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'Major miscarriages of justice often stem from unsound judicial and administrative procedures. Consider the story of Grant Neal, a student on an athletic scholarship at Colorado State University–Pueblo. Neal was suspended for sexual assault after he had consensual sexual intercourse with an unnamed woman. He has now filed suit to challenge that suspension, both against the CSU–Pueblo and the United States Department of Education and its Office for Civil Rights.
'The 22 senators say in their letter to the Senate Appropriations Committee that OCR has gotten busier, with a lot of complaints to investigate. Of course it has.
After one investigation, OCR told the University of Montana that sexual harassment should be more broadly defined as “any unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature.” The university’s requirement that the conduct create a hostile environment, OCR said, was too limiting: the university ought to intervene, OCR said, before a hostile environment appears.
What?
A preemptive strike against harassment? You cannot get broader than that.
If we take seriously the idea that all unwanted speech with a possible sexual implication is harassment, anyone who asks a classmate on a date runs the risk that the invitation will be defined as harassment.
'Joining Milo Yiannopoulos and Professor Christina Hoff Sommers at an event called "The Triggering: Has Political Correctness Gone Too Far", Crowder gives his opening statements to the students at UMass College.'
'Students at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst set a new high for hysteria Monday night at an event featuring Christina Hoff Sommers, Milo Yiannopulous, and Steven Crowder.
The event was intended to be a forum and discussion about the use of political correctness on campus, but degenerated into a shouting match as protesters sought to drown out the speakers with cries of “hate speech” and, less imaginatively, “fuck you.”
One of the protesters took it upon herself to pass out literature expressing her concern for the “triggering” event, claiming the speakers “all demonstrate either that you don’t give a shit about people’s trauma and pain and think it’s funny to thrust people into states of panic and distress OR that you fundamentally do not understand what a trigger is, what it means to be triggered, and what a trigger warning is meant to prevent.”'
'The Department of Justice’s recent interpretation of Title IX after its investigation into the University of New Mexico’s (UNM) sexual discrimination policies will require colleges and universities to violate the First Amendment, according to a free speech advocacy group.
The DOJ found the UNM improperly defined sexual harassment, and declared in its findings letter that sexual harassment is “(u)nwelcome conduct of a sexual nature” including “verbal conduct” –- “regardless of whether it causes a hostile environment or is quid pro quo.”
'A Colorado State student who claims he was falsely accused of rape says a "Dear Colleague" letter from an assistant secretary of the Department of Education encourages colleges to deny male students due process.
As universities' responses to rapes, sexual assaults and harassment have become nationwide news, increasing numbers of young men have sued their colleges, claiming they have been suspended or expelled, though the women acknowledged that the sex was consensual.
Colorado has seen at least two such discrimination lawsuits in the past three years.
In 2015, Colorado University at Boulder paid a student $15,000 in a settlement after he was found guilty of sexual assault in 2013.'
'A bipartisan group of senators tried to generate momentum Tuesday for a vote on their legislation reforming how colleges handle sexual assault.
The Campus Accountability and Safety Act, or CASA, would dramatically change how sexual assault is handled on college campuses. It has 36 co-sponsors, but senators are waiting on the GOP-controlled Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions to bring the bill up for a vote.
CASA would allow the Department of Education to fine schools up to 1 percent of their operating budget for violations of Title IX, the gender equity law requiring schools to handle sexual assault and harassment reports. Currently, the Education Department can either reach an agreement with universities outlining reforms a school will make to comply with Title IX, or withhold all federal funding from the school, including student loans. The department has never withheld funding, and activists say the fines are simply a slap on the wrist for schools.
'"Relations between men and women in America have never been more dysfunctional,” writes Ms. Tantaros, the co-host of “Outnumbered” on the Fox News Channel who takes on the “commandments of feminism” with vigor. Those edicts demanded women act, work and party like men. When all the squawking was through, however, women have little to show for it, she says.
“Everyone always hears about the benefits of feminism, but nobody talks honestly about the downsides,” Ms. Tantaros tells Inside the Beltway. “If women are more empowered than ever, why are they more unhappy than ever? The book looks at the lies women were sold by the feminist movement: that we don’t need men — but that we should emulate them in our professional and personal lives — and the havoc this groupthink has wreaked upon the genders ultimately destroying respect, discretion, monogamy, decency and intimacy.”'
'Another subject famous folks have been piping up about: Choosing not to circumcise a baby boy. Here, 10 celebs who disagree with circumcision and what they've said about their decision to opt out of the practice ...'
1. Alicia Silverstone
2. Howard Stern
3. Russell Brand
4. Mario Lopez
5. Sara Gilbert
6. Cameron Diaz
7. Ben Affleck
8. Princess Diana
9. Roseanne Barr
10. Gerard Butler
'In the Philippines circumcision is a tradition for boys who are just about to enter their teenage years. Uncircumcised boys often end up being teased by their peers but as these images show, the price of social acceptance is a painful one.
Circumcision is traditionally associated with Muslim and Jewish culture but the ritual of 'tuli' is common in the Philippines, where the majority of people are Roman Catholic.
This week 300 boys began the traditional journey into adulthood in a single mass circumcision exercise at a school in Marikina City, east of the Filipino capital Manila.'
'A Defense Department (DOD) official said on Friday that for the number of women who want to fill combat posts heretofore not open to them, and then being able to meet the standard set for those posts, the number who actually serve will be “very, very small or none at all.”
“There’s a full recognition that the numbers may be very, very small or none at all,” Juliet Beyler, principal director, force resiliency in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel & Readiness, said at a discussion at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C.
“And that’s what the secretary said – that equal opportunity does not mean equal participation,” Beyler said.
As one of the panelists at the discussion, Beyler was asked if the military had a quota for how many women would fill these newly available military posts.
Article here. Jump the paywall by Googling the first paragraph and clicking on the first result entry. Excerpt:
'POLICE officers have rejected “rigid” gender recruitment quotas amid claims they will compromise public safety by lowering standards.
The Police Association has criticised the imposition of a 50-50 recruitment policy it says dictates gender is more important than ability when selecting new officers.
Opposition to the quota — introduced on January 1 this year — comes as new figures reveal 22 per cent fewer men would be recruited as police officers because of their gender.
Police have denied excluding men or lowering standards, saying the 50-50 recruitment policy is a “win-win situation” for the community and people wishing to become officers.
It says recruiting equal numbers of men and women is part of a plan to promote a modern, professional workforce.
'Half of women sitting on corporate boards of directors around the world support quota systems to fix stubborn gender imbalances in the boardroom, but less than 10 percent of their male colleagues agree, said a study released this week.
Female directors are also more likely than men to approve of term limits and mandatory retirement ages to change corporate board membership, said the survey by Harvard Business School researchers, the WomenCorporateDirectors (WCD) Foundation and Spencer Stuart, a consulting firm.
Asked how they arrived in their board appointments, 39 percent of women said their gender was a significant factor.
Just 1 percent of men said the same, said the survey released on Wednesday.
Men and women were divided as well on the reasons that female board membership remains low, said the survey, which culled responses from more than 4,000 male and female directors from 60 nations.
Male directors, particularly older men, say there is a "lack of qualified female candidates," it said.
'So what are we going to do about it? There’s a possible solution that may sound outlandish — even sexist — that nonetheless deserves consideration: quotas.
The term “quota” smacks of negative connotations and is badly in need of a rebranding, but let’s put that aside and focus on substance.
According to the nonprofit organization Representation2020, about 110 countries around the world employ some sort of quota in an effort to elect more women, including Argentina, Sweden, Mexico, Spain, Senegal, Nepal, the Philippines and Australia.
The design of the models varies broadly. In some countries gender quotas are constitutionally enshrined; in others they are established by election law. In some places they apply only to sub-national elections, while in others political parties voluntarily adhere to quotas in selecting their candidates.
'Love guns? Enjoy hunting or target practicing? Are you a concealed carry permit holder? Watch out! You just may be Senator Gillibrand’s (D-NY) latest target. Gillibrand told Politico’s Glenn Thrush that gun control is, in fact, a “women’s issue” and should be rebranded as such.
“This debate is relegated to the men. It’s about hunting? It has nothing to do with hunting,” Gillibrand explained on Thrush’s podcast. “Nothing in this debate has to do with hunting, and nothing in this debate has to do with the Second Amendment rights. Nothing… I think – I see the world in the lens of women’s issues. I’m making everything a woman’s issue. I want guns to be a woman’s issue.”
Yes, you heard that right. If you’re a man and you have a firearm, then you should have little to no say in what happens with gun-related legislation.
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