Article here. Excerpt:

'The House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a bill late Thursday that requires colleges and universities in Connecticut to use a standard of “affirmative consent” when developing policies on sexual assault.

Institutional policies also must include clear statements advising students and employees of the affirmative-consent standard. The measure, which passed 138-7 and now heads to the Senate, only applies to institutional disciplinary matters and not to criminal cases.

“It clarifies that a yes-means-yes policy will be the policy for the state of Connecticut for all public and private colleges,” said Rep. Gregory Haddad, D-Mansfield, who serves on the legislature’s Higher Education Committee and who introduced the bill. “The presence of ‘yes’ is required rather than just the lack of ‘no’ ” in determining consensual sexual activity.

Article here. Excerpt:

'The Campus Accountability and Safety Act, being billed as a bipartisan response to rape on college campuses, is drawing doubts over the matter of “accountability and safety” — for whom.

At a press conference this week, Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, one of 12 Republican co-sponsors, said the bill is aimed at ensuring “students and parents [have] a safe place to go to school where they will be fairly dealt with.” Another Republican, Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa, said the bill is “about doing what is right for young men and women out there on campuses all across the United States.”

But the “young men” who say they have been falsely accused of sexual assault on college campuses may be wondering how CASA ensures that they are “fairly dealt with.”
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She said provisions like those in CASA are a “laudable attempt to increase protections for alleged victims of sexual misconduct,” but neglect the emotional trauma suffered by men falsely accused with paltry means to defend themselves.

Article here. Excerpt:

'The University of Southern California cancelled its planned "Legends of the Games" event after the lone female participant signaled that she wouldn't be able to attend. Administrators made the determination that an all-male panel was unacceptable, and killed the event—a mere four hours before it was supposed to start.

"In the interest of promoting diversity and inclusion within the USC Games family, tonight's "Legends of the Game Industry" Event in SCI 106 has been canceled," wrote a university spokesperson on Facebook. "A new event will be arranged over the coming weeks, and we dearly hope you will join us then."

That's probably little consolation to the graduating seniors who will miss out on meeting some major players in the gaming industry, even if the university is actually able to reschedule the event, Campus Reform notes.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'She has said feminism was vital in the 1970s due to the ‘ridiculous state of affairs’ women found themselves in.

But author Fay Weldon has now declared that the movement did some women more harm than good and has “undermined men” too much.

She believes women should not try to balance “a family, a career and a love life” as they will be too busy. It is harder than ever to be a mother as women pile pressure on each other, the writer believes.

Miss Weldon, 84, whose books include The Life And Loves Of A She-Devil, said women have suffered as they now have to go out to work when many might not want to.

She said: “Feminism probably suited one woman in three. And one woman in three would rather stay home, look after the children and had no ambition.'

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Wikipedia on the subject here.

Article here. Excerpt:

'AU also agreed to consider input from accusers when deciding punishment for offenders. Further, the school will not allow students on disciplinary probation to study abroad in an AU-sponsored program or participate in fraternity or sorority membership recruitment. The school said it would consider using Skype to hold “timely hearings” and avoid long delays.

The school also said students on probation will not be allowed to serve in student government or as elected Greek life officers, though they can belong to a fraternity or sorority.

Prior to Ferber’s federal complaint, AU was already the subject of a U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights investigation over its handling of sexual assaults. That review began in March 2015.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'What if I told you that the percentage of men taking their own lives had, in the past fifteen years, soared to unprecedented heights, increasing 62% faster than the percentage of women doing the same?

According to a recent report by the CDC detailing changes in suicide rates from 1999 to 2014, that is precisely the case. Of course, if you read only media outlets obsessed with “war on women” talking points, you could be forgiven for missing it. “Suicide Rates Climb In U.S., Especially Among Adolescent Girls” reads an NPR headline, in an article that goes on to focus almost exclusively on the fairer (and less suicidally depressed) sex. The article even includes a graph of female suicides, declaring “Women’s Suicide Rates Increase For All Age Groups Under 75,” while neglecting to include the same information for men. Had it been included, it would have shown even larger numbers.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Hillary Clinton wants Americans to vote for her because she’s a woman and her campaign is increasingly embracing the female mantle.

A campaign email sent today offered supporters their very own “woman card” after they claimed, “We’ve been hearing from supporters all over the country that they’d like a ‘woman card’ of their very own — to display proudly on a fridge or pull out of their wallet every time they run into someone who says women who support Hillary must not be using our brains…”

The campaign asks supporters for a donation so they can get their own “woman card”. “…you’ll be able to play the woman card anytime you want,” the email reads.

Clinton has frequently used her gender as a weapon — and a shield — on the campaign trail.'

Via email:

April 28, 2016
Malecare is mostly pleased with the latest response of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force to change it's research plan on screening for prostate cancer. We hope that this new research project will lead to change of the USPSTF "D" recommendation for PSA screening to more useful and lifesaving criteria.

Regarding the spcific changes, we are distressed that sexual identity as a criteria for subpopulation, especially in light of recent research showing that Gay and Straight men have significantly different pathways to advanced stage prostate cancer.

However we are pleased that the disparity of African American men is noted and we will advocate for even more inclusion of subpopulations as this study progresses.

Below is a statement of the changes the USPSTF made directly as a result of Malecare's and other organization's advocacy and the advocacy of prostate cancer patients. I also have included a link to the finalized research plans, for your interest.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Title IX’s ban on sexual speech harassment trumps the First Amendment on college campuses, according to an April 22 Justice Department letter. “Unwelcome” conduct or speech of a sexual nature is sexual harassment  — and must be investigated — “regardless of whether it causes a hostile environment,” the letter told the University of New Mexico.
“The Department of Justice has put universities in an impossible position: violate the Constitution or risk losing federal funding,” said Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) President Greg Lukianoff.

“An enormous amount of everyday speech” would be sexual harassment under this definition, writes Joseph Cohn on FIRE’s site.

Did you overhear someone retelling an Amy Schumer joke about sex that you found unpleasant? According to the DOJ, that makes them a harasser—even if they only did it once and didn’t do it again after you asked. If that’s harassment, the term is devoid of meaning.

Article here. It's one thing to advocate for more time off for workers in general. It's another thing to do so only for some workers based on their sex. This is what this woman is doing. Words jump to mind: sexist, entitled, and the "p" word: privileged. This is one example of the product of feminist indoctrination. Excerpt:

'“You know, I need a maternity leave!” I told one of my pregnant friends. She laughed, and we spent the afternoon plotting my escape from my 10-hour days, fake baby bump and all.

Of course, that didn’t happen. But the more I thought about it, the more I came to believe in the value of a “meternity” leave — which is, to me, a sabbatical-like break that allows women and, to a lesser degree, men to shift their focus to the part of their lives that doesn’t revolve around their jobs.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Exhibit Unbiased Chivalry

Boys should be thought to acknowledge the difference between men and women. At this point, their female counterparts are shooting for equality, but it does not mean they should stop opening the doors.

"We need to teach boys that chivalrous behavior is an acknowledgment of difference-not inequality-between the sexes," Dorothy Dorfman, a psychotherapist, tells Parenting. "Convey sentiments of politeness and civility, not a perception of weakness. Chivalry and girls achieving great things are separate issues."'

Article here. Excerpt:

'In this week’s muddled episode of Bones, forensic anthropologist Brennan (Emily Deschanel) and her team investigate the murder of the male founder of men’s rights group Men Now. Although the series centers on a female murder-solving scientific genius, the feminists the victim feuded with are presented in the episode as more frightening and violent than the men’s rights activists themselves, despite one male activist advocating rape in the show, and the threats and murders spawned by the real-life men’s rights movement.

Instead of focusing on the hateful rhetoric of the male activists, Bones introduces a series of contemptible women starting with a vapid narcissist and ending with an iron-wielding murderess. “The Murder of the Meninist,” as the April 21 installment is titled, seems to argue that men’s rights activists — who say in the episode that a woman who dresses “like a slut” deserves to be raped — make some valid points.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'The House Armed Services Committee approved a measure Wednesday requiring women to register for the military draft, a move that comes just a few months after the Defense Department lifted all gender-based restrictions on front-line combat units.

In a twist that presages how contentious further debate may be, the author of the amendment voted against his own measure. It passed the committee by a vote of 32-30.

Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., a former Marine who served three combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, doesn't support drafting women into combat and he's opposed to opening infantry and special operations positions to women. He said he offered the measure to trigger a discussion about how the Pentagon's decision in December to rescind gender restrictions on military service failed to consider whether the exclusion on drafting women also should be lifted.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Some of our members think we lost when SB 668 in Florida, a good alimony and shared parenting bill, was vetoed by Republican Governor Rick Scott.

They are wrong. We simply took another step toward winning.

Here’s how you can tell when a social movement is on the road to victory:

1. The Legislature passed alimony reform and shared parenting not once, but twice by healthy margins.

2. Like most US men and women, Floridians overwhelmingly support shared parenting as the usual outcome if both parents are fit. They demonstrated this with thousands of emails, calls and letters in support of SB 668. Calls to the Governor’s office ran five to one in favor.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'In December last year, 27-year-old Venkatajagadish Kintali, a city-based software engineer, spent a month in jail after his wife committed suicide and his in-laws cried "dowry harassment". The devastated Kintali came out on bail and decided to find out what led his wife of mere 10-months to take the drastic step. At the root of it, he soon found out, was a relationship he was kept in the dark about - not only by his wife but by his in-laws too.

When Kintali and Jyothsna Vysyaraju had an arranged marriage last year, the young man had no reason to doubt his wife's affections. About 10 months later on December 4, Jyothsna committed suicide at their Mahadevapura house allegedly due over a "heart ailment". The shocked Kintali soon had a dowry harassment case slapped against him too by the in-laws.