What the Feds Have Done to Colleges and Schools

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'The Obama administration has repeatedly violated civil liberties on campus. The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has been the chief culprit, but the Department of Justice has played a role too. They have attacked free speech, demanding that school officials censor politically-incorrect speech. They have also pressured colleges to stack the deck against students accused of sexual harassment or assault by denying them the right to due process. The Obama administration has violated the Constitutional guarantee of equal protection by demanding racial quotas in school discipline and turning a blind eye to campus racial violence against whites. It also has shown a contempt for religious freedom and the due process rights of colleges themselves.
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The Administration has also stacked the deck against people accused of sexual harassment or assault in campus disciplinary proceedings. For example, in Title IX investigations, it has required that colleges impose “interim measures” against accused students before they ever receive a hearing on the charge against them, measures that can include expulsion from a dorm and classes shared with the accuser. It perversely faulted Michigan State for not investigating a false complaint fast enough, even though the complainant didn’t want a college investigation at all, and it suggested the University might have to offer the false accuser academic “remedies.”

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Michael Douglas, Val Kilmer, and the alarming rise of oral cancers in men

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'The more hopeful prognosis likely matters to a lot of people at a time when oral cancer is on the rise in American men. Health insurance claims for the condition jumped 61 percent from 2011 to 2015, according to a report by FAIR Health, an independent nonprofit. The most dramatic increases were seen in throat and tongue cancer, which were three times more common in men as in women during that same period.

Changing sexual habits are now seen as a frequent culprit for oral cancers caused by human papillomavirus (HPV). That's why health experts are so interested in the success of the HPV vaccine.'

Also see The startling rise in oral cancer in men, and what it says about our changing sexual habits

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Female care workers had sex with child migrants on camera in Danish asylum centre

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'Shocking footage and photographs emerged of an employee at the Børnecenter Tullebølle children's asylum centre having oral sex and full intercourse with at least one child refugee.

Now the head of the Denmark-based refugee centre, Sisi Eibye, has been turfed out of office, although there is no suspicion she engaged in sexual activity with the children.

Officials believe the female employee involved in the sex scandal had inappropriate relationships with at least three boys at the centre, while two other women are understood to have engaged in sexual activity with the minors.

Police are investigating the reports and two of the women involved have lost their jobs.

The Danish Immigration Service also announced it would close down the centre amid the fallout from the claims.'

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UK: Time To Change Our Attitudes To Men And Boys

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'Last month the Time to Change campaign released findings showing that if fathers talked about their own mental health problems it would encourage 70% of teenagers to feel able to do so themselves. Their research showed that a quarter of 16-18 year old young men experience mental health issues on a weekly basis. Later this month, as part of CALM’s work with the Huffington Post series ‘Building Modern Men’ throughout November, we’ll be releasing details of our own Masculinity Audit, which shows that men who’ve been very depressed are less likely than women to talk to anyone about it (55% of men compared to 67% of women).

Scarcely a week passes without a great article about male mental health, and the call for men to talk has been now been adopted by every major mental health charity, alongside LADbible, (#UOKM8? campaign) and UNILAD who have all taken to encouraging men to talk and seek help when they need to. And Men’s Sheds have taken off. What’s all the fuss?

Official UK figures for suicide in 2015 aren’t due for release until 2017, but the Campaign Against Living Miserably, for the second year running, has pulled together ONS figures for England and Wales together with Northern Ireland and Scotland. These show that suicide remains the single biggest cause of death for men aged under 45 in the UK.

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UK: "MP Delivers Spectacular Putdown Over International Men’s Day"

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'The Minister for Women and Equalities shot back at a Tory MP when he asked about plans to commemorate International Men’s day

In the debate in the Commons, Caroline Dinenage said: “Women could be forgiven for thinking every day is International Men’s Day”.

Tory backbencher Philip Davies has been caught up in rows over whether MPs should devote attention to International Men’s day before.

In 2015 Davies said it was not fair that MPs have a debate to mark International Women’s Day but not one to debate International Men’s Day.

In a spat over the matter, Labour MP Jess Phillips dismissed Davies as “very basic”.

Philips had been subject to online abuse, including rape threats, for her role in the argument.

“It seems like every day to me is International Men’s Day,” she told the Tory MP at the time.

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Sassy misandry is good for business – but assault on men is never funny

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'Does the empowerment of women need to take the form beating up on men? And isn’t it anyway something of self-defeating strategy?

These are the questions often lurking in the back of my mind when I read one of those sassy columns that seem to be a list of insults hurled at men – or MEN! – as a sex. But I usually think twice about voicing them.

Apart from anything else, even though it’s almost never stated, it’s straight men as a sex that are in the crosshairs. Since I’m not terribly straight, and thus not exactly a fully paid up member of the patriarchy, it’s generally wise for me to keep my head, er, down in the (hetero)sex war.

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President Obama: "My wife is not just my equal but my superior"

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'Here’s what he said, in case you weren’t lucky enough to catch it live:
"And I know that my wife is not just my equal but my superior. And, I want us, I want every man out there who’s voting to kinda look inside yourself and ask yourself, well, if you’re having problems with this stuff, how much of it is, you know, that we’re just not used to it? So, you know, like, when a guy’s ambitious and out in the public arena and working hard, well that’s OK. But when a woman suddenly it, suddenly you’re like, why is she doing that? I’m just being honest. I want you to think about it because she is so much better qualified than the other guy.”'

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"Sexism at its finest: male birth control trial stopped due to side effects"

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'The male injection has been found to be effective in studies involving around 270 men. During the trial only four pregnancies happened among the partners. Because quite a few of the men experienced side effects, including depression, other mood disorders and acne, the study was stopped due to safety reasons. Researchers have been trying to discover a male #contraceptive for the last 20 years. This makes the burden of birth control normally fall onto women's shoulders.
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Many of us women who are on the pill have to experience and get over any side effects including, weight gain, depression, migraines and many more. However there are very few advertised options for women and the pill seems the most suitable for many of us.'

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Dear feminists, please stop telling us what to do

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'From our early years of mastering how to walk and talk, we learn how to think and begin honing our decision-making process. So why is our personal responsibility being censored?

Functioning adults should be allowed to decide what they eat, drink, wear, watch and how they choose to feed their mind in their spare time. Those who don’t enjoy watching violence or horror may sensibly opt to steer clear when selecting a movie rather than complaining at the end.

I enjoy watching insightful, thought-provoking documentaries and on my list was The Red Pill by award-winning filmmaker Cassie Jaye. The title is a reference to the reality revealing pill in The Matrix. According to Red Pill’s website it “chronicles Cassie Jaye’s journey exploring an alternate perspective on gender equality, power and privilege”. Through men’s personal stories, it gives voice to various little aired issues, backed up by statistics and studies.'

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‘The Red Pill’: The Movie Feminists Tried to Ban Gets UK Premier – on International Men’s Day

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'The Red Pill – the inflammatory movie about Men’s Rights Activists that feminist protesters tried (and failed) to ban from Australia – is coming to the UK.

Heat Street has exclusively learned from the movie’s sole UK distributor that its British premiere is planned for November 19th – International Men’s Day – at London’s Soho Hotel.

This comes after three other London venues pulled the plug on The Red Pill after venue owners got cold feet about its “misogynistic” content.'

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TIME Op-Ed: Criticism of Hillary Clinton’s Email Is ‘An Attack on Women’

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'According to an op-ed published by TIME Magazine Monday, attacking Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton‘s handling of her private email server is an attack on womankind itself.

“I am mad,” writes Robin Lakoff, a professor of linguistics at UC Berkeley. “I am mad because I am scared. And if you are a woman, you should be, too. Emailgate is a bitch hunt, but the target is not Hillary Clinton. It’s us.”

“The only reason the whole email flap has legs is because the candidate is female,” Lakoff continues. “Can you imagine this happening to a man? Clinton is guilty of SWF (Speaking While Female), and emailgate is just a reminder to us all that she has no business doing what she’s doing and must be punished, for the sake of all decent women everywhere.”'

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Australia: Lessons on ‘male privilege’ in $21.8m Victorian schools program

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'Victorian students will be taught about “male privilege” and how “masculinity” encourages “control and dominance” over women, as part of a mandatory new school subject aimed at combating family violence.

The Victorian government will push ahead with the rollout of its $21.8 million respectful relationships education program, despite claims the program fails to consider the multiple and complex drivers of family violence, ignores male victims and amounts to the brainwashing of children.

Evidence has emerged the program risks alienating men — by presenting all men as “bad” and all women as “victims” — a point highlighted in a report evaluating a pilot of the program in 19 schools last year.

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Vandals destroy Hoff-Sommers fliers for opposing trigger warnings, victimhood culture

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'On Thursday, students hosting an upcoming talk by scholar Christina Hoff Sommers put up roughly 50 flyers promoting the event on four different campus buildings at Columbia University and Barnard College. Within 24 hours, most had been torn down.

The flyers advertised Sommers’ scheduled appearance at Columbia University on Nov. 1 titled “Victims, Victims Everywhere: Trigger Warnings, Liberty, and the Academy.” Flyers advertising Columbia and Barnard’s politically liberal and neutral events were left unharmed.

Sommers is known for her critique of contemporary feminism, arguing it can be faulted for its “irrational hostility to men, its recklessness with facts and statistics, and its inability to take seriously the possibility that the sexes are equal—but different.”'

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Security guards hired for Melbourne screening of The Red Pill

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'SECURITY guards will be hired to help protect attendees at a controversial men’s rights movie.

Men’s rights advocates have secured a new venue allowing The Red Pill to premier in Melbourne as planned.

The documentary was to have screened at the Kino theatre on November 6 but this week opponents launched a petition and convinced parent company Palace Cinemas to cancel the private screening.

The Red Pill is feminist filmmaker Cassie Jaye’s exploration of the men’s rights movement.

She said it changed her thinking, but she has received a backlash from feminist critics.'

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Cassie Jaye’s Red Pill too truthful for feminists to tolerate

Article here. Jump the paywall by Googling the first paragraph text. Excerpt:

'“The Red Pill: The movie about men that feminists didn’t want you to see.” This was the provocative headline that ran in Britain’s The Telegraph last November, a teaser for a documentary made by a feminist filmmaker who planned to take on men’s rights activists but was won over and crossed to the dark side to take up their cause.

Despite a ferocious campaign to stop the movie being made, it’s finally been released and the Australian screening was due next week in Melbourne. However the gender warriors have struck again, using a change.com petition to persuade Palace Cinemas to cancel the booking. Palace took the decision after being told the movie would offend many in its core audience but by yesterday 8000 had signed petitions protesting the ban. Organisers are now scrambling to find another venue.

Clearly this documentary has the feminists very worried — with good reason. Cassie Jaye is an articulate, 29-year-old blonde whose previous movies on gay marriage and abstinence education won multiple awards. But then she decided to interview leaders of the Men’s Rights Movement for a documentary she was planning about rape culture on American campuses. As a committed feminist, Jaye expected to be unimpressed by these renowned hate-filled misogynists, but to her surprise she was exposed to a whole range of issues she came to see as unfairly stacked against men and boys.

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