Article here. Excerpt:

'Legislators shot down a trio of bills this week meant to give students who are accused of sexual assault more rights during the internal campus inquiries that can lead to expulsion.

The bills were tabled at a small House subcommittee meeting, and as the Virginia General Assembly grapples with how to handle the suddenly high-profile issue of on-campus sexual assault.

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'Let’s take a look at some of the key points men’s rights activists (MRAs) make. These include how it’s overwhelmingly men who are sent off to fight in wars, men who die younger, men who fill our prisons, men who are denied custody of children in divorce settlements, and – increasingly – men who earn less than the women who leach off their God-given rights as overlords of all they survey.

You don’t need to be Andrea Dworkin to assert that war-making and violent crime both tally more with a testosterone-dominated body than one fed with oestrogen. The list of wars started by women is a very, very short one – unless Helen of Troy is more offensive to modern online commenters than you may realise. (Knowing these people, she probably is.)

Regarding divorce, reliable stats are tricky to pin down. Women certainly win more custody battles than men – though whether their 'hit rate' is as high as 93pc, as has been suggested in the press before, seems dubious. It’s a stretch to imagine that the male-dominated judiciary is embarked on a campaign to deny their gender brethren access to their children.

Most importantly, the old chestnut of the pay gap – one of the central targets of feminism – still persists. Sure, in 2012 the Office for National Statistics found that women aged 22 to 29 in full-time employment earned a colossal 2.9pc more than their male counterparts, but that’s a sledgehammer applied to a delicate issue. For one, the figure fails to account for the fact that many, many more women than men are in part-time employment. It fades even more when you factor in the ongoing disparity in lifetime earnings, or in compensation packages in the professions (women earn on average £8,000 less than a man in law, £14,000 less as a chief executive and £9,000 less as a doctor).

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'Girls tend to get better grades in reading, math and science than boys, according to a new study that challenges the widely held belief that boys do better in these subjects than girls.

"Even in countries where women's liberties are severely restricted, we found that girls are outperforming boys in reading, mathematics and science literacy by age 15, regardless of political, economic, social or gender equality issues and policies found in those countries," study author David Geary, professor of psychological sciences at the University of Missouri, said in a university news release.

The researchers analyzed the grades of 1.5 million 15-year-old students around the world between 2000 and 2010.
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"The data will influence how policymakers think about the options available," Geary said.

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'Uncreative journalists have asked January Jones [link added] if she’s a feminist one too many times, and now she’s gone full female supremacist. Last night, Jones Instagrammed a theory of matriarchy ("stolen from" Zoë Kravitz) that is celestial, self-loathing, and all caps. "MEN SHOULD ACT LIKE THE SUN, SHINE STRONG 247/365 AND SERVE WOMEN INSTEAD OF ACTING LIKE LITTLE BITCHES WITH VAGINAS," it says. "#truth," Jones added. Put it on the list of reasons she’s a secret DGAF hero.'

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'In an effort to prevent rape on college campuses, Maryland state lawmakers are considering an affirmative consent bill.

The legislation would require colleges to develop a policy in which students mutually agree to sex in advance.

"Yes means yes" legislation requires Maryland colleges and universities to come up with a policy that defines how students engage in sexual activities.

"The basic idea is that no one is taken advantage of," said Delegate Frank Conaway, D-Baltimore City.

Affirmative consent is aimed at changing the culture of "no means no." Right now, sexual consent is widely defined as the absence of "no." Some female college students believe that, if passed, the law will go a long way toward reducing campus sexual assaults and rapes.

"You never know if someone is going to put something in your drink, which happens often. People don't learn about it because they are too scared to admit they were in the wrong," said college student Sarah Knoll.

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'It turns out that Yes sometimes means No too, particularly when a woman is judged to be too inebriated to be capable of making a conscious decision. If she’s three sheets to the wind, then the new rule is that she is not capable of consenting to get between the sheets.

Even if she has said Yes and has even undressed herself or initiated the sexual advances. Even if she at no point suggested she had changed her mind or asked the man to stop. Even if she blatantly enjoyed herself at the time.

This is patently absurd. And yet this is precisely what the DPP has announced.

Unlike any other offence, where the onus is on the prosecution to prove that the accused is guilty of a crime, this puts the responsibility squarely (if not fairly) on the shoulders of the accused to prove that he is innocent. In one fell swoop, Mrs Saunders has turned a fundamental principle of our justice system – the presumption of innocence – on its head.

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'It used to be that women who made stupid mistakes with men, who had non-violent sexual encounters in dodgy circumstances — while drunk or otherwise intoxicated, in the heat of the moment or for a million other reasons — did not wake up the next morning and decide they had been raped.
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That, at least, would seem to be the view of Alison Saunders, Director of Public Prosecutions, who yesterday said the time has come to move beyond the idea of ‘no means no’.

In other words, date-rape suspects will have to prove they obtained explicit consent.
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But, more worryingly, won’t men in rape cases automatically be presumed guilty until they can prove they have obtained consent? However appalling a crime rape may be, this cannot be right.

What makes this still more shocking is that it seems to be part of a political attempt to push up rape conviction rates and meet targets.

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'Sexual assault charges against five William Paterson University students have been dismissed, but the students’ status at the school remained unclear on Thursday as defense attorneys criticized the school’s internal investigation and statements made by its president.

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'The United States is not a rape culture, but it is a gender propaganda culture. We are overwhelmed by false information about men and women, and nowhere is this more true than in the area of sexual violence. A new Bureau of Justice Statistics study has the latest numbers, and the Factual Feminist does some fact checking.'

As this article from 1993 shows, rape hysteria on college campuses is nothing new. What is new is our elected officials buying into and fostering it. Excerpt:

'One in four college women has been the victim of rape or attempted rape. One in four. I remember standing outside the dining hall in college, looking at a purple poster with this statistic written in bold letters. It didn't seem right. If sexual assault was really so pervasive, it seemed strange that the intricate gossip networks hadn't picked up more than one or two shadowy instances of rape. If I was really standing in the middle of an "epidemic," a "crisis" -- if 25 percent of my women friends were really being raped -- wouldn't I know it?

These posters were not presenting facts. They were advertising a mood. Preoccupied with issues like date rape and sexual harassment, campus feminists produce endless images of women as victims -- women offended by a professor's dirty joke, women pressured into sex by peers, women trying to say no but not managing to get it across.

Warren Farrell submitted a letter to Mother Jones which the moderator published in the comment section. Its has received 364 up-votes which is impressive consider Mother Jones is very much pro-feminist. Excerpt:

'However, as I am sure you know, I am sad that you chose to frame the article with the men's issues movement's participants portrayed as "haters and trolls" who inspire misogynist-motivated real-life killings of women.

An example of an alternative framework is how the Men's Issues conference you attended in Detroit incorporated as keynote speakers a half dozen women--almost half of the keynote speakers. Can you name a single national feminist conference with a half dozen of their keynote speakers being men?

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'Jennifer Siebel Newsom — director, producer, screenwriter, actress, speaker, mother of three, and wife to Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom — was at 2015 Sundance Film Festival to promote The Mask You Live In, the follow up to Miss Representation. The filmmaker talks to us about her latest documentary, redefining society’s definition of masculinity, and how we as individuals can set in motion a more responsible way to determine a man's "manliness."

EI: As a tireless advocate for women and girls and the oldest of five sisters, what intrinsically motivated you to make a film about the challenges faced by men?

http://californianewswire.com/2015/01/27/CNW23206_103501.php/calif-attorney-general-kamala-d-harris-issues-alert-on-campus-safety/

“The laws we pursue in the California legislature set an example for the rest of the country,” Senate pro Tempore de León stated. “With 1 in 5 women on college campuses experiencing sexual assault, it’s our responsibility to secure a safe learning environment for our students.”

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'As a prosecutor, I know the threat of sexual assault is real and pervasive, particularly for women ages 18 to 24. Studies suggest that 1 in 5 undergraduate students have experienced sexual assault or attempted sexual assault, and that young women who do not attend college suffer even higher rates of violence. These numbers are chilling and only begin to capture the emotional trauma that sexual assault victims — who include men — will suffer for the rest of their lives. Yet, according to the National Crime Victimization Survey, sexual assault is the most under-reported crime of all.

To help address this under-reporting, my office released a bulletin Tuesday to California’s law enforcement agencies and university leaders; it announces changes in the law that create reporting requirements and standards for campus disciplinary procedures, and it encourages increased collaboration between law enforcement and campus authorities.'

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'Those concerned with the continued dismantling of campus due process protections were cringing at Senator Kirsten Gillibrand’s (D-NY) decision to invite Columbia University senior Emma Sulkowicz to accompany her to the State of the Union address. Ms. Sulkowicz gained attention last year for carrying around the mattress upon which she was allegedly assaulted by another student.
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Ms. Sulkowicz was unhappy with Columbia’s decision, so she has mounted a campaign of revenge, forever maligning the reputation of the young man who has been cleared of these charges. Sulkowicz’s relentless campaign does not prove her accusations, and they should not be treated as true by legislators attempting to gain support for their political objectives.