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• CLEVELAND, Nov. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- MediView XR, Inc., a leading clinical augmented reality (AR) med-tech company, announced today the first inpatient utilization of its XR90 AR-based surgical visualization and navigation system since its 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
• The system is intended to be used adjunctively for minimally invasive ultrasound and CT guided needle-based procedures for soft tissue and bone.
• "We are pleased at the successful utilization of our holographic visualization and navigation system," said Mina Fahim, President and CEO of MediView.
• Dr. Pua then used the holographic needle tracking feature of the XR90 system to plan his approach before confirming on standard of care.

• SAN ANTONIO, Oct. 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Frost & Sullivan recently researched the Japanese automotive cybersecurity industry and, based on its findings, recognizes VicOne with the 2023 Competitive Strategy Leadership Award.
• VicOne, one of the automotive cybersecurity solutions leaders, that offers a comprehensive portfolio of cybersecurity software and services for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and Tier 1 suppliers.
• This helps the company to reinforce its competitiveness and bolsters its reputation and branding in the Japanese automotive cybersecurity industry.
• "With its strong overall performance, VicOne earns Frost & Sullivan's 2023 Competitive Strategy Leadership Award in the Japanese automotive cybersecurity industry."

• SAN ANTONIO, Oct. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Recently, Frost & Sullivan assessed the web application firewall industry and, based on its findings, recognizes CDNetworks with the 2023 Asia-Pacific Customer Value Leadership Award.
• With its comprehensive application security solution, flexible and competitive pricing, local customer support, and strong overall performance, CDNetworks earns Frost & Sullivan's 2023 Asia-Pacific Customer Value Leadership Award in the web application firewall industry.
• The award recognizes the company's unique focus on augmenting the value that its customers receive, beyond simply good customer service, leading to improved customer retention and customer base expansion.
• Click here to get the full Frost & Sullivan assessment of CDNetworks' WAF solution report.

• The Kens however, reflecting the popularity of the dolls in the real world, play a mainly decorative role.
• This is all to fix an error that is allowing the real world to seep into Barbie land, with symptoms such as Barbie having an existential crisis.
• This sees him take a journey that is clearly influenced by, and pokes fun at, many aspects of contemporary anti-feminist men’s rights culture.

Barbieland and the matriarchy

• It has been proposed that Barbieland is a matriarchy, but I would argue that their attitude to Kens is instead indifference.
• This is not dissimilar to the grievances of some real-life men under contemporary feminism.
• Having undertaken research on online antifeminist discourses, Ken’s journey from aggrievement to masculine “enlightenment” parallels themes we found in Men’s Rights Activist spaces.

The manosphere and MRAS

• This includes MRAs (Men’s Rights Activists) who claim reverse discrimination and that feminism has gone too far, and Redpillers who claim to have swallowed the “red pill” to see the truth about feminism’s dominance.
• Some of the most well known members of the manosphere are incels (involuntary celibates) a misogynistic community of self identified “beta-males” who want an end to women’s rights which prevent them from getting sex.

Ken’s grievances

• Ken was being “friend-zoned” by Barbie, who despite being “boyfriend and girlfriend” wouldn’t let him stay over at the Dream House, because “every night is girl’s night”.
• This is coupled with a feeling of not being special, as Ken is essentially interchangeable with any other Ken.
• He takes patriarchy back to Barbieland and transforms it to Kendom, where the men change it to a society oriented around men and their power (and horses…).

Redpilled ken

• This redpilled Ken is a hilarious parody of the “neomasculinity” of the pick up artist (PUA) movement, that seeks to restore a masculine-centred world.
• Neomasculinity is about a belief in biological difference, traditional masculinity and heteronormative gender roles.

Finding the real Ken

• But what of Just Beach Ken?
• And what can we learn from this for preventing or managing radicalisation of this feeling of aggrievement in real men or boys?
• Barbie encourages Ken to work out who he is outside of his relation to Barbie, and to learn being Just Ken is enough.