Article here. Excerpt:

'The epidemic levels of rape on university campuses has a lot of people really worried. Unfortunately, they’re worried that campuses are going “too far” in their effort to punish rapists; that young men will be wrongly accused; that campus sex policies will criminalize consensual sex; that the rape epidemic is more ideological rhetoric than actual lived experience.
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The concern over due process in campus adjudication procedures are also misplaced. In The New York Times, Judith Shulevitz bemoans the Department of Education guidelines that instruct schools to use a “preponderance of evidence” standard in rape cases, as if such a thing is unheard of. But this is the same standard of evidence that’s required when a rape victim sues her attacker in civil court. Shulevitz also warns that schools risk losing federal funds if they don’t adhere to the DOE’s rules, but no school has ever had their funding taken away because of a Title IX violation.

The Macquarie Dictionary has voted the gendered, derogatory word “mansplain” Word of the Year for 2015.

https://www.macquariedictionary.com.au/resources/view/word/of/the/year/

'verb (t) Colloquial (humorous) (of a man) to explain (something) to a woman, in a way that is patronising because it assumes that a woman will be ignorant of the subject matter.
[MAN + (EX)PLAIN with s inserted to create a pronunciation link with explain]
–mansplaining, noun'

Mansplain is a portmanteau, a new word made by blending the beginning of one word with the ending of another, while including the original meaning of both words (i.e. “brunch”, including the “br” from breakfast and the “unch” from lunch). The word “explain” is simple and clearly by itself not patronising. So the patronising part of the meaning here must be related to the word “man”. If there was any doubt about the word “man” meaning patronising, the definition of “mansplain” published by the Macquarie Dictionary makes it clear that only men do the "splaining" and the patronising.

The specially convened Macquarie Dictionary Word of the Year Committee commented that mansplain was a “much needed word and it was a clever coinage which captured neatly the concept of the patronising explanation offered only too frequently by some men to women”. However, when used in this general context, “man” refers to all men generally. So while the Committee appears to be watering down the sexist nature of mansplain by suggesting it's just “some men”, the derogatory meaning refers to a patronising act commited by all men, as a result of their gender, whenever explaining.

Another "the real victim is girls" article points out the obvious: because women are not as strong/smart as men, they suffer greater percentages of injury per player, but it doesn't say what the total numbers are. Excerpt:

'Recent studies of high school and collegiate athletes have shown that girls and women suffer from concussions at higher rates than boys and men in similar sports — often significantly higher. For instance, in a recent analysis of college athletic injuries, female softball players experienced concussions at double the rate of male baseball players. Women also experienced higher rates of concussions than men in basketball and soccer. Across all sports in the study, the highest rate of concussions was reported not by male football players, but by female ice hockey players. In that sport, a woman experienced a concussion once every 1,100 games or practices — nearly three times the rate experienced in football. The gender disparity exists in high school sports, too. One study, analyzing concussion data for athletes in 25 high schools, found that in soccer, girls experienced concussions at twice the rate of boys.
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Article here. Excerpt:

'On 17 January 2015, the website Injustice Stories published an article purportedly penned by a woman named Lana who claimed to have terminated her pregnancy at the five-month mark because she learned the fetus was male.
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Missing from the account were any identifying details about the timeframe in which the purported abortion occurred, the general locality, or any other details or information regarding the procedure. In fact, the process of terminating a pregnancy after the twenty-week mark is far more complex and risky than a first-trimester abortion, and women who have experienced it are unlikely to describe it as "without a hitch."

Article here. Excerpt:

'You go, girls!

Young women in New York have closed the pay gap and actually earn more money than their male peers, a new study shows.

Female millennials bring in $1.02 for every $1 earned by young men in New York, according to new number-crunching by the Institute for Women's Policy Research.

The shattered glass ceiling is likely connected to New York women's high education rate, with 47% of 25- to 34-year-old women in the state holding a bachelor's degree or better, compared to just 38% of men.

"Things are changing," says study director Ariane Hegewisch. "You can see the impact of young women going to college and developing themselves. They are being given opportunities."'

Story here. Excerpt:

'Continuing her work to address student sexual assault, Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson (D-Santa Barbara) has just introduced a bill that would permit community colleges to extend their jurisdiction beyond their campus borders for sexual assault and other serious student conduct violations.

Senate Bill 186 will allow community college districts to use their disciplinary process to expel or suspend students for off-campus behavior that is determined to be "egregious," such as sexual assault, physical abuse, threats of violence, arson-related offenses, sexual harassment, stalking and hazing. UC and CSU campuses already have such extended jurisdictions in place. But as a result of current law, community colleges have had no recourse when inappropriate student behavior occurs outside campus boundaries.

Article here. Excerpt:

'The manspreading scourge is real. Men Taking Up Too Much Space on the Train offers a robust body of evidence. And some city transit departments are even fighting back. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority in New York is running a campaign encouraging men to limit their legs to a single seat. The campaign features a list of "do's" and "no's," including "Dude… Stop the Spread, Please" in the no column with a little picture of a man who appears to be in goddess pose.
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I'd love to lean over and politely ask my V-shaped seatmate to move his legs, but cooperation is hardly guaranteed. Some men think they're endowed by their creator to manspread. When Gothamist rode the New York City subway and confronted manspreading passengers, one rider said, "We have no choice to have our legs like that. You know what I mean? It's different for a woman."

Story here. Excerpt:

'Barnard College, the all-women companion school to Columbia University, has announced that its students will be exempted from mandatory sexual assault education at the school on the grounds that its female student body “[doesn't] need it as much as much as Columbia students do.”
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“It seemed premature to require something that took a hold on registration or a hold on a diploma, because we didn’t feel we had enough information,” Zavadil told a meeting of Columbia’s student government.

This non-involvement comes despite the fact that Barnard students have helped to craft Columbia’s new sexual assault policies. In addition, Barnard is under a federal investigation for potential Title IX violations based on the mishandling of sexual assault, so it is hardly exempt from any problems pertaining to sexual assault at Columbia. Its decision to opt out is unlikely to quiet critics who worry that campus crusades against sexual assault are simply turning into the vilification of men.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'A professor who taught anatomy and physiology and was highly regarded by both his students and fellow faculty members was shot and killed by his ex-wife in an apparent murder-suicide at the University of South Carolina, a coroner said Friday.

Sunghee Kwon shot Raja Fayad several times in the upper body Thursday afternoon in a fourth-floor office at the university's Public Health building, Richland County Coroner Gary Watts said in a news release.

Kwan then committed suicide with a gunshot to her stomach, the coroner said. A 9 mm pistol with an empty magazine was found near the bodies, State Law Enforcement Division spokesman Thom Berry said.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Domestic violence advocates say last week's murder-suicide at the University of South Carolina is a chilling reminder that men are also the victims of domestic abuse.

Advocates say that statistically more men are abusers than women, but they do help men who are victims themselves, and advocates believe many cases of domestic violence against men may go unreported.

“There are women who are perpetrators of domestic violence and it can be deadly,” Safe Harbor Executive Director Becky Callaham told WYFF News 4’s Ashley Swann.

“There are men who are being abused and being abused right now. And I think the stigma attached to it is so much worse for a man that men are reluctant to ask for help."'

Article here. Excerpt:

'The factors most commonly thought to contribute to crime - a lack of education (half of prisoners have no qualifications, compared with 15 per cent of the general population); experiences of violence or abuse as a child (41 per cent of prisoners witnessed domestic violence as a child and almost a third experienced abuse); financial difficulties, and so on—affect men and women alike. Yet from pickpocketing to white collar crime to assault, men are more likely to offend than women.

For a long time, this phenomenon was overlooked. Criminological research and theory focused almost exclusively on men, without explicitly questioning why the gap existed. But as feminist theorists started demanding a closer look at such differences the crime gap rose to light, and from the 1970s onwards various explanations were presented. Today, although there is still no universally-accepted explanation, most criminologists point to socialised gender roles and the different expectations of male and female behaviour.
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Some people have of course argued that it is biological rather than sociological: that men are naturally more violent, for example, or that they’re stronger and therefore more capable of committing some crimes. These assumptions might explain why it took so long for anyone to question the different levels of crime among men and women. But as Heidensohn points out, most crimes are not violent in nature and can’t be put down to physical differences: the most common crimes in the UK are motoring offences. Men do tend to take more risks, according to many studies, which could be relevant, although whether that’s an innate or socialised difference is difficult to tell; more on that later.

Article here. Excerpt:

'“Right now, nearly 1 in 5 women in America has been a victim of rape or attempted rape,” President Obama said Sunday night in a message played during the Grammys. “And more than 1 in 4 women has experienced some form of domestic violence.”

Wow, just wow.

Gone are the days that the president makes false claims that 1 in 5 women will be sexually assaulted while in college. Now 20 percent of all women in America have been raped or nearly raped. And 25 percent of American women — not just college women — have experienced domestic violence.

Story here. Excerpt:

'A former Traverse City Area Public Schools student who was sexually assaulted by a teacher has filed a Title IX lawsuit against the district.

The federal lawsuit claims the teenage boy was harassed, ostracized and excluded by the district's "retaliatory treatment," which ultimately led him to drop out of high school.

The former Traverse City West Senior High School student was 15 years old when Lisa Gaye Placek, who was later convicted, sent him lewd text messages and performed oral sex on him in her car during the 2011-2012 school year.
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She pleaded guilty to assault with intent to commit sexual penetration and was sentenced in March 2012 to 23 months to 10 years in prison. Michigan Department of Corrections records show she was paroled to Grand Traverse County in January 2014.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Cathy Young simply allows the accused man in this case, long since outed as Paul Nungesser, to tell the story from his own perspective, with Young verifying his facts—a novel approach to journalism, I know. The results look pretty bad. A university hearing already thoroughly examined the case using a relatively low standard, looking for a “preponderance of evidence” rather than seeking to establish Nungesser’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Yet they found Sulkowicz’s testimony not to be credible and cleared Nungesser of the charges. ...

The safe route for journalists is to say that maybe something really did happen and nobody can really know. But given that Nungesser was officially cleared by Columbia in a hearing that was pretty much primed to find him guilty, I think we’re entitled to say that Sulkowicz’s claim didn’t hold up.

The giveaway, really, is that she decided it would be “too draining” to pursue the case with the police—and then she literally carried a mattress around with her for more than a year and made a public spectacle of her victimhood. I suspect that the only burden she really feared was the burden of proof.
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But you can see the standard at work here: the only people qualified to report on the issue of rape are those with the right ideological commitments who agree never to report the accused man’s side of the story. I can see why Sulkowicz might want to establish such a standard. I just can’t see why the rest of us would agree to go along with it.

Press release from SAVE:

WASHINGTON / February 10, 2015 – A leading domestic violence organization is criticizing President Obama for use of highly misleading claims on domestic violence. In a taped message to viewers of the Grammy awards Sunday night, President Obama called for an end to “violence against women and girls.” The President did not mention the problem of domestic violence against men and boys, even though males are equally likely to be victims of female-perpetrated abuse.

The problem of female-perpetrated violence has been documented in hundreds of studies. A research summary by Jennifer Langhinrichsen-Rohling, PhD of the University of South Alabama reported that females were more likely than males to be the perpetrators of unidirectional violence, by a two-to-one margin.

One compilation of 286 scholarly investigations concludes, “women are as physically aggressive, or more aggressive, than men in their relationships with their spouses or male partners:” http://www.csulb.edu/~mfiebert/assault.htm

SAVE has previously requested the Obama Administration to rely on accurate information in its domestic violence efforts: http://www.saveservices.org/camp/biased-briefing/biden-the-view/