Article here. Excerpt:

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Mr Hayes points to the recognition, both by Wall J, as he then was, and by the Court of Appeal in Re J (Specific Issue Orders: Muslim Upbringing and Circumcision) [1999] 2 FLR 678, 693, on appeal Re J (Specific Issue Orders: Child’s Religious Upbringing and Circumcision) [2000] 1 FLR 571, 573, 576, that male circumcision does involve harm, or the risk of harm. Given the comparison between what is involved in male circumcision and FGM WHO Type IV, to dispute that the more invasive procedure involves the significant harm involved in the less invasive procedure would seem almost irrational. In my judgment, if FGM Type IV amounts to significant harm, as in my judgment it does, then the same must be so of male circumcision...

Moving on to the second limb of the statutory test, Mr Hayes submits that in assessing whether the infliction of any form of FGM can ever be an aspect of “reasonable” parenting, it is vital to bear in mind that FGM involves physical harm which, it is common ground, has (except in the very narrow circumstances defined in section 1(2)(a) of the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003, not relevant in a case such as this) no medical justification and confers no health benefits.

The fact that it may be a “cultural” practice does not make FGM reasonable; indeed, the proposition is specifically negatived by section 1(5) of the 2003 Act. And, as I have already pointed out, FGM has no religious justification. So, he submits, it can never be reasonable parenting to inflict any form of FGM on a child. I agree.

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'Language is important. What would a movement under a gender biased name like masculism be about? Let’s say that somewhere it is “officially” stated it is about gender equality, and that the main purpose of this movement is to deal with the grave problem of male disposability. How long would it take for this movement to grow additional masculist “theories”, hyperboles, and engage in protracted struggle to skew the system into one direction? How long would it take before being anti-masculist was taken as being anti-male?

Article here. Excerpt:

'IN SOUTH Carolina, we breed men who kill women. There’s something wicked in our culture that says it’s OK to hit, abuse and, yes, kill our wives, girlfriends and ex-lovers.

It’s sinful. Reprehensible. Intolerable. Yet for years we’ve failed to do enough to purge this evil element from among us.

Which is why it’s been encouraging to see so many people — from politicians to law enforcement officers to prosecutors and oodles of others — join victims’ advocates over the past couple years to demand change.

Article here. Excerpt:

'The ongoing media onslaught against the college fraternity system in specific and young men in general has been dismaying to say that least. (To the point where I’ve mostly given up writing about it entirely.) The dizzying array of “facts” and figures being tossed about on every cable news channel which describe the campus rape culture have provided a convenient platform for new age feminists who are ready to go to war. But how much truth is to be found underneath this pile of coverage? At College Insurrection, we are treated to the latest in a series of videos from The Factual Feminist, in which Professor Christina Hoff Sommers of the American Enterprise Institute takes on two common themes.

The first is the oft reported figure claiming that 1 in 5 young women attending college will be raped. Sommers locates the origin of this figure and reveals (yet again) that it was not a source to be taken seriously, but new, more accurate figures are available.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Princeton University has rejected a survey developed by the Association of American Universities to gauge the prevalence of sexual assault on its campus, opting to develop a survey modeled off one at Rutgers University instead.

Both surveys, however, are based on White House recommendations that seem to prejudge accused students.

According to The Daily Princetonian, Princeton is developing the survey to comply with its Title IX settlement with the Department of Education concerning sexual-assault investigations. It’s not the first to reject the AAU survey, whose secrecy has troubled researchers.

Princeton was forced by the government last fall to abandon its longstanding use of the “clear and persuasive” standard for assessing guilt, now using the “more likely than not” standard to decide whether accused students are guilty of sexual assault, as The College Fix reported.

Article here. Excerpt:

'T. Rees Shapiro, The Washington Post reporter who has done an amazing job covering the debacle of Rolling Stone’s story about an alleged rape at the University of Virginia, has gotten an interview with members of Phi Kappa Psi. This is the fraternity that was accused in the article of staging some sort of gang-rape initiation ritual. And the story its members tell is more than a little worrying.

The fraternity brothers say they knew within 24 hours that the Rolling Stone story was false — provably false, because their internal records and bank statements showed no party on the weekend in question, and no brothers matched the description of the alleged rapist. Yet the brothers kept quiet because they thought that fighting the story in the news media “would only make things more difficult.”

Think about that. They had evidence they could have shown to a reporter to demonstrate the problems with a story, and they decided not to because that might only get them into deeper trouble.
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When people are in the grip of a moral panic, going up against them to question the extent of a threat, even by doubting so much as a single case, can become dangerous. Questioning any expression of the panic is not seen as a logical debate over statistics or the details of a particular instance, but as somehow defending the threatening behavior.

Note how careful many people who wrote skeptically about the UVA case were to say that they believe campus rape happens, and it is terrible.

People who write that they think an accused murderer may be innocent rarely feel compelled to affirm that yes, they sure do believe that murder happens, and boy, are they against that. This ought to go without saying, and unless we are in the middle of a moral panic, it usually does.

Article here. Excerpt:

'I write to you today to voice FIRE's strong support of [North Dakota] SB 2150 [see MANN item here]. This legislation provides university students facing serious, nonacademic disciplinary charges the right to be represented by an attorney or other advocate of the student's choosing in a campus hearing.

This legislation is sorely needed because today's colleges and universities operate what amounts to their own parallel justice system while failing to provide the meaningful due process protections guaranteed in our nation's courts.

Universities throughout the commonwealth hold hearings for a wide range of serious offenses including theft, harassment, assault, drug and weapons possession, stalking and rape. Until SB 2150 is passed, students in North Dakota's public universities accused of such serious misconduct will continue to be forced to represent themselves — alone — against experienced and professionally trained deans, administrators and university attorneys in proceedings that fail to guarantee core components of the right to due process.

The status quo is fundamentally unfair, and legislative action is required to rectify it.

The stakes are very, very high; the results of these hearings dramatically change the course of students' lives. An expulsion for criminal activity will have lifelong consequences for a student's education and professional career. Such a finding impedes a student's ability to secure jobs — even jobs that do not require a college degree.

After all, why should an employer take a chance on a "proven" rapist or thief?

Story here. Turns out the lawyers who sue on behalf of women don't like it much when men do the same thing. Excerpt:

'Boulder attorneys who represent victims of gender violence say they feel the recent string of male students suing under Title IX, the federal gender equity law, are distracting from decades of discrimination against women.

A number of schools, including the University of Colorado, are facing lawsuits from male students under Title IX, a law that has historically been used to protect the rights of women.

"John Doe," who is described in court documents as a CU junior, claims he was discriminated against when he was wrongfully accused and suspended for three semesters after a night of consensual sex.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Nearly two months after it became clear that a Rolling Stone article about a gang rape at the University of Virginia was mostly fabricated, school president Teresa Sullivan finally admitted on Friday that the story is “discredited.”
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This is the first time that Sullivan has directly criticized the article, which told the story of a student named Jackie who claimed that seven members of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity brutally gang-raped her at a party in 2012.
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... And even after the Charlottesville Police Department said that there was no basis to support Jackie’s claims against Phi Kappa Psi, Sullivan and the university required all fraternities to sign a contract full of new demands before they could resume social activities.

In her speech, Sullivan appeared to try to distance herself from those sanctions.

Interview here. Description:

'Is the answer to the threat of sexual assault that young women on a college campus should just stay inside? UVA student and Representative Body Chair Abraham Axler talks with Melissa Harris-Perry about the sorority and fraternity controversy at UVA.'

Link here. Excerpt:

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'This bill was introduced by Republican Ray Holmberg and Democrat Lois Delmore partially as a response to the case of Caleb Warner.

Caleb Warner, a UND student, was accused of sexual assault in 2010 and was banned from campus for three years. Here’s the problem though: He was never actually charged with a crime, but his accuser was for filing a false report.

Even then the university refused to lift the ban until FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education) got involved.

Bruce Gjovig, CEO & Entrepreneur Coach at the UND Center for Innovation Foundation stated the following in his testimony supporting SB 2150:

Story here. (Background here.) Excerpt:

'Corey Mock, the former University of Tennessee at Chattanooga wrestler expelled after he was accused of sexually assaulting a fellow student last spring, won't graduate this semester. And now the school wants him gone for good.

Mock returned to campus two weeks ago after a Davidson County, Tenn., chancellor granted a stay so he could complete his studies. But his father, C.D. Mock, said Corey found out after returning that two classes he needs for graduation won't be offered until the summer session.

Story here. This Boulder law firm is the epicenter of female students suing universities under Title IX. Their clients include the woman who accused Jameis Winston of sexual assault. Excerpt:

'The Boulder-based team has represented victims of sexual assault at colleges and universities around the country.

Together, Clune and Kerr have made Boulder the de facto Title IX litigation center of the country by advocating for victims and taking on powerful universities and big-time athletic programs.
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"David Cornwell, attorney for Jameis Winston in Florida, has long tried to discredit the attorneys and the woman who accused Winston of sexual assault. In a December radio interview, he said Clune and Kerr took cases only for their potential payouts.

"They're not lawyers; they're investors," he said on NBC Sports Radio's The Erik Kuselias Show.'