Article here. Excerpt:

'The economist served two months in prison after her defence that she was coerced by her husband Chris Huhne to take his speeding points failed.

Ms Pryce was first sent to Holloway Prison before she was transferred to an open prison and said she came across a lot of women who had “taken the rap for what others had done” and felt prison was not the best place for them.

Ms Pryce, 61, wrote a book - Prisonomics - about her experience of her incarceration and subsequent two months on tag at her home in London.

She told the Mail on Sunday: “What really did it was talking to the women in Holloway and realising they were there mostly because of some thing their husbands, brothers, fathers, had done.'

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'A social worker who admits to having sex with three teenage boys being held at the Butler County Juvenile Rehabilitation Center will spend the next 90 days in jail, a sentence that delighted her defense team.

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'While Norway’s election handed power to a coalition led by women, Scandinavia’s richest economy is reserving its top corporate jobs and biggest pay checks for men.
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While research is unclear on why more women have made it into the Norwegian public sector versus corporations, Clemet said women are reluctant to go into the private sector because those jobs aren’t amenable to family life.

“Women are choosing this more than they are hitting a glass ceiling,” she said. Women prefer jobs with flexible routines and the option for part-time work, something the public sector can offer, she said.

About 43 percent of women in Norway work part-time, compared to 13 percent of men, according to Statistics Norway.'

Article here.

'Researchers performing a clinical study on over 800 African American men found that circumcision does not prevent STIs (sexually transmitted infections). The most important factor was the number of sexual partners.

Researchers say their results throw into question commonly held beliefs about the connection between circumcision and STIs, which they say are largely based on extrapolations from studies performed on men in Africa. These African studies and their policy implications, which includes the recent reversal of the American Academy of Pediatrics' circumcision policy statement, were widely criticized by a consortium of doctors and human rights organizations.

Last week we announced that during DV Awareness Month our Truth Team is taking a look at the accuracy of VAWA-funded groups' Fact Sheets. This week we're giving you the results of our first review.

Even though hundreds of peer-reviewed studies show that men and women engage in partner aggression at similar rates, the National Network to End Domestic Violence never mentions this fact in their "Fact Sheet." There are many other factual errors, as well.

We wonder how the NNEDV can remain so unaware, when the news features horrifying stories of women dismembering their ex-husbands, and cases like Jodi Arias who fatally stabbed her boyfriend nearly 30 times.

We believe that your hard-earned tax dollars should be paying for accuracy. Contact the NNEDV and ask them to update their Fact Sheet.

Contact NNEDV:

Article here. Excerpt:

'There's a pretty leveling quote of Germaine Greer's: "Women have no idea how much men hate them." It's the kind of quote that not only knocks you ass-backwards but continues to unfurl in front of you, because the volume it speaks is only really matched by the layers in which it's applicable.

It puts to scope the intrinsic nature in which men have pathologically policed nearly, if not every, level of their interaction and communication with women. I am not even talking about violence toward women and the horrifying way this manifests in our daily news cycles because at that level, yes, we get it, you fucking hate us. Otherwise why go to such lengths as to physically wipe us out -- it's loud and clear, buddy. I'm talking about the instances of subtle, psychological manipulation that have the capacity to cause someone to constantly question their mode of thought, feeling, and the way in which this relates to the entire scope of every day life. So, a pretty big thing.
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Long are we told that when things go awry in relationships the default blame shifts to women. Not even on the appalling, actually sociopathic level of victim blaming, but in subtle ways that are easy to miss if you're not hyper aware. And face it when "hyper aware" has become your default it just makes you realize even that is not enough. I had a boyfriend who cheated on me and much later, after the relationship ended and the emotional trash had been taken out, I got into a conversation in which the gist was "women make bad decisions" and relied very heavily on me not being able to foresee that this would happen to me being the framework of that logic.
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'This important leader handles the debt crisis with grace, navigating expertly between austerity and growth. The leader's opponents grumble, more out of jealousy than genuine opposition, and loyal supporters hail the leader as a hero. The leader's popularity soars; re-election is not in question. Meanwhile, unemployment is at an all-time low, and the leader's nation is looking like its own island of prosperity, a beacon to a suffering continent.

Article here. Excerpt:

'By the time a child blows out the candles on their fourth birthday cake, they have already decided which jobs are for men and which are for women. Boys are fire fighters or builders, girls are nurses or teachers.

Tragically, children’s books and TV programmes, as well as many parents and school teachers, inadvertently reinforce these socially constructed identities due to their own lack of understanding and preconceptions.

Alarmingly a miniscule six per cent of practicing engineers in the UK are women, according to the Women's Engineering Society.

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'WOMEN in the county have been getting to grips with a traditionally male pastime by rooting around under car bonnets.

A girls-only car maintenance course proved a big hit when it came to Gloucester.
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"We had the chance to change the brake fluid and the course involved hands-on demonstrations, which made it easier to learn.

"The assistant taught us what to do if we ever broke down, which thankfully has not happened to me."

The lady drivers also learned how to change a tyre.

Samantha said the women-only idea was a winner, and that with the attendees being all female, she felt they had a greater opportunity to learn.

"It was nice to have just women at the course because men can sometimes take over," she said.

"My partner usually looks after the car and its maintenance, but this has improved my confidence."'

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'When many of the world’s 850 million girls go to sleep tonight, they will dream about futures that sadly –tragically–are nearly impossible for them to achieve.

In too many countries, the promise of the next generation of girls is at risk. In too many communities, the contributions of girls are not valued, their well-being is not protected, and their aspirations are not taken seriously.

As the father of two daughters, I know that is unacceptable. ...
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Thanks to a number of global partnerships and programs led by the State Department, like TechGirls and NeXXt Scholars – and great USAID programs like Safe Schools – we have made important progress. Today, more and more girls are enrolling in school in Afghanistan, and fewer and fewer girls are victims of female genital mutilation in Africa. But our work is far from over.'

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'A young woman allegedly stripped to lure her ex-boyfriend's brother into her bedroom so her new flame could stab him to death, slit his throat and decapitate him, Chicago prosecutors said Sunday.

Daisy Gutierrez, 19, got her father, Salvador Gutierrez, 56, to help hide the mutilated body in his back yard, according to investigators.

She dismembered the body and tossed the parts into plastic bags that she buried in holes dug by her dad, police said. Daisy Gutierrez and her boyfriend reportedly fled to New Jersey the next day.'

Article originally posted here. But, looks like the editors thought it was too rad even for today's college climate. Reading it here from the Google cache, I'd say that's true. Seems the author just plain despises heterosexual men, despite what he says, especially if they're in a college fraternity. I'll simply point out that fraternity characters as a whole are comprised of an aggregate of their members' characters, just as with sororities or any other student group. It seems the author, who I bet has never been in a fraternity, is doing a lot of generalizing. Excerpt:

'The rape culture existent on college campuses and in society as a whole is something I refuse to engage in. Nor will I participate in objectifying women as a commodity for heterosexual men to use, abuse and excuse as they wish. Objectification leads to dehumanization, which in turn leads to sexual violence being normalized since women are seen as objects instead of humans deserving of respect. This is rape culture.

The students at this campus, specifically the men—oh, excuse me, I meant boys—definitely have some growing up to do. Self-evaluation is key. The golden rule says one should do unto others as they would want done unto themselves. It is called empathy, and students should practice it on a regular basis. Frat bros who regularly objectify women and toe the lines of consent should especially consider the part they play in rape culture.

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'3. Getting men involved in the “Vagina Monologues” to talk about healthy sexual relationships.

Eve Ensler’s Vagina Monologues, a play that explores women’s sexuality and emphasizes sexual assault prevention, is typically performed by all-female casts on college campuses. This year, Connecticut College decided to get men involved, too. They’re hoping to spark a broader conversation about men’s relationships to women’s bodies, healthy sexual experiences, and ending rape. A group of over 80 men on campus discuss those topics in a video, which campus activists plan to release at the end of October.

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'A TEENAGER has spoken of his nine-month hell in jail awaiting trial after being accused of rape and kidnap.

Daniel Rakestraw was freed on Tuesday after being cleared by a jury of tying a 16-year-old girl to his bed and attacking her.

The jury took just 30 minutes to clear him of four charges of rape, one of kidnap and another of imprisonment.

The 19-year-old, from Revidge Road, Blackburn, said he was abused by other prisoners and put in isolation for his own safety during his stay in HM Prison Preston.

He had been told no bail hostel could be found for him.

He said: “It was horrible. I wasn’t treated like I was innocent, I was treated like any other prisoner.'

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'Experts from France's Center for National Monuments (CMN) yesterday handed President Francois Hollande a report recommending he nominate illustrious women only for burial in the nation's Pantheon. Currently, the report pointed out, there is no gender equality in the national mausoleum containing the remains of distinguished French citizens, designed by Neoclassical architect Jacques-Gabriel Soufflot in the mid-1700s.

Of the 70 or so distinguished French citizens buried there - including Voltaire and Rousseau, Hugo and Zola, Dumas and Jean Jaures - just two are women: Nobel prize-winning scientist Marie Curie, who is buried next to her husband Pierre, and 19th-century scientist Sophie Berthelot, who is only there on "conjugal virtue": she died just hours before her scientist and politician husband Marcellin, and the two had asked never to be parted.