A 5-Concussion Pee Wee Game Leads to Penalties for the Adults

Article here. So you wonder where boys learn that they're utterly dispensable? Easy enough. They learn it from their parents, who stand around and do nothing (or are complicit) while they get their heads bashed in playing a game their bodies aren't nearly ready for. After all, if a 23-YO man in the prime of life, bulging with muscles and wearing a padded helmet, can suffer a serious concussion that leaves him unintelligible when he's 40, what do you suppose happens to 10-year-olds when they get their heads bashed in? Excerpt:

'It took just one play on Sept. 15 to suggest the game between the Southbridge Pop Warner pee wees and their rivals, the Tantasqua Braves, could mean trouble. Two Tantasqua players were hit so hard that their coach pulled them off the field. An emergency medical technician on the sidelines evaluated the boys, grew worried that they might have concussions, and had them take their pads off.

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Crystal Mangum charged with murdering boyfriend

And somehow, feminists have just kept on supporting her. There's no end to the insanity. Story here. Excerpt:

'Durham, N.C. — Family members of a man who was stabbed in his home April 3 say he died Wednesday evening. Crystal Mangum, the Durham woman who falsely accused three Duke University lacrosse players of rape in 2006, has been charged with assaulting him.

Durham police confirmed Thursday morning that Reginald Daye, 46, had died.

"The case remains under investigation, and we do anticipate upgrading the charges. However, no new charges have been filed at this time," police spokeswoman Kammie Michael said in an e-mail to WRAL News.

Police said Mangum, 32, stabbed Daye in the torso with a kitchen knife during a dispute at 3507 Century Oaks Drive early on April 3.
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A man who said he was Daye's nephew called 911 to report the stabbing, saying it occurred while Daye and his girlfriend were arguing about rent money. The caller said police came to the apartment complex earlier while the couple argued, but the stabbing occurred after the officers left.

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UNC drops term ‘freshman’ in favor of ‘gender inclusive language’

Article here. Excerpt:

'The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill has removed the word “freshman” from official university documents, citing as their reason an attempt to adopt more “gender inclusive language.”

We are “committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming environment for all members of our community,” reads a statement administrators sent to Campus Reform on Monday.
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Some students, however, expressed discontent over the change in policy.

Brandon Hartness, Executive Vice Chair for the school’s college Republicans chapter, told Campus Reform he feels the university is allowing political correctness to drive their decisions.

“I feel like they are making a big deal out of nothing,” said Hartness. “Girls are not going to deem the word [freshman] as sexist.”'

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Towson University athletic department recommends cutting men's baseball, soccer

Article here. Excerpt:

'Towson University announced Tuesday that its athletics department recommended the school’s NCAA men’s baseball and soccer teams be cut after the 2012-2013 school year, according to a message from President Maravene Loeschke on the school’s website.

“Our Towson University community holds a great deal of pride for our baseball and men’s soccer student-athletes and the legacy they have established with Towson University,” Loeschke said in the online letter.
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The task force was charged with increasing Towson’s competitiveness, establishing long-term stability of the athletics department, and maintaining Title IX compliance, which ensures equal funding for men’s and women’s sports.'

Also see: Towson University Cutting Baseball Is Inexcusable

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Australia: "Male teachers need special exemption from equal opportunity laws"

Article here. Excerpt:

'South Australia has the highest proportion of male teaching staff in the nation at 30 per cent, according to 2011 Australian Bureau of Statistics data.

But that is down from 34 per cent a decade ago and only a few per cent more than other states and territories.

Nationally, the proportion of male teachers has fallen everywhere except in the Northern Territory.

The Education Department does not run specific programs to recruit male teachers, prompting MPs and school leaders to call for a more targeted strategy.

Opposition education spokesman David Pisoni said the department should consider applying for exemptions from equal opportunity laws to recruit only men for some school positions "if we're serious about stemming the decline".'

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Leaders, educators help engineer future workforce

Article here. Excerpt:

'Women earn 20 percent of all bachelor degrees in physics, engineering and computer science.

2018 workforce projections show 9 of 10 of the fastest growing occupations that mandate bachelor degrees require significant scientific or mathematical training.

Science and engineering occupations are predicted to grow faster than the average rate of all other occupations, and some of the largest increases will be in engineering and computer-related fields.

Sources: American Association of University Women 2010 “Why so Few” report; The National Science Foundation; and the U.S. Department of Labor

“Engineers design things people use daily — including buildings, bridges, computers, cars, wheelchairs and X-ray machines. When women are not involved in the design of these products, needs of women may be overlooked. Consider some of the early voice-recognition systems; they were calibrated to typical male voices. Women’s voices were unheard.

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Women And STEM Careers: How Microsoft Is Building A Bridge To Future Innovation -- One Girl At A Time

Article here. Excerpt:

'Microsoft believes they need diverse teams to encourage innovation and ensure technological advancements. With women accounting for only 18% of the Bachelor’s degrees awarded in computer and information sciences and support services in the U.S. as of 2009-2010, Rane and Microsoft realize the need to grow interest at a younger age to attract more women to the field of technology. Working with their communities, governments, NGOs/IGOs, and academic and research institutions, they inspire women with creative thinking skills to pursue technical careers.

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"A Deadbeat Dad and the Bloody Pandas"

Site for book by the title here. Excerpt:

"Some stories need be told and others heard at any cost. This is one such story. The system does not want it published and the law prohibits its disclosure. The societal and judicial prejudices are on display but the law as it stands will at any cost try and bury this disclosure. The author is staring imprisonment but willing to accept the consequences. Why not share the tears and joy that make us all human."

From the Amazon.co.uk link here:

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Berlin Conference Addresses Male Troubles

Article here. Excerpt:

'German Family Minister Kristina Schröder has long had something of an adversarial relationship with the country's feminists. Not only has she refused to support hard quotas for women in top management positions, but she also has repeatedly broadsided "early feminism" or "feminists from the last century" for failing to recognize that "partnerships and children produce happiness." For many women's rights veterans, Schröder's book published last spring, in which she essentially declares the dawning of the post-feminist era, was something of a last straw.

Now, Schröder is wading even further into the gender debate. On Monday, she will open a two-day conference specifically focusing on issues specific to men as society strives to achieve gender equality. Called "Men's Policies: Contributions to a Gender Equitable Society," the gathering is the first such high-level conference ever held on men's issues in the German-speaking world. And, as Schröder has made clear, comes not a moment too soon.

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Kagan admits her gender was likely the greatest factor for her appointment

Story here. "Difficulties", indeed. Plenty of male lawyers and judges would love to have your "difficulties", Mme. Justice. Excerpt:

'If Elena Kagan was not a woman, she may not be sitting on the country's highest judicial bench, the Supreme Court justice told an audience at the University of Tennessee on Friday.

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Woman fined for false rape claim

Article here. Excerpt:

'Durban - A Durban regional court magistrate has warned a woman who falsely cried rape about the seriousness of her actions, and said it had been the third such incident before him in just one week.

The woman, 18, in a bid to have charges against the accused withdrawn, told magistrate Anand Maharaj on Friday that she had laid charges against the young man in the dock for raping her because she was upset.

It appears she had caught him in a compromising position.

Maharaj said it was the third case in his court in which a woman applied for charges to be withdrawn after making a false statement that she had been raped.'

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UK: Would you pay $8,785 to join a women-only club?

Article here. Excerpt:

'As gentlemen’s clubs in London become more and more irrelevant, a new elite club is getting ready to open its doors next month … to women only.

Grace Belgravia, located in the posh area of the same name, bills itself as “inclusive and exclusive.” Membership will cost £5,500 (approximately $8,785) annually.
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Following the announcement, another Telegraph writer voiced her opinion about the benefits of women’s clubs. “Men (sorry, chaps) are exhausting,” she writes.

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Botswana: 133 prisoners circumcised

Article here. Excerpt:

'Speaking at a press briefing, Dr Rachel Seleka revealed that so far 133 inmates have undergone circumcision at their clinics. "So far we have at least 133 inmates from Gaborone, Moshupa and Molepolole prisons circumcised since April last year but we have not taken our initiative to the northern part of the country," she said.

Government introduced the SMC programme a few years ago, and there have been calls for the initiative to be extended to other vulnerable groups outside mainstream society. Seleka said they have discovered that inmates take health related issues more seriously when they are incarcerated.

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Ottawa Film Festival to Show Fathers Rights Movie on Saturday, November 3rd at 5:00 PM

Ottawa Film Festival to Show Fathers Rights Movie

Saturday-November 3rd @ 5 pm

Meet Journalist Barbara Kay, FACT’S Brian Jenkins and many other brothers in the Fathers Rights struggle.

This is the first-ever, Fathers Rights Film shown by a festival organizer in Ottawa, Please Forward to other Ottawa and Area contacts as the family law situation in the USA is exactly replicated in Canada. . This is a major celebration of public notice being taken of the family law disaster and placed on the public record by means of film of the divorced fathers nightmare. The Free Thinking Film Society has taken a momentous decision and needs to be congratulated for this effort. Please show your support of the festival itself and this film in particular.

http://www.freethinkingfilmfest.ca/schedule.html

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MSNBC's "Today" show indulges in double-standards around showing off semi-nude men

Video here. Imagine a similar thing like this only with the sexes reversed? Suppose the idea would ever even leave the conference room in which it was brought up?

Some of you guys, this may not bother. That's fine. But if it does, the contact form is here.

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