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'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.'

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'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.'

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'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.

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'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.

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'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.'

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WWE Personality Jerry Lawler Suspended After Domestic Violence Arrest

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'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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'A University of Connecticut professor has threatened to stop teaching if the university ever requires her to use trigger warnings in class.

In an op-ed for The Hartford Courant, English professor Gina Barreca, who specializes in women’s writing and feminist literary theory, slams the pervasiveness of trigger warnings on college campuses, likening the practice to “stick[ing] your fingers in your ears and say[ing] ‘nyah nyah nyah’ if you’re hearing something you don’t like.

“The day I’m forced to offer ‘trigger warnings’ before teaching is the day I stop teaching.”

“To insist that I, or any other teacher, warn students that the material in a class might upset them defeats the purpose of education,” she contends. “Colleges and universities must remain institutions that inflame curiosity and, by their very existence, disturb those who enter their gates … The day I’m forced to offer ‘trigger warnings’ before teaching is the day I stop teaching.”'

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'Hillary Clinton once threw a Bible at the back of a Secret Service agent’s head, part of a pattern of unhinged rage that the now-presumptive Democratic nominee exhibited, as exposed for the first time in former Secret Service agent Gary Byrne’s grueling insider account of Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Byrne’s forthcoming book Crisis of Character—in which he details how the Clintons operated during his time in the U.S. Secret Service, where he protected the first couple for eight years in the White House in the 1990s. During three of those years, he was posted right outside the Oval Office. The book comes out next week.

“The First Lady had a different sort of liveliness,” Byrne writes in an excerpt obtained exclusively by Breitbart News. “She once threw a Bible at an agent on her detail, hitting him in the back of the head. He bluntly let her know it wasn’t acceptable. He told me that story himself.”'

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'While children across the world are preparing to celebrate Father’s Day on Sunday, a few fathers in Hyderabad are fighting to simply meet their children.

Fathers who are victims of dowry harassment and maintenance cases and who want a hand in raising their children, allege that their wives do not even allow them to meet their children despite crystal clear court orders that support meetings.

Our society, which responds immediately when a woman faces trouble from her husband, turns a blind eye on such husbands, who are deprived of their basic right to meet their children at least once a week — which is crucial if the fathers want to develop a bond with their children.

Around 50 fathers under Share-A-Childhood foundation staged a two-hour-long protest at Basheerbagh on Saturday. The members said that parental alienation had become a big concern as more than 1,000 divorce cases were being filed in city courts every month.'

It is a very refreshing feeling when common sense, sanity, fairness and a sense of justice is applied to a subject which has defied rationality. In today's world, it feels like these occasions are less and less frequent.

In "Rape Culture Hysteria: Fixing the Damage Done to Men and Women", Wendy McElroy has succeeded nobly where others have failed. People of good will and rational minds sometimes shy away from taking up arguments against people who are not employing reasonable thought and analysis to a problem simply because they don't want to be victims of one kind of phenomenon that McElroy describes in her book. Arguing with people who believe presumed guilt is not only justifiable but desirable even in the absence of any evidence that wrongdoing has occurred is in no small way like arguing with the village idiot. People avoid doing so because they don't want people wondering who is the idiot. After all, taking up an argument with someone who is not using common sense is unpleasant and usually a waste of time.

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'This morning The Washington Post reported on a growing problem afflicting the American workforce: fewer men are participating.

The Post explains:

“The [workforce downturn] problem is particularly pronounced among men between the ages of 25 and 54, traditionally considered the prime working years. Their participation rate has been declining for decades, but the drop-off accelerated during the recession. The high mark was 98 percent in 1954, and it now stands at 88 percent. A new analysis from the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers, slated for release Monday, found that the United States now has the third-lowest participation rate for ‘prime-age men’ among the world’s developed countries.”

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'Administrators at Harvard University argue that the criminal justice system’s principle of the presumption of innocence is sometimes invoked to silence rape survivors.

Harvard’s Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response offers a slew of definitions for vocabulary related to sexual assault on its website. One definition explains that the phrase “innocent until proven guilty” can be used to “silence” survivors of rape.

“This principle ideally protects those who are innocent and is of particular significance to minority populations disproportionately targeted for arrest, prosecution, and imprisonment or other consequences,” the website reads, as first reported by Campus Reform.

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'A college student is accused of rape or sexual harassment by a classmate and denies the allegation. A campus investigation follows. At the end of the process, the presiding administrator must judge whether the charges against the accused have merit.

What standard of proof should be used?

That’s one of the key questions posed in Doe v. Lhamon, a federal lawsuit filed by a former University of Virginia law student and the Foundation of Individual Rights in Education.

The lawsuit seeks to overturn recent efforts by the Department of Education to lower the standard of proof in sexual-misconduct cases, forcing institutions of higher education to determine culpability based on a “preponderance of the evidence.” Under that standard, students are found culpable and punished if the chance that sexual misconduct occurred is even slightly more likely than that it did not occur.'