Submitted by mens_issues on Wed, 2016-07-06 01:02
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'Yavapai County Sheriff's deputies arrested 32-year-old Jennifer Fletcher for assaulting her estranged husband with her car.
The incident happened Tuesday around 6:30 a.m. in Chino Valley.
According to deputies, Fletcher pinned the man between her 2010 Toyota Prius and his truck following a discussion between the two.
After he was able to get away and into the house, Fletcher drove into the home, striking the front door area.
The couple's three children were in the living room of the home at the time.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Wed, 2016-07-06 00:59
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'As the election between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump shapes up, we continue to see Clinton and the women who are supporting her exiled (with apologies to Liz Phair) in Guyville. As presumptive Democratic nominee Clinton says about this historic election, “This campaign is about making sure there are no ceilings, no limits on any of us and this is our moment to come together.”
Yet, we are not all coming together. Bernie Sanders has not withdrawn, despite Clinton’s securing the delegates to win the nomination. Twenty-two percent of Sanders supporters say they’d rather vote for Trump than Clinton. Male Sanders supporters continue to troll and threaten Clinton supporters and the media covering her.
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Submitted by mens_issues on Wed, 2016-07-06 00:59
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'Dear Amy: My 40-year-old son is in an abusive marriage. His wife hits him, locks him out of the house, calls him humiliating names, has alienated him from his friends and family, etc.
He has lost 70 pounds and developed dangerous stress-related symptoms. He’s a shell of what he once was. He acts confused and disoriented, rather than our smart, capable and popular son. It’s heartbreaking.
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They have two small children who witness this abuse. He’s very worried about the kids, but is so broken down he doesn’t feel capable of caring for them on his own. We’ve told him we will care for them, but he tells us it’s too much of a burden.
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It’s hard for us to be good in-laws when we’re aware of this. She often blows up at us if we try to talk about it. We are sick with worry about our son.
Dear Mom: According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one in seven men (over the age of 18) in the U.S. has been the victim of severe physical violence by an intimate partner.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Wed, 2016-07-06 00:57
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'But, gentlemen, we all need to realize something. Women didn't create the unfairness; we did. We did it when we threatened them with violence. We did it when we refused to take no for an answer. We did it every time we tried to make them feel safe by being kind and friendly only to then become hostile if they didn't reciprocate our interest. We convinced them that kindness and friendliness are just a facade we use to get what we want. Is there any reason they should trust us?
I'd like you to take a moment and contemplate the horror of that. Imagine that just about every time someone showed you kindness, you later found out that they had an ulterior motive. Worse yet, kindness turned to cruelty and aggression once their true motivations became clear. You've come to associate kindness with pain, with betrayal. How do you ever trust again after that? The very thing that is supposed to cement a bond between two human beings is itself viewed with suspicion. That is what we did to women. That's why they don't trust us.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Tue, 2016-07-05 20:51
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'Recent media stories about Hillary Clinton have centered on her avoidance of press conferences and her campaign's efforts to prevent reporters from getting close enough to ask questions. So just consider, for a moment, how notable it is that the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee would volunteer her time to a media outlet.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Tue, 2016-07-05 20:40
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'Yes, the personal is political, but the ongoing criticisms of male behaviour do not equate to personalized "misandry" any more than criticisms of corporate power equate to an irrational hatred of white men who just happen to be very, very rich at the expense of pretty much everyone else.
Beyond that, mocking men and men's socialized behaviour is something that actually makes having to live with the everyday violence and supremacy of men tolerable. We joke so that we don't lose our shit every time we have to balance half a butt cheek on a seat because otherwise we'll be sitting in some dude's lap on the bus.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Tue, 2016-07-05 19:33
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'A Georgia mother was convicted after hosting a party for her 16-year-old daughter and her friends, where she reportedly joined the kids for a game of naked Twister, according to WJBF. Police reports indicate that Rachel Lehnardt, 36, also allowed the teens to smoke marijuana and drink alcohol in her home. The reports also say that Lehnardt admitted to having sex with her daughter’s 18-year-old friend at the party.
The party was reported to authorities after Lehnardt discussed details of the incident with her Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor back in April 2015, and the sponsor then told the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office, WJBF reported. After her arrest, Lehnardt’s attorney issued a statement saying that the allegations were exaggerated, but that “she engaged in several acts of inappropriate conduct,” as a result of alcohol abuse.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Tue, 2016-07-05 19:28
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'Reinforcing a key White House policy initiative, President Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and other top administrators will no longer visit colleges and universities they deem too lenient on sexual assault, according to federal officials cited by The Washington Post.
Obama, Biden, their wives and cabinet members are among those who will avoid academic institutions "whose leaders they consider insufficiently serious about pursuing sexual-assault allegations and punishing perpetrators."
The new policy forms part of a major, multifaceted campaign by the White House to render college campuses free from sexual assault.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Tue, 2016-07-05 01:22
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'A former White House college sexual assault task force member appears to have been gunning for a University of Virginia fraternity smeared in a Rolling Stone article about a now-debunked campus gang rape, newly released emails show.
“I want to see these guys gone and I want to keep it as legally sound as possible,” UVA alum Emily Renda wrote to Rolling Stone reporter Sabrina Rubin Erdely in July 2014, several months before the Rolling Stone article “A Rape on Campus” was published.
At the time, Renda was working in a gender-based violence prevention program at the school. That spring she had served on the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault.
Renda appeared concerned that publishing the name of the fraternity, Phi Kappa Psi, would “create a credibility issue” and hurt the effort to have it removed.'
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Submitted by Matt on Mon, 2016-07-04 14:30
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'Nearly a week ago, on June 24 , his 45th birthday, Jason Sheats gathered with his family in the living room of their Houston-suburb home about 5 p.m. Beside him were his daughters, Taylor, 22, and Madison, 17. His wife, Christy, had called a family meeting.
After years of challenges with Christy’s mental health, her struggles with depression and anxiety, her suicide attempts, Jason told authorities that he thought perhaps she was going to announce she had decided to file for divorce. The couple had talked about separating.
But instead, police said, the 42-year-old mother pulled out a .38 caliber handgun, a gift from her late grandfather, and pointed it at her screaming children. Then she shot them, inside the house and out in the street, where the girls collapsed and stopped moving. When law enforcement arrived, they watched Christy fire a final bullet into her eldest daughter, then a police officer shot the mother dead.'
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Submitted by Matt on Sat, 2016-07-02 16:40
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'I started my career with the gruelling hours and high stress that are traditionally visited on young lawyers. You were unexpectedly ambivalent about finding a good job – or any job. After gentle pressure from me, and more from the student loan payments, you puttered around in some non-legal positions more suited for someone with half your education and intelligence, and which offered commensurately low pay.
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I’ve climbed the professional ladder reasonably well. We have the trappings of middle-class success – a nice house in a safe, quiet neighborhood; annual holidays; happy, healthy children; money saved for their college years. But it has come at enormous personal cost to me. My stress level has increased dramatically with added responsibilities at work and my health has deteriorated. People who haven’t seen me for years flinch when we meet again and I’ve attended more than one event at which I have overheard someone remarking on how much I’ve aged.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Sat, 2016-07-02 13:12
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'4. Support feminist and female media.
Is your iPod comprised of primarily male artists? Diversify, dude! Open yourself up to new perspectives by watching films written and directed by women, read articles written by female writers, listen to music performed by female artists and appreciating the artwork of female artists, like Jeanette Hayes or Grace Miceli.
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6. Believe the victim.
This is pretty straightforward. Instead of assuming the accused is innocent until proven guilty, support the victim. While it’s true that women have falsely accused men of such allegations, these cases are an extreme rarity so make the smart decision and favor the likely truth.
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10. Be responsible for contraception.
When in a relationship with a woman, don’t make contraception something she’s solely responsible for. Wear a damn condom and don’t complain about it. If she prefers a particular method of contraception, let her choose that method.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Sat, 2016-07-02 13:03
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'An army of men’s rights activists are outraging over the Ministry of Women and Child Development’s latest draft on the National Women’s Policy. With the ministry inviting suggestions, men’s rights activists have taken it upon themselves and over the comments section to vehemently oppose the draft policy.
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50% of reservation for women in local bodies election means, the percent of elected women in local bodies will be between 50% to 100% whereas men will have 0% to 50% only. There is a probability of 0% place for men in local civic bodies governance. This is against the Constitution right of equality,” writes Sahayaselvam.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Sat, 2016-07-02 12:59
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'The number of victims on campus continues to rise as not much is actually done about it. There is a pool of knowledge around the topic of Title IX and campus rape, but no one is really providing any actions. Victims of sexual assault are courageously speaking up, the Vice President has provided verbal support for one particular rape victim; yet no one is moving closer to action. No one is even discussing reforming the power to prosecute or not prosecute given to college administrators. The consequences are sexual predators remaining on college campuses, and lives of those who haven’t done anything wrong absolutely destroyed.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Sat, 2016-07-02 12:56
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'The senators noted that only 9 percent of some 11,000 schools reported any occurrence of sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence and stalking, according to the most recent data provided under the Clery Act.
The reports that there were no incidents of sexual assault on 9-in-10 campuses “directly conflict” with a swath of peer-reviewed research that show around 1-in-5 female students will experience sexual assault by the time they graduate college.'
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