Article here. Excerpt:

'Nearly two years ago, a concerned mother and father from Fox Chapel decided they'd had enough of boys playing on girls high-school field hockey teams.

Mary and Jim Grenen had watched as their daughter, Allison, and her Fox Chapel High teammates competed against boys who were bigger, faster and stronger. And the Grenens, as attorneys who work out of a high-rise in downtown Pittsburgh, felt they had the proper credentials to emerge as instruments of change.

Tuesday, their work in joining hands with the PIAA [Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association] to bring their case in front of the Commonwealth Court in Harrisburg paid off.

Judge B. Kevin Brobson issued an opinion that freed the PIAA -- which had been handcuffed by a decades-old injunction -- to examine writing a new policy or bylaw that would bar boys from playing on girls teams.'

This story appeared today. Excerpt:

'WANT to know how to get your boyfriend to propose to you? Buying a positive pregnancy test for $20 may be the answer.

In what may be a troubling new trend, dailydot.com reports pregnant women across America are selling used pregnancy tests online with the sales pitch unmarried women can use the tests to trick their boyfriends into marriage.

A number of women across the country have offered positive pregnancy tests for sale - supply numbers, endless - on the site Craigslist.

One expectant mother in New York State is selling used testing sticks for $25 each, saying she's been asked so many times, she had decided to start charging and "I don't care what you use them for, not my business".

Another mother has a more direct sales hook: 'Wanna get your boyfriend to finally pop the question? Play a trick on mom, dad or one of your friends?"'

Men beware, and don't believe a positive test.

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'Marianna, Florida (CNN) - This weekend, Florida will begin digging into its tragic past as anthropologists start unearthing what they believe are the remains of dozens of children buried on the grounds of a former reform school.

The exhumations at the Dozier School for Boys -- which closed in 2011 -- are the culmination of years of controversy surrounding the reform school and a mythology that has taken on a life of its own.

Rightly or wrongly, the Florida Panhandle town of Marianna -- just west of Tallahassee -- has become synonymous with the school and its dark past.

Some of those who were once sent to Dozier -- now senior citizens -- have come forward with stories of abuse at the school, including alleged beatings, torture, sexual abuse, killings and the disappearance of students, during the 1940s, '50s and '60s.'

Story here. Brian Banks was falsely accused of rape. But now he has failed to secure a permanent spot on an NFL team due to lost years of training while in jail. I think men should go to such websites and post their support for Brian as a statement of compassion. We men do not bond well and this could be an opportunity to show some compassion. Maybe even find a way to email him directly. Excerpt:

'The NFL dreams of Brian Banks, who was exonerated last year after being wrongfully convicted of rape, were cut short when he failed to earn a spot on the Atlanta Falcons' 53-man roster, according to the football team's website.

Banks got the ax on Friday along with 10 other players, the Atlanta Falcons reported. The 28-year-old rookie linebacker had been signed to the team as a free agent in April, and had said playing in the pre-season was "one of the best moments of my life."

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'LAKEWOOD, Colo. - Lakewood police have arrested the 73-year-old wife of an 83-year-old man who was severely beaten in his home and later died.

Police said they responded to a call of a domestic dispute in on W. Warren Drive and S. Moore Court just before 11 a.m. Wednesday.

Upon arrival, they found Carol Weigum outside the house and found her husband, Wallace "Wally" Weigum inside the house. He was rushed to a local hospital where he died later that afternoon.'

Review here. Yes, you'll find all these jobs are stereotypically "male-dominated", dirty, dangerous, and some pay relatively little for the risks involved, yet despite the "male-dominated" nature of them, you'll *never* catch feminists insisting there needs to be an affirmative action program to get more women into these jobs.

Proclamation here. Excerpt:

Article here. Takes on the teacher-student sexual relations issue to suggest that gee, as long as it's consensual, it isn't that bad. Makes no mention of the double-standards around male vs. female teachers coloring outside the lines or the uneven power relationship issue, which she seems to minimize. Still, it's an alternate viewpoint. Excerpt:

Story here. Excerpt:

'A Gates woman has been accused of fatally stabbing a 60-year-old city man at least 15 times Thursday afternoon.

Amber I. Favasuli, 28, of Bambi Lane was charged with second-degree murder in connection with the death of Leonard Johnson, according to City Court documents. She pleaded not guilty in City Court Friday morning.

The slaying occurred about 2:20 p.m. Thursday inside an apartment at 1835 St. Paul St. and Norton streets, according to Rochester police. Sgt. Elena Correia said police found the man, who had wounds all over his body, inside an apartment in a complex at St. Paul Street, just south of Route 104.'

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'CORPUS CHRISTI -- The Women's Shelter of South Texas helps more than 3,000 victims of domestic violence each year. Most of them are women. But the shelter also has services for men.

So far, they've seen 22 men this year, but, the likelihood is, there are a lot more out there, suffering in silence.

Men are less likely to be victims of domestic violence, but when they are, they're also less likely to report it. That's a problem, since domestic violence against anyone can turn deadly in an instant.

"Its embarrassing you know to say I got beat up by a girl," domestic violence victim Terry Samuels told us.

But he is sharing his story of abuse tonight, hoping another deadly case of domestic violence doesn't happen simply because a man is too embarrassed to report it.

One example came just a few weeks ago on August 10th, when police say 24-year-old Freddy Ayala died from violently during a fight with his pregnant girlfriend.

She ran him over in the parking lot of a bar on Leopard.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'The broadcasters welcomed a promise from Tony Hall, the BBC’s Director General, that by the end of 2014 the corporation would aim to have a women presenting 50 per cent of breakfast shows on local radio.

Describing the plan as a “quota”, she said that it represented a move toward “fairness” that would never be achieved without a directive from above.

Writing for telegraph.co.uk, Miss Arnold said sexism still exists in radio and if the new plans mean that women are given a job over men it may “redress the balance of the last 2000 years".

Local radio is seen as an important training ground for the national media, and flagship programmes including BBC Radio 4’s Today programme have long been criticised for being too male.'

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'Fifteen universities worldwide — including Yale University, Brown University, and Pennsylvania State University — will offer college credit to students who “write feminist thinking” into Wikipedia.

The program, “Storming Wikipedia,” will be part of the Dialogues on Feminism and Technology online course developed by FemTechNet, an organization of feminist educators and scholars.

Approximately 300 students are currently registered for the course, Alexandra Juhasz, professor of media studies at California's Pitzer College and one of the course facilitators, told Campus Reform Thursday.

“A woman's point of view or feminist point of view is not yet expressed in relationship to women in technology in Wikipedia,” she said. “We hope that people engage in this project in respect to other themes as well.”'

Article here. [Ed.: bronxman's comments submitted with this item appear as the first comment since they were too long to post with the item.] Excerpt:

'A student at Swarthmore College who accused it of being lax in its pursuit of allegations of sexual misconduct says the Pennsylvania college is retaliating against her by denying her a job as a dormitory resident adviser, The New York Times reports. But college officials deny any retaliation. They say they cannot employ the student, Mia Ferguson, because she refuses to tell authorities the name of the victim of an alleged rape.

Ms. Ferguson, who joined other students in filing two complaints with the U.S. Education Department this year over Swarthmore’s handling of sexual-misconduct cases, was accepted for the resident adviser’s position this past spring. The alleged rape occurred three years ago.

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'Chinese netizens are aghast after the government of Shenzhen, China issued a decree, saying it will charge men who use their public toilets but can't aim their shoot well inside the urinal.

The decree, which will fine public toilet users 100 yuan ($16), will take effect on September.

But the thing is, officials did not specify just how much spilled urine exactly pass for a description of "uncouth use of a public toilet."

As expected, Chinese netizens immediately took to Sina Weibo to lash out over the incredible regulation.

"Who will supervise such behavior? It will be illegal to install cameras of men urinating in toilets," user Liuyanguangguang said.'

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'Brace yourselves, ladies: You're about to be shocked by the opposite sex. Seriously. We've always known that men can be, ahem, slightly less clean than we are, but we had no idea the level that 20-something dudes could stoop to. If you thought your guy friends (or lovers) had outgrown their frat-bro days of dirty dishes and even dirtier laundry, we almost hate to show you this survey from a U.K. mattress company. It turns out that young single men only change their sheets an average of once every three months.

And, the news only gets worse from there. The average man admitted to only owning one set of sheets (compared to three sets for women), and the study found that within couples, 81% of the sheet washing was done by the woman. The results also pointed to an age correlation — the worst cleanliness faux pas were committed by men between the ages of 18 to 35, while guys, ages 35 to 50, seemed to clean up their act a bit.'