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'Some time ago, I started keeping a tally of all the men I consider my enemies. Any glance at an Us Weekly story about Jeremy Renner, or an advertisement in a magazine where John Mayer sullenly cradles a watch, would be enough to remind me, Oh yeah, those men, they are my enemies. Never forget the wrong they have done in this world. I check the list every few months to make necessary additions and add scientific footnotes. My list of male enemies is currently 18 men long and always open to new members.
'A Florida karate instructor is in big trouble after allegedly sending nude photos of herself to an 11-year-old student.
Stephanie Figueroa, 21, is the face of Next-Gen Xtreme Martial Arts Studio in Orlando.
She was arrested and was taken into custody at the Orange County Jail last week after the mother of one of her martial arts students found sexually explicit messages from Figueroa on her son's phone.
She is accused of using the social app, Kik, to solicit the student for sex and send him nude photos.
Figueroa is now facing several charges, including solicitation of a minor, child abuse, showing obscene material to a minor and unlawful use of a two-way communication device.'
'The UC Irvine Republicans have been suspended for an entire year after they informed the administration of their plans to schedule another event on campus with Breitbart senior editor Milo Yiannopoulos.
Nearly a month after their initial event with Milo, entitled “Social Justice is Cancer,” the College Republicans were asked to attend a debriefing with the Director of Student Life & Leadership, Darlene Esparza, and Associate Dean of Students, Sherwynn Umali, to discuss the planning process of the event. During the meeting, College Republican President Ariana Rowlands raised the possibility of Milo’s return to campus.
Just four hours after the meeting, a UCI administrator sent the group an email to inform them they had suspended the club for an entire year.'
'AEI resident scholar and Factual Feminist Christina Hoff Sommers interviews Camille Paglia, professor at the University of the Arts, on the state of contemporary feminism and how it has evolved over the last three decades.'
'When you think of campaigning for equality, what comes to mind? Equal rights for women, an end to discrimination against ethnic minority groups, opposing homophobic bullying?
Probably all of the above – and they should, rightly, be priorities – but an equally pressing priority when it comes to educational achievement is campaigning to improve the performance of boys, particularly white boys from disadvantaged communities.
David Willetts first put his finger on the problem, in his role as universities minister, in an interview with The Independent four years ago. When it came to widening participation in higher education, he argued, white working-class boys should be treated as a disadvantaged group.
'Changing the definition of rape, though? That’s trickier. Because while affirmative consent might be a nice idea, it’s just not how kids have sex.
According to an affirmative consent rule, each step along the way to intercourse requires a question and a positive answer. Can I kiss you? Can I touch your breast? Can I put my fingers there, or my — well, you get the point.
If only we college students and recent graduates did approach sex with that kind of openness and clear communication. But have you ever been 21? Sex at college tends to happen in the heat of the moment, quickly and with subtle signals guiding both participants. There’s no step-by-step road map to intimacy.'
Article here. Jump the paywall by Googling the first paragraph text. Excerpt:
'Canberra is the first place in Australia, probably in the world, to have introduced a domestic violence levy on all ratepayers. Canberrans who own property now will have to pay a special flat tax in what is already the highest taxed jurisdiction in Australia.
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Issues such as this become sacrosanct. Thus in a place and time where girls have better school and tertiary results, more economic power and generally better lives than before, feminism is running out of issues. But the feminist flame has to be kept burning, so domestic violence has become the issue du jour. No one is allowed to question money spent in the name of the cause.
'The number of men behind bars in the US is mind-boggling.
In a hefty report on the long-term decline in the prime-age male labor-force participation, the White House's Council of Economic Advisers shared a few charts that showed just how stunning America's incarceration rate is.
The US has the highest incarceration rate out of any OECD country at about 700 inmates per 100,000 residents, according to data from the World Prison Population List - which is about as much as five times the OECD average. By comparison, the next closest state is Israel, whose incarceration rate is about 250 inmates per 100,000. The OECD is the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Moreover, the number of men incarcerated has increased dramatically over the last 25 years. Data from the US Bureau of Justice Statistics shows that the rate has grown from 564 per 100,000 in 1990 to 890 per 100,000 in 2014. Notably, this spike is correlated with the War on Drugs.'
'It's not just female corrections officers who are being discriminated against at Michigan's only women's prison, according to those pressing a class action on behalf of male corrections officers at Women's Huron Valley prison.
On June 13, the U.S. Justice Department filed a federal lawsuit against the Michigan Department of Corrections, alleging the department discriminates against female corrections officers at the prison near Ypsilanti by designating too many positions as "women only." As a result, officials "required female employees at Huron Valley to work excessive overtime hours at a cost to their health," the suit alleges.
There's a flip side to that claim, said Tom Nowacki, a corrections officer at Women's Huron Valley since 2004 and the lead plaintiff in a class action by about 90 current and former male corrections officers at the facility: men have been unfairly excluded from certain jobs and denied overtime opportunities.'
'Father's Day should be reserved for real men only. I won't waste my time bashing deadbeat dads who are scum but for some of us, they helped create us. Unlike Mother's Day, Father's Day is a somber time for most. It is a somber time because most fathers are not involved with their children.
This may be reluctantly or due to incarceration. Death can be an instance as well, although some have such a bad experience with their fathers that they may as well be dead. What's worse is when you have a father in the home who is not living up to the role that God gave him.
A real father loves his children unconditionally and does his very best to make sure they are provided for. A real father provides emotional support for his children by being that non-judgmental listening ear. What puts the icing on the cake is when a real father is not biologically related to the children, exemplifying these qualities.'
'Even though a large majority of Danes are against the circumcision of boys, and even though the circumcision of girls is strictly prohibited in Denmark, the government has now officially accepted that it's a human right for parents to circumcise their sons.
The Local reports that a YouGov survey from 2014 showed that 74% of Danes were against the circumcision of boys, while only 10% supported the practise. Despite that, about 1000-2000 boys ar circumcised each year in Denmark, according to the CPH Post.
Since 2014, the matter has been reviewed but without much to show for it.
In 2015, Denmark decided to delete its registry of circumcised individuals, reports the Local. Now, in a report to the United Nations the Danish government officially accepts an Egyptian convention which recognizes circumcision as a human right, writes CPH Post.
'Earl Ehrhart is worried about his sons. Both boys attend Georgia public universities, and Ehrhart, a state representative from the Atlanta suburbs, has heard all about the college sexual-misconduct hearings in which young men are presumed guilty until proven innocent. The proceedings are flawed, he says, they're like "kangaroo courts." And their rulings are so biased against the accused, Ehrhart fears that his boys—as with male students across the state—could end up expelled based on a false accusation of rape.
'Have the proponents of “yes means yes” rules for college kids ever actually, you know, had sex? Harvard grad Molly Roberts says the rules simply aren’t practical. “According to an affirmative consent rule, each step along the way to intercourse requires a question and a positive answer,” Roberts writes in The Washington Post. “Can I kiss you? Can I touch your breast? Can I put my fingers there, or my — well, you get the point. If only we college students and recent graduates did approach sex with that kind of openness and clear communication. But have you ever been 21?” More should be done to protect women on campus, she says, but “affirmative consent policies create problems of their own.”'
Article here. No mention if Paige was suspended by the WWE. Excerpt:
'In a bizarre turn of events, WWE Superstar Paige was arrested last night, shortly after the Money in the Bank PPV. Paige, along with her new boyfriend Alberto Del Rio, was reportedly involved in a domestic violence incident and was subsequently arrested for it.
A fan at the scene has captured the following photos of Paige getting arrested after a big quarrel with Alberto Del Rio. He tweeted the below on the incident.'
'A young Calhoun County boy has a very big goal - he wants to see an end to domestic violence.
Izaak Oldenburg is not your typical 10-year-old. Most kids are spending the summer riding bikes and playing games. Izaak is a man on a mission.
"I'm gonna try to keep 'em open forever," Izaak said.
For the last seven years Izaak's been doing his part to make sure S.A.F.E. Place - a Battle Creek shelter for abused women - stays open.
It's a big task, one Izaak started tackling when he was just three. His great-grandmother says he pushed some of his girl cousins at a family function. They decided to use the moment as a teaching tool.'
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