Submitted by Mastodon on Sat, 2014-05-31 22:43
Story here. Excerpt:
'Dennis Spears balanced precariously in his shiny green high heels.
Clad in a full-length green dress, he was determined to complete his walk.
But Spears wasn't a runway model, or looking to accentuate the figure of his legs.
The military veteran was working, along with about 100 other men in attendance, to shatter gender stereotypes and raise awareness for domestic violence.
"I've seen abuse," Spears said. "These women and children need help. This gets attention. If you can get enough guys together in heels for this, you're going to draw attention."
Spears and his friend Tim Graham, maintenance supervisor at the YWCA, both wore full dresses in hopes of drawing increased donations at this year's Walk a Mile in Her Shoes event, hosted by the Flint Young Women's Christian Association in downtown Flint, Friday, May 30.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Sat, 2014-05-31 18:33
Article here. Excerpt:
'A proposed new law making its way through the California State Legislature would re-define the term "consensual sex" on California college campuses.
Recent statistics show one out of every five women on any college campus in California will be a victim of some form of sexual assault.
Senate Bill 967 would establish new rules for how public and private colleges deal with sexual assaults on campus.
The main difference from current practice is that responses must be victim centered and adopts the affirmative consent standard that means yes only means yes if its said out loud.
"Doesn't make a difference is you are a large campus, small independent college campus, public or private, you have to have a sense of uniformity", says Democrat State Senator and SB 967 co-author Kevin De Leon, "we have to have victim-centered oriented programs and policies so that that the victims are not re-victimized again."
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Submitted by Mastodon on Sat, 2014-05-31 18:28
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'The University of Arkansas student accused of faking a sexual assault report pleaded not guilty Friday in Washington County.
Julia Garcia pleaded not guilty to filing a false police report and received a trial date of July 30 in Judge Mark Lindsay’s courtroom, according to the Washington County Prosecutor’s Office.
The suspect was arrested April 30 on suspicion of filing a false police report. She was released from the Washington County Detention Center without bond the same day, according to the Washington County Sheriff’s Office.
The woman told police April 27 she was sexually assaulted in the Garland Avenue parking garage on the University of Arkansas campus. Officers immediately began searching for her alleged assailant, a 6-foot-tall man with a muscular build, according to the University of Arkansas Police Department.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Sat, 2014-05-31 18:23
Article here. Excerpt:
'With Democrats and the media gearing up to elect Hillary Clinton president, the obvious gameplan is to prep the battlefield by creating a cult of personality around women. If you are in any way paying attention, our cultural and media overseers seem to have coordinated a campaign where America is required to celebrate women simply because they don't sport a penis.
Women are awesome, just cuz.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Fri, 2014-05-30 23:38
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'Hillary Clinton may not be much at administering the State Department, but she’s certainly a pro when it comes to expressing outrage at her own persecution. For the woman who is supposedly the world’s most powerful feminist, her sense of victimhood remains surprisingly strong. That’s never been more true than in her new book, Hard Choices, which points out that she – not the four men who died in Benghazi, Libya, on the night of September 11, 2012 – is the victim.
The Clinton camp reportedly leaked the 34-page Benghazi chapter of Hillary’s latest tome to favored outlet Politico. The portions quoted by Politico demonstrate an offputting self-pity and a false righteous indignation utterly at odds with Clinton’s actions as Secretary of State.
According to Politico, Clinton writes, “Those who exploit this tragedy over and over as a political tool minimize the sacrifice of those who served our country.” Of course, the sacrifice of those who served our country wouldn’t have been necessary if Clinton had done her basic duty in protecting diplomatic facilities overseas. And when it comes to politicizing Benghazi, it was the Obama administration that repeatedly lied for weeks to the American people about the source of the attacks to continue portraying President Obama as tough on terror during election season.
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Questions that Hillary does not answer, of course. Questions like: Where were you? Why did you reject security? Why do you continue to insist that a YouTube video was to blame for the terrorist attacks?
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Submitted by Mastodon on Fri, 2014-05-30 17:17
Article here.
'"There are currently 61.1 million American men in their prime working years, age 25–54. A staggering 1 in 8 such men are not in the labor force at all, meaning they are neither working nor looking for work. This is an all-time high dating back to when records were first kept in 1955. An additional 2.9 million men are in the labor force but not employed (i.e., they would work if they could find a job). A total of 10.2 million individuals in this cohort, therefore, are not holding jobs in the U.S. economy today. There are also nearly 3 million more men in this age group not working today than there were before the recession began," the Republicans on the Senate Budget Committee claim.
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Submitted by Matt on Fri, 2014-05-30 03:39
Article here. Excerpt:
'This year National Parents Organization of Hawaii introduced several bills related to addressing abuses of the Child Support Enforcement Agency. We also introduced legislation HB2163 titled “Parental Parity” that would ensure equal time for both parents unless the court determined that it was not in the best interest of the child.
Two of the bills didn’t move, however, 3 of the bills moved through the house and senate with opposition from the Family Court Judges and the Child Support Enforcement Agency. The Joint Custody Bill language was weakened from Equal Time to “Shall consider frequent continuing and meaningful contact.” The change still moves the court toward more equitable time. We won’t know, however, how the court will implement the moderate change in the statute.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Fri, 2014-05-30 03:32
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'A concert organized by a men’s rights group on the Toronto Islands this weekend has been cancelled by the venue’s manager, which felt that the event would become too political.
The Canadian Association for Equality planned the festival at Artscape Gibraltar Point to mark what it was calling E-Day, a day to promote men’s parental rights in partnership and marriage breakdowns. Specifically, the day was supposed to support Bill C-560, which calls for an amendment to Canada’s Divorce Act that would instruct judges to apply shared parenting unless there is proven neglect or abuse.
Artscape, a creative non-profit organization, cancelled the event after a flurry of e-mails and Facebook posts indicated that attendees might get political, which goes against the organization’s policy, said its communications director, Liz Kohn.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Fri, 2014-05-30 02:22
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'Update, May 29: According to Artscape, the "E-Day" concert organized by CAFE described below has been cancelled. Many corporate sponsors previously secured had withdrawn their support following the publication of this article and Artscape pulled the venue once they were made aware of the nature of the event.
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Submitted by mens_issues on Fri, 2014-05-30 01:37
There is a petition to the White House to classify the Men's Rights Movement as a terrorist group. The petition is slanderous and horribly wrong regarding the Men's Rights Movement and MRAs. It goes on to state that the mass murders committed by Marc Lepine and Elliot Rodger were inspired by MRAs and puts the suicide of Tom Ball in the same category as well (yet again, horribly wrong). This petition is so appalling that it's almost beyond words, and does a terrible disservice to the Men's Rights Movement which has sought fair treatment of men and boys. Here is the text of the petition:
"We petition the Obama administration to:
Classify the Men's Rights Movement as a terrorist group
The Men's Rights Movement (MRM) is a misogynistic movement that advocates violence against women and girls.
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Submitted by Minuteman on Fri, 2014-05-30 01:33
Submitted by Mastodon on Thu, 2014-05-29 22:22
Article here. Excerpt:
'In classrooms across America, being a male is an educational liability.
Literature and popular culture provide a pretty good illustration of the idyllic American boyhood throughout the decades. They also provide a pretty good overview of the type of mischief and restlessness that can be expected from many male children at certain ages.
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Unfortunately, boys being shuffled through the many politically correct bureaucracies that exist in American education, and society at large, today might not be able to relate to a Dennis the Menace or Tom Sawyer by the time they reach adulthood.
Here’s Why:
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Submitted by Mastodon on Thu, 2014-05-29 19:53
Article here. Excerpt:
'A men's rights group that purports to address "the bigotry that is routinely practiced against men and boys in this culture" will hold its first major event this month, even as protesters are fighting for the conference to be cancelled.
A Voice for Men, a site started as a personal blog in 2008 by Paul Elam, is organizing the International Conference on Men’s Issues for late June at a Hilton DoubleTree hotel in Detroit. More than a dozen speakers will address topics ranging from paternity fraud to circumcision to disparities in graduation rates.
"The problem we see is a culture that still puts women first in so many ways, and men come in last," Elam, who is based in Houston, told The Huffington Post. "Whether people want to acknowledge it or not, if you look at the numbers, men come in last every time."
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Submitted by Mastodon on Thu, 2014-05-29 19:50
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'Inside a Durham courtroom last week, a Duke University student, dressed in a crisp suit and tie, shifted uncomfortably in the witness stand. For a day and a half, 23-year-old Lewis McLeod had faced sharp questioning by a Duke lawyer alleging him of sexual misconduct with an 18-year-old freshman last fall at the Sigma Nu fraternity house.
Last month, three days before final exams, Duke expelled McLeod, a senior who was on the Dean's List, under what the university is calling a new sexual misconduct practice. (However, university administrators, foreseeing a potential lawsuit, permitted him to take his final exams.) He is the first Duke student to be expelled for sexual misconduct in recent history. Because of his expulsion, he cannot get his degree, and without a degree, he cannot accept a job offer from a Wall Street investment firm, where he is to begin in July.
However, McLeod has never been charged with, or convicted of, sexual misconduct in a traditional court. Durham police declined to pursue criminal charges against McLeod, who says the sexual encounter with the freshman was consensual, and that she was coherent that night. He alleges Duke's disciplinary panel gave him an unfair hearing. Earlier this month McLeod won a temporary restraining order prohibiting Duke from following through with the expulsion.
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The difficulty of defining incapacitation and consent was underscored last week when Dean Wasilolek took the stand. Rachel B. Hitch, a Raleigh attorney representing McLeod, asked Wasiolek what would happen if two students got drunk to the point of incapacity, and then had sex.
"They have raped each other and are subject to explusion?" Hitch asked.
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Submitted by Matt on Thu, 2014-05-29 02:34
Press release here. Excerpt:
'The world’s most controversial superhero has returned to battle male circumcision, and this time the enemy is in Southeast Asia. Foreskin Man’s latest adventure leads him to a hideout in the Philippines, where a group of bloodthirsty nurses are plotting a mass circumcision in an abandoned Manila slaughterhouse.
The tale begins when the Museum of Genital Integrity’s chief sculptress Malaya Luansing suddenly takes off to visit her family in the Philippines, putting her highly anticipated Filipino circumcision exhibit on indefinite hold. The trip was supposed to help Malaya clear her head, but Manila has become much more treacherous since her last visit. Will Foreskin Man be able to help if the situation spirals out of control?
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