Article here. Excerpt:

'The world may have been concentrating on the climate change conference in Paris, the EU renegotiation talks and Star Wars; but future historians may record this week as the moment the earth finally moved in social relations between women and men.

Today, for the first time, the Equalities and Human Rights Commission will be called upon to recognise formally that men and boys can be in positions of systemic disadvantage and inequality in British life - such as education and family life and law.

A tiny fissure will thus be driven into the unyielding concrete crust that has covered gender politics for the last half century. For the entire lifetimes of most people in this country, it has been a central, unquestionable article of faith that where inequalities pervade our society by gender, they must inhere exclusively to females.'

An appalling story here. Excerpt:

'A man imprisoned for 28 years after a woman said she dreamed that he raped her could be freed after a Denver judge overturned his conviction.

Denver District Judge Kandace Gerdes ordered a new trial for Clarence Moses-El, saying he would likely be acquitted after another man confessed to the crime.

Moses-El was convicted in 1988 of raping and assaulting a woman when she returned home from a night of drinking. He was sentenced to 48 years in prison.

His efforts to appeal were unsuccessful, in part because Denver police destroyed DNA evidence from the attack, despite a judge's order to preserve it.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Four men stand on the corner of College and Chapel street in New Haven on Sat. Oct. 3, dressed head to toe in white Tyvek painter overalls, shivering. On the fabric below their waists, each man proudly sports a large, shocking red splotch.

The white jumpsuits certainly make a statement—“bloody crotches saying ‘J’accuse!’” as one man describes them later—but they aren’t windproof. It’s aWuthering Heights kind of day, the kind where the wind whips around the sides of buildings and under your hood; where the tips of your fingers get stiff around the pencil you’re clutching.

Or the “Stop Torturing Boys” sign you’re waving, in the case of the four men standing next to me. They call themselves the Bloodstained Men.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Last week, I attended the second International Conference on Shared Parenting in Bonn, Germany. This was organized by the International Council on Shared Parenting (ICSP). (National Parents Organization has worked hard to foster the growth of this new Europe-based research organization.)

The conference was attended by about 120 people from 20 countries, from Malaysia to America. We learned, for instance, that shared parenting is favored by law in Switzerland, Sweden, Australia and Brazil, which also has an anti-parental alienation law. Moreover, as we have reported earlier, the Council of Europe has passed a resolution calling for shared parenting in the European countries in order to counter gender bias.

As one of the presenters, I gave evidence to support the idea that in most cases, the best interest of the child is best served with shared parenting.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'For further evidence that outrage feminists believe gender trumps all else, a new report from the Women's Media Center bemoans the fact that more articles about campus sexual assault in major newspapers were written by men than by women.

Forget the content of those articles — women should write about rape, and men should write about whatever the modern feminists tell them they can write about.

WMC limited their search of gender bylines to "top-circulation" U.S. newspapers and wire services. One wonders what the byline breakdown would be had they included other media outlets. The list did not include Slate (which discounts Emily Yoffe, who often writes on the topic), the Daily Beast (which discounts Cathy Young and Lizzie Crocker), Salon (which discounts Amanda Marcotte), Cosmopolitan (which discounts Jill Filipovic and several other women), Reason (which discounted Elizabeth Nolan Brown and Linda M. LeFauve), nor did it include the Washington Examiner, which discounts me.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'The Education Department's Office for Civil Rights just received a 7 percent increase in its budget in the recently passed omnibus spending bill.

The House-passed bill includes a $7 million increase in funding for OCR, while the bill before the Senate includes a $6 million increase. Last year, OCR's budget was $100 million.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Ella Whelan: Are you therefore concerned by the push for affirmative-consent or, as they’re otherwise known, ‘Yes means Yes’ laws?

Story here. Excerpt:

'Dilrushi Mendis, 40, cheated on her husband with the married businessman until he sacked and dumped her.

But the mother-of-one refused to accept the relationship was over and launched a campaign against him, sending “revenge porn” to his relatives and turning up outside his home.
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“She sent him a text which read, ‘If you do not come and see me I’ll do something terrible to you.’ She asked him — knowing he was a wealthy man — for £40,000 to £50,000 to open a hair salon.”

Around this time she reported him to the police, claiming he struck her. “She admitted to him she lied to the police,” Mr King said.

On the evening of March 2 last year she invited him to stay over. He arrived with a friend and still maintains they slept in a separate room. 

Mendis, however, told police the men arrived with alcohol and she had two or three drinks before her  former boss entered her room and raped her.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'A Norwegian campaign to stop sexual violence against women has received criticism for being sexist against men.

The video, titled “#DearDaddy” and produced by CARE Norway, seeks to tackle “rape culture” as it shows the future life of the titular father’s unborn daughter asking him ”for a favour about boys.”

”By the time I’m 14, the boys in my class will have called me a whore, a bitch, a cunt and many other things,” the actress says. “By the time I’m 16 a couple of the boys will have stuck their hands down my pants when I’m so drunk I can’t even stand straight.”

“And when I say no, they just laugh. It’s funny right?” she asks.

She goes on to tell her father how she was raped at 21 by the son of a man he used to go swimming with, who would always make insulting jokes that he would laugh at.'

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#DearDaddy video on YouTube here.

Story here. Excerpt:

'Young, white men are the most derided group in Britain, according to a vast series of polls into the public's attitudes to each other.

British people expect young white men to get drunk, not work hard, be rude and to have several sexual partners. 

They are also deemed to be the most likely British residents - alongside young black Caribbean men - to take drugs.

The YouGov poll asked people for their views on different groups of 48 differing groups - including ages, genders and ethnicities - and were asked to score them on specific positive and negative criteria.

These included how likely they are to be honest, to be intelligent, to work hard and to help others.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'In Fox News Reporting: The Truth About Sex & College, host Martha MacCallum explores the so-called “rape epidemic” on college campuses that has been hyped by President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and other political leaders such as Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) – who invited mattress-carryingrape accuser and sex tape producer Emma Sulkowicz to the State of the Union address in January.

Story here. Excerpt:

'A group of Harvard professors who criticized the campus rape documentary “The Hunting Ground” are being menaced with the possibility of a Title IX sexual harassment investigation intended to silence their criticisms.

“The Hunting Ground,” released early this year, portrays American college campuses as hotbeds of sexual assault where administrators routinely allow perpetrators to get off scot-free. The film has attracted a great deal of criticism, though, both for the data it relies on and for the individual stories it uses to portray the campus rape epidemic.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Sam’s Club black, female CEO Rosalind Brewer told CNN’s Poppy Harlow that she recently met with a supplier whose executive team was comprised of all white males.

“Just today we met with a supplier and the entire other side of the table was all Caucasian males,” she told Harlow who asked her what she said to them.

“I decided not to talk about it directly with his folks in the room because there were actually no female, like, levels down,” she said. “I’m gonna place a call to him.”

Wow.

She also said she uses her position to “nudge,” Sam’s Clubs partners and suppliers to hire more minorities and women for the top spots.

This philosophy is not discrimination how?'

Article here. Excerpt:

'That men tend to be in worse health than women has now been made clear by robust evidence from various sources. The Global Burden of Disease study led by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in 2010 (GBD 2010 study) showed that throughout the period from 1970 to 2010, women had a longer life expectancy than men.1 Over that 40-year period, female life expectancy at birth increased from 61.2 to 73.3 years, whereas male life expectancy rose from 56.4 to 67.5 years. These figures indicate that the gap in life expectancy at birth widened between the sexes to men’s disadvantage over those 40 years.

Article here. Excerpt:

'One week after Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced women in the U.S. military can serve in any combat role, a federal appeals court is considering a lawsuit from a men's group that says a male-only draft is unconstitutional.
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in California will now decide "whether to dismiss the case or send it to a lower court for trial," member station KPCC reports.

Here's how KPCC summarized last week's hearing:

"'Things have changed,' Judge Marsha Berzon said at one point during Tuesday's proceedings. 'Right now the position is that all combat jobs are open to women, no?'

"Attorneys for the federal government said the case should still be thrown out arguing, in part, that because the named plaintiff, James Lesmeister, has registered for the draft, the point is moot.

"'There is no assertion in the complaint of any injury whatsoever,' Assistant U.S. Attorney Sonia McNeil said.