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'A female teacher at "Horndog High" admitted Thursday to bedding a 16-year-old boy at the school but will get no jail time.

She will, however, have to surrender her teaching license.

In a plea-bargain agreement, Erin Sayar, 37, will serve 10 years' probation for having sex with Kevin Eng, whom she tutored at Brooklyn's James Madison High School. The sex occurred in classrooms and Sayar's car.

"The complainant and his family are amenable to the offer," Assistant District Attorney Serena Horowitz said in Brooklyn Supreme Court. "They stated to me that they don't want to see the defendant spend time in jail."

The tattooed teacher carried on the tryst with Eng in December 2011 and was exposed when his girlfriend snooped in his Facebook account and found he wrote to Sayar, "I love you so much."'

Tom Martin, who sparked a huge debate in 2012 by suing the London School of Economics for sexist anti-male teachings in its gender studies curriculum, has now turned his attention to documentary film-making, posting an advert calling for a range of paid researchers, presenters and crew, for a potentially controversial documentary to begin shooting in London this August, called "Laughing with Women" - involving a street experiment to investigate if gold-digging impairs women's joke-making abilities.

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'(NEWSER) – With Father's Day near comes a debate about "forced fatherhood." The phrase refers to guys who get turned into fathers against their will through unplanned pregnancies, explains Laurie Shrage in the New York Times. Men in this situation "have few choices," she writes. It's ultimately the woman's call on whether to have the baby, but her decision could saddle the man with years of child support even though he had no intention of becoming a dad. It's time we gave men more "reproductive autonomy" by providing them with more options, writes Shrage. For example, maybe he contributes only to the medical expenses related to the pregnancy and birth, and the couple goes their separate ways.'

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'But you know what? I’m sick of this argument, so I propose that feminists go ahead and embrace this “paper abortion” bullshit, even though, unlike real abortion, it’s not about bodily autonomy. I believe men should be able to terminate the responsibilities of fatherhood if they meet the following conditions:

• He has to sign away all rights before the baby is born. He does not get his name on the birth certificate. The child’s father will be registered as “unknown”. If someone else—say his ex’s new husband—wishes to adopt and coparent the child, he cannot interfere.
• The only exception to this is if the mother did not alert the father to the pregnancy beforehand. He should be able to provide witnesses to testify that he hadn’t seen her in at least six months prior to the birth.
  

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'Sure they are. But Emily's Listers, whence Gillard herself arose, and the Women for Gillard are not diverse.

These women are creatures of a particular vision of womanhood; womanhood made in the aggressive gender-obsessed feminism of the post-1960s.

They are stuck in that pointless combative oppositional attitude to men because they don't know what else to do in the face of failure, even though they know how passe it all is. They do not represent ordinary women, young or old, particularly the vast army of mothers who want pretty basic things from a government.

Gillard had a vision, we are told, and much of that vision was for women.

Well, it has not been the same vision the women who elected her had.'

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If you get a login requirement, Google the first paragraph on the page and click the link over to the article on the web site.

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'Evolutionary geneticists from Canada's McMaster University say men's tendency to choose younger mates meant fertility became pointless for older women.

In PLOS Computational Biology, they say this eventually led to the menopause.

But a UK expert said that was the "wrong way round" and men chose younger women because older women were less fertile.
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Previous theories had proposed a "grandmother effect". This suggests that women lose their fertility at an age where they might not live to see a child grow, and instead are available to care for younger women's children.

The menopause was therefore seen as the block to older women from continuing to reproduce.

I think it makes more sense to see the human male preference for younger females largely as an evolved response to the menopause”

But this latest theory suggests things work the other way around, and that it is the lack of reproduction that has given rise to menopause.'

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'High school boys in Los Angeles are twice as likely to induce vomiting or use laxatives to control their weight as the national average, with 5.2% of those surveyed saying they had recently done so, according to the most recent survey data gathered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Los Angeles Unified School District. They are also more likely to have used diet pills, powders or liquids than boys nationwide.

The numbers challenge old assumptions that boys are immune to a problem better known to afflict teenage girls. Girls still exceed boys in fasting to lose weight, but the latest data, from 2011, showed that Los Angeles boys were nearly as likely as girls to purge through vomiting or laxatives. They were also as likely as girls to use diet pills, powders or liquids without the advice of a doctor — 6.2% said they recently used such substances, compared with 6.1% of girls.

PRESS RELEASE

Contact: Teri Stoddard
Email: tstoddard-at-saveservices.org

WASHINGTON / June 14, 2013 – The non-profit Accusing U. is launching a nationwide radio campaign designed to highlight how the recent Obama Administration’s sexual harassment mandate represents an unprecedented threat to free speech. The campaign will consist of radio interviews featuring Christina Hoff Sommers, well-known author, columnist, and resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.

On May 9, the U.S. Department of Education and Department of Justice unveiled a new campus policy that classifies speech as a form of sexual harassment, enlarges its scope to include any speech that is deemed “unwelcome,” and eliminates the reasonable person standard.

The policy applies to all faculty members and over 21 million undergraduate and graduate students at colleges receiving Department of Education funding.

Not so much a news story but some of the best advice I have heard on the Internet: Don't Date Single Moms

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Ed. note: "MGTOW" stands for "Men Going Their Own Way"

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'In her article, 5 Sweet Commercials That Really Get Modern Fatherhood, author Jeanne Sager says she became a champion for fathers after she became a mom. There is nothing like having to defend your husband to make you more aware of how American advertising makes men look like hapless dads. Speaking about her husband, Jeanne Sager said, “He’s a man who is every bit as involved in his daughter’s life as I am, and when companies insult him, they’re insulting our whole family dynamic.”

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'RIVER GROVE, Ill. (CBS) – Cook County prosecutors said a west suburban woman and family caregiver planned for at least a week to kill the mother’s 14-year-old son, because they believed he wasn’t getting sufficient care for his autism.

CBS 2’s Mike Puccinelli reports Alex Spourdalakis was found dead from multiple stab wounds on Sunday in the River Grove apartment he shared with his mother and godmother. The two women were found nearby in a semi-conscious state.

His mother, 50-year-old Dorothy Spourdalakis, and his live-in caregiver and godmother, 44-year-old Jolanta Skrodzka, have been charged with first-degree murder. At a bond hearing at the Maywood courthouse on Wednesday, a judge ordered both women held without bail.'

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'BOSTON (CBS) – MBTA Police are searching for three young women who they say threw bleach in the eyes of a bus passenger after robbing him of his money.

The victim was returning home from work early Sunday morning, riding the #28 bus on Blue Hill Avenue through Roxbury, when it seems the trio sized him up.

Officials say one female slapped the man about the head, while one went to work to search him for money.

“One of the women puts her knee on top of his legs so he can’t get up and takes the money from his pockets,” MBTA Superintendent-in Chief Joseph O’Connor told WBZ-TV.

The third suspect tossed the bleach, contained in a water bottle, in his eyes using it as a “cheap weapon,” say police.'

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'PITTSBURGH—A new study led by a University of Pittsburgh researcher shows there is a gender gap when it comes to behavior and self-control in American children—one that does not appear to exist in children in Asia.

In the United States, according to the study, girls have higher levels of self-regulation than boys. In China, South Korea, and Taiwan, the study found no gender gap when researchers directly assessed the self-regulation of 3-to-6-year-olds. Self-regulation is defined as children’s ability to control their behavior and impulses, follow directions, and persist in completing a task. The results appear in the most recent issue of the journal Early Childhood Research Quarterly.

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'THE "terrible and very tragic'' deaths of two boys who died after their mother left them unattended in a shower for 10 hours highlights the need for more support for mentally ill mothers, the West Australian coroner says.

Coroner Alastair Hope handed down an open finding today in an inquest into the deaths of Lochlan James Stevens, aged two, and Malachi Isaac Stevens, aged 10 months, in November 2008.

But he made no recommendations because there was a lack of evidence from the boys' mother, Miranda Hebble, who claimed to not remember details from the incident.

The inquest heard she left the boys in the shower while she fetched something and fell asleep or passed out for 10 hours.'