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'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.
The group letter is believed to be the first time that professors from numerous law schools have publicly chastised the federal Office for Civil Rights.
'An FIR filed by a woman against five persons, including her husband and brothers-in-law, for holding her hostage and repeatedly raping her, was proved false during investigation. Police said she had cooked up the entire story to extract Rs 7 lakh* from those named in the complaint.
The woman in question was found allegedly in an unconscious state with her clothes askew on NH-24 in Bareilly's Fatehganj (west) on June 12 at around 5 am. In her complaint, she claimed that her in-laws physically assaulted her over dowry and hence, she left their home and filed a case in December 2013. But, she had to withdraw it after her in-laws started threatening her. On March 21, her in-laws kidnapped her on her way to the market by dragging her into a car. She told police that they held her after her kidnapping, she was held hostage and repeatedly gang-raped her.
'Academia's descent into perpetual hysteria and incipient tyranny is partly fueled by the fiction that 1 in 5 college students is sexually assaulted and that campuses require minute federal supervision to cure this. Encouraged by the government’s misuse of discredited social science (one survey supposedly proving this 1-in-5 fiction), colleges and universities are implementing unconstitutional procedures mandated by the government.
The 2006 Duke lacrosse rape case fit the narrative about campuses permeated by a “rape culture.” Except there was no rape. In 2014, the University of Virginia was convulsed by a magazine’s lurid report of a rape that buttressed the narrative that fraternities foment the sexual predation supposedly pandemic in “male supremacist” America. Except there was no rape. Now, Colorado State University at Pueblo has punished the supposed rapist of a woman who says she was not raped.
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Title IX of the Education Amendments enacted in 1972 merely says no person at an institution receiving federal funds shall be subjected to discrimination on the basis of sex. From this the government has concocted a right to micromanage schools’ disciplinary procedures, mandating obvious violations of due process.
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'So here’s my challenge to Hillary Clinton: Give one speech; one, single speech without mentioning you’re a woman, or that you’re running to be the first female president. This challenge also forbids taking a non-women’s issue, like criminal justice reform, and turning it into a women’s issue because that’s really the only thing you know how to do.
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Mr. Trump also pointed out something that shows some of the privilege women in America have. He said men are now “petrified” to speak to women. This is becoming increasingly true, as the “woman’s card” gives one the right to call anyone a sexist for saying anything they find objectionable.
Men are becoming afraid to open doors for women for fear of being called a sexist, male employers are afraid to close the door when speaking to female employees for fear of being accused of harassment, and god forbid a man say “good morning” to a woman on the street…
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