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'Jackie, the former University of Virginia student whose fabricated claims about being gang-raped by fraternity members in 2012 appeared in Rolling Stone exactly one year ago, is refusing to turn over emails and phone records of her correspondence with her friends and with the article’s author, Sabrina Rubin Erdely.

The Richmond Times-Dispatch is reporting that Jackie’s attorney, Palma Pustiknik, claimed in a recent court filing pertaining to a $7.5 million defamation lawsuit filed by UVA dean Nicole Eramo that Jackie’s “privacy and dignity” will be violated and that she will be subjected to “extreme harm” if the records are provided.

Jackie is not a defendant in the lawsuit. Instead, Eramo is suing Erdely, Rolling Stone, and its parent company, Wenner Media, for $7.5 million in damages.'

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'Coca-Cola CEO Muhtar Kent likes new Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. A lot.

The chief of the beverage giant brought up the newly elected prime minister during a panel on women in corporate leadership at theWomen’s Forum of New York’s Breakfast of Corporate Championson Nov. 19. Later, Kent brought Trudeau up again in an interview, lauding the PM’s insistence on a Cabinet that is 50% female. “I’m a big, big fan,” Kent said. “He’s my favorite feminist right now.”

Kent, it seems, isn’t shy with the f-word. “If you’re a male and you’re at the top, you have to be a feminist, and you have to be proud of being a feminist,” he says. “Being a declared feminist— I’d even go as far as to positively discriminate, to put it in people’s annual assessment.”'

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'Division between men and women is stirred up by “militant feminists” and overzealous “politically correct males”, Conservative MP Philip Davies has said in a parliamentary debate to mark International Men’s Day.

The MP for Shipley said he had spent his political career campaigning against “the blight of political correctness, which is doing so much damage to our country”, and that its “most pernicious effects” were felt on the area of gender equality.

Speaking in a debate which focused on the issue of male suicide, Davies described the introduction of the select committee for women and equalities after May’s general election as “the most depressing thing to happen”.

“After everything else, in 2015 we have a separate committee to deal with women’s issues on top of the women’s minister, women’s question time and the many strategies in the country which only deal with women,” he said.

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'At dinner in his New Mexico home, Rob Manzanares looked every bit the quintessential dad, bantering with the three children he’s raising with his fiancée. But there’s an empty seat at the table that he’s been fighting to fill for six years.

“It's state-sanctioned kidnapping,” he said. “It’s stealing of children.”

Manzanares fathered a daughter in 2008 and claims his then-girlfriend gave her up for adoption in Utah without his knowledge or consent. He’s been waging a legal battle to get full custody of the girl ever since.

In Utah, unwed biological fathers have few paternal rights. To have any say in an adoption, they must satisfy complicated criteria within 30 days of a mother’s decision to give up the child. These requirements include signing a biological father registry in Utah, showing evidence of financial and material prenatal support to the expectant mothe,r and a detailed plan for supporting both the mother and child after the birth.'

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'The backlash against the inaccuracies in "The Hunting Ground" has apparently gotten to director Kirby Dick. On Wednesday, he defended the film to The Hollywood Reporter, which was reporting on the criticism.

Then on Thursday, Dickwrote his own op-ed for the Reporter to defend the film, which airs Sunday on CNN. In it, Dick tries to dispute the claim that "The Hunting Ground" followed the same journalistic practices (or lack thereof) as Rolling Stone when it reported a gang-rape hoax at the University of Virginia.

Dick claims that "not a single case that we featured in the film has been discredited as being untrue." I'm not sure there is such a thing anymore as discrediting a case. There are people to this day who claim that something must have happened to the Rolling Stone hoaxer, Jackie, to make her tell such a tale.'

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'Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Jameis Winston is threatening to sue CNN if the network airs a documentary on campus sexual assault that accuses him of rape, according to a letter obtained by the Hollywood Reporter.

The Hunting Ground, directed by Kirby Dick and producer Amy Ziering, debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in January and has since been screened on college campuses across the country, earning an endorsement from Barack Obama. CNN has announced plans to air a broadcast version of the film on Sunday.

"We are writing to formally caution CNN that the portions of the film The Hunting Ground pertaining to Mr Winston are false and defamatory to Mr Winston,” states the letter from Winston’s attorneys to CNN’s Jeff Zucker. “We urge CNN to reconsider the reckless decision to proceed with the broadcast of this deeply-flawed documentary in the face of the overwhelming evidence the film’s producers consciously and intentionally failed to adhere to any accepted journalistic standards.”'

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'Thrasher, and many others in academia, are upset about a film called "The Hunting Ground" that CNN has scheduled to air Sunday at 8 p.m.

The film bills itself as a documentary on campus rape, an obviously complex and controversial subject worthy of impartial exploration.

But that's not what you'll get Sunday night if you tune in. Don't take our word for it. Take it from the horse's mouth, one of the film's producers.

"We do not operate the same way as journalism," wrote producer Amy Herdy, of Chain Camera Pictures. She made the statement in an email to Erica Kinsman, who in 2012 accused then-FSU quarterbackJameis Winston of rape. The producer's goal was to secure an interview.

"This is a film project that is very much in the corner of advocacy for victims, so there would be no insensitive questions or the need to get the perpetrator's side," Herdy wrote in the email, which FSU obtained through its litigation with Kinsman.'

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'A student is suing a New York City drama school in federal court after the college suspended him for having what he claims was an entirely consensual threesome.

According to the New York Post, the lawsuit alleges the American Musical and Dramatic Academy told the plaintiff that he could not return for two semesters after the sexual encounter. The school also suspended a second male participant in the threesome.

The plaintiff, referred to as John Doe in court documents, is suing for damages.'

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'This morning, the Bainbridge Island School District announced that girls-only Lego play in Keller's classroom has ceased.

"Following the release of a recent news article, the Bainbridge Island School District (BISD) has received inquiries that reflect inaccurate perceptions about student access to Legos in Karen Keller’s kindergarten classroom at Blakely Elementary School," wrote district spokeswoman Galen Crawford.

"In keeping with a science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education grant, Ms. Keller gave girls a designated time to play with the building toys during a 30-minute 'free-choice' time block in September 2015. This isolated, short-term practice ended in October. All students in all classrooms have and will continue to have access to all instructional and noninstructional materials."'

Also see: No boys allowed: Bainbridge Island teacher imposes ban on popular activity

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Last week three of my four boys were herded into school-sponsored assemblies and asked to stand, raise their hands and pledge to never, ever hurt a woman. While their female classmates remained seated, my boys faced intense pressure to say:

I promise
To never ever
Hit, hurt, or otherwise harm
A woman, girl, or child.
I understand
That I am bigger and stronger
Than many women, girls, and children.
Therefore it is my DUTY
To NEVER HARM them,
Protect, Respect, Honor, and Love them
No matter what.

Aghast, my 17-year-old son walked out. Less than two hours later, he went to choir practice, where he and his classmates practiced a parody of "Cell Block Tango" from the musical "Chicago" that features the “six merry murderesses of Cook County Jail” singing about killing their lovers. Here's one verse:  

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'A student diversity officer arrested when she allegedly tweeted #KillAllWhiteMen has quit her role after being accused of bullying a colleague.

Bahar Mustafa - student union welfare and diversity officer at Goldsmiths University, London - announced today she was leaving her post.

Her resignation comes just 24 hours after union president Adrihani Rashid left her £22,000-a-year role claiming she was bullied by fellow sabbatical officers.

Ms Rashid said she was stepping down after being harassed by Alex Etches, the student union's Campaigns and Activities Officer, and Ms Mustafa.

Ms Mustafa today confirmed she would be resigning following the allegations.'

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'A Duquesne University student's claims that she was robbed and sexually assaulted last month were untrue, Pittsburgh police said Thursday.

The student told police three men approached her while she was walking behind the campus' Barnes & Noble bookstore, according to a crime alert released Oct. 28 by the university.

She told police they forced her to go with them to an apartment on Crawford Street, where they stole her money and a credit card and sexually assaulted her.

Police declined to say why the student told them she was assaulted. “I will only state that the investigation determined that the student's claims were untrue,” Public Safety spokeswoman Sonya Toler said.'

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'Every so often comes a jolt to remind my generation of just how much times and attitudes have changed over the course of our lifetime, and how strange we must seem to our young.

Such a moment came for me yesterday when I opened the paper to see two pages of advertisements from the Seventies, headlined: ‘The ads that put the sex in sexism.’

Now, like many of my age (I’ll be 62 this month), I’ve always regarded the decade of my late teens and 20s as pretty modern times. True, men tended to wear their hair longer than today — and such fashions as sideburns, flared trousers and avocado bathroom fittings look decidedly dated in 2015.'

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'If there’s one person who epitomises the University of York’s notable alumni, it’s Harriet Harman.

The Labour MP studied politics there in the early 1970s before becoming a lawyer and, subsequently, a politician who — not long ago — believed that touring Britain in a pink van might dismantle the ‘patriarchy’ (otherwise known as civilisation, to you and I; something men created, but women have long enhanced, benefited from and now co-own).

Needless to say, she was wrong. On paper her approach may have had all the hallmarks of a PR success story, but in today’s climate it simply smacked of tired tactics. Still, by the University of York’s standards, it was probably A-grade stuff. After all, stale with esoteric feminist professors and their wacky take on reality, they too remain locked in Harman’s time-warped mindset.

Earlier this week, the college u-turned plans for a modest International Men’s Day (IMD) meeting — even though it coincided with a parliamentary discussion on the 19 November event.