Article here. Excerpt:

'When one observes married couples who have been together for a long time it is often possible to recognize a complementary-compensatory dynamic wherein the partners automatically cover for the limitations of the other. As a benign example, if the wife is naturally shy, the husband may become increasingly outgoing and voluble over time to compensate for his wife and prevent the isolation which shyness might cause. There is a degree of filling in for each other that redistributes responsibilities in a practical way and is healthy. But this compensatory dynamic can become destructive by enabling weaknesses as the couple patches each other’s problems rather than confront themselves and grow as individuals.
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In driving the Clinton franchise to the highest levels of power on earth, Hillary has wretchedly compensated for her husband's porous boundaries by constructing impenetrable walls around herself. As he became more reckless, she must have become more wary. Many years ago Hillary accepted the job of being Bills' after-party cleanup crew. In the service of their upward march, she had no choice. Many people think Hillary Clinton is a psychopath without a conscience who cares nothing about her husband's betrayals on a personal level. That formulation does not seem supported by what has leaked out about the Clinton's relationship. It is more likely that she is a wellspring of anger hiding behind a smile you can hang laundry on.

Story here. From 2006, but still worth bringing up now or any time. Alas, the video is no longer available, but the article is. Excerpt:

'Fortunately, the troubling scene isn't real. The abusive woman and her boyfriend are actors, hired by "Primetime" for a hidden camera experiment.

On previous shows, "Primetime" has staged scenes of abuse in which the man is the aggressor, and the woman is the victim. And in these situations, passersby -- men and women -- often stepped up and intervened. So producers were curious. What would happen if the tables were turned, and the man was suddenly the victim? Would people be just as willing to come to his defense?

This staged scenario happens more often in real life than you may think. According to Colgate University psychology professor Carrie Keating, women abusing, even assaulting their male partners "is a big problem in this country."

"There are some data that suggest that women actually hit more than men do," says Keating. "Men create more damage, but women hit more than men do."

Article here. Excerpt:

'Dozens of state legislatures are rushing this year to crack down on college sexual assault, but only a few of them are also moving to protect the rights of the accused.

This includes Arkansas, where students now have the right to bring an attorney when appealing a nonacademic suspension or expulsion, thanks to legislation that became law last week. The North Dakota legislature is expected to follow shortly with its own bill allowing students the right to retain lawyers in disciplinary hearings.

“It really is a good, refreshing change of direction,” said Joseph Cohn, legislative and policy director of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. “I think it acknowledges that legislators are coming around to the point that we can’t continue to expel students under charges of felony conduct without providing them a right to a lawyer first.”

Story here. Excerpt:

'On May 15, 2015, novelist Lisa Braver Moss and Beyond the Bris founder Rebecca Wald will publish a book on alternative bris for Jewish families opting out of circumcision and for the rabbis who serve them. Titled Celebrating Brit Shalom, the book includes a choice of three complete services, all of which feature the cutting of a pomegranate as a new ritual act that replaces circumcision. The book also includes the sheet music to four original songs which are thematically tied to the ceremonies (recorded album available separately).

Story here. Excerpt:

'Kate Major Lohan has been arrested for a 'drunken attack' on her husband Michael Lohan [link added], TMZ report.

Kate - who was ordered to rehab by Michael last year - is said to have had an alcohol relapse before getting physical with the father of Lindsay Lohan.

TMZ report that Michael made a 911 call around 7:02pm on Thursday claiming his wife had struck him after coming home inebriated.

Their argument then turned physical, with Kate began scratching Michael's back.

The site also reports that when police arrived Kate was visibly intoxicated, had slurred speech and blood shot eyes.

Kate reportedly admitted she had been drinking, claimed Michael grabbed her by the throat and that the argument was caused by him accusing her of cheating.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Men are brilliant. Seriously, we are. We invented philosophy, medicine, architecture, cars, trains, helicopters, submarines and the internet. Not to mention the jet engine, IVF, electricity and modern medicine.

We’ve led all the industrial revolutions and sent rockets into Space. We’ve fought wars with tin hats and bayonets and won them. The world we live in would be nothing without Alexander Graham Bell, Sigmund Freud, Horatio Nelson, Winston Churchill, William Shakespeare and Albert Einstein. The geniuses Leonardo da Vinci, Stephen Hawking, Michelangelo, Beethoven, Charles Darwin and Michael Faraday have all contributed immeasurably to our modern lives.

Article here. Excerpt:

Story here. Excerpt:

'New York state Sen. Brad Hoylman (D-Manhattan) wants to bring the call for potty parity into the political sphere. On April 17, Hoylman is introducing a new bill in the state Senate that would mandate equal access to diaper changing tables for both men and women.

The proposed bill is calls for the amendment to the New York State Civil Rights Law with the addition of a new section 79-o. If the bill passes, any public building or "place of public accommodation, resort, or amusement" that is constructed or undergoing "substantial renovation" after the passage must provide changing stations in men's bathrooms if it includes them in women's restrooms.

“It’s time for men to pick up the slack in raising our kids, and this is part of that responsibility," Hoylman told The Huffington Post."

Article here. Jump the paywall by Googling the first paragraph and clicking the first search result entry. Excerpt:

'Some of the biggest battles over child custody are playing out not in courtrooms, but in statehouses.

Prompted partly by fathers concerned that men for too long have gotten short shrift in custody decisions, about 20 states are considering measures that would change the laws governing which parent gets legal and physical control of a child after a divorce or separation.

The proposals generally encourage judges to adopt custody schedules that maximize time for each parent. Some of the measures, such as those proposed in New York and Washington state, take an additional step by requiring judges to award equal time to each parent unless there is proof that such an arrangement wouldn’t be in a child’s best interests.

Story here. Excerpt:

'A Liberal Democrat activist who sits on two national party committees has been suspended from her regional party after a string of sexist comments on social media. The activist in question, Sarah Noble, made multiple tweets of a disturbingly hateful nature, including “kill all men”, “fuck men”, and “die cis[gendered] scum”.

Article here. Excerpt:

'The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts has issued three decisions in alimony cases that substantially alter the apparent intention of the Alimony Reform Act.  Steve Hitner, now of the National Parents Organization, was a prime mover behind passage of the Act.  The Alimony Reform Act passed the state legislature unanimously.

Prior to the ARA’s passage, Bay State courts routinely ordered permanent alimony that was difficult to modify even if the payer retired or underwent some other change in circumstances.  Additional problems arose when the payee’s financial circumstances improved as when she began cohabitating with another partner.  That system was an artifact of a time in which fewer women worked for a living, so the law protected their well-being post-divorce.  By passing the ARA, the legislature recognized that the circumstances that gave rise to the previous law mostly no longer obtain.

In light of the recent Rolling Stone debacle, the University of Virginia has reworked its sexual assault policy. In a horrific way.

Now, two clothed persons who hug without agreeing to the contact beforehand can be found guilty of sexual assault. Or take a kiss from a boyfriend to a girlfriend before parting ways, but without prior affirmative consent--now assault.

This broadened definition of sexual assault is out-of-context with how our country defines 'sexual assault' in the law.

Tell UVA to rework its policy to get back to legal norms, or else out-of-control accusations can easily lead to expulsions.

Story here. Excerpt:

'A Florida woman who fled with her 4-year-old son to keep his circumcision from going forward has filed a civil rights lawsuit on behalf of the boy.

Heather Hironimus, who filed the complaint late Monday, is hoping a federal judge might intervene where state judges haven't.

The complaint is repeating her claims that surgery on her 4-year-old son isn't necessary, that the boy doesn't want it, and that his constitutional rights are being violated.

Aside from seeking to stop the procedure, Hironimus is trying to avoid her own arrest. 

Her arrest was ordered after she fled in February and ignored a judge's demand that she appear in court and allow the circumcision to go forward.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'A rape investigation has been discontinued after the complainant admitted making a false allegation.

Police appealed for information amid claims the 33-year-old was raped in Salford, Greater Manchester, on the towpath of the Bridgewater Canal.

She had earlier accepted a lift from a man in the early hours of Sunday, Greater Manchester Police said.

However, the force said the matter was now closed after the "vulnerable" woman admitted the rape never happened.

Det Insp Benjamin Hart said: "We take all reports of rape and sexual assault very seriously and we will fully investigate each one until we find who is responsible.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'According to a study, girls in French secondary schools are benefiting from a marking bias by math teachers and the author of the study sees this as a positive approach.

Math teachers gave girls grades that were 6% higher than what was given to boys for the same work, says the study by London School of Economics and Paris School of Economics.

The study claims to have analyzed the records of almost 4,500 11-year-olds at 35 secondary school also lead researchers to conclude that the inflated grades encouraged girls to take science subjects later in their school careers.

Students in France at age 11 are to take standardized tests at the beginning of the school year.

The test is graded externally and the examiner did not have information on the student’s name, gender or socio-economic background, so the results of this study were free from any bias.

In those anonymous tests, the boys outperformed the girls in math.'