Article here. Excerpt:

'For generations now, the debate over women in combat has put the onus on women to prove they can handle the infantry and other traditionally all-male units. Yet today’s wars have made it clear that the military’s problem lies not with its women, their ability or their courage. The military’s problem, instead, is with some of its men—and a deeply ingrained macho culture that denigrates, insults and abuses women.

“Oh, it’s too rough for women,” such men tend to say. Others complain, “Women would ruin our camaraderie” or “We’d be competing for women instead of looking out for ourselves.” As retired Gen. Gordon R. Sullivan, a former Army chief of staff, wrote, lifting the combat ban against women would be “confusing” and “detrimental to units.”

These attitudes reveal deeply patriarchal, condescending and creaky stereotypes about women, as if they are capable of being nothing more than soft, sexy objects of romance—or sexual prey.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Thanks to the feminist movement, society has devoted much thought, scholarship and attention to the ways female gender roles restrict women. But in recent years, a growing chorus is pointing to just how detrimental rigid masculinity standards can be too — not only for individual men, but other people in their lives. Now a new study confirms just that.

A University of Washington study recently published in Social Psychology found that men exaggerate stereotypical masculine traits and behaviors and reject feminine ones when their masculinity is threatened. When men received average scores on a strength test, the study revealed, they did not attempt to highlight their other "masculine" traits, such as height, number of romantic partners or athletic prowess. But when male participants were given falsely low results on the same strength test, they actually exaggerated these same qualities.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'A policy giving college students full legal counsel in disciplinary proceedings is a good first step, but it needs to go further.

We should stop trying serious crimes in campus disciplinary hearings, which have few protections for the accused and are run by people with scant experience in such proceedings.

Unfortunately, given the back story of how this shift in policy came to be, there may be little hope for additional progress.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Misandry, or the man-hating equivalent of misogyny, has gone from a far-out accusation leveled by Men’s Rights Activist types to an ironic, re-appropriated feminist inside joke, and now it has come back out the other side. In a lawsuit against Columbia University, counsel for the male student Emma Sulkowicz has accused of rape are using language that usually connotes anti-female harassment. In a pre-trial letter posted on the Wall Street Journal, they cite “intentional discrimination on the basis of his male sex by condoning a hostile educational environment due to knowingly permitting and apparently approving of Columbia student Emma Sulkowicz’s and Defendant Columbia Professor Kessler’s engaging in prolonged sexual harassment of Plaintiff Nungesser, with the consequence that Plaintiff Nungesser had been effectively denied equal access to Defendant Columbia’s resources and opportunities.”

Story here. From March; I heard on the radio the trial has started. Excerpt:

'The bodies of five babies, four in a freezer, have been discovered in a house in southwestFrance, in what appears to be the country’s worst case of infanticide in recent years.

The mother, 35, was taken to hospital and the 40-year old father taken in for questioning after he alerted police to the body of a newborn he found in a thermal bag earlier in the day.

Officers then “discovered four more bodies of babies during their search” at the house in Louchats, near the city of Bordeaux, said a source close to the inquiry.

It was the father, a farmer, who made the initial macabre discovery of the bag containing the first corpse of a newborn baby at the family home.

The mother apparently “gave birth at home alone”, the source said, adding that she had been taken to a hospital in nearby Bordeaux “for gynaecological and psychiatric examinations”.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'A full day of events addressing issues of sexual assault and domestic violence is planned for Thursday, June 25th, but the intended audience isn't the demographic most affected by those crimes.

Rather than focus on women for these events, the Sexual Assault Kit (SAK) Taskforce is inviting men to be guests at its quarterly "community conversation" event. That public forum will be immediately followed by the annual Walk a Mile in Her Shoes event, where men are asked to don high heels for a one-mile awareness walk.

Article here. Excerpt:

'As investigators in Pearland, Texas, try to connect the dots in the murder-suicide that claimed the life of former Mets outfielderDarryl Hamilton, new details are emerging about the woman police say shot him and then took her own life.

According to a report by the Houston Chronicle, Monica Jordan pleaded guilty in 2008 to felony arson after burning down a house in 2006 where she had been living with her husband at the time. There were reports she tried to spray him with gasoline before lighting the fire.

Jordan and Hamilton had a 14-month-old son together. He was found unharmed at the site of the murder-suicide.'

From Malecare.org:

CDC Advocacy Update June 24, 2015

The line item for FY 2016 CDC prostate cancer funding of $13,205,000 is restored in both the House and Senate appropriations bills, as authored by their committees.   Since both the House and Senate committee bills restore funding, there will be no conference discussion, nor is it likely to be debated by the full House or Senate.  Only a new amendment by the full Senate committee actually directing the removal of prostate cancer funding could alter this outcome...that is unlikely. 

Article here. Excerpt:

'Every year, equal parenting advocates anticipate Fathers’ Day with a mixture of joy and alarm. The joy of course is because fathers across the country are acknowledged and valued for what they are — one of the two most important people in their children’s lives and vital to their well-being. The alarm comes from the sad fact that, every year, there are some who seize on Fathers’ Day as an excuse to denigrate fathers even more than usual.

Video here. Description:

'Testosterone has long been considered what makes men masculine. But is this common perception selling the hormone short? Dr Phillips investigates just how this molecule affects our abilities, behaviour and health.

"I've found I was less drawn by an attractive woman's body, but found that I could appreciate what people's expressions were more." Since being diagnosed with prostate cancer, Professor Wassersug has noticed both pros and cons to being testosterone-deprived. Evidence suggests that the hormone has a big influence on how our brain develops; it has the potential to affect behaviour, empathy-levels, language, and the way we build relationships. Because of this, regulating testosterone-levels may just hold the key to healthier and happier lives.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Earlier this month, Lauren Southern, a young Canadian reporter and a political-science student at the University of the Fraser Valley, caused a media storm when she challenged a ‘SlutWalk’ in Vancouver by holding up a placard which said ‘There is no rape culture in the West’. Last week, I talked to Southern about why she decided to speak out.

The protest Southern disrupted – she held up the placard and challenged the protesters’ views on camera – was linked to Women Against Violence Against Women, a rape-crisis centre set up in Vancouver in the Eighties, which follows a ‘feminist anti-oppression philosophy’ and claims that ‘rape culture is real and huge and everywhere’. SlutWalks began four years ago after a policeman in Toronto suggested that ‘women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimised’. In response, feminists took to the streets of Toronto in their underwear in protest at the cop’s ‘slut-shaming and victim-blaming’ statement. SlutWalks have since become popular across the globe, and are held annually in many cities.

Video here. Description:

'AEI resident scholar and former professor Christina Hoff Sommers has been lecturing on college campuses for more than twenty years. Recently, some students have conducted protests against speech they find objectionable. They've forced lecturers to cancel talks, have security protect the speakers, or even have universities launch investigations into the student complaints against their professors. Dr. Sommers takes a look at this recent wave of protests, and posits that the First Amendment is being replaced by a woman's right not to be made uncomfortable.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'NBC's "Dateline" aired Sunday night with an episode about campus sexual assault and the alleged failings of colleges and universities in handling complaints.

But perhaps inadvertently, the program also highlighted the fact that colleges – no matter how much the media and politicians want them to – just can't adjudicate a sexual assault the way the police can.

And, like many attempts to discuss the issue of campus sexual assault, the episode's star victims told some questionable stories.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'The free app has just launched in the UK, following success in the US (it had over 200,000 users after two months, and a 60 per cent retention rate).

Simply, it allows women to anonymously comment on the men they know and have dated. The app is designed exclusively for women so they can anonymously research any man they're interested in dating.

They can post photos of the men, write reviews and list the best and worst things about their character, style and sense of humour. You don't rate the men yourself (marks out of ten this is not), instead you take a multiple choice quiz and the app works out their score. The men are also assigned hashtags that reflect their best and worst qualities, such as #SweetToMom or #RudeToWaiters.

Gulp. Soon the straight, single men of the UK will be at the mercy of their old girlfriends.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Megyn Kelly recently interviewed the attorney for "John Doe," a pseudonym for a young man who was charged with sexual assault when he was a sophomore at Amherst College by "Sandra Jones," another pseudonym. Evidently, colleges and universities now have panels or tribunals to judge charges of sexual assault. This began in 2011, when the Obama administration issued an edict claiming that one out of every five women in college has been sexually assaulted and warning that schools who didn't crack down and reduce the numbers of sexual assaults could lose federal funding. Colleges and universities rushed to set up panels and tribunals to "judge" these accusations in order to keep the cash flowing.

Now it appears that all any woman has to do is accuse a male of sexual misconduct of any type, and this tribunal process begins.  John Doe was a victim of this edict.

K.C. Johnson, author of Until Proven Innocent, in a interview with Megyn Kelly, had the following to say about the tribunal system:

`Once the complaint is filed, an investigator, who lacks subpoena power, interviews the accuser and the accused student; beyond that, the college promises only that the investigator will make a "good faith effort" to speak to relevant witnesses, and will "try" to obtain relevant physical or medical evidence. If the investigator's "good faith" effort doesn't track down relevant witnesses, the policy presumes that the accused student won't be able to call those witnesses before the hearing.