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'A South Australian schoolboy has reportedly been hung from a pole by his neck in an apparent incident of bullying.

The Adelaide Advertiser says the education department is looking into the event at Para Hills High School in Adelaide's north which took place in September when the 13-year-old was tethered to a pole by three other students by a velcro strap around his neck.

The boy's mother's told the paper that the school didn't tell her about the incident which caused her son to lose his voice for two weeks.'

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'When historians write about the great recession of 2007–08, they may very well have a new name for it: the Mancession. It’s a term already being bandied about in the popular media as business writers chronicle the sad tales of the main victims of the recession: men. They were disproportionately represented in the industries hit hardest during the downturn, including financial services, manufacturing, and construction, and their higher salaries often put them first in the line of fire. Men are the victims of two thirds of the 11 million jobs lost since the recession began in 2007; in August 2009, when U.S. male unemployment stood at 11 percent (versus 8.3 for women), it was the largest unemployment gender gap in the postwar era. Those numbers have improved, a bit—new unemployment figures show men at 9.9 percent and women at 7.8—but not enough to stop Larry Summers, the president’s top economic adviser, from speculating recently, that “when the economy recovers, five years from now, one in six men who are 25 to 54 will not be working.”

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'Renee Szablewski is a good, churchgoing Catholic. She wants her 4-year-old son, Jack, to grow up to be one, too.

That’s why Szablewski was so upset last month with St. Dominic, a parochial school in Brick, N.J. The principal at the school barred Jack from his pre-kindergarten class because his hair was too long.

“That’s Christian? That’s Catholic?” Szablewski fumed during a telephone interview with TODAYshow.com Monday.

Jack’s early lesson in how tough life can be actually began when at the tender age of 16 months, his grandfather died of lung cancer. Renee Szablewski decided to honor her father by letting her son’s hair grow out so that he could donate his locks to be used in wigs for children who lose their own hair to cancer radiation treatment.'

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'In honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, President Barack Obama introduced his administration’s new “government-wide” domestic violence initiative this week.

Missing from his words about a renewed focus on victims, however, was half of the population: men.

When looking at violence within intimate relationships, men are often viewed primarily as perpetrators, yet this is not always the case. Martin S. Feibert, psychology professor at the University of California, Long Beach, has highlighted more than 270 scholarly investigations, empirical studies and reviews, “which demonstrate that women are as physically aggressive, or more aggressive, than men in their relationships with their spouses or male partners.”

Equity feminist and Reason magazine contributing editor Cathy Young told The Daily Caller that while the cause was a good one, she was disappointed to see male victims excluded from the president’s equation, for just that reason.'

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'Hong Kong's Equal Opportunities Commission says men are discriminated against in the workplace.

"We're not out to stir up trouble," says Commission Chairman Lam Woon-Kwong. "For lower-educated men, even the young ones, finding a job is difficult. Even if they get one, the salary is low."

The service industry in particular prefers to hire women for posts such as cashier. Ironically, part of the reason is unequal salary expectations -- women are generally willing to work for lower pay.

In the 1980s, when Hong Kong lost its competitive edge in manufacturing, many factories relocated to the Chinese mainland. With them went male-dominated factory employment.

Now, low-level white-collar jobs are also being lost to the mainland.

Hong Kong men with low-education levels find it difficult to get hired. And while there are many welfare programs for women in Hong Kong, social initiatives for men are lacking.'

She's made here fortune from a life of crime, and most of here Male family members have spilled blood for her, so this "matriarch" is ready to retire. Link to article here. Excerpt:

'The matriarch of the Chaouk family has "put her foot down" and urged her relatives to end their deadly dispute with the rival Haddara clan.

Cancer-stricken widow Fatma Chaouk is "sick and tired and dying" and does not want to see any more family members killed, barrister Tas Roubos told the Victorian County Court on Monday.

Mrs Chaouk's change of attitude comes after the death of her husband Macchour, who was gunned down in the backyard of the family's western Melbourne home in August.'

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'The hard work has been done by James Williams, the presenter of the radio show “Men’s Matters”, at ExpressFM in Portsmouth, UK. He has, of his own volition and independently of me, adapted the Feminism series of films to make it suitable for radio, and then broadcast it at ExpressFM virtually in its entirety.

This is absolutely unheard of in any mainstream media and is nothing short of an historic achievement!

As anyone familiar with men’s issues will know, the genuine viewpoints expressed by men’s rights advocates and any views that are remotely anti-Feminist are simply not allowed to be aired and so this radio broadcast is undoubtedly a first in Britain and a phenomenal achievement.'

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'Authorities in Yemen have released on bail a 22-year-old female engineering student whose name and phone number were on the shipping documents for the two bombs sent to the United States.
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A Yemeni official briefed on the investigation said the suspect "is not allowed to leave the country pending further questioning."

The official said the shipping agent who received the packages was called in to identify her and said Samawi "was not the person who signed the shipping manifesto."
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But as her fellow students mounted a protest Sunday at a university, her lawyers questioned why anyone involved in the plot would use their real name and phone number to ship a bomb.'

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'One thing the rates don’t reflect is the disproportionate number of men who are receiving unemployment insurance.

“If you look, 80 percent receiving unemployment insurance payments are male, whereas they are just about 50 percent of the population,” he said. “The issue is that the big hits in jobs have been in construction and manufacturing that are heavily male and the gains have been in health care and education that are more female.

“People are using the term ‘mancession,’ ” he said.

Nationally, first-time claims for unemployment fell 21,000 to 434,000, the third straight decline. The report boosted early Wall Street trading that actually ended the day slightly lower.

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'On the Facebook page for the Foundation for Male Studies, the up-and-coming academic group spearheading this movement, articles abound justifying the need to address this supposed crisis. One such article involves the decreasing ratio of men to women attending four-year colleges and universities, and another addresses the statistic that women “for the first time ever” make up the majority of the workforce due to layoffs associated with the economic recession.

In a recent New York Times article, male-studies proponent and resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute Christina Hoff Sommers says that “male-averse attitudes are widespread in the United States” due in part to feminist studies and the fact that masculinity has become a social taboo.
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So, what does Stanford have to think about this new branch of study?

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'The University of Tulsa’s Women’s and Gender Studies (WGS) program is hosting a three-night film festival this week examining the unique conditions and tribulations facing incarcerated women.

“Women and Incarceration” is this year’s theme for the many WGS events to take place on campus. Oklahoma incarcerates more women per capita than any other state in the nation. The WGS program will feature two films each night on Oct. 5, 6 and 7.

On Tuesday, the two feature films will focus specifically on incarcerated mothers. “Prison Lullabies” follows the stories of four women serving prison sentences for nonviolent crimes.

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'9:22 a.m., Oct. 26, 2010----The Department of Women's Studies at the University of Delaware has been awarded a grant from Verizon Delaware that will be used to start a new undergraduate concentration in domestic violence and to prepare students to earn certification in the field.

The three-year, $187,000 grant also will allow UD to offer an intensive 10-week summer practicum in which students will work with community agencies throughout Delaware, gaining firsthand experience in such areas as providing services to domestic violence victims. The Delaware Coalition Against Domestic Violence (DCADV) announced the grant this week; a formal presentation will be made at the coalition's annual Purple Ribbon public-awareness event on Oct. 28 in Wilmington.

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'Prior to August 2010, British Airways had a policy whereby they would not allow adult male passengers to sit next to unaccompanied children on flights, even if the man was travelling with others. Many other airlines still enforce such erroneous policies, which are doing nothing short of presuming all men to be potential paedophiles. I don’t recall any similar rule being applicable to women. More to the point, no rule of this kind should have been implemented whatsoever. Such political correctness gone mad has even resulted in one airline (British Airways) trying to separate a man from his own children on one occasion, namely a certain Boris Johnson.

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'Ever wondered why there are such few women in math-intensive fields? Two psychological scientists at Cornell University believe women aren't innately poor at math; instead they choose to stay away from the subject.

Stephen Ceci and Wendy Williams reviewed all of the evidence and concluded that the main factor is women's choices-both freely made, such as that they'd rather study biology than math, and constrained, such as the fact that the difficult first years as a professor coincide with the time when many women are having children.

But girls' grades in math from grade school through college are as good as or better than boys', and women and men earn comparable average scores on standardized math tests.

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'Barack Obama’s pandering to the feminists makes him look like the suitor who is unwilling to face up to his beloved’s announcing she will marry another man. In desperation, he showers her with expensive gifts, hoping to win back her favor.
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Obama’s principal plan to nail down the loyalty of the feminists is to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act (PFA). It has already passed the House and Majority Leader Harry Reid plans a Senate vote in a mischievous Lame Duck session.

This bill would amend the Equal Pay Act (EPA) to shift decision-making about wages and salaries from employers to judges and juries, a longtime goal of the feminists who want wages to be based on subjective motions of “worth” rather than on market rates. The Paycheck Fairness Act (PFA) would also reward another Obama constituency by opening a lucrative channel for trial lawyers to file class-action lawsuits against employers and collect punitive damages in unlimited amounts.