Submitted by Mastodon on Tue, 2016-04-05 11:06
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'Some members of Congress, the Marine Corps commandant and the Army’s chief of staff have proposed that women register for the draft. If the proposal is approved, women will join men ages 18 to 25 years in being required to register with the Selective Service System.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Mon, 2016-04-04 21:39
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'The University of Massachusetts updated the My Rights section of their Title IX website to specify provisions from the Coalition to End Rape Culture’s Survivor Bill of Rights.
The My Rights section, which CERC President Priya Ghosh said has been consistently revised by UMass since the winter break, contains nine bullet points and is prefaced with a statement acknowledging the influence of the Survivor’s Bill of Rights, which specifically applies to survivors of sexual assault.
“I discovered yesterday that many of the parts of the nine major clauses were adopted from the Survivor’s Bill of Rights,” said Ghosh, a public health sciences major.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Mon, 2016-04-04 21:21
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'Oxford University is deviating from its 800-year-old tradition to remain relevant to "the dramatic change" in the U.K., by allowing its undergraduate theology students to skip studying Christianity after the first year of their degree, and choose instead subjects like "Feminist Approaches to Theology and Religion" and "Buddhism in Space and Time."
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From September 2017, theology students will have to study Christianity only in their first year, and can opt for other areas, including feminism, Buddhism, Islam and mysticism, from second year onwards. A result of seven years of consultation, the new course will be called "theology and religion" for the first time.
"If you have a very rigid curriculum, there will be an increasing mismatch between what lecturers are doing in their research time and what they're having to teach," Zachhuber seeks to explain.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Mon, 2016-04-04 21:17
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'Now aged 14, this thought process led me to start a petition, “A In Equality”, because I think that feminism should be on the PSHE (personal, social, health and economic) curriculum in all schools. In order to achieve equality on every front, we need to start by educating the future generation on the rights that will affect every single person every single day.
If gender equality is formally put on the curriculum, it may not eradicate the major feminist issues in our society today, but it may, in the longer term, have a positive impact on attitudes towards feminism, and its importance in daily life.
PSHE covers lots of difficult subjects - such as mental health and bullying - which is why I believe it would also be a perfect place to learn about gender equality for both girls and boys.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Mon, 2016-04-04 21:13
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'If you’ve ever wanted to see your name memorialized in an important legal precedent, here’s your chance.
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education said Monday it “aims to challenge” the Department of Education’s use of unenforceable guidance to threaten colleges into changing their Title IX procedures around alleged sexual misconduct – and it needs a student or institutional plaintiff:
FIRE has made arrangements to secure legal counsel for a student or institution harmed by [Office for Civil Rights’] mandates and in a position to challenge the agency’s violation of the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). In keeping with FIRE’s charitable mission to advance the public interest, representation will be provided at no cost to the harmed party.
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Submitted by Matt on Sun, 2016-04-03 15:30
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'In order to fall into compliance with federal anti-discrimination law, the University of Kansas (KU) should segregate male student athletes to special dorms and immediately suspend anyone accused of sexual assault, argue the lawyers of a former student who says she was raped in the KU dorms. The young woman, Daisy Tackett (who has chosen to be public with her name and identity), is now suing the university in federal court.
According to Tackett's claim, the school's failure to take reasonable steps to prevent the assault and to adequately address the situation afterward created a "hostile" educational environment, in violation of the federal statute known as Title IX. The original aim of Title IX was to combat institutional sex discrimination in education, but has since morphed into "a lever by which the federal bureaucracy monitors schools’ policies and procedures regulating sexual behavior," as Harvard law professors recently put it. These days, schools are increasingly finding themselves under investigation by the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and on the receiving end of student lawsuits over perceived inadequacies in addressing sexual harassment and assault on campus.
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Submitted by Matt on Sun, 2016-04-03 00:07
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'A judge rebuked Brandeis University for denying fundamental due process rights to a student who was found guilty of sexual misconduct for a variety of non-violent offenses: most notably, because he had awakened his then-boyfriend with nonconsensual kisses.
The process that Brandeis employed to investigate the matter was "essentially secret and inquisitorial," according to Dennis Saylor, a federal judge who ruled that the accused student's lawsuit against Brandeis should continue.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Sat, 2016-04-02 21:43
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'The definition of masculinity is fairly straightforward — the possession of qualities appropriate to or usually associated with a man. However, society has shifted its collective perception of what it means to be masculine. Nowadays, there’s no ennobling, culturally accepted role for men; males are cast as either historical villains or self-abasing sinners begging for the collective forgiveness of their gender.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Sat, 2016-04-02 21:40
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'She may be 84, but Fay Weldon's work as a novelist, playwright, TV dramatist and scriptwriter still sparks debates in many a book club and beyond. Weldon, whose work includes the hit series The Life And Loves Of A She-Devil and The Cloning Of Joanna May, has lived long enough to be confident in her views on contemporary life, and today talks airily in detached tones about what "one" does and what "one" thinks.
Her outspoken opinions on feminism have often courted controversy, but after a lifetime spent people-watching, three marriages, four children, four stepchildren and a clutch of grandchildren, she's come to the conclusion that men are now under the cosh. Both men and women may have suffered as feminism has evolved, she reflects.
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"Feminism has certainly undermined men," she continues, "if only because women now want to have girl babies, not boy babies, because their lot in life is better."'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Sat, 2016-04-02 01:25
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'A drunk woman dialled 999 with a false rape claim because she wanted a LIFT HOME, a court heard.
Claire Hollins picked up the phone and asked a Derbyshire Police call handler if she could be driven from Derby to her home in Stoke.
The 22-year-old was hung up on - but called back a second time to say she had been raped.
However when officers spoke to her she admitted nothing had happened and that she "just wanted a lift home".
Hollins was pointed in the direction of a Derby taxi firm, but when the driver refused her fare, she caused £500 of damage to his cab.
Hollins pleaded guilty to a public order offence and to criminal damage and was handed a 12-month community order. She was also ordered to pay £85 prosecution costs and a £60 victim surcharge.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Fri, 2016-04-01 19:06
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'Macalester College was sued last February by a former student who accused the college of violating his right to due process and failing to provide him reasonable accommodations for his disabilities. The student, Alec Scott Jackson ’18, was being investigated by the college for an alleged case of sexual assault, and the lawsuit charged Jackson’s rights were violated during that disciplinary process. Jackson’s appeal for a restraining order against Macalester, which would have prevented them from carrying out his investigation while the suit was pending, was denied, and Jackson withdrew the lawsuit a few days later. Jackson no longer attends Macalester College.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Fri, 2016-04-01 19:05
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'The “Campus Witches,” a feminist group at the Ankara University Faculty of Languages, History and Geography, has suddenly garnered newfound popularity after video footage showing female students from the group physically assaulting a male student and accusing him of sexual abuse went viral.
As the video posted on the Campus Witches’ Facebook page on March 29 shows, security officers came to rescue the male student after members of the group began to physically assault him.
Another student addressed the crowd watching the scene, elaborating on the reason for the reaction to the male student, identified as E.Ç.
The group accused him of writing insulting messages addressed to his ex-girlfriend on his Twitter account and sexually assaulting her. The group also hung printouts of the messages.
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Submitted by Matt on Fri, 2016-04-01 19:04
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'Finally, a federal judge has strongly condemned the lack of due process and fairness that students accused of sexual assault face on college campuses.
Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV, a George W. Bush appointee, ruled that Brandeis University "failed to provide a variety of procedural protections to [the accused student], many of which, in the criminal context, are the most basic and fundamental components of due process of law."
In his 89-page decision, Saylor criticizes Brandeis for a number of due process violations, including denying the accused student access to the evidence against him or even a detailed explanation of the charges against him.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Fri, 2016-04-01 19:02
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'What if due process of law as guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution ceased to exist the moment that students stepped foot on college campuses?
Practically speaking, it stopped existing on campus several years ago, according to legal experts who spoke to the Cardozo School of Law chapter of the Federalist Society on Tuesday.
The systems in place to evaluate accusations at most colleges and universities are severely limited, and arguably unlawful, they told law students: Mere accusations are leading to expulsions and career-stunting social stigma for students who find themselves in the cross hairs of campus sexual-misconduct investigations.'
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Submitted by Matt on Fri, 2016-04-01 18:05
Story here. Pretty faces, ugly souls. Further proof that one need not be big, strong, or male to seriously hurt others. Tell feminists that, though. Bet they do no time for it, too. Excerpt:
'Three brawling babes in bikinis were collared in South Carolina for a riverside beach fight.
Arlinda Craft, 18; Anns Leigh Hill, 19 and Megan Williams, 20, were charged with second-degree assault and battery by a mob after they allegedly beat a female victim on a Columbia river beach, according to police.
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The victim told police that one assailant pulled her by her hair and threw her down on river rocks before she passed out.
Her coworker said that two of the women held her down while the other pummeled her.
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The 20-year-old victim of the latest attack, whose name has not been released, suffered a concussion, two black eyes, a bloodied face and a shattered nose.'
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