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'Oh silly season, how I love you. The newspapers are filled with absolute crap, our politicians are ignoring major national issues, because all the decent journalists are on holiday, and our 24-hour news channels have to rely on second string hosts and guests to fill time.

I can only imagine this is how someone like Radhika Sanghani manages to get a spot on Sky News to talk about how air conditioning is… wait for it… sexist.

Oh it was such a beautifully infuriating interview. I laughed, I cried, I vomited a little bit in my mouth. And I hope you will too. Not in my mouth, mind you. In your own.

There is nothing better than watching a trumped up, 14-year-old looking, RadFem make a total prat out of herself on live television.'

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'A former Clark University student who was allegedly kicked off campus this past spring after being accused of rape is suing the school and several of its administrators, court records show.

The plaintiff, John Doe, claims in the complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Worcester on Tuesday that Clark led a biased inquiry into the charges against him, denying him rights promised in the university’s own student handbook and dismissing key phone records that supported his innocence.

Mr. Doe is a Connecticut resident and was a freshman at Clark last year. In a 29-page lawsuit he said he and his accuser had had a consensual sexual encounter in January that the female student reported as a rape to the university three months afterwards. The charge came at a time when an anti-sexual assault campaign on campus “was at its peak,” which Mr. Doe claims created an environment prejudiced against males accused of rape.'

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'The American Bar Association must see a potential goldmine in campus sexual assault adjudication, as it has recently adopted three resolutions guaranteed to bring in future clients.

At the ABA's annual meeting on Tuesday, delegates passed three resolutions addressing sexual assault. And despite the organization being full of lawyers, due process was only added to one of those resolutions after George Washington University Law School professor Stephen Saltzburg requested it. And even then, it was given only passing reference in the last sentence.

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'If we're serious about ending violence against women, we must trial women-only police stations.

That is the belief of QUT criminologist Professor Kerry Carrington, who is calling for at trial of women-only police stations in Australia to help end violence against women.

Professor Carrington is head of QUT's School of Justice and investigated the key features and different models of women-only police stations in South America earlier this year and said once a woman gets through the doors, she is safe.
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"Women-only police stations deal exclusively with female victims of domestic violence," Professor Carrington said.

"They do employ male police officers but not on the front desk.

"They are one-stop shops for these women as they are staffed by specially trained female police officers, psychologists, lawyers and social workers."

Professor Carrington said the stations offered women protection, and they did not need to go outside to access other vital services.

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'A victims' advocate who previously voiced her contempt for due process on college campuses is back again, this time writing in the Washington Post that if colleges are "doing what is right" for accusers, then "due process" is not necessary.

In an article titled "College administrators should help rape survivors, not their school's public image," Sarah Merriman, spokeswoman for Students Active for Ending Rape, dismisses the notion that colleges have made strides in addressing campus sexual assault while arguing that due process shouldn't be part of the equation.'

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'We’ve heard it over and over again: rape is epidemic on college campuses, and it’s being committed by sociopathic, serial rapists. “This cannot be emphasized enough,” says Amanda Marcotte at Slate. “The high rates of campus sexual assault are due mostly to a small percentage of men who assault multiple women.”

Al Jazeera reported that serial rapists commit 9 out of 10 campus sexual assaults, citing a 2002 study by psychologist David Lisak. The problem is, Lisak’s work has now been debunked. His study, as Linda LeFauve at Reason discovered, is seriously flawed, relying on survey data Lisak didn’t collect and having no direct connection to campus sexual assault.

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'At a hearing last week on campus sexual assault, a Senate committee considering changes to higher-education law only allowed certain witnesses to testify – those who believe that alleged victims currentlyget a raw deal in campus investigations, relative to accused students.

The hearing was carried live on C-SPAN and the committee’s own Web page, giving a national audience a very skewed impression of a problem that’s largely caused by a combustible mix of alcohol, miscommunication and celebrated sexual permissiveness.

It was so tilted that a Democratic senator, the former attorney general of Rhode Island, had to jump in at the last minute, to cast aspersions on the ability of campus administrators to run a system with any semblance of competence or fairness.

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"Disagreeing with feminists on Twitter could be made illegal in Canada in a shocking case that has frightening implications for free speech."

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'The doctor, the MA, and the “buyer” all observe the contents in the pie plate, joking around about various organs they see. Coming across an intact kidney the doctor determines it’s “good to go” as the MA exclaims, “Five stars!”

The sifting continues. The doctor is curious as to any usefulness the brain might have. Before the “buyer” can answer her question, she eagerly asks, “Do people do stuff with eyeballs?” as an eyeball of a tiny baby is pushed around on the plate.

The doctor and the MA continue to huddle over the plate, noting there are lots of organs available, identifying several by name, as Ginde says: “Here’s a stomach, kidney, heart, adrenal. I don’t know what else is in there. Tiny.” The MA says, “I don’t see any legs. Did you see any legs?”

After searching for a few more moments, she finds the legs she was so eagerly looking for and enthusiastically announces: “And another boy!”

I am at a loss for words.'

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'"Cheer up, it might never happen."

Yes, my best friend really did proffer those priceless words of wisdom as we sat having a drink during one of my periodic lows. The fact that I had been made redundant recently – that it had actually happened! - didn’t seem to have occurred to him.

Forget the shame, drop in income, bout of depression and all-round disillusionment, he was implying. What mattered was that a few drinks, reminiscences of teenage escapades and some immature banter would easily rectify things. And he was right – too much introspection does no one any good.
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We might think we have a higher tolerance of physical pain but, when it comes to emotional pain, we’re genetically stunted. It’s not that we can’t handle it, just that we seem unable to share in others’. We’re not indifferent to people’s predicaments but our instinctive reaction is selfish: rather than "poor you" we want to say "thank God that didn’t happen to me" and then proceed to mistake false cheeriness for empathy.'

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'As more information slowly seeps out about Dylann Roof, the 21-year-old who murdered nine people at a church in Charleston, South Carolina, one fact should surprise exactly no one: Roof came from a broken home. Roof’s parents divorced three years before he was even born, later reuniting just long enough to produce a child who would later become a mass murderer.

The media loves to find an easy scapegoat for mass shootings, whether it be the pharmaceutical industry, the National Rifle Association, or even Donald Trump. Of course these scapegoats are designed to fit the politically correct narrative, and they are an easy sell (especially when it’s all Donald Trump’s fault, as Americans increasingly love to blame the proverbial 1 percent for their sorrows). Scapegoats serve another purpose, too: they ensure the media can avoid the uncomfortable truth that unstable homes produce unstable individuals.

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'A major victory for a family from Brighton, torn apart by what they say were false allegations of child abuse. On Wednesday morning, a judge decided not to terminate the parental rights of baby Naomi’s father, Joshua Burns.

"The court does find by a preponderance of evidence that it is not child's best interests to terminate the respondent father's parental rights," said Livingston County Probate Judge Miriam Cavanaugh.

Burns broke down in tears, with his wife Brenda next to him. Both were crying with relief.

“Naomi’s mother does not support termination, does not believe it is in her best interest, but rather will be a profound loss for her, and this court agrees,” said Judge Cavanaugh.'

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'Sorry, boys, but the news only gets worse.

Across the board, data show that women are better students than men. From test scores to college graduation rates, females outperform males in almost every metric of educational achievement.

Now, two economists from Texas A&M University report that schoolgirls do even better than their male counterparts when they are taught by female teachers. Specifically, the authors found a significant change in female test scores in math—long considered the last bastion of male educational dominance—when taught by a woman instead of a man.'

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'So if the student is found responsible for sexual misconduct when he’s 19, then applies for a job that requires his transcript 30 years later when he’s married with two children, his transcript would still mark him as a rapist. One would hope that an employer would care a lot less 30 years later, but that company will surely have a concern about its own liability for sexual harassment from that employee. This transcript note could effectively end a person’s career before it even starts.

If these transcript notes came in an unambiguous area of the law where the processes were full and fair, this scarlet letter may not be troubling. It’s also ironic that these laws are being proposed at the same time President Obama is urging companies to hire people who were convicted in real courts of real crimes. There is a legitimate question about how long a person’s past should haunt his future.