Article here. Excerpt:

'File this under "headlines I can't believe I had to write."

Ms. Magazine, a feminist media outlet, posted an article (archived here so you don't have to give them traffic) by Global Rights for Women attorney Amy Lauricella on Tuesday titled "Institutionalized Rape; It's Not just an ISIS Problem." The article claimed that, just as the Islamic State endorses rape, "college administrations similarly facilitate and perpetuate the rape of women on campuses."

Lauricella's evidence for the claim that college campuses are just like the Islamic State is a deeply flawed survey of students who responded affirmatively to situations the surveyors decided were rape, even though the vast majority of those students didn't believe they had been raped. She uses the study to claim that as many as 1 in 4 college women have been sexually assaulted but doesn't acknowledge that what the study deems as sexual assault is everything from a stolen kiss to forcible rape.'

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'“I think it’s wrong.”

Colorado Springs residents had a lot to say after hearing that Colorado Springs police officers will no longer have to take physical fitness tests this year.

“I think it’s a mistake,” Mary Jo Piccin told CBS4’s Tom Mustin. “I think the police need to be able to chase down them criminals.”

Last Friday the Colorado Springs Police Department agreed to the demands of 12 female officers who filed a civil suit claiming the fitness tests are discriminatory. All the officers were over the age of 40.
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The police test consists of two running exams. Officers also have to do 52 push-ups in 2 minutes, and 45 sit-ups, also in 2 minutes.

The female officers who filed suit had been moved to desk duty after failing the test.'

It's nice to see the Denver Broncos addressing men's health issues. Excerpt:

'The Denver Broncos and proud partner UCHealth will use the month of November and a special event during the Broncos’ Sunday Night Football game against the New England Patriots (Nov. 29) to raise awareness for men’s health issues and encourage fans to receive their recommended health screenings.

Throughout the month, the Broncos and UCHealth will share information and tips on denverbroncos.com/menshealth and on social media platforms about health topics affecting men, including prostate and testicular cancer, heart health, exercise, nutrition, lung cancer screenings and the importance of annual checkups with a primary care physician.

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'One of two female University of Missouri staffers seen confronting a pair of student journalists in a viral video has been placed on leave.

In a statement from Mizzou’s department of student life on Wednesday, Janna Basler has been relieved from her duties as director of Greek Life & Leadership, pending a university investigation into her actions.

In the video, shot Monday by Mark Schierbecker and later posted to YouTube, Basler and several other students attempted to block student photographer Tim Tai from taking pictures of Carnahan Quad, a public space on campus where members of the Concerned Student 1950 group had gathered in a makeshift tent city. Tai and Schierbecker were present to document student response to Tim Wolfe’s resignation as University of Missouri president.'

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'Left-wing online media giant Vox Media has just announced its new code of conduct, which includes “strong discouragement” against “microaggressions”, described by Vox as “subtle put-downs which may be unconsciously delivered.”

“Regardless of intent, microaggressions can have a significant negative impact on victims and have no place on our team.”

But it doesn’t end there. Vox’s code of conduct also bans “mansplaining,” a bizarre term invented by feminists to describe men who explain things to women. By that logic, the vast majority of Vox’s content, which promises to “explain the news,” must be mansplaining. No wonder they’re paranoid.

With the sudden outbreak of politically correct hysteria at Missouri and Yale, it’s easy to forget that there are examples of wacky identity politics and bigotry outside of college campuses. Indeed, it’s America’s bonkers progressive media that is responsible for so much of it in the first place.'

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'A feminist film-maker has been criticised for deciding to make a documentary about men’s rights activists that takes “a balanced approach”. Cassie Jaye, who has previously directed documentaries about sex education and gay marriage, endured problems with funding and a backlash from other feminists after announcing The Red Pill.

We weren’t finding executive producers who wanted to take a balanced approach, we found people who wanted to make a feminist film,” she told the website Breitbart. “I started to see the bias towards women’s films and against men’s. There are no categories for men’s films [when applying for grants], though there are several for women and minorities. I submitted the film to human rights categories, and was rejected by all of them.”

After funding was pulled, Jaye turned toKickstarter where she has raised almost $204,000, more than double her target of $97,000.

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'White boys from poor families in deprived areas face the double disadvantage of poverty and geography that means they abandon education earlier than their peers in better-off areas, according to new research by Oxford University.

The findings, commissioned by the Sutton Trust, reveal the powerful and long-lasting influence of background in shaping educational outcomes and suggest that income is only partly responsible for the variations in levels of education by different groups.

The research found that just 29% of white working class boys from deprived neighbourhoods in England go on to take A-levels or AS-levels in sixth form, compared with 46% of white boys who came from the same economic background but lived in more affluent areas.'

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'Teaching about sex in high-school health classes is about to get even more controversial as a result of the passage of a new law in California ("For Teenagers, Sexual Consent Classes Add Layer of Complexity to Difficult Subject," The New York Times, Oct. 15). The state became the first to require that all high-school health education classes provide instruction about "affirmative consent." But I doubt that schools can do much to affect the behavior of young people in any sexual situation ("Schools Can't Stop Kids From Sexting. More Technology Can," The New York Times, Nov. 10).

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'Sexual-assault prevention activists on campus rarely acknowledge the disproportionate rates of allegations against nonwhite students, which is why law professors have to remind them.

Nineteen members of the Harvard Law School faculty, heavily tilted to the left, including feminist and black professors, wrote their own press release today assailing the campus sexual-assault documentary The Hunting Ground as “propaganda” that continues to smear an innocent student, their own Brandon Winston.
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Signatories include Janet Halley and Nancy Gertner, prominent feminists; Institute for Race and Justice Director Charles Ogletree and Laurence Tribe, both of whom taught future President Barack Obama; and Randall Kennedy, another expert in race relations and the law.'

Soon after our October 29 email, Malecare sent questions to Albert Siu, MD, Chairperson of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force about plans to review their 2012 recommendation against the use of the PSA test for prostate cancer screening.  Dr. Siu was quick to reply.  

I encourage you to read our questions and his answers, here: USPSTF RESPONDS TO MALECARE

MALECARE EMAIL OF OCTOBER 29, 2015 RE-POSTED, BELOW:

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) posted a draft research plan on screening for prostate cancer. The draft research plan is available for review and public comment from October 29, 2015 to November 25, 2015. To review the draft research plan and submit comments, go to: http://bit.ly/1LEu5g3

The USPSTF is the organization responsive for the recommendation against prostate cancer screening.  Their May 2012 recommendation reads:

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommends against prostate-specific antigen (PSA)-based screening for prostate cancer.

This recommendation has caused massive controversy throughout our health care system.  We ask you to post your comments on the USPSTF website, at: http://bit.ly/1LEu5g3

Whether you agree with their 2012 finding or not, our prostate cancer community needs to be heard.  This new research project gives all of us an opportunity to influence the outcome of prostate cancer screening in the United States.

Even if you don't know anything about research or the PSA test, it will be helpful to let the USPSTF know that prostate cancer patients and family members like you are keeping a watch on their work. 

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'Being so involved in the circumcision issue, it’s easy for me to forget that many are still unaware of the anatomical facts, or even the controversies surrounding the practice. This was evident during my recent trip to the Union for Reform Judaism Biennial, held this year in Orlando, Florida. “Why would any parent want to opt out?” “Hasn’t it been proven healthier?” These were among the many questions that Lisa Braver Moss and I encountered during the five day event.

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'An eighteen-year-old male student’s sexual encounter with a fifteen-year-old female student at St. Paul’s School has led to his being sentenced to one year in jail, followed by five years of probation, and registered for life as a sex offender. Both feel their lives are destroyed. Our fascination with the secret sex rites of the New Hampshire prep school put Owen Labrie’s bespectacled face in all the papers. But the deeper pity and fear the case inspired revolved around a basic question we increasingly project onto the bodies of our young: What makes sex rape?

Based on an incident in a campus mechanical room, Labrie was charged with an array of crimes and convicted of five. The three most serious charges were “aggravated felonious sexual assault,” corresponding to penetration with a finger, penis, or mouth. For a conviction, the prosecution needed to prove that the accuser had shown, by speech or conduct, that she did not freely consent, and that the accused knew or should have known she was not consenting. But the jury acquitted him of these charges, meaning that it did not regard the acts as lacking consent.
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'Protesters rally for fathers' rights to child custody outside the Allen County Courthouse. A group of people supporting fathers' rights gathered in Lima to protest the current Ohio family law that gives full child custody to the mother if her and the father split. Protestors say the law makes it difficult for fathers and grandparents to get visitation rights, and they want to change it so parents will share equal 50/50 rights to their children, or prove that the other parent is unfit.

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'“We have a cultural problem. We have to change the standard of decency by which we measure ourselves,” Biden said. “The standard with which we have to measure ourselves is if we do not have consent, it is rape. Period.”

Biden delivered that message at Morehouse College, where he spoke to a crowd of students mainly from Morehouse and Spelman colleges as part of the White House’s “It’s On Us” campaign. Morehouse was the final stop on Biden’s three-campus swing that began Monday at the U. S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., and continued Tuesday morning at South Carolina’s Clemson University before his afternoon stop in Atlanta.
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Much of the onus for changing the rape culture on campuses is dependent upon men, Biden said. Men are the perpetrators of sexual violence in most cases, and have the responsibility for first not committing the act, abiding by the strict standard of consent and reporting other men who may be violating women, he said.'

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'I am in receipt of your email stating your forceful objection to my recent column on rape prevention. I understand that you objected to my claim that a woman wearing a Glock tee shirt is less likely to be targeted for rape than a woman wearing a Pink (or Victoria’s Secret) tee shirt. However, I do not understand your claim that the column sexually harassed you. Nor do I understand why it was necessary for you to label me as a “filthy subhuman scumbag” and “a (f-bombing) piece of (poop).” Today, I wish to provide a reply that is more rational and intelligent than your response to my column. Fortunately, that will not be difficult.

As an initial matter, you need to be instructed on the proper use of the term “harassment.” Put simply, ideas are not harassment. This goes against what you have learned in your Women’s Studies classes. But virtually everything taught in these classes is both factually incorrect and ideologically bigoted. No court would ever sustain a charge of harassment made by a woman who lacks the good sense to avoid reading columns she may find offensive. If you knew the column would offend you and you read the column anyway then you must enjoy being angry. That probably explains why you are a campus feminist. Regardless, something cannot be harassment if you actually enjoy it.
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When women started to attend colleges and universities in greater numbers several decades ago there were those who objected to their enrollment. Those objectors claimed that women were irrational and emotional and really didn’t belong in a setting where controversial ideas were being discussed. In fact, it was thought that they should stay at home where they could do things more suited to their nature – such as cook, clean, and care for children.