UK: National Men’s Rights Working Forum slated for Oct. 28-30, 2016

Flyer with details here. Excerpt:

'The aims of the Forum are (i) to identify activities that would eradicate male inequalities, (ii) to build a national network of male activists based upon social interaction between, and personal knowledge of, individual members, and, (iii) to help the Men’s Movement project a more professional public and political front.'

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Illegal immigrants make up rape and sex assault claims 'to stay in the U.S. longer'

Article here. Excerpt:

'A series of false rape allegations have been made by illegal immigrants awaiting deportation at detention centers, DailyMail.com can reveal.

Thirty-six claims were found to be false in just one year, the figures, released under Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) rules disclosed.

The scale of the false allegations was described as a concern by a watchdog group, who said it raised questions over whether illegal immigrants were trying to delay or dodge deportation by making untrue rape or sexual assault claims.

The allegations proven to be false were all made to Immigration and Customs Enforcement by people held in their detention facilities.'

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SAVE: Federal Directive Triggered Spurt of Lawsuits Against Universities For Alleged Mishandling of Sexual Assault Cases, Report Says

Press release here. Excerpt:

'WASHINGTON / September 7, 2016 – A report released today reveals a 2011 U.S. Department of Education sexual harassment directive led to a dramatic increase in the number of lawsuits alleging mishandling of allegations of sexual assault on campuses. Titled “Lawsuits Against Universities for Alleged Mishandling of Sexual Misconduct Cases,” the report found that the number of lawsuits by students tripled over an eight-year period.

During the period 2006-2010, a leading insurance company received an average of 52 claims per year from alleged victims of sexual assault and from students who asserted they were wrongfully expelled for sexual assault. By 2013, the number increased to 154 claims. Claims by students alleging lack of due process increased at an even higher rate, increasing from 10 lawsuits in 2013 to 53 in 2015.

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Title IX And College Rape: A Series Of Injustice, Part 4

Article here. Excerpt:

'Imagine you were blackout drunk. Not just incapacitated and unable to clearly give affirmative consent, but intoxicated to the point of absolutely no memory. Envision yourself then hearing about what happened the night before via text messages and campus chatter, and discovering that oral sex was performed on you while you were blacked out. Then imagine, two years later, being expelled from school with a giant black mark on your future.

Wait, what? Why would the victim of a sexual assault be expelled?

Because being impaired is “never an excuse.” Because the “victim” of the sexual assault was a young man who later became the accused.

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Australia: Aurizon cops heat on women-only job ad

Article here. Excerpt:

'Australia's largest rail freight operator has defended a polarising job advertisement for "female only" positions.

The women-only jobs of diesel fitters and electricians with Aurizon in central Queensland were advertised as "targeted" positions last Friday.

The ads have sparked strong debate on social media, some labelling it as "reverse discrimination".

Aurizon said in a statement it was seeking to recruit more women to even up the company's gender imbalance. More than 80 per cent of Aurizon workers are men.'

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Christina Hoff Sommers on how academic feminism hurts women

Article here. Excerpt:

'Modern academic feminism is hurting women by teaching them to see themselves as victims rather than empowered individuals, according to American Enterprise Institute scholar Christina Hoff Sommers.

Hoff Sommers, in an interview with Clay Routledge of Psychology Today, argued that women in academia are being treated like children.

"Women are not children. We are not fragile little birds who can't cope with jokes, works of art or controversial speakers," Hoff Sommers said. "Trigger warnings and safe spaces are an infantilizing setback for feminism — and for women."

Routledge, too, brought up this notion of "women as victims," suggesting that the narratives being pushed by feminists in academia (most notably through women's studies programs) is a form of "benevolent sexism." That is, "the idea that women need to be cherished and protected, that they are innocent, precious and perhaps childlike."'

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Men devaluing men's lives: the smoking gun

Article here. This is hardly news to MRAs who watch male feminists do their thing. Excerpt:

'Killing someone in order to save several lives seems more morally acceptable to men than to women. We suggest that this greater approbation of utilitarian killings may reflect gender differences in the tolerance to inflicting physical harm, which are partly the product of sexual selection. Based on this account, we predicted that men may be less utilitarian than women in other conditions. In four studies, we show that men are more likely than women to make the anti-utilitarian (hypothetical) choice of causing three same sex deaths to save one opposite sex life; and that this choice is more likely when there are fewer potential sexual partners, more likely for heterosexual men and less likely if the female character to be saved no longer has reproductive value.'

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Suzanne Moore: Why I was wrong about men

Article here. Excerpt:

'Men. You can’t live with them. You can’t shoot them. Well, you can, but this is the New Statesman. And modern feminism spends most of its life not just bending over backwards, but in the doggy position, saying how much it likes men. “I’m a feminist but... I love men.” Obviously I’m being a bit binary here, and when I write “men”, I mean women, blokes, anyone fluid enough basically to be in charge.

I once adhered to this. I didn’t want to put anyone off. I used to call feminism “sexual politics”, because that sounded way more sexy. Hey, I’m no man-hater – on the contrary. Look at me. Men? Can’t get enough of them, the poor, damaged critters. It’s not their fault. They’re as screwed up by the patriarchy as ordinary women, probably even more so.
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You know what? I can. Please don’t confuse that with bitterness. I am in touch with my emotions enough to know the difference between personal hurt and class hatred. As a class, I hate men. I’ve changed my mind. I am no longer reasonable.

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Male student at University accused twice of sexual assault claims school violated Title IX in lawsuit

Article here. Excerpt:

'A University of Chicago male student from New York accused twice of sexual assault slammed the school's conduct in a new lawsuit, charging that "UC routinely portrays a large portion of their male students as sexual predators."

The student, named as John Doe in the lawsuit, claims the university violated Title IX with its unfair treatment. He was subjected to a "fundamentally unfair, arbitrary and capricious disciplinary procedure that violates both Title IX and UC's policies and/or procedures related to allegations of sexual misconduct," according to the lawsuit obtained by the Chicago Maroon, a student newspaper at the school.

Title IX is in place to ensure that universities don't discriminate against students and faculty based on gender.

The male student, from Somers, N.Y., charges that two women, named as Jane Doe and Jane Roe, falsely accused him of sexual assault. Jane Doe is also being sued, according to the Maroon.'

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Rape charges dropped, but university expels male student anyway

Article here. Excerpt:

'The student, identified in a federal lawsuit against Rider only as “John Doe,” was disciplined in December after a campus administrative panel found him at fault for an alleged sexual assault of two females student in a dorm room.

The student, however, was never prosecuted, despite an investigation by campus and municipal police and the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office.

The lawsuit says the female students gave conflicting and contradictory statements to police, with their stories going from a kissing and heavy petting incident to one of forced penetration and attempted oral sodomy.

The lawsuit says the school, “in a rush to convict” the freshman student and “brand him a sexual predator,” didn’t allow his attorney to ask the victim any questions during the disciplinary hearing and considered him “guilty until proven innocent.”'

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'Healthy outrage' fuels attorney suing universities on behalf of men accused of sexual assault

Article here. Excerpt:

'Andrew Miltenberg insists he's not fighting for men's rights.

The New York City attorney says he's not an activist, nor does he mean to discount the pain and the trauma that sexual assault victims feel.

Miltenberg, a 51-year-old New York City attorney who has spent much of his career in business litigation, describes himself instead as a champion for civil rights and due process.

That's why he's become the go-to lawyer for male college students who claim they've been falsely accused of sexual assault and say their universities are treating them unfairly for the sake of appearing tough on campus sexual violence.'

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Judge Rejects Rolling Stone’s Plea to Throw Out UVA Defamation Case

Article here. Excerpt:

'According to NBC News, a judge has rejected Rolling Stone‘s request to throw out a defamation case brought by the accused students in the now-debunked University of Virginia rape case.

In a statement made on Thursday, a circuit court judge in Charlottesville, Virginia, held that Rolling Stone magazine’s article on an alleged gang rape at the University of Virginia could reasonably be considered defamatory. This followed a request by the magazine’s attorney for the court to dismiss the case.'

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Senator: Questions About Hillary Clinton’s Health Are ‘Quite Sexist’

Article here. Excerpt:

'Friday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) said the questions surrounding Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s health were “quite sexist.”

Klobuchar said, “Hillary Clinton has put out her medical records. I have seen her personally. You’ve seen her personally, Andrea. She is in shape. She is strong. She’s just has a ton of energy. And I find this actually quite sexist when these guys are saying this. I think that that is not an issue at all and the American voters know that. And the fact that she’s going to be out there again and she’s been out here for the whole year. I find that just such a non-issue.”'

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Misusing Data On Campus Rape

Article here. Excerpt:

'Students across the country have just started the fall semester, and undoubtedly some parents are worried. Perhaps they heard of the Department of Education’s 2011 Dear Colleague Letter, which called the statistics on sexual violence, “deeply troubling and a call to action for the nation.” Or maybe they read Vice President Joe Biden’s recent letter stating that 1 in 5 women are sexually assaulted on college campuses. If those numbers were true then we would have a crisis of terrifying proportions. As it turns out, that epidemic is false.

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The Idle Army: America’s Unworking Men

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

'Labor Day is an appropriate moment to reflect on a quiet catastrophe: the collapse, over two generations, of work for American men. During the past half-century, work rates for U.S. males spiraled relentlessly downward. America is now home to a vast army of jobless men who are no longer even looking for work—roughly seven million of them age 25 to 54, the traditional prime of working life.

This is arguably a crisis, but it is hardly ever discussed in the public square. Received wisdom holds that the U.S. is at or near “full employment.” Most readers have probably heard this, perhaps from the vice chairman of the Federal Reserve, who said in a speech last week that “it is a remarkable, and perhaps underappreciated, achievement that the economy has returned to near-full employment in a relatively short time after the Great Recession.”

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