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'Both were underclassmen at Alabama's Auburn University when a common acquaintance introduced them. "We instantly became attached at the hip and did everything together," she recalled six months later. "I rather quickly moved into his place. . . . Everything was great until pretty much June 29."

That night, an intimate encounter in Mr. Strange's bed went wrong. She called police, who detained him for questioning. She said she had awakened to find him forcing himself on her; he said the sexual activity was consensual and initiated by her. There was no dispute as to the physical acts involved.
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But the relationship soon disintegrated. Phone records show their communications ended in mid-August. In early September he was arrested again after she told police that two days earlier he had confronted her in a public place and struck her. He flatly denied it, saying he was 15 miles away at the time. This time she did press charges, for misdemeanor simple assault as well as for felony forcible sodomy in the June 29 incident.

Mr. Strange was cleared on both counts. On Feb. 3, 2012, a grand jury handed up a "no bill" indictment on the sodomy charge, meaning the evidence was insufficient to establish probable cause for prosecution. On May 24, when the simple-assault case went to trial, the accuser didn't show up. "I don't have a witness to go forward with, your honor," said city attorney Michael Short. Case dismissed.

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'For most conduct code violations, the burden of proof falls to the plaintiff, who must offer “clear and convincing” proof of guilt. Sexual misconduct cases require a preponderance of the evidence for action, meaning “it is more likely than not that the incident occurred,” according to the committee.

The preponderance of evidence standard was introduced in 2011, after the federal Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights circulated a “Dear Colleague” letter asking universities receiving federal funds to do so. The 19-page letter said the human consequences of sexual assaults and their tendency to be “vastly under-reported” meant such cases should be treated differently.

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'Counseling requirements were included in the sentence a Mattoon woman received after she admitted making a false claim of being raped in Douglas County in October.

The counseling evaluation was one of the terms of the two-year probation sentence that Kimberly M. Binnion received for pleading guilty to a charge of disorderly conduct.

Binnion, 32, first claimed she was raped by a man after she picked him up while he was hitchhiking in a rural location between Mattoon and Arcola on Oct. 12, according to the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office.

During the following week, the sheriff’s office announced that investigation didn’t support the her claims and she then admitted that she made the false report. Binnion was then charged with disorderly conduct, a felony offense, for allegedly making the false report of the crime.

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Eighty years -- that's about how long it took the state of Alabama to posthumously pardon the last three of nine men who were falsely accused and wrongly convicted of raping two white women on a train. They infamously were called the Scottsboro Boys, because the nine black men were just 12- to 19-years-old when they were arrested in 1931.

It turned out that the women, Ruby Bates and Victoria Price, had lied to police about the rapes. At one of the trials, Bates recanted her testimony, saying she had made it all up. Still, the all-white jury convicted the boys, one after another.

Forty-three years later, a similar story: This time it was Delbert Tibbs, who died recently of cancer. Tibbs spent nearly three years in prison in Florida after he was convicted in 1974 of a rape and murder that he had nothing to do with, according to the Florida Supreme Court.

Ancient history, you say? We've moved past those shameful days of unequal justice, you insist. Think again.

In 2012, according to the FBI, nearly 87,000 "forcible rapes" were reported. That's down 7% from the number of rapes reported in 2008. Law enforcement agencies estimate that the number of false rape accusations ranges from 2% to 8% annually, or between 2,000 and 7,000 cases each year.
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It seems more men who insist they have been falsely accused of rape are trying a new tactic: suing their accusers in civil court, mostly for defamation. They are seeking to repair their ruined lives, save their careers and clear their names. Make no mistake, I could never defend men who rape and believe even harsher penalties are needed for rapists. But I can understand why some men are opting to fight back. And I even agree with this strategy in some cases.

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'A member of a rural Colorado school board isn’t backing down from her comments at a recent meeting suggesting that transgendered boys should be castrated if they want to use the girls’ restroom.

“I’m taking a stand,” Delta School District 50J board member Kathy Svenson is reported as saying by the Denver Post. “It will not happen here without a change in plumbing.”

Colorado made headlines several months ago when the state Civil Rights Division ruled that students could use the restroom for whichever gender they identified with. The ruling was in the case of a 6-year-old who was born a male but who identifies as female.

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'Women and minorities have been overlooked and underpromoted by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, according to a letter written by eight faculty members who call for the return of former UNLV president Carol Harter as acting president because of her willingness to address these issues.
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The letter noted Harter’s “demonstrated commitment to forwarding the interests of women and other groups on campus whom we strongly believe have been largely overlooked in recent years, despite their increasing prominence in our student body and the larger community we serve.”

Fifty-five percent of UNLV’s students are women and 47 percent are minorities.

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'A Pennsylvania rabbi has been sued by the parents of the baby boy he circumcised on April 28 in a botched ceremony that caused a "catastrophic and life-changing injury," reports Trib Total Media. Rabbi Mordechai Rosenberg, an Orthodox mohel, or ritual circumciser, acted "with a total disregard" for the child, alleges the civil lawsuit brought by parents identified only by their initials, in order to protect the identity of their son.

Attorney Neil Rosen called the accident "unimaginable" but declined to elaborate on the nature of the injury. However, the baby was rushed to a Children's Hospital for "emergency reconstructive surgery and leech therapy," according to the lawsuit. Clinical pharmacist Carrie Sorenson told Trib Total Media that "leeches help a body accept reattached parts by promoting blood flow and tissue regeneration." The infant required several follow-up visits to the hospital.'

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'The European Central Bank is struggling to attract enough women to meet its self-imposed quotas for female staff in the first round of a hiring spree as it prepares to take on supervision of the continent’s largest banks next year.

The central bank has so far confirmed Daniele Nouy, previously in charge of France’s prudential supervisor, as the head of its Single Supervisory Mechanism.

But applications from women in the first round of hiring have fallen short of the ECB’s own targets for other senior and middle management positions, according to an official familiar with the hiring process, who did not specify by how much. Around 100 jobs have so far been advertised and have closed to new applications.'

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'With feministic values seeping into the core of our society, unconstitutional ‘family only’ areas, no recognition of domestic violence against men and reserved seats for women in the assemblies, Pakistan seems to be a feminist’s dream.

Out of the total 269 elected National Assembly seats, only eight are occupied by women. Yet, 68 women sit in the assembly, thanks to the 60 seats reserved for women. The oft-cited reason for this quota is to ensure that the assemblies, both national and provincial, represent the actual population of the country.

... A 2006 study by the University of Florida, one of the first to include psychological abuse in their findings, revealed that “women are more likely than men to stalk, attack and psychologically abuse their partners”. While this may not entirely be true in Pakistan, where an overwhelming majority of domestic violence victims are indeed women, it is not uncommon for men in the country to suffer from domestic violence too.

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'Is Harvard Law School — that liberal Utopia and bastion of political correctness — sexist?

A group of feminist students and alumni thinks so.

In a short film available online, a group calling itself the “Shatter the Ceiling” coalition claims that Harvard Law’s competitive climate is “hostile to women.”

“Hostile?” Maybe. But sexist or hostile to women, in particular? Please.
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When I was at HLS in the early 1990s, enormous classes and campus political polarization contributed to a feeling of alienation among male and female students alike. Students were intellectually challenged, but unhappy.

Then came Dean Elena Kagan (now on the U.S. Supreme Court), and much of what made Harvard Law so miserable began to change.

Kagan reduced class size, modernized the curriculum, and dramatically upgraded the infrastructure. Most important, she personally hosted numerous community-building events and made scholars and students of all political perspectives feel welcome. Students were happier.

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'In a just-published book, Defending Battered Women on Trial, University of Ottawa law professor Elizabeth Sheehy argues that chronically battered women should have a “statutory escape hatch” if they kill their male abusers pre-emptively rather than “live in anticipatory dread and hypervigilance.”

That is, battered women should be allowed to get away with statutory murder — killing their abuser not in spontaneous self-defence during a crisis, say, but premeditatedly killing the man in his sleep, an action that would incur a murder charge for anyone else. A number of sympathetic Canadian courts have already exonerated such women de facto. Sheehy would like the practice to be entrenched de jure.

From SAVE:

We've found the domestic violence industry is riddled with a nearly endless assortment of half-truths, misleading claims, and outright falsehoods. See http://www.saveservices.org/camp/truth/

On Dec. 18, the Washington Post's Fact Checker Glenn Kessler reported that this claim by AG Eric Holder can now be consigned to the dustbin of "damned lies:"

“Disturbingly, intimate partner homicide is the leading cause of death for African American women ages 15 to 45.”

In 2014, SAVE will be working to expose many more of these "noble lies."

This article shows the countries that score the hightest in math and science. Notice that so few -- hardly any -- are steeped in feminism. These are countries that value their men. Meanwhile, in the US, Sweden, Norway and so on, where they are no longer teaching rigorous math, where they are no longer teaching physics, where they are asking boys to study knitting, where they are devaluing the male gender... technology scores are dropping. I wonder if there is a connection? Countries that devalue men are fast losing their competitive edge. Excerpt:

'TOKYO -- The OECD's latest international student assessment shows that Asia continues to have some of the highest scoring students in the world when it comes to reading, mathematics and science.

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'Last year December, Ned Holstein wrote about the Newtown tragedy and Adam Lanza. With the continuing discussion and anniversary, we are running his article again. His points about fatherhood and family law reform remain pertinent to the discussion.
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After our tears dry for the twenty little darlings and seven others who were mowed down by Adam Lanza, we begin to ask “Why?”

There is always a dominant narrative to explain the unthinkable. Now it is mostly about the absence of effective gun controls, or about mental illness. Or, we hear about the effects of violence on television and video games.

We don’t hear about the effects of fatherlessness, especially on young men. We don’t hear that the most reliable predictor of crime is neither poverty nor race but growing up fatherless. We don’t hear that a large majority of violent criminals were fatherless. We don’t even hear that young male elephants go on violent rampages unless they are kept in line by the old bulls. ...'

Every now and then, I turn back to childhood and view a specific sequence of a specific movie: "Mary Poppins". Most people think it is about a magic lady.
Others think it is about women gaining suffrage (the wife in the story). But I have always felt the story comes to an emotional peak in this one sequence.

Sometimes men must learn what values most: their own families. Society expects and demands of men so much and many of my brothers let their lives pass them by. In this sequence, two men share the important lesson of life.

With that in mind, watch the sequence, note the return of the theme song "Spoonful of Sugar" and the recitative section without the accompaniment. Most of all, just watch the face of the father; the acting is perfection.