Article here. Excerpt:

'Vanguard University is hosting a free screening of the documentary “Sin by Silence,” a film about battered women and their seemingly hopeless options to get out of abusive relationships.
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The film was inspired by a Vanguard professor’s book on battered women who were killers. The documentary is directed by Vanguard alumna Olivia Klaus and co-produced and edited by Vanguard assistant professor Ann-Caryn Cleveland.

The documentary questions why women don’t leave their abusers, examines the systems in place to help women gain independence from the relationships and aims to help people understand how domestic violence occurs today.

Organizers will take the movie on a tour of the 10 states with the most documented incidents of domestic violence in the country, school officials said.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'EL DORADO HILLS, California (CNN) -- The attorney for Nancy Garrido, charged in the Jaycee Lee Dugard abduction case, expressed concern Wednesday that intense media coverage may prejudice his client's ability to get a fair trial.

"There have been some misstatements made in the media, and possibly very innocent misstatements like, you know, 'She's charged with 29 counts, she was there, therefore she must be culpable,' " Gilbert Maines told CNN's "American Morning" on Wednesday.
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"I'm sure you understand that this is a horrendous thing for her," Maines said. "I mean I realize it's horrendous for Jaycee and her parents and the children, but my concern right now is that my client get a fair trial."'

Funny how CBC has not opened this story up for comments. Excerpt:

'A 19-year-old woman has been charged with attempted murder and abduction after the brutal beating of a toddler in Winnipeg early Tuesday.

The 14-month-old girl, named Vanessa, was attacked around 4:30 a.m. CT near a Manitoba Housing complex and playground on Chudley Street.

The woman charged, Nikita Solange Eaglestick, and the girl are not related, Winnipeg police said.'

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'Two of the four women accused of tying up a man to get revenge for his alleged cheating are due back in Calumet County Circuit Court today.
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And Ziemann then reportedly used Krazy Glue to attach the man’s sex organ to his stomach. Prosecutors said Davis was romantically involved with the three defendants outside his marriage.

The case has received national publicity. After the women were charged, Davis was charged with several unrelated crimes.'

Essay here. Excerpt:

'Male disposability is so deeply ingrained into the very fabric of our culture, that we rarely even think about it. And yet, it is one of the defining features of what it means to be a man. Throughout history, men have filled the roles and performed the tasks that demanded that you risk your life. The only risk that couldn’t be removed from women was that of child-bearing, but apart from that women have more or less always been kept out of harms way.

Now let’s not make the mistake that many contemporary feminists do and start talking about women’s evil oppression of men or something along those lines. Men being defined as the disposable sex was not a personal thing nor was it some kind of gender war (there wasn’t any room for a gender war in historical times). Women simply needed to be kept safe to ensure that the next generation was large enough to sustain or increase the influence of the community in question.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Spending four years at a girls’ high school was life changing. I not only received a first-class education, but I regained the confidence that slipped away during my middle-schools years and I discovered that boys aren’t the only ones who can be leaders.

Because of my love of girls’ schools, I was fascinated to stumble across research that bears out what I experienced as a teenager. The longitudinal study, which surveyed alumni from a 27-year-period, found that undergrads who studied at women’s colleges rated their schools more highly than females who attended state universities or even coed liberal arts colleges.'

Article here.

'RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- A North Carolina appeals court has ruled that Duke University's former lacrosse coach can pursue a slander lawsuit against the school and its former spokesman.

Duke's attorney has argued that the coach fired during a lacrosse scandal should be required to settle his claims through arbitration. Pressler's lawyers say arbitration could limit what the coach can get in damages.

The Court of Appeals decided Tuesday that Michael Pressler isn't required to arbitrate his slander and libel claims.

Pressler had settled with the school after he was fired following a stripper's false accusations in 2006 that she was raped at a team party. But the coach's lawsuit says Duke violated the settlement when a former spokesman made disparaging comments about Pressler to the media.'

Fact sheet here (.pdf file). Excerpt:

'This fact sheet summarizes information in four areas of male circumcision: 1) male circumcision and risk for HIV transmission; 2) male circumcision and other health conditions; 3) risks associated with male circumcision; and 4) status of HIV infection and male circumcision in the United States.
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Summary
Male circumcision has been associated with a lower risk for HIV infection in international observational studies and in three randomized controlled clinical trials. It is possible, but not yet adequately assessed, that male circumcision could reduce male-to-female transmission of HIV, although probably to a lesser extent than female-to-male transmission. Male circumcision has also been associated with a number of other health benefits. Although there are risks to male circumcision, serious complications are rare. Accordingly, male circumcision, together with other prevention interventions, could play an important role in HIV prevention in settings similar to those of the clinical trials [41, 42].'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Since 2000 the Domestic Abuse Helpline for Men & Women (DAHMW) has been offering supportive services to abuse survivors through its nationally available toll-free helpline.

For the first time ever male survivors of domestic abuse will now have available to them a peer led, 12-week support group that they may attend right from home.

This support group will give participants an opportunity to understand the effects of abuse on themselves and their children, explore what healthy intimate relationships look like, and help them toachieve personal growth in all areas of their life.
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Participants will use virtual cameras and tune in online at scheduled times once a week for 12 weeks.

Participants must have access to a computer and high-speed Internet service.

DAHMW will reimburse participant for the web camera if they need to buy one.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'As we’ve noted before, men have suffered more job losses during this recession than women. But several recent studies have blamed the excesses of finance, the industry that dragged us into said “mancession,” on men themselves. (Way to show gender solidarity, guys.)
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A new working paper looks at loans given by a commercial bank in Albania from 1996-2006. From the abstract:

[W]e find that loans screened and monitored by female loan officers show statistically and economically significant lower default rates than loans handled by male loan officers. This effect comes in addition to a lower default rate of female borrowers and cannot be explained by sample selection, overconfidence of male loan officers or experience differences between female and male loan officers. Our results seem to be driven by differences in monitoring, as loan officers of different gender do not seem to screen borrowers differently based on observable borrower characteristics. This suggests that gender indeed matters in banking.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'A Greenwood woman was arrested on Thursday after throwing a pot of hot grease on her husband.
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According to Greenwood City Police department reports, officers were dispatched to Pelzer Street in reference to an assault. When officers arrived they spoke with Ms. Coates who stated she had been assaulted by her husband, Johnny Coates. Coates explained to officers she had been preparing dinner when her husband entered the residence “cursing and yelling” at her.

Story here. Excerpt:

'HENDERSON, Nev. — A 19-year-old Las Vegas-area woman has been arrested on allegations that she hid her pregnancy and then killed her newborn son because she was afraid her mother would be mad at her for giving birth out of wedlock.
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Police allege Camero hid the pregnancy, delivered the child by herself at her home Sunday and then suffocated him.

An arrest report says Camero told investigators she smothered the baby because she was afraid her mother would throw her out of the house.'

Story here.

'PUNXSUTAWNEY - State police at Punxsutawney report that Diane Johns, 27, of Punxsutawney was arrested and arraigned Saturday on charges of attempted homicide, aggravated assault, simple assault and arson.

On Thursday, Ms. Johns and a 47-year-old Rochester Mills man were involved in an altercation at a Locust Road residence in Canoe Township, Indiana County. During the altercation, Ms. Johns allegedly stabbed the man several times.

She also set several fires within the man's residence, which were extinguished by state troopers upon their arrival.
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Ms. Johns is currently housed in the Indiana County Jail in lieu of $250,000 bail. A preliminary hearing has not been set.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'It was an axiom of 1970s feminists that, apart from a bit of irritating biology, boys and girls were the same. Girls could be motorbike engineers and corporate lawyers, boys could be homebody childminders. And so they can.

They adjured us to give our girl-babies toy power-drills and press dollies and dusters on the lads. Any female infant found wrapping her Fisher-Price workbench in a shawl and nursing it, any boy-child going “Neeeeeeowwwwwww!” and setting up aerial battles between his toy dustpan and brush, must in this theory be firmly dissuaded.
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Quite apart from the literal feminisation of the teaching profession, even school routines militate against young male biology: as fewer children walk to school, boys arrive with natural surplus energy, which it is a torment to suppress. One primary school that used to start with a quiet assembly tried replacing it with ten minutes of energetic running at the start of the day: boys’ disruption in class fell away.'

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'Kigali — A massive sensitization programme on circumcision is expected to kick off early next year as one key measure to combat HIV/AIDS.

The exercise has for long been delayed because of the lack of capable personnel to carry out the circumcisions.

Mass male-circumcision, a policy that was adopted by government last year, as a way of reducing the HIV/AIDS infection rate is at a snail-pace due to lack of capacity to carry it out countrywide, according to Dr. Richard Sezibera, the Minister of Health.
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Rwanda launched a campaign to encourage all men to be circumcised, to reduce the risk of catching HIV/AIDS. Health experts say that men who are circumcised are 60 percent more likely to be protected against HIV during sexual intercourse than those who are not.