FinnMackay
@finnfox.bsky.social
Sociology lecturer at the best Uni in Bristol. Author "Female Masculinities and the Gender Wars" from Bloomsbury. Queer for cats and feminism.
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In June, @finnfox.bsky.social provided powerful challenges to current debates, arguing that we should stop seeking to 'save' masculinity, that radical feminism is good for men, and that we should show support for trans people at a time when they're being so scapegoated: nowandmen.net/episode/finn...
Is Masculinity Worth Saving? And How is Radical Feminism Relevant to Men? - Dr Finn Mackay - Now and Men
How helpful are debates about masculinity 'in crisis'? Should we be seeking to 'save' masculinity with more positive versions - or abolishing patriarchy?
nowandmen.net
January 1, 2026 at 11:38 AM
In June, @finnfox.bsky.social provided powerful challenges to current debates, arguing that we should stop seeking to 'save' masculinity, that radical feminism is good for men, and that we should show support for trans people at a time when they're being so scapegoated: nowandmen.net/episode/finn...
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Shamima Begum was the beginning of something in so many ways, one of which was 'the last government's inability to just do its job properly (in this case by passing legislation that would have allowed it to prosecute her here at home) and instead going 'no option but to undermine all our rights'.
There should be literally no circumstances, ever, where citizenship is can be revoked. If you literally sign up to fight for an opposing army in a war, then we should prosecute you for treason not revoke citizenship
Hell, I'm not convinced we should revoke citizenship at all.
But certainly not for being a twat online.
But certainly not for being a twat online.
December 29, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Shamima Begum was the beginning of something in so many ways, one of which was 'the last government's inability to just do its job properly (in this case by passing legislation that would have allowed it to prosecute her here at home) and instead going 'no option but to undermine all our rights'.
Ban all hunting. Ban all hunts. youtu.be/78Y7cBLJWgI?...
Show of Hands - Country Life
YouTube video by Cassy Taylor
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December 23, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Ban all hunting. Ban all hunts. youtu.be/78Y7cBLJWgI?...
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I’m sure the “protect our women and girls” brigade will have plenty to say about this👍🏼
There are indeed some parts of our society that don’t treat women properly…
Here is a former TORY Councillor (and 5 OTHER men) charged with the rape and sexual assault of HIS WIFE
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There are indeed some parts of our society that don’t treat women properly…
Here is a former TORY Councillor (and 5 OTHER men) charged with the rape and sexual assault of HIS WIFE
🧵
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December 23, 2025 at 11:11 AM
I’m sure the “protect our women and girls” brigade will have plenty to say about this👍🏼
There are indeed some parts of our society that don’t treat women properly…
Here is a former TORY Councillor (and 5 OTHER men) charged with the rape and sexual assault of HIS WIFE
🧵
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There are indeed some parts of our society that don’t treat women properly…
Here is a former TORY Councillor (and 5 OTHER men) charged with the rape and sexual assault of HIS WIFE
🧵
1/10
Sometimes online I see people trying to understand how Epstein managed to create & build this network of rich &/or culturally powerful people around him, mainly men, but some women in that network too, & the significance of grooming & rape in that construction build....
December 23, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Sometimes online I see people trying to understand how Epstein managed to create & build this network of rich &/or culturally powerful people around him, mainly men, but some women in that network too, & the significance of grooming & rape in that construction build....
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Alice Sullivan tells universities to suppress pro-trans research to protect GC staff. However, HER OWN DATA shows pro-trans research is already more suppressed.
When I told the BBC this, they edited out any reference to the data. They have now corrected the record.
www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedb...
When I told the BBC this, they edited out any reference to the data. They have now corrected the record.
www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedb...
Corrections and Clarifications
The BBC's responses to editorial, technical and corporate issues.
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December 18, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Alice Sullivan tells universities to suppress pro-trans research to protect GC staff. However, HER OWN DATA shows pro-trans research is already more suppressed.
When I told the BBC this, they edited out any reference to the data. They have now corrected the record.
www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedb...
When I told the BBC this, they edited out any reference to the data. They have now corrected the record.
www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedb...
There is no such thing as "toxic masculinity" because there aren't degrees of a constructed hierarchy to keep women inferior to men. There isn't a polite way of doing that, the system is a binary & is itself the problem.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Boys to learn difference between porn and real life to tackle misogyny in England’s schools
Teachers to be given extra training as Keir Starmer warns ‘toxic ideas are taking hold early and going unchallenged’
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:34 AM
There is no such thing as "toxic masculinity" because there aren't degrees of a constructed hierarchy to keep women inferior to men. There isn't a polite way of doing that, the system is a binary & is itself the problem.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252:
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
December 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252:
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
Toddlers use their toes as a weapon. Curled over or arrow set, bone-hard five packed bullets like a shard in your calf, back, face! Then they birl around like a horizontal dervish. Very discomforting co sleeping.
December 14, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Toddlers use their toes as a weapon. Curled over or arrow set, bone-hard five packed bullets like a shard in your calf, back, face! Then they birl around like a horizontal dervish. Very discomforting co sleeping.
December 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Please donate today: donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05... #ChristmasChallenge
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December 5, 2025 at 12:33 PM
We are so close! We've raised an incredible £11,222 and we've got until 12:00 noon Tuesday to hit the £15,000 @biggive.bsky.social Christmas Challenge target!
Please donate today: donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05... #ChristmasChallenge
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Attention Bristolians! It's the gathering of the cat people again www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/1368...
CatVideoFest 2025
Cat lovers rejoice - back by popular demand for a second year, we present the purr-fectly brilliant CatVideoFest, 73 minutes of non-stop cat videos!
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December 5, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Attention Bristolians! It's the gathering of the cat people again www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/1368...
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The Cass Review is the worst kind of pseudoscience & has at least 13 peer-reviewed critiques of it (all ignored by mainstream media).
Streeting now wants a Cass Review for Autism, ADHD, etc.
I have characterised these as “contrived authority” strategies (referring to the work of Max Weber)
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Streeting now wants a Cass Review for Autism, ADHD, etc.
I have characterised these as “contrived authority” strategies (referring to the work of Max Weber)
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Considering Streeting's well stated belief autism, ADHD etc, along with mental health issues, are "overdiagnosed", I won't hold my breath for this doing anything other than being used to cut support, along with opportunities for diagnosis, for people who need it. #r4today
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Streeting orders review into mental health and ADHD diagnosis
The health secretary said the aim was to tackle a rising demand for services and the increased pressure on the NHS.
www.bbc.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:55 AM
The Cass Review is the worst kind of pseudoscience & has at least 13 peer-reviewed critiques of it (all ignored by mainstream media).
Streeting now wants a Cass Review for Autism, ADHD, etc.
I have characterised these as “contrived authority” strategies (referring to the work of Max Weber)
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Streeting now wants a Cass Review for Autism, ADHD, etc.
I have characterised these as “contrived authority” strategies (referring to the work of Max Weber)
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This #InternationalDayOfPersonsWithDisabilities I thought I'd share some reflections from our Intersections of Sociology with Crip Theory and Critical Disability Studies and Mad Studies Symposium.
#Crip #Mad #Disabled #Disability #Neurodivergence
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#Crip #Mad #Disabled #Disability #Neurodivergence
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Exploring Crip Theory: Insights from Our Hybrid Symposium
The symposium “The Intersections of Sociology with Crip Theory, Critical Disability Studies, and Mad Studies” was held on June 11, led by PhD students Robin Skyer, Fraedan Mastrantonio,…
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December 3, 2025 at 7:13 PM
This #InternationalDayOfPersonsWithDisabilities I thought I'd share some reflections from our Intersections of Sociology with Crip Theory and Critical Disability Studies and Mad Studies Symposium.
#Crip #Mad #Disabled #Disability #Neurodivergence
autisticltd.co.uk/2025/06/20/e...
#Crip #Mad #Disabled #Disability #Neurodivergence
autisticltd.co.uk/2025/06/20/e...
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I thought I could not be shocked by what prominent transphobes feel able to say about me. Turns out I was wrong.
Here is Richard Dunstan, a prominent commentator closely associated with the Sex Matters charity, speculating that I enjoyed being sexually assaulted as a child.
Here is Richard Dunstan, a prominent commentator closely associated with the Sex Matters charity, speculating that I enjoyed being sexually assaulted as a child.
December 1, 2025 at 1:08 PM
I thought I could not be shocked by what prominent transphobes feel able to say about me. Turns out I was wrong.
Here is Richard Dunstan, a prominent commentator closely associated with the Sex Matters charity, speculating that I enjoyed being sexually assaulted as a child.
Here is Richard Dunstan, a prominent commentator closely associated with the Sex Matters charity, speculating that I enjoyed being sexually assaulted as a child.
I give my second year students a handout of this speech at a lecture on the sexualisation of violence youtu.be/j9NwthcLGng?...
I Want a 24-Hour Rape Truce
YouTube video by Refuge
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November 28, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I give my second year students a handout of this speech at a lecture on the sexualisation of violence youtu.be/j9NwthcLGng?...
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We launched our Crowdfunder an hour ago - and we've already sailed past £10,000.
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Hope is here.
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November 28, 2025 at 9:04 AM
We launched our Crowdfunder an hour ago - and we've already sailed past £10,000.
Extraordinary.
Hope is here.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere
Extraordinary.
Hope is here.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere
