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'In the wake of intense speculation about her leadership hopes, it's fitting that Harriet Harman will be taking Prime Minister's Questions tomorrow while ­Gordon Brown is in Washington.

It's not the first time she has stepped into the ring as his substitute but tomorrow, the scrutiny will be all the fiercer.

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'JW: You claim that in a Penn State Women’s Studies class, “students have no option to take different or dissenting views.”(96) Where is your evidence for this claim? Did you talk to any students in this class?

DH: The course is billed by the instructor as an “introductory feminist survey course,” in other words not a dispassionate analytical course about feminism, but an indoctrination in feminism. The instructor declares that her intention is to “examine (and challenge) the nature of power and privilege in our lives and institutions.” The course agenda is to “challenge” power and privilege, not to examine whether power and privilege may have useful and beneficial functions, as well as negative ones. Since the course is set up to provide only radical feminist answers to the questions it poses – that is to deny legitimacy to alternative views, the answer to your question should be self-evident.'

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'What's better than the lazy, lump-on-a-log dad stereotype? Well, the whiney, nagging wife stereotype of course. Thanks to Melissa Kossler Dutton at Patagraph.com we got a decent dose of both. In her March 9th article, "Moms mad at dad: A touch of rage on the homefront" Dutton aims blame squarely on dads as she assesses, "Men still don't pull their weight."

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'CANTON — A woman charged with killing her boyfriend in his sleep has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, and her attorneys may argue that she’s a battered woman who acted in self-defense.

Stark County Common Pleas Judge Lee Sinclair is expected to order psychological testing for Andrea M. Carr later this week.
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Authorities say she admitted to shooting Polen in the head with a .357-caliber revolver and slashing his neck while he slept during the early morning hours of Dec. 9.
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Defense attorney Samuel Ferruccio said he couldn’t discuss the exact reasons for the insanity plea, but he and co-counsel Richard D. Reinbold Jr. feel it is appropriate at this point.

Whether Carr is found not guilty by reason of insanity will depend greatly on the results of the psychological evaluations.

In court filings, Ferruccio and Reinbold also put county prosecutors on notice that they anticipate using a battered-woman defense.'

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'Just as jury selection in her trial was set to begin in Riverhead, Jesenia Vega admitted in court that she dragged her boyfriend to death as she drove away from a party, attorneys said Monday.
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Suffolk prosecutors said Vega had spent the night of July 21, 2007, drinking beer and tequila at a Centereach block party when she tried to leave in her sport utility vehicle.

Her boyfriend, Louis Wiederer, 26, tried to stop her, warning Vega she was too drunk to drive, prosecutors said.
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Vega's lawyer gave a different account of how the night unfolded, saying she was attempting to flee abuse.

Vega decided to leave the party after Wiederer threatened, berated, then physically attacked her, McCann said.
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Reached at her Westbury home, Wiederer's mother, Barbara Dempsey, 47, acknowledged that her son's relationship with Vega was volatile, and she recalled seeing physical abuse on both sides. "Those two together created violence," she said.'

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'THURSTON COUNTY, Wash. -- A 50-year-old woman is in the Thurston County Jail Wednesday morning after allegedly trying to kill her estranged husband with a garden hoe.

Investigators with the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office told KIRO-TV that Tina Nystrom had apparently been drinking when she went to her estranged husband’s home near Lacey.

Police said the woman asked to see the couple’s children, but her husband refused because she was intoxicated.

When the man went into the bathroom, his wife tried to break in the door. When he came out of the bathroom he was struck on the head with a garden hoe.
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"She admitted striking him. In fact, she told us she intended to kill him," said Jim Chamberlain of the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office.'

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"2. Men don't use health services as much as women

WHO SAYS? Everyone; this myth is repeated so often you’d assume it’s gospel. Your other half will delight in using it as a stick with which to beat you all the way to your GP’s door.

HOW WRONG IS IT? It’s a distortion of the truth.

GIVE ME THE FACTS Women do use health services more than men, but that’s because they have more reason to. As a bloke, you’d get funny looks if you booked for a smear, ante-natal check, Pill prescription and so on. True, you’re the proud owner of a prostate and pant-tackle that the girls don’t have. But these are easily trumped by lady’s problems involving breasts and gynaecology. Now do the maths: subtract from female health service use the strictly girlie stuff, then do the same for men. You’ll find that at least 60 per cent of the apparent male v female difference in doctor door-stepping vanishes."

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'With a flick of his pen, President Obama finally laid to rest Freud's most famous question and iterated one of man's hardest-learned lessons: Women want what women want.

And the wise man sayeth: "Yes, dear."

Thus it came to pass that the president created the White House Council on Women and Girls to ensure that all Cabinet-level agencies consider how their policies affect women and families. Presumably, men and boys may expect to benefit from what is helpful to women and girls. We shall see.
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Where's the White House Council on Men and Boys? Okay, let men fend for themselves. But boys really do need our attention, not only for themselves but also for the girls who will be their wives (we hope) someday. We do still hope that boys and girls grow up to marry, don't we? Preferably before procreating?

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'How do we teach boys to be men? How do we respond to these first incidents of violence in order to prevent escalating incidents in the future? What is our commitment to educating teens about healthy relationships? What values do we perpetuate in our media, music and marketing? What are we willing to do to keep repeat perpetrators of domestic abuse contained before they kill their partners and/or children or move from one victim to another?

In America, masculinity is intimately tied to violence, and the sooner a boy learns that, the easier his passage through adolescence to manhood. Just listen to the names classmates and teammates call boys when they choose not to embrace violence: “sissy,” “girl,” “fag,” “homo” — and worse. Homophobia and violence against women and girls are intricately linked. The quickest way for a boy to prove his masculinity and thereby avoid being bullied is to be violent against someone weaker.'

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'The Florida Sheriffs Boys Ranch dedicated the Donald Ralph Cooke School March 13. The school features eight classrooms with one designated as a computer lab. The school was funded through the generous gift of Mrs. Donald Ralph Cooke in memory of her late husband.

The education program at the Boys Ranch encompasses three different curriculum streams. Students who are on track maintain their current education program. For those who are behind in their education a personalized program is designed for each student and one on one attention is provided due to the small class sizes. Youth who are significantly behind in school and close to graduation participate in courses to prepare them for the Graduate Equivalency Degree (GED.)'

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'Ladies, settling for less? Can’t figure out why the selfish, egomaniacal, mentally, emotionally and/or physically abusive, jobless, carless, jealous, bootie-callin’ gambling addict only gives you a half-assed “sorry” when he doesn’t call? With the extreme popularity of the film, “He’s Just Not That Into You” comes a terribly useless resurgence of the bestselling book of the same title by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo who examine all the different ways in which men show you that they don’t like you.

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'The birth rate rose slightly for women of all ages, and births to unwed mothers reached an all-time high of about 40 percent, continuing a trend that started years ago. More than three-quarters of these women were 20 or older.

For a variety of reasons, it's become more acceptable for women to have babies without a husband, said Duke University's S. Philip Morgan, a leading fertility researcher.
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Cultural attitudes may be a more likely explanation. Morgan noted the pregnancy of Bristol Palin, the unmarried teen daughter of former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. The young woman had a baby boy in December, and plans for a wedding with the father, Levi Johnston, were scrapped.

"She's the poster child for what you do when you get pregnant now," Morgan said.'

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"Young women can look more mature than men of the same age. The fact is that the average woman coming out of school, if you dress her up and put makeup on, she looks like an adult. The average guy coming out of school looks like he's coming out of puberty. It's not discrimination. It's biology."

Do they ever stop humiliating the male gender? This is so tiresome.

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'MANILA, Philippines - A Filipino woman who accused a U.S. Marine of rape has altered her testimony and emigrated to the United States, saying she was no longer certain that a crime took place, a lawyer said Wednesday.

The case has strained U.S.-Philippine military relations amid calls for the scrapping of a pact allowing U.S. troops to train Filipino soldiers, and has become a rallying point for anti-American protests.
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The turnabout has shocked her supporters, including lawyer Evalyn Ursua, who said her client terminated her services this week then moved to the U.S. to start a new life and was no longer willing to talk.

Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez said the affidavit may not be admitted as new evidence because it should have been introduced during the 2006 trial.

"I am not happy with her because her accusations divided the nation, then she turns her back on everything," he said.'

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'A council on men and boys would promote stable marriage as the best avenue to improve the lives and living conditions of America's women and families. A council on men and boys would address the crisis in American manhood that results in the scourge of infidelity, divorce, lack of commitment and fatherhood with multiple partners.

A council on men and boys would seek to eliminate the objectification of women in the media. It would battle our hypersexual culture by fighting against the “hook-up” mentality that defines the way in which young men view young women. And most importantly, it would stamp out the violence against women that emanates from men's widespread exposure and growing addiction to pornography.
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Believe me, I'm not man-bashing. Rather, I think the feminist agenda is a false promise. A council on women and girls that seeks to infuse feminism across the government propels us further from real solutions. Our government just isn't man enough to fix what's wrong.'