Story here. Excerpt:

'A federal judge in Eugene ruled Thursday that Monica Emeldi hadn't provided enough evidence that sex discrimination and retaliation caused faculty to quit working with her, The Register-Guard reported.

The five-year case attracted national attention because the gender discrimination law known as Title IX was used in an academics case rather than athletics.

At the beginning of the lawsuit, a trial judge ruled Emeldi was not entitled to a trial, but an appeals court and then the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that she was.

A jury was seated Monday and heard Emeldi's case Tuesday and Wednesday. On Thursday, Judge Michael McShane ruled against her.
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She said she complained in a 2007 memorandum and in a meeting about discrimination in the UO College of Education. There weren't enough high-ranking female professors, she contended, and her adviser seemed to favor male students.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Immigrant rights and feminist organizations are coming together in an attempt to reframe immigration as a women’s issue, which they hope will redefine the fight over changing the nation’s immigration laws.

So far, the groups have sought to influence immigration legislation in the Senate, undertaken large-scale demonstrations and united national women’s groups.

And even as chances of an immigration overhaul have faded in recent weeks, their efforts have mobilized women across the country.

Story here. Excerpt:

'Citing costs and Title IX compliance, Temple [link added] announced Friday that it will cut seven sports—including baseball—after the 2013-14 academic year.

Five men’s sports (baseball, crew, gymnastics, outdoor track & field and indoor track & field) plus two women’s sports (softball and rowing) will be eliminated, bringing the school’s total from 24 to 17 varsity sports. The decision is a result of a seven-month analysis of Temple’s athletics situation.

“Temple does not have the resources to equip, staff and provide a positive competitive experience for 24 varsity sports,” Temple vice president and director of athletics Kevin Clark said in a release. “We need to have the right-sized program to create a sustainable model for Temple University Athletics moving forward.”

Team co-captain Matt Hockenberry, a senior righthander, tweeted after hearing the news, “I’m physically and emotionally shattered. Thanks for the support everyone.”'

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Story here. Excerpt:

'Here's a guy who's not ashamed to let everyone know how he feels about penises.

This truck with the "NOCIRCM" license plate was spotted this morning in Phoenix, along the Loop 202 Red Mountain Freeway.

Adding to it all, the vanity license is on the "It Shouldn't Hurt to be a Child" plate.

And the guy driving had four anti-circumcision bumper stickers on his truck, featuring phrases such as, "Circumcision: A Cruel Ripoff."

(He was also driving about 60 miles per hour in the center lane of a 65 mph zone; what the hell, man?)

There's nothing wrong with having an opinion on circumcision, but there's a wonderful saying out there about some opinions being best kept to yourself.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'MIchelle Mills was as impeccably groomed as she was well mannered. Her nails were neatly manicured; her blonde hair sleek. Her gentle nature and diminutive, 4 ft 11 in stature seemed perfectly suited to her career as a children's nursery worker.

But Michelle's pleasant demeanour masked an altogether more disturbing personality. Behind closed doors she was a volatile character, prone to irrational behaviour and violent outbursts, as her boyfriend Edward Miller would discover.

Michelle subjected Edward to an onslaught of abuse. He was scratched, punched and screamed at until one morning Michelle, brandishing a kitchen knife, stabbed him to death in the living room of their picturesque cottage in the pretty village of Scalford, Leicestershire.

The attack was so ferocious that that the knife blade broke away from the handle. In April, Michelle was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'Gainesville-area men will be asked on Saturday to join efforts to eradicate domestic violence at a rally that also launches a group called M.O.B., or Men on Board Against Domestic Violence.
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"If (most) domestic violence victims are women, that means the men are the perpetrators, so how do we stop this," Hickmon said. "We need men speaking men's language to talk about domestic violence."

Duncan said he is involved with M.O.B. because he knows there are a lot of young men who have been raised without fathers in the home and who have witnessed domestic violence and domestic abuse.

"As a result, they have patterned their behavior after that, and when they enter into relationships with young women, they don't know how to respect a woman and they resort to the behavior they are familiar with to resolve issues," Duncan said.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Sandberg, who is on the board of The Walt Disney Co., ABC’s parent company, presented Clinton with the “Champion of Peace Award.” Matching the evening’s theme of Stronger Women, Stronger Nations, Clinton emphasized the impact of advancing the rights of women and girls around the world.

“You cannot have real peace and security if you marginalize and exclude women,” said Clinton. “You cannot have decent, just societies if you abuse women. You cannot move on a path to democracy and open economies if you isolate and marginalize half the population. For some that was self-evident, others have had their eyes opened over the past 20 years.”

Story here. Excerpt:

'An online app that allows women to rate men anonymously has caused an outcry in Brazil, leaving one man so offended that he is suing the creators.

Lulu, a women-only app, was launched a fortnight ago and has already overtaken Facebook and the instant messaging service Whatsapp as the most downloaded app in Brazil.

Using Facebook to access men's profiles, it allows women to rate them on character, appearance and sexual performance using fixed hashtags.

There were one million ratings made in the first week alone.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'It took a jury less than 30 minutes to decide Sara Ylen is guilty of filing a false felony report and tampering with evidence.

The 38-year-old Lexington woman told police two men broke into her Lexington home and sexually assaulted her Sept. 18, 2012.

Witnesses testified to prior acts of false accusations of sexual assault by Ylen, as well as bruises that appeared to be made out of makeup.

James Grissom served nearly 10 years in prison after being convicted in 2003 of raping Ylen in a Meijer parking lot in 2001.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'While Grade 5 girls in Alberta have had the option of recieving the HPV-fighting vaccine Gardasil since 2008 in school-wide immunization programs, boys will be included in Sept 2014.

Boys from Grades 5 to 9 will receive the vaccine in September — 32,000 Grade 5 students and 15,000 Grade 9 boys.

Gardasil, a vaccine touting protection against four strains of human papilloma virus — including two which account for 70% of cervical cancer — was approved in 2006.

At the time, it was given the green light for females ages nine to 26.

“Research suggests that immunizing both boys and girls against HPV will mean better protection for everyone,” said Dr. Joan Robinson, infectious diseases pediatrician with the University of Alberta.
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In 2006 when the shot was approved, critics questioned why the vaccine was pushed through without long-term studies.'

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'Charged with a felony murder count, Norma Patricia Esparza says she played no part in the killing of her alleged rapist.'

A story dated Nov. 23, 2013 also discusses the case. Excerpt:

'She was charged with one felony count of special circumstances murder, which carries a lifetime sentence without the possibility of parole. Her ex-boyfriend, Gianni Anthony Van and two others, Shannon Gries and Diane Tran, have also been charged. They have all pleaded not guilty.
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Esparza claims she met Ramirez at a Santa Ana nightclub in March 1995 and the next morning he asked her to breakfast along with her sister and a school friend. After he drove her and her friend back to school, she says Ramirez raped her in her dorm room. Esparza, who was 20 at the time, didn't report the rape to authorities.
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When she later told Van about the rape, he was "enraged." Van took her back to the nightclub to look for Ramirez. "[Van was] insisting, yelling, telling me that I had to point out the rapist," she testified.

Van, Gries, and Kody Tran (who died in a shootout with police last year), planned to beat Ramirez up and took him to a transmission shop owned by Tran while Esparza and Gries's then-girlfriend, Julie Ann Rojas, went to a bar and waited for an hour, according to Esparaza.

Esparza said that she later saw Ramirez tied and hanging from the ceiling in the shop.
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Esparza married Van later that year, but she says she did it because she feared for her life and was told that if she married him she couldn't be forced to testify against him.
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But after learning of their divorce in 2004, Santa Ana police pursued an arrest warrant, the San Luis Obispo Tribune reports.
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Story here. Excerpt:

'Topless women from the Femen feminist movement* [NSFW] on Sunday urinated on photos of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych in Paris to condemn a crackdown on protesters angry about his rejection of a key EU deal.

Five women from the group gathered in front of the Ukrainian embassy in the morning, bared their breasts and then took off their knickers to defile the photographs they placed on the sidewalk.

The slogan "Yanukovych piss off!" was painted on their torsos. They then left and there were no arrests.

The protest came after policemen armed with truncheons broke up a 1,000-strong protest in Kiev on Saturday calling for Yanukovych's resignation after he suspended work on a trade and partnership agreement with the European Union that had been years in the making.
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Femen is a Ukrainian group whose members have drawn attention worldwide with nude stunts targeting a range of political and religious figures, including Italy's Silvio Berlusconi and Putin.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'A mob of pro-abortion feminists attacked a Catholic cathedral in San Juan, Argentina, assaulting the men who stood in front of it praying, and finally burning an effigy of Pope Francis.

Citing Argentinian news sources, LifeSite News reported that video footage had been taken of a mob of angry women, many of them topless, harassing the men who stood in front of the cathedral to protect it, reciting prayers. The men did not retaliate as the women drew Hitler mustaches on their faces with marker, spray painted their faces, clothes and crotch areas, and sexually harassed them.
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Police were not on hand at the time. They reportedly told media they couldn’t intervene because the protesters were women.

The incident took place on Nov. 24, Argentina’s National Women’s Encounter, held annually to bring together Argentinean feminists. It is sponsored by the Department of Culture as a social interest event.'

Letter here. Excerpt:

'Democrat Assemblyman Reed Gusciora shows his socialist, tyrannical big government tendencies. His sponsoring of legislation for a domestic violence registry is typical of tyrants acting for the “best interests” of the people, despite U.S. Supreme Court rulings that “the state owes no duty to protect residents from each other.”

His domestic violence registry to protect women is a farce and a fraud. More than 40 percent of domestic violence occurs against men, but the state Legislature is run by radical feminists, who criminally extort all taxpayers’ monies to fund their suspect domestic abuse programs. This is discrimination, Equal Protection violations, and taxpayer fraud.

In many divorce cases, men are falsely arrested and removed from their homes and children on false domestic violence because judges and police claim they have to “err on the side of caution” — and don’t want to see their names in the newspapers if something goes wrong. But, how many women go to jail for perjury for making false domestic abuse claims? Zero.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'Tom Acton, 16, died in hospital three days after being found in a critical condition in his bedroom having self harmed with a blade just days before he was due to testify at the trial of one of his tormentors.

The rumour began circulating in the local area and on Facebook and resulted in mobs of angry youths targeting him in the street and turning up at the family's front door saying they wanted to kill him and "get rid of the vermin."

Tom, from Poynton, Cheshire went to live with his grandmother temporarily but after he returned was beaten up and grabbed by a teenager who shouted at him: "Apparently you strapped someone to a tree and raped them and took pictures. You are dead."
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He described the bullying campaign mounted by one of Greenwood's friends saying: "He started rumours that I'd raped girls. It boils down to the fact that I got on better with girls and he didn't like it.