Article here. Excerpt:

'A university lecturers’ union has tried to defend its controversial decision to exclude straight, white men from equality conferences.
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Today, a spokesman for UCU attempted to explain the decision – despite the blatant irony in banning a select group from the next equality summit.

The spokesman told Heat Street: “[Our] members voted to continue the convention whereby different groups of people meet at a conference to discuss unique obstacles they face in the workplace. This is standard practice throughout the trade union movement, and certainly not a new initiative.”

They added: “Anyone can attend the plenary sessions and there is also an equality reps conference that anyone interested in equality can attend. It is the specific four equality conferences (Black members, women, disabilities and LGBT) that are for people within those groups.”'

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'Claire Fox, head of a thinktank called the Institute of Ideas, has penned a coruscating critique of “Generation Snowflake”, the name given to a growing group of youngsters who “believe it’s their right to be protected from anything they might find unpalatable”.

She said British and American universities are dominated by cabals of young women who are dead set on banning anything they find remotely offensive.

“It makes me sad that these teens and 20-somethings have become so fearful that they believe a dissenting opinion can pose such a serious threat,” Fox wrote in an article for Mail Online.

This hyper-sensitivity has prompted the University of East Anglia to outlaw sombreros in a Mexican restaurant and caused the National Union of Student to ban clapping as “as it might trigger trauma”, asking youngsters to use “jazz hands” instead.'

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'A recent Head STYC* training event has been criticised by a number of students present as bringing up “irrelevant and confusing concepts” in a “condescending manner”, as officers in charge were accused of demonstrating sexism towards men and alienating the male audience.

The criticism is aimed mainly at the YUSU Women’s Officers and their choice to include an explanation of ‘mansplaining’ in their section of the training. ‘Mansplaining’ is a relatively new and controversial term which is broadly defined as ‘to explain something to someone, typically a man to a woman, in a manner regarded as condescending or patronising’. The term was brought up in a list of ‘dos and dont’s’ which were featured alongside topics such as manhandling and calling out sexism and homophobia.

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'The French government is considering several measures aimed at combating sexism in video games, according to a report published this week by Le Figaro. Axelle Lemaire, the French Minister of Digital Affairs, met with representatives from the French video game industry last month to discuss the set of measures, Le Figaro reports, which include financial incentives and labels for games that give a "positive image of women."
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Catherine Coutelle, a socialist deputy of the National Assembly, proposed legislation last year that would have excluded games that portray a "degrading image of women" from receiving government tax credits. The amendment was met with opposition from some industry groups, and was withdrawn in January. But in a response to Coutelle's proposition published on Tuesday, Lemaire signaled that her ministry still aims to "encourage the production of video games that promote equality between men and women," and to address "topics related to sexism and violence against women."

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'Children as young as four should be taught in school about sexism and harassment to tackle the “ticking timebomb” of sexual bullying in classrooms, a Commons select committee has been told.

Experts working within schools and with young girls who suffer sexual violence and abuse inside and outside the classroom, were unanimous on Tuesday in calling for the mandatory teaching of issues around sexism.
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“We need to make schools teach about sexism and about feminism, talk to children about how women have changed history, how women are inventors and scientists, so that they start to see that women are not just sexual objects.”'

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'KOHN: And I have to say, this was also where I -- her part about how she blamed political correctness for sentencing him. Come on. Brock Turner is to blame for what happened here. And if his swimming career, if his steak time with his dad has suffered, well boo-hoo, shouldn't have done what he did. And this sort of notion that we should sort of pity him, it's related to, it is very much related to the men's rights and by extension the conservative movement in general for the last several years has attacked this notion that there is rape culture, has attacked this idea that we're getting too politically correct on campuses by trying to educate boys and girls about sexual assault and safety and responsibility, and said, 'Oh no, no, no, we're turning boys into -- they're too careful now, and everything is rape now, blah, blah, blah.' You know what? This is what happens. This is what happens.'

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'Last week, a California judge sentenced former Stanford swimmer Brock Allen Turner to six months in jail for a horrifying sexual assault on an unconscious, alcohol-impaired woman. The resulting uproar over the sentence’s undue leniency risks missing the most important lesson of the case.

Contrary to current campus conventional wisdom, the Turner case shows that the best way to deal with a campus sexual assault problem is to rely on law enforcement professionals to protect women and to pursue justice, not on campus disciplinary systems run by amateur sex bureaucrats.

The backlash against Turner’s sentence is being exploited by a powerful but misguided movement to delegitimize law enforcement as the best way to handle campus sexual assaults. The accusers’ rights group Know Your IX has claimed that even reporting an assault to police could harm campus victims. “#copsoffcampus,” the group recently tweeted.

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'A New York State Police investigator says a woman accused of fatally sabotaging her fiancé’s kayak on the Hudson River told an investigator she removed a plug on his kayak and manipulated his paddle.

Authorities say Angelika Graswald removed a drain plug from Vincent Viafore’s kayak in April 2015 and pushed a floating paddle away from him after his kayak capsized.

A Cornwall police officer testified Monday that Graswald appeared calm and emotionless after she was rescued.

State Police Senior Investigator Aniello Moscato also testified Graswald told another investigator she had pulled a plug on the kayak and manipulated the ring on Viafore’s paddle.'

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'Modern feminism encourages women to complain about men, the wage gap, and just about everything else as an attempt to somehow be taken seriously. In other words, modern feminism creates a complex relationship with men. Feminists love to hate men—and to hate when men respond with scorn.

Both are addressed in this essay, published Sunday in the New York Times, an excerpt from Jessica Valenti’s new memoir, “Sex Object,” which is out today. It reveals why the modern feminist movement has reached its peak and will soon plummet.

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'Former New York Giants linebacker Lawrence Taylor's wife has been arrested for domestic violence after a physical altercation in Florida, according to TMZ Sports.

Lynette Taylor, 42, was arrested Thursday on a count of domestic violence and a count of resisting arrest.

According to the report, Lawrence Taylor told police that Lynette hit him in the back of the head, leaving him with a minor laceration.

"That's a lie. My husband is a 300 pound linebacker,' she told authorities after the incident. A judge has ordered the two to stay at least 500 feet from each other.

Lynette Taylor has been arrested at least three times for violent crimes, though most of the charges were later dropped. The couple has been married for nine years and has two children together.'

Story here. Apparently women can be violent in relationships too! Excerpt:

'Actress Amber Heard, who filed for divorce from Johnny Depp last month, alleging verbal and physical abuse, herself was arrested on suspicion of domestic violence in 2009.

The King County, Washington, court clerk confirmed to People magazine Tuesday that Heard, 30, had appeared before a judge on Sept. 15, 2009, for what records call a “probable cause assault, domestic violence” hearing.

TMZ.com had reported earlier Tuesday that Heard and her then-domestic partner, photographer Tasya van Ree, argued on Sept. 14 at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Heard allegedly grabbed and struck van Ree on the arm, and was arrested and booked, the website said. No charges were filed.'

Right now, the Office for Civil Rights is stifling student and professor free speech, due process, and liberty rights in order to enforce a policy agenda.

This has to stop.

Fortunately, the Senate Homeland Security Committee is holding an oversight hearing on agency overreach this Thursday, June 9th, at 10:45 a.m. EST: http://www.hsgac.senate.gov/hearings/revisiting-the-appropriate-use-of-agency-regulatory-guidance

But let's not wait until then for your voice to be heard-- free speech is too important.

This moment, call the U.S. Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to speak to your federal representatives. Tell them the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is a loose cannon that needs to be reigned in immediately.

Please call now and help protect the Constitution, in crisis on our campuses.

Very best,

Gina R. Lauterio, Esq.
Policy Project Director
Stop Abusive and Violent Environments (SAVE)

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'News that a university lecturers’ union has banned straight, white men from attending their equality conferences in a bid to create “safe spaces” is deeply depressing.

University and College Union equality conferences are held exclusively for women, LGBT, ethnic minorities or disabled people, and members must declare their “protected characteristic” when applying to attend.

Surely UCU can see the irony of hosting an equality conference where – as George Orwell wrote – some are more equal than others?'

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'An Ontario cabinet minister announced on Monday that he would be stepping aside in order to make room for women, in an attempt to help his premier meet gender parity in her government.

But given that Ontario's cabinet is just 25 percent female, there's still a long way to go.

Ted McMeekin, a longtime provincial politician and currently the minister of municipal affairs and housing, made the announcement on Facebook, ahead of an anticipated cabinet shuffle in Canada's largest province.

"Like our Prime Minister, I've never been afraid to call myself a feminist. In fact, I've always been proud of being an honorary member of the Women's Caucus, and working for equality," he said in the statement. "But sometimes the best way for a man to advance the equality of women may be to step back and make room at the table. For me, this is such a time."'

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'Even as critics of college sexual-assault investigations say that law enforcement should be more involved in the process, police themselves are adopting some of the more questionable recommendations of anti-rape activists, particularly that accusers should face little scrutiny and officers should limit their collection of evidence to stymie the accused.
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The new program offers resources on “prosecutorial misconduct,” the effort within the American Law Institute to make rape a presumed-guilty crime, and an “Exoneree Honor Roll” of accused people who were exonerated of rape.'