Submitted by Mastodon on Wed, 2012-11-28 17:03
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'A 24-year-old woman was arrested yesterday for attacking her boyfriend after he climaxed and she did not, a police report alleges.
Raquel Gonzalez lives in Bradenton, Florida with her boyfriend, Esric Davis, 30. Apparently, the two were engaged in intercourse.
When he finished and she did not, Gonzalez allegedly started punching and scratching him around the nose and eyes.
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The violent post-coital attack allegedly occurred after Davis reached orgasm, but Gonzalez did not. Apparently outraged, she then ‘began hitting and scratching (Davis), causing scratches near his eyes and nose,’ the police report read.
She was arrested yesterday afternoon and charged with felony domestic battery, and remains in the Manatee County jail.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Wed, 2012-11-28 16:38
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'WASHINGTON — Marine Corps Pvt. Lazzaric T. Caldwell slit his wrists and spurred a legal debate that’s consuming the Pentagon, as well as the nation’s top military appeals court.
On Tuesday, the court wrestled with the wisdom of prosecuting Caldwell after his January 2010 suicide attempt. Though Caldwell pleaded guilty, he and his attorneys now question his original plea and the broader military law that makes “self-injury” a potential criminal offense.
The questions resonate amid what Pentagon leaders have called an “epidemic” of military suicides.
“If suicide is indeed the worst enemy the armed forces have,” Senior Judge Walter T. Cox III said, “then why should we criminalize it when it fails?”'
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Submitted by Minuteman on Wed, 2012-11-28 12:12
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'Yorke & Lower North Health Service, Clare
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Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2012-11-28 02:10
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'A new Bill passed on Wednesday now gives men the opportunity to take women to court for child maintenance (child support).
The sole female parliamentarian, Minister of Social Services and Gender Affairs, Hon. Marcella Liburd introduced and led the debate on The Maintenance of Children Bill, 2012.
The 33-section Bill states that if a father/male has guardianship/sole custody of a child, he can take the same legal action previously only available to mothers/females, and apply to the court for financial support from the child’s mother/female guardian. It replaces an Act passed in 1920.
“I want to say that unlike what is said out there, mothers can indeed be asked to maintain their children because there situations where the children are in the physical custody of their father or the father’s family,” Minister Liburd said.'
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Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2012-11-28 02:00
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'Say you married your high school sweetheart, and he or she stayed home to raise the kids. Now 20 years later, you've grown apart and gotten divorced.
Along with a fair distribution of your lifetime savings, you'd probably agree that it's fair to pay alimony for a good number of years to help your former spouse find his or her way in the next chapter of life.
But should you be forced to pay alimony for the rest of your life?
Current law says a judge can make you pay alimony until you die, or until your former spouse remarries, something exes have been known to delay so as not to end the alimony gravy train.
As it stands, "permanent alimony" amounts to a life sentence. It is an outdated law that should be changed in the next session of the Florida Legislature.'
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Submitted by Minuteman on Wed, 2012-11-28 01:43
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'A Swedish woman who allegedly committed acts of necrophilia on a skeleton has been revealed as the same woman who sparked outrage in Australia in 2010 after publishing photos of a murdered Queensland teenager on her website.
The woman, whose identity has been supressed in Swedish media, is facing trial after human bones, body bags and disturbing images were allegedly found in her Gothenburg apartment.
Photos released to the media showed the 32-year-old caressing and licking the cranium of a yellowing skull.
In 2010 the woman made headlines after she posted three images of slain 12-year-old Goodna schoolgirl Leanne Holland on her now-defunct “gore” website ViralDeath.com.
Although it was later revealed the Holland images were lifted from a 2002 textbook, it drew widespread outrage from Australian authorities and led to an investigation by the Crime and Misconduct Commission.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Tue, 2012-11-27 21:22
Submitted by Mastodon on Tue, 2012-11-27 21:19
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'As the wife of a Canberra construction worker, I have every hope that the ACT government inquiry into safety in the building industry will be successful in identifying causes and proposing implementable solutions. As someone who has worked in the health sector, however, I am not optimistic.
There is no simple or single underlying cause of the cavalier attitude towards occupational health and safety which is evident on many construction sites, and it will be the job of the inquiry to uncover as many of these causes as possible. While some attention has been given to issues such as the quality of training and workers being pushed to meet cost and time deadlines, the one aspect of the current culture which has remained unrecognised is gender.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Tue, 2012-11-27 21:14
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'This week on campus, a number of movements picketed and soapboxed to prevent sexual assault. And don’t get me wrong; that’s a very good thing. Rape and sexual assault are some of the more heinous and damaging crimes that human beings can enact upon one another. My problem is not with groups determined to prevent these crimes, but with the nature of these groups.
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A glance at the White Ribbon Campaign’s website reveals some dynamic logos and the words: “What Does It Mean to Be A Man Today? It’s Time For A New Vision of the Perfect Man.” The White Ribbon Campaign further promises to educate men about how they can further prevent gender-based violence, a trait seemingly limited to their barbaric sex.
That’s my main problem here. Last I checked, our society was striving for an egalitarian approach, not a sexist one. The vision was that men and women are equal, and must be treated equally … so then why does no one care about men?'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Tue, 2012-11-27 20:18
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'A first lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps, a captain in the Marine Corps Reserves, a staff sergeant in the U.S. Army Reserves and a major in the U.S. Air National Guard filed suit Tuesday against the Department of Defense, challenging its rules restricting women in combat under the Fifth Amendment.
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Submitted by Minuteman on Tue, 2012-11-27 14:49
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'The 52-year-old woman, who cannot be named to protect the victim's identity, pleaded guilty in the Victorian County Court on Tuesday to repeatedly having sex with the teen over a four-year period.
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After one sexual encounter the teenager vomited in the bathroom for half an hour.
"I'd never had sex before this and I felt sick to the bottom of my stomach," the boy said in a police statement that was read out in court.
The sexual relationship began in 2002 when the victim was aged 13 and the woman was 41.
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Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2012-11-27 02:57
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'Solicitors specialising in divorce and child contact say they have noted a marked rise in allegations of one parents exerting undue influence on children to try to turn them against the other.
New mobile phones, computer games, designer clothes and even exotic holidays have been deployed in attempts to win children’s loyalty.
In other cases parents have openly resorted to trying to blacken their former partner’s name in the children’s eyes.
Naomi McGloin, a solicitor at Pannone, said allegations of “brainwashing” had become an increasingly common feature of acrimonious separations in her experience.
Parents desperate to keep their children have attempted to exploit a requirement on the courts to take a child’s feelings into consideration in determining where they should live.'
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Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2012-11-27 02:44
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'So her entry into the debate about women’s place in society is likely to raise some eyebrows, whether plucked or au naturel.
The 44-year-old, who was France’s first lady for four years until May, has declared: “We don’t need to be feminist in my generation.” Instead she suggests a woman’s place is in the home with her children.
In an interview for the January issue of Vogue magazine, to be published on Dec 1, she develops her views on the women’s liberation movement, adding: “There are pioneers who opened the breach.
“I’m not at all an active feminist. On the contrary, I’m a bourgeois. I love family life, I love doing the same thing every day.’
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Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2012-11-27 02:39
Article here. Seriously... I mean, for real? They actually asked this? Pardon me, but what planet does one have to be living on to imagine this would happen? It's simply more out-and-out misandry, state-sponsored, too. [Fla. DOH contact info is in the first comment to this story.] Excerpt:
'FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- The state of Florida is asking thousands of young women some intimate questions their sex lives and is giving them a $10 gift card in return - but some who received the survey are offended.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Mon, 2012-11-26 20:59
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'The 18th Annual "A Woman's Journey" health symposium at the Baltimore Hilton highlighted lung disease and the health of women in the military.
Herrera was first deployed in 2004 to Fort McCoy in Wisconsin. Her son was 31/2 and her daughter 2. She was deployed again a year later to the William Beaumont Army Medical Center near El Paso, Texas.
Women in the military often suffer from back and joint problems from carrying heavy equipment and wearing ill-fitting uniforms that sometimes cut into a woman's breast area, Herrera said. Extreme weather conditions can lead to skin disorders. And hearing problems can arise from gunshots, bombings and loud military equipment.
"I was never able to get used to the hum of the generator," Herrera said. "It was noisy all the time."
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