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'I got some bad news this week. I discovered that I’m a ‘privileged, white male’. It was my agent who broke it to me. We were talking about the trouble he’s having in finding a publisher for my book — a work of non-fiction — when the following exchange took place.
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Agent: You’re a middle-aged, privileged white man. You’re out of fashion — and so is your book. Publishers think you’re too male. Too white. Things are difficult for writers like you at the moment.
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At that moment I realised that my pose of high-minded neutrality was no longer an option. I’ve always sat back and watched the carnival of contemporary identity politics pass by with a mix of amusement, a touch of condescension and the occasional recognition that maybe these people have the odd point. But overall, it didn’t really affect me. Until now.

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'Asia Argento says she did not have sex with then 17-year-old Jimmy Bennett, but a photo and various text messages between Argento and a friend tell a very different story ... she flat-out says she had sex with him.
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Argento released a statement Tuesday, saying, "I have never had any sexual relationship with Bennett."'

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'The stereotype of the super-sexy firefighter is actually super-sexist, says London's Fire Commissioner, and all those photographs of shirtless guys in fireman uniforms are keeping women from applying to help fight fires in the UK's capital city.

London Fire Commissioner Dany Cotton, who is a woman, is utterly convinced, Sky News reports, that the sexy firefighter stereotype is "offensive" because it makes people believe the typical fireman is a musclebound hunk, and that deters women from applying for open positions.
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Cotton also criticized "a Suzuki advert featuring Ant and Dec which mentioned 'fireman training,' and an advert for Harpic toilet cleaner in which female characters objectified a male firefighter," because obviously television commercials — and not the dangerous nature of the job and the physical fitness requirements — are what is putting women off from pulling up galoshes and strapping into a hook and ladder truck.'

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'For the first time, the university has used a special exemption to the Equal Opportunity Act, which allows schemes to benefit a "particular disadvantaged group", to advertise only for female candidates for the positions.

The associate professor, senior lecturer and lecturer positions are in the Faculty of Engineering, Computing and Mathematical Sciences, where 85 per cent of academic staff are male.

The faculty's deputy dean for performance and infrastructure Peter Ashman said they always struggled to attract women to apply for jobs.'

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'Social services nonprofit Lutheran Settlement House (LSH) is launching a nine-month gender justice training program for men in association with its anti-domestic violence campaign Men Can. The Masculinity Action Project (MAP) will convene 10 to 15 male-identified Philadelphians to learn about the root causes of toxic masculinity and what they can do about it, then make plans to implement those lessons via community projects.

Starting with a weekend-long retreat this October and meeting monthly through June 2019, participants will learn feminist movement history, discuss their own experiences with toxic masculinity and support each other in developing best practices for overcoming its effects.
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The end result for each MAP member will be an individualized plan they can bring back to their communities (their neighborhoods, church groups, workplaces, etc.) and implement for the sake of furthering gender justice.

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'Joanna Warmington announced her resignation as women's cross country and track and field coach at the University of Minnesota Duluth in a fiery statement Monday in which she alleged NCAA and Title IX violations by the school after a university investigative report said she displayed a pattern of sexual harassment.
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Specifically, the EOAA "concluded that Ms. Warmington's conduct was unwelcome because it was unsolicited, made multiple student-athletes feel uncomfortable, and taken together, created an unwelcome sexualized environment in which some student-athletes felt compelled to tolerate unwanted conduct of a sexual nature in order to maintain a positive relationship with their coach."'

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'The other video, Make Men Masculine Again, was pulled by Facebook after being posted by PragerU on August 6.

“The video – presented by conservative YouTube personality Allie Stuckey – presents an argument that making men feminine is both wrong and dangerous,” Perisic pointed out.

The outspoken YouTuber candidly called men to give up immoral behavior – and not think that becoming effeminate or less manly is the new good in this politically correct world where the feminist movement is proliferating.

“Bad men don’t become good when they stop being men,” Stuckey asserted in the video, according to the Daily Caller. “They become good when they stop being bad.”'

YouTube: Make Men Masculine Again

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'Since we live in the age when anything can be deemed as “offensive” or “detrimental” to something which progressives hold dear — feminism, gender/race identities, class structure — it should come as no surprise that a Fresno State professor has discovered a down side to being a responsible dad.

Jennifer Randles’ paper “’Manning Up’ to be a Good Father: Hybrid Fatherhood, Masculinity, and U.S. Responsible Fatherhood Policy” from the journal Gender & Society claims federal programs which are designed to “responsible fatherhood” actually perpetuate “patriarchy, gender norms” and that dreaded “hegemonic masculinity.”

This certainly makes sense, for as PJ Media’s Toni Airaksinen reports, Randles’ goal was “to assess the feminist implications” of these fatherhood programs.

Though the government says “involved fathers provide practical support in raising children,” and that “children with involved loving fathers are more likely to do well in school, have healthy self-esteem, and exhibit empathy,” Randles ponders the negatives:'

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'Whatever policy is recommended, there’s now a fresh reminder that the due process rights of the accused must not be abridged. On Aug. 8, a state appeals court in Los Angeles ruled on a 3-0 vote that a male Claremont McKenna College student punished for alleged wrongdoing had his rights violated by a college disciplinary process that limited his ability to defend himself against accusations. The verdict affirmed the view of Harvard law professor Nancy Gertner, who wrote in 2015 that policies adopted by colleges created the “worst of both worlds” for accused students — a system in which they could be found guilty based on a “preponderance” of evidence, as with civil lawsuits, but without the protections available in civil lawsuits through the evidence discovery process.

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'Dylan Jones, Editor of GQ, today announced that American activist, director and author Rose McGowan will be honoured with the Inspiration award at the 21st annual GQ Men Of The Year Awards 2018, in association with Hugo Boss.

The award recognises McGowan’s bravery as one of the first women to speak openly about sexual assault and harassment in the film industry. Her openness about her experience has been one of the driving forces behind the #MeToo movement, which has garnered huge global attention, with women and men speaking out about their own experiences.'

ICYMI: Rose McGowan criticized after urging people to be 'gentle' on Asia Argento amid sexual assault claims

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'When I was younger, and the boys were relatively small, I used to say I should have stuck to cats. Cats never grow up to be mass murderers.
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Look, speaking generally boys are more aggressive, even as small kids.  And once they get testosterone pumping in during puberty, they’re aggressive, they’re large, they’re stronger than most women by the time they’re 14 or so, and you can tell how many times during the day they meditate on violence, even if they don’t do it.  It’s the way the body is wired.  None of us – not one – are descended from non-aggressive apes, and throughout all of history and certainly most of pre-history, the duty to defend female and young of the band went to the male, usually the youngish male.
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And no one would believe seeing my sons engage in the amiable “rolling argument” how many times when they were younger I feared one would kill the other.  (Another permanent saying was “I know one of them is Cain and one Abel, I just don’t know which.”)

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'The University of California, Los Angeles hopes to pay more students to fight “toxic masculinity” and “microaggressions” on campus, just two weeks after announcing it had already hired 20 foot soldiers for its social justice army.

Hosted by the UCLA Intergroup Relations Program, the Diversity Peer Leaders project is a year-long internship during which students are paid $13 per hour to facilitate workshops on social justice issues and intercultural communication.

Two weeks ago, school officials confirmed that 20 students have been hired, at an estimated annual cost of up to $42,000. Reached by Campus Reform, a spokesman claimed that the project is not funded by taxpayers, but rather, by the Student Services Fee.

That $376-per-quarter fee is not optional. Over a standard four-year degree, the fee amounts to at least $4,512—more if a student takes longer to graduate.

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'The University of Oregon Men’s Center recently revamped its mission to start fighting "toxic masculinity," now a monumental effort that will cost the student body nearly $90,000 this upcoming school year alone.

Founded in 2002, the Men’s Center initially served as a hangout for men to learn about healthy living and nutrition. But in early February, the Men’s Center was taken over by a young woman who announced that it would be overhauled to focus on social justice.

"We are working towards the radical idea of a socially just world. For far too long men have been absent from the discussion of social equality," reads a February 2018 announcement. "Our focus is to use social justice… to reconstruct what we know masculinity to be."

Now, the Men’s Center organizes events exclusively to fight “toxic masculinity.”

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'On Monday, Rose McGowan, a leading face of the #MeToo movement and alleged sexual assault victim of Harvey Weinstein, tweeted out her support for fellow #MeToo icon Asia Argento. A New York Times article over the weekend revealed that Argento paid out $380,000 to Jimmy Bennett, a former child actor who claims that in 2013, Argento sexually assaulted him in a California hotel. Bennett was 17 at the time. Bennett once played Argento’s son — when he was 7 — in the 2004 film The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things.
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So, if McGowan now wants to talk about waiting for evidence, that sounds great. But let’s be clear: the major flaw of the #MeToo movement has been the demand that evidence be secondary to accusations. And it’s hypocrisy to flip the script the moment that McGowan’s friend is implicated.'

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'Everyone at George Washington University has to follow its code of student conduct. Even the administration.

A federal judge sided with a student accused of sexual assault, ruling last week that the university was in breach of its own rules by refusing to hear his appeal of its finding against him.

The university protested the student’s description of its code as a “contract,” saying that it “did not intend to be bound by the Code and that there is no mutuality of obligation.”'