Reports: Boko Haram village raids kill hundreds of men and boys in Nigeria

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'Hundreds of people were killed in raids by Boko Haram Islamic militants in northeast Nigeria's Borno state, on the border with Cameroon, with some sources putting the death toll at 400 to 500.
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The attackers, who posed as soldiers, told residents they had come to protect them from Boko Haram and asked them to assemble. They singled out men and boys and opened fire on them, Biye said.

A local leader in Attagara village, who fled to nearby Madagali town in neighboring Adamawa state, said the death toll was staggering.

"The death is unimaginable. We have lost between 400 and 500 people in the attacks in which men and male children were not spared," said the local leader, who asked not to be named for security reasons.'

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Judge Blocks Duke From Expelling Student Accused of Rape

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'This could be controversial: A North Carolina judge has blocked the expulsion of a male Duke University student accused of raping a fellow student. The ruling comes as Education Department efforts to micromanage campus sex crime policies have produced passionate debate over the role and responsibilities of colleges in handling rape and sexual assault claims.

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#YesAllNormal: Standing up for the Average Man

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'The #YesAllWomen hashtag, as summarized here, displays a feminist view of men as being obvious threats to women citing 1 in 6 women being assaulted each year. This statistic is used to assert that 1 in 6 men must therefore be rapists, despite statistical acknowledgement to the contrary. Yet another statistic of 10% is used to state: “Not all Men? Imagine a bowl of M&M’s. 10% are poison. Go ahead and grab a handful. Not all M&M’s are poison!” Feminists tweeted that “Every single woman you know has been sexually harassed” and “Imagine how exhausted I am dealing with sexism and misogyny. Every. Single. Day.” A guide to “Rape Culture” details the many ways women face sexism from cruel, entitled men. For example when holding a conversation with a woman: “If you pursue a conversation when she’s tried to cut it off, you send a message. It is that your desire to speak trumps her right to be left alone.” It argues “Rape culture is telling girls and women to be careful about what you wear, how you wear it, how you carry yourself, where you walk, when you walk there, with whom you walk, whom you trust…” The overall theme is clear: “We refuse to accept that nice guys rape, and they do it often.”
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California State Bill Demands Verbal or Written Consent for Sex on College Campuses

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'A newly amended bill from a California lawmaker would require college students to stop in the heat of passion and establish verbal or written consent before having sex anywhere on campus, reports L.A. Weekly.

SB 967, amended last week by state Sen. Kevin de Leon (D-Los Angeles), would mandate that college students obtain "an affirmative, unambiguous, and conscious decision by each participant to engage in mutually agreed-upon sexual activity."
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According to the language of the bill, "consent must be ongoing throughout a sexual encounter, and can be revoked at any time. The existence of a dating relationship between the persons involved, or the fact of past sexual relations between them, should never by itself be assumed to be an indicator of consent."

Despite the bill's noble intentions, not everyone is sold on the proposed legislation.

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"Boy 'wore teacher down in effort to have sex with her'"

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'A former teacher says a 16-year-old student wore her down in his pursuit to have sex with her before she agreed to intercourse, a US court has been told.

Brianne Land Altice has been charged with three counts of first degree felony rape and one count of first degree felony forcible sodomy after being accused of having sexual relationship with a male student at Davis High School in Utah, the Salt Lake City Tribune reports.

Altice's lawyer, Edward Brass, asked for all charges to be dismissed in a submission to the 2nd District Court, stating in court papers that the student was the aggressor in the relationship and his "ultimate goal" was to have sex with the 34-year-old English teacher.

"She repeatedly refused and declined his advances until he ultimately broke down her resistance," Mr Brass wrote.

"… the state failed to establish probable cause to believe that the intercourse that occurred was without consent."

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UK: False rape claim girl given caution for wasting police time

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'A 15-year-old girl has been given a caution for wasting police time after falsely claiming she was raped.

Police launched an investigation following an allegation of a sexual assault on a teenager in the Greenmoor Road/Aviemore Close area of Nuneaton on May 12.

Today Warwickshire police said officers had established that it was a false report.

Detective Sergeant Bob Jamieson said: “The girl who made the report did so because of some personal issues in her life, for which she is now receiving appropriate support from relevant agencies.

“However, because of the amount of police time and resources spent on investigating this matter, she has also been punished by way of a youth caution for the offence of wasting police time."'

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'Divergent' Actress Shailene Woodley Makes Hollywood Freak Out by Disowning Feminism

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'Shailene Woodley, who starred in the recent film "Divergent," managed to take over from Kirsten Dunst as the Hollywood feminism freak-out target of the hour, after Time magazine asked her if she considered herself to be a feminist:

"No because I love men, and I think the idea of ‘raise women to power, take the men away from the power’ is never going to work out because you need balance. With myself, I’m very in touch with my masculine side. And I’m 50 percent feminine and 50 percent masculine, same as I think a lot of us are. And I think that is important to note. And also I think that if men went down and women rose to power, that wouldn’t work either. We have to have a fine balance.

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Global human rights advocates condemn 'war on women' first-world problems

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'Abortion-on-demand, free birth control, the word “bossy” — these are things American so-called feminists regard as the civil rights movement of our time. But if you step back from the world of outrage, get some perspective and see what women in other parts of the world face, you’ll see that those issues are more like first-world problems.

Manda Zand Ervin, an Iranian political refugee who founded the Alliance of Iranian Women, said she was “ashamed” of what women in America complain about when there are such greater risks to women in other countries.

“I mean, when I sit here and watch television and a bunch of women are screaming and yelling in front of the Supreme Court for free birth control pills - $9 a month - I feel ashamed,” Zand Ervin told the Washington Examiner. “I'm so embarrassed.”'

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Men’s rights group raises $25,000 to protect them from feminists

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'Men’s rights activists have raised $25,000 to provide additional security for an upcoming conference because, “We’ve had ongoing problems with the feminist establishment, which is a multibillion-dollar hate industry, for years,” according to men’s rights blogger Dean Esmay.

The money will be used to hire seven off-duty police officers to provide security for the event. The hotel hosting the conference in Detroit, Michigan sent a letter to organizers requesting the additional security and expressed concerns about the safety of its employees and guests related to threats of violence. Police were contacted about the conference, but a spokesperson said they had not received “any word about threats.”

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12-YO girls stab "friend" 19 times in brutal murder attempt

Choose your friends wisely, especially if they're total psychopaths. Story here, just in case you missed it. Keep your barf-bucket handy. Excerpt:

'WAUKESHA, Wis. (WLS) -- Police say two 12-year-old girls lured a friend into some woods in southeastern Wisconsin where one of them held her down as the other stabbed her 19 times.

The 12-year-old victim survived the attack on Saturday in Waukesha and police say her condition is stable.

On Saturday morning, a bicyclist discovered the 12-year-old girl who had been stabbed multiple times trying to make her way out of a wooded area in Waukesha. She had been lured there by two middle school classmates after a sleepover the night before. They were going to play games, Waukesha's police chief says, but the real intent was to kill.

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What Happens When You Challenge ‘Rape Culture’ Orthodoxy

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'My recent article "Crying Rape: Is there really a rape epidemic? Probably not" generated a vicious reaction from left-leaning media and activists. In addition to being remarkably broad and at times dishonest, the tactics indicated that significant segments of the Left are not content to shout back at conservatives. They want to shout us down, to limit the honest discussion allowed regarding sexual violence.

As I stated in the article, I believe rape is a heinous, hideous crime and that a date-rape perpetrator “deserves the worst the law and life can throw at him.”

Now with that in mind, consider how David Brock’s Media Matters spun the story.

“National Review Online Claims Women Are Just ‘Being Taught To Believe They Were Raped’“

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Men's rights conference in Detroit raises security concerns

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'A controversial men’s rights group is holding its first conference in Detroit, and its host hotel wants organizers to hire police officers as security because of death threats.

The Houston-based group A Voice for Men is hosting its International Conference on Men’s Issues June 27 and 28 at the Hilton Doubletree Guest Suites Fort Shelby on West Lafayette. Speakers will address what they say is prejudice against men, “antifeminism” and corruption of family courts.

More than 2,000 people have signed an online petition seeking to cancel the conference, and the hotel last week informed A Voice for Men that it needed to hire extra security.

“We have received numerous calls and threats and are concerned for the safety and well-being of our employees, our guests and your attendees,” hotel officials wrote in a letter dated Thursday to Paul Elam, A Voice for Men’s founder and publisher.

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California ‘Affirmative Consent’ Bill Puts Colleges in Untenable Position

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'Colleges are in an increasingly untenable position when it comes to the sexual autonomy of their students, and the house of cards is going to come crashing down sooner or later.

Last week, the California State Senate approved SB 967, a bill that would require colleges receiving state-funded student aid to use an “affirmative consent” standard in their sexual assault policies. According to a report by the Associated Press:

"Their policies must include an affirmative consent standard, which is defined as “an affirmative, unambiguous and conscious decision” by each party to engage in sexual activity. It also requires consent to be ongoing throughout a sexual activity."

So on the one hand, colleges and universities are being asked to closely monitor how students conduct their sex lives, sometimes to the point of ensuring not only that consent was present, but also that it was “affirmative and unambiguous” throughout the entire encounter. As the editorial board of the Los Angeles Times pointed out, “It seems extremely difficult and extraordinarily intrusive to micromanage sex so closely as to tell young people what steps they must take in the privacy of their own dorm rooms.”
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Australia: Male teachers fear accusations of sex offences

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'MARK COLVIN: There are claims that young men are turning away from teaching for fear of being falsely accused of child sex offences. The education union says it's been told that would-be male teachers are more reluctant to join the profession because of publicity over sex abuse in schools.

It follows the highly publicised Debelle inquiry which investigated the mishandling of a sex abuse inquiry at an Adelaide school. Meanwhile, male teacher numbers are continuing to fall.

Caroline Winter reports.

CAROLINE WINTER: The continual decline in male teachers in schools has been a serious issue nationally for some years. But the South Australian education union believes that trend has been exacerbated by false accusations of child sex offences.

David Smith is president of the SA branch.

DAVID SMITH: A number of young men have, or many of any age for that matter, have been put off, they've told us, by the potential litigation that there might be should there be some sort of vexatious, unfounded accusation against them.

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"I don't need a man, but..."

Please watch this from a woman. It has logical arguments and good cause-and-effect analysis. Caption: "Why is it that feminists say they need so little and yet demand so much?"

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