Story here. Excerpt:

'With blood spattered over his injured face, this is Ronnie Lee on his way to hospital minutes after being glassed in an unprovoked attack by a woman.

Lucky not to lose an eye, the 24-year-old telesales company director needed four stitches following the assault.

But despite his injuries, his assailant, estate agent Yasmin Thomas, 21, walked free from court this week with a suspended sentence – despite notching up her 18th conviction for assault.
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Yesterday Mr Lee said he was disgusted at the leniency of the sentence, which includes an anger management course.

He said: ‘If it was the other way around and I did that to her, I would be going straight to jail.

‘What happens next time if she does something and it’s life threatening? She could end up killing someone.

‘She’s got 18 convictions already. She’s a danger to herself and others around her.
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‘Yasmin picked it up and tapped me on the shoulder and gave it to me. I was surprised and handed it back to Richard.

Article here. Excerpt:

'One of the most depressing aspects of Robin Williams’s suicide is that he had all the access, all the best care. Money was not an object. But even with all that, he killed himself. “Robin Williams could pay in cash for anything he needed. Even with that, depression can be a fatal illness,” [Dr.] John Herman said.
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Ronan reflected on the sad passing of Robin Williams as he lamented the sorry state of mental health care for those who are not rich and famous.

“Our country’s health,” Larry Ronan said, “will never be whole until we insist that mental health be seen along with physical health as fundamental to our overall well-being, and funded as such.”'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Women now make up nearly half of all business travelers in the United States and abroad, and most of them are solo travelers. So it’s no surprise that in recent years, more hotels have been clamoring to offer services catering to women’s needs and preferences.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Supporters of Mireille Miller-Young cite the "cultural legacy of slavery" and even the effects of pregnancy to explain why the feminist studies professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara would accost a teenager spreading a pro-life message on campus.

The pregnant 38-year-old who pleaded no contest to misdemeanor counts of theft, vandalism and battery after stealing and destroying an anti-abortion poster and injuring a a16-year-old activist, says she’s sorry for some of her actions and hopes to “makes amends through community service.”

Received a copy of this lawsuit filing from "John Doe"'s attorney. I redacted dates and places on campus as well as the names of students mentioned. Faculty/staff, however, don't get the same treatment. After all, being part of a kangaroo court is something adults with a few years into the title should know enough to avoid.

Article here. Excerpt:

'As a membership-driven organization, National Parents Organization realizes every individual offers tremendous potential for advancing our mission and increasing awareness of the impact family courts are having on our modern families.

In fact, our greatest ability to make an impact and reform our family court system can be realized simply through the strength in our numbers. Simply joining National Parents Organization, which is free and easy to do online, will give us a louder voice as we advocate collectively for change in communities across the nation.'

Essay here. Excerpt:

'In a society, culture, and system as complex as ours it is absolutely ridiculous to assume that all of the victimization occurs to women and that all of the advantage comes to men. Yet those are the assumptions. Men have plenty to complain about and women have significant powers. It has always been this way, but after 40 years of omnipresent feminism, today's imbalance is greater than ever. I suppose this is because of strong remnants of chivalry. Men must be strong and never complain. Men must always protect and help women. This is a sexist attitude that women, including feminist women, have encouraged and demanded instead of placing where it belongs, in the dustbin of history.

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Story here.

'The woman who filed a federal lawsuit alleging that an Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper raped her last month is wanted in another county on an allegation that she falsely reported a rape in 2009.

The woman, identified in the lawsuit only by her initials, is linked through public records to that Cherokee County charge as well as to an outstanding arrest warrant in Oklahoma County on charges of second-degree burglary and knowingly concealing stolen property.

Gary James, an attorney for Oklahoma Highway Patrol Trooper Eric Roberts and the Oklahoma State Highway Troopers Association, said the allegations of rape "are unequivocally untrue."'

Article here. Excerpt:

'The Campus Accountability and Safety Act (CASA), S. 2692, seeks to change how publicly funded universities investigate allegations of sexual assault. CASA and its House version, H.R. 5354, are currently in front of congressional committees. S. 2692 in particular has been widely hailed as a rare display of bipartisan support. Why, then, does the congressional watchdog GovTrack.us give CASA only a 1 percent chance of being enacted?

The act contains some alarming provisions.

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'If you tried to create a profile of someone at high risk of committing suicide, one likely example would look like this: A middle-aged or older white male toward the end of a successful career, who suffers from a serious medical problem as well as chronic depression and substance abuse, who recently completed treatment for either or both of those psychological conditions and who is going through a difficult period, personally or professionally.

In short, that person would look a lot like Robin Williams, the 63-year-old actor and comedian who, authorities said Tuesday, hanged himself with a belt in the bedroom of his San Francisco Bay area home a day earlier.

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'Those who illegally cross into the United States have more rights than a college student accused of rape, according to a George Washington University (GWU) law professor.

John Banzhaf, a public interest law professor at GWU, is calling attention to disparity within America’s judicial system after finding “dozens” of cases in which colleges forgo due process when handling students accused of sexual assault while those crossing into the United States illegally are still granted an impartial hearing.
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Banzhaf, who helped get all charges dropped against three Duke lacrosse players in a highly contested and bitter case, claims that he first spotted what he calls a “trend” of students successfully suing their universities for improperly finding them guilty of date rape.

“With date rape, [college judiciary committees] particularly try to find out what exactly happened in that room,” Banzhaf told Campus Reform. “The need seems to be much greater [for that] in the case of date rape for protection.”

Story here. Excerpt:

'This was their march on Tiananmen Square.

A group of protesters — from the so-called Revolutionary Student Movement, the Proletarian Feminist Front and the Proletarian Revolutionary Action Committee — confronted a couple of speakers at the University of Toronto last week. Unhappy with the topic of the event (“Men’s Issues Go Global”) or the host of the event (University of Toronto Men’s Issues Awareness Society), protesters decided to interrupt the event by hollering slogans, clapping their hands and singing.

Campus security was called in to mitigate the disruption, and the event was moved to another location on campus. The protesters ostensibly then went home, or possibly convened elsewhere to celebrate their insurrection. Either way, the lecture continued.'

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'Las Veags, NV – A couple of days ago, Cynthia Maloney came across the ALS Association’s popular “Ice Bucket Challenge.” ALS stands for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (more commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease) in which patients lose all motor function as the disease progresses. “Ice Bucket Challenge” participants record and share videos of themselves dumping buckets filled with ice water on their heads, including the hashtag #icebucketchallenge, to raise awareness of ALS.

Maloney thought that it would be great if the genital autonomy movement came up with something similar to get the word out about children’s rights to bodily autonomy – to protect male, female and intersex children from genital cutting.

Two days later she woke up and read an article about a women’s campaign advocating against sex discrimination and for bodily autonomy. The article included a photo of a young woman holding a sign reading, “#IF I WERE A BOY – I’d be able to make choices about my own body.”

Article here. Excerpt:

'Blake looks at the views and biographies of a half-dozen women who are vigorously defending men against feminist extremism.

"It may seem counterintuitive that women would be helping drive the conversation about a movement that's fighting anti-male discrimination and campaigning fiercely against feminism," Blake reports.

Interestingly enough, two of these women — Karen Straughan and Janet "Judgybitch" Bloomfield — are Canadians who shred feminist cliches with acidic logic and humor. Both attained public notice via YouTube.
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Schow shines much-needed light on the injustice of dispensing with the presumption of innocence, while Blake does the same by highlighting six heretofore obscure but intellectually courageous women.

That's what journalism does at its best — bring into clearer view previously unseen people and forgotten ideas that make us think in new ways about old issues.'