Article here. Excerpt:

'Instead of funding women’s sports through student fees (or other methods), the NCAA decided that money should come from athletic department budgets. The fact that male football and basketball players were creating the revenue and receiving none of the proceeds was beside the point. To the NCAA, the players were being well remunerated with a free college education, and the revenues they were generating were needed for the other sports. This policy became a shibboleth of the academic elite, and no one dared to challenge the established orthodoxy. After all, remember what happened to Lawrence Summers when he confronted the Women’s rights bloc at Harvard. Why rock the boat when the only ones being taken advantage of were the athletes, who “all” thought that they would eventually hit a big payday in professional sports. The fact that this pie-in-the-sky scenario never happened for most men playing college football or basketball didn’t matter. It covered the behinds of the NCAA.'

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'Elaine Lissner, director of the Male Contraception Information Project, formed a foundation to develop other approaches, the Times reported. One such method, “reversible inhibition of sperm under guidance,” or Risug, involves injecting gel into the scrotum to effectively deactivate sperm.

Another involves briefly heating the testes with ultrasound, which can halt sperm production for months, she told the paper. “I can imagine a world where you take your car in every six months to get your oil changed and go next door and get your ultrasound for 50 bucks," said Blithe.'

Thought it all just went away, didn't you? No. Story here. Excerpt:

'NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York hotel maid who accused former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of attempting to rape her said in an interview published on Newsweek's website on Sunday that he appeared as a "crazy man" and attacked her when she entered his room.

Nafissatou Diallo also gave the newsmagazine and ABC News permission to identify her by name.

The magazine interview marks the first time the 32-year-old Guinean immigrant to the United States has publicly spoken to the media since she shocked the world with allegations that Strauss-Kahn emerged naked from the bathroom of his luxury suite on May 14 and forced her to perform oral sex.
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ABC News on Sunday also announced it would broadcast an interview with Diallo on Monday morning.

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'PENN HILLS, Pa. -- A police officer found a man on the street near his Penn Hills home, grabbing his genital area and yelling that a woman hurt him severely.
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The victim told police he was sitting on the couch with his father when his girlfriend returned uninvited and pushed open the front door.

The father said it was unprovoked, and he tried to intervene and keep her away from his son.
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“The young lady did grab him by his penis and was pulling rather strongly, which forced him to follow her onto the porch and eventually the street area,” said Penn Hills Police Chief Howard Burton.
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Kieston Roofner, 23, of Zelienople, was arrested on charges of domestic violence.
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Police said they were at the victim’s home, where the couple was fighting before the assault. They said Roofner was asked to leave.'

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'The attorney for a woman accused of cutting off her husband's penis said Friday that there is "more than meets the eye" to the case but declined to speak in further detail.

Catherine Kieu briefly appeared in court early Friday but did not enter a plea to charges that include torture. A judge set bail at $1 million and scheduled another hearing in late September for her to enter her plea.

Kieu, 48, spoke through a Vietnamese interpreter during the hearing. That was a change from a court hearing earlier this month, when she answered "Yes" in a strong voice to the judge's questions in English.

Her public defender, Frank Bittar, declined to speak about the case outside the courtroom. "There's a lot there, to the case, more than meets the eye," he said. A young man and woman who met with him after the hearing also declined to comment and would not say whether they were Kieu's friends or family.'

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The unprecedented settlement of up to £220 million, agreed by Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky in his divorce from his second wife, Galina, represents the largest ever pay-out in the UK.

Although Mr Berezovsky settled the divorce award out of court, the size of the sum reflects the growing reputation of British courts for awarding generous settlements to the wives of rich men.

Last year, a Nigerian woman, Sikirat Agbaje managed to increase her settlement to £275,000, almost 10 times the original settlement awarded to her in a Nigerian court, after bringing her case to the High Court in London.

Page here. I'm speechless. Some of the comments from the FB page:

"LMFAO ! I love her
She is my hero my inspiration
He must have really deserved it!! LOL
You know he just pissed her off one too many times ..... "

Another here, description:

'THIS IS A SUPPORT GROUP FOR CATHERINE IF YOU CHOOSE OTHERWISE YOU WILL BE BANNED AND BLOCKED OFF THIS PAGE PERMANENTLY GO STATE YOUR OPINION SOMEWHERE ELSE WHERE SOMEONE ACTUALLY GAF that is all :] our thoughts and prayers go out to Catherine and her family ♥ free catherine!.'

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'I always agree with Sharon Osbourne, who is English and outrageous. Lately they were discussing the second Lorena Bobbit case in the USA but it’s a woman with a different, difficult name. Anyway this woman cut off her husband’s organ and (learning from Lorena who threw it out of her car window thus her husband could retrieve it and a surgeon sew it back) threw it down her garbage disposal unit. In the USA every sink comes with a garbage disposal unit, which liquifies whatever you throw down it and you turn on the running water. Now let’s see if there’s a doctor who can sew a liquified thing back on!

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'LONDON - The UK government published a code of conduct drawn up by executive-search firms aimed at boosting the number of women on company boards, including a recommendation that 30 per cent of candidates be female.

“When presenting their long lists, search firms should ensure that at least 30 per cent of the candidates are women — and, if not, should explicitly justify to the client why they are convinced there are no other qualified female options,” according to the voluntary guidelines announced on Friday by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills in London.

Nineteen leading headhunting firms have pledged to sign up to the code for future boardroom appointments, the BIS said. Among the signatories are Korn/Ferry Whitehead Mann, the UK arm of Korn/Ferry International.

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'In relation to the issue, my friend Lourisse informs me that she’s delighted to say that HBO has finally started exercising their right to feature male frontal nudity, a move she considers long overdue since the network is known for an extensive liberal serving of exposed women’s breasts and other lewd sexual content. We toast to the progressive move of HBO’s genitalia-on-air, followed by a collective promise to one day achieve our goal of being able to objectify men, just as they do to women.
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At this point in time, and especially in this society, we all agree that it’s about time women have equal rights to objectify men. Not to say that the objectification of the human body and sexuality is by any means correct — it’s just that we’ve seen women over and over again being misrepresented and exploited on public advertisements, and for the first time Bench is actually giving us women that equal right to ogle at men and make them feel like fine pieces of meat.'

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'In the wake of the U.S. women’s soccer team losing the World Cup final to Japan last weekend, Bryant Gumbel of HBO Sports asked: “Can we stop coddling women in sports? Are we now so fearful of being labelled sexist that we can’t objectively assess the efforts of female athletes?”

Most [male] American reporters did adopt the ‘Gee, they-kick-the-ball-pretty-well-for-girls’ approach, dodging serious criticism of the U.S. players dropping the WC Final. Others followed Mitch Albom of the Detroit Free Press, extolling the high calibre of the tournament, saying he’s now a convert to women’s soccer. Few besides Gumbel ripped the team for allowing the underdog Japanese to win - a distinction they shared with Japan’s other victims, it might be added.

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Article here. This dates back to 2007 but I'm noticing a trend.

'Sharon Osbourne has let rip on Queens Of The Stone Age frontman Josh Homme, saying that she hopes his manhood drops off and gets eaten by, am, his mum.

Sharona vicious tirade, which well bring you more of in a second, follows Hommes remark about Ozzfest, the festival run by Mr Osbourne, aka Ozzy.

The QOTSA man said that he'd never play the festival again because They treat bands like sh*t.

In response, Sharon raised the bar on bad taste, and wished him the following: "I hope he gets syphilis and dies, Sharon cheerfully told Blender magazine. "I hope his dick fu*king falls off so his mother can eat it."

Ouch.'

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'A mother allegedly let her four-year old son chug a bottle of beer and fed her 10-month-old daughter booze in a Connecticut playground.

Juliette Dunn, 29, has been charged with two counts of risk of injury to a child and two counts second-degree assault after a neighbour saw her in the playground and complained to police on June 28, the Connecticut Post reports.

A 33-year-old woman who was with Ms Dunn in the playground, Lisa Jefferson, was arrested on the same charges.

The children were taken to Bridgeport Hospital where they both tested positive for alcohol. The baby girl also tested positive for cocaine.

Witnesses told police they had seen Ms Jefferson hand the beer to her friend's son and order him to scull it, calling him an "alcoholic" when he finished.'

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'LONDON (AlertNet) - At the intersection of two of the world's most vulnerable groups – children and women - adolescent girls may end up bearing the biggest burden of climate change impacts, according to a new report.

In times of economic hardship - often caused by droughts, floods or other natural disasters - girls regularly suffer from a lack educational opportunities, sexual violence, and early and forced marriages, all consequences of what the report calls “the double jeopardy brought on by gender and age.”

While recent research shows that women and children deserve special attention in climate change legislation, “girls often fall out between both camps,” according to Kanwal Ahluwalia, a co-author of the study and an expert in gender-equality policy with Plan UK, a children’s charity.

In many countries, women’s relatively stifled freedoms put them in harm’s way when it comes to climate change, she said.'