Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2014-10-22 15:28
Story here. So, Mr. Feminist POTUS thinks he's *entitled* to hugging and kissing women he doesn't know without their express permission? AND he does so with the apparent motivation to show some other man he can put his hands on and kiss the man's girlfriend, just to show how *powerful* he is? If he had been an "ordinary" man, how would this scene have looked? A lot different, yes? If he had been on a college campus and an undergrad (male, of course), such would have been a punishable offense, by up to and including expulsion, with a mere accusation, witnessed or not by a 3rd party. That is, it'd be called a sexual assault. But he did in fact break Illinois criminal law with what he did. Read it here, 720 ILCS 38 5/12-3: "(a) A person commits battery if he or she knowingly without legal justification by any means (1) causes bodily harm to an individual or (2) makes physical contact of an insulting or provoking nature with an individual." I'd say hugging and kissing a person you don't know, and doing so with the expressed intent to bug said person's S.O., is pretty provoking, yes? And, rather insulting to the young woman. After all, he had no right to her body (contact therewith), but that didn't stop him. The Barack Obama of his college years placed on a campus in CA today would be in trouble for what he did, wouldn't he? That's the world he helped to create. And it's recorded on video and is being reported by every major news outlet in America.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Wed, 2014-10-22 13:21
Article here. Excerpt:
'Ginsburg has been candid in the past about her experience as a woman on the nation’s highest court. In conversation with Totenberg on Sunday, Ginsburg said that it was “lonely” after Sandra Day O’Connor retired and that she didn’t like being the only woman on the bench. Asked why that is, Ginsburg replied, “No one wants to be a one-at-a-time curiosity, and that’s what I was. I was the only one. It wasn’t the way the court should be at this time in our history.”
Following up, Ginsburg said that she is often asked how many women on the Supreme Court would be “enough.”
Her answer? “When there are nine.”
“For most of the country’s history, there were nine and they were all men. Nobody thought that was strange,” she explained.
Misandry on the court! Misandry on the court!'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Wed, 2014-10-22 13:20
Story here. Excerpt:
'A student who reported a sexual assault in the Texas Tech Student Recreation Center has admitted to making false statements, according to the university.
The Texas Tech Police Department issued an alert to the campus community on Sept. 15 about the alleged assault.
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The case will be turned over to the Lubbock County Criminal District Attorney’s Office and to the Tech Office of Student Conduct.
Cook said filing a false report is a Class B misdemeanor, but the woman may also be subject to penalties from Tech.
According to a TechAnnounce sent out to the Tech community Tuesday night, filing a false report is punishable by up to a $2,000 fine, jail confinement up to 180 days or both.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Wed, 2014-10-22 13:11
Article here. The list:
'1. Understand that women are leading the way and affirm their capable leadership. Don't assert yourself at the forefront.
2. When it comes to issues that directly pertain to women's bodies and experiences, be quiet and listen.
3. Men don't get to determine if they are "allies" to the feminist movement. Women do.
4. Take responsibility for addressing men's issues with other men, rather than expecting women in feminism to do all of the work.
5. Use your male privilege to encourage other men to work towards gender equality, under women's leadership.
6. Don't use the label of "feminist" as a way to try to get women to like you — that's disingenuous and counterproductive.
7. When given opportunities to execute professional tasks related to feminist issues, consider referring other women instead.
8. Educate yourself about the history of feminism and how women of different backgrounds have approached the movement.
9. Ensure your feminism is intersectional.
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Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2014-10-21 04:43
Article here. Men need a new political party to start representing our interests, but unfortunately, the GOP doesn't fit the bill either. Last time anyone got close to starting a viable third party (think Ross Perot), "something just happened" and all efforts stopped. Since then, nothing. Indeed, the fix really is in. Excerpt:
'The most presciently under-appreciated and intentionally ignored book in gender politics was published by David Paul Kuhn in 2007 and titled “The Neglected Voter: White Men and The Democratic Dilemma.” The message is in the title. White men have fled the Democratic Party in droves, for good reason – and why shouldn’t they continue to flee in 2014,— while keeping an eye on 2016?
For those not afraid of being “bullied” by the Democratic left, there are a half dozen long-ignored but critically important problems facing the nation’s males that should bring all voting-age men to the polls in 2014 – perhaps men’s last chance for hope and change before the ice age possibly returns in 2016. Consider six interlocking sets of issues.
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Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2014-10-21 01:54
Article here. Excerpt:
'Two days ago, Ezra Klein, the editor of Vox.com, penned what may be the most repulsive article yet on the subject of affirmative consent laws. Klein's argument in a nutshell: yes, these laws are overbroad and will probably result in innocent men being expelled from college over ambiguous charges. Which is good, because the college rape crisis is so terrible and the need to change the norms of sexual behavior is so urgent that this requires a brutal and ugly response. Or, as Joe Stalin was fond of saying, "When you chop wood, chips must fly." That's the Russian equivalent of “You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.”
Toward the end, Klein writes:
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Submitted by el cid on Mon, 2014-10-20 23:44
Story here. And guess what? No charges will be filed against her. Excerpt:
'She may act charming, but Deanna Griego was apparently willing to do anything to get out of trouble — including accusing a cop of sexually assaulting her.
Thankfully for Albuquerque police officer Jared Frazier, he was recording the whole encounter...
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Albuquerque Police Department union president Stephanie Lopez said in a statement to KOB, “The desire to frame officers for wrongdoing is a growing issue facing officers every day. We believe that the public should be held accountable for filing false reports against police officers. These incidents can be very damaging to an officer’s career, so we hope that this individual and others face appropriate consequences for their malicious actions.”
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Submitted by Mastodon on Mon, 2014-10-20 23:04
Article here. Excerpt:
'8. Your penis does not give you superpowers. It is simply part of your anatomy. It makes you human, with all of the pleasures and obligations that the human experience offers.
9. Hold doors open for women. And men, for that matter. Not because of any sexist traditions, but simply because holding the door is kind and polite. It is just good manners. For the same reason, push in your chair and put the toilet seat down.
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11. Pay for dinner and buy her flowers. Not because that will make her more likely to want sex or fall in love; do it just because it is the nice thing to do.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Mon, 2014-10-20 05:24
Story here. Excerpt:
'Officials said a report of a rape late Saturday on the Millersville University campus was false.
The purported victim, a 21-year-old MU student, admitted to police and counselors Sunday afternoon that she was not sexually assaulted Saturday night as she reported, university police Chief Pete Anders said during a press conference Sunday at Gordinier Hall.
Anders said he believed the woman was “working through some things both psychologically and emotionally which may have caused her to make the report (Saturday) night.’’
He said the woman will not be charged with filing a false report.
“Our focus is towards support and care for her,’’ he added."
Anders said although he’s confident a rape didn’t occur Saturday night, he said officials believe the woman may have been victimized in the past.
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Submitted by Matt on Sun, 2014-10-19 20:06
Letter here. Excerpt:
'RE “RETHINK Harvard’s sexual harassment policy” (Op-ed, Oct. 15): While the legal critiques of the Harvard Law School faculty members are critically important, so too, from a psychological perspective, are false sexual allegations by women. Such allegations are dismissed by proponents of affirmative consent policies, who say that women never lie about rape, or who cite a 3 percent to 8 percent rate of false allegations.
A recent summary of the false abuse and rape allegation literature can be found in a 2013 book by Phillip Cook and Tammy Hodo titled “When Women Sexually Abuse Men.” While statistics in this literature are problematic, Cook and Hodo report four studies that found false allegation rates of 62 percent, 41 percent, 50 percent, and 60 percent.'
Referenced item: Rethink Harvard’s sexual harassment policy
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Submitted by Mastodon on Sun, 2014-10-19 15:55
Article here. Excerpt:
'Donnelly argues that the U.S. military cannot "gender integrate" significant numbers of women into combat arms "without changing and lowering the standards."
The issue of women is combat is not about "women's rights," Donnelly argues, but about ensuring the country's national security, which depends on a capable, all-volunteer military.
"We cannot afford to allow standards to be lowered to accommodate political agendas or social theories or anything of a kind," she tells OneNewsNow.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Sun, 2014-10-19 15:53
Article here. Excerpt:
'The odds of this country returning to a draft are almost zero, but the price for failure to register is high and is largely born by the men who can ill afford to pay it: high school dropouts, disconnected inner city residents, ex-offenders and immigrants — legal and unauthorized — who do not know that failure to register can jeopardize citizenship. In other words, those precisely in need of the type of job training, education and citizenship opportunities that could help move them from the margins to the mainstream.
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In California, the Selective Service System estimates, men who failed to register were denied access to more than $99 million in federal and state financial aid and job training benefits between 2007 and April of this year. Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Massachusetts saw $35 million in combined lost benefits between 2011 and spring 2014.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Sun, 2014-10-19 15:39
Article here. Excetpt:
'Thus, the Harvard signatories include not only noted criminal defense attorney Alan Dershowitz, who has long been viewed as right of center in the culture wars, but preeminent African-American law professor and Barack Obama’s mentor Charles Ogletree and several renowned female jurists such as veteran civil rights attorney Nancy Gertner, constitutional scholar Martha Field, and feminist legal theorist Janet Halley. This protest is not easy to dismiss as a right-wing anti-woman backlash.
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Submitted by Matt on Sun, 2014-10-19 02:42
Article here. Excerpt:
'Gender price discrimination is illegal in many states but it can be quite tricky to determine when two products are really the same and when they are different. For example, Miami-Dade County has ordinances that prohibit gender pricing for dry cleaning. The gray area is this: "A business is permitted to charge a different price if the goods or services involve more time, difficulty or cost. In other words, consideration must be given to the quality and complexity of the goods or services to determine whether or not you have been discriminated against."
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"There’s no general federal law prohibiting price discrimination on the basis of gender," says Ayres. "There's the Unruh Act in California which is a matter of state law. There’s an increasing number of states and municipalities that have prohibited gender price discrimination in public accommodations."
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Submitted by Matt on Sat, 2014-10-18 02:18
Story here. Excerpt:
'A NURSE was arrested for killing as many as 38 patients because she found them or their relatives annoying, police said.
Daniela Poggiali, a 42-year-old resident of the Italian town of Lugo, was taken into custody over the weekend and booked for the alleged slaying of 78-year-old patient Rosa Calderoni, who died from an injection of potassium.
Calderoni had been admitted to the hospital with a routine illness before she died unexpectedly.
Tests showed she died with a high amount of potassium, which can provoke cardiac arrest, in her bloodstream, according to the Central European News.
Her death triggered an investigation, which found that 38 others had died mysteriously while Poggiali was on duty, the news agency reported.'
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