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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.

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'(JTA) -- About 45 percent of 1,900 Britons polled favored banning Jewish ritual slaughter and 38 percent said they favored banning nonmedical circumcision.
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When asked about “male circumcision for religious reasons," 38 percent supported a ban, 35 percent opposed a ban and 27 percent were undecided, The Jewish Chronicle reported this week.

Among 18-24 year-olds, 41 percent would ban both nonmedical circumcision in underage boys and ritual slaughter of animals for food.'

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'I’ve covered gender differences in financial issues for years. Periodically, studies come out that say women are worse at planning for retirement than men. They outlive men, on average, and tend to put away less for retirement, so they end up poorer. The studies are pumped out with a frightening degree of regularity by financial institutions and think tanks. But I’ve started to ask: Is it really true that women are worse off in retirement?
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From the EBRI survey, I would gather that male retirees are slightly better off financially than females. The fact that men rely more on their own savings than on government programs proves they’ve done a better job of setting money aside. But the differences are slight, not oceanic.'

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'At an early point in their lives, women have developed a skill that lasts them their entire lifetime, and that is the ability to act/pretend as if they are on the same intellectual level with men, when women are actually superior to them. Men, not being comparatively bright, fall for this act and believe men and women are of equal intelligence. Men don't realize the intellectually inferior position they are in, and therefore women can use men's lack of understanding to their advantage in "outsmarting" men on various levels.'

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'With the spotlight currently shining on female leaders, like Marissa Mayer and Sheryl Sandberg, the timing couldn’t be better for next month’s release of the The Athena Doctrine. This groundbreaking new book, which features surveys from 64,000 people in 13 countries, presents an intriguing conclusion: Our world would be a better place if more men thought like women.

I had the chance to catch up with one of the authors, social strategist John Gerzema, to ask him a few questions about the book—and find out what his takeaways are for any business owner, regardless of gender.'

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'White women’s companies have received half of the $177 million that Parkland Memorial Hospital has awarded to minority- and women-owned businesses for the construction of a new public hospital.

Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price asked Parkland officials to provide the breakdown as he scrutinizes how Parkland and the new facility are being overseen.

“It’s very interesting to me that in every area, white-women-owned businesses lead the pack,” Price said at Tuesday’s regular meeting of the Dallas County commissioners.'