Submitted by Mastodon on Sat, 2014-12-20 11:54
Article here. Excerpt:
'Women make better leaders, the Health Secretary has said, as senior officials call for more “oestrogen to dilute the testosterone” in NHS boardrooms.
Jeremy Hunt said more women should be promoted to senior positions to help bring an end to a “macho and bullying” culture in too many parts of the NHS.
He made the comments as Dame Sally Davies, England’s Chief Medical Officer (CMO), said too many senior women became “preening queen bees” who did not help other women to get on.
Dame Sally - the country’s first female CMO - said too many successful women enjoyed being the only female in their circle so “pulled the ladder up” from beneath them.
At a London summit women in medicine, the Health Secretary suggested that the NHS should encourage more women into senior positions, because they were frequently better than men at the job.
Mr Hunt said: “There is a lot of evidence that women are often better leaders. We need to think hard about why that is.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Sat, 2014-12-20 11:52
Article here. Excerpt:
'Now Mr. Horrigan is certainly entitled to his opinion, and the PD is his home, so they will publish his essay. This piece, however, is important because it shows the liberal mind at work. Would the St. Louis Post-Dispatchhave dared to publish an Op-Ed in which their top editorial writer mocked, ridiculed, and insulted all young black men? Would they have allowed Horrigan a platform to do the same to middle aged white women? Would they have consented to a piece that castigated any black, Hispanic, or Asian women? What about unemployed, gay pro football defensive ends? Of course not, and it goes without saying that this would never be permitted! White men, however, are not on the Left’s protected species list, and can be slandered, insulted, and defamed to an editorial writer’s hearts content.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Sat, 2014-12-20 11:45
Article here. Excerpt:
'Prospects for girls and women couldn’t be better. Yet feminists seem to be getting louder, more demanding and younger and younger – while, for boys, the picture is bleak. Groups like UK Feminista are running brainwashing workshops for Girl Guides and in schools, encouraging schoolchildren to set up feminist clubs and are dispersing propaganda that engenders hostility towards boys and whips up undue fear and resentment in girls.
The End Violence Against Women and Everyday Sexism Project Coalition, meanwhile, have amassed tens of thousands of signatures to get a frighteningly all-purpose sounding feminist to-do-list on the school curriculum, in the form of “sexual consent, healthy and respectful relationships, gender stereotypes and online pornography”.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Sat, 2014-12-20 11:40
Story here. Excerpt:
'President Barack Obama's annual end-of-year press conferences are usually relatively laid-back affairs, with the president and the press corps alike eager to get a start to the holiday break.
But on Friday, as the president took questions from reporters before setting off for vacation in Hawaii, he electrified the Twittersphere by doing something entirely unexpected and unprecedented: He only took questions from women.
After a brief comment on the economy, Obama fielded queries on the Sony cyber attacks, Cuba and more from eight women — and no men:
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Submitted by Mastodon on Sat, 2014-12-20 03:38
Story here. Excerpt:
'A top University of Virginia official blasted Rolling Stone’s “false portrayal” of the university in a public meeting Friday, saying the university had fallen victim to “drive-by journalism” that showed “callous indifference to the truth.”
Rector George Keith Martin, speaking at a special Board of Visitors meeting, said of the story of an alleged gang rape and the university’s reported indifference to it that “innocent people have been hurt, some of them even devastated,” and that “our great university’s character has been tarnished.”
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Submitted by Mastodon on Fri, 2014-12-19 19:22
Story here. Excerpt:
'“Are you familiar with the term manspreading?"
Despite measures taken to raise awareness of "men taking up too much space on the subway," there are still many who aren't aware that "manspreading" is even a term. In their new video "Manspreading," the dedicated journalists at Gothamist confront men on New York City subways to ask if they've ever heard of "manspreading" and if they realize they're doing it. The results were a bit awkward.
Most of the men had no idea what manspreading was but, hearteningly, all were open to fixing it once they were educated on the phenomenon.
To conclude their deep-dive into manspreading, Gothamist clarified the amount of lounging that's unacceptable when riding a subway: "If there's space enough for a litter of puppies or a celebrity selfie group shot, you are taking up too much space. Pull it in."
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Submitted by Mastodon on Fri, 2014-12-19 01:15
Article here. To jump the paywall, Google the first sentence from the excerpt and click on the link that leads to the article in the Chicago Tribune. Excerpt:
'Remember in 1986, when Newsweek supposedly showed that a 40-year-old single woman was "more likely to be killed by a terrorist" than to ever get married? It turned out to be false, the remark of a Newsweek correspondent, who'd meant it merely as a funny aside. And the studies on which it was presumably based? Flawed.
Nonetheless, until the magazine issued an official retraction 20 years later, that factoid occupied the murky space between conventional wisdom and urban myth. That is to say, it felt depressingly true and totally unbelievable — with an emphasis on felt. Regardless of the truth of the situation, the media and other parties cried wolf, which proved effective in getting people's attention. After all, the real figure — it turns out that single women older than 40 have about a 40 percent chance of marrying — didn't have quite the same ring to it.
Today, another statistic is bandied about with similar abandon, and it concerns something much more serious than securing a husband. The phrase "1 in 5 college women will be sexually assaulted" over the course of their university enrollment has become absorbed into the lingua franca of gender politics and anti-rape advocacy. Even President Barack Obama, who established a campus sexual assault prevention task force, rattles it off.
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Submitted by Matt on Thu, 2014-12-18 18:53
Article here. Really, she's completely nuts. And if she and her extremist ideologues pals are successful at doing this nutsery on college campuses nationwide, off-campus society is their next target. No man will be safe. A mere accusation will be as good as a rape conviction. Excerpt:
'New York Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, one of the most prominent lawmakers fighting campus sexual assault on Capitol Hill, said Monday that affirmative consent laws should be made the standard nationwide.
Gillibrand was speaking as part of an MSNBC-hosted panel event on sexual assault at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, which is a part of the State University of New York (SUNY) system. During the panel, she praised SUNY’s recent adoption of affirmative consent at the urging of Governor Andrew Cuomo, and was asked whether she thought the standard could potentially be implemented at the national level.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Thu, 2014-12-18 13:45
Story here. In case your wondering those 32 'people' were men. Excerpt:
'Boko Haram insurgents kidnapped at least 185 women and children, and killed 32 people in a raid in northeastern Nigeria this week, local officials and residents said.
Gunmen in pickup trucks attacked the village of Gumsuri, just north of Chibok, on Sunday, shooting down men before herding women and children together.
"They gathered the women and children and took them away in trucks after burning most of the village with petrol bombs," a local government official said on condition anonymity for fear of reprisal."
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Boko Haram has terrorized northern Nigeria regularly since 2009, attacking police, schools, churches and civilians, and bombing government buildings.
This month, at least one female Boko Haram suicide bomber killed five people in Maiduguri. Last month, suicide bombings killed nearly 180 people. More than half of the victims died in an attack on a mosque that many suspect Boko Haram was behind.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Thu, 2014-12-18 06:39
Submitted by Mastodon on Thu, 2014-12-18 04:00
Story here. Please keep in mind she was sentenced to only three years even though she killed someone with liquid rubber injections. Excerpt:
'A Texas border woman will spend three years in prison for injecting liquid rubber into at least 30 women seeking to enhance their buttocks. She made them believe it was Botox. Rather than enhance their looks, the rubber turned out to be a toxic chemical that sent several women to the hospital and killed one.
"Unfortunately the sentencing range on this charge only allows me to sentence you to up to three years,” U.S. District Judge Micaela Alvarez told 39-year-old Elva Navarro during her sentencing hearing. “If I could sentence you to more time I would, unfortunately, I have to follow the law and this this case this is all I can give you.”
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Submitted by Mastodon on Thu, 2014-12-18 00:41
Article here. Excerpt:
'A day after Rolling Stone published an article describing a brutal gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity house, a former Washington and Lee student claims he was expelled for having consensual sex with another student who eight months later regretted the encounter and claimed rape.
The former W&L student has filed a federal lawsuit claiming the private Lexington university discriminated against him because he is a male, and because it wanted to avoid the negative public scrutiny that UVa was experiencing. Moreover, the student, identified as John Doe in the lawsuit, contends W&L’s Title IX officer advocates to female students that “regret equals rape.”
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Submitted by ThomasI on Wed, 2014-12-17 16:52
Story here. If the genders were reversed... Excerpt:
'Faculty members at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania are a little peeved at their president, Marcia G. Welsh, for tweeting a picture of herself standing next to shirtless male students wearing Santa hats. Ms. Welsh was delivering holiday cookies to residence halls across campus, reports The Patriot-News, when she encountered the male students, who call themselves the “Hawthorn Hotties,” and took the photo.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Wed, 2014-12-17 04:19
Story here. Excerpt:
'A political conservative and a practicing Muslim at the University of Michigan has become the victim of a campaign of harassment by university feminists who are upset at him for having written for a school newspaper a satirical article slamming political correctness and "trigger warnings."
The student, Omar Mahmood, wrote the op-ed titled "Do The Left Thing," a piece attacking the concept of "trigger warnings" and ridiculing the overly sensitive nature of minorities that see "white privilege" everywhere they look.
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Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2014-12-17 04:16
Story here. As always, when boys/men die on a large scale, they're ID'd by their occupation or other status title/position. If these had been female students, there'd be immediate demands for invasion to stop the evil fiends (which may well cause more probs. than fixing) if not one in fact. Excerpt:
'By the time the hours-long siege at Army Public School and Degree College ended early Tuesday evening, at least 145 people -- 132 children, 10 school staff members and three soldiers -- were dead, military spokesman Gen. Asim Bajwa said. More than 100 were injured, many with gunshot wounds, according to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province Information Minister Mushtaq Ghani.
The death toll does not include the terrorists who attacked the school, bursting into an auditorium where a large number of students were taking an exam and gunning down many of them within minutes, Bajwa said.'
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