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'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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'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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'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.
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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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'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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'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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'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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'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.
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"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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'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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'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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'Gillibrand wants the debate over gun control to be refashioned into a “women’s issue,” instead of a complicated dispute related to hunting or the Second Amendment.
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She suggests Sanders’ maleness prevents him from relating to mothers who have lost loved ones to gun crime. She also states that he “doesn’t have the sensitivity he needs to the horror that is happening in these families,” adding, “I just don’t think he’s fully getting how horrible it is for these families.”'

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'We’re all for a good misandry joke, but No Men Beyond This Point looks like a “Funny or Die” video stretched into 80 minutes. Sony just released the trailer for this sci-fi-ish mockumentary, which premiered at the prestigious Toronto Film Festival last year, and it’s somewhat dire. In the film, 37-year-old Andrew Myers (Patrick Gilmore) is the protagonist; he’s the youngest dude in the world, as well as the housekeeper for an all-female family.

The trailer itself doesn’t give away much of the narrative; for that, we had to turn to the official TIFF guide, which actually makes the movie sound slightly more interesting. Women have evolved to reproduce asexually, and a new world order is in place that outlaws sex (between men and woman, obvs) and sends men off to so-called sanctuaries. When Andrew starts hooking up with one of the women he nannies for, it wreaks havoc on the household and could spell trouble for the female-only future.'

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'Are you a high school senior, recently admitted to the college of your choice? Congratulations, you are about to be raped. Probably.

That's according to a new viral awareness campaign launched by members of the creative team behind The Hunting Ground. That film, like the new, short videos, relies on misleading statistics and thinly-veiled junk science to create a public panic about sexual assault on campuses.

This new ad campaign is, if anything, even more alarmist. The videos, "Unacceptable Acceptance Letters," show high school students joyously reading college admissions letters. Eventually, the letters turn to the subject of rape, and matter-of-factly inform students there is a good chance they will be abused. Prettybird, the production company behind the videos, also purchased ad space in The Harvard Crimson. ...'

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'Sen. Kristen Gillibrand (D-NY) told Politico’s Glenn Thrush that the debate over gun control should be reframed as a “women’s issue” and that “nothing in this debate has to do with the Second Amendment rights.”

“This debate is relegated to the men. It’s about hunting? It has nothing to do with hunting,” she said on Thrush’s Off Message podcast released Monday. “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.”

Gillibrand is supporting Hillary Clinton, who has been hitting Bernie Sanders for his record on guns. Sanders, she said, “doesn’t have the sensitivity he needs to the horror that is happening in these families. I just don’t think he’s fully getting how horrible it is for these families [affected by gun violence.]”

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'CNN political commentator and NY1 host Errol Louis said during a Monday morning discussion that the reason Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has such high unfavorability numbers in most polls was because of unconscious sexism on the part of respondents.

New Day host Chris Cuomo asked Louis about a recent Wall Street Journal/NBC poll that found that even among Democrats, Clinton had a 56% unfavorable rating. “Let me suggest, because some of her strategists have said this kind of quietly, it’s not really a big thing on this campaign trail: a lot of this is sexism,” he responded

“It’s buried so deep that people just say, ‘I don’t trust her, she doesn’t keep her word,’” he said. “And then you turn it around and say, ‘What politician does?’”'

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'Following a recent California ruling in favor of a student accused of sexual misconduct, state lawmakers and college administrators are beginning to consider the budgetary implications of these claims. On April 5 the California Second Appellate District Superior Court overturned a University of Southern California decision that found a male student responsible because he allegedly “encouraged or permitted” other students to slap a female student on her buttocks. The Superior Court explained, “it is not too heavy a burden to require that students facing disciplinary action be informed of the factual basis for the charges against them."