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'“Keep in mind, please, that this is a Center supposedly devoted to the study of men, not women,” said Bruce Bawer in his article “A Joke of a Men’s Studies Center,” published in Front Page Magazine. “Can you imagine a university press release in this day and age announcing the establishment of a new Women’s Studies Center and including more men’s names than women’s? Me neither.”

It is not the emergence of men’s studies that Bawer, a Stony Brook alumnus and author of “The Victims’ Revolution: The Rise of Identity Studies and the Closing of the Liberal Mind”, argues against, despite what his book title may say. Rather, it is the “unbalanced” advisory board that he and Newsday columnist Cathy Young see as a problem for men’s studies, rather than an asset.

“The study of men and masculinities’ as conceptualized by Kimmel and his like-minded colleagues is, at bottom, an academic vehicle for a political attack on ‘white male privilege’,” said Young. “This is undoubtedly the brand of ‘men’s studies’ that Stony Brook’s new Center will promote.”

“[Men’s studies] is about fostering and nurturing serious research within the context of gender studies,” Kimmel said in response to criticisms aimed at the center. “To my mind, these critiques by the MRAs are inevitable. They spend a lot of time trolling the internet and yelling at people. That’s not serious research.”

Using highly recognizable feminists as advisors was key to banishing misconceptions of what the new center is meant for. Others, however, contend that such actions belie the true academic nature of male gender studies.

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'Some are so eager to be inaugurated in 2017 that the 2016 campaign has begun 28 months before the 1.4 percent of Americans who live in Iowa and New Hampshire express themselves. It is, therefore, not too soon to get a head start on being dismayed. Consider two probable candidates.

Hillary Clinton comes among us trailing clouds of incense, so some acolytes will call it ill-mannered, even misogynistic to ask: What exactly is it about the condition of the world, and about America's relations with other nations, that recommends the former secretary of state for an even more elevated office?
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That contemporary feminism is thin gruel is apparent in the fact that it has found its incarnation in a woman who married her way to the upper reaches of American politics. Still, the world's oldest political party might not allow a contest to mar the reverent awarding to her of its next nomination.'

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Portrayals of relationships between older women and younger men have showed up in pop culture time and again, from The Graduate to American Pie. But it seems like more have been cropping up lately. Alissa Nutting’s novel Tampa, published in July, is about a 26-year-old woman who builds her entire life as a teacher around her attraction to 14-year-old boys. The Lifeguard, which opened in theaters last weekend, stars Kristen Bell as a 29-year-old who returns to her hometown and has an affair with a teenager. And this week sees the theatrical release of Adore, starring Robin Wright and Naomi Watts as two best friends who fall for each other’s 18-year-old sons, and A Teacher, the story of a young woman’s undoing as her relationship with one of her high-school students comes to an end.
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The differing attitudes towards woman/boy relationships versus man/girl ones was, until recently, codified by the government. It wasn’t until the year 2000 that all 50 states had gender-neutral statutory rape laws. Until then, laws tended to punish the woman participant less harshly or not at all, even if she was the perpetrator. According to Carolyn E. Cocca, the author of Jailbait: The Politics of Statutory Rape Laws in the United States, the role of women sex offenders is routinely downplayed. In a 2002 article in which she reviews the language used to describe statutory rapists Mary Kay LeTourneau, Stephen Simmons, and Sean O'Neill, Cocca found that:

"…while much of the discourse still categorizes statutory rape with a male victim as abuse, the "older woman" perpetrator is more often described as a manipulative or mentally ill seductress while the "older man" perpetrator is usually likened to an abusive predator.

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'But in 2010, Drew Gilpin Faust, Harvard’s first female president, appointed a new dean who pledged to do far more than his predecessors to remake gender relations at the business school. He and his team tried to change how students spoke, studied and socialized. The administrators installed stenographers in the classroom to guard against biased grading, provided private coaching — for some, after every class — for untenured female professors, and even departed from the hallowed case-study method.

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'After all these years, we are still stuck. We still can't agree on where to start. The feminist approach wants to blame boys for many problems in school. Boys are noisy, they play up, annoy teachers and stop good kids from learning. Any time we draw attention to boys' difficulties in school, these people raise objections. Which boys do we mean? Are we imagining that all boys are the same? Why aren't we focusing on girls? Are we misogynistic? Don't men have all the advantages anyway? This approach I call "put up a straw man and then knock him down". It's often favoured by people who want to preserve the status quo. Meanwhile, the arch-male approach wants to champion boys at all costs and blame feminism for all men's ills. It sounds a bit like "Now in my day..." Neither of these approaches will get us far.

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'Two days after jurors acquitted a former Fort Collins bar worker of rape, activists are planning to spread rape awareness Friday night in Old Town.

The walk is organized through Facebook page “End RAPE Culture (Fort Collins)” and asks people to print off fliers featuring mug shots of two men accused of raping two teenaged adults last December. One of the men, Bojan Vuckovic, 25, was acquitted of rape at trial Wednesday but remains in jail after conviction on two misdemeanors of serving alcohol to minors.

People plan to meet at 9 p.m. in front of the Fort Collins Museum of Art and begin walking through Old Town at 10 p.m., handing out fliers and waving “thought-provoking signs,” according to Brandi Palmer, who invited people to join through social media.
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The flier on the group’s Facebook page shows the mugs of Vuckovic and Dennis Hanson, 30, with the words: “Ladies, if you see these men, RUN AWAY! DANGER alert!”'

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'New York should open competitive middle schools for girls who are interested in science and math as a way to close a gender gap that has tipped the balance in the city’s top tech high schools heavily toward boys.

Broached by Council Speaker Christine Quinn in the heat of the mayoral campaign, the next mayor, whoever that might be, should follow through on her idea to open five all-female science, technology, engineering and mathematics (or STEM) middle schools, one in each borough, to help draw interested young women to the jobs of tomorrow.

Boys now outnumber girls by three-to-one at the city's high-school tech programs, even as jobs in the field are expected to grow about twice as quickly as other positions. Boys also claim about three of five seats at the city’s most competitive public high schools that determine admission exclusively by testing, including Stuyvesant and Bronx Science.'

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By now you've heard about the awful baby-cutting study underway at Good Samaritan Hospital in Cincinnati. In just a few weeks, Intact America will travel to that hospital to deliver a letter signed by concerned citizens like you, demanding that this outrageous study be stopped.

Can we count on you to sign our letter and speak up for these innocent babies, who are being strapped down and assaulted for the sole purpose of seeing which of two clamps causes more blood loss and pain?

We’ve gathered just over 3,000 signatures so far, so we still have a long way to go, and we can’t do it without your help. If you've already signed, thank you...and please forward this email to your friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues and ask them to sign it too!

Here’s why we think this action is critical:

This is happening right in our backyard. That’s right, American doctors are experimenting on the genitals of non-consenting minors.

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'The Mountaineers is an outdoors club headquartered in Seattle devoted to hiking, climbing, skiing, kayaking, etc. (Go to www.mountaineers.org for more information.) For the most part, it is a great group, with countless people volunteering their time and expertise to help people enjoy the outdoors. I was a member for 27 years.

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'A former Montezuma County sheriff's deputy accused of inappropriately touching a female suspect has been cleared of any wrongdoing after an investigation.

The Cortez Journal reports that prosecutors and the sheriff's office both conducted an investigation and determined no charges were warranted against former deputy Darrin Harper.

A 52-year-old woman had alleged in a January complaint that Harper had fondled her during a traffic stop in 2012. But the woman later told investigators during an interview that she has a mental illness and sometimes makes up things "that did not happen."

The woman had been arrested on suspicion of driving on the influence of drugs on the night in question, but the charges were later dismissed.

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'Today we are proud to announce the release of the report by the President’s Working Group on the Intersection of HIV/AIDS, Violence against Women and Girls, and Gender-Related Health Disparities. We have had the honor of serving as co-chairs of the interagency Federal Working Group since March 2012, when President Obama issued a Presidential Memorandum to address two overlapping challenges to the health and wellbeing of communities across the United States: the effects of HIV/AIDS, and the alarming rate at which women and girls experience violence.

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'When parents separate, one of the first questions anyone asks is, “What happens with the kids?” Current law in most states gives judges practically carte blanche authority to issue temporary orders that place children primarily or wholly in the care of just one parent. One situation that is all-too-common is that one parent gets custody of the children, and the other is ordered “visitation” every other weekend.

For a child that has previously been with both parents every day, removing one of those parents and offering her or him a mere four to six days out of the month must be very traumatic. However, this trauma is not considered when making such orders, and the right of both parents to care for and provide for the child is rarely upheld in family court.'

Preview here. The full short film will be available on October 1st, 2013 on Distrify.com. You can find Shame on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/ShameMEStudios and on Twitter: @shamemovie

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'Fifteen universities including some Ivy League schools are offering college credit to students who will inject feminist thinking into the popular website Wikipedia -- something critics are calling an eye-opening case of campus bias.
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The program is called “Storming Wikipedia,” and was set up by a group called FemTechNet as part of its Dialogues on Feminism and Technology online course, according to CampusReform.org. Approximately 300 students are currently registered for the course, and schools like Yale University, Brown University and Pennsylvania State University are participating.

Anne Balsamo, dean of the School of Media Studies at the New School in New York, says the program is meant to revise a bias seen on the massive online encyclopedia, where many pages are "skewed now toward male participation."
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How the feminist thinking they were seeking would appear was anyone’s guess.