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'University of Minnesota police say they are no longer investigating a reported weekend rape and now consider the incident a "student crisis intervention case."

The U issued a crime alert Tuesday saying a student told campus police she had been sexually assaulted about 1 a.m. Sunday by two men she did not know after they walked her to her Sanford Hall dorm room and then threatened her with a knife.

The next day the U updated its alert, saying the case was no longer being investigated as an assault by a stranger, but that police still were investigating the sexual assault report.

On Thursday, university officials said police were "no longer investigating the reported incident of an armed sexual assault by strangers."

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'This Mother's Day we've got some good news and some bad news on the domestic gender equality front.
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Now, this isn't entirely because men are oppressive brutish beasts wishing to perpetuate domestic inequality. Sayer points to this finding: even when there's nobody around to pick up after them, men still don't spend a lot of time on housework. "In 2012 single women with no children reported doing almost twice as much cooking, cleaning, and laundry as single men with no children," she writes. In other words, men are simply more slovenly than women, and less averse to filth.'

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'Mother’s Day is a reminder to fellas that the women in our lives are smarter and braver than us.

My mom, for instance, went back to school in her 60s and got a PhD at Berkeley. Her expertise is in artificial intelligence. At least I think it is. I can never understand what the hell she’s talking about.

My sister has a masters degree, my girlfriend is an MBA. Me, I’ve got high school, a cup of coffee at Carleton University, and the Sun’s work-safety course.

History is adorned with examples of the superiority of women, mothers in particular, from the Blessed Virgin Mary to Laura Secord to Jackie Kennedy to Angelina Jolie.

If women ran the world, we’d be a much happier, more peaceful planet.'

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'Much like Rolling Stone, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) refuses to the let the facts — or lack thereof — get in the way of her preferred feminist narrative. In her case, it’s the claim that the military has it in for women. Instead of university administrators and fraternity members, she accuses Department of Defense officials of lies and cover-ups and implies that any female living near a base is at risk from sexual predators in uniform.
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Sexual assault offenders should indeed be punished. That said, not everyone accused is actually guilty, though it appears the only way to make Gillibrand happy is for every male accused of any type of sexual assault to be convicted, regardless of what the evidence says.'

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'Residents of the Queens neighborhoods served by the new FDNY probie who made the grade despite failing a key fitness test said Wednesday they feel as if they’re in the line of fire.

“Fires happen very often in this area,” said Jay Charriez, 44, who has lived near Engine Co. 259 on Greenpoint Avenue for 15 years. “It’s an industrial area, so it’s really dangerous.”

Other Sunnyside and Long Island City residents also were wary of Rebecca Wax, 33, who graduated Tuesday from the city’s Fire Academy, despite flunking the Functional Skills Training test, a grueling obstacle course of tasks performed in full gear with limited air.

Wax was allowed to graduate after FDNY Commissioner Daniel Nigro announced rule changes giving less weight to the test.

“She shouldn’t be a firefighter if she can’t meet the standards,” said another neighbor, Asjad Butt, 21. “There are other things she could do.”'

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'“The fates of the two genders are intertwined; for women to thrive, men and boys must be part of the gender equality agenda,” said Gary Barker, co-founder of MenEngage, in a column for New America.

Often in global conversations, abuse is oversimplified into an us-versus-them issue. But as the ICRW study illustrates, such a depiction doesn’t accurately capture the whole story. By dichotomizing one party as good and the other as bad – male or female – it can prevent further exploration into the deeper roots of gender issues that could help make the world more humane for all.

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'Boys aren't doing as well in school -- and often in life -- as girls are, says Lee Burns, the headmaster of McCallie School, a private, 110-year-old, all-boys college prep school in Chattanooga.

Boys have lower grade-point averages than girls, national figures show, and boys are more likely to drop out, to have disciplinary problems and to repeat grades. More women attend college than men do, and women graduate at a higher rate. Women go on to earn more advanced degrees than men.

"Across the board, boys are having a tougher time," Burns said. "That's a great thing that girls are doing well. But in the last couple of decades, it's the boys who have trended down in some pretty significant ways."

That's why McCallie will establish the National Center for the Development of Boys at its campus on the slopes of Missionary Ridge.'

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'A new series of public service announcements on Tinder hopes to remind women that even a seemingly perfect man can turn violent at the drop of a hat.

Relationship abuse is alarmingly common in the United States. Every minute, 20 people experience intimate partner violence, and three women are murdered every day by a current or former male partner.

Women in Distress, a domestic violence center based in Florida, collaborated with the ad agency Bravo/Y&R for the Tinder Beaters campaign, which aims to raise awareness about relationship abuse.'       

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YouTube: Tinder Beater Nice guys turn ugly in domestic violence PSA

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'What happens when two cherished Democratic wedge issues, the War on Women and income inequality, collide? Hillary Clinton is about to find out.

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'A bit of good news for college rapists: if you’ve been accused of sexual assault and don’t feel like sticking around to deal with the consequences on campus, you can simply transfer schools and no one will be the wiser. Thanks to a privacy law for students, young men accused of rape don’t even have to disclose the complaint to their new school.

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'Produced by Academy award nominee Kirby Dick and billed as a “piercing, monumental exposé of rape culture on campuses,” The Hunting Ground was screened at the Sundance Film Festival in late January, 2015 to enthusiastic critical acclaim. The movie’s public release date was February 27.

Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) predicted, “Believe me, there will be fallout.” The New York Times ballyhooed, “Judging by viewer reaction at the film’s premiere and the comments of two United States senators afterward, festival programmers might have undersold it.” (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/26/movies/the-hunting-ground-a-film-about-rape-culture-at-colleges.html?_r=0 )

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'A Supreme Court of Canada ruling empowering a British Columbia man who was wrongly imprisoned for 27 years to sue the Crown may be the trigger for an out-of-court settlement, say observers.

The high court decision on Friday ruled that Ivan Henry can use the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to pursue a lawsuit after his life was upended by convictions for 10 sex crimes he did not commit.

The landmark ruling clarifies the circumstances under which criminal prosecutors may be sued if they fail to disclose evidence to accused persons.

“It is a great win for Ivan,” said Vancouver author Joan McEwen, who spent hundreds of hours over three years with Henry to write a book on his case.

She predicted Henry is entitled to at least $10 million, but said the 68-year-old man’s ailing health may put pressure on him to accept less.'

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Director Joss Whedon deleted his Twitter account Monday after a stream of hateful messages directed at him by feminists upset with story elements of Avengers: Age of Ultron, the weekend’s big box-office smash.

Tech Times reports that Whedon’s final tweet was an implicit goodbye. He wrote, “Thank you to all the people who’ve been so kind and funny and inspiring up in here.”
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The most surprising part of the Black Widow backlash is that Whedon has long considered himself a feminist for his portrayal of strong women, starting with his film/television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Whedon also created Firefly and Dollhouse, two shows which featured strong female characters in leading roles.'

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'The Oxford dictionary defines Feminism as the following: “The advocacy of women’s rights on the grounds of equality of the sexes.” I define Feminism as the following: “The advocacy of a vitriolic rodomontade on men, blaming societal maladies on the artificially constructed and nonsensical patriarchy.” Which of these two definitions is correct?