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'LONG BEACH, Calif. — A woman who falsely accused a former high school football star of rape is being sued by the Long Beach Unified School District in hopes of recovering legal fees and a $750,000 settlement paid to her.

The district alleges Wanetta Gibson committed contractual fraud in a lawsuit filed last November, the Long Beach Press-Telegram reported Thursday.

Gibson was 15 when she accused Brian Banks of attacking her on their high school campus. He insisted the sexual contact with Gibson was consensual, but pleaded no contest to forcible rape on the advice of his lawyer and spent more than five years in prison.'

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'Change for women over the last decade is in the books. Roles have transformed. Opportunities have exploded. And a future of choice and empowerment is locked in.

For men, that future is a lot less certain.

A time of female transformation has been a time of male accommodation. The adjustment to a massive transfer of power remains a work in progress and, judging by surveys and headlines, the progress is painfully uneven.

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This almost by way of humor, but at least those of you wondering if it's nature vs. nurture may be relieved somewhat to see nature seems to be a substantial contributor. Also note how mother mice go to tend their male pups first, possibly to quiet them down sooner since they're making the most noise. This may explain why human parents seem to give more attention to the female infants/toddlers: they may simply be "demanding" more attention due to greater vocalization than their male siblings. Excerpt:

'Women do really talk more than men, a study has concluded.

American researchers found females are the more talkative sex because of a special “language protein” in the brain.

The study, compiled by neuroscientists and psychologist from the University of Maryland, concluded that women talked more because they had more of the Foxp2 protein.

The research, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, found that higher levels were found among humans that were women but in rats they were males.

Article here. So you may think you're lacking ambition and that's bad? Maybe not so bad, really. Just be yourself. Apparently, it may come with an increased "low-stress dividend" that has a substantial payoff. Excerpt:

'Alpha males may look like they are in control but underneath they are stressed out, a study has found.

Researchers found that while they get the pick of the girls, the money and the power they pay a heavy price for their dominance.

Maintaining a lofty position in the social hierarchy causes your stress levels to rocket, it was discovered. Researchers believe that its so tough at the top because of the effort required to stay there and not the weight of responsibility.
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The heightened stress levels remained even when the animals appeared to be calm. Professor Laurence Gesquiere said: "Baboons are not only genetically closely related to humans, but like humans they live in highly complex societies.

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'Jurors in Jodi Arias' murder trial Thursday asked dozens of questions showing they're skeptical of a defense expert's diagnosis that Arias had been abused by the man she's accused of killing.

The jury's questions, put to domestic violence expert Alyce LaViolette, asked about LaViolette's assessment that Arias was a victim of domestic violence and whether LaViolette has affection for Arias. One juror wanted to know why LaViolette often looked at Arias in the courtroom and smiled.

"I have done that on occasion just to acknowledge her, but no other reason," said LaViolette, a psychologist. "I've actually tried to avoid looking at Ms. Arias."
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Jurors wanted to know if a female could "abuse, batter or terrorize a man" to the point of killing him.

"Yes, women can be perpetrators," LaViolette said.'

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'More shocking than the fact that Jodi is being allowed to paint pictures a sell them from a jail cell is how much she’s selling them for. “Hourless” is modestly priced at a whopping $2,000. Additionally, a portrait of Grace Kelly drawn by Jodi sold for $3,050 on eBay.

Jodi’s definitely striking while the iron’s hot — if she had waited for time to “run forward,” she might’ve missed the opportunity to pull down such huge prices for her amateur sketches. So… good for her?'

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'It’s time for a serious intervention in masculinity. It’s not enough to not be a rapist. You don’t get a cookie or a Nobel Peace Prize for that. If we want to end the pandemic of rape, it’s going to require an entire global movement of men who are willing to do the hard work required to unpack and interrogate the ideas of masculinity they were raised with, and to create and model new masculinities that don’t enable misogyny. Masculinities built not on power over women, but on power with women.

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'Nearly 12 years ago, Michael Shannon sent his two young sons to New York for what he thought what be a weekend visit with their mother.

It would be the last time he saw either one of them.

Nermeen Khalifa, the boys' mother and Shannon's ex-wife, took the children to her home country of Egypt, where U.S. citizens have almost no rights in custody battles.

"They were out of the country before we even knew they were gone," Shannon said. "I went to the apartment to pick them up. It was like it was ransacked."'

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'An Ohio day care worker decided to teach a 5-year-old a lesson by giving him a ‘bite’ of his own medicine.

When 56-year-old Robin Mullins of Cincinnati found out about a 5-year-old at her day care that was biting other children, Mullins sat him down, then chomped on his arm in order to ‘teach him a lesson.'

Mullins’ plan of action, however, didn’t go over too well with the parents -- or police for that matter. Mullins was arrested and charged Thursday with assault after leaving a visible bite mark on the kid's arm, Colerain Police Officer Eric Renner wrote in court records.
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The day care’s website explains that Mullins has worked with children of all ages for quite a few years, nine of which were at Northwest schools working with special needs and at-risk kids. Ironically, it also says Mullins has been trained in child abuse recognition and prevention.'

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'At age 17, high school football player Brian Banks was wrongfully convicted of rape. He spent five years in prison but was exonerated in May 2012. Last week, Banks signed with the Atlanta Falcons, and the country rejoiced.

Not surprisingly, some men’s rights activists are hailing this as a victory for their cause. They shouldn’t be. They’re right that Banks’s exoneration, and his new career, are good news, but the Banks case is not an example of a victory for men everywhere (when, when will there finally be a victory for men?!). Rather, it’s a rare instance of our justice system eventually doing right by the wrongfully convicted.

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The Inclusion Mandate, a key provision of the recently passed Violence Against Women Act, bans discrimination on the basis of color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, or disability.

The Centers for Disease Control has found that men and women engage in intimate partner abuse at nearly identical rates. But gender-biased predominant aggressor arrest policies often lead to the arrest of the man, even if the woman strikes the first blow.

We believe much of the problem lies with biased police training programs. For instance, one curriculum claims that "by and large, abusers are men and victims are women," a statement that stands in marked contrast to the Centers for Disease Control research.

To counter this misinformation and discrimination, SAVE offers evidence-based training programs for law enforcement.

If you haven't yet, visit SAVE's Inclusive-VAWA Resource Center: http://www.saveservices.org/inclusive-vawa/resources.

Teri Stoddard, Program Director
Stop Abusive and Violent Environments
www.saveservices.org

Article here. I imagine the numbers are probably the same/similar here in the US if not also in other "First World" countries. Younger women aren't faring any better, perhaps worse. Sad, really. Excerpt:

'Today's adults are so unhealthy they are 15 years 'older' than their parents and grandparents at the same age, researchers say.

They are more likely to suffer from high blood pressure, diabetes and obesity than previous generations because of poor health, according to a study published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology.

Looking at 6,000 adults aged 20, 30, 40, 50 over a 25 year period, researchers found younger generations had poorer 'metabolic' health - a range of issues including blood pressure and weight.

The study revealed men in their 30s were 20 per cent more likely to be overweight than in previous generations, while women in their 20s are twice as likely to be obese than those 10 years ago.'