Submitted by Mastodon on Wed, 2013-09-11 19:39
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'After two years of allegations and a gruesome eight-day trial, Coronation Street actor Michael Le Vell was finally exonerated from some of the worst crimes imaginable yesterday.
The jury at Manchester Crown Court took just five hours to clear the 48-year-old of twelve sex offences against a young girl, including five of rape.
The father-of-two had been left ‘fighting for his life’ in both a legal circus and a media scrum.
In his willingness to co-operate, he revealed his private self for public scrutiny: a ‘troubled man’ who chain-smoked, drank up to 12 pints a night, had a string of one-night stands and an affair with a younger woman while his wife had cancer treatment.
Like thousands of men all over the world, Le Vell’s life has already been destroyed by a system which considers men’s innocence a bonus - not a baseline. And it has to end.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Wed, 2013-09-11 19:34
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'What is "nonconsensual sex"? Rape, right? Not at Yale, where the term can be applied to a variety of acts generally accepted as minor offenses or non-offenses in the real world. Since 2010 Yale has become the national center of efforts to whittle away the due process rights of students accused of sexual assault in campus hearings. Those efforts, undertaken to appease "activists" who want more males convicted in campus proceedings, have included Orwellian word games to expand the definition of rape. One of the first signs that this was happening came in 2011, when Yale concluded that causing someone to worry could come under the heading of sexual assault. In a footnote in a lengthy 2012 report on this new process, issued by deputy provost Stephanie Spangler, Yale conceded that the university uses "a more expansive definition of sexual assault than is commonly understood." Indeed, claiming that a "worry" constitutes sexual assault is expansive indeed.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Wed, 2013-09-11 19:09
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'As we merrily skip along the road to economic servitude, war in the Middle East and demographic suicide at home, at least some people – really, really stupid people, may I add – have won a battle in the ongoing Culture Wars that brings social engineering to a whole new level of sinister stupidity.
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You may want your children to grow up blissfully free of societal expectations defined along a narrow, gender construct that perpetuates a traditionally reductive and patriarchal pedagogical narrative (hey look! I just learned to speak like a feminist! It's not that hard – just stop using your brain!). But here's the thing – there's a good chance your kids don't think like you do, and there's an even better chance that you're going to end up feeling very foolish indeed when you see nature take its course.
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Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2013-09-11 17:06
Last May, the Washington Post (WaPo) ran an editorial in support of the Battered Mothers Custody Conference (BMCC). You'd think they would have done a little research on the group before publishing that one-sided, gender-biased piece.
The 2005 Public Broadcasting System (PBS) documentary, "Breaking the Silence" was based on claims made at a BMCC. Thousands of viewers complained, and an investigation was done. PBS Ombudsman Ken Bode then stated, "I found the program to be so totally unbalanced as to fall outside the boundaries of PBS editorial standards on fairness and balance."
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Submitted by Minuteman on Tue, 2013-09-10 17:08
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'Are men with smaller testicles more involved dads? Could be, say the authors of a new study.
Anthropologists from Emory University in Atlanta wanted to try to better understand why some men are more actively engaged in child rearing than others, said study lead author James Rilling.
"We know children with involved fathers -- at least in modern western societies -- have better developmental outcomes socially, psychologically, and educationally. Yet, some men choose not to be involved," he said.
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Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2013-09-10 15:37
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'(CNN) -- A woman in Montana is accused of pushing her husband off a cliff after an argument. The pair had been married for just more than a week.
Jordan Linn Graham made an initial appearance in court Monday to face a charge of second-degree murder. If convicted, she faces life in prison.
According to a criminal complaint, Graham recently told a friend she was having second thoughts about marrying Cody L. Johnson. CNN affiliate KECI reported the couple had been married for just more than a week.
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Graham told police that her husband grabbed her by the arm. She turned and removed it.
"Graham stated she could have just walked away, but due to her anger, she pushed Johnson with both hands in the back and as a result, he fell face first off the cliff," the complaint read.'
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Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2013-09-10 03:06
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'Local attorney Mark Davis is taking a cynical approach to what he says is a growing problem in the state of Texas.
Davis created an advertisement that is targeted toward women. It asks them how they would like to make thousands of dollars by staying at home, and instructs them how to do so by following simple steps.
1) Get pregnant and have a baby.
2) Once the baby is born, get rid of the father.
3) Get child support money by using a state-appointed, free attorney to sue the father.
4) Spend the money on trips without the child.
5) Spend the money on drinking, expensive restaurants, and clubs.
"Guess what? That's all legal in Texas," Davis said.'
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Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2013-09-10 02:59
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'To get divorced in Virginia, all issues must be resolved regarding the marital estate. The most cost effective way of resolving all issues is by reaching an agreement with your spouse. However, failing to carefully consider the details will leave you spending tens of thousands of dollars later as you battle over missed details or ambiguity.
Areas in which parties often fail to include sufficient details to have a functioning long-term agreement include, how to modify child support, children’s’ extra-curricular activities and who pays for them, how to make the decision about college when the parties agree to split the costs, unreimbursed medical expenses for out of network medical care, information required to exchange when the children are out of town or out of state, and the method for resolving disagreements when they inevitably arise.'
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Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2013-09-10 01:01
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'In A (A Child) [2013] EWCA Civ 1104, the Court of Appeal has allowed a father's appeal against a contact order in respect of his daughter, restricting him to sending her emails and presents at Christmas and on her birthday. The father's application for contact / residence will now be reheard.
As McFarlane LJ explained in the lead judgment:
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Submitted by Mastodon on Mon, 2013-09-09 23:38
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'Female astronauts have fewer opportunities to fly in space than men partially because of strict lifetime radiation exposure restrictions, astronauts say.
Both male and female astronauts are not allowed to accumulate a radiation dose that would increase their lifetime risk of developing fatal cancer by more than 3 percent. A six-month mission on the International Space Station exposes astronauts to about 40 times the average yearly dose of background radiation that a person would receive living on Earth, NASA spokesman William Jeffs said in an email.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Mon, 2013-09-09 23:33
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'I believe when a father is missing from a family an invisible screen of safety is removed, and all sorts of insecurities and problems are then allowed to enter. Will this apply to all single lone women raising children? No, but the above statistics do not lie.
Britain, with its plight of the fatherless represents how the spirit of the country feels as a whole. There is emptiness, that there is no genuine loving strength surrounding you. Looking out for you. It is a spiritual dilemma as well as a physical one. People sense it, but don’t know what it is.
Fathers need to be reunited and encouraged to be with their children as much as possible. Men need to be reinstated to their importance within society and in the family, which I believe has been overlooked at the expense of promoting the equality of women over the course of 50 years.
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Submitted by Matt on Mon, 2013-09-09 22:34
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'A 31-year-old woman has been charged with murder in the stabbing death of her teenage son over the weekend, police said.
Robin Erwin, 31, is charged with first-degree murder in the slaying of her son Diontae Erwin, 17, Sauk Village Police said.
Police found Diontae in the 1700 block of 223rd Street about 12:15 p.m. Saturday, according to police. The boy was taken to Franciscan Saint Margaret Health in Dyer, Ind., where he was pronounced dead at 12:41 p.m.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Mon, 2013-09-09 19:32
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'A 60-year-old woman was arrested Sunday morning after she allegedly grabbed a man by the throat and tried to throw him out an open window, the Napa County Sheriff’s Office said.
Deputies were called just before 8 a.m. Sunday to the 3000 block of Cuttings Wharf Road on report of domestic violence, authorities said. On arrival, the alleged victim told police Leila Rhea Armstrong, of Napa, had grabbed him by the throat and tried to push him out a first-floor window.
The man successfully pushed Armstrong off him before she threw him out the window, the sheriff’s office said.
Armstrong, who was allegedly drunk when deputies arrived at the home, was arrested on suspicion of domestic violence and booked into the Napa jail, authorities said.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Mon, 2013-09-09 18:14
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'The increasing regularity with which men are handbagged by feminist campaigners who constantly, endlessly, ubiquitously bang on about how they don't have a voice has become so prevalent that it's now laughable rather than annoying – although if the correspondence I receive from readers is anything to go by, male and female alike, they don't like being ballyragged by a bunch of birds with an agenda.
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We've seen this ill-informed and badly articulated misandry with the numerous declarations that men are losing respect for women and are now becoming porn obsessed moral degenerates who, according to one recent commentator in these pages: "look at videos of women being half murdered."
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Here's an idea, a crazy one that might cause hot flushes and gasps of consternation – being a woman does not make you special. It does not confer on you an automatic wisdom beyond your chromosomatic rivals.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Mon, 2013-09-09 07:12
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'A new study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology is giving credence to what successful, single women have been saying for decades: men are intimidated by their female partners’ achievements.
The study, “Gender Differences in Implicit Self-Esteem Following a Romantic Partner’s Success or Failure,” was co-authored by University of Florida psychology professor Kate A. Ratliff and University of Virginia psychology professor Shigehiro Oishi.
While intended to collect data regarding how those in heterosexual relationships view one another’s success, Ratliff and Oishi discovered that men’s self-worth — or self-esteem — disproportionately suffered when they perceived their female partners to be successful.'
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