Article here. Excerpt:

'It is a common practice of the left to stage an incident and then demand enormous legal changes to respond to their hoax.

Griswold v. Connecticut was a scam orchestrated by Yale law professors to challenge the state’s anti-contraception law. The case was a fraud: The law had never been enforced and never would have been enforced, until the professors held a press conference announcing they were breaking the law.
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Jamie Leigh Jones made fantastical claims about being fed Rohypnol, gang-raped and then held at gunpoint while working for KBR, a subsidiary of Halliburton, in Iraq in 2005. Without considering the likelihood of a military contractor doing this to an American citizen, knowing she’d get back to the U.S. someday and be able to tell her story, our adversary media and well-paid Democratic senators believed every word out of Jones’ mouth.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Fresh off a victory in getting a law passed that regulates sexual encounters between students on college campuses, feminist activists in California are now pushing for instruction on sexual “consent” for children starting in kindergarten.

An activist group called Take Back the Night has joined with others to issue a set of “demands” to California colleges and public schools that it believes will help roll back “a culture of rape” on campuses.

“We recommend consent education in K-12,” the group said on its Facebook page. “College is too late for people to learn about bodily autonomy and respect.”

Article here. Excerpt:

'The debate over sexual assault on campus — how much it happens, how to punish it, how to prevent it — is in its early phases. There’s plenty of jumping to conclusions, lots of vitriol, but very little clarity on the numbers or what to do. Emily Yoffe’s controversial blockbuster in Slate, “The College Rape Overcorrection,” is a brave and useful volley in that debate. Yoffe starts with the story of Drew Sterrett, who was an engineering student at the University of Michigan in 2012. One night a woman known as CB invited herself into his bed, the two had sex, while his roommate tried and failed to sleep amid the din of their lovemaking in the bunk bed above.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Iowa State University’s decision to kick a basketball player off the team for alleged sexual misconduct should be upheld by the state Supreme Court, national groups representing rape victims and college administrators say.

The case of former Cyclone guard Bubu Palo has “critical implications” nationally for whether colleges can use internal disciplinary policies to enforce stricter standards in regards to sexual misconduct than criminal law, the groups told justices in a brief filed this week. Those policies are necessary to comply with federal law and to combat the epidemic of sexual assault on campuses, the Victim Rights Law Center and Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education argued.

Criminal charges against Palo were dropped, but Iowa State is appealing a judge’s ruling that found there wasn’t evidence that Palo violated its sexual misconduct policy. A decision is likely months away.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'A West Australian man has successfully sued his estranged wife for defamation over a Facebook post that suggested she was the victim of domestic violence, after a Perth court found she could not prove the statement was true.

Bunbury teacher Miro Dabrowski was awarded $12,500 in damages at the West Australian district court in December by Justice Michael Bowden.

Story here. Excerpt:

'A professor at the University of Virginia and his son, a third-year student, are requesting an apology from UVA president Teresa Sullivan, who suspended all fraternity activities after an article in Rolling Stone alleged that a female student was gang-raped at the school's Phi Kappa Psi fraternity in 2012.

The magazine has since apologized for a series of journalism failures in its reporting of the story, including failing to contact the would-be attackers and to probe inconsistencies in the account of the woman who said she was attacked.  

Writing in the Richmond Times-Dispatch, professor Robert Turner and his son, Thomas Turner, said they found the details in the story "implausible" but they were equally shocked by Sullivan's decision to suspend fraternities before conducting an investigation of the incident. 

Article here. Excerpt:

'In a brief filed this week with the Iowa Supreme Court, the state Attorney General’s Office has argued that District Court Judge Steven Oeth used the wrong evidentiary standard in his August decision to overturn a sexual misconduct violation against former Ames High School and Iowa State University basketball player Bubu Palo.

The brief, which requests an oral argument in front of the court, was filed on behalf of the Iowa Board of Regents, which in December 2013 upheld a decision by ISU President Steven Leath finding Palo in violation of the university’s sexual misconduct policy stemming from rape accusations against him and his friend, Spencer Cruise, the previous year.
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Citing numerous examples of case law, the Attorney General’s Office is arguing that both Priester and Oeth erred in their interpretations of the law — Priester by neglecting to apply ISU’s student conduct code in his findings and Oeth by reassessing evidence instead of determining whether Leath’s and the Board of Regents’ findings were supported by the evidence already established.

The brief points out that Priester referenced the Iowa Code’s definition of sexual abuse in his proposed findings, when it did not apply to the university’s sexual misconduct policy. State law requires guilt beyond a reasonable doubt — part of the reason why the Story County Attorney’s Office decided to drop the criminal cases against Palo and Cruise — while university misconduct proceedings are based on a lesser preponderance of evidence standard.

Article here. Excerpt:

'A rape culture dogma has been created in North America by politically-correct (PC) feminists who claim sexual assault against women is a systemic problem throughout society. It does not matter that rape is a heavily punished crime or that the mere accusation of it can destroy a man's career or life. Nor does it matter that both The Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network – the largest anti-sexual assault organization in America – and the U.S. Department of Justice, National Crime Victimization Survey (2008-2012) agree: The frequency of sexual assault has fallen more than 50% since 1993. The dogma of a rape culture is immune to evidence.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Depressing similarities link the two highest-profile allegations of campus sexual assault in recent years -- the fraudulent gang rape claims against Duke lacrosse players in 2006, and Rolling Stone writer Sabrina Erdely’s multiply discredited portrayal in November of a sadistically brutal gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity.

Even more depressing is another comparison between the two cases. While campus journalists and many other students at Duke were refreshingly open to evidence and critical thinking as the case there unfolded, the vast majority of U-Va. students have been sheep-like. They have emulated -- or at least tolerated -- the anti-male prejudices of U-Va. academics and administrators. Some have even called for secret criminal trials in rape prosecutions.

Article here. Excerpt:

'One of America’s most prestigious law schools got a legal slap on the wrist on Tuesday, and many of its professors are unhappy. The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights announced that Harvard Law School had failed to respond adequately to student claims of sexual harassment and assault and was therefore in violation of Title IX. The decision will see that the Ivy League law school revise its sexual harassment policies again, in addition to the university-wide changes announced earlier this year. The OCR cited two specific incidents where the prominent school failed to respond swiftly and appropriately to student complaints.

The problem, in the eyes of many Harvard Law professors, is that the decision and the changes it kicks off (a) are flawed and (b) fly in the face of the basic principles of law. In the current atmosphere, where rape and sexual assault on college campuses are believed to be epidemic, seeing colleges like Harvard Law forced into self-improvement could be understood as a welcome change. However, professors at the school, which has produced 20 Supreme Court justices, say the announcement could actually hurt the civil rights of students. They also see it as part of the federal government’s ongoing bullying of the nation’s institutes of higher education. And this isn’t a case of mansplaining to protect entitled male students—the Harvard Law professors who object to the judgment include several female academics."
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Story here. A good attempt at re-assessing the treatment of non-custodial fathers in today's world. Excerpt:

'One kind of family is the one in an old greeting-card picture: two parents, one or more kids, all under one roof.

But another kind of family has become more and more common over the last several decades. We tend to call it “single parenting,” but it is really better described as an unmarried mother and father living apart, their children, and the government whose laws regulate their relationship.

That set of laws is the child-support system, and it covers 17 million American children—about a quarter of them. But that system is nearly 40 years old, established during a different economy, and built on an old model where the mother was the caretaker and the father simply brought home the bacon. Today, a group of critics is saying the system needs an update, not only to be fair to adults but to avoid hurting the children whose interests it is supposed to serve.

Article here. Excerpt:

'The year just ended was a banner year for misogyny—review the scandals of GamerGate, the revelations of sexual violence from the National Football to the Ivy Leagues, and Elliot Rodger’s California killing spree intended to enact “revenge” against “all you girls who rejected me and looked down on me, treated me like scum while you gave yourselves to other men.” ... And so as misogyny swelled, Twitter—that many-ringed circus where outrage emerges, then cycles and sloughs—took a look and found the mirror image: misandry. All year long, one hashtag reigned on my Twitter feed, snarky, flippant, and less than delicate or helpfully nuanced: #BanMen. Here’s what 140 characters will do to the mind.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Before I could ever know anything different, this was maleness: aggression and protection, equally awful. Something cowardly and brute, something that hit you with its belt and pulled you beneath your favorite Lion King blanket and stuck its fingers into your vagina. My mind was still a dark house, waiting for positive moments—happy memories in the making—to light up each room. My father took a hammer to the circuit box, left me to wander the rooms of that dark house; and the neighbor boy who made “a secret game” of putting his hands under my dress while we sat on the couch, watching videos of Disney princesses whose happy endings came in a man’s kiss, pulled me into the basement.
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But I live in, if not a man’s world (at least, not always), a world of men. They are the co-workers who treat me with respect; the editors who’ve shepherded my essays with insight and kindness; and the men who are loyal, loving partners to my good girlfriends. And yet, there is always a part of me that is always in that dark house, always feeling my way around the walls, waiting for some unseen object to trip on or bruise against.
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These stories are remarkable because they’re not remarkable: Anticipating—and enduring—violence is part and parcel of being a woman. The batterers and rapists, terrorists and trolls may not be all men, but, by and large, they are men. As Kate Harding writes, “Of course it’s not all men. The idea that anyone might be talking about all men when talking about those who commit violence against women is ludicrous on its face … It’s not all men. But listen, you guys, it’s men.” My mistrust can become a siren of sorts: It curls its finger and sings linger in your fear. Let all men be the father who beat you with his belt, the boy who molested you, the cab driver who grabbed your one friend, and the then-boyfriend who pushed another friend against a wall.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting fell into the "I'm not a feminist" trap and had to apologize to extricate herself.

A win for feminism or a win for anti-feminism? Maybe more like a win for tweet-shaming.

Cuoco-Sweeting, star of The Big Bang Theory, stepped into a wasps' nest when she made a mild comment about whether she considers herself a feminist in an interview withRedbook.

"Is it bad if I say no? It's not really something I think about," she mused. "Things are different now, and I know a lot of the work that paved the way for women happened before I was around. ... I was never that feminist girl demanding equality, but maybe that's because I've never really faced inequality."'

Hi everyone,

I know this is off-topic, but I was wondering if any of you remember Thundercloud? He was here several years ago, and was a very good MRA. I was here at that time as well, but I don't recall my original ID.

Anyway, if any of you remember him, I am sorry to report that he passed away 3 years ago. He had been in a terrible motorcycle accident, and he died a few months later due to complications of severe head trauma.

I am his girlfriend. We met on this site, learned we lived near each other and got together. It was a wonderful 2-year relationship. I will never forget him. He wanted all of you to know that he loved you, and to keep up the fight!

I have picked up Thunder's mantle, and I too will now fight for equal rights for men and women alike. So much damage has been done by feminists, but Thundercloud didn't believe that it's too late, nor do I. We CAN do this.

Yes, I am a woman. But just know, we are not all misandrist feminists. Some of us really do care about REAL equality, not this rubbish that passes for it nowadays.

Thank-you for your indulgence. Let's make Thundercloud PROUD of us!

Erika