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'Minnesota isn't the only state that's grappling with this issue. A high school boys tennis team in Pennsylvania was forced to forfeit five matches this spring when state officials learned that one of its doubles player was female. In New York and New Jersey, the past five years have been filled with debate (and some lawsuits) about rules that specifically prohibit girls from playing with boys in contact sports like football or hockey, while leaving the door open for them to fence, play tennis or run cross country on boys teams, provided that their schools don't have girls teams in those sports. (In New York, the rule cuts both ways — a boy can play field hockey or volleyball on a girls team.)
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Article here. Sometimes fate does for you what you're not smart enough to do for yourself. In The Hildebeast's case, it's to keep her the hell out of the oval office. She'll be a lot happier anyway enjoying the last chapters of her life as a private citizen vs. POTUS. (Most people who hold that job either go gray from it, gray-er from it, or come close to dropping dead from the stress more than once, though those stories don't make it to the news desks of America.) She's so much better off not being in the WH, and so are we. Excerpt:

'The Democratic Party of Virginia was giving away free tickets to an event featuring Hillary Clinton on Friday night.

Clinton is headlining the party's annual Jefferson-Jackson dinner on Friday evening. Though the event is raising money for the Virginia Democrats rather than her presidential bid, it is considered an important campaign appearance for Clinton. The dinner is Clinton's first campaign stop in Virginia, a crucial swing state. It's also one of her first stops outside of the early primary states.

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'A report issued Thursday by the Department of State repeatedly refers to sex reassignment surgery in Iran as “gender-confirmation surgery.”

Speaking at the release of the State Department’s annual human rights report, Secretary of State John Kerry said of the designation that “There is nothing sanctimonious in this,” emphasizing the need for “humility” in the face of the U.S.’ own racial inequality. The State Department did not respond to a request for clarification by The Daily Caller News Foundation.

Iran has a well-documented record of coercing gay and lesbian people into having the gender reassignment surgery, that is, disrupting rather than “confirming” the gender identity of hundreds per year. Since homosexuality can be punishable by death in Iran, known homosexual men tend to accept the government-subsidized surgery to become women, and vice versa.'

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The University of Kansas isn’t getting any love from its rival, in a legal fight that tests whether colleges must police the off-campus conduct of their students under Title IX anti-harassment policies.

As The College Fix previously reported, KU is defending the propriety of its expulsion of a student whose alleged harassment of his ex-girlfriend took place over the summer, off campus. The student also called his ex a “psycho bitch” on Twitter, though he blocked her from his feed.

KU pointed to the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) “Dear Colleague” letter from 2011 as justification for its punishment of the student, as the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) notes.

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'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.'

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'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.'

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'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.'

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'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”.'

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'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.

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'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. 

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'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.

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'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.'