"Fainting couch feminism"

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'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.'

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'Dateline' highlights campus sexual assault and the difficulties for college adjudication

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'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.'

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How rating men on a 'sexist' app is making dating safer for women

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.

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Rape on Campus: Guilty until Proven Innocent

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.

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Australia: Queensland researcher to start world-first study into women-only police stations

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'Police in Australia deal with a domestic violence matter every two minutes, according to estimates, a disturbing reality authorities around the country are struggling to combat.

Queensland researchers are now looking across the world to South America, where a unique and cooperative approach has been achieving success under the radar.

Women-only police stations designed specifically to deal with domestic and sexual violence have been quietly running for decades across Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Nicaragua and Peru with multi-agency and government cooperation.
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Professor Carrington said that, as the name suggests, the stations are staffed by female police officers, psychologists and social workers.

"They don't look like police stations in that they are very brightly coloured, they have flowers [and] they are very inviting and welcoming," she said.'

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Woman claims she was beaten by black men found to be only wearing makeup

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'A Texas woman's plan to get attention in the wake of a racially-motivated church shooting in South Carolina backfired when people quickly figured out it was fake.

According to The Daily Dot, Texarkana, Texas, resident Ashley Casey Martin wrote on Facebook that she was "jumped by 3 African Americans ourside [sic] of the as [sic] Walmart" alongside some photos of her alleged injuries.

The photos didn't show injuries, but a laughably bad makeup job featuring what looks like black eyes literally drawn with black eyeshadow. Blood looks to be some sort of blush or red lipstick.

The Daily Dot contacted both the store and Texarkana Police Department public information officer Mike Jones who both said they had no reports of any incidents.
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A friend later contacted the Texarkana Police Department to say that Martin is "emotionally disturbed."

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Meet The Taxpayer-Funded Feminist Professor Who Demands ‘Men Control’

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'A women’s studies professor at the University of Maryland, College Park has used her Twitter account to call for legislation to restrict the actions of males because of their masculinity.

The taxpayer-funded professor is Ashwini Tambe. The tweet is the highlight among a set of Tambe’s outrageous tweets compiled by the website SoCawlege.com.

Here is a screenshot of Tambe’s May 2014 tweet demanding “men control”:'

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The male Pill is coming - and it's going to change everything

Story here. Found in The Telegraph, ironically under Women's Health. Excerpt:

'Male contraception is coming.

Vasalgel is a non-hormonal male contraceptive owned by the medical research organisation the Parsemus Foundation. It’s poised as the first FDA (Food and Drug Administration panel) approved male contraceptive since the condom.

What's more, it's estimated to hit the US market around 2018-2020 - and could change the way we view contraception for ever.
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Research tells us that at least half of men would use it.

Vasalgel is essentially a polymer that’s injected under local anesthetic into the man’s sperm-carrying tubes, accessible through the scrotum — not in his penis or testicles as some authors have erred. It works by blocking sperm and is expected to be reversible through a second injection that dissolves the polymer.'

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Former pro baseball player found dead in murder-suicide

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'Former Mets outfielder Darryl Hamilton was identified by police in Pearland, Texas, as one of two victims in a murder-suicide.
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Officers responding to a disturbance call Sunday found Hamilton’s body near the front entrance. Monica Jordan, 44, was found dead in another part of the home.

Hamilton was shot more than once and Jordan died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to investigators.'

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Two People Have Filed Over 1,700 Sex Discrimination Complaints With Dept. Of Education

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'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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New document available for download

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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County responsible for false rape case, says local police dept.

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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UK: Nobel Scientists Condemn Feminist ‘Lynch Mob’ That Ousted Professor

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'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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Ignore the bad fathers on Father’s Day

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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Leading law journal calls Department of Ed’s Title IX letter to colleges ‘unconstitutional and unfair’

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'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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