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.

Article here. Excerpt:

'A controversy has surfaced at Boise State University, over a weight-lifting class targeted for only women.

One male BSU student says because Boise State is a public university, they are breaking discrimination laws by having the class.

Former Idaho Attorney General, David Leroy, says merely granting exclusive use of a public facility to one group is not discriminating against all other groups.

Leroy added that not only does he think the student accusing BSU of discrimination doesn't fully understand the law, but furthermore, that same logic used in the accusation would give us bigger issues than a women-only weight class.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'An administrator at Michigan Technological University is laboring under the impression that Title IX takes legal precedence over the United States Constitution. He also believes students violate Title IX when they make raunchy jokes about sexual harassment.

The administrator is Les Cook, the president for student affairs at Michigan Tech, a taxpayer-funded public school with an ugly campus in the frozen tundra of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.

Cook made his odd claim about the supremacy of Title IX earlier this month as he attempted to justify Michigan Tech’s decision to place The Daily Bull, a satirical student publication, on probation for two years.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Earlier this week, I warned that the activist filmmakers behind The Hunting Ground appeared to be threatening their critics among the Harvard University Law faculty:

“The Harvard Law professors’ letter is irresponsible and raises an important question about whether the very public bias these professors have shown in favor of an assailant contributes to a hostile climate at Harvard Law,” Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering wrote in a statement to The Harvard Crimson.

That sure sounded to me like the prelude to a Title IX investigation. Sure enough, Harvard Law Professor Jeannie Suk writes in the New Yorker that “I’ve been told by a high-level administrator that several people have inquired about the possibility” of a Title IX inquiry:

Story here. Excerpt:

'The 33-year-old falsely claimed she had been sexually assaulted in Barnsley town centre last weekend and was issued with a fixed penalty notice by police.

Barnsley Command Team Chief Inspector Mark James said: “A thorough investigation was immediately carried out from the initial report received and the woman was provided support from specially trained officers.

“However, as the investigation progressed, a number of discrepancies in the claim became apparent and there was no evidence to corroborate or substantiate the woman’s claims, with CCTV footage confirming beyond doubt that an attack had not actually taken place.

“False reports of rape or any sexual assault are not only are an incredible waste of police resources and time, as well as the significant cost involved, but it is detrimental to the actual victims of this type of crime.”'

Article here. Excerpt:

'When contacted for comment by Newsweek, anti-rape activist Emma Sulkowicz threatened to sue the paper if they published the story of the man she accused of rape.

Newsweek‘s front page story, titled "The Other Side of the College Sexual Assault Crisis,” examines the surge in college students being falsely accused of rape after universities began lowering their evidentiary standards to crack down on rape. The centerpiece of the article is the story of Paul Nungesser, a Columbia University student who accused of rape by Sulkowicz.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'While many – myself included – applaud the rise of women as breadwinners and business leaders, the plight of the middle-aged male can’t be ignored, specifically since recent data showa troubling spike in suicide rates for this demographic. It’s what Salon magazine recently dubbed the “Willy Loman crisis.”

The article characterizes this cohort of white, middle-class men as having once been masters of the universe – until they weren’t. Forced to face challenging economic conditions as a result of the 2008 economic meltdown, many felt there was no alternative but to end their lives.

It’s not just a U.S. problem. According to the Canadian Mental Health Association, men die by suicide at four times the rate of women and, in Ontario, over the past 10 years, more men died from suicide than car crashes.
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It’s also hard to draw attention to the plight of middle-class white males without falling into the open arms of the men’s rights movement, a “manosphere” populated by misogynists who blame women and feminism for all of men’s woes. Let’s be clear: Feminism isn’t to blame for this issue. In fact, it may be part of the solution.

“Women, and feminists in particular, have been saying for decades that they want men to be more open with their feelings and want men to abandon masculine ideas of rugged individualism, so it makes no sense for women to somehow be blamed when men fail to seek help,” argued Cliff Leek, a Brooklyn-based doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at Stony Brook University and the managing editor of the research journal Men and Masculinities.

Men, he observed, need to adjust to a more equal work environment and that includes addressing their own assumptions that they are more entitled to positions or promotions than their female peers.

Article here. In a classic it's-only-a-problem-if-it-affects-women example of nymphotropism, the UK health chief declares obesity in women to be more dangerous to the UK than terrorism while deliberately ignoring it in men, who have a worse problem with it than women. Typical. Excerpt:

'Obesity poses as big a risk to the nation as terrorism, says the Chief Medical Officer.

Dame Sally Davies wants the obesity crisis in women to be classed alongside flooding and major outbreaks of disease – as well as the threat from violent extremism. 

Her extraordinary claim comes as she warns today that being overweight affects all stages of women’s lives – including in the womb.

It may lead them to being teased as teenagers, having higher-risk pregnancies and possibly developing breast cancer or heart disease after the menopause.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Hillary Clinton campaigned heavily this fall on the one-in-five campus rape statistic, promising to take on the “epidemic” of campus sexual assault. President Obama has cited the statistic. The White House teamed up with College Humor to create a stupid bear attack skit to make young men aware of the one-in-five statistic. However, that statistic, based on a 15-minute online survey of two Midwestern universities in 2007, is heavily disputed, and schools are reporting much lower numbers.

It is in this environment that young men in college are found guilty of sexual assault without trial, which has led both the alleged rapist of “Mattress Girl” and the fraternity falsely accused of gang rape in a debunked Rolling Stone article to file lawsuits against their accusers.

You may have seen our previous emails denouncing The Hunting Ground, a fake documentary full of lies: http://www.saveservices.org/sexual-assault/hunting-ground/

Good news! This Saturday and Sunday, December 12-13th, Fox News is taking on The Hunting Ground. Fox will be airing a documentary on campus sexual assault.

Information to Know:
Fox News Reporting - The Truth About Sex & College
Anchored by Martha MacCullum
December 12 and 13th, 8 p.m. ET
Fox News Channel

We encourage you to watch this special report, and hope that it will bring to light the many egregious activities taking place on campus and within the federal government.

Gina Lauterio, Esq., Policy Program Director
Stop Abusive and Violent Environments   
www.saveservices.org