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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.

Article here. Two! Just Two. Yes, of the 46 cases so far investigated, there were two cases -- TWO -- where the OCR found there had been a hostile environment. And ONE of those two were UVA. So go figure that! And this does NOT mean there WAS a sexual assault that went unpunished. It just means that there was an ill-defined "hostile" environment AT THE TIME (which may very well have been fixed before OCR even got involved). In all the remaining of the 46... just form letters were sent. That is how your money is being spent. Excerpt:

'Since the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rightssignaled stricter enforcement of Title IX in April 2011, it has resolved 46 investigations of colleges for possible violations of the gender-equity law involving alleged sexual violence. You can explore all investigations in this wave of enforcement and learn morewith The Chronicle’s Title IX investigation tracker.

Here we break down those 46 cases to see how they were resolved.'

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'A pair of Oklahoma women have been arrested for allegedly beating and torturing a five-year-old boy so badly that he has had two strokes since being placed in the hospital.

Police in Muskogee, OK, arrested the boy’s mother, Rachel Stevens, 28, and his “stepmother,” Kayla Jones, 25, for what doctors say appears to be months of vicious child abuse.

The case ended up with the police after the child was transferred from a Muskogee clinic to St. John Medical Center in Tulsa because of lesions on his face and a series of seizures. But when he got to Tulsa, doctors became suspicious over his injuries and determined that he was abused and not just suffering some sort of ailment as claimed by the lesbian couple.

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'In excerpts released Thursday, the Democratic presidential candidate suggested she believes women govern differently than men.

"I just think there are some areas where our own life experiences really prepare us to be more receptive," Clinton said. "I do think there is something in the governing or organizing approach. I just think women in general are better listeners, are more collegial, more open to new ideas and how to make things work in a way that looks for win-win outcomes."
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Asked whether she has seen sexism change over the years, Clinton said it might be less pronounced but it's still "prevalent in our political scene."

"There still is a double standard, there's no doubt about that," she said. "I see it all the time where women are just expected to combine traits and qualities in a way that men are not. And it does make running for office for a woman a bigger challenge. It's hard for anybody, but I do think that women bear that extra burden."'

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'The government has backtracked on plans to stop teaching feminism as a “major political philosophy” in A-level politics. Following a typically noisy online campaign, feminism “will now be compulsory” and the number of “female thinkers” on the syllabus will be greatly expanded.

Plans to drop the current section on feminism from the A-level politics course were revealed in proposals from the Department for Education in November 2015.

The section is not currently compulsory, but has proven a popular optional topic alongside environmentalism.

The topic included parts on sex/gender, gender equality and patriarchy. Last year, for example, the AQA politics and government exam paper asked students to: “Explain the term patriarchy in the context of feminism.”

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'Yet another dubious report claiming to show widespread sexism in Silicon Valley has been published, and the tech press is characteristically lapping it up.

The survey, given the headline-friendly title “The Elephant in the Valley,” is scarcely academic, consisting of a collection of stories published on a purpose-built website. It nonetheless contains a number of eye-grabbing statistics: 90 percent of respondents claimed they had witnessed sexist behaviour at work, 87 percent reported demeaning comments from male colleagues, and 65 percent reported unwanted sexual advances.

Upon closer examination, however, the survey — and, by extension, its findings — is riddled with basic flaws.'

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'A self-proclaimed feminist student at Michigan State University is blasting the administration for expelling her romantic partner after a 14-month discriminatory sexual-assault investigation.

In an open letter to Denise Maybank, vice president of student affairs and services, published in The State News, the unnamed author said her partner’s accuser was the one who sexually assaulted him and that he was denied school resources simply because he’s male.

“I write to you because this case has taught me that gender discrimination does exist,” the letter says.

The author’s claims mirror those in alawsuit against Amherst College by a male student who was expelled for rape despite evidence that his accuser had performed sex acts on him while he was “blacked out.”'

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'Two black athletes have sued a private college in Ohio, the University of Findlay, for expelling them without even a semblance of due process after they were accused of rape by a white female student.

The lawsuit, filed by Justin Brown and Alphonso Baity, characterizes Findlay’s investigation of the dispute—which was completed in just 24 hours—as a “sham.”

The university failed to interview witnesses who would have corroborated Brown and Baity’s accounts, threatened other witnesses for failing to back up the accuser and, most damningly, ignored considerable evidence that the accuser did not merely consent to sex—she bragged about it later, according to the lawsuit.'

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'It was quite the packed panel discussion: a dozen mostly left-leaning speakers, each allotted 10 minutes to give their thoughts on a controversial topic, Grappling with Campus Rape. The venue was the American Association of Law Schools’ 2016 meeting in New York City in early January. The lineup consisted primarily of actual law professors, and featured some undeniable heavy hitters on the subject of campus rape, including Michelle Anderson, dean of the City University of New York School of Law, and Mary Koss, a Regents’ professor of health at the University of Arizona and the originator of the one-in-five statistic about rape prevalence.

The setup was predictable. The answers, on the other hand, were frequently shocking.

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'I've written extensively on how the gender wage gap would be more accurately referred to as the "gender earnings gap," because the gap is due mostly to choices women make and not discrimination.

But now you don't have to take my word for it, you can listen to Claudia Goldin, an economics professor at Harvard University. Goldin spoke to Stephen Dubner, the journalist behind the popular podcast "Freakanomics," in a segment about what really causes the gap.

As one can imagine, Goldin comes to the same conclusion that I and many others have: That the gap is due mostly to choices men and women make in their careers and not discrimination.'

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'The journal for one of the two girls accused in the Mountain Vista High School murder plot had the names of people she planned to target, prosecutors said in court Wednesday.

That information came out during a motions hearing for 16-year-old Sienna Johnson. Johnson has been charged as an adult with conspiracy to commit first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit first-degree murder after deliberations. 

In court last week, prosecutors also said Johnson bought a BB gun to practice her shooting skills and mapped out plans to attack Mountain Vista High School in Highlands Ranch.'

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'Parker police want the public to know they do not believe a teenage girl was kidnapped in September and the girl may face charges for lying.

Back in September, police asked the community for help finding a person who had kidnapped a 17-year-old girl from her home, put her in a vehicle, subjected to her to what police called "unlawful sexual contact" and released her in the Willow Park area.

Police now believe the girl lied.

"It is with great relief that we announce that there are no kidnapping suspects at large," Parker police said in a news release sent to Denver7. "No arrests have been made in this case. We have recommended to the District Attorney’s Office that the individual be charged with False Reporting to Authorities."'

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