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'It's strange to me that the same women who would not be caught dead using the words wuss and hysteria for their obvious and not-so-obvious slights about women will still proudly proclaim that they are feminists. In other words, my problem with feminism is a semantic one. Words shape the way we think about and how we interact with the world. Many men are put off by the word feminism, and rightly so, because it tilts the favoritism from one side of the scale, men, to its polar opposite.

In reality, women and men have equal intrinsic value, so a compromise is needed that eliminates the problems associated with feminism; for this purpose, I would like to coin the term equalism. An equalist is someone who advocates equal rights for men and women.'

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'A woman who battered a nine-week-old baby in an horrific attack has avoided jail after a judge decided she had already suffered enough. Claire Thompson, 32, who had been entrusted with looking after the infant, was found guilty in March of fracturing its skull, breaking a rib and inflicting up to three leg fractures.
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An expert at her trial said the skull fracture was probably caused by the baby's head hitting a hard surface with force, the rib was probably broken by severe squeezing and the the leg bones were likely to have been fractured by forceful pulling or twisting, or by violent shaking.

But yesterday Judge David Goodin spared Thompson from prison, handing her a nine-month suspended prison sentence, ordering her to do 200 hours of community service and telling her to pay &500 costs.

Story here.

'Any Jazz Fest veteran is familiar with portable potties. And the guys know to get in the lines where there are more guys than gals. The line just moves faster.

It seems the Jazz Fest organizers have given this some thought. This year look for two sets of roomy restrooms on 53-foot trailers that are for women only. That's even better than a short line at the Crawfish Monica booth.

The women-only restrooms will have flushing toilets, hand sanitizers and mirrors. One will be on the dirt trail in front of the Blues Tent, and the other near the Congo Square crossing.

So, go ahead and indulge in that Mango Freeze and jumbo lemonade. Drink up, girls!'

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'PALMDALE, Calif. — A woman was arrested Thursday for allegedly murdering her 1-year-old daughter, dumping her body along a highway and telling authorities the child was kidnapped.

Stacey Barker, 24, has been under investigation since her toddler was found March 20 in tall grass a few blocks from a Los Angeles highway.

The woman initially reported being knocked out by someone while putting young Emma into her car and waking up to find the child missing. She later recanted the story and claimed the child died in an accident.'

Article here. Boys are doing well on this particular test and its now considered a problem. It's acceptable for girls to outperform boys, but not the other way around. I suspect California will act quickly to change these testing outcomes while boys still wallow in special education classes. Excerpt:

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"Companies will be forced by law to disclose how much they pay men compared with women in a surprise government move to narrow the pay gap.

Compulsory “gender pay audits” will seek to shame employers who routinely pay women less, and spur more women to demand pay rises.
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The new law will apply to companies with 250 or more staff, who will be given until 2013 to comply. After that they will face civil or criminal prosecution. It will also apply to public sector bodies with 150 staff or more.
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Ministers would like to see a simple comparison of average hourly earnings of men and women, across the whole company, published in the annual report.

Although ministers recognise that career choices made by women, who often still favour low-paid professions, account for part of the pay difference, they believe that companies are still paying men more than women for similar work, in the belief that that no one will discuss their salary level so they will not be caught breaking the law."

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'A FATHERS' rights activist from Ottery has vowed to cause "massive public disruption" by "shutting down" one of the country's "major public infrastructures" by the end of the month.

New Fathers For Justice campaigner and dad of two Richard West*, 42, who has carried out a string of high-profile protests while clad in superhero garb, said he has issued the "ultimatum" to protest against the NHS and Home Secretary For Justice Jack Straw.

Mr West wants the NHS to disclose case notes regarding treatment given to one of his children and also claims a pledge to "open up" family court hearings to the media by Minister Straw is in fact a "smokescreen" that will see them "closed further" thanks to a related, "small print" contempt of court law.'

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'Contracts stipulating how much money each party would receive if a marriage collapsed have traditionally been demanded by successful businessmen wary of "gold-digging" wives.

But growing numbers of women – many of whom received large payouts from previous divorce settlements – are now turning to the law to ensure that their future husbands are not entitled to half their riches.
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"There has been a surge of interest. With the recession hitting there is an awareness among women that men are going to take their money unless they protect it," she said.
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"Many, particularly those who have been married before, have told us that they would very much like to find a partner but are cautious when it comes to what happens to their cash."'

Article here. Who says women can't steal? Excerpt:

"WILKES-BARRE, Pa. - A mother and daughter in northeastern Pennsylvania have admitted to robbing a 73-year-old man of $100, then leaving him to die.

They are 37-year-old Andrea Bidding of Exeter and her 19-year-old daughter, Erika Legg. Both pleaded guilty to third-degree murder on Thursday for the 2005 beating death of Peter Lach at his home in Edwardsville, a small town about 95 miles north-northwest of Philadelphia. They said they did it because they needed money and didn't mean for anyone to die."

Clip here. This clip is only 23 seconds long but you'll notice the audience having a good laugh when Lorena Bobbit talks about throwing the man's genitals from the car window. Absolutely deplorable.

Article here. Keep in mind the graffiti/vandalism is not for actual rape convictions, only accusations. No information was provided about whether these feminists were charged with vandalism. Excerpt:

'Local feminists launched a dynamic anti-rape campaign this month, marking the locations of sexual assaults with graffiti declaring “Someone was raped here.”

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'LEXINGTON, Neb. — A former Nebraska teacher who fled to Mexico with a 13-year-old student has been sentenced to eight to 10 years in prison.

Kelsey Peterson's sentence Thursday in Dawson County District Court comes after she pleaded guilty in January to two counts of first-degree sexual assault of a minor.

Her sentence is to be served simultaneously with a six-year federal prison sentence she's already serving for transporting a minor across state lines to have sex.

She had faced up to 50 years in prison on each count.'

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'NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, known as the "banker to the poor" for making small loans in impoverished countries, is now doing business in the center of capitalism -- New York City.

In the past year the first U.S. branch of his Grameen Bank has lent $1.5 million, ranging from a few hundred dollars to a few thousand dollars, to nearly 600 women with small business plans in the city's borough of Queens.
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Zemia Shoffner received a loan of $2,000 in January from Grameen America, which she used to take a baking class to expand her catering expertise and drum up more business.

"I have been running my business for about three years now and (the course) meant a lot because it makes me more marketable," Shoffner told Reuters, noting her bad credit meant she could not get a traditional bank loan.'

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'HOUSTON - A 12-year-old suspended from school for fighting killed a 10-month-old baby by throwing him to the floor at a home where several young children were unsupervised, officials said Wednesday.

The preteen boy, whom authorities won't name because of his age, was charged as a juvenile with capital murder. A judge Wednesday ordered him held in juvenile detention.
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Authorities still are trying to determine how many children were in the house in a working class section of southeast Houston when the mothers of the two sets of siblings left them alone. They also don't yet know whether the 12-year-old, who was the oldest in the group, was specifically left in charge.
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"It's not clear whether the mothers told the 12-year-old, 'You are in charge,' and left with the intention of coming back. He would have been the oldest so more than likely you would think he would be in charge," Olguin said.
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CPS has not taken custody of any of the two mothers' children. It is legal to leave children alone as long as one child is 12 or older.