Story here. Excerpt:

'CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard was ousted as Labor Party leader Wednesday by her predecessor, Kevin Rudd, in a vote of party lawmakers hoping to avoid a huge defeat in upcoming elections.

The ballot took place three years and two days after Gillard ousted Rudd in a similar internal government showdown to become the country's first female prime minister. Wednesday's vote makes Rudd leader of the party, but he is not yet prime minister and may not get the job if lawmakers abandon Labor's ruling coalition.'

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Article here. Of interest generally, but the paragraph about 20-something men saying it's impossible to live up to the "male provider role" jumps out. This speaks I think to how the "equality" message has by no means been delivered to the Millenials-- except as it pertains to women being "equal" (or, "more equal", which is more accurate). Despite the bad job prospects generally for Millenials, Millenial women are on average doing quite a bit better professionally and economically than the men. So why aren't they asking themselves about living up to a "provider role" paradigm? Of course we know the answer to this question already. Excerpt:

Story here. Excerpt:

'The Brooklyn EMT who callously refused to help a dying pregnant woman because she was on her coffee break saw her official misconduct charge dropped today after EMS chief Abdo Nahmod — who initially supported the case against her — flip-flopped, leaving frustrated Brooklyn prosecutors no choice but to dismiss the case.

Article here. Excerpt:

'OKLAHOMA CITY – An Oklahoma man said he was almost obligated to pay thousands of dollars to support two children who, as it turned out, weren’t even his.

Now his attorney is pushing for changes in DHS policies and state law.

Family law attorney Lawrence Goodwin admits he doesn’t like deadbeat dads who avoid child support but he also doesn’t like deceptive moms.

“I have the same disdain for people who mislead another human being and have them obligated to be a father of a child that they’re not,” Goodwin said.
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“You have 60 days to come back and say ‘I made a mistake. It’s not my kid. I took a DNA test’, or ‘she told me the truth and it’s not my child’,” Goodwin said.

After that 60-day deadline, Okla. law states a man would have to prove he was deceived into thinking he was the biological father, by “fraud, duress or material mistake of fact”… within two years.”'

Article here. (If you get a login challenge, copy and paste the paragraph below into Google search and click the first search results hit.) Excerpt:

'The statistics that Ms. Smith proffers are impressively dismal. Male workforce participation has plummeted. In 1970, some 80% of working-age men were employed full-time, in contrast to the 66% employed full-time nowadays, Ms. Smith notes. Women today earn 58% of U.S. bachelor's degrees. This is partly because, as Christina Hoff Sommers wrote in her 2001 book, "The War Against Boys" (cited admiringly by Ms. Smith), the K-12 education system that feeds into college favors docile, conformist girls over aggressive, competitive boys. Colleges, as well, are riddled with feminist ideology, decimate their athletic programs in the name of Title IX and regard male students as likely rapists in their interactions with their female classmates.

Story here. Excerpt:

'An English teacher allegedly told a 16-year-old pupil 'I bet you won't be able to keep up with me' before having sex with him in her car.

Emma Ager, 34, from Wales, is also reported to have told the boy that he would be 'a legend' amongst his friends following their trysts.

The relationship came to light after the boy's mother found out her son was getting inappropriate phone calls and texts from Miss Ager and contacted his school – but at the time she had no idea that their contact had become sexual.

Miss Ager is now up before a disciplinary hearing accused of unacceptable professional conduct and falling short of the standard expected of a registered teacher.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'A Masterton woman falsely claimed to have been raped because she wanted police to give her a ride home after watching a male strip show.

Helen Maree Bidlake, 25, was yesterday convicted of making a false statement and sentenced to 100 hours' community work when she was sentenced in Masterton District Court.

According to the police summary of facts, on April 17 Bidlake, who is unemployed, attended a male strip show in Greytown.

She did not want to pay for a taxi back to Masterton so rang 111 and said she had been raped by a male she had met at the show.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'I wrote a while back that Obama Inc. will not be satisfied until it transforms the military into the same warped culture of the left. And that includes the usual “Men are Evil” courses transplanted from Berkeley to the Air Force Academy.
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Courses on gender have nothing to do with preventing sexual assaults. To fight rape, you increase security and reporting. And you arrest rapists.

Fighting rape by teaching gender theory is like fighting armed robbery by teaching Communism.
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"His spring class will offer an opportunity to examine violence committed by males, a topic that is often overlooked because “people in dominate groups have the luxury of having their identity remain invisible,” Kilmartin said."

Translating that from libspeak, no one ever talks about male violence because of the patriarchy. No one. Ever. You never see it in movies or on the news.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'WASHINGTON — A divided Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that federal law doesn’t require that a Native American girl be given back to her biological father, but also doesn’t clear her adoptive parents to immediately regain custody of the now 3-year-old child.

In a resolution that one justice said could compound “the anguish this case has caused,” the high court voted 5-4 to send the case back to courts in South Carolina to determine the final home for an adopted little girl named Veronica.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Employers are avoiding liberal arts majors like the plague. As the Wall Street Journal has noted, recent college grads with English, philosophy and history majors face unemployment rates just below 10 percent.

But, wait. There’s more. Turns out, a person with a passable technical background can spend a few intensive, hands-on weeks in a boot camp learning how to write code. That person can then waltz directly into a well-paying gig in the tech industry.

Seattle-based Code Fellows, a company that specializes in computer-programming education, offers the boot camps in Ruby on Rails, an open-source web application framework.

Code Fellows is now rolling out a boot camp exclusively for women interested in breaking into the software industry.

Story here. Excerpt:

'Port Elizabeth - Five boys died and one has been castrated in the Eastern Cape after illegal circumcisions, the provincial health department said on Friday.

“The Eastern Cape department of health is extremely concerned about the increasing number of young boys dying in the bush,” said spokesman Sizwe Kupelo.

“Over the past four days five boys have died in the bush. An autopsy conducted on three of them indicated they suffered from gangrene which resulted in renal failure.”

A 15-year-old boy also had to be castrated.

Kupelo said the circumcisions had occurred at illegal schools in the Libode, Port St Johns, and Lusikisiki areas.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'The money cannot change what had happened to her son.

This was the reaction of the mother of a 9-year-old boy who had suffered a botched circumcision at the Vryheid Hospital in KwaZulu-Natal after the provincial health department was ordered to pay R2.2 million to the family this week.
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On Tuesday, Judge Achmat Jappie of the Pietermaritzburg High Court ordered that the department pay the family R2.2 million within 14 days.

The mother said her son was finding it hard to deal with the incident and had “anger issues”.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'A fundraising campaign to create a Canadian Centre for Men and Families kicks off Wednesday in Toronto with a lecture by a leading anthropologist of gender, in an effort to boost the political clout and intellectual credibility of men’s issues.

It is a controversial topic often associated with angry sexists. But Lionel Tiger, Charles Darwin Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University in New Jersey — best known for coining the term “male bonding” — is neither angry nor sexist.'
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For four decades, since the ascendance of feminism, society has “vilified” males, Prof. Tiger said, and “it has now got to the point where we see some real results,” such as large numbers of single mothers, and disproportionately female university campuses.'

Article here. Excerpt:

"The Pentagon unveiled plans Tuesday for fully integrating women into front-line and special combat roles, including elite forces such as Army Rangers and Navy SEALs."

So ran the lead on the CNN story. And why are we doing this?

Did the young officers leading troops in battle in Afghanistan and Iraq, returning with casualties, say they needed women to enhance the fighting efficiency of their combat units and the survival rate of their soldiers?

Did men from the 101st and 82nd airborne, the Marines, the SEALs, and Delta Force petition the Joint Chiefs to put women alongside them in future engagements to make them an even superior force?

No. This decision to put women in combat represents a capitulation of the military brass, a surrender to the spirit of our age, the Pentagon's salute to feminist ideology.'