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'SlutWalk is the latest, most visible offshoot of radical feminism. The cornerstones of SlutWalk’s ideology – victim blaming, rape culture, slut shaming – is extremely similar to that of radical feminism on sexual violence. SlutWalk Singapore is no exception. Currently, radical feminism so completely dominates discussions in the fields of women’s self-defence and sexual violence against women that it is extremely difficult to find objective, peer-reviewed case studies and academic papers. These are studies that seek to understand the subject matter, not ‘studies’ that push an agenda by perpetuating dogma.
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Radical feminists claim that they are exposing myths about sexual violence. What they do not say is that they are conjuring myths about myths.
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So why do radical feminists continue to perpetuate the myth of victim blaming?

The answer lies in the courts.

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'Women are leapfrogging men into the classroom at the nation's largest university system, redefining the gender gap on California State University campuses in a startling way.

About six out of 10 CSU graduates last spring were female -- a complete reversal over the past four decades. Some campuses, like Dominguez Hills and Stanislaus, have almost twice as many women as men, feeling eerily like women's colleges.

The trend is so pronounced that last month Cal State East Bay held a special one-day "Male Initiative" conference for young minority men, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

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'A 14-year-old Missouri boy with Down syndrome whose mother says he “gives people hugs all the time” has been suspended from middle school for allegedly sexually harassing a bus aide, a school official told FoxNews.com.

Desi Mayberry, Central R-III School District superintendent, told FoxNews.com that Aleczander Fujiomoto, of Park Hills, Mo., grabbed an unidentified female bus aide while aboard a school bus last Wednesday and imitated a "sexual act" while on top of the woman, who is no longer considering pressing charges for sexual harassment.

"He grabbed her around her waist, like a bear hug, and then he gets on top of her and moves in a sexual motion, imitating a sexual act," Mayberry said.

The aide then "screamed for help," leading the school bus driver to separate Fujimoto and the aide, Mayberry said. The incident led to a "short-term" suspension for Fujimoto, according to Mayberry, who declined to indicate exactly how many days the boy was banned from school.

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Fathers have won the right to be named on their children’s birth certificates as soon as their paternity is proved.

The new legal ruling means that even if a mother has refused to tell her children who their father is, his identity must be immediately revealed on the amended birth certificate.

This significant development in father’s rights came in an Appeal Court judgement yesterday, in the case of a man who has been fighting a long-running battle to see his 12-year-old twin daughters since DNA results established he is their father.

The mother entered another man’s name as the father, and has not told them who the real father is. None of the people involved can be publicly identified.

As part of on-going legal proceedings, a family judge ruled earlier this year that the girls’ birth certificates must be altered.'

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'If a male-only social network was launched that let men rate their former conquests in terms of attractiveness and sexual ability, it probably wouldn't go down very well.

But somehow, a female-only equivalent is OK.

Luluvise.com, which went live yesterday, is a social network, described as 'Sex And The City marries Facebook' - and it bans boys.

It connects through your Facebook profile - although does not let any of your Facebook friends know that you have connected.

'Luluvise uses Facebook to make registration easier. We do not post to walls or make Luluvise information public anywhere or to other Facebook users,' creator Alexandra Chong explained.

Once you've logged on you can see what other women have said about your potential love interests.
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More than 500 boys have already submitted their emails to get access to the site, but instead received an email reading: 'Hey Dude, you're a dude.'

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'A high school cheerleading squad with hopes of placing in a recent statewide competition was disqualified when the contest ended in the lakeside city of Port Huron, Michigan.

The team's lone infraction? One of the team members is a boy.

As initially reported by ABC affiliate WXYZ, the Lakeview High cheerleaders were formally disqualified only after the competition had concluded. They received no final score—only a "DQ".

Though the disqualification came into play just this past week, Lakeview High's story of a male cheerleader has been brewing for several months.

Long before the recent Port Huron competition, Lakeview High welcomed 14-year-old Brandon Urbas to its cheerleading team. The squad was looking forward to the upcoming 2011-2012 season's series of meets and tournaments.

Upon becoming the school's only male cheerleader earlier this year, Urbas had received support from the school and his peers since day one.'

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'A teenage girl whose false rape allegation led to an innocent man being beaten up and another man sent to jail was let off by police with just an £80 fixed penalty notice.

Jess Cooper was handed the penalty – usually given for minor traffic infringements, anti-social behaviour or environmental offences – for wasting police time.

However, her ‘wicked’ lie led to Andrew Lester being punched and kicked to the floor. He lost eight teeth and his hearing was permanently damaged.

Yesterday a judge who jailed Cooper’s boyfriend over the attack said the police’s decision not to prosecute her ‘beggared belief’.
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The judge said he was able to reduce Hollyman’s sentence because the ‘provocation is very significant’. He added that Hollyman, from Walsall, was ‘in many ways’ a victim.'

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'A Denver anesthesiologist cleared in criminal court of raping his nanny is now suing his accuser for lost wages and emotional damages in an unusual lawsuit that's bound — once again — to come down to he said, she said.

A jury in February acquitted Jordan Sankel, 47, finding there wasn't enough evidence showing he forced his nanny into sex. Three months later, he filed a slander and abuse-of- process lawsuit against the former nanny, asking for an unspecified amount greater than $100,000.

Her attorneys call the suit an "outrageous" attempt at retribution, and rape awareness counselors shudder at attaching potential civil penalties to filing a police report on an already underreported crime.

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'The 16-year-old reportedly made up the account to conceal the fact that she had lost her virginity to her Italian boyfriend, but the lie unleashed a chain of events that she could not have foreseen.

She went to the police near her home on the outskirts of Turin late last week to report that she had been raped.

Police officers conducted interviews with dozens of people in the area to try to find witnesses to the supposed attack, and the news of the assault quickly spread.

Up to 500 people staged a peaceful protest march on Saturday in the suburb of Le Vallette but a mob of around 50 peeled off from the rally and headed to a nearby gipsy camp.

As the Romany inhabitants fled, the vigilantes set fire to around 20 makeshift shelters and huts, creating a huge blaze. They threw stones and beat up at least one gipsy man.

Story here. This is a murder-suicide of a young mother and her whole family, including the father and her three children. This story is appalling and disturbing, like so many recent stories in the news. What is wrong with some people?

'(AP) EMINGTON, Ill. — A burst of gunfire sent Annelise Fiedler running out of her home to see what the noise was. In the yard next door, she saw 30-year-old Sara McMeen hovering over her baby as if she had dropped her. Fiedler asked McMeen if everything was all right.

"She looked at me and said, 'No, everything is not all right,'" Fiedler told The Associated Press.

Then, Fiedler said, McMeen shot the baby. Fiedler fled for her life.

Story here. Suppose he would have 'joked around' this way with a female student? He would not have even dared touch her much less write "Stupid" on her forehead. Excerpt:

'LIVINGSTON, Tenn. -- A first-year teacher from Overton County may lose his job after writing the word "stupid" across a student’s forehead with permanent marker, a district official told WSMV-TV in Nashville.

The math teacher has been suspended indefinitely, Matt Eldridge, director of the Overton County Schools, told the NBC television station.

"We're here to help the children and not to hurt them," Eldridge said, adding "One word can break a child. I mean, I've got three children. I wouldn't want it done to mine."'

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'But ignorance might work in favor of males who overestimate their attractiveness.

Men often have difficulty accurately reading a woman's level of interest in them, a new study finds.

In what should come as no surprise to any woman who's spent time in the dating world, a certain type of guy tends to think all women want him, while other guys just can't seem to pick up on the cues.

The study included 96 male and 103 female U.S. college undergraduates who took part in a "speed-meeting" exercise that involved talking for three minutes to each of five members of the opposite sex.
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When it comes to human evolution, it's likely that males who overestimated their appeal to females and pursued them even at the risk of being rebuffed were more likely to reproduce and pass this trait to their genetic heirs, the researchers suggested.'

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'On average, 24 people per minute are victims of rape, physical violence, or stalking by an intimate partner in the United States, according to findings released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Over the course of a year, that equals more than 12 million women and men. Those numbers only tell part of the story – more than 1 million women reported being raped in a year and over 6 million women and men were victims of stalking in a year, the report says.
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For women:

From Marc A:

As usual, the mass media is misleading the public about gender and domestic violence. This time, they're citing the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) 2010 report (released Nov. 2011) very misleadingly by only citing female victims. For example, in an AP story, they say 1 in 4 women were victims of intimate partner violence (IVP) and 1 in 5 women have been "raped." (http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/wellness/135586678.html)

They say nothing about men. Invisible as always. But if you look at the actual data, it says: "More than 1 in 3 women (35.6%) and more than 1 in 4 men (28.5%) in the United States have experienced rape, physical violence, and/or stalking by an intimate partner in their lifetime." See executive summary at http://www.cdc.gov/ViolencePrevention/pdf/NISVS_Report2010-a.pdf

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'Washington Department of Social and Health Services seized Maile Metalwala, the 4-year-old daughter of Solomon Metalwala, away from her unfit mother, Julia Biryukova, and put Maile in foster care on November 6. It is a common but unjust practice for child welfare agencies to put children in foster care instead of giving them to their fathers. Moreover, the Washington court separated Maile from Solomon based on spurious abuse allegations from a now thoroughly discredited accuser.

On Tuesday November 29 Fathers and Families launched our Campaign to Reunite Solomon Metalwala with His Daughter Maile. Our goal has been to push WA DSHS and King County Superior Court to reunite Maile and Solomon as soon as possible. Many of our members and supporters wrote and/or called the relevant authorities, and our campaign has been covered by much of the Seattle media. DSHS issued a statement in response to our campaign on Friday.'