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'The former National party senator Bill O’Chee [link added] says women are being given a “free pass” by police on domestic violence and are just as capable as men of killing, “especially when children are involved”.

O’Chee, a columnist for Fairfax Media’s Brisbane Times, wrote that equal opportunity for women meant equal responsibility for their actions, especially criminal ones, but police were failing to prosecute them for acts of domestic violence.
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Women are just as capable of killing in domestic circumstances as men, especially when children are involved,” he said.

O’Chee said he had a solicitor friend who “ruefully” did not charge one woman with domestic violence when he was a police prosecutor.

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You might not think that it’s appropriate for the government to launch a campaign telling men how to sit on the subway. Well guess what? You’re wrong.

If you “manspread” on the subway (which, by the way, means to sit with your legs apart, in case you are a fixture of the patriarchy who doesn’t educate himself on important women’s issues), you are doing so much more than taking up space.

Here’s what’s really going on with manspreading, as explained by some of the bright, forward-thinking minds on the Feminist Internet:

1. Manspreading is saying, “Who gives a f*** if you can’t sit, [we] are men. See [our] balls.”

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'Despite objections from 28 law professors, Harvard University Law School is going to subject its students to a potentially misguided interpretation of Title IX's sexual assault rules in order to preserve its federal funding.

Sexual assault is a serious matter. That is why it is unfortunate that the U.S. Department of Education has pressured universities and colleges since 2011 to lower the standard of evidence for convicting people of sexual assault. Through a guidance letter, the prior standard of "clear and convincing" evidence is no longer required for conviction. Instead, schools must show "a preponderance of the evidence," a lower standard.

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The University of Virginia has reinstated all of its fraternities, pending their acceptance of a new agreement requiring, among other things, that at least three members be “sober and lucid” at all parties. The college announced the measure in a news release on Tuesday.
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The new agreement, which fraternities must sign by January 16, requires, among other things, that:

• At least three members be “sober and lucid” at each function.
• At least one of the sober brothers be stationed at each point of alcohol distribution, and one be at the stairs leading to the house’s bedrooms.
• The fraternity provide one additional sober brother per every 30 members of the chapter.
• At least three of the sober brothers be non-freshmen.
• All fraternities submit two risk-management plans to the college’s Inter-Fraternity Council.'

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'Lawyer Alan Dershowitz is fighting back against claims that he was involved in a prostitution ring that involved the Jeffrey Epstein sex scandal, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal.

Dershowitz says that the claims are fabricated despite them appearing in a U.S. court document.
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Dershowitz is a professor emeritus at Harvard Law School and is one of the biggest names in U.S. law. Dershowitz helped negotiate the agreement with the government, which helped Epstein avoid federal prosecution.

A separate civil lawsuit claims that prosecutors violated the rights of Epstein’s victims when they agreed to a deal with him without their opinion.

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'Gotnews.com can conclusively prove that the photo of Prince Andrew with Virginia Roberts, the alleged underaged prostitute is a forgery.
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The key to investigation is the size of the pixels. You would expect a photograph to have the same pixelation throughout. And yet the sections with Andrew and Virginia have different sized pixels that become clear when you zoom in.

Our analyst writes:

“Virginia’s and Andrew’s facial photos were taken using different cameras, different shutters speeds; therefore; at different times. Pixels in the photo of the brunette and Andrew are a better match, yet not exact.”

“It is 99.8% likely that the photo of Andrew and the brunette [Jeffrey Epstein assistant Ghislaine Maxwell] were taken by the same camera, with the same shutter speed, at the same time.”

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'Unlike other celebrities and politicians who have allowed sexual assault accusations to ruin their careers, attorney Alan Dershowitz [link added] is fighting back early — and hard.

Dershowitz, a Harvard Law professor and outspoken critic of how colleges have been handling sexual assault, was accused of having sex with an underage girl by a former witness against billionaire investor Jeffrey Epstein.

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'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.

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'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.”

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'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.

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'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.'

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'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.

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'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. 

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'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.