Smartphones are destroying children (and other stories)

A roundup of news and commentary from around the interwebs.

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A thoughtful column from Bethel McGrew: “The tragedy of Dylan Mulvaney.”

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From the Sydney Morning Herald, an important column especially for parents: “Children find porn on Twitter more than anywhere else. Here’s how it lets them.”

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Yet another reminder that giving your kids a smartphone is, to put it kindly, nuts: “Kids Who Get Smartphones Earlier Become Adults With Worse Mental Health.”

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The number of unintended pregnancies ending in birth rather than abortion continues to rise, highlighting the effectiveness of the pro-life movement. Dr. Michael New has the story at National Review.

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Doctors claimed they would stop sex change surgeries at the Texas Children’s Hospital. Christopher Rufo provides whistleblower documents proving that they have not.

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From Aaron Renn on an increasingly normative experience: “Amy Key’s Single Life.” An excerpt:

As the average age of marriage increases, our world contains a growing number of singles. While it’s unclear exactly how many of them will never marry or have children, I’ve seen projections estimating that as many as a quarter of Millennials will never marry.

Yet, so much of our cultural products seem oriented around romantic relationships, if not finding it, at least searching for it. As of yet there’s been little written exploring what it truly means to be single for the long haul. Amy Key’s new memoir of her single life, Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Loving and Living Alone, is a book about that reality and her experience of it.

Read the whole thing.

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OnlyFans, the personalized subscription porn service, is boasting that they have reached “three million content creators”—that is, people prostituting themselves for money. The “content” being “created” is porn for a personalized audience—and many of these women are very young.

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As I’ve noted many times, using “preferred pronouns” is fundamentally ceding the territory of truth to trans activists—pronouns are premises, and when you use theirs, you’re affirming their ideology. Many allegedly “conservative” sites, however, are content to play along—these outlets are merely progressives driving the speed limit. From The Daily Caller: “Here Are All The Conservative-Leaning Outlets That Call Dylan Mulvaney A ‘She.’” The list includes: Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, and the Washington Examiner.

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