Submitted by Mastodon on Sun, 2016-06-19 20:54
Submitted by Mastodon on Sun, 2016-06-19 20:53
Article here. Excerpt:
'Father’s Day is a time to celebrate the invaluable role fathers play in the lives of their children. As a father of five, this holiday is undeniably special to me. It provides an opportunity to appreciate the incomparable bond between my children and me.
Father’s Day is a rare occasion when your kids have your undivided attention, so it’s important to make intentional use of the quality time.
A father’s role extends far beyond playing pitcher for the tee-ball team, or chasing monsters from the closet. Because children are so easily molded by the behavior around them, a father is responsible for telling and showing his children how to respect, communicate and empathize with others.
As your children get older, Father’s Day becomes an opportunity to start important conversations about issues they will be exposed to in the coming years. Unfortunately, domestic violence is one of those issues.
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Submitted by Matt on Sun, 2016-06-19 19:43
Article here. Excerpt:
'SAVE has developed a model bill designed to bring fairness to the campus sexual assault issue. Titled the Campus Equality, Fairness, and Transparency Act (CEFTA), the model bill supports the rights and interests of both the complainant and accused student, and encourages the involvement of local criminal justice authorities. CEFTA can be modified for introduction at the state level, as well.
The Campus Equality, Fairness, and Transparency Act consists of eight sections:
Sec. 161: Provides definitions for a range of sexual offenses and codifies the U.S. Supreme Court definition of sexual harassment (Davis v. Monroe, 1999).
Sec. 162: Requires universities to implement policies to reduce the incidence of sexual conduct violations associated with alcohol and drug abuse.
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The Campus Equality, Fairness, and Transparency Act can be viewed HERE.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Sun, 2016-06-19 19:33
Article here. Excerpt:
'A former Secret Service agent claims that things got so heated during Bill Clinton’s presidency over his affairs that the Secret Service discussed the prospect of “domestic violence” between Hillary and her husband.
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According to Byrne, the former First Lady is a self-centered, tantrum-throwing, physical abuser who also knew how to use a gun.
With those things in mind, Byrne claims that the Secret Service was prepared to deal with any “domestic violence” between the Hillary and Bill. The agency tasked with protecting the president even became concerned that they would have to protect Bill from his “volcanic — and occasionally violent — wife.”'
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Submitted by Matt on Sun, 2016-06-19 19:11
Article here. Excerpt:
'Yesterday, in a lawsuit sponsored by FIRE, a former University of Virginia School of Law student challenged the Department of Education’s unlawful “preponderance of the evidence” mandate. While that suit has made big news for its direct challenge to the federal government, it is far from the only lawsuit that has been filed recently in response to the due process crisis on college campuses. In fact, more than ten new complaints have been filed in the past two months alone.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Sun, 2016-06-19 19:11
Article here. Excerpt:
'Despite what you’re seeing on every cable network, on the cover of every newspaper, and as the lead story on every website, the White House has an important message for women and it isn’t about terrorism and radical Islam. It’s about “gender inequality” in America.
Last week, professional whiners and women’s rights activists (but I repeat myself) gathered in Washington D.C. for the United State of Women Summit. Guest speakers included First Lady Michelle Obama, multi-billionaire Oprah Winfrey, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Arquette, White House senior advisor Valerie Jarrett and other women who are totally in tune with the struggles of everyday women.
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Like most “empowerment” efforts by feminists, the United State of Women Summit quickly became a parade of victimhood and man-bashing. Actress Patricia Arquette continued spreading the myth of the wage gap. Since her scatter-brained speech at the Oscars, she’s been christened an expert on the matter. ...'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Sun, 2016-06-19 19:08
Article here. Excerpt:
'Married man with children? Dude, in America, you were somebody once upon a time. A cultural phenom. Ward Cleaver. Mike Brady. Cliff Huxtable. Father always knew best.
Times change. Culture, too. You are America’s forgotten man now, largely invisible, often risible and, in certain quarters, completely contemptible.
In the early 21st century, no one writes tender novels or screenplays about you and what you do for your wife and kids. There are no sitcoms or major motion pictures or binge-watched HBO series where you shine. There are no invitations to “The View” to discuss how you made it to your tenth or 20th or 25th wedding anniversary, or how you put your kids through college on a working man’s salary.
Your role as father has been deemed unnecessary, or at least clouded in doubt. Any number of pieces published in the mainstream press say so.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Sun, 2016-06-19 19:07
Article here. Excerpt:
'Father’s Day is on Sunday. “So what?” I hear some overstretched mothers out there muttering. For fathers can feel like something of an optional extra nowadays. Once, the place of fathers was at the apex of the familial pyramid. The justification was that they earned the money, often in dangerous, miserable or physically demanding jobs. If there was a war, they fought it. They made some sort of compensation for the fact that they did not give birth or look after children, by sometimes putting their life on the line – just as women did when they went into childbirth.
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One or two things still spring to mind. They are most uncontroversially and empirically valuable when it comes to parenting boys. Survey after survey has shown that families with boys who lose the male role model after separation tend to have behavioural and educational difficulties. Fathers are crucial role models in teaching boys how to be good men.
Fathers have also had to adapt to one of the most rapid and singular shifts in social organisation ever – the just and overdue rise of feminism. There are a few men who complain that this has gone too far – that despite all the real and thankless privations of childrearing, the commonality and companionship some modern stay-at-home mothers enjoy at the playground, school gates or coffee shop is denied to most working fathers (who may be sweating it out a windowless office somewhere). Yet most haven’t chosen to sulk – they have got on with it without much fuss.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Sun, 2016-06-19 04:01
Article here. Excerpt:
'A major blow for a father trying to clear his son’s name. The suspension for a seven-year-old boy has been upheld after he chewed his breakfast pastry into a gun.
The story stirred up controversy nationwide, WJZ’s Rick Ritter explains, while his parents demanded the suspension be taken off his record.
“It was blue and it was a rectangular one, a cherry one,” Josh Welch said.
It’s the world’s most controversial pastry — one that ripped through national headlines.
“It wasn’t a big deal to him. He figured it could go bang bang and he was just playing around,” his father, B.J. Welch, said.
In March of 2013, second grader Joshua Welch chewed his breakfast pastry into the shape of a gun and pretended to fire it. Park Elementary School suspended him for two days, leaving his parents outraged.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Sun, 2016-06-19 00:10
Submitted by Mastodon on Sat, 2016-06-18 22:06
Article here. Excerpt:
'Articles about “rape culture” are proliferating on the internet and in magazines, with the most notable example being the debunked Rolling Stone article “A Rape on Campus.”
But feminist and author Wendy McElroy argues in her new book, “Rape Culture Hysteria: Fixing the Damage Done to Men and Women,” that claims about rape culture are exaggerated and, in fact, hurt both men and women.
According to McElroy, rape culture has become “a very dominant issue—it’s really taking over campuses—largely because of the backing of the office of civil rights of the Department of Education and the ‘Dear Colleague’ letters they send out.”
The Department of Education will say that if colleges don’t want to lose their funding, they have to comply with their demands [about how sexual assault is addressed].” She also says that there is a “rape culture dogma on campuses” that is “starting to spill out into the mainstream.”'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Sat, 2016-06-18 22:00
Article here. Excerpt:
'Leslie Loftis recently asked “Fatherlessness: What are Republican’s Doing About It?” which decried the existence of “Court created Fatherlessness.” Historically, between 33 percent and 50 percent of children whose family experiences divorce lose complete contact with one parent within 3 years. Using the low estimate, U.S. Family Courts create a fatherless child every single minute of every single day.
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Submitted by Matt on Sat, 2016-06-18 15:52
Article here. I've said it before: the goal of campus feminists is the elimination of men from higher education. Feeling a bit like Salem during the witch trial era? Yep. Excerpt:
'St. Catherine University has cut ties with an event organizer, Heartland Inc., after protesters accused both the school and the company’s owners of being insensitive to rape survivors.
On Monday, student demonstrators denounced what they called a “toxic rape culture” at the St. Paul campus, where 97 percent of the undergraduates are women.
About two dozen protesters marched on the main gate with signs saying “Rape culture is here” and “We will not be silenced.” They demanded, among other things, that the school distance itself from Heartland and its founders, Craig and Patricia Neal, whose son is in prison for rape.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Fri, 2016-06-17 16:38
Article here. It'd be funny if there weren't so many idiots ready to believe it. I actually LOL'd as I read it. Excerpt:
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Submitted by Mastodon on Fri, 2016-06-17 07:14
Article here. Excerpt:
'“By almost every measure, the group that is facing some of the most severe challenges in the 21st century in this country are boys and young men of color,” President Obama said in 2014 when he launched My Brother’s Keeper, an initiative to help black and Latino boys. The president went on to note that compared with young white men, young minority males are less likely to graduate from high school, less likely to be gainfully employed and more likely to be poor.
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