Article here. Bisexuality is very much in vogue these days, at least in much of the US and Europe -- if you're female. Young women can make out publicly in clubs and bars or on the street, hold hands, hug and kiss, date boys, girls, or both, all without fear of having the living $hit kicked out of them by either men or women. Men, on the other hand, dare not hold hands in public without fear of getting beaten senseless by a bunch of homophobic bigots (of either or both sexes) except in just a few places (at least here in the US). As for visibility in the media as characters on contemporary TV shows, gay/bi women substantially outnumber gay/bi men, much less have much visibility generally even within LGBT-oriented organizations. So it's good to see a book like this come out (as it were). Excerpt:

'The Bisexual Resource Center has released a new collection of stories highlighting  the voices of 63 cisgender and transgender bisexual, pansexual, polysexual, and sexually fluid men from countries all around the world. Recognize: The Voices of Bisexual Men includes short fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, personal narratives, critical essays, and visual art features meant to recognize the diversity of the bisexual male population.

Article here. Excerpt:

'National Parents Organization is pleased to announce the creation of the National Parents Organization Law Firm Network, a national coalition of law firms that serves as a go-to resource for parents searching for legal counsel committed to shared parenting.

I strongly encourage attorneys to join National Parents Organization’s Law Firm Network. It is a unique opportunity for family law attorneys to collectively express their belief in the benefits of shared parenting and parental equality, while also connecting directly with members and parents to affect change in the lives of children. Contact me to sign up your law firm to to refer your family law attorney.

Story here. Excerpt:

'Three out of every four Danes want to ban the circumcision of boys, unless it's for medical reasons. AYouGov survey for Metroxpress newspaper revealed that 74 percent of the over 1,000 Danes asked want to completely or partially ban the circumcision of boys, while just 10 percent want the practice to remain legal.

“Circumcision is cutting a healthy part of the body from a boy,” Lena Nyhus, the founder of Intact Danmark, an association against the circumcision of children, told Metroxpress. “Denmark ought to be a pioneer when it comes to children's rights. We need an age limit of 18 years.”
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While it is illegal to circumcise girls in Denmark, about 1,000-2,000 Danish primarily Jewish and Muslim boys are circumcised every year. In comparison, about every second boy in the US is circumcised.

The only political parties that want it banned are Enhedslisten and Liberal Alliance, but the entire political sphere will discuss the issue today in parliament.'

SAVE has begun a new campaign aimed at addressing the deficiencies of the new,  ludicrous affirmative consent standard.  The campaign's "base of operations" is: http://www.saveservices.org/camp/affirmative-confusion/

A Facebook page for the campaign is also at: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Affirmative-Consent-Affirmative-Confusion/992742647419570

Video here. Interesting little educational video on the topic. The entire MinuteEarth channel looks pretty interesting; I'll have to watch a few more of their vids. Anyway, an article here discusses localized unexplained (but theorized) reductions in M:F birth sex ratios in certain parts of the world, including the US and Japan. The most likely culprit appears to be industrial chemicals in the environment affecting men's sperm production rates as well as how many X vs. Y chromosome-bearing sperm cells men are producing, when no other cause such as selective sex abortion, etc., can explain it.

Article here. Excerpt:

'A Facebook message a woman sent to her former sex partner announcing she was pregnant was not sufficient legal notice to support terminating the father’s parental rights, the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled this week.
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How much of an obligation a pregnant woman has to seek out and notify an absent father has been a point of contention in some parental rights termination cases.

It’s an issue upon which even state Supreme Court justices disagreed.

In a minority opinion, Justice James R. Winchester contended it was the father’s responsibility to inform himself of the pregnancy.

Story here. Excerpt:

'An Arizona State University rally against rape culture has been criticized for actually promoting rape culture because it encourages men to respect women — and respect for women should be “a given” and not have to be encouraged.

Two organizations, a women’s group named “WOW Factor!” and a men’s group named “Man Up,” have hosted the “Rally for Respect” at the university annually — but an opinion column in the school newspaper last week raised troubling concerns about the rally and the groups involved.

In the column, student Kaelyn Polick-Kirkpatrick said she had been listening to video statements from the 2013 event and was disturbed to hear things such as, “That 300 men have pledged to respect women on campus is something really great” and “when the men were doing the pledge to respect women, I was thinking wow, this is really cool.”

Video clip here. Caption:

'During the WETM debate, the audience laughed at Democrat Martha Robertson's absurd war on women attack against Rep. Tom Reed (R-NY)'

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Wikipedia on the 23rd Congressional District of New York is found here.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Hoisting signs such as “Quit giving misogyny a voice Miami” and “Where is my special privilege Mr. Will?” roughly 75 students choked the business school gates where conservative columnist George Will gave a guest lecture Wednesday night at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

As guests headed into the campus area to hear the talk, part of the Anderson Distinguished Lecture Series, protesters handed out rape and sexual assault information sheets to passersbys while repeatedly chanting slogans such as “No means no, whatever we wear, wherever we go, yes means yes” and “nothing less than yes.”

The protest was right in front of the business school gates, so anyone entering through the front gates to attend the event had to walk through the crowd and endure a barrage of chants and information sheets. 

Other signs touted taglines like “Rape is a violent crime, not a partisan opinion” and “survivors of rape deserve love and honor.”

Article here. Excerpt:

Article here. Excerpt:

'Cornell University senior Julius Kairey, a conservative student columnist for the Cornell Daily Sun campus newspaper, was viciously smeared last month with fliers spread around the Ivy League university that labeled him a “Racist Rape Apologist.”

His crime? Daring to question stats behind the so-called campus rape epidemic and defending due process for those accused of sexual assault. He also wrote a column titled “Islamophobia and Racism” last spring that ruffled some feathers. And the fact that he writes a weekly conservative column in general makes him a target for radical angst.

Story here. Excerpt:

'Two former University of Houston students. expelled in connection with an alleged sexual assault on campus, are suing the school and two administrators, claiming they were denied due process in the investigation and administrative hearings.

The lawsuit calls into question the pressure universities face to crack down on campus sexual assault. The plaintiffs claim they were kept in the dark about the investigation and given little chance to defend themselves.

In a statement, university officials said they are "committed to the enforcement of Title IX, the protections of due process and other legal rights of the parties involved," but are prohibited from further comment under the provisions of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'It was after 4 a.m. when Dante Cunningham pulled his truck back into the driveway of his suburban Minneapolis home and saw the police waiting for him.

Officers put the handcuffs on the Minnesota Timberwolves' reserve as soon as his feet hit the pavement. The reality of his situation and the domestic assault charges that were on their way didn't sink in until he was lying in a jail cell and the lights went out.

"The whole time I was like, 'I'm OK. I'm out of here. Things will be fine,'" Cunningham recalled. "Then it went dark and I was like, 'This is not a joke. I'm really in this.'"

Story here. Gee, suppose one day the MRM, or self-styled supporters thereof, will get little boys' parents to agree to putting their sons on TV to sell T-shirts by dressing them up in little super-hero outfits and shout "F*ck discriminatory draft laws!" and "Think 'f*ck' is a dirty word? I think f*cking cutting off a piece of my f*cking d*ck is a lot worse!", and so on? Somehow, I doubt it. Excerpt:

Article here. Excerpt:

'The two-minute film titled 'Boys Don't Cry' starts with a series of scenes in which boys of all ages are told to stop their tears because crying is for girls.

The video then shows a man on the verge of tears, before panning out to reveal him physically abusing a woman.

"We have taught our boys not to cry. It's time we teach them not to make girls cry," a woman says as the video ends.
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"When we teach young boys at an early age to not do something 'like a girl' – the distinction that what a girl does is insignificant is imprinted in the young boy's mind. Growing up, when these boys don't see eye to eye with their partners they feel the need to enforce their views through aggression."'

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Video on YouTube here.