Submitted by Matt on Sat, 2015-01-17 07:51
Story here. Excerpt:
'A student with autism has been kicked out of college for sexually assaulting another student. The vile act that caused the student to be kicked out?
A hug and a kiss on top of the scalp (something Joe Biden did recently) after mistaking another student for one of his friends.
Student With Autism Kicked Out of College
A Waxahachie man who has autism was kicked out of college classes because he mistakenly hugged a woman he did not know and kissed her on the top of her head, according to the man’s mother.
Brian Ferguson, 20, was attending special-needs classes at Navarro College’s Waxahachie campus when he thought he recognized a young woman in the hallway, said Ferguson’s mother, Staci Martin.
The woman, who has not been identified and could not be reached for comment, turned out to be a stranger.
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Submitted by Matt on Sat, 2015-01-17 07:32
Article here. Looks like the lies and attendant craziness got on a plane for London not long ago and promptly began doing their best at doing their worst. Excerpt:
'A third of female students in Britain have endured a sexual assault or unwanted advances at university, stark new research conducted for The Telegraph shows.
It comes as new legal guidance warned that universities and colleges across the UK could be breaking the law by refusing to investigate allegations of indecent assault or rape, believing that it is purely a police matter.
Gender violence campaign groups warned that academic authorities are creating an “environment of impunity” on campus by refusing to step in to protect women from assault. The Telegraph is planning to highlight the issue in a series of articles.
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Submitted by Matt on Sat, 2015-01-17 07:24
Article here. Excerpt:
'The journalists at Charlie Hebdo are now rightly being celebrated as martyrs on behalf of freedom of expression, but let’s face it: If they had tried to publish their satirical newspaper on any American university campus over the last two decades it wouldn’t have lasted 30 seconds. Student and faculty groups would have accused them of hate speech. The administration would have cut financing and shut them down.
Public reaction to the attack in Paris has revealed that there are a lot of people who are quick to lionize those who offend the views of Islamist terrorists in France but who are a lot less tolerant toward those who offend their own views at home.
Just look at all the people who have overreacted to campus micro-aggressions. The University of Illinois fired a professor who taught the Roman Catholic view on homosexuality. The University of Kansas suspended a professor for writing a harsh tweet against the N.R.A. Vanderbilt University derecognized a Christian group that insisted that it be led by Christians.
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Submitted by Matt on Sat, 2015-01-17 07:14
Article here. "Psychopathic". Good grief. No mention of women who do likewise or that it's not out of the realm in the least that women post "selfies" much more often than men, and that if they do post "selfies", wouldn't that also suggest that they too are just one trivial slight away from opening up a can of whoop-a$$ on all in a$$-whooping range, too, or whatever happens to be their thing? What passes (or doesn't) at times for "scientific research" is truly barf-making. Excerpt:
'Men who regularly posted photos of themselves online scored higher on a measure for narcissism and psychopathy.
According to Medical News Today, a study out of Ohio State University has found that men who took “selfies” were more likely to exhibit psychopathic traits when compared to control group.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Sat, 2015-01-17 01:47
Article here. Excerpt:
'A new anti-domestic violence program in Evanston finished its first session with 38 teenage boys graduating at the end of last month.
The Allied Against Violence Project is a joint program run by YWCA Evanston/North Shore and Youth Organizations Umbrella (Y.O.U.) with participants from Evanston Township High School, director Jacob Hostetter said. The purpose of the program, which meets after school twice a week, is to engage young men in conversation about unhealthy norms that can lead to domestic violence and sexual assault, Hostetter said.
“The goal of this is to create a space for these young men to develop their own definition, their own sense of what healthy masculinity looks like to them,” Hostetter said.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Sat, 2015-01-17 01:42
Story here. Excerpt:
'A male Stanford University student says he initially wasn't believed when he told a sexual assault counselor that a female student had sexually assaulted him, he writes in a recent op-ed article in student newspaper The Stanford Daily.
Senior Justin Brown says that in October 2013 a female student sexually assaulted him after a drunken encounter at a party on campus. While Brown writes that sexual contact with the female student was initially welcome, including her putting her hand down his pants while they made out, he knew he "didn't want to end the night in her bed" and decided to help her back to her room because she was drunk.
Brown writes that he "felt stuck" while walking the female student home, as they repeatedly stopped to make out. According to Brown, these "stop-offs" became unwelcome, and he began to resist her advances:
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Submitted by Mastodon on Sat, 2015-01-17 01:41
Article here. Excerpt:
'We can be rampantly promiscuous without being called ‘slags’ and we rarely have to worry about being groped on a packed bus. Nor, on the whole, are we expected to choose between raising children and pursuing a career.
But for all the advantages of being male, thunders Peter Lloyd in this angry, funny, provocative book, we are these days considered the ‘overrated, unfashionable gender’. Man-bashing, of which we are largely innocent victims, has become so lucrative that ‘people build entire careers on it’.
By ‘people’, it’s safe to assume he means the other gender. But Lloyd protects himself from charges of misogyny, using interviews with some clever, high-achieving women to construct a persuasive case, on the back of his opening three-word premise that ‘men are brilliant’, to suggest that our brilliance goes not merely unrewarded, but downright punished.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Sat, 2015-01-17 01:34
Article here. Excerpt:
'Men's rights activists and the wider manosphere both venerate the alpha male, but a look at their websites shows that they're going for men and boys who feel unsuccessful at life, and, particularly, young people who feel sexually deprived. In a recent post, Futrelle said:
"The anger of many younger MRAs seems to have a similar psychosexual source. These are the young men who rage against “friendzoning” and wax indignant about “false rape accusations” and “yes means yes.” In their mind, women are the “gatekeepers” of sex, and this frustrates and sometimes enrages them. ...
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... Some, I suspect, think that there’s no way they can actually “get” sex without cutting a few corners, consent-wise, and resent feminists for making this harder for them."
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... civil rights research group Southern Poverty Law Centre tracks some of them as misogynist hate sites. ...
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Submitted by Mastodon on Sat, 2015-01-17 01:27
Article here. Excerpt:
'Last month, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) announced an ad campaign to improve “proper etiquette” on the NYC Subway. According to The Washington Free Beacon, $76,707 was spent on the following advertisements, which appeared in subway stations and cars:
The anti-pole-dancing ad is likely so ridiculous that the public has just ignored it. However, the bottom-right graphic has been gathering more and more attention throughout the campaign.
Some in support of the movement explain that man-spreading is an act of dominance and an exercise in male privilege.
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The MTA has no intentions of arresting any man for man-spreading their legs and making room for their man-parts. But the campaign has not gone unnoticed, and has warranted a mixture of agreement, confusion and hilarious incredulity from New Yorkers and out-of-towners alike.'
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Submitted by Matt on Fri, 2015-01-16 21:33
Article here. Excerpt:
'In a recent column about allegations leveled against Harvard Law professor emeritus and criminal defense lawyer Alan Dershowitz, Professor Tamara Tabo initially admonishes us to be skeptical about Jane Doe #3’s accusations. Tabo says pointedly – and I might add, accurately – that “the accuser should not be stigmatized for reporting the crime, but the accused should not be stigmatized before he has an opportunity to present evidence in his defense.” But Tabo doesn’t practice what she preaches.
First, she suggests that these accusations are credible because of the respectability of the lawyers representing Jane Doe #3; the author then describes Professor Cassell’s academic and professional credentials, including his service as a federal judge. I know both Professors Cassell and Dershowitz professionally and indeed, as friends. I respect them both. I have known Professor Dershowitz for forty years, as co-counsel and colleague, and Professor Cassell from when both of us were on the bench and since then in our work on federal sentencing.
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Submitted by Matt on Fri, 2015-01-16 14:35
Article here. Excerpt:
'Can a federal agency find you in violation of the law, not for actions that violate a statute, but for failing to parrot the agency’s controversial views about how the statute should be applied in hypothetical situations?
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Submitted by Matt on Fri, 2015-01-16 06:36
Story here. Excerpt:
'As National Parents Organization announces the resignation of its National Executive Director Rita Fuerst Adams, I would like to extend my gratitude to her for the many ways in which she helped advance our organizational mission. During Fuerst Adams’ time as National Executive Director, she has played a critical role in our efforts to improve the lives of children by protecting their right to the love and care of both parents and advocating for shared parenting and parental equality in our family courts.
Having joined our cause as National Executive Director in 2012, Rita has been a champion of children’s rights and parental equality in all that she has done for our cause. Whether managing the administrative demands and functions necessary to the job or growing our strong volunteer and membership base, she has been integral to our success during her tenure.
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Submitted by Matt on Fri, 2015-01-16 06:33
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