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'An Arizona woman went on a naked rampage early Monday after her live-in boyfriend refused to have sex with her, police report.

Ashley Marie Prenovost, 24, was already intoxicated when her beau returned to the Glendale residence the couple shares with their four-month-old daughter. Prenovost, according to a court filing, “wanted to have sex with him and got naked.”

When her boyfriend declined to have sex, Prenovost became enraged, according to police. She allegedly punched two holes in a bedroom wall, and “punched a picture hanging on the wall in the hallway, causing glass to break and causing injuries to both of suspect’s hands.”
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Pictured in the above mug shot, Prenovost was arrested on a variety of charges, including assault, disorderly conduct, and criminal damage. She was also hit with several child abuse counts since, during her tirade, she raced around the home with her baby in her arms. At one point, the child’s head struck a bedroom dresser.

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'We might be unsure if there’s a real war on women occurring today, but there is definitely some fighting over the ill-understood “feminism.”

Although many feminists have come out on the defensive about the inclusivity of the word/movement/whatever you want to call it, other women (let alone men) remain unconvinced.

So much so that young women have recently taken to various social media channels to declare: “I don’t need feminism.” The reasons are numerous, including:

“Because I believe in equality not entitlements and supremacy”

“Because I don’t think being a woman is a disadvantage”

“Because I respect men. I refuse to demonize them and blame them for my problems”

Maybe it’s the feminist in me, but I just don’t see any of these admonitions as something that would or should exclude a female from adopting the feminist title.

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'Wall Street Journal columnist James Taranto is under fire after his latest piece about rape on college campuses.

In a column on Monday entitled "Drunkenness and Double Standards," Taranto suggested the female college students are as guilty as their aggressors if they are sexually assaulted while intoxicated.

"If two drunk drivers are in a collision, one doesn't determine fault on the basis of demographic details such as each driver's sex," Taranto argued. "But when two drunken college students 'collide,' the male one is almost always presumed to be at fault. His diminished capacity owing to alcohol is not a mitigating factor, but her diminished capacity is an aggravating factor for him."'

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'As the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education notes, at some campuses the accuser's having had one drink is sufficient to establish the defendant's guilt:

Stanford's definition of consent to sex imposes a concept that is foreign to most people's idea of adult consent and inconsistent with California state law. Stanford policy states that sexual assault occurs "when a person is incapable of giving consent. A person is legally incapable of giving consent . . . if intoxicated by drugs and/or alcohol." In other words, any sexual activity while intoxicated to any degree constitutes sexual assault. This is true even if the activity was explicitly agreed to by a person capable of making rational, reasoned decisions, and even if the partners are in an ongoing relationship or marriage.

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'An Arizona woman jumped from the second-floor bedroom of a 15-year-old boy after his mother caught her cavorting naked with the teen last month, investigators report.

Keri Gonzalez, 34, broke her ankle when she crashed to the ground outside the residence in Marana, a town 30 miles northwest of Tucson.
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After gathering her clothes, Gonzalez exited via the window. The boy’s mother spotted Gonzalez “limping as she walked down the street away from the home,” deputies noted.

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'Given that zero allegations have been brought against Justice Thomas in his 23-year tenure on the Supreme Court and positive endorsements from his female staff, including Laura Ingraham, I think the Senate deeming Hill's testimony "inconclusive" was the appropriate decision. The released phone records indicating Anita Hill had, in fact, called Thomas several times after departing the EEOC raises the biggest doubt for her side of the story.

On March 14 of this year, nearly 23-years after the hearings, and 33-years after the alleged offense, the Tinseltown feminist elite will release a new documentary called Anita that will undoubtedly present Anita Hill as an unrequited saint, sacrificed before an altar of male dominance. The film's trailer and poster accompanied by the tagline "Speaking Truth to Power" confirms that speculation. ...
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By attempting to downplay the film’s obvious mission of discrediting the only black conservative Justice to ever serve on the Supreme Court, the feminist left has billed this "documentary" as an exposé on the hardships women face when bringing sexual harassment charges to light, as stated by Eboni Williams on Fox's Megyn Kelly last Thursday.

There is cause for skepticism. After all, these are the same women who howl at the moon over invisible "glass ceilings" of male hegemony and then proceed to railroad Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann in their run for higher office. Anita stems from their two-faced modus operandi - seeking to consolidate power for the feminist elite by libeling their (right-wing) male counterparts as "sexist" for defending and applauding men like Clarence Thomas. “Raise awareness for sexual harassment” usually means "raise awareness for sexual harassment by conservatives.”
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'Calling the practice a “war on women,” a female legislator wants to make what’s been called “female circumcision” a state crime.
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Her legislation would make a felon [sic] of anyone who not only performs the procedure on a girl younger than 18 but also anyone who tries to take a girl out of Arizona to have that done. SB 1342 would carry a presumptive prison term of seven years for a first offense and nearly 16 years for someone with two or more prior felony convictions.

And the measure, set for debate today before the Senate Judiciary Committee, includes a mandatory fine of at least $25,000.
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Burges said any comparison of the practice with more routine male circumcision, a practice mandated under Jewish law, is invalid.

“That usually is for cleanliness issues,” she said. “This is not.”

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'A male client of Your Community Connection recalls realizing his marriage was over.

That decision came after he was beaten with a pipe in front of his young son.

The middle-aged man said the most difficult part was turning to police and then to YCC for help because he was embarrassed for many reasons, including that he had allowed the situation to escalate.

Last week, YCC announced it is nearly two-thirds of the way to its goal of raising $1.5 million to add a separate wing, creating the state's first designated space as a domestic violence shelter for men.

"It is important that we get the message out that NO ONE should be abused," said Julee Smith, executive director of YCC. "I think those men that have asked for help are courageous. They know that something is wrong and needs to change."'

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'Members of the Boston University community collected over 1,000 signatures for a petition to defend BU’s wrestling program in a Save BU Wrestling cross-campus campaign Friday.

Since BU Athletics officials announced that the wrestling program would be cut after its 2013-14 season, BU students, alumni and supporters of the program across the country have banded together to protest the decision. The “Save BU Wrestling” Facebook page now has over 7,000 members.

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'The Philadelphia High School for Girls -- with its 1,100-plus spaces reserved for academically talented young women -- stands as a living monument to institutional sex discrimination. While former Superintendent Arlene Ackerman repeatedly professed her commitment to "ending inequity" in Philadelphia's public schools, she, incongruously, turned a blind eye to the manifest inequity of the District's operating a special admission, academically superior high school for girls without an equivalent school for boys. In its continued operation of Girls' High, the District is promoting a gender-based double standard of educational opportunity.

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'What is happening to young men?

The question may take you by surprise. Indeed, few things have been as under-reported as the way a rising generation of American men is failing in every important measurement, from obtaining a higher education to establishing a foothold in the labor market and taking responsibility for the children they father.

In his recent State of the Union Address, President Barack Obama spent a bit of time decrying a well-worn statistic that reportedly shows women in America earning 77 cents for every dollar earned by a man. This, he said, “is an embarrassment.”

But while it is true that women ought to be paid equally for the same work as men, the real embarrassment may be that the 77-cent figure is misleading.

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'Attorneys for a Naval Academy midshipman accused of sexually assaulting a classmate argued Monday that the academy's superintendent was pressured to prosecute the case — one of several claims the legal team is making in an effort to have the case dismissed.

Midshipman Joshua Tate is awaiting trial on charges of aggravated sexual assault and making false statements, stemming from an alleged assault at an April 2012 off-campus party.

The case has gained national attention, and at a motions hearing in military court at the Washington Navy Yard, Tate's attorneys said academy Superintendent Vice Adm. Michael H. Miller was influenced by military and political pressure when he made the decision to prosecute the midshipman.

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'Typical of all such churnings of the advocacy-government complex, the school-discipline and sexual-assault initiatives are drearily familiar, representing longstanding bureaucratic obsessions. But Obama’s announcement of his overstuffed sexual-assault task force for once did contain something new and noteworthy: a brief invocation of the chivalric ideal. Before examining that break from tradition, it’s worth reviewing the boilerplate that preceded it.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is accepting public comments on the Draft Guideline for the Prevention of Surgical Site Infections until 28 February 2014, presenting an opportunity for opponents of circumcision in the U.S. to archive practical arguments against continuation of the practice in the Federal Register.

The online comment box is limited to 5000 characters, but you can upload larger documents.

Doctors Opposing Circumcision (DOC) produced an excellent document about the risk to newly circumcised boys from Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus, here (scroll down to 'Statements'), which unfortunately hasn't been updated since 2008, but is still better than nothing.

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'Russian president Vladimir Putin has long been a target of Femen, the militant feminist group whose members remove their tops to protest against patriarchy and organized religion, and for LGBT rights.

Three members doffed their shirts in front of the Russian embassy in Berlin to reveal the slogan "Gulag Games" on their backs.

One of them left a lit torch on the sidewalk and threw a bottle at it.

She has been arrested, allegedly for "throwing a Molotov cocktail at the Russian embassy".'