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'Sperm cells have been grown in the laboratory for the first time, scientists have claimed, raising the prospect of a treatment for infertile men.

A company in France claims to have successfully turned scraps of genetic material into complete fully-functioning sperm - a world-first.

If the breakthrough can be verified, it may prove life-changing for the tens of thousands of men around the world who cannot produce their own sperm.

The Kallistem laboratory, a private research facility based in Lyon, claimed it would be able to carry out human clinical trials within two years.

If commercialised, the firm hopes to treat 50,000 patients a year, a market it that could be worth £1.7 billion.

But the findings have not been published, peer reviewed or independently verified - and British experts last night were treating the claims with scepticism.

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'In March, National Parents Organization of Utah, successfully spearheaded passage of the state’s first shared parenting legislation! HB35 wasn’t the only success NPO Utah had, but it was the most significant. Headed by Dave Daniels and Janet Robins, NPO Utah is on a roll!

NPO Utah wants to thank Representative V. Lowry Snow for sponsoring HB35 and working so closely with NPO to help ensure its passage. He is an excellent legislator who practiced family law and saw up close many of the challenges parents and their children face when custody is considered. He understands these issues very well, and we appreciate his hard work on the bill. NPO also wants to acknowledge the Utah State Bar’s Family Law section that endorsed HB35.

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'A leading psychologist has warned that young men are facing a crisis of masculinity due to excessive use of video games and pornography.

Psychologist and professor emeritus at Stanford University Phillip Zimbardo has made the warnings, which form a major part of his latest book, Man (Dis)Connected.

In an interview on the BBC World Service's Weekend programme, Zimbardo spoke about the results of his study, an in-depth look into the lives of 20,000 young men and their relationships with video games and pornography.

He said: "Our focus is on young men who play video games to excess, and do it in social isolation - they are alone in their room."

"Now, with freely available pornography, which is unique in history, they are combining playing video games, and as a break, watching on average, two hours of pornography a week."

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'Students at Oxford University are only being allowed to compete in the biggest rugby tournaments of the season if they agree to attend anti-misogyny workshops, under a new scheme.

The attempt to combat sexism on campus is the first time that the classes have been made a condition to participation on the sports field.

Campaigners said they hope to introduce similar conditions for involvements in other sports, such as football, rowing, hockey and cricket, and organisers are in talks with other universities about introducing the scheme nationally.

Every Oxford college rugby team had to sign up the hour-long workshops in order to enter this year's Cupper knockout tournament.

The "good lad" courses are an attempt to combat the "lad culture" prevalent on campus, and include discussions about sexual harassment, consent, "lad banter" and team initiation ceremonies.

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'We receive a lot of emails about manspreading over here, and we're not the only ones. Through a public records request, a writer for Bitch Magazine got ahold of emails sent to the MTA regarding "manspreading," which is part of their "Courtesy Counts" etiquette campaign. She received 18 emails that were sent to the MTA over the course of one month, and reports back that 9 called the campaign sexist, or "anti-male." One simply read: "Drop dead, you morons!"'

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'Attorneys for top NFL draft pick Jameis Winston contend a woman seeking civil damages from the quarterback after accusing him of rape is trying to tarnish his reputation and tap into the Heisman Trophy winner's newfound wealth.

The former Florida State star practiced again Saturday, the final day of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' rookie minicamp, and was not made available to comment on a counterclaim filed on his behalf one week after signing a four-year, $23.35 million contract.

"Nothing is surprising us," Bucs coach Lovie Smith said, when asked if Winston notified the team in advance of Friday's filing in federal court in Orlando.

In it, the quarterback's lawyers alleged that Erica Kinsman created a "media circus," then initiated settlement discussions in which her attorneys demanded $7 million from Winston.'

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'"When it comes to consent, it’s not enough to teach that “no means no” or even that only “yes means yes” — because sometimes “yes” can actually mean “no.”

At least that’s the point of view expressed in an op-ed written by Jordan Bosiljevac for Claremont McKenna College’s student newspaper, the Forum.

In the piece, Bosiljevac explains that she and her friends even came up with a phrase to describe someone having sex with you who you didn’t want to have sex with even though you told him that you did, which they apparently consider a form of rape:

“We coined the term ‘raped by rape culture’ to describe what it was like to say yes, coerced by the culture that had raised us and the systems of power that worked on us, and to still want ‘no,’” she writes in the April 30 article, titled “Why Yes Can Mean No.”'

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'#1. Women have the right to vote without agreeing to die
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#2. Women Have Genital Integrity Rights
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#3. Women Have The Right To Choose Parenthood
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#4. Women Have The Right To Be Assumed Caregivers
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#6. Women have domestic violence shelters and government housing benefits
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#7. Women have the right to exclusive benefits for being a business owner
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The Small Business Administration aggressively polices male owned businesses that try to pass themselves off as female owned.

From the SBA:

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'Feminists have extended their fight against sexism and racism into the final frontier: space.

Martin Robbins, inspired by another feminist thought piece in Scientific American, wrote a piece for The Guardian on Wednesday called “How can our future Mars colonies be free of sexism and racism?”

In the column, the “Berkshire-based researcher and science writer” who “writes about science, pseudoscience and evidence-based politics” argued visions of future space programs are dominated by white men.”

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'All eight female soldiers participating in the first co-ed class of U.S. Army Ranger School failed to advance to the second phase of the grueling infantry course.

On the male side, 115 male students met the requirement to begin the Mountain Phase of Ranger School in Dahlonega, Ga., on Saturday, May 9, according to a Fort Benning press release.

The eight female candidates, along with 101 male candidates, will be recycled to repeat the Darby Phase of Ranger School.

Approximately 35 male Ranger students failed to meet the standards of Ranger School and will not be recycled, the press release said.

"They will return to their units having learned a great deal about themselves and small unit tactics, patrolling, leadership, and team work," according to the release.

No changes have been made to the deliberate evaluation process used to determine which students are dropped, recycled or allowed to move forward to the next phase, the release states.'

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'Critics say a newly-hired Boston University professor has crossed the line with recent tweets bashing whites, but the school says it’s simply free speech.

“White masculinity isn’t a problem for america’s colleges, white masculinity is THE problem for america’s colleges,” Saida Grundy [link added], an incoming assistant professor of sociology and African-American studies at Boston University, tweeted in March.
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In another, she called white males a “problem population.”

“Why is white America so reluctant to identify white college males as a problem population?” she asked.

The tweets were first noticed by student Nick Pappas, who posted them on his website “SoCawlege.com” and questioned how Grundy could be able to teach a diverse classroom given the racial hostility in her tweets.

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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.'