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'Young men in Britain are reluctant to identify as “masculine” and think the term has “negative connotations”, a YouGov poll has revealed.
According to the survey, only two per cent of male respondents aged between 18 to 24 described themselves as “completely masculine”, compared to 56 per cent of over 65s.
The results come at a time when, despite the fact women vastly outnumber men at universities, feminists are demanding male students sign pledges to tackle “laddish” behaviour.
Wales Online last year reported on a campaign by police, councils and universities to “crack down” on behaviour deemed “laddish.” Feminist Vicky Chandler called for “lad culture” to be tackled in children as young as those in primary school.
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Unlike with masculinity, there has not been a concerted campaign over the years to stigmatise femininity; it is unsurprising that responses to the concept were more positive.
'New evidence submitted in an ongoing lawsuit against Rolling Stone suggest that the legal team of Jackie Coakley, the University of Virginia (UVA) student responsible for a massive gang rape hoax, has been withholding evidence from an ongoing lawsuit. The withheld evidence offers strong evidence of what has long been suspected: That Coakley’s infamous fake gang-rape was concocted as part of a convoluted catfishing scheme to win a boy’s affection.
The new evidence is part of the ongoing defamation lawsuit filed by UVA dean Nicole Eramo against Rolling Stone magazine. While Eramo is not suing Coakley directly, she has played a major role in the case, as Eramo’s lawyers argue Coakley is an egregious serial liar Rolling Stone should have known not to trust. As part of their suit, Eramo’s attorneys have successfully subpoenaed Coakley for all the relevant communications she made during the fall of 2012, when her alleged rape supposedly occurred.'
'This phenomenon — white male bashing — seems to be on the rise. Forty years since the end of the civil rights movement, concepts of race and ethnicity have evolved, our attitudes have shifted: it’s no longer acceptable to make jokes about women, mental ability or fatness. No gay jokes, no black jokes. The only demographic that has escaped this trend — being the only “non-minority” group, and therefore de facto oppressor in Western society — and for whom it’s okay to spit on if you’d like is the straight, able white man.
'A sessions court acquitted accused Deeptanshu Shukla of all charges in an unusually lengthy order, running into 70 pages, with several adverse comments on his wife and her family.However, more surprisingly, Shukla, who is an IIT (Kanpur) topper, discovered that not only was he harassed, but his entire family was "wilfully disturbed" in a plan involving a senior Congressman, a member of his wife's family.
Days after an FIR was filed against Deeptanshu in November 2012, his father, a senior scientist with the Geological Survey of India (GSI), was transferred from Indore to Bhubaneswar, sans any explanation.
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On May 6, 2016, an Indore Sessions Court acquitted him of all charges. Deeptanshu claims the police also acted in a biased manner.
'A collection of prominent law school professors, including Harvard’s Alan Dershowitz, shot back at President Barack Obama’s Education Department over its practice of using “Dear Colleague” letters to lay down policy mandates that ride roughshod over Americans’ constitutional rights.
A letter from the educators dated Monday asserts that the department’s civil rights office “has unlawfully expanded the nature and scope of institutions’ responsibility to address sexual harassment” through its directives regarding Title IX, the 1972 law that bans discrimination on the basis of sex in providing access to education. Most people know of Title IX through its effects on women’s collegiate athletics, but it has been applied more recently to things like sexual assault and gender-based issues such as access to sex-segregated facilities.
'In a rebuke to a feminist idea that has migrated from college campuses to mainstream culture, an influential legal group overwhelmingly rejected Tuesday a provision that would have endorsed an “affirmative consent” standard for the purpose of defining sexual assault.
In a voice vote at the American Law Institute’s 93rd annual meeting at the Ritz-Carlton, Washington, D.C., the vast majority of an estimated 500-member crowd declined to amend the Model Penal Code to define sexual consent on an affirmative basis.
The MPC is a leading guide for state legislatures to follow when standardizing their penal codes. One of the items up for debate at the annual meeting was how to define “consent” in the context of sexual assault.
'The House of Representatives stripped a requirement that women register for the military draft from a sweeping annual defense policy bill on Tuesday, but supporters of the provision said they would keep pushing for its passage.
Democrats accused the committee’s Republican leaders of using an underhanded ploy to undercut the House Armed Services Committee, which had approved the amendment, and avoid what could be a difficult vote for some party members.
“They don’t want to subject their members to a vote on equality for women,” Representative Steny Hoyer, the No. 2 House Democrat, told reporters.
Republican Representative Mac Thornberry, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, said the amendment was removed because it violated House budget rules due to the cost of registering women. He said it was replaced with an amendment calling for a broad review of the Selective Service.'
'In the thesis, Sandberg uses bizarre, discredited statistics and fashionable but shaky arguments about the “pervasive influence of the patriarchy” to explain domestic violence. The full thesis can be read below.
The Facebook COO appears to have wholly bought in to feminist pseudo-statistics, making the extraordinary claim that 95 percent of domestic violence victims are female. The true ratio of male to female domestic violence victims is now known to be far more even, with meta-analyses of over 200 studies showing a rough gender symmetry in domestic violence.
Sandberg can’t be excused by the date of publication (1991). By then, researchers had long been aware that men and women abused each other on a roughly equal basis. By 1988, this research had already been published in mainstream journals.
Article here. To jump the paywall, Google the third paragraph. Excerpt:
'ATTN has released a video explaining what “mansplaining”’ is, along with a call for men to stop talking over women.
The opening slide greets you with the sterling words of wisdom “Talking over women is not OK.”
It is unfortunate for the 9,870,000 people who have watched it to date that there is no such thing as “mansplaining”. The uncomfortable truism is that plenty of people talk over others. It’s called bad manners.
Plenty of people talk in a patronising fashion. The word you’re looking for is inconsiderate. There are a plethora of other words you could choose from if you flick through the existing dictionary such as insulting, ignorant or discourteous.
'“Rape Culture” is one of the biggest lies told by the modern feminist movement.
The idea that we live in a society that glorifies, accepts and celebrates rape is not only ridiculous, it is a lie.
I am not saying that rape does not happen, it does and it is awful.
What I am arguing in this article is that the idea of our society glorifying rape is false.
The word culture is defined as “The arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively,” according to the English Oxford Dictionary.
The feminist ideas of rape culture do not fit the definition of what culture is.'
'Citing an erosion of free speech and due process on college campuses, a group of 21 law professors on Monday released an open letter alleging that the U.S. Department of Education has unlawfully expanded how colleges must define and respond to allegations of sexual assault and harassment.
The same argument has been made frequently in recent months by Republican lawmakers who say that the department’s Office for Civil Rights illegally created new regulations through a series of documents instructing colleges how to handle cases of sexual misconduct. Monday’s letter comes at a time when the department is also facing two lawsuits making the same claim. And a third lawsuit is on the way. The legal argument is an important one, because many colleges revised procedures based on the Education Department guidance -- sometimes saying that they had no choice but to do so.
Article here. Yes, a "male-dominated" Middle Eastern country (supposedly) is restricting when and where "unaccompanied men" can go in terms of even public places. Well, precedent exists. I wonder how much longer they'll put up with it? Just the kind of thing western feminists want to see here. Excerpt:
'So-called "bachelor bans" that bar lone men from entering malls and parks on certain days of the week and from living in residential neighborhoods are a common, often loosely-enforced, practice in the conservative Muslim Gulf.
Local authorities say the measure, enforced by businesses and municipalities, allows families and women who live in crowded and male-dominated cities space to enjoy public facilities.
But a recent ramping up of family-only rules in Qatar is excluding the country's vast South Asian workforce, mostly young men who live as temporary residents away from their families, and cutting them off from society, rights groups say.
Submitted by mistermisogynist on Tue, 2016-05-17 16:20
We are seeing a huge surge in female led domestic and non-domestic violence. Is it time we stopped conditioning our sons that's it's all right for just over half the world's population to physically batter them, and that we should feel too ashamed to even defend ourselves from sustained and unprovoked onslaught?
We really need to redefine what a 'real man' is and establish just how far we as males should go to physically protect ourselves from 'empowered women with stiletto heels'. These creatures are not as weak as they make out to be.
Did you know that Chris Brown was punished for smacking Rhianna after she had just violently attacked him with a 6 inch stiletto heel? Just something to ponder upon.
'In the eyes of Justin Dillon, a Washington, D.C., attorney who has handled campus misconduct cases nationwide, the case "perfectly captures the hysterical campus climate these days. Highly ambiguous situations are put through an incredibly one-sided process in which the accused are presumed guilty from the start, and the results are sadly predictable."
Stern is "doing what any good defense attorney with a high-profile case would do," Dillon said, "getting the counter-narrative out there to show there are very much two sides to this story. ... There is nothing to lose when your name is out there and everybody is assuming you are guilty. He has nowhere to go but up."
But Colby Bruno, who represents those filing complaints as a lawyer for the Victim Rights Law Center in Boston, said Stern's action is reflective of a pushback from those accused of sexual assault.
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