Harriet Harman digs in her heels to demand tougher rape law

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'Harriet Harman has vetoed a review of the rape laws at the eleventh hour, complaining that the proposals fail to address the concerns of women.

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UK Times: Harriet Harman's rabid nonsense that has no regard for real needs

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'All-women shortlists have brought more females into the Commons, but not improved its performance. Of course, it should be illegal to promote only on the basis of colour, religion, or gender — and it is. Certainly much better than 40 years ago, when I needed a man’s signature to open a bank account. But we long since got to that point, and beyond. What’s upsetting is the gap between Harriet’s priorities and the nation’s real needs. Here we are, struggling with the mother and father of all recessions, with the worst government deficit and national debt in recorded history, in which everyone is desperately trying to hang on to their jobs and pay the mortgage. Then there’s the war in Afghanistan and the terrible toll of young soldiers sent to fight it.

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BBC: Harman in the spotlight

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'Harriet Harman has been making headlines which will have troubled many of her male colleagues in government - not to mention the male population at large.
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The overall theme suggested by some papers is that Harriet Harman is using her time standing-in for the holidaying Gordon Brown to promote her own "feminist agenda".

The other suggestion is that Ms Harman is using her stint as "temporary PM" to flag-up her credentials in preparation for a tilt at the "top job".
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Harriet Harman once joked that if she became prime minister "there wouldn't be enough airports for all the men who would want to flee the country".

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Lessons about wife-beating at five: In the week Harriet Harman takes charge, yet another feminist initiative

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'Pupils as young as five will be taught about the evils of 'wife beating' and the need to form healthy relationships.

The lessons are part of a controversial drive, unveiled today, to reduce violence against women and young girls.

They will include teaching boys that they must not beat their partners or any other female.
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This is despite evidence showing that boys and young men are more than twice as likely to fall victim to violence, and that young women are becoming increasingly aggressive.
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She added: 'It is young men who are most likely to be the victims of violent crime. It is a distortion to suggest otherwise. It appears that everything must be viewed through the prism of 1960s feminism.'
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It came as the Government prepared to announce the introduction of new Violent Offender Orders for wife beaters and other violent thugs being released from jail.

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CNN Video: Mom Arrested For Dragging Son On A Leash

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'A mom is arrested after dragging her son through a store on a leash. Did she go too far? Prime News reports.'

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NY police: Wrong-way crash driver was drunk, high

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'GARDEN CITY, N.Y. – A mother drank vodka and smoked marijuana while taking a vanload of children home from a weekend camping trip that ended in disaster when she went the wrong way on a highway and crashed into an SUV, killing eight people, police said Tuesday.

Diane Schuler, who died along with her 2-year-old daughter and three nieces in her red minivan, had more than 10 drinks of alcohol in her system and a high level of the main ingredient in marijuana, authorities said. A broken 1.75-liter bottle of Absolut vodka was found in her wrecked minivan, police said.

The revelations from the 36-year-old Long Island woman's autopsy helped explain how the woman her family called "an accomplished working mother who always put her children before any other priorities" wound up driving the wrong way for nearly two miles on a suburban parkway before slamming into the SUV.'

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On YouTube: 'Get a New Daddy'

This is a disturbing song which tells children a false molestation accusation is a good way to get rid of a father and get a 'new daddy'. It's received close to 800,000 views.

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Womenomics: Write Your Own Rules for Success

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'First, for all the talk about opting out, "most educated women don't want to quit work altogether, even if they could," Shipman and Kay write. "We want to use our brains and be productive professionally." On the other hand, there's plenty of evidence that many women don't want to adopt the more traditional 9-5 male model of work either. While these two desires may have been in conflict in the past, these days, "women top every company's most wanted list." Companies with a high proportion of women executives tend to post better results, and as women earn a higher proportion of college and professional degrees, any company that wants to tap women's talents will have to change how it does business. Shipman and Kay call this new power "Womenomics," and their book documents what it means on a corporate level, and for individual women who wish to negotiate new working arrangements.'

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UK: 'Why Harriet Harman is right to call for more women in power'

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'If Harriet Harman will have achieved anything during her two-week stint in charge of the government, it will be this: she has already increased women's visibility in politics. Her own, especially. There she was at the weekend, on the front page of the Sunday Times, in a news story with the screaming headline "You can't trust men in power". And then again, yesterday, on the cover of London's Evening Standard, beneath the no less incendiary header "Woman running Britain says . . . banks crisis is down to men".

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MSN: 'No One Believed Me'

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'Four Sacramento County Sheriff's cars pulled up in front of David Woods's house. He tried to explain to them what happened. But the lead deputy cut him off: "Yeah, that's fine. Put your hands behind your back."

David said, "No, wait, she stabbed me ... there's the knife. See the knife? See my neck wound? See?"

"Put your hands behind your back. Turn around," the deputy replied.

"No," David protested. "She stabbed..."

The deputies drew their weapons. David's little daughters came running out of the back bedroom pleading, "Leave Daddy alone! Mamma tried to hurt him with a knife!"

One deputy, a woman, took the children in the bedroom and shut the door. David stood there, cuffed.'

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India: Harassed hubbies club to seek freedom

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'On Independence Day, a group of men will meet in Shimla and make a plan for "freedom" from "harassment" by their wives.

"On Independence Day, we will raise the issue of freedom and dignity of harassed husbands. More than 100 men, representatives of 30,000 other harassed husbands from across the country, will converge at a day-long meeting to come up with strategies to take on their wives," Anil Kumar, president of the Save Indian Family Foundation (SIFF), told IANS.
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The suicide figures were collected by SIFF from the National Crime Records Bureau. "This is an alarming number. Our fight is against such wives and for justice to the harassed husbands. In fact, husbands committing suicide because of harassment is double the number of wives committing suicide in the country," the founder of CRISP said.'

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The Root: "White women are the real winners of affirmative action"

Article here. Interesting take. I've always thought that feminism's biggest success was in hijacking the civil rights movement. All of the justice that should have flowed to historically discriminated against minorities has instead flowed to the most privileged class of people to ever walk the earth, white women. And yet watch the Lifetime Channel sometime. In all of those civil rights period dramas the white woman is portrayed as the sympathetic friend of the black man, all responsibility for racism is pinned her cold, monstrous White Male husband. Excerpt:

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4 Scorned Wisconsin Women Tie Up, Assault Married Ex-Lover, Police Say

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'STOCKBRIDGE, Wis. — Four Wisconsin women are accused of tying up and assaulting a married man after allegedly finding out he was romantically involved with each of them.

The women are each charged with being party to false imprisonment, a felony with a maximum prison term of six years. One is charged with fourth-degree sexual assault.

Calumet County prosecutors say 48-year-old Therese A. Ziemann of Menasha lured the man to a Stockbridge motel last Thursday. Prosecutors say she was soon joined by 43-year-old Michelle Belliveau of Neenah; 43-year-old Wendy L. Sewell of Kaukauna; and the man's wife.

Authorities say Ziemann punched the man in the face and glued his penis to his stomach.

The Associated Press is not naming the victim's wife to protect the man's identity as a victim of sexual assault.

The women are free on $200 cash bails.'

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UK: "Women's refuge closed by 'politically correct' council as it does not cater for abused men"

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"Supporters of a women's refuge were 'shocked and stunned' to be told it is being closed - because it does not cater for men.

The emergency shelter was set up 13 years ago for women and children and adult males are not allowed to stay.

But council officials have now ruled that, because it does not serve both sexes equally, the money used to run the home would be better spent on an 'outreach service' to help battered husbands as well as wives in their own homes.
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Anthony Wilsdon, spokesman for Supporting People, said the new outreach service would help more people. He said: 'We have identified a need to support more people in their own homes.

'There is also a need to make support open to male victims and families with older male children.'"

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Reverse racism, sexism will not bring about social justice

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'We have made great progress in America to move closer toward realizing the ideals of our Declaration of Independence, but many obstacles remain in creating a more perfect union. Yet, to overcome these challenges, should we participate in the same discriminatory practices of those who sought to keep us down, or do we work diligently and courageously to make our country a better place for all people? Is the goal of social justice even possible if we erode the pillars of justice for others? Are we not abating the equality of all people when practicing reverse racism and sexism? For many progressive-socialists, reverse discrimination is viewed as an acceptable remedy for a society which they believe is inherently unequal.'

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