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'Dallas family violence cases increased by 7 percent last year. But the most stark rise at one local shelter was in the number of battered men needing a temporary place to stay.

The Family Place nearly tripled the number of battered men it served last year compared with 2014. The 24 men assisted through November represented about 10 times the figure from just a few years ago, when the organization provided emergency shelter for two or three men annually.

In response to the escalating need, The Family Place plans to open a separate shelter for battered men early this year. Executive director Paige Flink said it would be the first in Texas and one of the first in the nation.

“Some people can’t believe me and others are saying, ‘Finally,’” Flink said about the new effort.'

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'A student who stabbed a man in the eye with a Christian Louboutin stiletto heel leaving him with serious injuries has walked free from court.

Shadiya Omar, 22, of Clarendon Road, Whalley Range attacked Justin Lloyd, also 22, as they both waited for a taxi home after a night out in Manchester city centre.

Manchester Crown Court heard Mr Lloyd, from Blackley, approached Omar’s friend outside the Mercure Hotel in Piccadilly Gardens on October 18 2014.

He offered the woman a crisp, but she knocked them out of his hand, so he attempted to pour them over her head.

The court heard Omar reacted by rushing to her friend’s aid and struck Mr Lloyd in the eye with the designer shoe.

Prosecuting, Jonathan Savage, said: ‘He was then struck a single blow to the left eye with an object.'

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'More people believe that feminism is irrelevant than call themselves a feminist, a survey has revealed. However, two in three Brits say that more needs to be done for women’s equality in our society, leading to a feminist organisation declaring Britain a nation of ‘hidden’ feminists. The survey results don’t bear this conclusion out.

The results were revealed in a recentSurvation poll for The Fawcett Society, in which more than 8,000 British adults were quizzed on their attitudes to gender and feminism.

It found that, while seven per cent of Brits identify as a feminist, nine percent say they believe feminism to be irrelevant. A further 61 per cent believe in equality between the sexes, but say they are not a feminist.

Once upon a time, California students could choose how to give consent to private sexual activity. Nowadays, the state has mandated affirmative consent, which means an accused student must show something like a sexual consent contract or video to prove consent existed.

But now, the University of California has stated that students may not videotape sexual activity without possible consent, which means that students are not able to prove that consent did occur: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/california-colleges-to-make-proving-innocence-a-punishable-offense/article/2580663

This new policy is making it impossible to defend oneself against a sexual assault accusation.

Contact University of California President Janet Napolitano: president@ucop.edu and tell her that the school's new policy is dangerous for every student.

Let's not wait until innocent students are found guilty under it.

Very truly yours,

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'In a story here, wrongfully convicted high school football star Brian Banks is seeking $219,000.00 from the State of California for his imprisonment based on a wrongful conviction.  California passed a statute that permitted exonerated convicts to be paid a maximum of $100 for each day they were wrongfully convicted and confined.  You can read the horrific facts of his ordeal reported here.

What I find interesting is that the DA's office sought a conviction Banks without any physical evidence except Wanetta Gibson's word.  You would think obtaining a rape conviction would be a tough case to prove, but the DA's office pursued charges against Brian Banks whose defense attorney talked him into a plea deal out of fear that a jury would assume Banks was guilty because he was a big black teeenager.

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'NO one wants sexual harassment or assault to be ignored. But the processes used to investigate related allegations on many college campuses increasingly resemble kangaroo courts.

It appears those potentially unconstitutional processes have been adopted due to pressure from the federal Department of Education through means that bypassed valid rule-making procedures.'

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'Perhaps no school in the state has been as aggressive in punishing alleged sexual assailants in recent years as Georgia Tech.

With campus rape grabbing national headlines, Tech has expelled or suspended nearly every student it has investigated for sexual misconduct in the past five years, records show. And at Tech, officials finding a student responsible for “non-consensual sexual intercourse” must either expel the student or explain why they did not.'

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'After the incidents of sexual assault in Cologne, Germany on New Year’s Eve committed by Muslim refugees against German women, feminist apologetics have acquired renewed vigor in the European debate.

Pundits and politicians assure the public that refugee males now storming the gates of Europe from the Middle East, Northern Africa and Central Asia will be required to learn that Western women are independent and sexually liberated. Such arguments, however, are obviously too weak to have any impact on the male cultures representative of certain refugee groups.

To these individuals, strong European women are ‘easy’ and easy victims; they have respect only for strong men – and strong men aren't exactly thick on the ground in Europe.

The deficiency of masculinity in European culture renders it impotent in the face of the political and cultural chaos that has escalated along with growing immigration.'

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'Defense lawyers in an evolving Brownsville rape case are now claiming that there's video that clears five young men of allegedly gang raping a young woman in a dark playground last week. The case has gripped the city's attention and there's a lot at stake in how it turns out.

The case has reminded some of the infamous 1989 Central Park 5 case, where young men were wrongfully convicted of brutally raping a jogger in Manhattan's Central Park. If you haven't seen Ken Burns' documentary or followed the story of how the young men fought for their freedom and ultimately sued the city, you really should. The story was in the headlines again recently when a teacher was allegedly fired for teaching her class about the case.

Story here. Another example of a female getting a group of males to do her dirty work for her. And another lesson to would-be pseudo-chivalrous white knights, too. Excerpt:

'The woman accused of luring her ex-boyfriend to his death in 2011 has been found guilty of his gruesome murder.

Seath Jackson was tortured, beaten, shot and burnt in a Summerfield, Florida home before having his body broken into pieces to be put into paint cans that were thrown into a lime quarry.

His ex-girlfriend, Amber Wright, was 15 years old at the time of his murder. She was found guilty of first-degree murder after jurors deliberated for two hours in a Marion County courtroom, WESH reported.

This was Wright's second trial after her first conviction was overturned because she wasn't properly read her Miranda rights.

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'A new data analysis from EconoMonitor is attempting to prove that men don't want to manspread -- they need to.

With the help of data scientist Mark Skinner, EconoMonitor writer Ash Bennington looked at the science behind why dudes manspread on public transit. "Manspreading" refers to when men take up more room than necessary on subways, buses and other types of public transportration.'

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'Poor men. It was already difficult enough for them to accomodate their fellow subway riders, ostensibly because their balls need space (or something). Now they can't even spread their legs on public transit without being shamed for manspreading — by the transit authority, no less.

Well, one data scientist wants to put a stop to all the ladies nagging men for simply doing what they need to do for a comfortable train ride (i.e. sit with their knees as far apart from one another as possible, thereby ensuring strangers can't fit more than a single butt-cheek on the seat next to them).

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'In April 2014, Stephanie Burns' company, Chic CEO, was gearing up for a networking event at an Italian restaurant in San Diego. Chic CEO hosts online resources for women starting their own businesses, and this spring evening it had teamed up with a local networking group to throw a mixer at Solare Lounge, where women could mingle over cocktails and appetizers while talking business.

During the event, Rich Allison, Allan Candelore, and Harry Crouch appeared at the restaurant door. They had each paid the $20 admission fee, and they told the hosts they wanted to enter the event. Chic CEO turned them away, saying that "the event was only open to women," according to the men's version of events, explained later in a legal complaint. Within two months, the three men had filed a discrimination lawsuit against Burns and her company alleging that the event discriminated against men. They are each members of the nation's oldest men's rights group, the National Coalition for Men, and Crouch is the NCFM's president.'

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'Wielding irrelevant laws, spurious social science and financial coercion, the Obama administration is pressuring colleges and universities to traduce standards of due process when dealing with students accused of sexual assault. Claiming that a 1972 law prohibiting sex discrimination in education somehow empowers the government to dictate institutions’ disciplinary procedures, the administration is dictating that a mere “preponderance of the evidence,” rather than “clear and convincing” evidence, be used in determining a life-shattering verdict of guilt.