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'Families Advocating for Campus Equality (FACE), a not for profit organization that advocates for fairness for any student accused of sexual misconduct on campus, expresses the following responses to key points made in testimony before a House subcommittee meeting on the topic of campus sexual assault held on September 10, 2015
'Feminist scholarship leaves a lot to be desired. Feminists often provide statistics that cannot be sourced, perform highly biased studies with major flaws, and shame men into giving in to feminist demands even after their prevarications have been exposed.
Male Control Theory is a feminist theory that contends that the male patriarchy motivates men to try to control women, and to use violence if necessary. This theory appears to be the basis of many feminist legal and ideological arguments. For example, it is the feminist basis of men’s domestic violence against women, and states that most female-on-male violence is defensive in nature. This theory has been used to institute policies that blame and punish men for domestic violence.
'Paul Ford has preschool twins, Abe and Ivy. But he's worried that, thanks to gender inequality and the ongoing wage gap that still pays women only 78% of what men make, his little lady isn't going to get a fair shake financially when she's older. So, he writes for Elle, he came up with the idea for a "Jump the Gap" fund for Ivy. Adjusting for inflation, Ford figured out what salaries his kids would make upon entering the workforce in 2032 and how much in lost wages Ivy would rack up by 2070 (between $1 million and $3 million, by his count), figuring in the years she might leave work to care for future kids. "We can predict that, because of the systematic economic inequities, our daughter will not be on the same financial footing as our son. And so why not start now?" Ford writes, insisting he's not favoring Ivy over Abe, because if Abe really needed financial assistance down the road, Ford and his wife would "go all in" and do what they could.
Video here. Please beware, the male feminist in this video is extremely disturbed. I'm not embellishing when I say his comments are frightening. Sadly, he may be a microcosm of a new generation of self-loathing males. Description: "You can thank MRAs for fighting tooth and nail to preserve rape culture."
'Christopher Petersen, a freshman student who was charged with first-degree sexual assault of a woman in Sandoz Hall, is no longer allowed on campus, the university said in a statement on Thursday afternoon.
"UNL has taken steps to ensure the safety of the campus in the wake of this report," university spokesperson Steve Smith said in an email. "I can confirm that Mr. Petersen is no longer permitted on the UNL campus."
'American women should be outraged. Not because of their supposed oppression over the years, but because American women have been starved of one of the greatest values available to them while living life on earth: masculine men.
This is not to say that masculine men don’t exist—they do, by the millions! But, culturally, they are suffocated.
Before the malicious feminist revolution, women could enjoy not just men, but masculine men. Popular actors included the masculine Paul Newman, the gentlemanly Clark Gable, the cool and confident Sean Connery. Women could line up at military bases to watch their favorite men in uniform. Up until just before the women’s liberation movement, women used to faint after seeing their favorite men in concert. In my lifetime, I have yet to see such a health concern at a concert—unless the raped, dehydrated, and mud-covered women of the 1999 Woodstock count.
'On the September 4 episode of the Fox show "Outnumbered," co-host Andrea Tantaros blasted a conference that is taking place September 10-17 at Vanderbilt University.
“Healthy Masculinities Week” describes itself as a way to “explore healthy masculinities through various senses: American society, the gay and bisexual community, fraternities, and more.” It is sponsored by the Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center at Vanderbilt.
DAGEN MCDOWELL: Why does Vanderbilt see the need to have this masculinity week?
'If you were in any doubt that we live in mean-spirited and vengeful times, then Complimentgate should put you straight. Complimentgate is the name I’m giving to the naming and shaming of a solicitor who had the temerity to say something nice about a woman’s looks. For doing this, for paying someone a compliment, he has now become an object of Twitter-ridicule, fodder for the insatiable global outrage industry, which rails not only against people who are abusive online but also against people who are nice. No one is safe from their virtual slings and arrows.
'A pressing dilemma is troubling the budget departments of Intel, the chip and microprocessor giant. Should they invest in STEM education, to cultivate the next generation of American geniuses? Or should they blow all their cash on finding people with the right skin colour and genitals?
It shouldn’t be a difficult choice. But apparently it is. The company recently announced that it’s pulling $6 million in sponsorship for the Science Talent Search, just months after memos leaked to the Oregonian indicated that they’d have to slash budgets by $300 million across business groups.
Does that $300m number sound familiar? It should: it’s the same amount Intel pledged “diversity” efforts, including the widely derided Feminist Frequency, just a few months ago.
'Last week on the Northern Kentucky University campus, a female student carried a mattress on her back around the campus to call attention to her issues with how the university dealt with a sexual assault complaint.
Today, at noon, a group of students organized a peaceful protest, urging a demonstration to support survivors of sexual and domestic violence.
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A flyer distributed to encourage student participation suggested carrying a mattress, a pillow or other symbol and the taping of a red X on clothing to show support. The flyer added, “Domestic abuse, sexual assault, and rape have all been an alarmingly large part of American society, particularly on college campuses. Society blames the victims, so the victims can often be driven to self-harm and suicide. . .This peaceful protest is a way to give a HUGE middle finger to the perpetrators of these crimes, many of which may in fact share classes with us.”'
'At a congressional hearing on campus sexual assault, Colorado Rep. Jared Polis suggested that expelling students based solely on the idea that they might have committed a crime is an acceptable standard. And the hearing audience applauded him.
Polis, a Democrat, was discussing due process and standards of evidence as they apply to colleges and universities adjudicating sexual assault. Currently, colleges must be only 50.01 percent sure that an accusation is valid before punishing an accused student (more on that later). Polis began advocating for allowing colleges to use a lower standard than that.
"I mean, if there's 10 people that have been accused and under a reasonable likelihood standard maybe one or two did it, seems better to get rid of all 10 people," Polis said. "We're not talking about depriving them of life or liberty, we're talking about their transfer to another university."
'During a House Education and Workforce Committee hearing, Democratic Congressman Jared Polis said that even if a whopping 80% of accused campus rapists are innocent, it was still better to kick them all out of school.
“I mean, we’re talking about a private institution,” he said. “If I was running one, I might say, ‘Well you know even if there’s a 20-30% chance that this happened, I would want to remove this individual.”
Freedom for Individual Rights in Education policy director Joseph Cohn responded by telling Polis that the sort of standard he was discussing would be highly unlikely to pass the due process requirements that public universities must legally abide by.'
Contact info for Rep. Polis is here. Feel free to let him know what you think of his position.
'Two studies done by the University of Washington show that one potential impediment to girls becoming IT pros is the "geek" stereotype of the IT pro, especially in the classroom.
A study conducted at the University of Washington and published in the Journal of Educational Psychology in August showed that girls might actually choose not to take introductory computer classes because the rooms in which they are conducted might be too "geeky." For the study, 269 14- to 18-year-olds were shown photos of two classrooms. One room had Star Trek and videogame posters on the walls and other "geeky" decor. The other had posters of art and landscapes on the walls and live plants in the room. Other than the decor, the rooms were identical.'
'A Marine Corps study that found all-male ground combat units more effective than teams that included women has raised new concerns about the Pentagon's push to open all jobs to women next year.
A summary of results released Thursday from the unprecedented study showed that all-male ground combat squads were faster, stronger and more lethal in most cases than units that included women.The women also suffered higher injury rates during physically demanding training.
The Marine Corps and other services face a deadline the Pentagon has set for requiring military branches to open all specialties to women, including infantry and special operations forces, beginning next year.
The services have until the end of this month to request an exception to the order for some occupations.
The Marine Corps has not yet said whether it will request a waiver, but the study's results are likely to fuel a growing debate over including women in ground combat jobs.'
'Women will one day outnumber men in the Senate and when that happens, government will work better, Sen. Claire McCaskill said Wednesday.
And if women want to succeed in politics, they need to get over the “disease to appease” and be hyper strategic, the Missouri Democrat told a crowd of about 150 students at George Washington University. One thing they don’t have to do? Give up plans to have a family.
“I have not been a perfect mother, but the notion that you cannot do this job and be a mother is just BS,” McCaskill said.
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