Submitted by Mastodon on Sat, 2020-10-10 07:24
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'World Health Organization-recommended campaigns to circumcise millions of African boys and men to reduce HIV transmission are based more on systemic racism and 'neocolonialism' than sound scientific research, according to a critical appraisal published in Developing World Bioethics.
More than 25 million men and boys have already been circumcised as a result of voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) campaigns in eastern and southern Africa, implemented by the United States government and Western non-governmental organizations (NGOs).
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Submitted by Matt on Fri, 2020-10-09 20:28
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'An Indiana woman who accused her colleague of sexual assault has agreed to dismiss her case while publicly apologizing and paying the man an undisclosed sum.
The Courier & Press reported that Rebecca Blair left her job at Deaconess Hospital as a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist claiming she was sexually harassed by Dr. Nirmal Joshi. She filed a lawsuit against the doctor, an anesthesiologist also employed at two Deaconess hospitals, following her departure.
In her public apology, Blair wrote that she apologizes to Joshi “and his family, and to all affected, for having made unfounded and false statements and allegations that Dr. Joshi sexually and physically attacked me or ever threatened to do so.”'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Fri, 2020-10-09 01:35
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'Americans are washing their hands much more than they did before the coronavirus pandemic, according to new research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The groups less likely to adhere to that guidance were white people, men and people between the ages of 18 and 24, making young white men the picture of handwashing recalcitrance.
White men, including President Trump, have also led the resistance to mask wearing.
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The CDC called for new communications efforts “tailored to resonate with men, young adults, and White adults.”'
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Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2020-10-07 18:29
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'Just in time for International Women’s Day (March 8th), the increasingly red-pilled Tucker Carlson began a month-long special inquiring into why men are failing, “ [in] mind, body and spirit .” The “war on women” seems to have backfired, resulting in large casualties among men. According to Mr Carlson, “it's men in America who are failing,” in general, not women.
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Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2020-10-06 22:58
The web site is at https://split-the-difference.com/. From "About Us":
'Split The Difference is designed to step over what is fake and report what is real. We are a host to campaigns that unite voices who want to influence positive change.
We are independent, not governed by any political party cultural or society.
We will not accept any support that asks us to be biased in any way.
We choose to be real – to be free to report facts and issues that have an impact on people and the world we share.
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If we make a mistake, we will report on our mistake and stand up to be counted for it. We are promoting equality for men and boys but want the same for women and girls. Our aim is for sustainable, positive societies that represent true equality.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Tue, 2020-10-06 12:10
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'A former player in the Utah Girls Tackle Football League said she would welcome the cancellation of football for boys if the bench trial alleging two school districts and the Utah High School Activities Association are violating Title IX does not lead to the addition of girls' football in the state.
Dalainee Robison, a senior at Kearns High and a plaintiff in the lawsuit, gave her opinion Monday when UHSAA lawyer Craig Parry asked if she would want football to be eliminated altogether should she and other plaintiffs lose the case. Robinson’s reason for saying football should be eliminated altogether was because “it isn’t fair,” she said.
Robison, who said she did not play tackle football this year due to a back injury, stopped short of condoning the elimination of all boys' sports should girls' tackle football not be provided as a result of the lawsuit.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Tue, 2020-10-06 11:44
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'Gavin Williamson today vowed to correct the 'shocking disgrace' of so few working class white boys attending university'.
Speaking at the Conservatives' virtual conference the Education Secretary said it was a priority to make opportunity as evenly distributed as talent - in a question and answer session with one of his former teachers.
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And he also took aim at alleged indoctrination of pupils by their teachers, warning that classrooms had to be politically neutral territory.
In the conference fringe event, broadcast online, Mr Williamson said: 'White working class young boys are the most underrepresented group of individuals who go on to university.
'To me that is a shocking disgrace. It is wrong. It's got to be corrected.
'We are going to correct that because - as the Prime Minister has said many many times - talent is incredibly evenly distributed right across the country. Opportunity is not.''
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Submitted by Matt on Thu, 2020-10-01 20:22
Essay here. Long and academic, but the author in essence identifies Feminism, especially institutionalized Feminism, as the original source of the current madness we see in colleges which is leaking out into the population at large. Excerpt:
'We all know what this “theory” means nowadays. Like “discourse”, it is a more polite name for the Derrida word salad, originally introduced in good faith in imperfect printed translations from the late 1970s, and then magisterially demonstrated in live performance ten years later and throughout the 1990s. It is the theory of everything and nothing: the theory that can never be refuted because it cannot be understood—unconscious random mistranslations turned into a model for literary and intellectual style.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Thu, 2020-10-01 02:15
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'A College of Eastern Idaho instructor told students to complete an assignment that is now getting national attention — and not for good reasons.
Students were instructed to identify privileges specific to “men, Caucasian and members of the majority religion” — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — in eastern Idaho, in a “Privileges Activity” that a student’s parent shared with The College Fix.
The assignment was handed out in one of the several sections of Fundamentals of Oral Communication offered at the college. The instructor’s name is not being released by CEI and it’s unclear exactly when the assignment was given but CEI President Rick Aman said the same instructor has given this assignment to students in the past and there were never any issues.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Thu, 2020-10-01 02:13
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'It’s fashionable for universities in Western countries to grovel about their institutionalized racism (until regulators take them seriously).
While they wail about being bastions of white privilege, these schools rarely acknowledge a severe enrollment deficit among one of those white constituencies: males from low-income families.
The U.K.’s Department for Education recently released demographic information about enrollment in British institutions of higher education. It shows that only 13 percent of “male, white British, free school meals” students go to college by age 19 – half the rate of all students eligible for free school meals, the BBC reports, making them the least likely to attend college.
Indeed, these underprivileged males are “stuck in another era” compared to minority groups in the U.K., where there’s only a five-percentage-point gap between black students (59 percent) and Asian students (64 percent) going to college. As in the U.S, women dominate higher education in the U.K.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Wed, 2020-09-30 22:31
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'A book that caused outrage in France with its claim that women have a right to dislike men is to be released in Britain.
I Hate Men, by Pauline Harmange, was described as an “ode to misandry” by a French government adviser who tried to have it banned.
Now it has been chosen for translation. Its British publisher said yesterday that it was a “reminder of the crucial importance of freedom of speech and the right to offend”. Anna Kelly, the editorial director of Fourth Estate, said the book, due to be released in the UK in November, “will inspire both hope and rage — and will breathe fire into a vital ongoing cultural conversation”.'
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Submitted by Matt on Mon, 2020-09-28 21:49
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'None of this necessarily means that John will ultimately win his lawsuit, which remains unresolved. But Barrett thought he should at least get a chance, and her reasoning reflects a concern about due process that should be welcomed by people on the left as well as the right.
That probably will not happen, however. Adam Liptak, who covers the Supreme Court for The New York Times, cites John Doe v. Purdue University in an article that says Barrett "has compiled an almost uniformly conservative voting record in cases touching on abortion, gun rights, discrimination and immigration." He mentions the case under the "discrimination" heading, implying that her position reflected insensitivity to that concern. But leaving aside the fact that John claimed he was a victim of sex discrimination, Barrett's opinion is mainly about due process, the lack of which may or may not have been related to John's sex but should in any case trouble any fair-minded person.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Mon, 2020-09-28 01:42
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'He's a white working-class boy who is going to university.
More than half a million new students will be heading off to start at universities across the UK this term, with record numbers set to enter despite all the Covid complications.
But white males from low-income families are the "least likely" group to be going, according to the most recent figures from the Department for Education.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Sun, 2020-09-27 03:57
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'When it comes to domestic policy, the question is which President Biden would emerge: the affable Obamaphile centrist or the AOC sock puppet? In higher education, it’s something of a difference without a distinction. Biden may have been the most centrist top-tier candidate in the 2020 Democratic field, but his higher-ed agenda is also the most expansive, expensive, and intrusive proposal ever offered by a major party nominee.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Sun, 2020-09-27 03:51
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'Members of the University of Iowa women's swimming and diving team filed a legal complaint against the school Friday, arguing that a decision to eliminate their program violates a landmark gender equity law.
The complaint argues that Iowa is not offering equal opportunities for female students to participate in sports as required by Title IX, the 1972 law that bars sex-based discrimination in federally funded education programs.
The plaintiffs, including senior captain Sage Ohlensehlen and teammates Christina Kaufman, Alexa Puccini and Kelsey Drake, are asking a federal judge to stop their program's termination. In addition, their lawsuit requests class-action status on behalf of all female undergraduates who they say are legally entitled to additional sports opportunities.'
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