Article here. Excerpt:

'L.A. Sparks rookie Jantel Lavender -- the #5 overall pick in the 2011 WNBA Draft -- allegedly kneed her ex-BF in the junk so hard, his groin area was "throbbing from the pain" ... this according to legal docs obtained by TMZ.

According to court papers filed in L.A. County Superior Court, Lavender's ex Adam Ashley obtained a temporary restraining order against the 6'4" athlete two weeks ago ... claiming he's been "in hiding" ever since a July 5 altercation where Lavender allegedly grabbed a knife and threatened to kill him.

In the docs, Ashley also says Lavender "grabbed my head and slammed it into the wall. She grabbed my neck and was choking me."

Ashley claims it wasn't the first time Lavender got violent with him -- alleging she also tried to choke him during a fight in June. During that altercation, Ashley claims, "While I was grabbing for her hands she kneed me in the growing [SIC] area. My private area was throbbing from the pain."

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'ORANGE, Calif. (KTLA) -- A mother accused of tossing her 7-month-old baby from the fourth story of a parking structure is set to be arraigned Wednesday as the child clings to life.

Noe Medina, Jr. was found in extremely critical condition after falling from the fourth floor of the parking structure at Children's Hospital in Orange around 6:20 p.m. Monday, according to Orange Police.

The baby, who wears a helmet for medical reasons, did not appear to be wearing the helmet at the time, police said. He remained on life support Wednesday morning.
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Hermosillo's husband, Noe Medina, says his wife was hospitalized in May for depression and was not allowed to be alone with the baby.

Medina says Hermosillo grabbed the baby Monday while he was watching the couple's two other children at a home in La Habra.

He was not immediately aware of what had happened, but called police to report them missing.

Family members also say Hermosillo went to therapy for the first time Monday.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'COLUMBIA, Mo. — Boys don't discuss their problems because they feel it's a waste of time, says a new study from the University of Missouri.

"For years, psychologists have insisted that boys and men would like to talk about their problems but are held back by fears of embarrassment or appearing weak," said Amanda J. Rose, associate professor of psychological sciences in the university's College of Arts and Sciences.

When researchers asked young people about how talking about their problems would make them feel, boys responded that they didn't see talking about problems to be a useful activity, the study says. Boys didn't express angst or distress about discussing problems any more than girls.
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"An implication is that parents should encourage their children to adopt a middle ground when discussing problems," Rose said. "For boys, it would be helpful to explain that, at least for some problems, some of the time, talking about their problems is not a waste of time."

SAVE press release:

PRESS RELEASE

Contact: Wendy McElroy, wmcelroy@saveservices.org

ACADEMIA REBELS AGAINST THE PRESUMPTION OF GUILT FOR MEN

WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 / U.S. Newswire / -- Stop Abusive and Violent Environments is calling on the U.S. Department of Education to rescind a controversial directive. The new DED rule forces persons to abandon their due process rights to get an education. Such persons are considered “guilty until proven innocent” whenever an on-campus sexual accusation occurs.

On April 4, the DED Office of Civil Rights instructed every university that accepts federal funds to use a “preponderance (51%) of evidence” standard in evaluating allegations of sexual offense, including rape. An accuser only needs to 'tip the scales' for a professor or student to be found “guilty.”

But the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) is now objecting. The group wants sexual accusations to be judged by a higher standard than traffic courts use for parking tickets.

Story here. Excerpt:

'Jessica Beagley, the 36-year-old Alaska mother who forced her 7-year-old son to ingest hot sauce and take a cold shower as punishment for allegedly lying about various transgressions at school, has been convicted of misdemeanor child abuse.

Beagley’s case has stirred up a debate about when parental discipline crosses the line into illegality.

She was charged with a crime after she sent a video of the hot sauce/cold shower punishment to the Dr. Phil show and later appeared on the program. The mother of six argued in court that she had to resort to a serious punishment method, because her son, adopted from Russia, suffered from a disorder that made him prone to misbehave.

After deliberating for a day, the jury convicted Beagley of misdemeanor child abuse, the Anchorage Daily News reports. She faces up to a year in prison and is due to be sentenced Monday.

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'“’The appeals court could have found a reason to award damages to Chad if it cared to, but it didn’t,’ said Dr. Ned Holstein, a physician and founder of Boston-based family court reform organization Fathers and Families. ‘This father is deserving of being made whole based on the deception he has suffered and the harm to him.’”

Brandon Gee of the Nashville Tennessean wrote a detailed piece concerning a paternity fraud case currently before the Tennessee Supreme Court. The case pits duped dad Chad Craig against Tina Marie Hodge, the mother of a son who she told Craig was his.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'A former jockey and racehorse trainer at the centre of a child custody scandal lied that her former boyfriend was a paedophile, a High Court judge said yesterday.

Vicky Haigh made up the allegations and even coached her seven-year-old daughter to repeat the claims, he added.

Sir Nicholas Wall, the country’s most senior family judge, said that Miss Haigh should be named and shamed and her former partner, David Tune, freed from the false smear that he is a child abuser.'

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'A woman who claimed she was raped in front of her two young children in Co Armagh has been charged with wasting police time and perverting the course of justice.

The charges relate to an incident in March where a 24-year-old woman told police she was raped in a park in Bessbrook, Co Armagh.

She told police she was attacked by a man walking his dog as she approached an area known as the Bridge in Derramore Woods.'

Article here. Excerpt:

“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.

Article here. Excerpt:

'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.'

Article here.

'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.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'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.'

Link to media release here. Excerpt:

'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.'