Article here. From 2004, but still a good read for anyone with a bully-boss. It's a rare acknowledgement indeed. Excerpt:

'It's no secret that there are abusive bosses out there -- you know the type. Bullies with big job titles that make the people working for them miserable.

Article here. Excerpt:

'National Parents Organization has been featured in the media more than 50 times in the past two months — an accomplishment that brings significant attention to the organization’s shared parenting and parental equality advocacy efforts. 

These publicity wins have included prominent stories on shared parenting in some of the nation’s most influential news outlets, including TIME magazine and The Wall Street Journal. In addition NPO members’ opinion pieces on family court reform legislation have landed in publications throughout the nation, and numerous news outlets covered NPO’s Parental Alienation Awareness Day involvement as well as other efforts.'

Press release here. Excerpt:

'A recent article by a Northwestern University professor about flawed campus sexual assault policies has triggered sharp criticism and calls for reform. Professor Laura Kipnis detailed how campus policies designed to address sexual assault have deprived the accused of their due process rights. Titled “My Title IX Inquisition,” the editorial was published in the May 29 edition of the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Kipnis had published an article in February criticizing Title IX procedures, which she described as overly-intrusive and unfair. Title IX is the federal law that bans sex discrimination on college campuses.

Story here. First of all I need to ask the (fairly obvious) question: What do you think the reaction would be if a male presidential candidate held an event for men only?

Well, of course the outcries of "sexism" would be heard 'round the world and thus would be the end of that male candidate's run for president, as well as his political career as a whole. No bones about it, and well it should.

Yet Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton holds a women-only event, and of course no sexism there, what? Clinton claims to be for "equality", but as is the case with most feminists, their actions speak louder than their words. In any case, it rather blew up in her face, like a stick of TNT for Wile E. Coyote. Excerpt:

Article here. Excerpt:

'The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, of which NIOSH is a part, says women are more likely to have work-related cases of carpal tunnel syndrome, tendonitis, respiratory diseases, infectious and parasitic diseases, and anxiety and stress disorders.

Women’s work-related health concerns differ from men’s for a number of reasons, including different types of jobs being performed, as well as social, economic and cultural factors. For example, because women are more likely to hold part-time jobs, which are typically more unstable, they could be more afraid to voice safety concerns for fear of losing their jobs, the CDC says.

Apart from straightforward safety concerns, women also face sexual harassment, which can impact physical and mental health and cause anxiety, depression, lower self-esteem, alienation, insomnia, nausea and headaches.'

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From Occupational fatality on Wikipedia:

You can sign the petition for a Google Doodle for International Men's Day, November 19 2015. Excerpt:

'We, the undersigned, respectfully request that Google and its doodlers do something as creative and fun as possible for as many people as possible to celebrate "International Men's Day" and have it made public on 19 November 2015.

Background: International Men's Day (IMD), like so many grassroots initiatives, has a history and people who need to be acknowledged.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'LYING TO GET sex has been going on since Adam ate the proverbial apple.

It will never stop. But wouldn't it be great if there was somewhere that a burned lover could turn to if she discovered that the man who told her he was childless not only had a 10-year-old, but also a pregnant side jawn?

Or if the person they're sleeping with showed them photos of a beautiful home he claimed to own but in reality was living in his parents' basement?

In other words, wouldn't it be great if a woman duped into having sex could have the jerk arrested?

Absolutely, says Mischele Lewis. The 37-year-old suburban-mom-turned-activist is the inspiration behind a bill in New Jersey that would make sexual assault by deception a crime.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Some people are arguing that this is an excuse by police to increase their arrest quotas, and to crack down on undesirable ethnic minority males. Russia Today reported that the NYPD issued approximately 1,400 summonses for manspreading in 2015.
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Robert Gangi, Director of Police Reform Organizing Project (PROP), said to Russia Today “We think it’s driven by a quota system. There is almost no other rational explanation for why the cops would conduct this kind of arrest unless they are under pressure to meet certain numbers, to meet with their productivity goals. It’s a classic pattern. Somebody gets a summons for a low-level thing, they don’t show up in court, the warrant is out… A cop stops you a second time, even if for another low-level thing, and it’s the policy of the department to arrest you.”

The first man arrested had his charges dismissed, due to the fact that he was arrested at 12:11 a.m. and the judge believes that no one was likely to be inconvenienced at such an early hour.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'A Stapleton woman tried to put the squeeze on a male relative - bashing him with a juicer Wednesday night, allege prosecutors.

Awilda Mendoza, 32, attacked the victim at about 9:55 p.m. during an argument in her home on the 200 block of Gordon Street, said a criminal complaint.

The victim suffered lacerations of the ear, arm and torso, the complaint said.

Ms. Mendoza was arrested on a felony count of assault, along with misdemeanor charges of assault and criminal weapon possession, according to information from acting District Attorney Daniel Master's office.'

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Reader Comments:

"I would have used my George Foreman grill. Designed by a heavyweight fighter....."

"The toaster wasn't available?"

Article here. Excerpt:

'Eliot Spitzer’s ex-wife Silda is hosting a fundraiser for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in Manhattan, and only women will be allowed to attend the $2,700-a-ticket event.

The two-hour long fundraiser, which Silda will host along with four other women, will allow those who go to chat with Clinton on June 1. All proceeds will benefit “Hillary for America,” Page Six reports.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'This year, nearly all college students in New York and California started their spring semesters under a new state-mandated regime of sexual policing called affirmative consent (“yes means yes”). Under these policies, any student who cannot prove that he obtained active, ongoing, unambiguous consent to any sexual activity will automatically be guilty of violating campus sexual assault policies. These draconian new rules are binding only on college students. They do not apply to college faculties and administrators, and they certainly don’t apply to the legislators who passed these laws.

Article here. Excerpt:

'According to Sen. Mae Flexer, D-Killingly, who spearheaded this bill, college students would be required to “say yes” or indicate nonverbally through “physical cues” that they are willing to have sex with another college student.

A major flaw in this proposed legislation is that it would impose a legal requirement that college students engage in a specific type of speech or behavior in a certain situation. Although this requirement is unenforceable, if a university did find a way to enforce it, the university would be infringing upon students’ constitutional rights to freedom of speech. . . .
Sen. Joe Markey, R-Southington, was correct when he said it is “peculiar” for the state to pass a law that applies only to accused students in university disciplinary hearings and not to defendants in criminal courts. College students are not a special class of citizens who are exempt from the Constitution’s protections of freedom of speech, due process and the presumption of innocence for the accused.

Review here. Excerpt:

'In this blog entry, I have assembled my own shorthand notes of a really important book by Lisa Braver Moss and Rebecca Wald: Celebrating Brit Shalom, (2015, Notim Press, ISBN-13: 978-0692353332). I hope what you find on this page encourages you to buy the book. It is clear and informative, short enough to read quickly, and inspiring in its fully set out scripts (English, and the few bits of Hebrew needed) of three sample ceremonies, including ideas for music. This book would be ideal as a resource for any parents who wanted to inform themselves, but also have as an authoritative and thoughtful resource they could show to family and friends to introduce them to the idea of a brit shalom. And, of course, it is extremely useful for anyone who wants to create their own ceremony to welcome someone into their Jewish family, people, and heritage. Although the authors do not mention it in the book, I can imagine the ideas here would be very useful for men converting to Judaism, but not wanting to have to be circumcised.'

Article here. Wonder if/when the scales'll fall from her eyes? Excerpt:

'The February essay that Northwestern University Professor Laura Kipnis wrote in the Chronicle of Higher Education was certainly provocative. Titled “Sexual Paranoia Strikes Academe,” the piece lashed out at campus overregulation, particularly against dating between professors and students. “Intergenerational desire has always been a dilemma as well as an occasion for mutual fascination,” wrote Kipnis. “Whether or not it’s a brilliant move, plenty of professors I know, male and female, have hooked up with students, though informal evidence suggests that female professors do it less, and rarely with undergraduates.”

Denunciations of what she terms the “Great Prohibition” jibe with Kipnis’s claims that contemporary campus culture essentially coddles students to the point that they can’t rely on themselves to deal with the world that awaits them. “The new codes sweeping American campuses aren’t just a striking abridgment of everyone’s freedom, they’re also intellectually embarrassing,” she wrote. “Sexual paranoia reigns; students are trauma cases waiting to happen. If you wanted to produce a pacified, cowering citizenry, this would be the method.”

In addition to such essayifying, Kipnis summarized a legal battle between a Northwestern University undergraduate student and a philosophy professor accused of “unwelcome and inappropriate sexual advances.” After laying out the conflicting accounts of their interactions, Kipnis commented, “What a mess. And what a slippery slope, from alleged fondler to rapist.”

Article here. Excerpt:

'In December 2013, Amherst College imposed its first major sanction under a new get-tough sexual misconduct policy, expelling a 21-year-old senior after a disciplinary board concluded that he had forced a female classmate to perform oral sex during an alcohol-infused encounter nearly two years earlier.