Article here. Excerpt:

'Men’s NCAA gymnastics will take another hit next year when the University of California at Berkeley eliminates the sport. As it is, only a dozen NCAA teams exist, thanks in large part to the implementation of Title IX. Cal is axing men’s gymnastics (but keeping women’s gymnastics) as a cost-cutting measure; their men’s baseball team is also being cut. It’s a shame that a program that brought us Graham Ackerman is being eliminated, but with the pressures from a slumping economy and Title IX, an NCAA void of men’s gymnastics is the world we live in.'

We've seen numerous cuts to men's sports due to Title IX, but none as significant as this baseball program, a program that's produced numerous major league players.

Notable Berkeley alumni who've made it to the major leagues include former MVP and possible hall of fame inductee Jeff Kent. Current Arizona Diamondback Xavier Nady is another alumnus. Berkeley has also won two national baseball championships.

Article here. Excerpt:

'In “Understanding Current Causes of Women’s Underrepresentation in Science,” Cornell professors Stephen Ceci and Wendy Williams provide a thorough analysis and discussion of 20 years of data. Their conclusion: When it comes to job interviews, hiring, funding, and publishing, women are treated as well as men and sometimes better. As Williams told Nature, “There are constant and unsupportable allegations that women suffer discrimination in these arenas, and we show conclusively that women do not.” Put another way, the gender-bias empress has no clothes.

For more than a decade, passionate activists in groups such as the American Association of University Women, the National Council for Research on Women, and the Committee on Maximizing the Potential of Women in Academic Science have insisted that women scientists are victims of pervasive sex discrimination, and they have produced a mountain of advocacy research to prove it.
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This story in The Australian is interesting. Quote:

'A men's rights group has called for mandatory paternity testing of all babies after government figures revealed almost 600 instances of men compelled to financially support children they did not father.

Since changes to child support laws four years ago, there had been 586 cases of men successfully using DNA testing to show they were not biologically related to children they had been financially supporting, the federal government has revealed to The Australian.

In the overwhelming majority of these cases, the courts have not forced mothers to pay back the money they have received.

Of the 586 cases, only 74 mothers have been told to pay back the money. Those reparations total in excess of $533,000.'

Discovered this site: http://malesurvivor.org/ and thought it needed sharing. From their History page:

'In October of 1988 the first professional Conference on Male Sexual Victimization was held in Minneapolis. This ground-breaking conference, organized by a few dedicated mental health providers, brought together professionals who wanted to better understand and treat adult male survivors of childhood sexual abuse. At that time, only limited information could be offered to those who participated. But those present had great enthusiasm and the clear recognition that the conference was a necessary and valuable resource, where professionals could share practical information and ask questions. And it was a safe place for some to acknowledge their own sexual victimization.'

Story here.

'A female Catholic chaplain at John Henry Newman College in Birmingham, England, has confessed that she fabricated a rape charge against a priest with whom she had worked on an earlier assignment.

Father Patrick Udoma had been ousted from his post as a pastor in Birmingham after Emma Templeton filed rape charges. But when police discovered dozens of text messages on her cell phone that supported the priest’s defense: that they had a short, consensual affair.

A court has sentenced Templeton to 10 months in prison for filing the false charge, but suspended the sentence.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) - Authorities who accuse a Herndon woman of fabricating a report that she was raped at a Dauphin County shopping center said valuable police time was wasted on the investigation.

Twenty-nine-year-old Amber Adams has admitted to investigators that she was not forced into a car and raped in the parking lot of the Paxton Square Shopping Center on Jan. 29, according to Lower Paxton Township police.

"We had people that just scoured video trying to find the perpetrator's vehicle, hours and hours and hours and hours were spent, not only by us, but by civilians out at the shopping center," Lt. Gary Seefeldt said.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Julian Assange’s U.K. lawyers, seeking to block the WikiLeaks founder’s extradition to Sweden on rape claims, may have chosen the wrong tactic by criticizing Swedish justice and labeling the prosecutor behind the case as a “radical feminist,” lawyers say.

Witnesses at hearings last week in London said Swedish rape trials are secretive and portrayed prosecutor Marianne Ny as a “crusader” on gender issues who had a hand in shaping Sweden’s “harsh” rape laws. The tactic may be a sign of desperation and is unlikely to stop Assange’s extradition, said Neill Blundell, a lawyer with Eversheds LLP in London.
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“Extreme feminism has taken over more and more” in Swedish society, said Peter Haglund, a defense lawyer who has represented more than 150 accused rapists since 1985. “Men are seen as fundamentally evil.”'

Link to article here. Excerpt:

'A Twilight fan has admitted lying to police about an assault to hide the vampire-inspired role-playing behind bite marks on her body.

The 15-year-old US teen at first claimed that bruises and bites on her body were caused by someone who attacked her while she was jogging, the Smoking Gun reports.

Her imaginary assailant jumped out of the bushes, knocked her to the ground and tried to remove her shirt.

But the girl, from Marathon in Florida, supposedly was able to fight off the attacker.

When officers determined the jogging attack as described by the teen could not have caused the marks left on her neck and arms, she admitted the story was a fake.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Instead of embracing love this February 14th, feminists have called on us to embrace Vagina Day.

Why have some feminists hijacked Valentine’s Day with disconcerting words like “vagina” and "c***"?
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Firstly, many of the monologues are not real:

“Some of the monologues are close to verbatim interviews, some are composite interviews, and with some I just began with the deed of an interview and had a good time” (Ensler 7).

In "The Little Coochi Snorcher That Could," a 16-year-old girl is seduced by a 24-year old woman with vodka and is later raped. The original text states that the victim was a 13-year-old girl who venerated rape: “If it was rape, it was a good rape.”

Moreover, men are portrayed as sex-driven beasts. In “Because He Like to Look at Vaginas,” a guy named Bob is portrayed as one who fixates on vaginas:

“Turned out the Bob loved vaginas. He was a connoisseur” (Ensler 55).

Story here. Excerpt:

'HANOVER – No one tried to rape a Dartmouth College student in her dormitory room, a police investigation concluded.

Police Chief Nicholas Giaccone, asked if anyone is going to be charged with filing a false police report, said, "Not at this time." He would not release the name of the individual who filed the report but said it was a Dartmouth College student.

For several days, police investigated the report of the alleged sexual assault that was said to have happened about 10:25 p.m. on Sunday when a man entered a student's room, pushed her down and removed her pants. The assailant reportedly fled after the woman kicked and screamed.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'House Bill 101, passed in November, requires schools, among other things, to establish a program that includes information on drug- and alcohol-fueled sexual violence; medical treatment and evidence collection; the possibility of pregnancy; and sexually transmitted diseases.
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The National Sexual Violence Research Center in Enola, northwest of Harrisburg, estimates 20 percent to 25 percent of women are victims of forced sex during their time in college, and 90 percent or more of those victims do not report the assault.
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Robert Morris University has a program called CURE -- College and University Rape Education -- aimed at first-year students, which addresses topics such as date-rape drugs and how to report an assault.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Sentencing for an Okaloosa sex offender has sparked a lot of discussion. 31-year old Michelle Kemp had sex with a 15-year-old boy but she will not be going to prison. The lawyers on both sides of the case insist, when it comes to sex crimes, the judicial system is not sexist.

Michelle Kemp was arrested back in August 2009 for having sex with a 15-year-old. The boy's family decided not to press charges if the relationship stopped-- but it didn’t. In December, Kemp drove more than 100 miles from her home in Crestview to pick the boy up at a drug treatment center in Bay County, where the two had sex again.
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It was a very different case for Tim McGarry. The former Thomas Drive Fire Chief is serving a 40-year sentence for having sex with underage girls. The disparity in treatment makes some wonder if the judicial system is sexist when it comes to sex crimes.

District 1 Chief Assistant State Attorney Bill Bishop says no.

Article here. Could you imagine the outrage if a male celebrity made similar comments about a 16 year old girl? Excerpt:

'HollywoodNews.com: Justin Bieber loves older women and there might just be one who loves him back, other than his rumored girlfriend Selena Gomez.

In case Bieber wants the attention of an older woman, Jennifer Love Hewitt would be happy to give it to him, states Digital Spy. When she was on George Lopez’s show, she admitted she is definitely a fan.

“He’s so cute, he’s so cute with his little dance moves and that little swoosh!” Hewitt said about his most famous attribute.

And while Hewitt is still pretty young herself, she wouldn’t mind being his older woman: “I would like to be Bieber’s puma!”'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Cheshire Police released the statistic as they launched a campaign to urge male victims to report abuse.

Officers said they were raising the issue in the run-up to Valentine's Day, "when relationships are at the forefront of everyone's mind".
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Assistant Chief Constable Phil Thompson said: "Domestic abuse knows no boundaries and it can happen to anyone at any time regardless of gender, age and sexuality.

"Men in particular find it hard to speak out if they are being abused, but we want to reassure anyone who may be suffering at the hands of another, that domestic abuse is an issue that we take extremely seriously - whatever time of the year.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'VERNON, B.C. — A British Columbia man told a courtroom Thursday that he remembered seeing his 12-year-old friend in bed with their teacher.

The man was testifying in the trial of Deborah Louise Ashton, 45, who is charged with having numerous sexual encounters with the boy over a two-year period beginning in 2002.

The friend told the B.C. Supreme Court jury that he was on a school trip, staying in cabins outside of Vernon, when he saw Ashton in bed under the covers with the boy.

"They went to bed together. When I woke up, they were side-by-side," the man told the court.'