Article here. Excerpt:

'When I started following the research on child well-being about two decades ago, the focus was almost always girls' problems — their low self-esteem, lax ambitions, eating disorders and, most alarming, high rates of teen pregnancy. Now, though, with teen births down more than 50% from their 1991 peak and girls dominating classrooms and graduation ceremonies, boys and men are increasingly the ones under examination. Their high school grades and college attendance rates have remained stalled for decades. Among poor and working-class boys, the chances of climbing out of the low-end labor market — and of becoming reliable husbands and fathers — are looking worse and worse.

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'The University of Fraser Valley [link added] has a problem. Not with violence, since records show that UFV is a rather safe campus. No, the problem is in deciding who, in those brief and isolated punctuations of time when violence occurs, should be safe from violence. Should UFV adopt an approach that does not exclude its students on the basis of sex, race, and so forth? Or should it adopt the position that some groups are more worthy of safety than others?

They have chosen the latter. According to an interview by local radio station Star FM:
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Leonard says security patrols the campuses in Abbotsford and Chilliwack 24/7 and you can call them to walk you to your vehicle. He also says at the Abbotsford campus the lots closest to the main doors of building A are reserved for women only in the evening.

Director of Security Brian Leonard’s email address is brian.leonard-at-ufv.ca. Please direct your dissent toward him.
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A quick trip to the parking page on the university’s website (which I have screenshotted in case they take it down) shows the same same diamond-shaped red and yellow signs, and explicitly states that it has a section for women-only parking:
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Article here. Excerpt:

'About five years ago, Peg Tyre, a long-time education journalist, wrote a book called The Trouble With Boys which discussed why boys were not being served well in today’s public schools. Christina Hoff Sommers wrote a similar book, entitled The War on Boys: How Misguided Feminism is Harming Our Young Men. Other books have been written on the topic as well. About a year ago the Westchester County Psychological Association had Ms. Tyre give a presentation, along with David Greene, a retired Scarsdale High School teacher, regarding what they have observed as the education system has changed throughout the years. Much of what they said stuck with me, and has influenced my work with youngsters.'

Link here. Excerpt:

'Boys are 14 percent more likely than girls to be born prematurely, and preterm boys have a greater risk of disability and death than preterm girls, new research finds.

These disabilities range from learning problems, blindness or deafness, to motor problems such as cerebral palsy, according to the authors of six studies published in the journal Pediatric Research in advance of World Prematurity Day on Nov. 17.

"Baby boys have a higher likelihood of infections, jaundice, birth complications and congenital conditions, but the biggest risk for baby boys is due to preterm birth," research team leader Dr. Joy Lawn, a professor and neonatologist and epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in England, said in a journal news release.
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However, the study authors pointed out, preterm girls are more likely than boys to die in the first month of life in some countries where girls receive less nutrition and medical care than boys.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'While the campaign refers to all individuals who are victimized, talk of domestic abuse still focuses on adult female victims. That trend is slowly changing as the government, aid agencies and society begin to recognize other victims.

The least discussed group, says men’s rights activists, is men. It is a politically charged topic as adult males are also seen as the main perpetrators of abuse. Toronto social worker Adam McPhee says that doesn’t mean male victims can be ignored.

McPhee is employed at a Toronto AIDS counselling centre and an emergency drop-in shelter. He is also a spokesperson for the Canadian Association for Equality (CAFE).

CAFE says its mandate is universal equality, but that it is focused on male well-being at a time when men are suffering from disproportionate rates of suicide, poor educational performance and legal bias.

CAFE has also been accused of being a hate group. Protestors forced it to call off a presentation at the University of Toronto in November 2012.

Articlee here. Excerpt:

'Four years ago, psychologist Leonard Sax (MD, PhD) wrote a well-received book titled “Boys Adrift.” The doctor tried to answer the question, why have so many young males fallen into passivity and indifference?

Dr. Sax had heard more and more parents complain that their boys stayed indoors most of the time, spent hours on video games, and in general seemed to lack the confidence and esprit de corps that had characterized boys throughout history.

“Something scary is happening to boys today,” Sax concluded. “From kindergarten to college, American boys are, on average, less resilient and less ambitious than they were a mere twenty years ago. The gender gap in college attendance and graduation rates has widened dramatically.”

The book’s full title is, “Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men.” Sax lists the five factors right on the cover: “video games, teaching methods, prescription drugs, environmental toxins, devaluation of masculinity.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Navy SEALs may have killed Osama bin Laden, but women led them to their prey.

Women made up the majority of analysts – at one point all the analysts -- in “Alec Station,” the unit charged with finding Bin Laden, managed the ramp-up at the CIA's Counter Terrorism Center after 9-11, and participated in the interrogation, and the waterboarding, of al Qaeda suspects. They were critical to the first capture of a major al Qaeda target, Abu Zubaydah; helped find and kill Abu Musab al Zarqawi, the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq; ran "black sites," the secret CIA prisons used to interrogate terror suspects; and in the case of two senior analysts, died in an attack by al Qaeda on a CIA compound in Afghanistan.
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Some of Moore’s male colleagues are more effusive. In a speech this January, former CIA Director Michael Hayden said an "incredible band of sisters” led the search for Osama. Michael Scheuer, who ran “Alec Station,” told Newsweek last year that, “If I could have put out a sign on the door that said ‘No men need apply,’ I would have done it.”
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Whatever the intangibles, even two years before 9-11, all the staffers in "Alec Station" except Scheuer were female. After 9-11, women were involved in setting up the earliest "black sites,” and participated in the controversial interrogations themselves. Officials told NBC News that both Zubaydah and ”KSM” -- Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the 9-11 mastermind -- were interrogated by women, sometimes with the aid of "enhanced interrogation techniques," including waterboarding, the simulated drowning technique since outlawed.

Article here. Excerpt:

'A taxi company in Australia plans to introduce "pink taxis' which will be driven by women and only available to female passengers, saying women feel less safe with male drivers.

The company behind the scheme, Taxi Link, said it was concerned a the series of night-time sexual assaults and believed some women felt uncomfortable in taxis, which are predominantly driven by men. The scheme will allow women to request a female driver when booking a cab.
"From a safety point of view, I think women feel more at ease with women," the company's director, Harry Katsiabanis, told The Herald Sun.

"We are trying to create a more comfortable environment, an environment that will be more readily used than the current one."
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"I think women are more caring and I think that they've got a more gentle demeanour than most men, so I think they'll cope well [with] the stress and pressures of traffic in Melbourne," he said.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Vince Cable has warned that Britain's lack of female engineers is causing "enormous problems", as a government review calls for concerted action to address the dearth of women in the profession.

In a review published on Monday as part of Tomorrow's Engineers week, the government's chief scientific adviser for business, Prof John Perkins, makes 22 recommendations to boost Britain's engineering industry, including new vocational qualifications, stronger links between industry and education, and more help for professionals returning to the industry after a career break.

The lack of female engineers across disciplines from computer science to chemistry is a focus of the review. The UK has the lowest percentage of female engineering professionals in Europe, at less than 10%, while Latvia, Bulgaria and Cyprus lead the continent with nearly 30%.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Lost in the flurry of press coverage of ObamaCare’s intended expansion of mental health care coverage is the reality that suicide-prevention programs typically focus on the elderly, teenagers and young adults, historically the most suicide-prone populations. These programs haven’t adapted to realities of the new economy. This means tailoring prevention efforts to resonate with middle-aged Americans, particularly men, who are conditioned to equate their self-worth with their jobs and stifle outward signs of vulnerability.
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... Men ages 35 to 64 commit suicide at a rate of 27.3 per 100,000, compared to a rate of 8.1 among women. And the annual economic cost of suicides is some $34 billion, according to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.'

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The head of UCAS warns that men risk being turned into an under-represented group on university campuses because of the gulf in applications between the sexes.
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By 2025, the gulf in access between men and women will actually be more pronounced than that seen between deprived and wealthy students.

Mrs Curnock Cook said the “very worrying difference between application rates for men and women” should now be treated as an “important widening participation issue” in its own right.

“Women are a third more likely to apply for higher education,” she said. “In fact, our report last year showed we've got to the stage where more women are entering higher education than men are applying and the gap is getting wider.”

Research by UCAS showed that some 30 per cent of 18-year-old men applied to university straight from school or college in 2012, while 24.6 per cent were admitted.

For women, 40 per cent applied and 32.5 per cent were given places.'

Article here. Well the big case this summer is over and it was a non-case. The officer did not grope the woman. But when you read it, make sure to be calm before reading this one shocking sentence: "What else would cause such a reaction?" from the woman, Steele asked the jury. Excerpt:

'An Air Force officer who once led the branch's sexual assault response team was acquitted Wednesday of allegations that he groped a woman outside a Virginia bar.

A seven-member jury deliberated about an hour after hearing closing arguments in the misdemeanor assault case against Lt. Col. Jeffrey Krusinski, 42, of Arlington. His arrest fueled a national furor over sexual abuse in the military and whether top brass take the issue seriously.

A 23-year-old woman testified that Krusinski grabbed her backside on May 5 outside the Crystal City bar.

When it comes to advocating for abuse victims, we believe in telling the truth. But there are others who that think there is absolutely nothing wrong with making outrageous claims to advance an agenda.

One of those people is Jennifer Hammat, Title IX coordinator for the University of Texas.

While being interviewed for The Daily Texan, Hammat made the statement, "We should be seeing 12,500 cases a year," while discussing unreported sexual assaults of students.

Seriously, Jennifer? 250-300 rapes or sexual assaults per week, just on your campus? PARENTS, GET YOUR KIDS OFF THE UT CAMPUS!!!

Ms. Hammat is exaggerating, of course. Her campus doesn't have 15% of all of the rapes and sexual assaults in the country. But that lie was for a good cause, right?

Tell Jennifer Hammat, "Fear Mongering Doesn't Stop Rape" Here's her email address: j.hammat-at-austin.utexas.edu

Article here. Excerpt:

'It appears David Schorr is going to have his parenting time diminished for refusing to be a Disneyland Dad.

His son, with gratitude to a court-appointed psychiatrist and Mom, has learned how to get his way, how to play his parents against each other, and that he is in charge.

On his Tuesday dinner night with his four-year old son, his son threw a tantrum to manipulate Dad into taking him to McDonald’s. Dad held firm and told his son that they would eat a healthy dinner at the neighborhood cafe, or not eat.

Schorr’s son taught him a lesson by refusing to eat. Mom and the family courts are using this incidence to trample Dad and diminish his parenting time. First by Mom taking their son to McDonald’s when he was returned to her. Second, by the court-appointed psychiatrist, Marilyn Schiller, deeming Schorr, “wholly incapable of taking care of his son.” With this, Schorr’s meager parenting time may be cut by the New York family courts.'

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'Norway’s Health Ministry is considering a proposal on regulating the circumcision of boys. Some political parties are calling on a complete ban of the practice on minors, a possibility that would affect Jewish and Muslim communities.

Two years ago, the ministry was tasked with reviewing circumcision and how it should be practiced in Norway. It is yet to finalize its stance, but intends to submit its legislative proposal before Easter next year, Health Minister Bent Hoie told Aftenposten, Norway’s largest newspaper.

The issue was brought to public attention after the resent call by Norway Children’s Ombudswoman Anne Lindboe to ban circumcision of boys before age 16, unless the procedure is warranted by medical needs.