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'A 36-year-old woman is expected to appear in court next month after she laid false charges of rape against her former husband.

Police spokesperson Const Sergio Kock said the police were now investigating a case of perjury after the woman laid the rape charge against her ex-husband on August 10.

“Her ex-husband was arrested on the same day and spent seven days in prison for a crime he allegedly did not commit. On August 16, after excellent investigative questioning by police detectives, the female complainant admitted there was animosity between her and the ex-husband and this led to her laying the false rape charge,” said Kock.

Kock said the woman confessed that she had consensual sex with the husband and also admitted in the presence of the police that she lied under oath about the rape.'

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'A $3 million breach-of-contract lawsuit trial against Sewanee: The University of the South enters its second day today with lawyers questioning an expert witness on college sexual harassment and assault policies.

The plaintiff, identified only as John Doe in court documents, is suing the school in federal court for negligence and breach of contract, claiming he received no due process when forced to leave following a rape accusation by another student. The female student later left the school for drug and alcohol treatment and did not pursue criminal charges against Doe.

"Instead of being careful with their conduct, the university chose to rush to judgment," Doe's attorney Charles Wayne told jurors in his opening statement Tuesday afternoon.
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Sokolow testified this was the first time he has worked as a witness on behalf of someone accused in a sexual assault. In all other instances, he has testified on behalf of the university or the victim of a sexual assault.

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'The London School of Economics is facing legal action after a former student claimed its gender studies course was sexist - against men. Tom Martin, who quit the university after six weeks, claims in papers lodged at the Central London county court that lecturers ignored male issues. He is claiming some £50,000 citing breach of contract, misleading advertising, misrepresentation, and breach of the Gender Equality Duty Act.

The 39-year-old, who attended the university last year to take up a Gender, Media and Culture Masters degree, said there was "systemic anti-male discrimination". But he said an internal investigation carried out by the university in the wake of his complaints found "no evidence" of bias.

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'Students rehearsing for Thursday’s play called “Are You Afraid of the Dark?” said they weren’t sure if all of the stories were true, but they were powerful nonetheless.

Tom Sendelbach, a St. Ambrose senior in finance and management and a residential adviser, read a monologue from the perspective of a man who knew he was wrong when he coerced women into having sex.

Sendelbach said he thought the whole show was a good thing for students, especially freshmen who were new to the college experience.

“I think people don’t realize exactly the definition of sexual assault, and I think that this is aimed and making men and women more aware of their boundaries and how things can go wrong,” Sendelbach said. “I do know that there are situations that male freshmen do get into, and they don’t necessarily know the line in the sand. I hope that this event helps to clear the fog away and sharpen people’s perceptions when it comes to sexual assault.”'

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'What is especially worrying about the trend is the effect it has on our children. It’s impossible to spend a night with your female friends, having a ‘laugh’ about your useless husband and then go home and treat him with respect.

More than once, I’ve seen mothers and children in cahoots, exchanging raised eyebrows over yet another ‘job’ that Daddy hasn’t done. In sharing tales about men’s incompetence, women are coming dangerously close to normalising a corrosive and lasting disrespect for fathers that can only have devastating consequences.

Research carried out by the University of Kent last year demonstrated that by the age of eight boys believed girls were better behaved and more successful than they were. Surely these negative opinions of their gender are down to boys growing up in a culture that routinely derides and ridicules masculinity.

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'That's repugnant, and something else that's repugnant is certain ideologically inane women's groups telling us we shouldn't even be discussing the maid's credibility. These ultra-feminists are forever arguing that women accusers are always truly victims, are always right, and that the male defendants are always guilty, are always wrong. How far a distance is that from someone saying he is an Aryan and you are a Jew and therefore he is a real human and you are not?

I do not deny generations of mistreating women, but swinging from one extreme to another is multiplying error, not erasing it. If members of these groups fall short of Nazi ambitions, they're still in the camp that would happily ruin lives on the basis of infantile generalities. Right now, the Obama administration is insisting that universities work even harder on the goal. To find out more, listen to Peter Berkowitz.

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'The domestic-violence incident involving former New York City deputy mayor Stephen Goldsmith illustrates what Harvard Law professor Jeannie Suk has written about. Domestic violence has become an area where the government takes control away from the individual woman.

After Mrs. Goldsmith said to her husband, “I should have put a bullet into you years ago,” Mr. Goldsmith shoved her into a counter, smashed a phone, and held her for some moments. She called the police. When they got there, she didn’t want her husband arrested, but it didn’t matter. Arrest is mandatory once the woman has made the call, and her husband spent two days in jail before the charges were dismissed when she declared her wish that he not be prosecuted. (And the Goldsmiths were fortunate there. According to Suk, many disputes result in mandatory prosecution and sentencing, over the objections of the woman.)

Article here. Such an arrogant comment by the American Association Of University Women. Taking away a man's rights is looked upon as some kind of victory. In a way they're right. The new sheriff is man-hater Joe Biden, the same man behind the unconstitutional VAWA and an advocate for reducing men's sports teams (Title IX). Excerpt:

'"In many ways, there is a new sheriff in town," says Lisa Maatz, director of public policy at the American Association of University Women in Washington.

But some academic-freedom advocates say the sheriff has gone too far. In particular, they're concerned that the standard of proof the Obama administration is urging will wrongly take down some of the accused.

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'The 51-year-old man was fined under article 215 of France’s civil code, which states married couples must agree to a “shared communal life”.

A judge has now ruled that this law implies that “sexual relations must form part of a marriage”.

The rare legal decision came after the wife filed for divorce two years ago, blaming the break-up on her husband’s lack of activity in the bedroom.

A judge in Nice, southern France, then granted the divorce and ruled the husband named only as Jean-Louis B. was solely responsible for the split.'

Article here. The title is from the original article; the now 56 year-old former serviceman is actually seeking a very modest pension, for severe depression resulting from his treatment whilst in the defence force. Being seen to be after "compo" (financial compensation) is frowned on here in Australia, and the female journalist is attempting to portray this former serviceman's situation in this light. Excerpt:

'A FORMER sailor who was circumcised by a ship's doctor and allegedly suffered ridicule from his shipmates is seeking compensation almost 40 years after the operation.

He woke during the operation and had to be physically restrained while it was completed, according to evidence to a tribunal.

The attendant holding him down then joked his foreskin would make good fish bait, it was claimed.

Today's Jewish Movement to Question Circumcision

(Submitted by a MANN Reader)

Over the last hundred years, a Jewish and Israeli movement to stop circumcision has emerged. This is due to modern notions of an individual’s right to their own body, new historical information about the origin of circumcisions in Egypt and Africa, scientific discoveries about the damage caused by circumcision, and a desire by individuals to live a higher level of spiritual ethics. This movement includes Jewish Rabbis, scholars, parents, intellectuals, Israelis, and educators.

Jewish Groups for Genital Integrity
Jews Against Circumcision
Jews for the Rights of the Child
Bris Shalom Officiants by Mark D. Reiss, M.D.
Questioning Circumcision: A Jewish Perspective by Ron Goldman, Ph.D.
Beyond the Bris: Jewish Parenting Blog

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Lucy Valantine was approaching her fortieth birthday when she made the seemingly bizarre decision to leave her husband of five years. “On the surface, life was perfect,” she says. “We had a gorgeous Victorian house in the Home Counties, I had a great job with a blue-chip company, and my husband was a lovely chap. He was kind and gentle and my friends all loved him. There was nothing wrong with him, but it wasn’t enough. I wanted to change my life.
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Relationship counsellor Andrew G Marshall, author of I Love You, I’m Just Not In Love With You, says he has noted a trend towards such splits. “In the past 10 years, I’ve seen a huge increase in couples who don’t actually hate each other, they just don’t love each other enough to stick at it. Ninety per cent of these marriages would be perfectly serviceable if the people involved would just put in more effort.”

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'A Rochester woman is facing charges after leaving her children alone in her car.

The Ontario County Sheriff's Office says 33-year-old Shanita Polk left her three children, ages 5, 7 and 9, unattended in the Eastview Mall parking lot for an extended period of time.

She also provided police with a false name to avoid an active warrant for her arrest out of Rochester. Polk was charged with endangering the welfare of a child and criminal impersonation.

She was arraigned in Farmington Court and taken to the Ontario County. The children were picked up my family members. Polk will answer to the charges in Victor Town Court.'

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'New research is revealing more about men’s lives in the transition to fatherhood. Psychologist and PhD candidate Jeanette Lightfoot says that, despite a growing interest in fathers, much of the research is either comparative – contrasting them with mothers – or misses them altogether.

Little is known about men’s abilities to form close relationships and strong bonds with their infants, and only limited research has sought to better identify vulnerabilities and risk factors during the transition to fatherhood,” she says.

“While new fatherhood is an uplifting, rewarding and wonderful time for most men it is important to be able to identify those men who may be at risk of a poorer adaptation, and to develop appropriate supports and interventions to assist these men, their partners and their children.”'

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'CHICAGO (Reuters) - Male firefighters who were exposed to toxic dust and smoke from the 9/11 attacks on New York's World Trade Center have a 19 percent higher risk of getting cancer of all kinds than colleagues who were not exposed, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.

The study is the first to look at cancer rates among the all of the exposed firefighters, and the findings may help pave the way for federal health benefits for rescue workers now suffering from cancer nearly a decade after the attacks.

"This study clearly shows World Trade Center exposure in these firefighters led to an increase in cancer," said Dr. David Prezant of the Fire Department of the City of New York, whose study was published in The Lancet medical journal.
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Prior studies have shown increased rates of post traumatic stress disorder, asthma and other respiratory illnesses among rescue workers. To date, only a handful of smaller studies have shown increased rates of cancer, which can take five to 20 years to develop.