Submitted by Mastodon on Thu, 2016-04-21 00:08
Article here. Excerpt:
'They say that freedom of expression is dead on campus, and we’ve witnessed it first-hand.
We’re trying to seek justice, as we believe it is our right to contribute to the campus culture, and our responsibility to talk about men’s issues.
This is larger than our group.
Today, boys are failing in school and literacy rates are dropping. Men are committing suicide at disproportionate rates, dissuaded by the lack of support available to them. Other issues that often affect men and boys include homelessness, workplace injuries and death, lack of parental rights, and the increase in children being raised without fathers. Why is our attempt to explore these valid issues met with such hostility?
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Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2016-04-20 22:18
Everyone is loving our new online advanced and newly diagnosed prostate cancer support groups. They're useful online sources of information. It's easy to use and can be totally anonymous, if you wish. Please join.
There are two groups..you can join one or both.
The advanced prostate cancer group at: https://healthunlocked.com/advanced-prostate-cancer
and the more general prostate cancer group for newly diagnosed and general information: https://healthunlocked.com/prostate-cancer-community
Here are some unique feature of our new online prostate cancer support platform.
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Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2016-04-20 21:57
Article here. Excerpt:
'I was in the middle of my summer class when my phone went off around 11:40 am on Thursday, July 18th, 2013. It was my ex-girlfriend. As I answered, I heard her voice insisting that I admit to perpetrating an incident of sexual misconduct against her. I was puzzled by her request and did not know how to respond.
A few minutes later I received a call from Darrin DeCoster, a Fairfax County, Virginia detective, who revealed the phone call was being recorded. Ordering me to not hang up, he threatened to arrest me on a “slew” of charges if I did not cooperate. As a 20-year-old in college, I was scared beyond imagination.
I was instructed to appear for an interview the next day at the Fairfax County Police Station. Since I was completely innocent, what did I have to fear? I assumed the police would conduct an unbiased investigation of the matter. That was before I heard about “victim-centered” investigations.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Wed, 2016-04-20 21:52
Article here. Excerpt:
'Milo Yiannopoulos, British technology journalist and entrepreneur, spoke in Laurie Auditorium last Sunday on microaggressions. The lecture was organized by Tigers for Liberty. In a response to a March 22 discussion regarding microaggressions organized by the Trinity Progressives, the Black Student Union and the Trinity Diversity Connection.
Manfred Wendt, the president of Tigers for Liberty, said the event was meant to encourage free speech on campus.
“We want Trinity to be a free marketplace of ideas, where contentious topics can be discussed intellectually and civilly. While not everyone at Trinity or everyone in Tigers for Liberty may agree with what the speaker has to say— it is important that we address these ideas head on in the pursuit of truth,” Wendt said.
In his lecture, Yiannopoulos said that microaggressions are good news for Americans.
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Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2016-04-20 18:52
Article here. Harriett Tubman, fine. But keep reading:
'Lew is expected to roll out a set of changes that also include putting leaders of the women’s suffrage movement on the back of the $10 bill, and incorporating civil rights era leaders and other important moments in American history into the $5 bill. Also, Jackson isn’t getting completely booted off the $20 bill. He’s likely to remain on the back.'
Given the unabashed racism and for some suffragettes, their female supremacy beliefs, I think the idea of putting early suffragettes on a bill around the same time Tubman gets placed on one is enough to make her spin in her grave.
Can't beat these times we live in.
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Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2016-04-20 00:34
Press release here. Excerpt:
'FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
April 19, 2016
CONTACT: Jeanette Hoffman (908) 418-0859
IN FIRST-OF-ITS-KIND LAWSUIT, STUDENT ATHLETE WRONGFULLY ACCUSED OF SEXUAL ASSAULT SUES OBAMA ADMINISTRATION AND CSU PUEBLO FOR VIOLATING TITLE IX GENDER DISCRIMINATION LAW
PUEBLO, CO— Grant Neal, a prominent student athlete at Colorado State University Pueblo (CSU Pueblo), has filed a first-of-its-kind lawsuit against the Obama Administration’s Department of Education Office of Civil Rights (OCR) and CSU Pueblo for violation of Title IX in a wrongful sexual assault investigation. Neal is being represented by Andrew T. Miltenberg, one of the nation’s preeminent attorneys specializing in campus assault due process.
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Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2016-04-20 00:21
Article here. Excerpt:
'Colorado State University-Pueblo suspended a male athlete for years after he was found responsible for sexually assaulting a female trainer. But the trainer never accused him of wrongdoing, and said repeatedly that their relationship was consensual. She even stated, unambiguously, "I'm fine and I wasn't raped."
That's according to the athlete's lawsuit against CSUP, which persuasively argues that the university not only deprived him of fundamental due process rights, but also denied sexual agency to an adult woman. Taken at face value, this case appears to represent one of the most paternalistic, puritanically anti-sex witch hunts ever reported on a college campus.
But that's not the only reason this case is interesting. The student-athlete, Grant Neal, has named the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights as a co-defendant. OCR's Title IX guidance to universities "encourages male gender bias and violation of due process right during sexual misconduct investigations," according to a statement from Neal's legal team.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Tue, 2016-04-19 22:34
Article here. Excerpt:
'If women are really treated as badly in America as feminists say they are, why do they seem so... privileged?
That’s the question posed by Toni Airaksinen, a student at women’s college Barnard, which is affiliated with Columbia University.
Airaksinen writes in Quillette, a magazine that promotes “free thought,” that her Barnard peers often “display conspiratorial glee when they make fun of and delegitimize men’s issues” such as academic underachievement, to say nothing of male-heavy psychological problems and social ills.
She was “seduced by feminist ideology” when she started taking women’s studies classes, but “real life taught me” that men suffer more than women in many ways – much higher rates of suicide, schizophrenia, autism and alcoholism, not to mention incarceration:'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Tue, 2016-04-19 22:31
Article here. Excerpt:
'Dr. Temperance Brennan (Emily Deschanel) is, arguably, the most calm and cool person on this planet. She uses science and rational thinking to make decisions, whether it's in her professional or personal life. However, the upcoming "Bones" episode is going to see this character lose her cool and assault a political activist.
...
According to the episode's synopsis (via SpoilersGuide), the Jeffersonian investigates a murder when a body is found in a car crash. This body belongs to a founder of a men's rights organization who may have been the victim of domestic abuse.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Tue, 2016-04-19 21:35
Article here. Excerpt:
'A woman's false rape report in Lancaster County recently made national news in a segment on NBC's Today morning show explaining how investigators used technology to discredit the claim.
The segment featuring Lancaster County District Attorney Craig Stedman and East Lampeter Township police Detective Chris Jones aired Tuesday morning to explain how a Fitbit wearable fitness device helped prove Jeannine Risley fabricated a rape claim last year.
"It sealed the deal for us," Stedman tells Today's investigative correspondent,Jeff Rossen, noting the inconsistencies in other evidence.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Tue, 2016-04-19 21:31
Article here. Excerpt:
'Singapore state prosecutors on Monday appealed against a high court decision acquitting a woman of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl because the law applied only to men, citing public interest.
Zunika Ahmad, 40, a woman who lives as a man, was acquitted last week of six counts of sexual assault despite pleading guilty to the charges, sparking strong reaction from women's and gay rights activists.
Judge Kan Ting Chiu said he threw out the guilty plea and acquitted Zunika because the law on which the charges were based relates only to men with a penis.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Tue, 2016-04-19 21:26
Story here. Excerpt:
'A 44-year-old Clemont woman was charged with three counts of domestic violence for allegedly attacking her boyfriend, her teen daughter and her boyfriend’s mother on Saturday, the Lake County Sheriff’s Office said.
Dawn Marie Colucci remained jailed Tuesday in lieu of a $10,000 bond.
The boyfriend said he and Colucci had been arguing for two days at their home on Pink Grapefruit Trail when he told her to leave and take their 12- and 15-year-old daughters with her. She then reportedly scratched his face, hit the 12-year-old in the face for refusing to give up her cell phone and pushed her boyfriend’s mother when she tried to get involved.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Tue, 2016-04-19 21:25
Article here. Excerpt:
'Last weekend, police in Scotland prepared for the Old Firm soccer match between Glasgow football clubs Celtic and Rangers in an unusual way — by removing serial domestic abusers, who were potentially a risk to their partners, from their homes. Officials described the plan as a preventative effort aimed at reducing the spikes of domestic violence that have been associated with Old Firm games in the past.
Due to increased alcohol consumption, strong emotions, and at-home viewing, there is often a direct correlation between major sporting events and an increase in violence against women. This has been particularly true in the intense Old Firm rivalry.
...
"Those being targeted could be awaiting trial for assault or have been released from prison on licence with strict conditions attached. Any breach could mean a return behind bars.
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Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2016-04-19 19:12
Article here. Excerpt:
'A molestation case that dragged on for five years took a toll on Percy Joseph’s life, and the lives of his family members. On Friday, finally, it turned out that the case was a false one.
The Thodupuzha First Class Magistrate Court in Idukki district acquitted Percy, Chief Manager of Union Bank’s Hyderabad branch, of all charges filed against him in a case that dated back to 2011. A woman named Prameela Biju had accused him of molesting her when he was a manager with Union Bank.
In the order, judge Jomon John said: “The accused was taken into custody by the police even before an FIR was registered against him. Later, police fabricated a story against him and subsequently registered the arrest. The prosecution’s case appears to be false and fabricated. The evidence of the victim is highly unreliable and unbelievable.”
Prameela Biju, who was a “woman civil police officer, according to court documents, visited Percy to talk about a loan for a two-wheeler.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Tue, 2016-04-19 18:45
Article here. Excerpt:
'Marine leaders have proposed a new physical fitness test that would still allow women to do the flexed-arm hang — but they're not likely to earn a first-class score without pullups.
A new plan for the PFT would require most women to do between eight and 10 pullups to net a max score on that portion of the test.
The potential change is in response to a fitness review ordered by Commandant Gen. Robert Neller. Marine leaders found that “some current [fitness] standards are either not relevant, not challenging or not attainable,” according to a briefing obtained by Marine Corps Times. The plan was presented to Marine leaders last week.'
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