Article here. Excerpt:

'One of the most disturbing things about the culture of secrecy and total lack of transparency uncovered by the CPI last week is that such a veiled system makes progress really hard to measure. Campus rape won't end until we attack rape culture at its roots, but there are ways to curb the problem, such as innovative, mandatory education programs, transparent channels for counseling and reporting and student-led initiatives like Men Against Rape that target fraternities and other student groups, or Take Back the Night events which brings the issue into the open.

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'A report of rape is a call that puts police officers on high alert.

"Because of the egregiousness of the crime, the need is to make an apprehension as soon as possible, we throw all the resources we have available at it," says Sgt. Kelly Walker with the Waynesboro Police Department.

Walker says false reports, such as rape, are made more often than they should.

Investigations in Staunton and Waynesboro have turned up two of these cases just this week.

Walker adds, "As a standard response, we don't allow any presumptions. We don't prejudge any situations. We just allow the evidence to take us where the case is going to go."
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He says false reports can put unnecessary stress on community members.'

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'A woman who in 2005 falsely accused a man of rape, leading to his wrongful conviction and imprisonment, pleaded guilty on Monday to two counts of perjury.

The woman, Biurny Gonzalez, 27, acknowledged in State Supreme Court in Manhattan that she had falsely testified under oath before a grand jury and during a trial when she asserted that the man, William McCaffrey, had sexually assaulted her.

Mr. McCaffrey, 32, an interior contractor, was convicted of rape in 2006 and began serving a 20-year sentence. But this past spring, Ms. Gonzalez recanted, first confessing to a priest that she had lied, then telling prosecutors.
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A religious reawakening prompted Ms. Gonzalez to admit her misdeeds to a priest at St. Anthony’s parish in Union City, her lawyer, Paul F. Callan, said.

“It was very wrong what she did in the first place,” he said. “But in the end she found her way to do the right thing, the courageous thing, the just thing.”'

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Story here. Excerpt:

'GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. -- No charges will be filed in the death of a 42-year-old Mesa County woman who was shot nine times in the driveway of a neighbor who said he fired his gun in self-defense.

Crystal Nash, 42, was shot and killed around 2:20 a.m. on Nov. 1 in the driveway at 3007 Rood Ave.

"In declining to file criminal charges here, I do not intend to condone or endorse anything that happened," District Attorney Pete Hautzinger wrote in a letter sent Thursday to Mesa County Sheriff Stan Hilkey. "I certainly believe that neighborhood disputes are usually better resolved without firearms being involved."'

A 24/7 news cycle has people doing almost anything to get attention, including saying the sorts of things that would never get into print or aired. Because MSM outlets are competing ferociously for the last vestiges of scarce and scarcely-profitable market-share, they are actually "reporting" such things, too. That is the only explanation I can think of for this.

Those involved are known quantities. Nothing herein should come as a surprise, aside from the level of stupidity some have sunk to along with the depths of self-degradation required to behave in ways so offensive and bizarre, possibly in the hopes that their infantile attempts to gain attention will be attributed merely to a relapse of insanity or, more benignly, holiday stress. Excerpt:

We all know the media's misandristic portrayal of men as slow-witted, obtuse, brainless beasts is pervasive. Even worse, most "family" programming - ABC Family and the Disney channel as examples - will teach your children that men are stupid and women are the wiser, more intelligent sex. They will also teach your daughters to dress provocatively and obsess over boys and your sons to care about only one thing - sex. I just saw a minute long commercial for a show on ABC Family that portrayed high school students deciding to skip school because algebra was unimportant. The girls were made up like prostitutes in skimpy shorts and the boys looked like anime characters, promoting superficiality.

Even the movies on these channels persist in portraying males as blundering idiots. Santa Baby 2 portrayed Santa, all the male elves, and Jenny McCarthy's little lumberjack-looking boytoy as completely inept, weak-willed, idiotic Neanderthals. Every woman - Jenny McCarthy, Mrs. Claus, and the evil elf - was portrayed as incredibly intelligent, smart, and powerful.

Story here. I can't begin to tell you how much red I am seeing over this topic. Brace yourselves, please, for a Matt-rant. Here goes:

I wonder how many times the guards in a prison somewhere have "held" a male prisoner all night as he sobbed miserably after being convicted of a murder in a case that had a mountain of evidence against him? Knox supporters have been crying anti-Americanism is behind her convictions, but was anti-Ivorian sentiment behind Rudy Guédé's conviction? (Who the hell was that, you ask? The "third" person found guilty in this trial, which is a funny way to look at it since he was the first of the three to stand trial and the first actually convicted. So we know where he sits in precedence of public consideration already.)

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'HOUSTON - A ladies' only gym goes belly up, but hundreds of women are still being forced to pay up.

The women say the Lady of America franchise in The Woodlands has already broken two laws, and therefore their contracts should be voided.

Dozens of them have taken their complaints straight to the top. Both the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office and the Texas Attorney General's Office are investigating.

At first, the words "women only" sounded pretty good.

"I have never belonged to a gym before, and the main reason was I didn't want a facility with men," said Ann Holmes.

But working out isn't what's bringing so many women together now. On October 15th, a year and a half after opening, the franchise in The Woodlands locked members out. The women say they never saw a 30 day notice posted, as required by state law.
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Tiede says hiring an attorney may be the women's best and safest course of action, but that's little comfort when the legal process can be a long one.

Article here. Sounds good until feminist groups cry sexism and have the funds re-directed towards female dominated fields which have actually prospered through the current recession. Excerpt:

'President Barack Obama pressed forward with an expansion of his $787 billion stimulus plan Tuesday, unveiling job-creation proposals that largely build on the initial package, including a hiring tax credit that his own party jettisoned as unworkable and some business owners deemed ineffective.
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New infrastructure spending envisioned by Mr. Obama would include funds for roads, bridges, airports and water systems, even though tens of billions of dollars from the original stimulus plan remain in the pipeline. White House economist Jared Bernstein said worthy projects not deemed "shovel ready" in the initial funding applications now will see money, implying that federal stimulus spending could stretch well beyond 2010.'

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'A BOTCHED circumcision of a four-year-old boy that resulted in the severing of a penis artery has landed a doctor in trouble.

The boy was sent to hospital to stem the "uncontrollable bleeding" after the procedure by a GP, who was assisted by an unqualified doctor and his wife in a New Zealand medical centre last January.

A report on the distressing episode, with the names of the centre and the "medical team" not revealed, was released today by New Zealand’s Health and Disability Commissioner, NZPA reports.

"This case illustrates what can happen when a doctor is unfamiliar with, or chooses not to follow, recommended guidelines for a surgical procedure," the report said.

The report recommended the doctor not attempt circumcisions on patients older than six months.
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The parents said they were both ejected from the operating room when they became distraught.

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'This report, based on interviews with 15,000 working women, casts intriguing new light on the relationship between men and women. It seems that the idea of the "useless man" slobbing around the home while his woman does all the work is nothing but a post-feminist myth. According to Rebecca Meisenbach, from Missouri University, it has been propagated by women who feel "an overwhelming sense of guilt" at having a career, rather than fulfilling their traditional gender role of wife and mother.

Naturally, there's a part of me that would like to congratulate Dr Meisenbach. After four decades of feminist drivel stigmatising men as inept, workshy, uncommunicative neanderthals whose only significant inventions are rape and war, it's about time someone spoke up in our defence.

Story here. They are to be reassigned? So if they were two male teachers found naked together would they be reassigned? Or how about if one was male and the other female? Why is there any question at all? Why haven't they been fired? You already know the answer. Excerpt:

'NEW YORK (CBS) Cindy Mauro and Alini Brito, two New York high school teachers who have been pulled from their classrooms for an alleged nude on-campus romp, have now been joined in the controversy by a third teacher, Allison Musacchio, who is under investigation for being involved with a male student, according to the New York Daily News.

In regards to Brito and Mauro, Feinberg issued a statement confirming that the school was investigating "an incident of employee misconduct while the school was having an event in the assembly during the evening of Nov. 20."

The tenured teachers "have been reassigned, pending the outcome of the investigation," the statement said, but did not name Brito or Mauro.

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'While many Canadian universities are changing their women's studies programs into gender studies programs, UPEI is sticking with its label.

The name change is meant to make the courses more appealing to men. The official line at UPEI is the name change is not an issue, and the women's studies department would not comment.

Psychology professor Fiona Papps, who offers four courses that are part of the women's studies program, told CBC News Thursday it is a misconception that women's studies focuses narrowly on women.

"You know, just militant feminists or bashing men — that's not true. It looks at issues of social justice, it looks at issues of sexuality, it looks at issues of race," said Papps.
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"I need to look at both men and women and across races to see what the differences and similarities are," said Little.

"Then I can actually speak much more as an expert about how all women experience welfare and whether all women experience welfare in similar ways or in different ways."

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'MELBOURNE: American tennis star Serena Williams has launched an extraordinary attack on officials and former players in a bitter aftermath to her record fine.

Considered by many to be fortunate to escape suspension for abusing a lineswoman at the US Open, Williams claims that the $175,000 fine is excessive, and sexist.

Williams was found guilty by the Grand Slam committee of
aggravated behaviour for screaming at the lineswoman: "If I could. I would take this f...ing ball and shove it down your f...ing throat."'

If she was a man, she would have been immediately disqualified from the tour. Let's see if the ITF and WTA tour officials have the guts to take stricter action against her.