Article here. Excerpt:

'A top-ranking official at the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has emerged as a potentially key figure in Rolling Stone’s false article, “A Rape on Campus.”

Catherine Lhamon, who heads the Department’s civil rights wing, was identified in a letter sent last month by University of Virginia Dean of Students Allen Groves to Steve Coll and Sheila Coronel, the two Columbia Journalism School deans who conducted a review of the Nov. 19 article, written by disgraced reporter Sabrina Rubin Erdely.

Groves’ letter was included as a footnote to the Columbia deans’ report, which was released on Sunday and cataloged the failures and lies that led to the article’s publication.

Press release here. Excerpt:

'Following release of a report detailing the many mistakes of a Rolling Stone article that had alleged a gang-rape at a University of Virginia fraternity, SAVE is now calling on legislators and campus administrators to engage in reasoned debate on the campus sexual assault issue to restore due process and the presumption of innocence.

Commentators have noted how Rolling Stone reporter Sabrina Erdley approached the topic with a pre-conceived narrative. By her own admission, Erdley set out to locate a case that would reveal “what it’s like to be on campus now…where not only is rape so prevalent but also that there’s this pervasive culture of sexual harassment/rape culture.”

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'The two-and-a-half year period in which the Marine Corps' Infantry Officer Course became gender-integrated for research will end without a single female graduate.

The final iteration of IOC to accept female Marines on a volunteer basis began April 2 with two female participants. One was a volunteer and one was a member of the newly integrated ground intelligence track.

Both were dropped that same day during the grueling initial Combat Endurance Test, said Capt. Maureen Krebs, a spokeswoman for Headquarters Marine Corps. Nine of the 90 men who began the course were also cut.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Over the Easter weekend, I travelled to Sydney with a group of girlfriends. We stayed in a small apartment, went to the beach and took turns cooking breakfast for each other every morning. On a typically sunny Sydney day, we strapped on our rollerskates and navigated the hilly terrain towards Coogee and its lovely women's baths. When we arrived, sweaty and hot, we stripped down to our bathing suit bottoms and splashed about in the saltwater. Afterwards, we lay topless on the rocks, drifting between silence and conversation like the clouds passing by above. I felt carefree in my half nudity, content in the presence of women and the act of just being that seemed to be made possible by the dual absence of men.

As I lay there beneath the sun, the salt drying on my skin, I thought to myself, chicks are the bomb diggety.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Breitbart readers are no doubt sceptical of hasty claims to scientific authority, so allow me to explain why this study is worth paying attention to. Firstly, it was a long-term study, taking place over the course of three years. Much of the confusion around whether games cause violence is due to the confusion of short-term effects with long-term ones. It was once erroneously argued that short-term increases in aggression following certain video games proved they cause violence. Later studies found that these effects did not persist over time. The fact that this study took place over three years allowed the researchers to separate long-term effects from short-term ones.

Article here. Excerpt:

'I just finished reading “Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men,” written by Dr. Leonard Sax after years of seeing sullen boys in his medical practice fail to thrive.

“From kindergarten to college, (boys are) less resilient and less ambitious than they were a mere 20 years ago. In fact, a third of men ages 22-34 are still living at home with their parents — about a 100 percent increase in the past 20 years,” Sax wrote. His book came out in 2007, when my own two sons were far from adolescence and hadn’t yet developed a visceral hatred of school. The numbers are even higher today.

Columbia Journalism School, hired by Rolling Stone, just issued a "damning" report of the magazine's coverage of the UVA "Jackie" story. And Rolling Stone just retracted the story.

But while the story is now declaratively false, the journalist, Sabrina Erdely, apologized to the readers and victims of sexual assault, but NOT to the falsely accused.

As UVA President Theresa Sullivan has noted, "Rolling Stone falsely accused some University of Virginia students of heinous, criminal acts."

Contact the Rolling Stone editors and demand a real apology on behalf of the young men whose reputations were torn to shreds.

Email: rseditors@rollingstone.com now.

Let's get a real apology.

Gina Lauterio, Esq., Program Director
Stop Abusive and Violent Environments
www.saveservices.org

Article here. Excerpt:

'A woman convicted of fatally poisoning her 5-year-old son with salt in his hospital feeding tube got a break on her murder sentence Wednesday because she suffers from a mental illness she has refused to acknowledge, the judge said.

Lacey Spears, 27, of Scottsville, Kentucky, was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for the 2014 death of Garnett-Paul Spears at a suburban New York hospital.
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Acting state Supreme Court Justice Robert Neary said Spears' crime was "unfathomable in its cruelty" and brought her son "five years of torment and pain." But he said he was not imposing the maximum 25 years to life because "one does not have to be a psychiatrist to realize you suffer from Munchausen by proxy."

He said he was offering "something you did not exhibit toward your son -- mercy."

Article here. Excerpt:

'Summary: This post on our series about the gender roles revolution looks at the result of the social and tech trends — women have won. They now have a competitive superiority in a wide range of factors, which is bringing them to dominance in US society. Changes take time to upset existing hierarchies, but the trend is unquestionable.
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The sole domains still dominated by men are paternity and war. Artificial insemination replaces men in the former, supported by women’s growing economic strength and government aid for single mothers.

As for war, other than infantry and a few similar physically demanding specialties, women can do just as well. Men supremacists advocating male-only wars are reduced to saying that women in war just will not work — just as Blacks couldn’t fight, and letting homosexuals into the military (openly) would be The End of the US Armed Forces. Good luck with that. This also requires ignoring the long role of woman fighting on the front lines of so many 4GWs during the past century.

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'A new poster campaign targeting men’s attitudes and behaviours toward domestic violence, called Don’t Be That Guy, is aimed squarely at stopping the problem at its root cause, says Cape Breton Regional Police Chief Peter McIsaac.

“Domestic violence is something that we need to address on the front end, before it even starts,” McIsaac said Wednesday at a campaign launch sponsored by Men Against Domestic Violence.

“And it’s there that men, in particular, have a very big role to play. Traditionally, domestic violence and sexual violence, the conversation has all been about women. It’s been made a women’s issue.

“But research tells us it’s really a man’s issue. Over 90 per cent of perpetrators in domestic violence situations are men.”'

Story here. Excerpt:

Story here. This is another big story about a black man shot by a white cop. The cop now faces murder charges:

"Dramatic video that shows a white South Carolina police officer shooting a fleeing black man after a traffic stop has led authorities to file a murder charge against the officer amid public outrage over a series of deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of law enforcement agents."

So why did the man run?

"Walter Scott Sr. told the NBC "Today Show" that his son may have run because he owed child support and didn't want to go back to jail."

You may not want to watch the video. They say it's brutal.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Feminism has been good for girls, and that's something to celebrate. We take it for granted now that a girl can grow up to be just about anything her abilities and drive allow, including corporate titan, combat troop, or even president of the United States. In fact, in some circles, opting to stay home and raise children is now a countercultural choice, much as wearing pants and going to the office was 70 years ago.

Boys are doing fine, for the most part. But they're falling behind, at least in school, according a whole body of research and most recently a major report on 15-year-old students and gender by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a club of wealthier nations. In particular, more boys are failing spectacularly than girls are.
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Today, Legos is selling pink boxes of Legos "Friends" for girls alongside blue boxes of (increasingly co-branded) Legos for boys — as my colleague Elissa Strauss noted recently. Boys play construction and ninjas and pirates and superheroes; girls build relationships. Strauss makes a strong case for why "girl" play is good for boys' development — but it's largely an aspirational case at this point. Nobody would think twice if a girl still decided she wanted to play with Lego spaceships — they would probably, and rightly, applaud. But imagine the looks if a boy wanted to buy some Lego Disney Princesses.

Article here. Excerpt:

'In some studies, “A case can be classified as ‘baseless’ if, for example, a victim reports an incident that, while truthfully recounted, does not meet, in the eyes of investigators, the legal definition of a sexual assault,” Lisak and his colleagues write. “This classification is clearly distinct from a case in which a victim deliberately fabricates an account of being raped, yet the ‘unfounded’ category is very often equated with the category of ‘false allegation.’” A 1992 study of 302 rape reports made to law enforcement conducted by the British Home Office drew a distinction between cases that were “no-crimed” — or neither investigated further nor prosecuted — from reports that were determined to be false allegations. A 2005 study by the same organization dealt with alleged assaults that were classified as false reports that were deemed not credible because the alleged victim was mentally ill, intoxicated, or told inconsistent stories, which can be a sign of trauma.
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As Drs. Kimberly Lonsway and Lisak, in collaboration with retired police Sgt. Joanne Archambault, wrote in a 2009 briefing for the National Center for the Prosecution of Violence Against Women, “many ‘real’ false reports involve only a vaguely described stranger, so the victim can receive the caring attention of law enforcement officials and social service providers without the fear that someone will be arrested. Clearly, these cases can be extremely frustrating for criminal justice professionals, but they are probably best handled with appropriate referrals for social services rather than prosecution for filing a false report.”

Article here. Excerpt:

'Does the cause of combating rape on college campuses require a willful blindness to false allegations?

That's the question raised by some reactions to last week's police report on the inquiry into shocking — and discredited — claims of a fraternity gang rape at the University of Virginia. Despite strong evidence of fabrication by the alleged victim, a student identified as "Jackie," victim advocates and many journalists have balked at calling this a hoax. In a particularly startling comment, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, the New York Democrat leading the charge against campus sexual assault, has referred to criticism of Jackie as "victim-blaming."
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Appearing on WCNY radio's "Capitol Pressroom" show on March 24, Gillibrand correctly noted that the collapse of this case should not undermine efforts to ensure student safety on campus. But she also deplored the negative attitudes expressed toward Jackie, saying that "victim-blaming, or shining the spotlight on her for coming forward, is not the right approach." (Who is the "victim" here, other than the fraternity smeared as a haven for rapists?)

She also warned that calling for sanctions against the young woman was "inappropriate" and would send the wrong message: "One of the challenges with survivors of sexual trauma and rape is that they often don't want to actually participate with law enforcement because they don't think justice is possible. They don't think they will be believed; they think they'll be blamed."

Later, Gillibrand admitted some rape charges are false and that it's important to protect the accused. But how can such protections be effective if refusing to believe a self-proclaimed survivor is depicted as an injustice and if blaming a proven serial liar is inappropriate?