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'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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'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.

This interview explains why feminist ideas are baseless and how the government today is biased against men.

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'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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'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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'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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'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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'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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“Manterruption,” “mansplaining” and “bropropriation” are neologisms that spell bad news both for women trying to make the most of their seat at the table and for men claiming to be equal opportunity communicators. All these terms represent characteristics of male communication – whether intentional or the result of unconscious biases and attitudes – used as displays of dominance and power:

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'As America comes to terms with a monstrous shooting in Charleston that has left nine churchgoers dead, bewildered members of the public are seeking rationality in apparently wanton and inscrutable crimes.

We may never know quite what drives some people to kill. But it seems that in young Dylann Storm Roof, we have further evidence of a trend that should worry us all. I’m talking about his dependence on prescription drugs: suboxone, to be precise.

Roof is just the latest in a long line of young men who have committed appalling crimes after a lifetime on psychotropic drugs. If you don’t believe me, consider some of the most notorious young male shooters in American history.

Sandy Hook shooter Adam Lanza? Lexapro and Celexa. Red-headed Aurora killer James Holmes? Clonazepam and sertraline. Virginia Tech mass murderer Seung-Hui Cho? Prozac. Charles Whitman, the “Texas Tower Sniper”? Dexedrine. Columbine executioners Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold? Zoloft and Luvox.

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'Father's Day might seem like the wrong holiday to discuss discrimination against mothers. But the problem is an enduring workplace affliction, which also harms dads.

Employers too often believe mothers are less competent and less committed, even though there's no evidence to back up that bias. It's an archaic assumption in an age when women receive more advanced degrees than men and make up half of the workforce.

To bust the stereotype, the U.S. needs to do more than enhance women's role in the workplace; men need to ask for "daddy leave," a family-friendly policy that has worked in places like Sweden.'

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'Many of this year's Father's Day messages have tugged at our heartstrings, but The Ad Council and organization Futures Without Violence have teamed up for a more sobering message for Dads.

A TV spot, created by RSA Films, starts out like a typical Father's Day ad, with a voiceover (by Forest Whittaker) reflecting on what Dads teach their sons; to hit baseballs, goals, and other sporting achievements. It goes on to ask "But how much time did you spend on teaching him what not to hit?"'

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'Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday authorized a nearly $1 million payout to three wrongfully convicted former prisoners, including Brian Banks, a former Poly High football star who was exonerated on a rape conviction three years ago.

Banks will receive $142,200 after spending five years behind bars. He was exonerated after his accuser, Wanetta Gibson, a fellow student, recanted her story.

In 2002, Banks was a 17-year-old football standout at Poly High, attending summer school ahead of his senior year, when he had what he always maintained was a consensual encounter with Gibson.

Gibson later claimed Banks raped her. Facing a 41-year sentence for rape and kidnapping, Banks, who once received a scholarship offer from USC, pleaded no contest in order to receive fewer years behind bars.'

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'This paper explores the importance of the home and school environments in explaining the gender gap in disruptive behavior. We document large differences in the gender gap across key features of the home environment - boys do especially poorly in broken families. In contrast, we find little impact of the early school environment on non-cognitive gaps. Differences in endowments explain a small part of boys' non-cognitive deficit in single-mother families. More importantly, non-cognitive returns to parental inputs differ markedly by gender. Broken families are associated with worse parental inputs and boys' non-cognitive development, unlike girls', appears extremely responsive to such inputs.

This paper is available as PDF (252 K) or via email.'

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'This article in the Washington Post strikes a blow for men as fathers (Washington Post, 6/6/15). Specifically, it’s about changing parental leave laws and policies to allow dads to spend meaningful time with their kids in the first weeks of life. That of course is a good idea. Mothers biologically bond with their children during pregnancy; fathers do so mostly after their kids are born when testosterone levels take a sharp dive and prolactin levels rise. And children need to see, hear and feel their dads early in their lives to form the usual child/father attachment.

So parental leave for fathers makes sense for dads and their kids.