Article here. Excerpt:

"Feminism can be thought of as like a corporation. It's interested in its constituents. Well-meaning feminists are often trained only to see a certain way, only to support their constituents. That is partly what underlies the spurious research on battered-woman syndrome. Anyone who questions whether battered women are only simple victims is put in the pillory and crucified.

"There are young, inexperienced women who fall in love with a man and are put in a battering situation, but there is nothing wrong with them more than simple bad luck. That's absolutely possible and my heart goes out to them. But there's also a sizeable group - perhaps 40 to 50 per cent of battered women - who are themselves as much involved in the battering as the man. That simply isn't discussed; it's considered to be 'blaming the victim'. But in fact it's being more perceptive about the difference between real victims and those who portray themselves as victims.'

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'Schools across the country have revamped their sexual assault response policies in the wake of new federal guidelines issued earlier this year.

The rules put a greater burden on schools and colleges to investigate possible sexual assaults by placing them in the same category as sexual harassment under Title IX, which deals with sex discrimination.
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The changes have some arguing that the federal government has overstepped its bounds.

UNCW criminology and sociology professor Mike Adams said he believes the rules could result in more false reports of sexual assault.

Adams said he also worried about justice since victims now also can appeal a campus disciplinary decision if they disagree with its severity or new evidence comes to light.

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'Many Massachusetts child support obligors are being driven underground, out of their homes, and out of their children’s lives by impossible child support demands. Fathers and Families filed and pursued a highly-publicized lawsuit challenging the state’s new child support guidelines–guidelines which actually raise child support levels in a terrible economy. Our lawsuit made it all the way up to Massachusetts’ highest court, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, which ruled against us.

Our lawsuit has garnered extensive media coverage, including the recent pieces Dads’ group seeks child-support reform (Boston Herald, 9/2/11), SJC Upholds Child Support Guidelines (WBUR [NPR, Boston], 9/2/11), SJC rejects challenge to child support rules filed by fathers group (Boston Globe, 9/2/11), and Mass. high court upholds child support guidelines (Associated Press, 9/1/11), as well as previous pieces in the New York Times, Newsweek, Psychology Today, CBS radio, WRKO in Boston, FOX 25 TV in Boston, and many others.'

From SAVE:

Have you ever wondered what a candidate's take is on an issue like false allegations? We have. So we're going to ask.

The upcoming election is sure to be the most important and most heated election in recent memory.

This contest will be grabbing the media spotlight. And we'll be right there, asking our very important questions.

Campaign 2012: Stop False Allegations of Abuse will:

1. Increase public awareness about false allegations of domestic violence, sexual assault, and child abuse
2. Engage candidates for state and federal political office in the issue of false allegations
3. Secure commitments from these candidates to work to reform abuse laws

October will find us in New Hampshire. We're currently looking for local citizens to address presidential candidates. Interested?

You can be part of our Campaign 2012 team! We'll provide training, printed flyers, information about candidates' local town hall meetings, easy-to-use forms, and t-shirts.

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'Too few recognise the social progress Britain has made in recent decades. The gender pay gap has halved since the Seventies; the percentage of women on boards has doubled in the last decade; and half the top posts in the civil service are filled by women.

But worryingly, this month, the deadline expires for British FTSE companies to sign up to a commitment to have 25 per cent women in the boardroom by 2015. If too few comply, then the veiled threat of mandatory gender quotas looms. Far from advancing the meritocratic tide, such quotas would be regressive and counter-productive.

Since Lord Davies's report on the gender balance in the boardroom was published six months ago, headway has been made – 30 per cent of appointments to boards this year were women. But there have also been numerous complaints that the target is tokenistic. Sir Robert Wilson, chairman of the BG Group, points out that a 25 per cent target would require 100 per cent female appointments at his company for the next three years.

It's all beginning to take on a certain surreal quality. Link here. Excerpt:

'As individuals, we want choices that reflect who we are and what's right for our situation. Getting the right health care is no different.

Until recently, information that showed which treatments work best for certain groups of patients, especially women, was hard to find.

Now women's health research is a growing field. The Women's Health Initiative (WHI), a long-term study launched by the late National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Bernadine Healy, MD, has provided important information on preventing and treating heart disease, breast and colorectal cancers, and osteoporosis in women aged 50 to 79.

The WHI and the Office of Research on Women's Health, led for two decades by Vivian Pinn, MD, helped to ensure that women are fairly represented in NIH-sponsored studies. Before the WHI began, very few studies focusing solely on women had been conducted.'

Link here. Excerpt:

'In male baboons, higher social rank generally brings lower stress. But a new study shows that the highest-ranked (alpha) males have greater stress levels than the second-ranking (beta) males. The finding suggests that life at the very top can be more costly than previously thought.

A high social rank has advantages in many animal societies. Alpha males, for example, have first choice of food and father the most offspring. But a high rank also brings conflict and stress—and stress can take both a mental and a physical toll.

For 4 decades, a research team directed by Drs. Jeanne Altmann of Princeton and Susan Alberts of Duke has been studying a baboon society. For their new report, the NIH-funded researchers examined stress hormone levels in fecal samples from 125 male baboons over a period of 9 years. They compared these hormone levels with the animals’ social rank.'

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'This unfortunate man has been removed from his daughter's birth certificate. This triumph of legal misandry means that a child who is now 10 and, most important of all, knows he is the other half of her physical being for all of those 10 years, will just have to content herself with having a two-mothers' day.

What hope for fathers when even the cowardly politically correct media are now involved in this silly game of let's pretend, using the term having a baby "with" a person of the same sex, to describe the pregnancy of a partner of a government minister? Then again, the truth has always been a casualty of political correctness.

However, things are serious when even children become casualties. Children know that mother plus mother doesn't really equal child. It amounts to a form of psychological abuse to pretend otherwise.'

Curiously, didn't ask participants about their attitudes towards men. Link here. Excerpt:

'For both sexes, those who seek uncommitted trysts rely on assertive strategy, survey finds.

SUNDAY, Sept. 4 (HealthDay News) -- When it comes to aggressive courtship strategies, sexist men and women seem to be perfect for each other, new research suggests.

U.S. researchers conducted two surveys: One included 363 college students at a large Midwestern university, and the other was a national Internet poll of 850 adults.

The male and female participants were asked about their sexist attitudes toward women and whether they were willing to engage in uncommitted or short-term sex. Men were also asked how often they used assertive strategies to initiate relationships and women were asked if, and to what degree, they found these types of advances desirable.

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'Warren Farrell: The five different areas in which boys are in crisis—education; jobs; emotional health; physical health; and fatherlessness—are handled by different portions of the government. First, White House co-ordination creates the best possibility of avoiding different departments having program duplication and becoming territorial. Second, the best solutions are holistic ones; a Council located in any given department would be less holistic and more territorial.

Most important, a Council on boys and men parallel to the White House Council on Women and Girls would signal to the world that boys and men are facing problems, alert schools and parents as to the nature of these problems, and alert all the nation’s institutions to explore how attending to these problems might help our sons, daughters, families and nation.'

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'The reported assault of a jogger that shocked Woodbury residents in the spring was a hoax, the Woodbury Police Department said Tuesday.

A 33-year-old woman reported April 23 that she was sexually assaulted while jogging at 5:30 a.m. on a trail by Marksgraf Lake.

But that crime never happened, according to police Cmdr. Jay Alberio.

Instead, police believe the woman made up the episode. Alberio said police are reviewing the case to see what charges against her might be appropriate.

When the woman reported the crime, she had been injured and was treated and released at Woodwinds Hospital.

She said she was assaulted from behind by a man that she was unable to see, so she gave no description to police.

She told officers it was her third time jogging on the trail. The woman has lived in the neighborhood for about two years, Alberio said, and has no record of previous crimes.'

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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.

Article here.

'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.”'