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'Do men need to check their privilege? Gender activists tell us that men carry around with them an invisible knapsack of advantage. Well, is this true and is it the whole story? AEI Scholar Christina Hoff Sommers checks the facts.'

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'If you are at all like me, your first reaction upon learning that this is a reality is that the holiday must be a joke, a smug retort to International Women’s Day, which is observed on March 8, mostly in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia, although it actually began as a socialist celebration in New York. (If that was not your first response, congratulations on your light heart.) But it isn’t. The day doesn’t exist to celebrate machismo, or to ask why American women are whining about pay when women in other countries are worse off (sound argument), or to complain that women are confusing and/or overly sensitive (hey!).

On November 19 (if you’re reading this on its day of publication, that’s today), 60 countries—including the United States, apparently—observe International Men’s Day. What is it? Why does it exist? And, in a world where, to quote Manuel Contreras-Urbina, who runs the Global Women’s Institute at the George Washington University, “There is not one society that is not patriarchal” (disclaimer:there are six), do we need an International Men’s Day?

Maybe, maybe not. We do, however, need to talk about men’s issues.

But first, to briefly discuss the day: In 1999, Dr. Jerome Teelucksingh of Trinidad and Tobago began International Men’s Day to improve gender relations and celebrate and support positive male role models. The day only reached a wider audience, however, in 2007, when Australia’s Warwick Marsh, co-founder of the Fatherhood Foundation, and India’s Uma Challa, founder and president of India’s Men’s Welfare Association, came together to promote the day.

Story here. Wish the judges in the other states were as fair-minded. Excerpt:

'A woman must abide by an agreement with her ex-husband to destroy five frozen embryos if they got a divorce, despite her contention that they represent her last chance to have children, a California judge ruled Wednesday.

San Francisco Superior Court Judge Anne-Christine Massullo said in a tentative decision that the agreement trumps the woman's desire to now keep the embryos. The woman, Mimi Lee, had argued that cancer made it risky for her to get pregnant, so the embryos were her last chance to have her own genetic child.

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'To most people, holding high standards of personal achievement is considered only a good thing - yet the reality for many mid-life men is that pressures to achieve can cause unthinkable emotional and psychological pain.

In 21st Century Britain, the decline of typically male industry and a rise in family breakdown mean that all too many middle-aged men now believe that they fall short of the ‘gold standard’ of masculinity. They are neither the providers nor the protectors that traditional masculinity requires.'

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'The 17 percent gender pay gap is almost entirely due to age, marriage and the different hours worked by men and women, according to a top economist at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI).

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) annual report on the “Highlights of Women’s Earnings” shows women’s in full-time work median earnings were 83 percent those of men.

The National Committee on Pay Equity claims this pay-gap emerges “in part because many women and people of color are still segregated into a few low-paying occupations.”

But AEI economist Mark Perry says one reason the wage-gap appears is that men work more hours than women. More than quarter of men in full-time work clocked in 41 or more hours per week in 2014, whereas the same could be said for only 14.8 percent of women. On the more extreme end, men were two and a half times more likely than women to work 60 hour weeks.'

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'Unless New Jersey colleges and universities implement a yes-means-yes policy governing sexual conduct they could lose certain state funds under a bill being considered by lawmakers.

The state Senate Higher Education Committee is scheduled to review the legislation on Monday.

The proposal makes New Jersey among the latest states moving to require college campuses to define when "yes means yes" in an effort to stem the tide of sexual assaults.

The bill would withhold state funds from colleges and universities for certain programs unless they adopt a so-called affirmative consent standard.

Some critics of the policy change say it could be unfair to victims who have protections under Title IX, the law dealing with sexual discrimination.'

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'About a dozen UC Berkeley students and members of the group "By Any Means Necessary" loudly protested outside a hearing was to determine whether a student they say raped a co-ed last year should be punished.

The protesters want him expelled.

"We're building a student-lead independent movement to put the pressure not just on the administration, but on the rapist, and force them out and expel them. So survivors can go to college campuses without having fear about running into the rapist," said Angela Dancev of By Any Means Necessary.

Student Stephanie Garcia has publicly claimed the student raped her in a dorm room in October of 2014. Her supporters have posted flyers all over campus with the title rapist above the student's name and picture.

But the Alameda County District Attorney's office says it reviewed the case and declined to press any charges.

The university says the student was last enrolled in the fall of 2014, but that it is prohibited by law from commenting further.'

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'The filmmakers of "The Hunting Ground" have been called out for inaccuracies, distortions and false statistics, and for disregarding journalistic integrity in order to push propaganda.

Their response? To call their critics "misogynistic" and accuse them of victim-blaming.

Filmmakers Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering mischaracterized what 19 Harvard Law professors wrote when they criticized the film. The filmmakers claimed that the professor's reference to the Harvard accuser's inebriated state was "classic victim blaming and is exactly the kind of misogynistic, punitive and shaming attitude that helps perpetuate sexual assault on college campuses."'

Article here. Well this does her in among the sisterhood. Excerpt:

'And now we get to the single thing that has most distressed me, as a feminist and a lawyer, about the affirmative consent bandwagon.  The norm itself sounds great.  I myself would never want to have sex with an unconsenting person, and I don’t want you do so either.  I also don’t ever want to have sex that I haven’t consented to, and I hope that never happens to you either.   But using legal procedure to decide these cases is about far more than just the desirability of the norm.  It’s also about the desirability of putting the weight of the state and of punishment behind that norm.  We have to want to put the norm into legal proceedings in the real world.

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'A Washington Times headline on Nov. 9 declared, "Pentagon 'gay' rape debacle: Report alleging male-on-male sexual trauma retracted." In an almost unprecedented move, the American Psychological Association (APA) retracted an article it had published a week earlier in its journal, Psychological Services. "Preliminary Data Suggest Rates of Male Sexual Trauma May be Higher than Previously Reported" had claimed that the rate of rape for military males might be 15 times higher than acknowledged. The media trumpeted the presence of another rape crisis.

Why were the data retracted? An APA press release explained, "Although the article went through our standard peer-review process, other scholars have ... raised valid concerns regarding the design and statistical analysis, which compromise the findings." Flawed methodology rendered useless results. This often occurs with rape research, whether it is conducted inside the military, at police stations or on campuses.

The most remarkable aspect of the APA retraction may be that it was mentioned by mainstream media. Most discredited assault studies are invisibly corrected, which allows the original, sensational conclusions to be repeated as fact. For example, the campus survey"Denying Rape but Endorsing Forceful Intercourse" exploded across the airwaves in early 2015. One in three male students would rape, researchers maintained, "if nobody would ever know and there wouldn't be any consequences." Activists cried out for tighter controls on campus.

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'A trial court has acquitted four men in a gang rape case, saying the woman had falsely implicated them and she seemed to have fabricated the charges against them in consultation with her in-laws.

"From the material on record, the view which points to the innocence and false implication of the accused ... seems to be more reasonable and probable ... I am of the opinion that all the accused are liable to be discharged," additional sessions judge Virender Bhatt said.

Acquitting the men of the charges, the court said there was no such allegations in the police complaint filed by the woman. Earlier, she had also not named the accused, who were her neighbours, the court said.

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'Four persons, including two women, have been arrested for allegedly extorting around Rs 20 lakh* from a Delhi-based doctor after threatening him to get him implicated in a false rape case, police said today.

The accused were identified as Sweta Panchal, Kuldeep Kaur, Pradeep and Manoj Solanki. It was Panchal who headed the gang, said a senior police official.

According to police, it was Kaur who allegedly targeted the doctor and developed good contacts with him.

On the evening of October 19, she sent a woman patient to the doctor's residence at Pitampura for medical consultancy. The patient, identified as Rukhsar, requested the doctor to escort her to a nearby bus stand as she felt a little unsafe there.

The doctor agreed and when they reached the bus stand, Panchal and her husband Pradeep allegedly forced the doctor inside their car and thrashed him, they said, adding that they also threatened him that they would frame rape charges against him.'

Story here. The headline should read 'purported rapist' because there was no trial; he was simply murdered. And it sounds to me like she didn't want to tell her idiot new hubby the truth, i.e., that she simply wasn't a virgin. Instead she had to lie and say she was raped, leading to the idiot murdering someone. Excerpt:

'Two Indonesian newlyweds have been arrested on accusations they plotted to kill a man the woman said had raped her a week before her marriage, and police said Tuesday the couple ate the victim’s genitals after the man was killed.

Lampung police spokeswoman Lt. Col. Sulistyaningsih said Rudi Effendi and his wife Nuriah were being held for further investigation after their arrests Sunday at their house in Tulang Bawang district in Sumatra’s Lampung province.

Sulistyaningsih, who uses one name, said police found the victim’s body in a burnt minivan Oct. 4. She said the monthlong investigation led to the conclusion that the couple had planned to kill the victim, who was a driver for a travel agency.

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'Alimony, otherwise known as spousal support or maintenance, is an ongoing payment by the higher-earning spouse to the lower-earning one. It has changed and shifted over the 40 years since the Supreme Court ruled that it had to be applied equally to both genders.

Yet it is still heavily weighted toward men paying women. Only 3 percent of around 400,000 alimony recipients are male, according to the 2010 census, up a half a percent since 2000. Recipients claimed $9.2 million in payments in 2013 on their tax returns.
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Now that women are paying alimony more often, they are getting involved in advocating for change.

"It’s unfair for men to pay it, and unfair for women to pay it. But women are much more outraged by it," said Ken Neumann, a founder of the Academy of Professional Family Mediators.

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'A forty-year-old man died after he was allegedly pushed off a running train by a woman constable of the Railway Protection Force (RPF) for boarding a women-only train, triggering a massive protests and rail blockade by fellow commuters.

The victim, identified as Dipak Sharma, a resident of Dwarik Jungle Road in Bhadrakali, was travelling in a local train for “women only”, said Railway police officers. As news of the death spread, angry commuters beat up the constable and blocked trains in protest. They also targeted two other trains and pelted stones, smashing window panes and damaging coaches.'