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'The Nordic Council has received recommendations from the expert panel to forbid antifeminist speech in the Nordic countries (Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Iceland and Norway).

The “Expert panel” was full of radical feminists and profeminist men.

The report is written in the Nordic languages (except Finnish) and some parts in English.

In the report antifeminist speech and right-wing extremist hate speech towards immigrants are treated as a part of the same movement.

MRM is labeled as part of right-wing extremism.'

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'Whilst at PyCon, a conference for developers, Adria Richards was seated ten rows back from the stage. A row behind her, two men were having a conversation where they referenced "forking repos" and "big dongles". Adria overheard and decided she did not like what she heard, since conversations of an offensive nature are not allowed in PyCon's guidelines. She decided to tweet to her 10,000+ twitter followers in the industry, instead of speaking to them directly as suggested in the guidelines. The events that followed would lead to both parties getting fired.

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'Here's a sad but true story. It starts with a young couple living in North Carolina, married two years, wife pregnant, husband in the Army Reserves.

He's deployed to Afghanistan for a year, and she moves to Maryland to live with her parents and newborn daughter. One year later, a week before the child's father comes home from Afghanistan, the wife texts her husband to say she's divorcing him — she claimed abandonment, even though they had kept in touch weekly — and then takes two thirds of the money they had saved.
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The wife had a bachelor's degree and finally decided to get a job. So now they were making close to the same amount, she grossing $2,300 a month and he $2,600. She had the added expense of day care, at $860 a month, but she was still living for free with her parents.

Article here. Excerpt:

'When the Pentagon said earlier this year that it would open ground combat jobs to women, it was cast in terms of giving women equal opportunities in the workplace — the military workplace.

But the move has practical considerations, too. The military needs qualified people to fill its ranks, and it's increasingly harder to find them among men.

"It's fairly common knowledge that our population of military-age young men, who qualify for the military, is declining," Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey said in an interview with NPR just after the Pentagon announced that women no longer be excluded from ground combat jobs.

Too many potential male recruits have criminal records, drop out of high school or have drug problems. In addition, the rising obesity rate is also a factor.'

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'The people carrying signs Saturday in Pine Grove Park across from Port Huron Hospital were protesting cuts — but not to health care spending or state government.

Members of Intact Michigan were protesting infant circumcision.

“We believe that since girls are protected under the law from genital cutting, males also should be protected under the law from genital cutting until they’re old enough to decide,” said Kaitlyn Young, who organized the protest.

“We’re not against circumcision per se,” she said. “We’re against it being forced on infants.”'

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'MOORHEAD – Last Sunday, 230 people registered for MSUM’s third annual “Walk a Mile in Her Shoes.” An estimated three-quarters of them were male college students.
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The men clearly had fun trying on, showing off and hobbling around in the women’s shoes, but the afternoon spectacle had a bigger purpose – to show that they, too, want to help prevent sexual violence.
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“Being of the male gender, I have to assume responsibility on behalf of all men for the fact that we didn’t seem to care that much. It took, for the most part, strong, determined women to say enough is enough, 35-40 years ago,” says Diehl, who’s been working in the field for 25 years.

He says the men he knows and works with are aware of and grateful for the work women have done to raise awareness and prevent violence against women, and they don’t want to come across as trying to take over – they just want to add their voices and work on the problem together.

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'Among other more technical legal findings, the Court found that the due process, equal protection, and discrimination claims could not survive on their merits. The Court reasoned that public schools may lawfully enact and enforce dress and grooming policies and may even impose a higher degree of regulation on students who participate in interscholastic sports than the general student body. The student’s equal protection claim failed because the haircut policy applies only to male athletes who play basketball and not all male athletes, thereby eliminating any claims that male athletes were treated differently from female athletes. The Court stated that there was no evidence the school intentionally discriminated against the student because of his membership in the class of male athletes. Similarly, the student’s Title IX gender discrimination claim failed because the haircut policy does not discriminate against the student because of his gender.'

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'Girls may struggle with self-esteem issues and gender equality in the workplace, but a new study suggests there is one area where they have a one-up on their male counterparts.

Conducted by two Canadian economics professors, this study is a follow-up on one that showed boys receive more parental time than girls because their fathers spend more time with them after about age five or six. However, the new study indicates that girls have the upper hand when it comes to teaching time from their parents.

According to the authors, preschool girls from Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom get more time with their parents when it comes to telling stories, reading, singing songs, drawing, and learning new words and letters. Even in households with fraternal boy-and-girl twins where parents were determined to treat both children fairly, this conclusion held true. In fact, number teaching seemed to be the only place where boys seemed to receive fair treatment.'

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'Twenty years ago Earl Silverman of Calgary, fleeing his home to escape violence from his abusive wife, had no refuge to take shelter in. There were plenty of shelters for women victims of domestic abuse, but for men the only publicly funded services were for anger management.

The message was clear to Silverman: “As a victim, I was re-victimized by having these services telling me I wasn’t a victim, but I was a perpetrator.”

Three years ago, in his own home, Silverman opened the Men’s Alternative Safe House (MASH), which until last week held the distinction of being the only privately funded shelter for male victims of domestic abuse in Canada. Now, with no public funds to help, the maintenance and grocery bills associated with running his shelter have become too onerous for him to handle. Silverman has sold his home.'

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'LEWISVILLE — Unfavorable weather and insufficient advertising is being blamed for the low turn out to a rally planned in front of Lewisville City Hall.

Lewisville resident Robert Glen planned a Men Against Domestic Violence rally for March 23, but only four people showed up for the event.

“It was a total bust,” Glen said. “I know the weather wasn’t great, and I don’t think there was enough coverage to really get the rally going.”'

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'Jodi Arias’ defense team may have scored its first big win Thursday when a domestic violence expert testified about previously undisclosed emails from Travis Alexander’s close friends that indicate he had a history of being abusive.

"They have basically advised Ms. Arias to move on from the relationship ... that Mr. Alexander has been abusive to women." psychotherapist Alyce LaViolette testified.
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Prosecutor Juan Martinez objected to much of the defense expert's testimony, calling it was hearsay. However, the judge overruled the majority of the objections.

The jury could view LaViolette's testimony as crucial in determining whether there is merit to Arias' claim that she was a victim of domestic violence.'

Petition here. Text:

'It is an absolute outrage that this country has outlawed medically unnecessary circumcision of minor females, yet has continued to to allow the procedure on infant males. The fourteenth amendment plainly states that all individuals are guaranteed equal protection under the law. There are countless males outraged at having been mutilated at the hands of doctors (These doctors took vows to first do no harm) with the consent of their parents (who are suppose to protect their children!). There are not enough benefits of circumcision to recommend it as routine practice. There are needless infant deaths every year due to complications. It is time to stand up as a nation and do away with an outdated trend that introduced to prevent masturbation!'

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'The Massachusetts Medical Society has submitted an act relative to the valuation of professional practices in divorce proceedings, H1227. This legislation is applicable to all professional practices – medical, architectural, legal, financial services, and engineering.

Prior to 1997, the Massachusetts probate courts in divorce proceedings treated the value of a corporation as the price at which the property would change hands between a willing seller and a willing buyer, neither being under any compulsion to buy or sell and both having relevant knowledge of relevant facts. This definition is referred to as the fair market valuation standard as defined by the Internal Revenue Service. This legislation would reinstate this definition for professional corporations, in particular when the professional is going to stay with the corporation and continue to provide services.'

Story here. More from the it's-really-a-problem-if-it-includes-women-and-children dept. Excerpt:

'There are reports out of northern Europe that more than 500 people were adrift on two ice floes that broke away and began drifting away from the coast of Latvia.

Among the stranded were families with women and children but most of the stranded were ice fishermen.

Rescue operations were underway and many of the people had been rescued.'

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'This claim, advanced by a cadre of feminist activists and bloggers, has been gaining mainstream currency—particularly in the wake of the nationally publicized Steubenville, Ohio rape case which exposed some very ugly attitudes and behaviors. While no one would deny that sexual violence is a grave problem, the crusade against “the rape culture” is a dubious cure: it distorts truth, fosters anger and divisiveness instead of respect and equality, and ultimately endangers justice for all.