Article here. Excerpt:

'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."'

Link here. Excerpt:

'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.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'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.

Article here. Excerpt:

'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.

Story here. Excerpt:

'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.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'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.

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Story here. Excerpt:

'A popular 15-year-old student has committed suicide after he reportedly faced expulsion and could have been placed on the sex offenders' register simply for streaking at a high school football game.

Christian Adamek, from Huntsville, Alabama, hanged himself on October 2, a week after he was arrested for running naked across the Sparkman High football field during a game.

The teenager died two days later from his injuries and on Wednesday, friends and family gathered at a memorial service as they struggled to comprehend the beloved student's death.
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In Alabama, indecent exposure is linked to the state's sex offender laws, meaning that he could have found himself on the sex offenders register due to the streaking.

Campbell added that that the incident was not just a prank and needed to be treated seriously.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Steven Pagones is a former Assistant District Attorney in the State of New York. He became the victim of Al Sharpton’s defamatory smear campaign to label him a rapist of 15-year-old black girl Tawana Brawley in 1987. Now he speaks out at Truth Revolt. To help stop advertiser support for Sharpton, sign our petition:

Article here. Excerpt:

'Today is a very important day for all victims of domestic violence. Today marks the coming of age of the male domestic violence sector in the UK says Glen Poole of equality4men.

The MARS Conference Centre in Slough may seem like an unlikely place for a revolution brothers (and sisters), but that’s where dozens of men and women will be gathering today for the Second National Conference on Male Victims of domestic abuse, hosted by the charity The ManKind Initiative.

For those unfamiliar with the politics of the domestic violence sector let’s give you a bit of background. There is a global movement working to tackle the problem of domestic violence from a feminist perspective that is held together by the United Nations, the European Union and the public and charity sector at a national and local level.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'The article raises a rather interesting question. We’ve talked before about an educational system biased against boys. What if the spike in autism diagnoses is really that same discomfort with masculine behavior?

I’ve seen boys being routinely misdiagnosed as ADD and medicated for it just for being well… boys. But as problematic as randomly tossing Ritalin at inquisitive boys is... this is even more serious.
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The issue here isn’t communications. It’s an incompatible style of communications. And we’re seeing more and more of this in educational environments where the paradigm is shifting away from logical thinking and toward ostentatious shows of empathy.
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But in our Brave New World, we may be just medicating masculinity.

Last week, we made a difference. Last week, more than fifty people gathered outside Good Samaritan Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio to protest its circumcision clamp study... and people heard us.

• We know people heard us because they shouted their support—and, in some cases, their anger.
• We know people heard us because two different TV stations showed up to cover our press conference.
• We know people heard us because a hospital employee blogged about how our protest made circumcision a "major topic of conversation" among hospital staff.
• We know people heard us because the hospital released a statement in response to us.

Please take a moment to read my report from our protest—a protest which could not have happened without the support of thousands of intactivists like you. More than 6,400 people signed our letter (if you haven't signed it yet, it's not too late to add your name because we plan to send a second set later this year). And together we raised more than $10,000, with every penny going to our presence in Cincinnati.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Well, you may be thinking, there's no problem here. In the U.S. all girls have access to education, and girls even outnumber boys now in high school graduation rates and college enrollment. True enough. And there's no disputing that girls born in the U.S. have won the lottery of life compared to girls in poor and war-torn countries.

But despite our prosperity and universal education, we still have work to do. Girls are lagging far behind in science, math, and technology enrollment. It's a gender gap our country can't afford, and some innovative programs at lower levels are trying to overcome it early.

Two programs doing just that are Coastal Studies for Girls, which introduces junior high girls to marine science, and Girls Who Code which works to educate and inspire high school girls to go into computer science. Both are nurturing the female technology leaders of tomorrow.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'At my freshmen orientation, one memory stands out particularly clearly among the blur of a campus tour, class registration and endlessly awkward get-to-know-each-other activities. What I clearly remember is sitting down in a lecture hall to hear a presentation about the dangers of sexual assault on campus. The presenter shared the horrifying statistic that approximately one in four college women experience rape or an attempted rape. The guy sitting next to me took this moment to lean over and whisper his first words to me:

“Wow, I guess it sucks to be you!”

I sat there, relatively shocked that he made contact with me at all, but unsurprised by the statement itself. Yes, I thought, it does suck to be me.
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I get that it’s probably hard to see the truth when it doesn’t look good. “I’m not a rapist, so stop telling me that everyone with my gender is,” right? I imagine this is how the internal dialogue of men who are upset about a rape prevention course might sound.