Article here. Excerpt:

'Last week’s news that Nottinghamshire Police in the UK now classifies misogyny as a hate crime was praised by feminist bloggers in the U.S., eager to move to the utopian county where relentless catcallers are thrown behind bars.

The Huffington Post and the Guardian both praised Notts Police.

“Literally why isn’t this a thing everywhere?” asked one writer at Self magazine, thrilled that any Nottinghamshire “asshole who whistles at you every morning needs to think twice before doling out another cat-call. That’s criminal now, sucker.”

Well, not necessarily.

In a statement announcing the initiative, a collaboration with the Nottingham Women’s Centre, the police department has broadened its definition of a ‘hate crime’ to include misogyny and harassment of women.

Article here. Excerpt:

'An advisory group is urging St. Olaf College to hire a full-time case manager just to handle complaints of sexual misconduct on the campus of 3,000 students.

That is one of the key recommendations in a lengthy report released Thursday in response to campus protests this spring.

St. Olaf commissioned the report in April after a group of students accused the liberal arts college in Northfield of mishandling allegations of campus rape, which has become a growing nationwide issue.

Thursday’s report, by a group of students, faculty, staff and outside experts, concluded that the college needs someone to devote full time to managing complaints filed by or against students.

Article here. Hundreds of women are murdered in Pakistan yearly, thousands in total there and in other Muslim countries, in "honor killings" done because they had the temerity to try living their lives without being coerced into compliant submission. Yet supposed feminists like Hillary Clinton, et al, remain utterly silent. They're more obsessed with a mythical wage gap and imaginery "microaggressions". Priorities are non-existent, it seems. Excerpt:

'A Pakistani social media celebrity whose selfies polarised the deeply conservative Muslim country has been murdered by her brother in a suspected honour killing, officials said Saturday, prompting shock and revulsion.

Qandeel Baloch, praised by many of the country's youth for her willingness to break social taboos but condemned by conservatives, was strangled near the city of Multan, police said.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Absent dads may be contributing to the growing male gender gap in higher education, according to research published by a professor at Brigham Young University.

Brian Willoughby, an assistant professor in the School of Family Life, was one of three authors that recently published a study in the journal “Family Relations” looking at whether the declining rate of males enrolling in college has been influenced by nonmarital birth rates and father absences.

What they found was that the gender gap opened up about 18 years after family structure changes in the late 1960s.

“I think we need to continue to talk about fathers and talk about their importance in our culture as we get more and more messages that they don’t matter,” Willoughby said.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Fathers play a surprisingly large role in their children's development, from language and cognitive growth in toddlerhood to social skills in fifth grade, according to new findings from Michigan State University scholars.

The research provides some of the most conclusive evidence to date of fathers' importance to children's outcomes and reinforces the idea that early childhood programs such as Head Start should focus on the whole family, including mother and father alike. The findings are published online in two academic journals, Early Childhood Research Quarterly and Infant and Child Development.

"There's this whole idea that grew out of past research that dads really don't have direct effects on their kids, that they just kind of create the tone for the household and that moms are the ones who affect their children's development," said Claire Vallotton, associate professor and primary investigator on the research project. "But here we show that fathers really do have a direct effect on kids, both in the short term and long term."'

Story here. Jump the paywall by Googling the text of the first two paragraphs. Excerpt:

'A Jefferson County teen has been released from prison after a jury returned a verdict of not guilty on Wednesday for two felony counts of second-degree sexual assault.

Jordan Berry, 18, was released after serving more than a year in prison for a crime he did not commit.

After an hour and a half of deliberation, the seven male and five female jurors returned a not guilty verdict on all counts against Berry.

"Justice has been served," said Brenda Williams, Berry's mother. "I knew he was innocent from the beginning."

In November 2014, Berry, then 16, was arrested after a girl he had multiple prior relations with, accused him and another teen of raping her.

Berry spent more than a year waiting for his name to be vindicated and his friend, Josh Jenkins, must wait another month before he can have his trial.

"This was horrifying for my family. It destroyed our lives," Williams said.

Article here. Excerpt:

'The Parks Department will keep the controversial women-only swim hours that cater mostly to Orthodox Jewish women at the Metropolitan Recreation Center's indoor public pool following a revision of gender discrimination policy by the city Human Rights Commission, they announced Wednesday.
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The Human Rights Commission also softened its stance, stating that gender-separate hours could benefit some women.

Article here. Excerpt:

'A coalition of 80 organizations representing women, the LGBT community and minority groups issued a letter Wednesday defending the U.S. Department of Education’s increased Title IX enforcement efforts.

Led by the National Women’s Law Center, the groups argue that critics of how the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights is enforcing Title IX are wrong to say students accused of sexual assault are being denied due process rights. The letter further insists the Education Department did not violate administrative law when it issued guidance on how schools should handle sexual assault cases, as three federal lawsuits filed this year argue.

Paper here. Abstract:

'This Article contends that although well intentioned, the mandates of the Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) are not the best way to handle campus sexual assault. Universities should have a number of different options available, from restorative justice processes to a full-blown adjudicatory hearing. When suspension or expulsion may result, the respondent should have the right to an adjudicatory hearing with robust procedural rights. More controversially, this Article argues that despite the DCL, universities are legally entitled to make these changes.

Story here. Ever hear someone say, "No woman would EVER do THAT!", or thought it to yourself? Sure you have. But reality and prejuduces often clash. This is one time:

'A hitwoman for one of Mexico’s most notorious cartels has made a stunning confession from her California jail cell: she claims to have had intercourse with beheaded corpses and drank their blood.

Mexican media reports that 28-year-old Juana – also known as ‘La Peque’ (the little one) – of the ruthless Zetas cartel made the admission from a Baja, California prison.

Juana said: ‘Ever since I was a little girl I was a rebel, and then became a drug addict and an alcoholic.’
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Local news site Denuncias claims Juana began to ‘feel excited by it, rubbing myself in it and bathing in it after killing a victim.’

‘I even drank it when it was still warm,’ she alleged.

Article here.

'A domestic disturbance Saturday night resulted in a College Station man being treated for several cuts with a pink razor and his girlfriend being arrested for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

28 year old Cecilia Blum was released from jail Tuesday morning after posting bond.

Her boyfriend was treated for three cuts, including one on his left thigh that was six inches long and deep enough to expose the fatty tissue.

According to the arrest report from College Station police, she was on the phone when she swung the razor in an attempt to get the boyfriend away from her.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Harassment of women is to be recorded as a hate crime in a bid to tackle sexist abuse.

Nottinghamshire Police said it would expand its categories to include misogynistic incidents.

It means abuse or harassment which might not be a crime can be reported to and investigated by the police, and support for the victim put in place.

Nottingham Women's Centre said it hopes it will help give more victims the courage to report incidents.

Chief Constable Sue Fish claimed it will make the county a safer place for women.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Late last month, Emma Sulkowicz (aka Mattress Girl) was given the Woman of Courage award by the National Organization of Women. I discussed the case and the general effect of “rape culture” hysteria recently with Cathy Young, whose article “Columbia Student: I Didn’t Rape Her” was one of the first to cast doubt on the Mattress Girl’s narrative.
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It's an extremely circular argument, and it reminds me a little bit of arguments that were being made during the Salem Witch Hunts. The idea was that if you denied the existence of witchcraft, that inherently made you a suspect. Because, you know, why would anyone deny the existence of witchcraft unless they were with the witches and wanted to help them get away with it? So it is really a very similar argument.

Article here. Excerpt:

'The current draft of the Republican party platform will demand that only courts determine if a college student accused of sexual assault is guilty, and criticizes federal efforts to make sure universities are not mishandling reports of rape.

Delegates met Monday evening in Cleveland, and considered language in the draft of the platform that condemned the Obama administration’s “distortion of Title IX to micromanage” how colleges handle sexual assault cases, and that it “contravenes our country’s legal traditions.”

“Whenever reported, it must be promptly investigated by civil authorities and prosecuted in a courtroom, not a faculty lounge,” the draft platform reads. “Questions of guilt or innocence must be decided by a judge and jury, with guilt determined beyond a reasonable doubt. Those convicted of sexual assault should be punished to the full extent of the law.”'

Article here. Excerpt:

'A professor has filed a complaint with the Michigan Department of Civil Rights against Michigan State University because the taxpayer-funded school features a women’s study lounge in its main student union — in which male students may not trespass.

The professor is Mark Perry, a member of the economics faculty at the University of Michigan–Flint, about an hour down the road.

“The women’s study lounge is a gender-exclusionary space that blatantly discriminates against men,” Perry told The Daily Caller.'