Article here. Excerpt:

'ANGRY Birds are wingless birds, the stars of the video game sensation where a player uses a slingshot to fling the birds at pigs on a playing field. For those of a certain age, it's apparently fun and addictive. In the same way, if you are a few decades older, there is another version of Angry Birds apparently just as fun and addictive for some.

Also wingless, these birds are women who fling around emotionally charged arguments about misogyny, sexism and discrimination with scant regard for facts. The latest polls reveal women are returning to Labor under Kevin Rudd. While this puts a large dent in the argument that sexism brought down Julia Gillard, don't expect Angry Birds to acknowledge the truth. When rage underpins your ideology, it's hard to let go of that part of your identity. After all, being a Rational Bird doesn't sound much fun.'

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'Christine Lagarde used to find them "offensive." Now the first female director of the International Monetary Fund sees gender quotas as a necessary, albeit temporary, tool to help women reach top jobs.
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Half a century after the European Union’s Treaty of Rome sowed the seeds for gender equality in Europe, Ms. Lagarde’s push for mandatory corporate board quotas for women – which proponents hope will trickle down and improve gender equality throughout workplaces – is gaining momentum, and dividing governments, across the continent.

Last fall, European Union Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding pushed through a proposal for gender quotas for the board of corporations across Europe. Men, she said, continue to dominate top jobs, although women are better educated and the economy needs them. But with German Chancellor Angela Merkel vetoing the idea, whether the 27-member EU Council, the European Union’s legislative body, turns the idea into law this fall remains to be seen.'

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Article here. Excerpt:

'If you start a sentence with 'I'm not sexist, but...' you're probably sexist" is the message from the Yes, You're Sexist (@Yes_YoureSexist) Twitter account.

And HuffPost UK Lifestyle are inclined to agree.

Currently at 1,914 followers (and counting), Yes, You're Sexist clearly states that retweets are not endorsements.

So think of them more as the whistleblowers of misogyny.'

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'New Delhi, July 15 (TruthDive) : Insurance policy meant for unmarried or divorced women and girl children is to be launched by Reliance General Insurance on August 1. The policy is named Reliance Health Gain with a target to cover four lakh people in the first year.

Of the total insured sum, the proposer is a widow covering self or her children or only herself will get a 5 % discount. A single woman can also get the discount. If the policy cover includes a girl child, then a further 5% discount will be given. The discounts will be a maximum of 15%.'

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'Some alumnae have not given up their fight to keep Wilson College a women's college.

A group of alumnae hope their actions will block or delay the college's decision to open the Chambersburg campus to male residential students in the fall of 2014. College-age men can commute this fall for the first time to classes at Wilson.

Alumnae are prepared to go to court to force the board of trustees to revisit its decision.
In the Pennsylvania Attorney General's office, they have challenged the change to the school's charter.

And through their attorney, they have sent the trustees a letter warning of a potential lawsuit.'

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'Many men today think sexism is a perilous concept to get their heads around. Guys, it isn’t.

Simply don’t treat women as a lower human category to you and you’re fine and dandy. Several famous men have messed up recently with woeful chauvinist blunderings. Let’s examine where they went wrong.'

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'WASHINGTON — When President Obama proclaimed that those who commit sexual assault in the military should be “prosecuted, stripped of their positions, court-martialed, fired, dishonorably discharged,” it had an effect he did not intend: muddying legal cases across the country.

In at least a dozen sexual assault cases since the president’s remarks at the White House in May, judges and defense lawyers have said that Mr. Obama’s words as commander in chief amounted to “unlawful command influence,” tainting trials as a result. Military law experts said that those cases were only the beginning and that the president’s remarks were certain to complicate almost all prosecutions for sexual assault.'

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'Ask her why she hasn’t had a relationship at Penn, and she won’t complain about the death of courtship or men who won’t commit. Instead, she’ll talk about “cost-benefit” analyses and the “low risk and low investment costs” of hooking up.
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It is by now pretty well understood that traditional dating in college has mostly gone the way of the landline, replaced by “hooking up” — an ambiguous term that can signify anything from making out to oral sex to intercourse — without the emotional entanglement of a relationship.

Article here. The headline calls him a "drunk". Maybe he was intoxicated, but according to the video clip of the assault on him, he sure wasn't acting in a way requiring being beaten and attacked by a dog in order to be arrested. Point of this story is this: Anyone in an authority position can abuse it. Feminists' assertions over the years that women categorically don't or are much less likely than men to do so simply don't bear up to scrutiny, not just in this but in plenty of other cases. Excerpt:

'A video clip showing a Swedish policewoman repeatedly hitting a drunken man with a baton as her police dog appears to go berserk on the streets of Stockholm has shocked experts, while the prosecutor has opened a criminal probe.

"The only thing I can say is that this video gives cause to assume that the police officer has committed a crime," internal affairs prosecutor Mats Åhlund told the Dagens Nyheter (DN) newspaper after being shown a clip of the altercation that took place late on Thursday night.

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'In November of last year, I wrote an article for Fox News called The War on Men (which I subsequently expanded to an eBook). To keep it pithy, in the piece I focused on one effect of this war: the lack of marriageable men. But there’s so much more to it. The truth is, men have become second-class citizens.

The most obvious proof is male bashing in the media. It is rampant and irrefutable. From sit-coms and commercials that portray dad as an idiot to biased news reports about the state of American men, males are pounced on left and right. And that’s just the beginning.

Book on Amazon UK here. Description:

'I used to have sympathy for the men who would collect their children in the town centre every Saturday morning. They were easy to spot. The glowering looks they would throw at their ex-wives were hard to conceal. Maybe it was to give their children a treat, or maybe it was because they found it hard to cook, but you could see them in the fast food outlets by lunchtime. Little did I know then that I would one day become a McDonald’s dad myself. Disbelief, anger, inadequacy, rejection, bitterness, shock, fear, and loneliness are but some of the emotions that divorce brings to the average man. This is my story of how I coped with life after the breakdown of my marriage. Join me in a satirical examination of today’s modern “woman”. This book also reveals why women stand talking for hours, what it means when they are not “happy”, and of course the dreaded “speech”. Along the way you will learn why you should purchase a tin helmet when you begin dating again, and why men should really not wash their underpants in the sink.'

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'An eight-month-old boy is lucky to be alive after he was stabbed 90 times by his mother, mostly in the face, for biting her while she was breastfeeding.

Xiao Bao needed more than 100 stitches after the incident in Xuzhou, eastern China's Jiangsu Province.

The infant lives with his mother and two uncles, who make a living recycling rubbish. It was one of the uncles who discovered Xiao Bao lying in a pool of blood in the yard of their home and rushed him to hospital.

The child’s mother later confessed that she stabbed the baby after he bit her during breastfeeding.

Neighbours have pleaded with the local government to take the baby away, but they have said that they will not.

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'While working moms deal with the well-known tangle of exhaustion, guilt, criticism and debates about having it all, there’s another species of parent that has its own complex issues: the working dad.

Specifically, those working dads who get and take paternity leave. All of their paternity leave.

It’s a land mine–laden topic that doesn’t get nearly enough attention. But on Sunday, Facebook employee Tom Stocky helped put it in the spotlight with a frank and enlightening personal essay on Facebook to his 136,026 followers. He soon made the post public and, as of Thursday afternoon, it had garnered 5,745 likes, 2,900 shares and around 100 thoughtful comments. And it’s really worth a read.'

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'As family law struggles to keep up with technology, California state legislature is considering a bill that would give fathers of children conceived using sperm donation greater legal standing. The bill was inspired by the public custody battle between actor Jason Patric and his ex-girlfriend, Danielle Schreiber.

To be clear, the proposed bill, H.B. 115, does not propose to make anonymous sperm donors the legal fathers of the children conceived through artificial insemination or in vitro fertilization (IVF). Men who donate sperm to fertility clinics would not be considered a child’s “natural parent” unless the couple agreed prior to conception in writing that the donor was to be considered the father.

Rather, it would give courts the ability to grant legal parental rights under broader conditions than presently allowed.'