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'It’s time for us to face up to an ugly truth: it’s not just men who can be murderers and violent, abusive attackers of the opposite sex.

This was brought into grim focus last week with the horrific case of Sharon Edwards, 42, who brutally murdered her husband, David, 51, by stabbing a 13-inch carving knife through his heart.

A serial man-abuser, Mrs Edwards inflicted 60 stabbing and prodding wounds to her husband. While in court, Sharon brazenly lied that David “walked into” the knife. She is currently serving at least 20 years in jail for murder.
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But politically the system is stacked against men. While ending violence against women and girls (VAWG) has rightly been a governmental priority, there is not only no specific strategy to end violence against men. Attempts to modify the VAWG strategy to include male victims have been actively resisted.

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'The president highlighted how many women are speaking out against this online harassment every day — and why their activism is so important:

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'Opponents of the bill, including Shelley Dempsey, who is part of a group called Families Advocating Campus Equality (FACE), told the committee Tuesday that the bill will unfairly shift the burden of proof onto the accused student. Dempsey’s son was accused of and cleared of sexual assault at Bucknell University.

In her testimony, Dempsey cited examples of similar cases in California and Tennessee where students were improperly expelled because of “yes means yes” regulations at universities.
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“I know hundreds of young men who have been falsely accused of sexual assault,” Dempsey testified. “Or where a night of drinking has been recast as an assault.”
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Sen. Mae Flexer, D-Danielson, who introduced the legislation, said “the fact is there are.”

“If one in five women who go to college are raped or sexually assaulted, there clearly are scores of men on college campuses who are ready to assault them,” Flexer said. “That is a fact.”

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'The Massachusetts Bar Association, the Boston Bar Association, and the Women’s Bar Association, together with a couple of influential Senators on the Judiciary Committee, have succeeded in gutting the proposed reforms of custody law that were fought out over two years ago by Governor Patrick’s Working Group.

As a result, National Parents Organization must do a U-turn and oppose the passage of S834, also known as H1207. You MUST call your Senators and Representatives today or tomorrow to urge them to amend or defeat this bill, since I do not think it is likely that we can get it changed enough in the committees it must go through before it gets to the floor of the House and of the Senate.

In a classic double-cross, three representatives of bar associations who served on the Working Group pretended to support the bill when we finished our 18 months of work and sent it to Governor Patrick. Then, once the bill got into the Judiciary Committee, they went behind closed doors to do their bloody work.'

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'A Keesler Air Force Base enlisted woman in Mississippi who was covertly recruited as a Biloxi-area informant and then pleaded guilty to falsifying rape claims has lost a key appeal.

Capping a knotty chapter in military law enforcement, the Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals rejected the claims of Airman Basic Jane M. Neubauer, while also shedding light on what happened after her April 2013 recruitment by the Air Force Office of Special Investigations.

"Her primary role was to collect information regarding drug use and distribution by other airmen," the court noted in its decision issued March 10.

Besides highlighting the Air Force's use of enlisted personnel as informants, Neubauer's case illuminates, as well, the military's intense focus on combating sexual assault. Neubauer's false claims sparked a severe reaction in part because officials feared they could undermine their anti-assault campaign.

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'A Maryland House committee could vote as early as today on a bill that would establish "affirmative consent" standards regarding sexual assault on most college campuses in the state. It comes as one in four women report being sexually assaulted during their time in college nationally.

"Affirmative consent" would make anyone seek verbal or non-verbal approval for any sexual act.Under the bill sponsored by Del. Marice Morales (D-Montgomery), incapacitation, silence, being asleep, unconsciousness, or lack of protest and/or resistance could not be considered consent for a sexual act. Supporters say that's very important since alcohol is involved in many campus sexual assaults, where a victim may have passed out or been to intoxicated to prevent an assault from occurring.

The House Judiciary Committee will decide whether to move the bill forward to a full vote on the floor of the House of Delegates. Members of the committee heard from supporters and opponents last week.'

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'A man facing a rape trial committed suicide in Indore days after the complainant reportedly admitted that he had only tried to hold her hand after a fight over money.

Roopkishore, 53, was found dead in his home in Palasia locality on Sunday, four days after the woman, 33, admitted during trial that she had falsely charged him with rape to avoid repaying the money her husband owed him.

The woman, who is Roopkishore’s tenant, had accused him of raping her on December 26. The police booked him under Section 376 of the IPC and arrested him.

In his defence, Roopkishore, a moneylender, said he had lent some money to the woman’s husband for buying a vehicle, and she had framed him to avoid repaying it.'

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'We all love attention. If you think I don’t love to see my name in the newspaper every week then you are mistaken. I long for the Wednesday night meetings at the Torch where my coworkers clap upon my arrival. But just how far will people go to get their much needed attention?

You might remember getting a text or email from Ferris about an assault that happened on campus. According to the student, she was grabbed by a man while walking in the dark. That is one of the more unsettling things to hear about on your campus.

Well hold on, because it turns out it was all false. The student admitted to lying about the incident. I don’t know what her motives were, but I think it’s a safe assumption she did it for attention. This kind of thing goes beyond just “not cool.” There are serious consequences to making a false report of this kind.

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'Liberalism in Connecticut used to stand for due process of law, but not anymore. Increasingly liberalism in Connecticut stands instead for mere political correctness, as signified by two liberal causes advancing through the General Assembly. They could result in the Constitution State weakening the constitutional guarantee of due process.

The first is legislation to require colleges to expel male students who can’t prove themselves innocent of non-criminal accusations of sexual assault made by female students — can’t prove that their sexual relations were entirely consensual. This is being called "affirmative consent." Under "affirmative consent" such innocence is unlikely to be proved without sworn and notarized receipts from the sexual partner or comprehensive video-recording.'

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'Three days before the University of Oregon’s basketball team opens play in this year’s NCAA Tournament, two former Ducks players who were kicked out of school after being accused of an off-campus sexual assault have filed a $20 million lawsuit against the university.

The suit filed Tuesday in Lane County Circuit Court by former Ducks Dominic Artis and Damyean Dotson comes five months after a third former player, Brandon Austin, filed a $7.5 million lawsuit against the UO.

All three players allege university officials violated their due process rights and ruined their chances at professional basketball careers. The suits assert the players were treated unfairly when they were issued long-term suspensions after Lane County prosecutors declined to prosecute them in connection with the off-campus incident.

A female student accused the three players of raping her at a party in Eugene in March 2014. The players have acknowledged a sexual encounter occurred but say the woman consented to it.'

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'Want to experience a happier relationship with the man in your life? Well, hear this: Your love is not enough for him. Your RESPECT is really what he is after.

When polled, men said they would rather feel alone and unloved than inadequate and disrespected. (It is the opposite for women. Most women would put up with feeling inadequate and disrespected over feeling alone and unloved.)

While men and women are created equally, and made to be partners that sail through life together, we are also created differently. And what helps a woman feel love does not usually translate for men. If you want to love your man in the way he needs and wants to be loved, then you need to ensure he feels your respect.'

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'Advocates for due process in campus rape adjudications have long sought to remove college officials from investigations because their various conflicts of interest render them unable to provide basic fairness to either party. (See this recent column by Barnard College student Toni Airaksinen on her involvement in sexual-misconduct cases.)

That’s why it’s troubling those advocates to see how the University of Texas-Austin is attempting to turn a neutral institution – its campus police – into an advocate for one party.

What is your opinion of this article? It does make some good points, but leaves out some as well. Excerpt:

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'Innocent.

That’s what Marine Maj. Mark Thompson declared the first time we met.

He’d been fighting to prove it ever since two young women accused the former history instructor at the U.S. Naval Academy of having sex with them while they were students. One of the women said the 2011 liaison — amid a drunken night of strip poker at his Annapolis home — was consensual and part of an ongoing relationship. The other called it rape.

None of it was true, Thompson said as we sat at a quiet table inside the Hay-Adams hotel bar called Off the Record — ironic, considering how eagerly he wanted The Washington Post to write about the way the military had handled his case.

“They railroaded me,” he would say later.'

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'You know who Crystal Mangum is, even if you don’t know her name.

Ten years ago, on the night of March 13, 2006, Mangum and another woman were hired by members of the Duke Lacrosse team to dance and strip at a house party. Early the next morning, she reported to Durham police that she had been sexually assaulted by some of the lacrosse players.

Mangum lives on in the public consciousness as one of America’s most infamous rape accusers. She is aware of this even though she’s currently serving a minimum 14 year, 2 month prison sentence for second-degree murder in an unrelated case.

“It’s so hard for me to share my story with strangers,” Mangum said over the phone from the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women. “I’ve had so many times… where I share my story and it got misconstrued or people made up what they wanted to believe out of the story.”