Article here. Excerpt:

'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.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'After a 70-year-old man committed suicide by consuming poison in police custody, police Saturday lodged a case of abetment to suicide against the man who allegedly lodged against him a “false” case of rape attempt on his minor daughter.

Om Prakash’s family has alleged that the “false” FIR was a fallout of a monetary dispute between him and the girl’s father, Addl SP Pankaj Kumar said, quoting from the complaint filed by Prakash’s son Manoj.

He added that they were yet to lodge a complaint against the officers whose “dereliction” resulted in the man’s death in custody. “The decision in this regard will be taken by the SSP, who is not in the district now,” he said.

Prakash’s family has said the girl’s father had “threatened” to lodge a “false” complaint against him. Prakash, a farmer, had reportedly replied that he would consume poison if any “false charge” was levelled against him.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'An American University faculty member attempted to make life difficult for journalists covering a campus protest last night, but her plan went awry after she called the police.

The Washington Examiner's Ashe Schow was at AU last night reporting on Breitbart tech editor Milo Yiannopolous' visit to campus. (Schow tells me she was there on behalf of a forthcoming documentary, Thought Police, and was not representing The Examiner.) Yiannopoulos is a deliberately controversial figure, and his presence on campus prompted a student protest.

A female faculty member—now dubbed Melissa Click 2.0--tried to interfere, telling Schow and her camera crew that they were required to accompany her inside. They had to follow "certain regulations that the university is guided by" because AU is providing "a safe space for everybody who works or studies on this campus," she claimed.'

E-book on Amazon here. Description:

'Rape Culture Hysteria: Fixing the Damage Done to Men and Women offers a comprehensive overview and debunking of the "rape culture" myth that has devastated campuses and is spilling into Main Street America. An ideological madness is grotesquely distorting North America's view of sexuality. The book applies sanity to the claims that men are natural rapists and our culture encourages sexual violence.

Written by a libertarian feminist and rape survivor, Rape Culture Hysteria opens with a highly personal appeal to depoliticize rape and treat it instead as a crime. Victims need to heal. Politicizing their pain and rage is a callous political maneuver that harms victims, women and men.
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Defend yourself and your children against rape culture zealots. Demand sanity.'

Article here. Not directly MRM-related, but tangential and relevant. Excerpt:

'Social media and activism are intrinsic parts of many Americans’ lives. But what if the cause an employee espouses is one which the employer disagrees with, or has concerns that it may interfere with business prospects? In the past, an employee’s private life may never have come to the attention the company. But with the rise of social media, few activities are truly private.

To be clear, the issue does not involve what an employee does while at work. It only concerns what the employee does in his own time and off company premises.
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Concerns about employee free speech extend beyond examples where there may be a business interest involved. According to the National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR), much of the interest in employee free speech arose in April of 2014, when:

Story here. Excerpt:

'On April 22, the Justice Department ordered the University of New Mexico adopt an unconstitutional speech code. It is demanding that the University label as “sexual harassment” all “unwelcome” sexual conduct, including “verbal” conduct (that is, speech). The university must encourage students to report it as such; and investigate it when it is reported.

Article here. Excerpt:

'If you’re a sports fan (like me) who likes to watch the very best athletes engaged in the highest level of competition, then Daniela Brighenti’s recent article in the Yale Daily News won’t make a lot of sense to you.

Desiring to watch the best sporting events, you see, is merely a “societal (and cultural) bias” against women.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'Six Connecticut police departments will “Walk A Mile In Her Shoes” on April 30 to bring awareness to domestic violence.

Event chairman and Fairfield Police Chief Gary MacNamara joined affiliate News 8’s Stephanie Simoni wearing high heels on their morning show. He plans to walk a mile in red peep-toe stilettos.

MacNamara says even though many women have brought awareness to the domestic, it’s important men also lead the conversation and be responsible role model for young boys.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'WE OPEN on a young girl at a family gathering. A young boy, aged 10, rushes past with two friends — the girl follows.

As he walks through a doorway with two other young boys, he lets them pass through first before slamming it closed on the girl behind him, spilling her food.

Through a window in the door we see the boy smile cheekily. This girl’s mother helps her pick up her plate and consoles her.

“You’re OK, he just did it cause he likes you,” mum says.

This is the opening scene of the first video advertisement in the government’s new media blitz to combat disrespect towards women.

The one minute clip shows a series of scenes demonstrating accepted and casual sexist behaviour.

In one scene a boy’s father is seen to shout to his son not to “throw like a girl”. In another a trio of male teens snigger at a photo they take of a woman’s breasts.

Article here. Excerpt:

'IN this era of women-only parking, women-only trains, women-only apartments and transgender bathrooms, it seems the only acceptable man is a man who wants to be a woman.

The job of pathologising masculinity continues apace.

There’s the government’s new domestic violence campaign which portrays little boys as aggressive misogynists.

There’s the undergraduate newspaper Honi Soit, which claims that rugby teams at private boys’ schools foster a “rape culture”.

Or what about the Sydney preschool which bans four-year-old boys from dressing up as Batman for fear superhero costumes will make them “violent”?

Yes, the only way men can find forgiveness for their dark, brute natures is to denounce other men, or otherwise to swap sexes, a la Caitlyn Jenner.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'There's an old legal adage that good facts make good law, and bad facts make bad law. In the case of campus sexual assault, it may be that absurd facts will — eventually — make good law too.

About five years ago, the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights issued a letter that would change the face of campus sexual misconduct proceedings at colleges across the country.

The letter directed university administrators to judge allegations according to the lowest burden of proof available: the preponderance of the evidence, a mere 50.01% certainty that whatever the accuser claimed actually happened. It also highly discouraged cross-examinations, suggesting they might violate federal anti-discrimination law.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'A Georgia state lawmaker and his wife have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education and its Office for Civil Rights, alleging that it is trying to "micromanage student sex lives" with its regulations on how colleges and universities should handle allegations of sexual assault and harassment.

The lawsuit filed by State Rep. Earl Ehrhart and his wife, Virginia, on Thursday claims that a 2011 letter the department's civil rights arm sent to schools has effectively imposed binding regulations without going through the necessary administrative procedures.

The letter was meant to help schools understand their obligations under federal law to prevent and respond to sexual violence. Instead, it has imposed burdensome requirements on schools that accept federal funding "in what is essentially an attempt to micromanage student sex lives," the lawsuit says.'

Georgia state Rep. Earl Ehrhart and Mrs. Ehrhart have sued the US Dept. of Education over the infamous 2011 Dear Colleague letter. The lawsuit is available from the SAVE site here. Excerpt:

'The Dear Colleague Letter has aggressively dictated how colleges and universities handle sexual assault and sexual harassment on campus, by laying out specific requirements that schools must adopt and utilize, causing schools to brand more students “rapists” based on the excessively low “preponderance of the evidence” standard (equating to a mere 50.01% probability that the alleged misconduct occurred) as opposed to the “clear and convincing evidence” standard traditionally used in college disciplinary hearings, allowing accusers to appeal not guilty findings by disciplinary panels, and preventing accused students from challenging their accusers, even in cases in which the only witness is the complainant, out of concern that cross-examination “may be traumatic or intimidating” to the “victim,” all of which violate an accused student’s fundamental rights to due process.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'It’s 2016, folks. Why are white heterosexual cis men still allowed to grow weed? I mean, come on.

That’s just a few steps away from the opinion of Zooey Zachrow, a male-to-female transgender and marijuana farmer discovered by Mitchell Sunderland of Vice. Zachrow told Sunderland that cisgender men who ran weed dispensaries “didn’t treat the plant with respect” — hence the decision to start her own business.

“[Weed] saved my life,” she says. “I absolutely wouldn’t have survived the years [after the army] without cannabis.” Because of her religious upbringing, she feared telling her mom about her new friend. One day, she sat her mom down to tell her she was coming out of the “cannabis closet.” Zachow says her mom started crying. “Whatever you’re doing, it works,” Zachow recalls her mom saying. She had seen pot calm Zachow, and she was happy she had found something to help treat the PTSD.

Article here. Excerpt:

'The act of sex is not illegal. But if two members of the American Law Institute have their way, it will be — unless you follow their rules.

Law professors Stephen J. Schulhofer and Erin Murphy are trying to update the criminal code when it comes to sex offenses, believing current definitions of rape and sexual assault are antiquated. The focus of their draft is on what constitutes consent. It adopts the "yes means yes," or "affirmative consent" model that was passed in California last year.

The California law applies only to college campuses, however. Schulhofer and Murphy aim to take that definition of consent — which says that before every escalation of a sexual encounter, clear and convincing consent must be given — to the state or federal level. No one actually has sex this way, requesting permission and having it granted perhaps a dozen times in a single encounter.'