Duke lacrosse player files suit against university
The great part about this is that it's not even one of the three, "accused". Just wait until THEY file suit. Duke University is in deep trouble and deservedly so... story here. Excerpt:
'(01/04/07 -- DURHAM) - A former Duke Lacrosse player has filed a lawsuit against the University saying he was failed by an professor because of his membership on the lacrosse team.
Kyle Dowd filed the lawsuit Thursday against against Duke University and visiting associate professor Kim Curtis. Dowd, who graduated with David Evans in May 2006, was not indicted in the rape case but says that Professor Curtis gave him and another lacrosse player in class a failing grade in class as a form of retaliation after the Duke Lacrosse scandal broke. The two players were apparently receiving passing grades until the scandal, and Duke University revised their grades upward months after graduation.'
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Right on!
This is a golden opportunity to hold misandrists accountable for the consequences of their hatred.
There is a great article
There is a great article here where a daily newspaper in the area points out the rampant misandry in some of the accusations. It's rare you see this sort of direct attack on academic feminists in print.
Excerpt:
"Even that pales next to last week's revelation that the alleged victim cannot say with certainty that a rape actually occurred. If this case is dropped, and many a legal expert says it will be, Evans, Finnerty and Seligmann are owed a huge public apology, especially by those Duke faculty members who used ugly allegations against the young men to attack a culture of racism and sexism that exists in their cloistered minds but rarely exists in the real world.
Normally, the predictable laments of racial and gender injustice from professors and feminists who attend women's center seminars are more comical than consequential. But at Duke this self-generated culture of pseudo-oppression helped send the three players, their teammates and Pressler down the river for an alleged crime that is supported by scant evidence."
Educate Yourself About MISANDSRY
The Duke U. case may be a godsend to the MRA movement if the major media are lobbied aggressively to dig deeper into the social toxins that allowed these young men to be sacrificed on the altar of radical feminism.
I recommend with extreme prejudice that men who read/post on this and other MRA sites purchase a copy of this book --
"Spreading Misandry: The Teaching of Contempt for Men in Popular Culture," by Paul Nathanson and Katherine K. Young.
It is the definitive, academically respectable work on male hatred in American culture.
A couple excerpts from the Introduction:
"Why do so many artifacts and productions show signs of misandry? To put it another way, why do so many people respond favorably to misandry - or at least not complain of sexism? Our hypothesis is that, like misogyny once upon a time, misandry has become so deeply embedded in our culture that few people - including men - even recognize it."
"This phenomenon cannot be explained adequately, or explained away, as accidental."
"These problems should sound very familiar. Precisely the same ones arose thirty years ago in connection with discussions of WOMEN as portrayed in popular culture."
"Misogyny has been studied and taken seriously for decades. Misandry, on the other hand, has been either ignored or trivialized for decades."
"As a result, we suggest, the worldview of our society has become increasingly gynocentric (focused on the needs and problems of women) and misandric (focused on the evils and inadequacies of men)."
EDIT function?
I attempted to use the EDIT function to correct the mispelling of misandry in the Header, without success...
It would allow me to make the correction, preview the post with corrected header; but then would not make the changes once the "post" command was executed.
Any suggestions. I'm sure it's human error.
Misandry Like Hate Has To Be Taught
I recommend with extreme prejudice that men who read/post on this and other MRA sites purchase a copy of this book --
"Spreading Misandry: The Teaching of Contempt for Men in Popular Culture," by Paul Nathanson and Katherine K. Young.
Bought it a couple of years ago. Great book!
"Misogyny has been studied and taken seriously for decades. Misandry, on the other hand, has been either ignored or trivialized for decades."
I do not trivialize or ignore misandry. I take it quite seriously and educate the ignorant about it whenever I can.