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'A Michigan Democrat member of Congress sent out a job listing "strongly" encouraging everyone but straight White men to apply.

The office of Rep. Hillary Scholten, D-Mich., put out a job listing recently for the senior communications director role in her office that would play an integral role in her office’s operations.

Scholten’s listing for the job with a salary between $85,000 and $120,000 goes on to "strongly" encourages people of varying personal characteristics to apply — except for straight White men.

"We strongly encourage women (and all individuals who do not identify as male), people of color, LGBTQIA+ individuals, people with disabilities, veterans, and members of other underrepresented communities to apply," the listing reads.'

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'A Florida woman who was found with 24 homemade pipe bombs and a hit list pleaded guilty Wednesday to avoid prison, and will instead receive mental health treatment.

Michelle Kolts pleaded guilty in a Tampa courtroom to reduce charges following her 2019 arrest. She was originally charged with 24 counts of making, possessing and discharging a destructive device.

"Twenty-four months of community control followed by 15 years probation," prosecutor Lindsey Hodges said, Fox Tampa reported.

Authorities found 24 homemade bombs in Kolts' bedroom in the home she shared with her parents in October 2019. The devices were filled with nails, screws, and pellets, along with materials to make more bombs, and books about terrorist bombings. Also found was a hit list.

Kolts was arrested on charges that could have landed her in prison for 100 years. However, in 2019, she was found unfit to stand trial following years of mental health evaluations and treatment. She was eventually diagnosed with schizophrenia.

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'The draft law requires political parties to field an equal number of male and female candidates during elections, whether national or municipal. Women now make up 43% of Spain’s congress and 40% of its senate.

Parties that lead central government will have to appoint a cabinet that includes at least 40% of each gender. The Socialist-led government counts 14 women among its 23 cabinet ministers, slightly more than 60%.

Publicly listed companies will have until mid-2024 to ensure corporate boards include at least 40% of the “underrepresented sex”, said Calviño. Companies with more than 250 workers and annual turnover that exceeds €50m will have until 2026 to do the same.'

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'The answer may be that boys have been left to fail.

Although our society has been rightfully concerned with the advancement of girls and women over the past several decades, we’ve simultaneously ignored glaring warning signs that something is wrong with boys.

On educational, economic and health metrics alike, they’ve been falling further and further behind women.

As parents, partners and friends, we should all be coming together to discuss why our young men and boys are struggling.

But, instead, we find ourselves embroiled in a culture war over toxic masculinity that leaves no one speaking to boys’ plights.

In fact, they’re being beaten over the head with overtly anti-male rhetoric that asserts just about any of society’s ills can be blamed on men.

Headlines like “Toxic Masculinity Is Killing Us” and “Toxic Masculinity Is Costing Us About $15.7 Billion Every Single Year” and book titles like “How to Date Men When You Hate Men” are countless.

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'Lawyers representing the first man to be accused of the new offence of femicide, after shooting his wife dead last year, are questioning its constitutionality.

This emerges from an application to the First Hall of the Civil Court in its constitutional jurisdiction, which was filed this morning on behalf of Roderick Cassar.

Cassar, 42, from Qrendi is currently the subject of criminal proceedings, in which he is accused of fatally shooting his wife, Bernice Cassar, from close range at the Corradino industrial estate in Paola, not far from her workplace.
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"Why is the murder of a woman, committed under one of the circumstances mentioned in Article 211A [rendering it wilful femicide], is taken to be worse than the murder of a man carried out in identical circumstances.” The same was argued about the harsher punishment.'

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'Fox News contributor and George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley is raising the alarm about the dangers of artificial intelligence’s (AI) political bias and false claims after he was wrongly accused of sexual harassment by ChatGPT. AI could be a real threat to free speech, he said.
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Turley wrote an April 3 piece for USA Today titled, “ChatGPT falsely accused me of sexually harassing my students. Can we really trust AI?” Turley wrote, “What is most striking is that this false accusation was not just generated by AI but ostensibly based on a Washington Post article that never existed.” [Emphasis added]. AI seemingly generated false accusations for two other law professors, too, Turley added.

Turley aptly noted that, “The use of AI and algorithms can give censorship a false patina of science and objectivity.” But, as he put it, “AI and AI algorithms are no less biased and flawed than the people who program them.”'

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'More male probation officers are needed to tackle masculinity issues, the new chief says.

Kim Thornden-Edwards chief probation officer for England and Wales, said employing more men could help tackle violent criminals such as domestic abusers.

Personnel in the service, which oversees 240,000 convicts and offenders According to her, 75 percent of women serving sentences outside prison are “stuck” for 30 years.

“Maybe it would be good for a woman to lead a domestic violence case, but it would also be good for a man to address these issues of masculinity and power from a male perspective.”'

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'An incoming Massachusetts school superintendent revealed that his job offer was rescinded prior to his start date after he addressed two women on the school’s committee as "ladies" in an email.

Vito Perrone was offered the position as the head of Easthampton Schools on March 23, but was notified that the job offer had been withdrawn over his choice of salutation in an email to the chairperson and executive assistant, both female, who reportedly interpreted his "ladies" greeting as a "microaggression," the Daily Hampshire Gazette reported.'

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'As a secondary school teacher of nearly 20 years experience, I’ve seen many ways in which toxic masculinity can manifest itself in the classroom.

I should be angry with the boys whose behaviour brings to life the cultural menace that is toxic masculinity. But I’m not. Working with these boys generates a sensation deeper than anger.

It’s a heavy and stomach-turning combination of feeling disgusted, threatened and disempowered by boys living out adopted values that are simply not their own. These young people have been damaged by our contemporary culture and they need our help.

At its best, toxic masculinity in schools looks like behaviours we’ve explained away for decades by saying, “it’s just boys being boys”. Offensive things, like penises drawn on desks, using loud and aggressive voices, derailing class discussions with sexualised and suggestive comments directed at both teachers and other students, and contributing to a classroom culture that makes it difficult for anyone to learn.

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'Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is facing backlash for engaging in a “culture war” with a video bashing straight men in the wake of the Nashville school shooting.

On Monday, Ocasio-Cortez blasted “straight men” as the sexual predators that society should be concerned about in the defense of drag queen shows.

“Many of these disgusting and insinuating attacks on trans and LGBTQ people are actually projections of what predatory cisgender and often straight men do when left alone in the presence of women or sometimes horribly children,” Ocasio-Cortez said in an Instagram video. “Don’t get it twisted because a lot of people attacking drag are projecting.”'

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'Two former football players from The Ohio State University (OSU) were acquitted on rape and kidnapping charges last month based upon a "consent video." The defendants claim they were advised by school officials to film such videos to absolve them of potential rape allegations.

On February 4, 2020, a 19-year-old female OSU student visited the apartment of a fellow OSU student and football player, Amir Reip. When the case was initially reported to Columbus police, the female—whose identity has not been revealed in news coverage—stated that she engaged in consensual sex with Reip but withdrew consent in the middle of the activity.

The key piece of evidence for the jury’s acquittal was a video filmed immediately after the sexual activity concluded. The woman, pictured naked and crying, states in the video that the encounter was consensual, but she later told police that she only said this so Reip and Wint would eventually let her leave the premises.

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'Broom says she’s especially outraged over what happened next. Students, including Jordan, returned to Cobb MS the following week. Broom says she met with the school’s other assistant principal who had not been at school for several days.

“She reopened [the case] because she can, is what she said,” said Broom.

This assistant principal reportedly handed Jordan a more severe punishment: 45 days at an alternative school.

“That is not him and I don’t know what she heard or why she decided to say that’s what she heard, but we’re talking about Jordan,” she said.

Her son, she says, is a jokester and a good kid who always makes people laugh.'

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'A two-and-a-half-year drama has moved from a local campus disciplinary panel to a federal court room.

It involves a former University of Maryland student accused and later exonerated of a sexual assault accusation who has now filed a civil lawsuit against the school, two Title IX coordinators and two former students who were part of a campus sexual assault advocacy group. The suit is asking for at least $1 million in damages.

According to the lawsuit, on Oct. 27, 2020, a student referred to in the suit as “Jane Roe” accused two students — including the plaintiff in this case who uses the pseudonym of “John Doe” — of sexually assaulting her.

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'Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), a member of the Senate Judiciary committee, introduced the Ensuring Fairness for Students Act to codify due process in Title IX proceedings for students who are accused of sexual assault or harassment on school campuses. The bill would require schools to investigate and adjudicate formal complaints.

“The Biden White House wants to roll back fair proceedings on school campuses by making students guilty until proven innocent. That is not justice. Students’ rights don’t end where schools begin, and this bill makes sure that these serious investigations pursue justice without bias,” said Kennedy.'

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'A masculinity activist has warned schools that they are partially responsible for the popularity of misogynistic 'influencer' Andrew Tate.

The 36-year-old, accused of human trafficking, rape and forming an organised crime group to exploit victims, has been detained in a Romanian prison since December 29.

Speaking to The Times, Mark Brooks, a co-founder of the Men and Boys Coalition, said Tate's toxic masculinity was popular because boys are 'unfairly treated by society' and warned schools are not addressing problems adequately.

Mr Brooks warned of a lack of male teachers and whether the institutions were 'actually boy friendly'.

This comes as a new YouGov survey about what it means 'to be a man' found that almost a third of young men thought society did not care about them.'