Article here. Excerpt:

'A 57-year-old lawyer was accused of “unacceptable and misogynistic behaviour” after he sent a barrister half his age a LinkedIn message complimenting her on her “stunning picture”.

Alexander Carter-Silk was named and shamed on Twitter by 27-year-old human rights lawyer Charlotte Proudman who posted her reply to the message online.

He has since apologised for the message, in which he told Ms Proudman he was “delighted to connect”, adding “I appreciate that this is probably horrendously politically incorrect but that is a stunning picture !!!”

The lawyer, a partner at international firm Brown Rudnick continued: “You definitely win the prize for the best Linked in picture I have ever seen.
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Her response, which prompted praise on social media, read: “I am on linked-in for business purposes not to be approached about my physical appearance or to be objectified by sexist men.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Dear Gap,

I’d like to take a minute to introduce you to my son. He’s a bright 11-year-old who wants to go to MIT when he grows up. He plays guitar and piano. He has a kind heart and sometimes gives up his birthday presents in lieu of dog and cat food for our local animal shelter.

This year, when we were school shopping at your store, he said something that made me want to write to you. After much shrugging and dragging his feet, he picked a few things out to buy. This is not usual behavior for my son. He enjoys buying things whether they are clothes, a remote helicopter, or a new graphic novel.

But when we finally reached the cashier, my son quietly said to me, “I guess boys are insignificant.”

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'Even though women now make up the majority (60%) of higher education graduates in the EU, they are still less paid for their qualifications than men and are underrepresented in management positions, science and engineering. To encourage more women to take up science, technology, engineering and mathematics, MEPs call for equal access measures and the use of information and communication technologies from pre-school education onwards.
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Members call on EU member states to encourage girls and boys to take an equal interest in all subjects beyond gendered stereotypes, stressing the role of positive female role models in schools, universities and science.
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Furthermore, Member states could consider making age-appropriate sex and relationship education compulsory in all primary and secondary school curricula, to teach girls and boys about relationships based on consent, respect and reciprocity, MEPs suggest.

Article and video here. "Women are naturally more compassionate than men," saith the feminist. Ugh.

'A Hungarian camerawoman has been sacked after apparently tripping up migrants.

They were trying to escape from a collection point in the village of Roszke near the Serbian border, in Hungary.

Hungary's N1TV, who she worked for, said in a statement that an employee had shown "unacceptable behaviour".'

Article here. Seems anything can be turned into an opportunity to bash on men. Excerpt:

'Dating is getting a whole lot harder in suburban frog ponds.

Article here. Excerpt:

'As classes begin at colleges and universities across the country, incoming and returning students need to be keenly aware of the current culture surrounding sex on and off campus.

First and foremost, students can assume that they have no constitutional due process rights on their college campus, even in public institutions. One might think that they do, as those rights are guaranteed under the Constitution, but the truth today is that when you step foot on that campus you live by their rules.

That is because college campuses are now responsible for their own criminal justice system, thanks to an interpretation of a federal law. While colleges would never be expected to adjudicate a murder, they are now expected to adjudicate accusations of sexual assault. And the marching orders from Washington suggest that the goal of such adjudications should be to punish accused students, truth be damned.

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'A iberal arts college in North Carolina is pledging to identify and potentially punish students who heckled a play about sexual assault the college forced them to attend.

"It Stops Here,” an original play produced by students at Greensboro College, was first performed last Wednesday before a crowd of students, but the performance didn’t go as planned. According to people at the play, members of the audience frequently heckled the cast and shouted sexually explicit remarks.

"Many of the boys started calling out ‘She wanted it, it’s not rape,’ and making masturbation noises,” stage manager Claire Sellers told a local news station. Sellers said the remarks were so excessive that cast members “became physically ill and vomited after the show because they were so vulgar.”

Article here. Excerpt:

'It doesn't seem to matter what a college does when responding to a sexual assault accusation — they are always wrong. That's according to the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights, which investigates colleges and universities for alleged Title IX violations.

In a recent ruling against Michigan State University, OCR determined the school had violated Title IX because it took too long — four days — to remove accused students from their dorms. The fact that the students weren't immediately evicted from campus, even though an investigation hadn't even started, was also evidence of a violation.

OCR looked at two complaints, from students identified as Student A and Student B, to determine MSU was in violation of Title IX. While OCR mostly found "insufficient evidence" to support the complaints of the two students, what the agency found the university in violation of seemed like nitpicking.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'Lawmakers on Friday sent Gov. Jerry Brown a "Yes means Yes" bill that backers said would make California the first to bring the sexual assault training to high schools.

SB695 requires school districts to teach sexual violence prevention as part of their health curriculum if health education is required to graduate.

The bill by Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de Leon and Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson follows legislation last year requiring all colleges receiving public funds to adopt a so-called affirmative consent standard for investigating assault allegations.

The bill would specify that students be informed about the "Yes Means Yes" law.

"By teaching our youth about assertive consent and healthy relationships, we will be building a strong foundation — strong foundation for our young men, our young women, a strong foundation for our schools, a strong foundation for our community so we can understand, so we can learn about what sexual assaults are all about," said de Leon, D-Los Angeles.'

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'A single man's fight to be recognised as the sole parent of a surrogate baby boy that he paid to have born in America has been rejected by a leading High Court judge in a unique test case.

The British man, who cannot be named, paid a US agency £8,000 - and a surrogate mother more than £20,000 - in his bid to become a father.

The unnamed one-year-old boy was conceived using the man's sperm and a donor egg and he has been recognised as the child's father in the state of Minnesota.

But that held no sway with Britain's most senior family judge, the President of the Family Division, Sir James Munby, today in court.

Whatever the position in America, the judge said English law emphatically recognises the surrogate mother as the child's only legal parent.

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 dictates that only 'two people' - effectively a couple - can be officially recognised as the parents of a surrogate baby.'

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'Millions of workers who dropped out of the job market during the last economic slump were supposed to jump back in once things turned around. But more than six years after the recession ended, the missing millions are increasingly looking like they’re gone for good.

The nation’s labor participation rate – defined as the share of the working-age population that is either working or looking for work – hasn’t budged from a 38-year-low of 62.6 percent this summer. And most experts don’t see an upswing on the way.

The reasons include the nation’s aging population, swelling ranks of people on disability and the changing nature of jobs. But one of the biggest factors has to do with men in the prime of their work lives, particularly those with less education.'

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'In a recent ranking of the states on women’s equality, Maine garnered high marks for a relatively small gender gap when it comes to college degree attainment. But these high marks are misleading: The education gap in Maine is small because too few men have college degrees.

WalletHub, which ranks states based on many different sorts of data, ranked Maine sixth in the country for gender equality based on three measures: workplace environment, education and political representation. The education ranking included two subcategories: the percentage of residents over age 25 with a bachelor’s degree or higher and math scores.

Story here. Excerpt:

'Thanks to an unanimous vote by the LA Unified school board yesterday, the district will become the first in California in a decade to open a girls-only traditional public school.

The approval of the the school was anti-climactic in that the board had already approved it by a vote in April, but at the time needed to still secure a waiver from the state Department of Education, which it now has.

The vote dedicates over $231,000 for the district to convert a traditional classroom building at Los Angeles High School in the Mid-Wilshire neighborhood into the new Girls Academic Leadership Academy. The school, which is scheduled to open next fall with space for 450 students, will begin with students only in 6th and 9th grades and will grow one grade level each year.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Emma Sulkowicz is an American arts student, born in New York in 1992, who gained media attention for carrying a mattress around campus to highlight what she saw as Columbia University’s lack of action to remove her alleged rapist from the campus.
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The relationship progresses to “friends with benefits”. In the spring of 2012 they have sex twice, the second time, according to Nungesser, includes anal sex, which Nungesser has not experienced before. Sulkowicz said she had tried before with other men and enjoyed it.

One of the main reasons their relationship does not become deeper was that Sulkowicz had previously been having sex with Nungesser’s close friend, known as John Doe. While Nungesser is back home inGermany for the summer, she messages him that she had tested positive for an STD  (Chlamydia) after having having drunken sex at a party with John Doe, and his best friend Joe.'

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'The New Zealand First leader, a long-time immigration critic, backs the Government's emergency intake of 600 refugees from the war torn country, but with a controversial condition.

"I think we can do better, but we can't while we've got mass immigration," Mr Peters said.

"If we are going to do it, let's take the women and children and tell some of the men to go back and fight for the country's freedom like we are."'