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'February 8th, on Guanggu Road in Wuhan, a woman leads three men in chain leashes crawling on the ground. Amongst them is a man crawling prostrate on the ground, licking the shoe on the woman’s foot. The organizer claims this performance art is to show opposition against a male society, and call for equality between men and women.

[Above] 25-year-old Kang Yi (center) majored in oil painting in college. In 2005, he threw himself into creating contemporary art, and in recent years has been exhibiting throughout the country various thematic performance art. Amongst them includes exchanging slaps with someone who was suffers paralysis of the face and kneeling on the ground thanking sanitation workers. This time is him and his team’s first time coming to Wuhan.'

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'Last Friday the New York Times Men’s Style section published an article that I’m still desperately hoping is satire: “27 Ways to Be a Modern Man.” If it’s not, then the state of modern manliness is a sorry one indeed.

We’ll get to that article in a moment; it wasn’t the only recent commentary on contemporary manhood. Writing last week in National Review, for example, David French expressed disgust with our “unmanly” “victim culture” that encourages us to cultivate “a sense of weakness and fragility.” It is a mindset that is “killing manhood,” he warns.

The College Fix reported this week that Vanderbilt University recently held a “Healthy Masculinities Week” (who knew there’s more than one masculinity?) featuring programs that helpfully deconstruct America’s “narrow definition of masculinity” for impressionable students.

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'Radical feminism may pack its biggest punch on college campuses, where gender-identity issues can be injected into any academic topic and impressionable students are encouraged to see the world through a skewed feminist lens, but its impact ripples through society, seeping into political debates and the popular culture.
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Fanciful economics, however, isn’t feminist utopia’s biggest obstacle. It’s women—actual individual women who have their own plans and dreams for their lives—who really doom feminist visions such as Bapat’s.

Bapat, who carefully mentions both “men and women” receiving payments for caring for their own dependents, nevertheless assumes that this system would encourage more men to participate in childrearing. In fact they have to, otherwise she’d have to acknowledge that her system would dramatically undermine other central feminist goals, such as increasing women’s power and prestige in the world of corporate and political affairs.  Bapat’s feminist sisters dream of women holding (at least) 50 percent of all corporate board positions and elected offices, and their policies’ aim is often to make it easier for women to succeed at work.

In the countries where such government-sponsored policies have been implemented, however, they have often backfired when measured in these feminist terms. Western Europe, for example, is often held up as a model for their state-provided family-leave policies and childcare subsidies; many European countries even provide a version of Bapat’s direct cash payments to parents for taking care of their own children. Yet asober examination of the results of these programs reveals that they have impeded women’s economic advancement, making it more likely that women will earn less and hold fewer leadership positions in the business world.

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'Google has made the humiliating decision to change the name of one of its new products over fears it would offend feminists.

Last month, the tech colossus released a program called Brotli , which compresses websites to make them load quicker.

But it made the "controversial" decision to make this new program produce files ending with the suffix ".bro".

In America, feminists use the word bro as a shorthand to refer to beer-swilling blokes whose sexism and misogyny is alleged to contribute to sexism and "rape culture".

It's also just a word men use to refer to each other.

But Google decided to change its filename for fear of offending "social justice warriors", or SJWs, who are known to lead vociferous online campaigns against anything they deem offensive or inappropriate.'

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Women will eventually have to register for the draft if "true and pure equality" is to be realized in the U.S. military, Army Secretary John McHugh said Monday.

"If your objective is true and pure equality then you have to look at all aspects" of the roles of women in the military, McHugh said, and registration for the draft "will be one of those things. That will have to be considered."

McHugh said draft registration was not a subject to be decided by the services or the Department of Defense, and will ultimately have to be dealt with by Congress. He expected a "pretty emotional debate and discussion."

However, as more military occupational specialties are opened to women, the debate on Selective Service System registration was inevitable, McHugh said. "If we find ourselves as a military writ large where men and women have equal opportunity, as I believe we should," he said.'

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'Everyone had a nice chuckle when a photograph of Justin Bieber with his you-know-what out surfaced on the internet a few days ago.

He was photographed by paparazzi during what he assumedly thought was a private moment on holiday in Bondi Beach. The pictures were published with glee on New York's Daily News, prompting an avalanche of jokes on Twitter.

At first glance, this jocular reaction might seem reasonable. The popstar isn't very well liked, his music has annoyed most people over the age of 14 for a good few years now, and he's been publically shamed for his bratty and illegal behaviour on more than one occasion.

However, look just a little deeper and it's obvious that we're dealing with shocking double standards when it comes to nudity and privacy.'

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'The state of California has obligated universities to adjudicate sexual assault under an unworkable affirmative consent standard, it has instructed high schools to teach teenagers that consensual sex requires affirmative consent, and it has tried to force colleges to expel students found guilty of violating these absurd policies. But the last of these policies will not become law, thanks to Gov. Jerry Brown’s veto of Assembly Bill 967.

The bill would have established mandatory minimum sentences for students found responsible of sexual misconduct by a university tribunal, essentially requiring two-year suspensions as the default punishment. In his letter announcing the veto, Brown explained that the bill was unnecessarily meddlesome:

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'Is this the end of campus adjudications of “he said, she said” rape accusations in California?

According to a law professor at George Washington University, it could be, if schools take the initiative.

By a 2-1 vote, a three-judge panel of the California Court of Appeals ruled that UCLA has no “special relationship” with a student that would justify liability on its part for the student’s on-campus stabbing by another student – known to have psychological problems – in a chemistry lab.'

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'1. What is the school's definition of sexual harassment and sexual assault?

If you read just one section of your student handbook, read the definitions the school provides for what constitutes sexual misconduct on its campus. Some schools have adopted a "yes means yes" policy, which guarantees a finding of responsibility if an accused student can't prove the crime didn't occur. This particular policy turns the justice system on its head by shifting the burden of proof onto the accused. A judge in Tennessee recently ruled that "Absent the tape recording of a verbal consent or other independent means to demonstrate that consent was given, the ability of an accused to prove the complaining party's consent strains credulity and is illusory."'

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'A top Google executive has suggested the Volkswagen emission scandal would not have happened had the company employed more female engineers.

Eileen Naughton, managing director of Google UK and Ireland, said a lack of female workers could have contributed to Volkswagen rigging pollution tests.

“Imagine a woman engineer actually knowingly and willingly tricking that technology, when she might be thinking of the allergens put into the environment and the eyes of the child that might get irritated by 40 times the legal output of diesel - particularly when it’s not allowable by law,” said Naughton.'

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'UNM is preparing to launch its third annual mobile app contest, partnering with CNM for the first time in a collaboration that has brought innovations to the competition, including an award for teams composed exclusively of women.

The “Women in Technology” award is up for grabs for female applicants to the contest, whether they apply individually or as a team. So far the contest has four such applicants, according to Manikantam Chitturi, the contest coordinator.

“We thought of encouraging women to be involved more,” Chitturi said.

The award is $2,500, to be given to an individual contestant or divided evenly among members of a winning team. For comparison, the contest’s overall first-place winner will get $5,000; second-place, $2,500; and third-place $1,000, according to the contest’s webpage.

Chitturi said that the award is incentive for women to enter the contest, as there were no female contestants last year.

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'Last year, when Kirsten Gillibrand was promoting her memoir — a book detailing a number of sexist encounters with unpleasant male colleagues — the senator said of one occasion, “I wasn’t in a place where I could tell him to go fuck himself.”

Hillary Clinton, on the other hand, has been in that place.

“Yes, I have,” she said in an interview with Another Round, a BuzzFeed podcast, declining to elaborate. Typically, however, Clinton said she refrains from cursing. “I say, ‘Did you hear what you just said?’ I’ve had some luck with that over the years.”

“But I’ve encountered those kinds of situations over the years,” she said, describing men who find it difficult to work respectfully with women. “Sometimes you just have to ignore what’s happening because there’s a larger issue you’re trying to deal with, and sometimes you have to confront it, and it’s almost a snap decision.”'

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'A high profile student activist who has campaigned against “rape culture” has resigned from all political position and barred herself from National Union of Students (NUS) events and safe spaces because she is “unsafe.” She said she had “failed to properly establish consent before every act” during a sexual encounter at the NUS annual conference, and had “touched somebody in a sexual manner” in a night club three years ago.

Third year Oxford student Annie Teriba is best know for her driving role in theiconoclastic #Rhodesmustfall campaign to remove “racist” historical statues of Cecil Rhodes from campus, and for forcing the Oxford Union to declare themselves “institutionally racist” and mandate racial awareness workshops for committee members, because they organised a cocktail party called “The Colonial Comeback.”

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'A recent report about sexual assault on the Ohio State University campus shows that an alarming number of OSU students have been sexually assaulted. The university community should act quickly to develop policies to end sexual violence on campus.

But determining those policies can be difficult without accurate information, and there is reason to believe that the survey significantly overestimated the level of campus sexual violence, an issue of concern to me and a number of OSU faculty colleagues (http://bit.ly/1L8SB6H).