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'The last 100 years have been marked by the declaration and protection of universal human rights, and a marked increase in the quality of life, both in America and worldwide. With these improvements, higher expectations regarding a child’s right to bodily autonomy have become socially accepted and legally mandated. Many argue that since female children in the U.S. are protected by a 1996 law banning female circumcision, this law should be expanded to include the protection of male children as well. The groups Jews Against Circumcision, Jews for the Rights of the Child and the Israeli Organization Against Genital Mutilation have all endorsed laws that would outlaw child circumcision.

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'Cradling a twin in each arm, the photo of Jill Dudley tells a deceptive story. A former debutante and distant relative of post-war British prime minister Clement Attlee, she appears the epitome of a contented Sixties upper middle-class housewife and mother.

Other photographs of her identical twins Alex and Marcus confirm the impression of a seemingly idyllic, innocent childhood growing up in a beautiful Elizabethan home in Sussex.
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But hard though it is to believe, their seemingly loving mother was nothing of the sort. Monstrously, she was sexually abusing her little boys.

Today, Alex and Marcus Lewis - now 49 - are still coming to terms with this dark secret, which was for so long buried within the heart of their family.
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'It would be easy to label her as mentally ill or a monster, but it's not that simple. You could put any label on her and it wouldn't be enough.'

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'SUFFIELD — A woman who police say lied about being raped by a masked intruder had actually slashed her body and choked herself with a dog collar in an effort to create "convincing" injuries, according to an affidavit for her arrest.

The woman, Kelly M. Wilson, 29, of 611 Thrall Ave. was arrested July 3 and charged with second-degree falsely reporting an incident, second-degree making a false statement, and misuse of the 911 emergency system. She is free on $50,000 bond and is scheduled to be arraigned in Enfield Superior Court on July 16.

The incident occurred on April 14 when Wilson called police and reported that a man had attacked her in her home, according to the affidavit.'

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'The Trotwood woman wanted in the stabbing death of a man in Moraine on Sunday turned herself in to authorities Wednesday.

Her attorney said she is a victim of domestic violence and acted in self defense. Dayton attorney John H. Rion said his client did not come forward initially because she feared being bullied by police.

Moraine detectives say 39-year-old Chantell Spears stabbed Delshaun Jones, 32, during a dispute outside of 3605 Charlotte Mill Drive Sunday morning. They said Jones, who has a child with Spears, was visiting a female at that address when he was attacked around 5:30 a.m. Jones was rushed to Kettering Medical Center where he died.'

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'Residents of Matisi Estate in Kitale were thrown into mourning when an 18-year-old woman allegedly stabbed her husband to death to protest his plans to marry a second wife.

The woman is said to have quarrel led with her husband on Saturday night opposing the second marriage.

A neighbour, who alerted residents, said that on Sunday morning a fight ensued before the woman picked a kitchen knife and stabbed her husband.

The neighbour said the woman had complained that her husband had secretly brought into their home and slept with another woman while she was away.

Kitale OCPD Kimani Mitugo said the woman was in custody and will be arraigned in court today.'

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'Faulkner State Community College's nursing division brought home an international first place award for its video “Shattered,” which seeks to raise awareness about the dangers and prevalence domestic violence.

Members of the nursing division traveled to San Francisco, Calif. to accept the award and perform their original script live at the 2013 Human Patient Simulator Network (HPSN) conference. The video was created using the iStan human simulator, a lifelike tool that helps nursing students practice a variety of tasks.

In the video, which was filmed in front of an audience at the college, a man is shown stabbing his wife. She calls 911, and nursing students work to save her life (in the hospital scene, the woman is actually the iStan human simulator).'

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"Shattered" by Faulkner State Community College Division on YouTube here.

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'A spot currently running on the radio in Connecticut reminds young men they are required by law to register for the draft when they're 18 and warns them of the consequences if they don't.

If you don't register, you won't get a government job or get into a government training program and you won't be eligible for a federally funded student loan.

Unmentioned is the threat of being imprisoned for up to five years or fined up to a rather impressive $250,000, for failing to sign up for what amounts to no more than a waiting list or database in the event the draft is ever revived. No one's been prosecuted under the law since 1986.

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'The debate about sending women into combat raises larger questions. Both sides avoid them, but they are perhaps the most important ones. What kind of society sends its women into ground combat? Do we want to be that kind of society? Is sending our daughters, wives, and mothers into combat good for women, for men, or for children? To a certain kind of feminist it is repugnant to ask these questions. We don’t ask if we should send men into combat, so we shouldn’t ask if we should send women. People who have blinded themselves to the profound and wonderful differences between the sexes are not open to a discussion about the consequences of those differences, and perhaps there is nothing more to say to them. But those people should not set the terms of the public debate. The American people need to stop pretending that sending women into combat involves questions no deeper than how far they can carry a seventy-pound rucksack.'

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'CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. – The 15 sergeants, lieutenants and captains at the Marine Corps infantry school sat at the conference table with Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to debate changes to the American way of war – in particular, the Pentagon’s new decision to integrate women into front-line combat positions.

One first sergeant objected strongly, saying that if women could add anything of value to combat infantry units, they would have been handed those missions long ago.

One staff sergeant worried that the Marine Corps’ high standards would have to be lowered if women were assigned to combat. Other Marines in the group agreed, warning that women would not be accepted by their male counterparts living in spartan wartime conditions, or that family lives would suffer, especially for those female Marines hoping to have children.

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'The American hate site, A Voice for Men (AVfM), is bringing its toxic message of misogyny and rape apologism to the streets of Canadian cities through a propaganda campaign centred around a grotesque and entirely false narrative that states that it is now men who are the victims of systemic violence and injustice in our country and that demonizes feminism and feminists. They further aim to directly undermine strategies to combat sexual violence against not only women and girls, but also, in fact, against men and boys by denying the gendered reality of the perpetrators of sexual violence of all kinds (regardless of the gender of the victim), who are overwhelmingly male.

(Please see related MANN items here and here)

HELP US STOP THE CINCINNATI STUDY

For the last several weeks, we've been writing and calling TriHealth Good Samaritan Hospital in Cincinnati, where 200+ babies are being circumcised in a study to determine which circumcision clamp, the Gomco or the Mogen, is "better." How are they determining this? According to the study, by looking at which clamp results in fewer blood-soaked bandages, and by looking at expressions of pain on babies' faces.

We believe this study is a heinous violation of medical ethics and human rights, and we're furious that no one at the hospital has bothered to respond.

They're tuning us out, just like they're tuning out the screams of the babies being cruelly subjected to an unconscionable medical experiment—all in service to the shareholders of a medical instrument manufacturer seeking to profit from bad science in order to sell more circumcision tools.

We need to step up the pressure on this hospital, and we need your help:

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'AN allegation of a sexual assault in an Astley Bridge alleyway was false, police have said.

The incident was said to have happened in an alleyway between two shops in Blackburn Road on Sunday.

It was reported at about 3pm on Sunday and was said to have happened the previous night.

The alley was cordoned off from 3pm yesterday and was under police guard from an officer in a van.

Police said they have now investigated the report and discovered it was not true.
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It is understood that police are not planning to take any action against the woman because her complaint was not said to be malicious.'

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'A men's only overflow tent at the homeless shelter on Record Street has some women wondering what their options are.

Sandy Isham with Volunteers of America says, "Historically the need is at least three times larger for men than it is for women."

As Reno's homeless population grows the need for shelter increases. To help prevent people from sleeping on the street, Isham says they have put up an overflow tent, but there's a catch, it's only for men, "There are more men amongst the chronically homeless population, but that's just what we are seeing down here at our campus."
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Isham says, "If there are no beds available they can sit up at a table in our very nice day area in an air conditioned room that is also safe, because it's staffed 24 hours a day."

Some women don't think this option is very accommodating mainly because there are no beds, but Isham says the number of homeless men is much greater than women and so far only one woman has taken advantage of the room.'

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While Sheryl Sandberg and the pro-women movement encourage women to “lean in,” what’s never discussed is the relentless pressure men feel to not “lean out.”

I came across an article recently that talked about the damaging effects men face from a lifetime of being told to “Be a man. Stop being such a fag.” and “Grow a pair” that made me think about how we assume there’s no downside to the expectations of leadership. In order to be considered masculine, as all “real” men are supposed to be, we’re expected to be the alpha dog, to take charge, and, when necessary, to fight. For men with families, there’s an expectation to be the breadwinner, and they live with the pressure of being the last, and sometimes the only, line of defense between their children sleeping in a warm bed or sleeping in the streets. If the cupboards are bare, and the rent isn’t paid, it is ultimately their responsibility.