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“I do think it’s quite fabulous,” Sharon Osbourne declared on a recent episode of CBS’s “The Talk.”

But she wasn’t commenting on makeup, books, or typical talk show fodder. She was applauding a California woman who cut off her husband’s penis and put it in the garbage disposal.

The five co-hosts giggled and speculated, even going so far as to reenact the scene at the sink and discuss whether he may have “deserved it.”

These women are paid to act like eighth grade girls around the lockers at lunchtime, but typically I don’t even mind their childish demeanors. Do as you please, CBS, but stick to new recipes and fall clothing lines.
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Making jokes about a man who had his genitals cut off is offensive, too. If five men sat around a table on a national news network, laughing about the violent abuse of a woman, outrage would ensue.

However, when women applaud a female perpetrator, it’s no longer about abuse. Suddenly, women are fighting for that mythical empowerment and retribution they’ve deserved for years.

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'GREENCASTLE, Pa. — At the age of 12, Abigail Marconi might be too young to be a rocket scientist.

But give her a few years, and it could be her career of choice.

The seventh-grader at Greencastle-Antrim Middle School recently spent a week as a participant in NASA’s SISTER program — the Summer Institute of Science, Technology, Engineering and Research.

Held each year at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., the purpose of the five-day program is to provide opportunities for middle school girls to explore nontraditional career fields while working with research scientists, mathematicians and engineers.

Limited to 30 girls, Abigail said she applied for a spot in the program in mid-April.'

Video here. This video comes from a Feministing contributor. In the twisted world of feminism, its OK to kill a man, hence the title -- "A Murder But Not A Crime". I attached a link to Chloe Angyal's Feministing profile. Please -- no threats are hate mail. I'm just trying to expose her hypocrisy.

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'It’s arguably the most polarizing issue that has affected college athletics over the last 40 years. Advocates point to the opportunities that have been provided while critics blame it for many of the athletic programs that have been cut.

Since 1972, Title IX has legally required that the same education opportunities be provided for women as well as men, which means that colleges have had to effectively — and struggled to — provide the same opportunities in athletics for women as well as men.

And like every other college in the country, Porterville College has had to face the same issues when it comes to Title IX. While there’s no denying the opportunities that have been provided for local female athletes, there’s also no denying the challenges that PC faces when trying to meet Title IX requirements.'

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'A medical advocacy group has warned that the KwaZulu-Natal health department's decision to allow circumcisions at state hospitals will fuel an illicit trade in foreskins, the Sowetan newspaper reported.

The newspaper reported that Medical Rights Advocacy Network head Dr Uttam Govind had written to Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi, KwaZulu-Natal premier Dr Zweli Mkhize and health MEC Sibongiseni Dhlomo.

He had urged them to stop the planned circumcision programme, which starts in April 2012.

Govind reportedly wrote that there were problems enforcing the Human Tissue Act, which required researchers to obtain a permit from the health ministry before exporting human tissue.

The foreskins were used in the cosmetics industry to remove wrinkles, as artificial skin and for insulin.'

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'It is an extraordinary, swift turnaround and a deep humiliation for the Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance and his unreliable witness Nafissatou Diallo; an embarrassment for US justice; and a day of shame for the feminist movement.

Like the New York prosecutor worried about his re-election, prominent US feminists in academe and the media were too desperate to handcuff, draw and quarter their prize catch in the form of Strauss-Kahn the rich, powerful French political luminary and International Monetary Fund boss known as DSK.

Women such as gender studies guru Joan W. Scott, feminist icon Gloria Steinem, The Nation's Katha Pollitt and The New York Times's Maureen Dowd lost all sense of reality, objectivity or basic scepticism regarding the untested accusations. They gleefully hopped on to the dirty bandwagon of presumption of male guilt the moment a woman - any woman - makes an accusation of sexual assault.'

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'The Australian Government is funding new grants for twenty-five men’s sheds across the country to purchase tools, conduct building and maintenance and employ shed coordinators.

The Minister for Indigenous Health, Warren Snowdon, who has responsibility for male health, made the announcement at the 4th National Men’s Shed Conference in Brisbane.
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“Men often form friendships as they work together, doing things that are traditionally done in sheds, like building furniture, fixing machinery and working on small projects to help other local community groups.

“With Australian men still dying four to five years younger than women, we know we have to support grass roots initiatives like men’s sheds to get males of all ages engaged in ways to improve their health and wellbeing,” he said.

Mr Snowdon said Round Two of the Australian Government Shed Development Program announced today is funding sites in New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria and Tasmania up to $10,000 each.'

This story reports on the double-standard of sentencing for men convicted of assault on a child and women convicted of the same offense. Many of these stories involve teacher/student relationships, though not all. Excerpt:

"Women in Colorado convicted of sexually assaulting a child in their care are far less likely to go to prison than men sentenced for the same crime.

A Denver Post analysis of sentencing data provided by the Colorado Judicial Branch shows that of the 2,128 men convicted of sexual assault on a child by a person in a position of trust from 2006 through 2010, more than 50 percent were sent to prison.

Of the 79 women convicted of the same felony offense, 38 percent went to prison. A little more than 39 percent of female defendants in that same period — 31 — were put on intensive supervised probation. Less than 35 percent of men were given the same sentence.

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'(Reuters) - Lawyers for the woman who accused former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault have explored a deal in which they would scuttle the criminal case in exchange for a monetary settlement in the civil lawsuit, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.

The woman's lawyer, Kenneth Thompson, strongly denied the report, which the Journal sourced to unidentified people briefed on the matter.

The report comes ahead of Tuesday's scheduled court hearing in which Strauss-Kahn, once seen as a leading contender to be the next president of France, was due to appear before a judge for the first time since he was freed from house arrest on July 1.'

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'OCR's new interpretation of Title IX "strongly discourages" universities from permitting the accused "to question or cross-examine the accuser" during the hearing. In addition, if universities provide an appeals process, it must be available to both parties—which subjects the accused to double jeopardy.

Most egregiously, OCR requires universities to render judgment using "a preponderance of the evidence" standard. This means that in a rape case, a campus disciplinary board of faculty, administrators and perhaps students serves as both judge and jury. Few if any of these judges are likely to have professional competence in fact-gathering, evidence analysis or judicial procedure. Yet to deliver a verdict of guilty, they need only believe that the accused is more likely than not to have committed the crime.
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'Author Suzanne Venker, a Warson Woods resident recently transplanted from Kirkwood, has some words of advice for freshmen co-eds entering college in a few weeks: Stay away from the women's studies classes.
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Venker's book and her outspoken commentary have garnered plenty of kudos from the likes of Ann Coulter, Mark Levin, David Limbaugh and more. She has appeared before the conservative Heritage Foundation and is scheduled for an appearance on "Fox & Friends," a morning show on Rupert Murdoch's cable television news channel.

"I advise college students to read about successful women, not about all this victimhood," said Venker. "My favorite thing to do is to speak to college audiences to give them a different view from what they get from their professors.

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'Brittany Lester is another example of fine parenting coming from the state that brought you Casey Anthony. It seems that she wanted to use imagery to make her threats seem more realistic when she was angry at the father of her child. Fortunately, her baby's daddy has more sense than her, and he turned her in to police.

Sources say Brittany Lester, a 20-year-old out of St. Petersburg, sent disturbing images of her baby via text message to the father of the child. The father of the abused infant, Donald Callaway, had just dropped the 1-month-old infant off at the hotel in which Lester resides. Sources say she was recently kicked out of her mother's home and had to live in the motel with her children. Who wants to take a stab at why her mother threw her rear-end out on the street? It probably has something to do with the way she acts.'

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'About 200 Peace College alumni and their families tossed roses into the college's fountain Sunday to protest the administration's surprise plans to admit male students and rename the institution.

Security at the private college just north of downtown Raleigh did not allow reporters to attend the protest, but the group could be observed from the college's front gate, The Raleigh News & Observer reported. They sang the school's alma mater, heard a speech from one of the organizers, and then tossed their roses into the fountain.

They finished with a loud cheer, then marched to the front gates to meet with reporters. A security guard worked at the lock at the gates for several minutes before getting them to open and let the protesters through.

"We're here because a travesty has happened at our college," said Jamie Averette Mitchell, who graduated in 2000 and now lives in Zebulon.'