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'Megyn Kelly has a message for feminists: Toughen up, Buttercups.

Kelly, host of Fox News’ The Kelly File, invited Christina Hoff Sommers onto her show Wednesday night in order to discuss the demands made by students at the University of North Texas, who decided they wanted a commencement speaker who “better aligned with their values” than Texas Governor Greg Abbott.

Although Sommers is known as the “Factual Feminist,” many scholars and feminists view her title as misleading and claim she is a critic of feminism rather than an actual feminist. Sommers coined the term “equity feminist” to describe her views, and argues that modern feminism contains “irrational hostility to men” as well as an “inability to take seriously the possibility that the sexes are equal but different.”'

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'In a first, researchers at Oxford University have watched infants as young as a day old as their brains process a light prodding of their feet. The results confirm that yes, babies do indeed feel pain, and that they process it similarly to adults. Until as recently as the 1980s, researchers assumed newborns did not have fully developed pain receptors, and believed that any responses babies had to pokes or pricks were merely muscular reactions. But new research published Tuesday morning changes that.

Taking advantage of the fact that newborns less than a week old tend to sleep through anything, Rebeccah Slater, an associate professor of pediatric neuroimaging at Oxford, and her colleagues placed 10 infants who were 1-6 days old in an fMRI machine. The researchers, who reported their findings in eLife, observed which areas of the infants’ brains became more active, or consumed more oxygen, as the scientists lightly poked their feet. They did the same for adults and compared the brain images.
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'A defective penile-circumcision clamp caused the tip of a 7-day-old infant's penis to be amputated, his mother claims in court.

Though the mother identifies herself and her son in the complaint filed on April 22 in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas, Courthouse News has redacted their last names because of the sensitive nature of the claims.

The March 2010 "horrific injury" occurred in Oxnard, Calif., while baby Benjamin's doctor "performed what was supposed to be a routine circumcision procedure," according to the complaint.

For the procedure, Benjamin's doctor allegedly used a "Mogen Clamp," manufactured by Misdom-Frank Corp., Medco Group and Sklar Instruments, all of West Chester, Pa.

Unlike other circumcision instruments, the lawsuit says, the Mogen Clamp lacks a protective shield or bell to safeguard the head of the penis.

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'The principal of a school in Canberra has been suspended after it was revealed that an autistic boy was locked in a metal cage.

It was announced yesterday an investigation was underway after it emerged a 10-year-old autistic bot was put in a 2m by 2m structure by his teachers at a Canberra school.

The cage was specifically designed for him to as a 'withdrawal space' while in class. 

The principal has been removed from the school and two teachers with expertise in disability education have been assigned to the school.

The structure was in place from March 10 to March 27, according to ACT Education Minister Joy Burch.

Shadow Education Minister Kate Ellis said the mistreatment of students with a disability was 'shocking and deeply disturbing'.'

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'Senator Harry Reid [link added] (D-NV) stated that “women appear to me to be more patient” and not as inclined to go to war as men in an interview broadcast on Thursday’s “Rachel Maddow Show” on MSNBC.

Reid said, “the Senate is a better place because of women. Men and women are different. I’m so impressed with how women appear to me to be more patient. They are less — inclined to do things like war…I wish I could articulate the way I really feel about how much better the Senate is because of women.”

Reid added that the country “ready” for a woman Senate Majority Leader and a woman president.'

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'Allowing women to serve in ground combat positions could make them more vulnerable to sexual predators, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter told Reserve Officers’ Training Corps cadets Wednesday.

At least 18,900 service members experienced unwanted sexual contact last year, according to Defense Department estimates. As DoD takes steps to address the epidemic, the services are also studying the implications of opening ground combat positions to female service members.
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“Obviously, as we get women into more unaccustomed positions, maybe dangerous isolated positions, maybe positions where they are fewer in relation to the number of men, it opens up opportunities for predators,” Carter said.'

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Wiki on US Sec'y of Defense Ashton Carter

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'I think that certainly was the biggest challenge in terms of being women, but in terms of how it really helped us is that I think women are natural multitaskers, and we handle crisis in a natural way. This was not an easy project to pull off but it felt like a very smooth set, like a very calm set, a very positive environment, and I credit that to our team. I think that has something to do with how women handle problems. That’s why women make great directors and great producers.'

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Wikipedia on Olivia Wilde

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'Bahar Mustafa, of Goldsmiths University, organised an event for students to protest against inequality and celebrate racial unity.

But the gathering soon sparked outrage after she appeared to banish all men and white people from attending.

She posted on the Facebook event page: "If you've been invited and you're a man and/or white PLEASE DON'T COME just cos (sic) i invited a bunch of people and hope you will be responsible enough to respect this is a BME Women and non-binary event only."

Instead, people were asked to invite "loads of BME women and non-binary people".

BME is a politically correct tag meaning Black and Minority Ethnic, while the term 'non-binary' is said to be used by those who do not associate themselves with exclusively being a male of female.'

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'Left-leaning student activists at Oberlin College hung posters at the Christina Hoff Sommers event earlier this week that identified the students involved in bringing the individualist-feminist and AEI scholar to campus.

Each poster gave the name of a specific student-member of the Oberlin College Republicans and Libertarians and accused that person of perpetuating rape culture.

Images of the posters were sent to Reason via a source who asked not to be named for fear of retaliation. The last names of the students identified by the posters were blurred before Reason received them.
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They have the right to denounce their fellow students as perpetuators of rape culture, I suppose, though the fact that some students would smear others with this charge for merely bringing a speaker to campus is disappointing. Do students no longer recognize that the entire point of challenge is to grapple with new and different ways of thinking about the world?'

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'A review of sports programs offered at universities across the country shows that nearly twice as many women’s sports are available in comparison to men’s sports – a continuing ripple effect of Title IX.

That’s not quite the case at Murray State. Beyond the coed rifle team, there are five men’s sports that are scholarship-funded compared to eight for women’s sports.

Because of the complex way that scholarships are calculated – taking into consideration in-state versus out-of-state tuition – Murray State had more scholarships available for men’s sports in 2014-15.

The original purpose of the 47-year-old federal law was to create equality between genders in the academic and athletic areas of universities.'

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'There's a reason anti-aging products and services is a multi-billion dollar industry. Many women and men are willing to try just about anything in order to achieve a more youthful appearance, even if that involves unconventional methods.

The latest? HydraFacial, a facial treatment that uses baby foreskin to fight acne, treat hyper-pigmentation and reduce wrinkles. Sounds out there, but The Cut's associate beauty editor Ashley Weatherford decided to give it a try.

"I didn't really know exactly what I was walking into. I had this sort of vision of maybe like chunks of skin floating around in a solution, which is totally gross. But it was really nothing like that," she told HuffPost Live host Caroline Modarressy-Tehrani.'

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'Hillary Clinton gave a glimpse of a presidential campaign focused on feminist issues in her first speech since announcing her bid for the White House.

Mrs Clinton, vying to become the first-ever female US president, delivered on Thursday an impassioned speech at the Women in the World conference in New York, saying she aimed to champion women’s rights - from mandatory maternity leave to equal pay.

The frontrunner for the Democrat nomination high-fived the summit’s host, journalist and talk-show host Tina Brown, and was greeted with wild applause and a standing ovation when she took to the stage.

"The advancement of the full participation of women and girls is the great unfinished business of the 21st century," the former secretary of state told the crowd at the Lincoln Centre in Manhattan.

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'A Columbia University student sued the school Thursday, saying it failed to protect him against harassment when a female student went public with claims he raped her after school and law enforcement authorities rejected her case.

The lawsuit was filed in Manhattan federal court by Paul Nungesser, a German citizen who said onetime friend Emma Sulkowicz has repeatedly and publicly called him a “serial rapist,” resulting in national and international media attention.

Defendants include the school, its board of trustees, President Lee C. Bollinger and Professor Jon Kessler. The lawsuit sought unspecified damages.

“Columbia University’s effective sponsorship of the gender-based harassment and defamation of Paul resulted in an intimidating, hostile, demeaning... learning and living environment,” the lawsuit said.'

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'Vice President Joe Biden stood in front of a roomful of University of Illinois students Thursday and talked candidly about a subject that has long been taboo on college campuses.

His message was clear: It is up to them, particularly young men, to reject the quiet tolerance of sexual assault and stand up against the victimization of women.

“Gentlemen, silence is a form of approval,” he said. “You all know the difference between right and wrong. … We measure the decency of a nation by whether it condemns or condones this kind of behavior.
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Meanwhile, the numbers have escalated.

According to a White House task force on sexual assault, 1 in 5 women are sexually assaulted in college, most often by someone they know. Only 12 percent of those assaults are reported, and in those cases, only a fraction of the perpetrators are brought to justice.'