the voting gap is in fact due to #women having become significantly more #feminist, while men have become more patriarchal” #WPS #participation #misogyny #UNSCR1325 #gendersky #conflictsky

I made a starter pack of political studies folk in Australia - I know I surely haven't captured everyone here, so please let me know if you'd like to be added - share widely! go.bsky.app/UtgJPaZ

Why should political economists care about misogyny and violent extremism? “Talking with Tom, Dick or Harry about Misogyny and Violence in Global Politics”. Part of the @ppesydney.bsky.social 10th anniversary series www.ppesydney.net/talking-with...

I'm building a Global Political Economy starter pack! Many new folks joining Bluesky - send me handles! go.bsky.app/AT3W7Q4

Hey IR folks, Australasia's biannual festival of International Relations (the OCIS conference) is in the beautiful city of Sydney next July. Join us in the land of Oz! ocis.org.au/call-for-pap...

I, for one, am 100% behind banning social media accounts for children. This is why: nyti.ms/3O93u1v

It’s finally here — my new article with Melissa Johnston, in which we develop a new theory and method for thinking about patriarchy as ordering of the international, and change in patriarchy over time: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Why should you read Karl Marx's Grundrisse? www.ppesydney.net/karl-marx-gr...

Remember that huntsman I had to escort from my house? Well, turns out she left behind a nest and I now have a hundred more to deal with 😫