Submitted by Mastodon on Mon, 2015-06-22 03:15
Article here. Excerpt:
'Exactly two people are responsible for filing over 1,700 sex discrimination complaints with the federal Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights in the last few years.
Catherine E. Lhamon, the Education Department’s secretary for civil rights, won’t identify these two highly litigious individuals.'
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Submitted by Matt on Mon, 2015-06-22 02:10
In the Documents section, I added a new item (#8) that I hope will be useful to those new to MRM activism. If you are so inclined, have a look. The direct link is here.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Mon, 2015-06-22 00:57
Article here. Excerpt:
'Defending against a federal lawsuit, which claims Fremont police falsely arrested, imprisoned and accused a Marine veteran of rape, the town is now shifting blame to the Rockingham County Attorney's Office.
Veteran Andrew "Drew" Cullen filed suit in the U.S. District Court of New Hampshire alleging the town of Fremont and two of its top police officials falsely imprisoned him and cast him in a false light by untrue accusations that he sexually assaulted a mentally-disabled woman. In a 5-count federal lawsuit, Cullen names the town, former police chief Neal Janvrin and police Sgt. Adam Raymond as responsible for failing to investigate the initial allegations that were made by a woman with well-documented mental limitations, who gave three different versions of her story and previously made a similar false claim against someone else.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Sun, 2015-06-21 22:29
Article here. Excerpt:
'Eight Nobel prizewinning scientists have rallied to the defence of Sir Tim Hunt, the British scientist who was forced to resign his honorary professorship at University College London (UCL) after making comments on the “trouble with girls” in laboratories.
Sir Andre Geim, who won the Nobel prize for physics in 2010, said Sir Tim had been “crucified” by feminist fanatics and condemned UCL for “ousting him” from his honorary post. A senior colleague of Sir Tim’s wife Professor Mary Collins also accused UCL of a “knee-jerk reaction” following a Twitter storm.
Sir Tim, who won the Nobel prize himself in 2001, said he feels “hung out to dry” after the hysterical backlash over his “joke” comment that women who work in laboratories cry when criticised and distract male colleagues by falling in love with them.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Sun, 2015-06-21 07:51
Letter here. Excerpt:
'Dear Editor,
It is here again. The day we refer to as ‘Father’s Day.’ But I humbly submit that this special day is being used for male bashing by just too many influential people in our society. Father’s Day was first observed in the United States of America, in June 1910. In 1924 President Calvin Coolidge supported the idea of a National Father’s Day in the USA. Then in 1966, President Lyndon Johnson signed a presidential proclamation declaring the third Sunday of June as Father’s Day. Over the years, Father’s Day has been observed in well over 100 countries around the world, including Guyana. Regrettably, in more recent years, Father’s Day, like Christmas Day, is being attacked and abused.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Sun, 2015-06-21 07:46
Article here. Excerpt:
'It’s not just conservatives and civil libertarians warning that the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights exceeded its authority with its 2011 “Dear Colleague” letter to colleges.
The Legal Intelligencer,
“America’s oldest daily law journal” and part of the company founded by Court TV founder Steven Brill, writes in a staff editorial that the “mandate” was “unfair and unconstitutional.”
The department has botched Title IX so badly that Congress should just amend it, the editors say:
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Submitted by Mastodon on Sun, 2015-06-21 07:40
Article here. Excerpt:
'It isn't easy being a man today. That is, at least, the strong message coming from professors and movie producers. Men are now, according to a provocative cover article in The Economist, “The weaker sex.” They are failing to launch, failing out of school, failing in relationships. The new world of feminism and globalization has pulled out the rug from under men who could once enjoy respect and a decent living simply by virtue of their Y chromosome.
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There are both generational and class gaps in the state of the modern male. Older men worked their way up in world of strongly gendered divisions of labor. But their sons have seen the labor market alter beyond recognition. With many more women than men now graduating college, this trend is set to continue. The pre-feminist world is gone—for good.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Sun, 2015-06-21 07:39
Article here. Excerpt:
'They might have been barred from marching in Toronto’s Pride Parade, but organizers of a similar event in York Region gave a controversial men’s rights group the green light to participate in their parade Saturday.
Just days after Pride Toronto’s dispute resolution process banned the group from forthcoming celebrations, the Canadian Association for Equality (CAFE) — a group denounced by critics for being anti-feminist and misogynist — were peacefully walking the streets of Richmond Hill for Pride York Fest.
Dave Williams, the event’s co-ordinator, said he was aware that CAFE’s potential Pride involvement had sparked concern in Toronto, but he wasn’t going to stop them from taking part in the York event because he hadn’t received any complaints about the group.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Sun, 2015-06-21 07:36
Article here. Excerpt:
'This month, Slate’s Emily Yoffe accused filmmakers behind the campus rape documentary “The Hunting Ground” of being inaccurate.
Yoffe’s take on “The Hunting Ground” comes in the wake of the Columbia School of Journalism’s report on Rolling Stone’s erroneous account of a gang rape at the University of Virginia. Published last November, the story drew heavily from a UVA student’s graphic account of her rape at a fraternity.
Soon after, the Washington Post and other media outlets found that the victim at the core of Rolling Stone’s story fabricated her account.
After a four-month investigation, Columbia concluded that the fault was with reporter Sabrina Rubin Erdley and Rolling Stone’s editors and fact-checkers, who didn’t stop publication when certain facts couldn’t be confirmed.
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When researchers define a wide range of activities with broad terms, Rennison says it can impact the resulting data.
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Submitted by Kaka81k on Sat, 2015-06-20 19:00
This interview explains why feminist ideas are baseless and how the government today is biased against men.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Sat, 2015-06-20 09:59
Article here. Excerpt:
'A male Durham University student was so moved by the suicide of a close male friend that he felt compelled to start a society for other men who may need support – only to find it blocked by the Student Union this week for being too “controversial”.
When Adam Frost, 21, a third-year Italian and French student, proposed the Durham University Male Human Rights Society, he was ridiculed on campus, with remarks such as “Isn’t this a bit like starting a society for white people’s rights?”
Adam told me: “Last October, a friend who was depressed reached out to me, but I didn’t know what to say. I tried to help, but two weeks later I found out he’d killed himself. That hit me hard. I started looking into male suicide and found some shocking statistics. The reason behind that is that male depression isn’t taken seriously – we’re supposed to just ‘man up’ and deal with it. Men are ridiculed.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Sat, 2015-06-20 09:57
Article here. Excerpt:
'America leads the industrialized world in fatherlessness.
Right now, around 41 percent of children are born to single mothers.
For women under 30, who bear two-thirds of all children, that rate is 53 percent.
Many unmarried women are cohabiting with partners at the outset of their children’s births, but those couplings disintegrate at twice the rate of marriages.
In total, about one-third of all children are raised in father-absent homes.
By some estimates, this means more kids are growing up with televisions in their bedroom than with both of their biological parents.
Boys are especially affected by this trend. Without positive and consistent male role models, society misses out on much of their constructive potential.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Sat, 2015-06-20 09:53
Story here. Excerpt:
'Police officers acting on a 9-1-1 dispatch found overturned furniture inside an East Lampeter Township home on March 10.
A knife and bottle of vodka also were found at the home where a woman claimed she was raped by a stranger at midnight.
Further investigating - including a review of a Fitbit activity tracker - showed the scene was staged and 43-year-old Jeannine Risley knowingly filed a false report, police allege.
Risley is now headed to trial on three misdemeanor counts for prompting the emergency response and manhunt for an intruder that allegedly never was.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Sat, 2015-06-20 05:03
Article here. Excerpt:
'Earlier this week, Angel Soft brand toilet paper released an internet-only Father's Day ad honoring the women who, whether due to death or abandonment, have had to raise their kids on their own. In the commercial, attractive men and women who were raised by single mothers offer teary testimonials over a bed of soft piano music, concluding in a warm "Happy Father's Day, Mom" to the women who have had to be soft but strong, just like septic-safe, 2-ply Angel Soft brand toilet paper. ...
A lovely sentiment with which one could not possibly argue, right?
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Submitted by Mastodon on Sat, 2015-06-20 01:28
Article here. Excerpt:
'Layoffs hit Wenner Media this week.
Those affected worked at US Weekly, Men’s Journal and Rolling Stone.
The cuts, reported The Hollywood Reporter, affected employees on both the business and editorial sides of the magazines.
Those who were unaffected by the news?
Sabrina Erdely, who wrote the now widely discredited UVA rape story, and Sean Woods, the deputy managing editor who helped manage the 2014 debacle.
Maybe the mag really is standing by them, despite a Columbia Journalism School investigation that called the story a “journalism failure.”'
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