Article here. Excerpt:

"As a serving policeman, there are several things I am not allowed to talk about.

There are plenty of operational secrets we cannot discuss, but I’m not referring to those. I’m talking about the taboo subjects. The ‘detection’ rate for rape is one of these.

It’s very frustrating to sit and listen to pundits talking about the low number of rape convictions in Court, when as police officers we all know what lies behind these poor numbers.

For example, I couldn’t possibly tell you that out of every ten rapes which are reported in Ruraltown, at least eight turn out to be nonsense. To be fair, eight out of ten of everything reported at Ruraltown police station is nonsense, why should rape be any different?
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So who suffers when Charlene drops by the nick to accuse Wayne of raping her because she is hacked off that he used her child benefit money for drugs? ...

Article here. Why is this tolerated? Isn't this illegal discrimination? What would happen if we had men-only hotel floors? Excerpt:

'There is a new trend in hotels geared at women who are business travelers or women to just travel for pleasure. This new trend is making whole floors of hotels a woman only floor.

If all goes according to plan Grand Rapids Michigan will be the first city in the United States that has a hotel where an entire floor is dedicated to women business travelers. This looks at first glance to be a great idea but is it really? Some women are calling it sexist and discriminatory. Some call it kindness and a welcome change.

The hotel is a Marriott hotel which is known to cater to business people of both sexes. This new hotel will have twenty four floors and only the 19th floor will be reserved for women only. ...
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Story here. Excerpt:

'MILWAUKEE - The Milwaukee County sheriff's office is investigating after a staff member at a Milwaukee school was arrested on a sexual assault allegation.

The Milwaukee Archdiocese says that a female staffer at St. Charles School was arrested, and that the victim was a teenage boy who's a student at school.

The sheriff's office says a juvenile from the school made the complaint against a staff member at the school.

The suspect was booked into the County Correctional Facility-Central on Wednesday. Formal charges have not been filed.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'An elementary school teacher has been jailed after admitting making a sex tape with her daughter's 16-year-old boyfriend.

Michelle McCutchan,38, confessed to having sex with the teen on at least five occasions and setting up a video camera to film two of the romps.

The mother of one also sent the teen nude pictures of herself as well as sexually explicit texts during their five month affair.'

Submitted via email: Link to a poetry site http://poetwarrior.org.uk/. Some people find poetry inspiring and why shouldn't they? Some of the greatest causes in history have been moved along by poetry and song. So I hope you enjoy this man's work.

Article here. Excerpt:

'In the nearly four decades since Title IX of the federal Civil Rights Act barred sex discrimination in education, educators and policymakers have encouraged more girls to study and enter traditionally “male” careers, from science and technology to architecture and law.

With male-dominated fields like construction now stagnant, however, experts argue that the situation may be reversed: American schools don’t do enough to encourage boys to explore careers in traditionally female-dominated fields, such as health care and education.

Experts at a forum hosted Tuesday by the Washington-based Boys Initiative called for the creation of a White House Council on Boys to Men, similar to the existing White House Council on Women and Girls, to organize policies and support.'

Title IX has provided many athletic opportunities for women, often at the expense of mens' sports programs. The personal stories of the male athletes affected by these cuts are often marginalized.

I recently wrote a book about the plight of the 1999 Providence College baseball team. It was the last year the sport was played at the school. The program was eliminated due to Title IX concerns. The team had been having great success throughout 90's, and in their final season the team rallied to show the school that they were making a mistake. They won the Big East championship but lost the sport anyway.

STRIKE IX is the title of the book, and it tells the individual stories of the players who were affected by the Title IX decision at Providence College.

It's available in paperback, but is also available also electronically on Nook and Kindle.

Bullying. When it happens to girls, it makes the news. Boys? This story speaks for itself. Perhaps the only reason it made the news is because it was a sub who was there that day. Excerpt:

'A 12-year-old Dallas student was bound to a chair with duct tape and beaten by four classmates as a substitute teacher stood and ignored the attack, according to the victim's mom.

The Dallas school district is investigating the charges made by Keneshia Richardson, who claims the attackers wrapped tape around her son's mouth to keep him from shouting.

"It was uncalled for," Richardson told The Dallas Morning News, adding her son had trouble breathing.

The woman said his hands were taped to the chair, he was wrapped with a telephone cord, and the attackers knocked him to the ground. The boy's shirt was torn as well, she claimed.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Rape is rape is rape – and a very serious crime. Let's get that over with. Most people also have a very clear idea of what constitutes rape – and if they don't, and they find themselves sitting on a jury in a rape trial, they will be put right pretty quickly by the judge and the prosecuting lawyers. The difficulty in recent years has been less and less judicial practice than the propagation of a hardcore feminist view intent on broadening the definition of rape and presuming guilt rather than innocence. The lines between rape, sexual assault and personal "mistakes" risk as a result becoming blurred.'

Link to article here. The quotation marks in the title are from the original headline and appear to an editorial device to separate women from their actions. Excerpt:

'A US mother has been arrested after she deliberately ran down her daughter in a supermarket carpark, police allege.

Ohio woman Michelle Touma, 41, allegedly swerved her van to hit her daughter Emily, 19, running over her foot, the Sandusky Register reports.

Touma had been arguing with her daughter as she drove her to her job at a nearby Taco Bell outlet.

Her daughter began shouting and hitting the bonnet of the car when Touma tried to drop her off early.

Police said Touma then swerved the van so she could strike her daughter in the head.

"The mum said that she was going to drive by with the window down and smack her daughter in the back of the head," a police spokesman said.'

From a SAVE email:

SAVE will be sponsoring a False Allegations Summit on June 2 in Washington, DC. The Summit will kick off False Allegations Awarenesss Month. All victims of false abuse allegations are invited to attend this historic event.

The Summit will be held at the Fairfax Hotel on Embassy Row, 2100 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC. from 1pm to 4pm.

The Summit will feature:

• Release of a national survey of false allegations
• Statements by stakeholder organizations
• Accounts by victims of false allegations
• Release of Model Language to Stop False Allegations

Pre-registration is necessary. Please send your name and organization, if appropriate, to tstoddard-at-saveservices.org

In addition, if you are interested in making a victim statement, please indicate that fact in your registration. We will be limiting the number of victim statements to 10, so register soon!

Article here. Excerpt:

Article here. Excerpt:

'Women in 21st century America live five years longer than men; face an unemployment rate that is over a full percentage point lower; are awarded a substantially larger share of high school diplomas, BAs, MAs, and Ph.D.s; and show lower rates of incarceration, alcoholism and drug abuse.

Contrary to what feminist lobbyists would have Congress believe, girls and women are doing well.

With these data before us, reasonable individuals should be holding conferences on how to help men. Policymakers should require that government contractors hire men to bring down their unemployment rate. Health reform bills should feature Offices of Men's Health to assist men in living to the same age as women.

Unfortunately, the reverse is occurring. Congress and President Obama continue to advocate policies that favor women over men. The financial regulation bill has mandated 29 offices to help the advancement of women.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Carmen Callil, one of three judges, claimed Roth did not deserve to make the shortlist let alone win the £60,000 prize.

Miss Callil, an author and founder of the feminist publishing house Virago, complained: “He goes on and on and on about the same subject in almost every single book. It's as though he's sitting on your face and you can't breathe”.

She was overruled by fellow judges Justin Cartwright, the South African novelist, and Rick Gekoski, a rare book dealer and writer.

Miss Callil complained: “I don't rate him as a writer at all. I made it clear that I wouldn't have put him on the longlist, so I was amazed when he stayed there. He was the only one I didn't admire – all the others were fine.
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Roth’s career spans 50 years and includes a Pulitzer Prize awarded in 1998. However, his style has alienated feminists who have objected to his focus on explicit male sexuality.

Blog entry here.