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'A report published last week by the Independent Commission on Fees has uncovered a widening gender divide in university admissions. For whilst over a third of 18-year old girls enrol on a higher education course in Britain, only one quarter of boys follow suit.
So why are fewer male students applying for university courses?
Mary Curnock Cook, the chief executive of UCAS, believes the "potential of young men is somehow being let down by the school system". This suggests that the methods and techniques used to prepare pupils for their GCSEs and A-levels are angled more towards female students, and that schools and sixth forms may not be preparing boys adequately enough for these academic hurdles.'
'During President Obama's recent visit to Africa, he urged Kenyans to reconsider their treatment of females as "second-class citizens," who are routinely subjected to violence, sexual assault and forced marriages while being prohibited from obtaining an education or owning property. What caught my attention, however, is Obama's calling for an end to female genital mutilation, in which he stated, "These traditions may date back centuries. They have no place in the 21st century."
'It’s been a big week in rape-related news, inasmuch as that counts as a category of news. Donald Trump and his lawyer. Bill Cosby. Now, three men are suing Rolling Stone magazine, claiming that the later-retracted article “A Rape on Campus: A Brutal Assault and Struggle for Justice at UVA” defamed them.
The plaintiffs are members of Phi Kappa Psi, a fraternity the identified in the article. According to the article’s pseudonymous “Jackie,” seven young men gang-raped her at a Phi Kappa Psi party. The article follows Jackie’s alleged attempt to get alleged justice for the alleged crime from UVA administrators.
It turned out that all of those ‘alleged’s are pretty important. Shortly after Rolling Stone published the piece, skeptics nosing around in the facts discovered that Jackie’s story wasn’t adding up. (If you need to further get up to speed on the background events, Margaret Hartmann’s thorough timeline of the UVA rape case should do the trick.) Soon Rolling Stone retracted the piece.'
Article here. Most people trafficked and enslaved today are men. But you wouldn't know that by reading most MSM articles. This one is a rare exception. Excerpt:
'Lang Long’s ordeal began in the back of a truck. After watching his younger siblings go hungry because their family’s rice patch in Cambodia could not provide for everyone, he accepted a trafficker’s offer to travel across the Thai border for a construction job.
It was his chance to start over. But when he arrived, Mr. Long was kept for days by armed men in a room near the port at Samut Prakan, more than a dozen miles southeast of Bangkok. He was then herded with six other migrants up a gangway onto a shoddy wooden ship. It was the start of three brutal years in captivity at sea.
“I cried,” said Mr. Long, 30, recounting how he was resold twice between fishing boats. After repeated escape attempts, one captain shackled him by the neck whenever other boats neared.
'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.'
'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.'
'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.
'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.
...
"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.
'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.'
'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.
'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.
'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!”
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