Article here. Excerpt:

'Lately, there’s a lot of talk among feminists about the need to keep women safe. The rape culture is allegedly inescapable, and trigger warnings are appended to college syllabi to protect sensitive souls from reminders of any past cause of pain, from “neuro-atypical shaming” to mention of “how much a person weighs.” But it turns out that if you dare to debunk feminist myths, you’re the one that really needs protection.

Article here. Excerpt:

'In 2013, Elissa Shevinsky wrote an article titled "That's it, I'm finished defending sexism in tech." The article was based on her concerns that a major tech expo would open with a presentation with an app called "Titstare," which, as the name implied, allowed users to take photos of themselves staring at women's breasts.
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Because of the movement she helped create, Shevinsky has been described as a "social justice warrior" — a usually derogatory term applied to those who engage in hostile arguments in the name of righting a perceived social injustice.

Shevinsky is now sorry for whatever role she played in creating all of this outrage and silliness. She's sorry, she writes in her new book, Lean Out, and she adds that her initial position was "flawed."

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'State Rep. Earl Ehrhart (R-Powder Springs) is the chairman of the subcommittee that oversees appropriations for public universities. Ehrhart said he read a report in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that described a “secret process for judging sexual misconduct allegations,” which troubled him because it outlined what he considers a violation of the right to due process as its laid out by the Fifth Amendment.

“If somebody commits a crime, that’s the purview of trained professional jurists, district attorneys (and) law enforcement. The universities absolutely don’t need to be in that business, so I want to make sure that they’re not,” Ehrhart said. “They don’t need a secondary system of justice on university campuses. That’s the issue.”

He said even if a person is accused of a heinous crime, they should still be considered “innocent until proven guilty” and be granted their right to due process.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Nacht has seen how the system can seriously harm the reputation and future of some students—especially male students. When universities investigate reported sexual misconduct, due process is often thrown out for the accused. That's leading a lot of male students and their families to seek legal help when a complaint is filed. While Nacht also represents women in campus incidents, he says at any given time, he's got six male clients.

When relationships go south, those disagreements are now starting to include lawyers and even police.

Nacht related a recent case that illustrates the problem. A couple at UM had been together for three years, and in the course of one weekend, they had consensual sex three times. But after they attended a party, the woman decided she wanted to break up with him. She didn't inform him of this and went back with him to his dorm room that night, where some sexual activity took place. They both had been drinking.

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'Last month student union leaders at Goldsmiths, University of London, organized a meeting for minority students to chat about their stake in the student protests being staged at schools across London over the high cost of tuition. Bahar Mustafa had just been re-elected to her post as welfare and diversity officer for Goldsmiths’ student union, and she eagerly recruited her Facebook friends to help spread the word. Oh, and “if you’re a man and/or white PLEASE DON’T COME,” she wrote in a note. “Don’t worry lads we will give you and allies things to do.”

Story here. Think a man would still have a job by now if the sexes/ethnicities were reversed? Not a chance. Excerpt:

"The controversial Boston University professor who said white men were 'the problem' for America's colleges and told a rape victim to 'go cry somewhere' also set up a fake account on an adult dating site depicting another woman, it has been revealed.

Saida Grundy, who has been under intense scrutiny following a string of controversial comments on social media, set up the profile on Fling.com, which is used for casual sex, because she was 'jealous' of the victim.

The black sociology professor, who will start her role at the university on July 1, set up the page pretending to be a woman who was dating one of her ex-boyfriends.

In December 2007, while studying at the University of Michigan, she stole photos of the woman from the man's email account and then posted them online.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Several theories attempt to explain why boys and girls have markedly different educational outcomes:

• Because the academic gap exists across ages, societies and races, researchers suggest intellectual maturity and normal child development favor females. The gap is widest at the middle-school level.

• Physiology plays a role. Adolescence can disrupt education as boys and girls develop. The age of puberty is when teachers begin to see the differences.

• Behavior is big. Boys are 2½ times more likely to be suspended and nearly three times more likely to be expelled, according to Ohio Department of Education data. They also drop out of school more often.

• Girls might think differently. Educators say they are less oppositional and deeper thinkers.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Men are idiots. They have a much higher idiot factor than women do, especially when young. This fundamental difference between the sexes will never be eradicated no matter how hard we try. (Although try we must.)
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From an evolutionary standpoint, this makes sense. Men are far more dispensable than women. What does it matter if some of them get trampled by mastodons, race their cars off cliffs or club each other to death when they feel their manhood is insulted? The gene pool is better off without them.

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'No women, no deal.

That's the vow that angel investor and entrepreneur Jonathan Sposato has taken.

Sposato, who is based in Seattle, made a bold claim: He will only back businesses that have at least one woman on the founding team.

"I am no longer going to invest unless you have at least one female founder," Sposato told CNNMoney. "I won't say yes."
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Spasato sees nearly 100 startups per year looking for funding -- and the vast majority don't have any female founders.

"There is a marked difference in the traction companies get depending on the gender of its founders," Sposato said.

Male entrepreneurs can help change that.

"We have to change the balance of how people think about starting companies," he said.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Ellen Pao, interim chief executive of Reddit, announced last month a ban on salary negotiations at the social media company. Her stated goal: to eliminate the persistent disadvantage that women have at the bargaining table.

Her pronouncement came just days after Pao lost a high-profile sex-discrimination lawsuit against one of Silicon Valley’s biggest venture-capital firms. Since then, she has insisted that companies “can’t just hide” from sexism in their workplaces and must be proactive in counteracting discrimination. Still, while it is true thatwomen earn about 78 cents, on average, for every dollar a man makes for comparable work, Pao’s no-negotiating policy has struck many as absurd.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'Washington and Lee University urged a federal judge in Lynchburg on Friday to toss out a lawsuit filed by a student who was expelled last year on grounds of sexual misconduct.

The student, referred to only as John Doe in court, is claiming the school’s disciplinary process violated federal law by discriminating against him because he’s male.

His lawsuit also argues he was deprived of due process and claims the decision against him was influenced by the now-discredited Rolling Stone article on an alleged assault at the University of Virginia. The article came out one day before the student’s hearing at W&L.

W&L maintained its process was reasonable. The process is sensitive to students who file complaints of sexual assault, it argued, but that alone is not gender bias.

Article here. Excerpt:

'There’s a storm forming on the Ohio horizon. Two pieces of legislation will be introduced soon that directly affect child support. You will need to help us kill the bad parts of these bills. Both will be recycled versions of earlier bills that National Parents Organization helped kill in previous years. We were kindly notified of these bills by the Ohio Child Support Directors Association because they are aware of our record of activism.

The first bill will almost certainly be passed in some form, because federal law requires parts of it. So we must unite to eliminate other parts of the bill that are not mandated. It would shorten the time period for the alleged father to object to an administrative determination of paternity from 30 days to 14 days. Worse, it would start the clock with the issuance of the order, not the receipt of it, or even the date of mailing.

Article here. Excerpt:

'This week's graduation at Columbia University caps the bizarre, often sordid saga involving the two most famous members of the Class of 2015: Emma Sulkowicz, the activist who protested the school's alleged mishandling of her alleged rape by carrying a mattress around campus, and Jean-Paul Nungesser, the German scholarship student she accuses of raping her. On Tuesday, Sulkowicz carried her mattress across the stage at Class Day, despite half-hearted attempts by Columbia officials to enforce a regulation against bringing "large objects" into the ceremonial area—and despite the fact that the "mattress performance" was for a senior visual arts thesis she had already completed. Her activism was also lauded (with no mention of her name) by two commencement speakers, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and United Nations Ambassador Samantha Power.

This isn't quite the end of the story: Nungesser is suingColumbia, university president Lee Bollinger, and Sulkowicz's thesis supervisor for allowing him to be subjected to "gender-based harassment" which severely damaged his educational experience and future prospects, even though a campus panel found him not culpable on the sexual assault charge. Meanwhile, there is new information related to one of this story's many strange twists: another sexual assault complaint brought against Nungesser late last year by a male classmate. The charge was made public in February, on the heels of my article in The Daily Beast questioning the pro-Sulkowicz narrative.

Press release here. Excerpt:

'Recent lawsuits arising from alleged incidents of campus sexual assault are renewing long-standing concerns about the problem of false accusations. In recent weeks, three high-profile lawsuits have been filed involving students or administrators at major universities.

In late April, student Paul Nungesser charged in a lawsuit that Columbia University collaborated in a campaign of harassment against him when accuser Emma Sulkowicz launched her nationally publicized “mattress” campaign, even though the Columbia U. disciplinary committee found no wrong-doing and local police declined to pursue the case.

On May 8, former Florida State University student Jameis Winston filed a lawsuit against accuser Erica Kinsman, saying her allegations of sexual assault were “false, defamatory … and have maliciously and impermissibly interfered with Mr. Winston’s business and personal relationships.” Winston had been cleared of the assault charges in three separate investigations.'

Press release here. Excerpt:

'Notim Press is pleased to announce the publication of Celebrating Brit Shalom, the first book written specifically for Jewish families opting out of circumcision. The book includes a choice of three bris-without-circumcision ceremonies, designed to be either family-led or rabbi-led. It also features sheet music to four original songs written to accompany the ceremonies (recorded versions available separately). The volume is already receiving praise from rabbis and other Jewish thinkers.

"Without asking anyone's permission, [Lisa] Braver Moss and [Rebecca] Wald have crafted a beautiful series of alternative welcoming ceremonies that are in deep conversation with the Jewish tradition. The fact that Celebrating Brit Shalom exists is a testament to both the ingenuity of its creators and the vitality of the Jewish tradition," says Tikkun Magazine.