Submitted by Mastodon on Fri, 2023-03-17 16:48
Article here. Excerpt:
'Sammy Woodhouse, who was abused in Rotherham from the age of 14, said it had set progress back "a long way".
Williams, of Barrow, Cumbria, was given an eight-and-a-half year sentence on Tuesday after lying about being raped and trafficked for sex.
The 22-year-old was convicted of perverting the course of justice.
Her Facebook post in May 2020 showing injuries she said had been inflicted by groomers was shared more than 100,000 times and sparked protests in her home town.
A trial at Preston Crown Court heard she inflicted the wounds herself using a hammer she had bought from Tesco.
Three men Williams falsely accused of rape over a three-year period tried to take their own lives.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Fri, 2023-03-17 16:44
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'Fans of The Apprentice are outraged because this is now the sixth time in a row where it is an all-female final. Yes, men are kicking off about it and I’ve got some serious second-hand embarrassment seeing their angry tweets.
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I can guarantee you there wouldn’t be “uproar” from women if it was a final full of men because, and I cannot stress this enough, we wouldn’t care. At what point do we accept women winning The Apprentice isn’t tick box and they’re actually the better and more suited candidate?
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If you can’t see the female contestants were better then you’re an idiot and your thoughts only prove exactly why we need female winners on our TV screens.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Fri, 2023-03-17 16:36
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'He wants to love you unconditionally, but your father can’t toss aside the shock-collar of patriarchal operant conditioning. The rules of manhood have become second nature for him. Now, when he looks at you, he sees an insufferable little girl version of himself. He feels an unconscious jolt of social rejection. That’s why he’s overprotective of you, but not your brothers. He has spent decades policing and imprisoning the supposedly feminine parts of himself, the things he considers weak and fragile. But he lets the supposedly masculine parts roam free. Leftover boyhood trauma distorts his parenting decisions. Please remember, it’s not you he hates, it’s all the things about himself that he’s been trained to hide away.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Fri, 2023-03-17 16:35
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'The polling company YouGov found that just 8 per cent of people have positive views of white men in their twenties, by far the lowest of any ethnicity or age group. Males are routinely presented as inherently dangerous, aggressive and animalistic, incapable of controlling their own instincts. You can see it on public transport, where government adverts announce that staring is sexual harassment. Us blokes can’t even be trusted to use our eyes properly.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Fri, 2023-03-17 16:31
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'For more than a decade, an all-boys school in Melbourne's leafy south-east has worked to create a program to develop its students into "respectful men".
Brighton Grammar School's positive masculinity program, +M, has been developed with mental health experts and was designed to shape perceptions of manhood.
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Dr Englar-Carlson said there were a lot of buzzwords around masculinity, but the movement was focused around "healthy and adaptive" elements that needed to be cultivated in boys.
"I want to understand how we can help men be healthier and happier, and essentially improve the lives of everyone around them, including himself," Dr Englar-Carlson said.
He said it was a challenging space to work in as society tended to gravitate to what men were doing wrong.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Thu, 2023-03-16 14:55
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'A Stanford employee who claimed she was brutally raped on campus twice by a coworker was charged with lying as part of a revenge scheme that also put some cash in her pockets.
Jennifer Gries, 25, faces felony perjury and other charges for the sham accusations, the Santa Clara District Attorney announced Wednesday.
The Housing Services employee allegedly smeared her coworker because she felt he gave her “false intention” and “turned her friends against her,” according to court documents obtained by The Post.
“Evidence shows that the Gries made up the stories due to being angry at a co-worker,” the DA’s office said in a release.'
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Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2023-03-15 18:57
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'A married California "teacher of the year," who has been accused of sexually abusing a former student, "was obsessive, possessive, controlling and dangerous," prosecutors said in court.
Jacqueline Ma, a 34-year-old sixth-grade teacher at Lincoln Acres Elementary School in National City, was arrested twice in a week after police found more evidence against her, which was presented Monday in the Superior Court South County Division in Chula Vista.
Investigators found a picture of the 13-year-old victim's picture in her wallet, jewelry with his initials, love letters in her classroom and text exchanges that showed Ma became frustrated that the victim didn't message her back quick enough, prosecutors alleged.
She also allegedly sent explicit images to the student and coerced him to send videos back to her, according to prosecutors, who said the inappropriate behavior began when the victim was 12.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Tue, 2023-03-14 04:27
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'Sky News host Paul Murray says it doesn’t surprise him that young kids look to Andrew Tate to “build themselves up” because there is “virtually nothing anywhere that’s ever positive about masculinity”.
“So you end up going off the beaten track into places like YouTube and somebody who gives you the confidence that the rest of the culture isn’t giving you becomes more attractive,” Mr Murray said.
“It doesn’t surprise me that people want to find somebody who tells how to build themselves up as opposed to what to be sorry for.”'
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Submitted by Matt on Sun, 2023-03-12 19:02
Translated article here. Excerpt:
'During the first lesson, the students of the Atheneum in Halle were told that the boys had to stand and that the girls could sit. That immediately caused a buzz during math class. Because Lisa was allowed to sit down while her neighbor Thomas had to solve his exercises standing up. It was striking that the boys in particular asked questions about why they were not allowed to sit down, while the girls had less difficulty with this.
When the working group that had devised the action entered the classroom with chocolates exclusively for the girls, a discussion started. "Why does one get privileges and the other doesn't? What did we do wrong to be treated differently?" the boys wondered. "And what if we are not a boy or a girl, but transgender?".'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Sun, 2023-03-12 03:14
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'Clips of Justin Bieber being repeatedly disrespected and sexualized as a kid have resurfaced on TikTok, and they show just how toxic the culture was.
User @kendallrae111 stitched together a number of videos from when Bieber was a teenager, all of which show adults either touching the singer inappropriately or asking him intrusive sexual questions. Every clip also shows Bieber setting clear boundaries and having them ignored.
The first clip is of Jenny McCarthy kissing and groping Bieber as he walks on stage. When he steps up to the mic, he says, "Wow. I feel violated right now."
McCarthy was asked about the incident afterwards and told Entertainment Tonight, "I just got to neck Justin Bieber and grab his butt. It was a little cougar scary, but I took the opportunity and the window, considering I'll never get to do it again, and kind of molested him."
Not usually something you proudly admit to, but OK.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Sun, 2023-03-12 03:03
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'A surprising number of people in younger generations believe that women’s rights have gone too far, with a new survey revealing gender equality progress could be at risk of stalling.
New research conducted by Ipsos UK and the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership at King’s College London found that over half of people in younger generations believe the push for equality is now negatively impacting men and that they are being expected to do “too much” to support progress.
The survey collated the responses from more than 22,500 people aged 16-74 across 32 countries, including approximately 1000 people from Australia.
According to the results, 52 percent of Gen Z and 53 percent of Millennials agree that “we have gone so far in promoting women’s equality that we are discriminating against men”.
This is compared to 46 percent of Gen X and 40 percent of Baby Boomers.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Sun, 2023-03-12 00:58
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'A female teacher has avoided jail despite admitting to having sex with her 16-year-old student in the backseat of her car.
Monique Ooms, 31, from Maffra in Victoria, Australia, pleaded guilty to four counts of sexual penetration of a child under her supervision and care at Latrobe Valley County Court.
Judge John Smallwood said he wouldn't send her to jail despite her having faced a maximum sentence of 10 years inside.
The court previously heard how the teen had snuck out in the middle of the night to sleep with the teacher.
The lad was in a "vulnerable situation emotionally" after losing a close friend in a car crash a week prior.
Judge Smallwood - who admitted to never having dealt with a similar case - made a number of odd comments, saying he didn't know if the child had been harmed by her predatory behaviour.'
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Submitted by Matt on Sat, 2023-03-11 19:59
Article here. Gee, wonder why? Excerpt:
'Dame Sharon White admitted that she has found it 'quite hard to recruit men' at the John Lewis Partnership as she faces a backlash for hiring and promoting women at the business.
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Baroness Morrissey, former chairman of stockbroker AJ Bell, said 'any move away from a macho culture needs to be very subtle' to not dissuade men from joining a firm.
'Otherwise men might surmise quite sensibly that the environment won't be good for their careers,' she said.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Thu, 2023-03-09 00:52
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'A man in Spain has been ordered by a court to pay his ex-wife $215,000 for 25 years of unpaid domestic labor.
The record divorce settlement was calculated by Judge Laura Ruiz Alaminos, based on the annual minimum wage throughout the couple’s marriage, inews reports.
The man must also pay his ex-wife, Ivana Moral, a monthly “pension” of $527, as well as $422 and $633 to his 20-year-old and 14-year-old daughters respectively.
Moral said she and her daughters were “left with nothing” when the couple, who married in 1995, divorced in 2020.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Wed, 2023-03-08 23:14
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'The National Opinion Research Center’s General Social Survey found that American wives were 40% more likely to cheat on their spouses in 2010 than in 1990, while the percentage of husbands who cheated stayed the same. But are women really cheating more — or are they just finally talking about it?
Piazza told The Post that she really does think more women are having affairs compared to 30 or 40 years ago, largely because of “privilege.”
“There are so many more women in the workforce and making their own money,” the host explained. “When you’re less financially dependent on your husband, you’re less afraid of possibly losing your husband or ruining your marriage. You’re more willing to take chances to take risks.”
She also noted that technology has made conducting an affair much easier. Now, women can search for one-night-stands on their phone.'
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