Submitted by Matt on Mon, 2016-01-11 00:48
Article here. Excerpt:
'The main reason for cutting little boy’s penises given is that it reduces the instance of the transmission of STDs such as HIV. That may be true, and certainly the CDC and other secular medical institutions have made similar claims. However, the problem with this reasoning is that a more effective way of preventing the transmission of disease is the use of condoms, and condoms don’t require you to be circumcised. In fact, even if you are circumcised, you STILL must use protection to avoid the spread of disease.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Sat, 2016-01-09 22:04
Article here. Excerpt:
'The military will face pressure to lower standards in the future, if women are unable to meet the physical requirements to join front-line combat units or elite fighting forces, a ranking Marine Corps general said Friday.
Calling it his “greatest fear,” Gen. John F. Kelly, the commander of U.S. Southern Command who is slated to retire at the end of the month, predicted few female troops would be able to meet the physical demands in the traditionally all-male military occupations – primarily in the infantry, armor and special operations fields.
“There will be great pressure, whether it’s 12 months from now, four years from now, because the question will be asked whether we’ve let women into these other roles, why aren’t they staying in those other roles?” Kelly told reporters Friday at the Pentagon. “And the answer is … if we don’t change standards it will be very, very difficult to have any numbers – any real numbers – come into the infantry, or the Rangers or the SEALs.”'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Sat, 2016-01-09 16:50
Article here. Excerpt:
'The former University of Virginia student whose false claim about being gang-raped was published by Rolling Stone is a “serial liar” who– in addition to fabricating the rape story — made up a second identity and lied about having a terminal illness, all so that she could win the affections of a student she had a crush on, attorneys representing a dean at the school claimed in a recent lawsuit filing.
Jackie Coakley posed as her own suitor, a UVA student she called “Haven Monahan,” in an elaborate catfishing scheme aimed at getting her friend and classmate, Ryan Duffin, to like her, attorneys for UVA dean Nicole Eramo asserted in court papers filed this week, according to The Washington Post.
She also told Duffin that she had a terminal illness and was “dying.” But her biggest lies graced the pages of Rolling Stone in a Nov. 2014 article entitled “A Rape on Campus,” which was written by Sabrina Rubin Erdely.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Thu, 2016-01-07 14:49
Article here. Excerpt:
'Steve Proctor — who was cleared by a jury’s unanimous verdict — called for anonymity of sex crime suspects until proved guilty, saying the unfounded claims cost him his job and the trust of friends and colleagues.
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He said that the damage caused by wrongful accusations fanned by “no smoke without fire” rumours affects ordinary people as well as celebrities.
In the Eighties and Nineties Mr Proctor started the Balearic/acid house scene and as a DJ played Ibiza, the Shoom, the Hacienda and the Wag as well as the O2 and the Royal Albert Hall. But in May 2010 he was accused of raping a woman he knew. After being on bail for 13 months he was cleared by the jury’s verdict.
However, he remains unemployed and suffers from depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. Now 56 and living on benefits in Crouch End, he said: “I was close to killing myself, this has destroyed my life. I felt the police’s attitude was that I was guilty until proven innocent.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Thu, 2016-01-07 14:49
Article here. Excerpt:
'U.S. Sen. James Lankford is accusing the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights of overstepping its authority in confronting the issues of bullying, harassment and sexual violence on college campuses and becoming the bully itself.
Lankford, R-Oklahoma, is chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs and Federal Management, which since September has been examining whether the Education Department and other federal agencies have been sidestepping the required regulatory process through the improper use of guidance letters.
In a letter being sent Thursday, Lankford said he wants the Education Department to prove its new mandates for “sweeping policy changes” on bullying, harassment and sexual violence at the nation’s colleges and universities are actually rooted in federal statutes and regulation.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Thu, 2016-01-07 14:48
Article here. Excerpt:
'Liberal, mainstream journalists are currently wetting themselves over a new paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research, which purports to show that sexual assaults rise on college football game days. The article, entitled “College Party Culture And Sexual Assault,” cross-references big game days with reports of sexual assault in college towns, showing spikes in reports.
The media is lapping it up. “Reported Rapes Go Through The Roof On Game Day At Big Football Schools” screams the Huffington Post. “Report: Rape Rates At Big Football Colleges Spike On Game Day” warns CBS. “Rape Rates Spike On Game Day At Big Football Schools” agrees New York Magazine.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Thu, 2016-01-07 14:47
Story here. Excerpt:
'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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According to the lawsuit, the housemates were present in the common area and could hear some of the sexual activities. At least two other white female students were also present. All agreed that M.K. consented to sex, and could at times hear her consenting to sex. Brown and Baity maintain that M.K. was not just a willing participant, but the prime initiator, of their various encounters that night.
M.K. went home the next morning, and bore neither of the alleged perpetrators any ill will. According to the lawsuit, she explicitly told another student (J.F) that the sex was consensual—the lawsuit describes her as “bragging” about it. She also bragged about the encounter to a white female who lived on her floor.
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Submitted by Matt on Thu, 2016-01-07 12:46
Story here. Read the article and then again, inverting the genders. Imagine if a man talked about how he had his young daughter take him out on a date, hold doors open for him, pay for it, etc. This woman's training her son to be a servant to women. Imagine if a man did this to his daughter what the reaction would be? Excerpt:
'A young mother says she is teaching her son how to treat a woman right, and her Facebook post about it has gone viral.
Nikkole Paulun appeared on the MTV show “16 & Pregnant” and has been on the receiving end of some very negative social media posts. But this time, thousands of people are applauding her story.
Friday night she posted about a “dinner date” between she and her 6-year-old son. More than 2.7 million people have liked her story.'
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Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2016-01-06 12:49
PRESS RELEASE
Contact: Gina Lauterio
Telephone: 301-801-0608
Georgia Tech Reinstatement is Evidence of Growing Public Alarm over Due Process and Free Speech on Campus
WASHINGTON / January 6, 2016 – The recent decision to reinstate a Georgia Tech student expelled for an alleged sexual offense marks a growing wave of popular concern over the erosion of due process protections and free speech rights on college campuses.
Earlier this week the Georgia Tech Board of Regents overrode the decision by a school administrator who had recommended the expulsion of a student accused of sexual assault. The Board reinstated the student when it learned that the investigator failed to interview witnesses provided by the defendant and gave him only one hour to review a 13-page, single spaced summary of the investigation (1).
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Submitted by GaryB on Wed, 2016-01-06 02:19
In Australia we've recently had a minor storm in a tea cup.
Chris Gayle, a cricketer, was interviewed by a female reporter. During the interview he made a 'pass' at her, saying she had lovely eyes and that maybe they could go for a drink together. Sleazy, in my opinion, but not exactly crime of the century. He has been hit with a $10,000 fine and has been hit with other sanctions such as being banned from interviews for the rest of the season. The backlash was instant.
But today the News.com.au dared to point out the double standard - a female reporter not so long ago propositioned a half naked man on the beach, and was reported as being 'brave' for doing so. No fine, no sanctions, no crime, no backlash. Excerpt:
'When Sunrise weather presenter Nuala Hafner openly hit on a semi-naked beachgoer during a live TV segment in December 2014, there was no such outrage. While presenting for the Channel Seven morning show from Sydney’s Balmoral Beach, Hafner spotted a Speedo-clad man going about his morning exercise.
“Story of my love life, he would rather get wet than come over to me,” Nuala joked with Kochie and co-host Natalie Barr back in the studio. “Is this some kind of mating display because I’m really enjoying it,” She then interrupted her weather report to introduce herself to the man. “Hello extremely muscly, fit, agile man,” she said as she approached him. “Hi how are you? I’m Nuala. Do you come here often?” When he told her he lived “up the road”, she quickly asked if he was “single”.
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Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2016-01-06 01:28
Article here. Excerpt:
'I was nineteen or twenty years old when a male friend of mine, we'll call him Bill, let me in on a most shocking fact: He was missing part of his penis, and so were almost all boys and men that I had ever seen in my entire life, as well as all the anatomical diagrams that I had ever seen. Ever.
Sure, I had heard of circumcision as a Jewish religious practice, but thought myself unlikely to ever see its results. Little did I know, all the male genitalia I had seen both in real life and as depicted in American anatomy books, had been edited in exactly the same way. The shock from this revelation overwhelmed me for weeks, especially since I considered myself to be fairly knowledgeable about anatomy. (My interests included biology and drawing biological structures.)
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Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2016-01-05 14:14
Story here. Excerpt:
'East Carolina University students who are good at neck rubs could find themselves hauled before a sexual misconduct board under new rules approved by the board of trustees.
The new policy describes sexual battery as “the intentional or attempted sexual touching of another person’s clothed or unclothed body, including but not limited to the mouth, neck, buttocks, anus, genitalia, or breast, by another with any part of the body or any object in a sexual manner without their consent.”
The school described updates to nondiscrimination and Title IX policies in a press release dated Dec. 18, the same day as winter commencement.
Though it’s labeled “ECU News Services,” the release is nowhere to be found from the news portal. The school’s only apparent public communication of the changes appears to have been four days later on Twitter.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Sun, 2016-01-03 22:29
Article here. Excerpt:
'Due process dominated the first part of their conversation. Gertner thought it was appropriate for Harvard to create an office to ensure it was complying with Title IX, but that the process created to adjudicate sexual-assault claims was flawed in these ways:
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Submitted by Mastodon on Sun, 2016-01-03 22:28
Story here. Excerpt:
'A federal complaint against the University of Wisconsin-Madison about its handling of a sexual assault report — one of three such complaints filed against UW-Madison in 2015 — alleges the victim was subjected to a sexually hostile environment because the university failed to respond promptly and equitably.
When the woman "expressed her concern about the many inequalities in UW-Madison's procedure via her advocate, (redacted) explained: 'We are locked into a system based on the rights of the accused,'" says the heavily redacted complaint obtained by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel through a Freedom of Information Act request.
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Colleges need only a "preponderance of evidence" showing it's more likely than not that a crime occurred to justify meting out punishment. That's a lower standard than the burden of proof in a criminal court.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Sat, 2016-01-02 20:42
Article here. Excerpt:
'“Family disadvantages” - including poverty, low education level of the mother, and not having a father in the house - affect boys more than their sisters, according to a recent study from the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Northwestern University, and the University of Florida analyzed ten years of administrative records for Florida students born between 1992 and 2002.
They found that boys in families facing adverse circumstances significantly underperformed their sisters in behavioral and educational outcomes despite the fact that they had similar upbringings.'
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