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This is actually fucking eerie. I highly recommend reading this. If you want a TL;DR version: White dude is in Chinese class. He calls himself handsome in Chinese as a joke. He is reported to the teacher by some cry-bully. The teacher implies she doesn’t think he should be in trouble, but it is out of her hands. He goes to the Dean. He implies the same. He goes to the gender misconduct re-educator. He implies the same.

The people in charge had to punish him. Why? Because they could not afford to agree with him in the current political culture.

Insanity.

Well God damn it, report my black ass up too.  Bitches I am never going to stop loving myself and thinking I’m pretty.

Mr McKinney could be eligible for up to $1 million in compensation - the maximum - if the state’s parole board hears his exoneration case, which they have declined to do twice already.

Mr McKinney was issued just $75 upon his release in July 2009.

“I don’t have no life, all my life was taken away,” he told CBS News.

His lawyer, Jack Lowery, said his client had suffered enough and justice would not be served via receiving compensation alone.

Mr McKinney’s attempt to be exonerated has been mired in red tape, although his record has been cleared.

In September, the seven members of the Tennessee parole board voted unanimously to deny hearing his exoneration case. The final word comes down to Republican governor Bill Haslam.

Mr Haslam’s press secretary, Jennifer Donnals, told The Tennessean that Mr Haslam received an executive clemency application on 21 November.

She said the governor’s office is carrying out a review of Mr McKinney’s application with the board’s recommendation, which is confidential. The governor can choose to agree or disagree with the board’s recommendation, or he can choose not to act.

If his case is approved, he will have the chance to clear his name.

One member on the parole board, Patsy Bruce, said she was still not sure he was innocent and voted against his exoneration.

It is the second time Mr McKinney has applied to be exonerated. Shortly after his release, the board voted against hearing his case and the then governor Phil Bredesen did not act on the application

he Tennessee Board of Claims has only paid out exoneration claims twice since 2003.

Mr McKinney works at the Immanuel Baptist Church with the aim of becoming a preacher. One of his advocates is Republican state representative Mark Pody.

“Being exonerated would put me on a standard with everyone else in society. I didn’t get a chance to build a career or buy a home. I lost all my 20s, 30s and 40s, but I’m a servant of the Lord and any blessing I get I just want for my wife,” he told The Tennessean.

A Change.org petition calling for his exoneration has reached more than 10,000 signatures.

(note) count the use the word masculinity .

 The University of Wisconsin-Madison is currently taking applications for its “Men’s Project,” a six-week program that aims to counter the alleged harmful effects of society’s masculinity(#1) paradigms and pressures and empower participants to promote “gender equity.” No really but ok.

“Men’s Project creates a space for critical self-reflection and dialogue about what it means to be a man and how masculinity (#2) impacts us and those around us,” organizers state in promoting the effort.

“The experience focuses on the examination of societal images, expectations, and messages around masculinity(#3) to empower men to better understand themselves, promote the advancement of gender equity, and raise consciousness in their communities,” organizers add.

It’s open only to “men-identified students” at the public university and “operates on a transformative model of social justice allyship,” according to a news release on the university’s website, which adds “by encouraging that kind of dialogue among a men-identified cohort, the goal is to create a sense of security in vulnerability throughout the six-week program.”

Participants will begin the project with a weekend retreat in February and continue meeting weekly, discussing topics such as media and pop culture, vulnerability, sexuality, hook-up culture, alcohol, relationships and violence.

The program is now in its second year and was most recently offered in fall 2016, accordingto its Facebook page.

In an email to The College Fix, the University of Wisconsin-Madison director of news and media relations Meredith McGlone said the project serves an important purpose.

“Recent research suggests college campuses have not effectively addressed [male students’] needs,”(NO SHIT, YOU SHUT THEM DOWN) she stated. “Research also indicates that expectations around masculinity (#4) impact the way in which men experience college.”

McGlone suggested typical understandings of masculinity can effect male students in a negative way.

“These expectations influence the decisions men make about friendships; spending time outside of class; careers or academic majors; and sexual and romantic relationships. Men are socialized to believe they need to act a certain way to be accepted as ‘masculine (#5)’ or have what it takes to be a man,” she told The Fix.

“This can lead to self-destructive behaviors that impair their ability to complete their education,” she continued. “Research indicates that young men are less likely to enroll in and graduate from college, 

I can imagine why …

less likely to seek help from campus resources and more likely to engage in risky behaviors such as abusing drugs and alcohol. Research also indicates that programs such as the Men’s Project can counter these negative trends and support college men in their educational experience.”

Asked to define vulnerability in the context of the program, McGlone #told The Fix it’s “one of the discussion topics related to male stereotypes. Students consider if they struggle with being vulnerable and how it might impact their relationships and actions.”

According to McGlone, there were no specific incidents which spurred the development of this program.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison is not the only university offering such a program. Many other campuses, both public and private across the nation, now offer programs, trainings, guest lectures and other educational techniques that seek to purge male students of their so-called toxic masculinity (#6).

Just look at our happy OBEDIENT men-identified  students

FUCKING PROBATION FOR RAPING A 13 YEAR OLD BOY!!!

  • Elaine B. Goodman from Delaware pleaded guilty to raping the 13-year-old boy
  • She faced up to 15 years in prison but instead was GIVEN TWO YEARS PROBATION
  • She admitted asking victim: ‘What are you doing with a body like that at 13?’
  • But judge said Goodman had shown remorse and needs to take care of her elderly parents

A mother has been given probation and been spared jail despite pleading guilty to raping her daughter’s 13-year-old boyfriend.Elaine B. Goodman from Dover, Delaware had faced up to 15 years in prison for having sex with the youngster and asking him: 'What are you doing with a body like that at 13?’

But during a hearing at Kent County Superior Court, she avoided jail after the judge said Goodman she showed remorse and also took into account she was in charge if taking care of her elderly parents.Instead she was given two years probation after it was ruled that it was just an 'abberation’.Goodman, 44, was first arrested in November 2015 after Smyrna Police received reports of her having an inappropriate relationship with the 13-year-old.She was then charged with third and fourth-degree rape, unlawful sexual contact, and sexual solicitation of a child and held at 

Delores J. Baylor Women’s Correctional Center.Court documents said: 'During the investigation detectives determined that Goodman had contact through text messages with her daughter’s boyfriend and on the night of March 15, 2015 Goodman met with the male victim and engaged in a sexual relationship

Keep in mind that if this woman got pregnant, the child would be be paying child support.

Police say on March 15, Goodman met the boy, who had sneaked out of his home, in her car, and had sex with him.

After officers received information about the incident, investigators collected DNA evidence from the car and clothing, and reviewed text message between Goodman and the boy.

Delaware Online reported that the victim said she 'took his you-know-what and put it in her you-know-what.’

According to the newspaper, Goodman texted a friend 'He is so cute with a nice ass body.  ( a fucking 13 year old)

'I asked him what in the world are u doing with a body like that at 13…’

At the hearing yesterday, Deputy Attorney General Denise Weeks-Tappan told how the victim had been left hurt and embarassed and it is now affecting his schooling.

She said: 'When the defendant committed this crime, she took something away from him. He was not a willing participant, but a victim.’

However, Goodman told the court sobbing: 'I know sorry is just a word, but I really am. I know I hurt people and that is terrible.’

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Because of course she got a FUCKING slap on the wrist !!!!

On Tuesday, Kimberly Seevers was sentenced to 38 months in prison for sexual battery and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

In January of 2015, the 45-year-old Jay High School teacher allegedly plied a teenage student with alcohol and then engaged in sex acts with the boy. The alleged offenses are thought to have occurred between September and November at Seevers’ home.

Seevers’ attorney Barry Beroset’s argument was that the victim had initiated the sexual contact.

To which Circuit Court Judge Russ Goodman retorted, “In my experience with sexual offenses, blaming the victim is only seldom appropriate.”

Despite being found guilty of this crime, things could get worse for the Pensacola, Florida teacher because she is accused of having sex with other juveniles.

“I have to look solely at the box of this case,” Goodman said. “And not at all of the other issues swirling around.”

During the court proceedings it was noted that Seevers had been involved in a relationship with an 18-year-old at the same time she had sex with the other victim, however that was determined to be inconsequential because it was sex between two consenting adults.

“If I was having sex with her daughter I’d get 20 years,” said Stan Bauman, the victim’s stepfather. “She’s a pedophile.”

As a result of the plea agreement and sentence Seevers will spend the rest of her life registered as a sexual offender. She will serve probation following the service of her sentence and was ordered to pay fines and fees.

Like I said the last time: Before you tell me about how you’re a feminist and you’re angry about this crime, GET angry as fuck with with as many people as you can on the steps of  every local courthouse that lets a CHILD FUCKER go free.

This BITCH should be somebody’s personal Brock Turner. Her front lawn should have a gun-toting Lynch Mob outside her house 24/7.

  • Lestina Marie Smith is charged with first-degree criminal sexual conduct
  • Smith is accused of pulling knife on 19-year-old man and forcing him to have oral and vaginal sex with her
  • If convicted of two felony counts, the 17-year-old could face a life sentence  

By Snejana Farberov For Dailymail.com PUBLISHED: 11:15 EST, 18 January 2017 | UPDATED: 19:02 EST, 18 January 201

A 17-year-old girl from Michigan has been charged with raping a young man at knifepoint.Lestina Marie Smith, of Saginaw Township, was arraigned on Tuesday on two felony counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct.The charges stem from an incident that took place on January 11 in Saginaw Township involving Smith and a 19-year-old boy.

  Rape suspect: Lestina Marie Smith, 17, of Michigan, is facing felony charges for allegedly forcing a 19-year-old man to have sex with her at knifepoint The charges against Smith, pictured left and right, stem from an incident that took place on January 11 in Saginaw Township, Michigan According to the authorities, Smith pulled a knife on the victim and forced him to engage in oral and vaginal sex with her, reported MLive.com.

The alleged victim has not been named due to the sexual nature of the crime, and no additional details about the suspected assault have been released by police.Smith was ordered held without bond at Saginaw County jail. She is scheduled to appear in court on February 3 for a probable cause hearing.

If convicted of the felonies, the 17-year-old woman could be sentenced to life in prison.

Authorities say Smith pulled a knife on the victim and forced him to engage in oral and vaginal sex with her. She is being held without bond

On social media, friends and family, including Lestina Smith’s brother, have RALLIED AROUND THE RAPE SUSPECT, posting messages of support on her Facebook account!!!

Especially in our community, This is one of the many reasons why men do not come for about being raped and the same goes for any other form of abuse.

Can you STOP having murderers be the center of your March?

  • Rasmea Yousef Odeh is one of 8 calling for a US-wide female strike on March 8
  • Odeh was convicted in 1970 of planting four bombs in Israel; two detonated
  • One killed two men, 21 and 22, in a shop; another damaged the British Consulate
  • The Palestinian woman served 10 years before being released in a prisoner swap
  • In 1995 she arrived in the US, and did not admit to having been convicted before
  • Nine years on she applied for US citizenship; again she didn’t mention conviction
  • In 2013 she was put on trial for immigration fraud in Detroit, Michigan
  • She claimed she didn’t know she had to admit to international convictions too
  • She was found guilty in 2015 but after an appeal she is being tried again

Here’s the left’s next great idea for bringing down President Trump: another women’s march. Which means another public instance of Trump haters shouting slogans to one another and mistaking it for constructive politics. What progressives need to defeat Trump is outreach, but all they have is outrage.

On March 8, organizers seem to be aiming for a different vibe than the librarians-in-pussy-hats element that made the first women’s march after Trump’s inauguration so adorable.

Instead of milling around Washington, organizers have in mind a “general strike” called the Day without a Woman. In a manifesto published in The Guardian on Feb. 6, the brains behind the movement are calling for a “new wave of militant feminist struggle.” That’s right: militant, not peaceful.

The document was co-authored by, among others, Rasmea Yousef Odeh, a convicted terrorist. Odeh, a Palestinian, was convicted in Israel in 1970 for her part in two terrorist bombings, one of which killed two students while they were shopping for groceries. She spent 10 years in prison for her crimes. She then managed to become a US citizen in 2004 by lying about her past (great detective work, INS: Next time, use Google) but was subsequently convicted, in 2014, of immigration fraud for the falsehoods. However, she won the right to a new trial (set for this spring) by claiming she had been suffering from PTSD at the time she lied on her application. Oh, and in her time as a citizen, she worked for a while as an ObamaCare navigator.

You can see why she’s a hero to the left. Another co-author, Angela Davis, is a Stalinist professor and longtime supporter of the Black Panthers. Davis is best known for being acquitted in a 1972 trial after three guns she bought were used in a courtroom shootout that resulted in the death of a judge. She celebrated by going to Cuba.

A third co-author, Tithi Bhattacharya, praised Maoism in an essay for the International Socialist Review, noting that Maoists are “on the terrorist list of the US State Department, Canada, and the European Union,” which she called an indication that “Maoists are back in the news and by all accounts they are fighting against all the right people.” You know you’re dealing with extremism when someone admits to hating Canada.

The International Women’s Strike is meant to be a grass-roots affair, with womensmarch.com promising more information about how to participate in local protests across the US. Women around the country are being urged to walk off their jobs and join a demonstration near them.

According to The Guardian piece, women should spend their day “blocking roads, bridges, and squares, abstaining from domestic, care and sex work” and “boycotting” pro-Trump businesses. Also every woman is supposed to wear red in solidarity.

The bristling tone of the manifesto and its call for a “militant” uprising are yet another indicator that liberals are increasingly willing to justify violence in the name of opposing Trump. After the Berkeley campus erupted in flames and violence to protest the planned appearance of Milo Yiannopoulos, many progressive activists took to Twitter to cheer them on. Hollywood stars Debra Messing and Sarah Silverman both tweeted their support, with Messing saying, “RESISTANCE WORKS” and Silverman ranting: “WAKE UP & JOIN THE RESISTANCE. ONCE THE MILITARY IS W US FASCISTS GET OVERTHROWN. MAD KING & HIS HANDLERS GO BYE BYE.”

Progs are equally enthusiastic about the idea that it’s OK to punch people as long as you hate them: “Stranger Things” star David Harbour said at the Screen Actors Guild awards, “We will, as per Chief Jim Hopper [the character he played on the show], punch some people in the face when they seek to destroy the weak and the disenfranchised and the marginalized.” Nice liberal Democrats should be aware that this newer, angrier cohort is just as hostile to their own party. “I have problems with the Democratic Party that is just as linked to the corporate capitalist structure as the Republican party,” Davis said at a rally last year.

Anti-Trump activism seems to have little to do with the political arts required to win elections — finding common ground, forging alliances, making friends. Instead all of these demonstrations are about denouncing enemies, and making yourself feel better about the November defeat by gathering publicly with those who share your rage. This sort of thinking leads to such self-defeating acts as interrupting traffic in places like New York City (where Trump got 18 percent of the vote) or San Francisco (9 percent).

If you want to persuade working-class Trump voters in Wisconsin to join your cause, annoying rich liberal Democrats trying to get to work a thousand miles away is a strange way to go about it.

AND HERE WE GO AGAIN! 

Organizers of the Women’s March on Portland are embroiled in a dispute about donations raised in support of the event.
The January march, which drew estimates of between 70,000 and 100,000 people to downtown, was, by most measures, a success. But in the weeks since, activists who hastily joined forces to organize the event have begun to fight publicly over what happened to donations that could total thousands of dollars.
It’s unclear precisely how much money the event took in through T-shirt sales and other donations. But at least one organizer says the money hasn’t been accounted for. The Oregon Department of Justice confirmed this week that it is looking into a complaint but stopped short of saying it has launched an investigation.
This isn’t the first rift among organizers. Weeks before the march, the original leaders were replaced after accusations of racism and transphobia led the NAACP to pull its support for the event.
Lead organizer Margaret Jacobsen and PDX Trans Pride’s Rebekah Katherine Brewis, as well as a group including Kat Lattimer, Nora Colie and Erica Fuller, took the reins.
According to a Facebook post from Jacobsen, Brewis agreed to have PDX Trans Pride act as “fiscal sponsor” of the event so the Women’s March could collect donations and raise money to pay for costs associated with the march. But there was no written contract laying out how the fiscal sponsorship would work, according to Jacobsen.
Now, Jacobsen wrote in the Facebook post, PDX Trans Pride is refusing to account for the funds. Jacobsen said the group is keeping money the Women’s March had hoped to use for future Women’s March-related activities. Jacobsen also contends that PDX Trans Pride is only one person: Brewis.
And, due to complicated tax designations for nonprofits, it appears many of the Women’s March donations may not have been tax-deductible after all.
In a phone message left with The Oregonian/OregonLive, Brewis said, “The allegations are absolutely unfounded.”

The fight went public last week when the post from Jacobsen began circulating among Portland activists on Facebook. In it, Jacobsen alleged that PDX Trans Pride was holding at least $22,000 raised via T-shirt sales.

“I was one of the lead organizers for the Women’s March on Washington: Portland,” Jacobsen wrote in the post. “We sought a fiscal sponsor for the event. Rebekah Brewis, the Executive Director of Portland Trans Pride (‘PTP’), agreed to have PTP serve as the fiscal sponsor.”

Jim White, executive director of the Nonprofit Association of Oregon, said Friday that fiscal sponsorship is a relationship between two organizations, where one nonprofit with the ability to collect tax deductible donations extends that fundraising ability to a nonprofit that does not have the same designated status. The organization that can raise money is then legally responsible for accounting for the donations on behalf of the other organization. The group acting as a fiscal sponsor generally charges a fee for doing its work.
“There usually is some kind of agreement around a little bit of cost recovery,” White said. “You absolutely should have a written agreement.”
But no such agreement existed for the march, Jacobsen acknowledges.
“We did not have a written agreement with PTP, but we expected it would receive some portion of the funds raised for acting as our sponsor,” Jacobsen wrote. “People who advanced funds for expenses for the event were to be reimbursed. If there were additional funds left over we hoped to apply those to other events down the road.”  
Jacobsen said via the Facebook post that the organizers don’t know exactly how much money in the PDX Trans Pride PayPal account was earmarked for the Women’s March.
Jacobsen declined to comment further when contacted by The Oregonian/OregonLive.
T-shirts for the march were sold through a separate website, Bonfire. According to the site, $5 from every shirtwas supposed to go to the march organizers. Bonfire has sold 3,559 shirts. At $5 per shirt that would equal $17,795.
Facebook posts, and an FAQ from the Women’s March asking for direct donations had linked to a now-closed PDX Trans Pride PayPal account. An additional $1,630 was raised on a GoFundMe page to pay for ambulances and a defibrillator.
“We do not know how much was raised from direct donations because we do not have access to those records,” Jacobsen wrote in the Facebook post.
There were some expenses associated with the march. PDX Trans Pride paid $4,901 for a one-day permit for the event, according to Cary Coker of Portland Parks and Recreation. Planned Parenthood covered the cost of 65 portable toilets at $2,337.
There’s another wrinkle. PDX Trans Pride is not itself a 501c3 and is fiscally sponsored by Media Alliance, according to that group’s executive director Tracy Rosenberg.
Rosenberg said Tuesday that Brewis approached her California-based organization in late December about a fiscal sponsorship arrangement.
“We said OK,” Rosenberg said over the phone Tuesday. “They were sort of in a rush.”
Rosenberg said Media Alliance offered what it frequently offers in terms of fiscal sponsorship: the ability to collect tax-deductible donations through a PayPal account. Media Alliance also covered the liability insurance for the march, according to Portland Parks and Recreation.
Here’s where it gets complicated. The link for Women’s March donations went to a PDX Trans Pride PayPal account that was not associated with Media Alliance. The donation link had been shared on Facebook by both the Women’s March and PDX Trans Pride. It was also included in a Women’s March FAQ.
The link from the PDX Trans Pride website to the PayPal account used for the Women’s March now leads to a notice that says it is currently unable to receive money.
After Jacobsen’s post last week, PDX Trans Pride fired back on Facebook with its own post, accusing Women’s March organizers of “transphobia … through their recently published false narrative about our organization and it’s [sic] leaders.”
PDX Trans Pride wrote on Facebook that it “fully permitted, insured, and fiscally sponsored” the January march.
In a phone message Saturday, Brewis said that other Portland leaders are “jealous of the success of the event,” adding that the march “was controlled and led by our organization.”
“We have an active legal investigation into certain matters” around the Women’s March, she added, referencing “transphobic events” and “interpersonal violence.”

Portland police say they are not involved. The state Justice Department said it is looking into one complaint related to funding the march.

Another Portland trans organization, Greater Portland Trans Unity, meanwhile, distanced itself from Brewis.

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“Ms. Brewis has a long history of incarcerations 

A Statesman Journal article from 2011 detailed complaints that led Brewis to unsuccessfully sue the state. Brewis, who was transferred to the Oregon State Hospital after getting caught with a razor,unsuccessfully sued the state twice, according to Willamette Week.
Brewis posted on Facebook last week that she was at the Canada-U.S. border and was claiming “refugee status.” In the post, which included pictures of her at the border patrol gate, Brewis wrote, “I have surrendered my citizenship.” In a follow-up post, Brewis wrote, “Okay, just spoke with the Border agent at length, actually I am returning back tonight then leaving back to Canada.”
“I need to get my cat and a few things,” she added.
Those posts have since been deleted.
Brewis and Jacobsen have not responded to follow-up calls, emails or messages from The Oregonian/OregonLive.
Rosenberg, of the Media Alliance, said that it will refund any donations made through its PayPal account if requested.
PayPal said it can’t help people concerned about what happened to donations through the PDX Trans Pride account. Ashley Lowes, a spokesperson for PayPal, said via email that the company has looked into the issue, and anyone with questions about their donations “will need to contest these transactions with their credit card company or financial institution.” Due to company policy, PayPal will not disclose how much money PDX Trans Pride raised.

– Lizzy Acker

WOW, they really know how to pick them.

  1.  Donna Hylton was convicted of second-degree murder and two counts of first-degree kidnapping on March 12, 1986. She had been an accessory in the gruesome murder of Long Island real-estate broker Thomas Vigliarole, whose body was found locked inside a trunk in a Manhattan apartment in 1985. Vigliarole had died of asphyxiation. He was starved, beaten, raped, burned and tortured. Hylton served 27 years at New York’s Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for the crime.
  2. Rasmea Yousef Odeh was convicted in 1970 of planting four bombs in Israel; two detonated and killed two men, 21 and 22, in a shop; another damaged the British Consulate. 
  3. NOW there’s Rebekah Brewis Who did a six-year+ sentence for breaking into a woman’s home and threatening her with a knife.

Where do they find these people?

A geography teacher cleared of raping a pupil has warned that men should steer clear of the profession, after a false allegation shattered his dream career.

Kato Harris, a former head of department at an all-girls school in London, was accused of attacking a 14-year-old three times in a classroom during lunch breaks in autumn 2013, but was found not guilty after a trial last year.

The 38-year-old said before his ordeal began, “life was like a wonderful dream”, and with a successful career and a child also on the way he was “looking forward to a great future”.

“If I knew on the day I qualified what I know now, I would never have become a teacher “

In an interview with the Mail on Sunday, he has disclosed that “one of the biggest challenges” he now faces is forgiving his accuser, something he said he will do, “just not now”.

He told the newspaper:

  “I would certainly advocate that no man qualify as a teacher. It is just not worth it. What is the lesson here? There is nothing to protect the male teacher.

A jury found Mr Harris, from Richmond, not guilty of all charges following his trial at Isleworth Crown Court.

“I had to give up my dream job because of a crime I didn’t commit,” he said.

“I am unemployed, living in a bedsit and will soon be on housing benefit. I am toxic.”

Mr Harris, who saidhe is now considering a job in a crematorium, added: “If I knew on the day I qualified what I know now, I would never have become a teacher.

"I will never work with children again. I will never put myself in that position of vulnerability.”

The accusations emerged in December 2014, and Mr Harris said he was in “total shock” when police arrested him.

He told the newspaper he had made the decision to kill himself if he was charged, but that with the arrival of a baby daughter he wanted to carry on and prove his innocence.

Mr Harris added: “I’ve looked into the abyss. But every day I wake up and I’m a daddy and not in prison, and that’s the best thing that I could have hoped for.”

Another day, another students’ union ban. This time, student officers at the University of Sydney Union have shown their contempt for their peers by banning a documentary about the men’s rights movement. A screening of The Red Pill had been organised by the University of Sydney’s Conservative Club, Students For Liberty, and a student group called BroSoc, but the students’ union cancelled the event.
According to its website, The Red Pill is a documentary about the ‘mysterious and polarising world of the men’s rights movement’. It chronicles ‘feminist filmmaker’ Cassie Jaye’s exploration of ‘an alternative perspective on gender equality, power and privilege’. Throughout the documentary, Jaye claims she ‘learns the various ways men are disadvantaged and discriminated against’. Unsurprisingly, the documentary has caused outrage since its release, with critics declaring it ‘misogynistic propaganda’.
It’s fair enough to criticise the documentary, but people should watch it and make up their own minds. And what better place to discuss a political documentary than a university? Aren’t students meant to be exposed to challenging ideas they disagree with?
Not according to the University of Sydney Union. In a statement released online, the students’ union announced it was prohibiting the movie from being screened on union-managed parts of campus. It also banned any union funds from being used to screen it.
 ‘The planned screening of this documentary would be discriminatory against women, and has the capacity to intimidate and physically threaten women on campus’, it said.
 ‘This documentary is decidedly anti-feminist and anti-woman, focussing not on the ways in which the systemic issues of patriarchy may also adversely affect men, but instead placing the blame on women and feminism specifically for men’s issues.’
In other words, the documentary disputes the dominant narrative around gender equality, and the University of Sydney Union can’t allow that. Apparently discussing issues facing men would have been fine if the documentary blamed all the problems on The Patriarchy.
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Forget the men’s rights movement – 

is there anything less feminist than the claim that young women need to be protected from a documentary?

 By claiming that the documentary could ‘physically threaten women on campus’, the students’ union is painting women as too weak and vulnerable to engage in intellectual life.
Whether or not you agree with the premise of The Red Pill, it shouldn’t be banned. Students who disagree with it should go along to the screening and argue their case against it, not stop it from being shown altogether.
Patrick Hannaford is a writer based in Melbourne, Australia. Follow him on Twitter: @PatHannaford

<<Cassie Jaye should be nominated for best horror movie because I have never seen so many people afraid to see a film in my life.

Ready for a complete lack of self-awareness and entitlement? 

As the old saying goes, “men are trash.” If you’re a twenty-something woman, you’ve probably said this phrase to your friends at least once, possibly over alcoholic drinks after a man has done something bad. Or perhaps you’ve said it to coworkers after your dumb boss makes a boob joke in front of the entire company.

Apparently, however, sharing that sentiment on Facebook is a no-no. In fact, doing so can get your content removed, or even get you banned from posting for a period of time.

Phyllis Meehan, a 29-year-old corporate administrator living in San Francisco, told Gizmodo she changed her cover photo to an image that featured the phrase on Monday evening. On Tuesday evening, she said, she went back on Facebook—only to receive a message saying Facebook had removed the image, and that she was blocked from posting for 24 hours.

The image itself originated with Erin La Ninfa, who created it a few weeks ago using Canva, an online graphics design software. She has a website, “Just Another White Hoe,” where she hosts a few of these kinds of images—the classic genre of saccharine, Pinterest-style inspirational images subverted with messages like “Happy Golden Shower.” She originally shared it in a private group (she wouldn’t reveal which one), and said women in the group shared it from there. As she explained to Gizmodo, “Obviously not all men are trash, however, the ones who are really upset about it are the ones who absolutely are.”

Then, she said, a couple of days later, she was told she was blocked for three days for posting a screenshot of “some sexist bullshit a man said” on Facebook with the caption “men are trash.”

Meehan said she had “no idea” if any of her friends reported her. But several of Phyllis’ friends told Gizmodo that they, too, had posted the original “men are trash” meme, only to have it removed by Facebook.

Chad Lavimoniere, a UX designer at a startup in New York, said that after Meehan’s cover photo post was removed, he posted the image with the following text: “A friend of mine got reported/blocked from Facebook for 24 hours for posting this meme. Who are the fragile snowflakes, again?” That post, too, was taken down.

Another friend of Meehan’s, Kayla Ceretti, told Gizmodo she posted the image and had it removed. And a third friend, Lily Leach, who is currently living in the Middle East, had the same experience. Lily told Gizmodo she “shared the ‘Men are Trash’ meme and wrote this caption: ‘My friend Phyllis got banned from FB for 24 hours for sharing this. Where is the lie?’” She, like Kayla, tagged Phyllis in the post. Then, less than 24 hours later, she said she “was notified it has been reported and taken down.” (A follow up post complaining about the meme’s removal was not removed.)

It seems clear that Phyllis—and possibly Lily, Chad, and Kayla—had some Facebook friends who reported their posts as offensive. (I posted both the text “men are trash” and the image on my Facebook yesterday, and none of my friends have reported me.) But that still doesn’t explain why Facebook would think the image or its contents were worth removing—and go so far as to ban users from posting altogether.

When we reached out to Facebook, we got an answer: The company said that, under its guidelines, the posts fell under the category of hate speech; it would only allow such posts when it had enough context to know it was meant as humor, or was being used self-referentially. So it’s pretty clear: Facebook considers the phrase “men are trash” hate speech.

Facebook’s guidelines ban hate speech that “directly attacks people based on their race, ethnicity, national origin, religious affiliation, sexual orientation, sex, gender, or gender identity, or, serious disabilities or diseases.” The guidelines also “allow humor, satire or social commentary related to these topics, and we believe that when people use their authentic identity, they are more responsible when they share this kind of commentary.”

As all four of the affected posters pointed out, much worse stuff stays up all the time.

Facebook clearly has—and has had for a while—a problem with content moderation. It’s been criticized for removing a post about the Orlando shooting, and a meme about Brock Turner (which was later restored). And on the other end of the spectrum, it’s been criticized for not removing racist content; in Germany, government ministers have pressured Facebook to act more pro-actively to remove racist content. It’s also received criticism for not acting quickly enough to remove graphic content, like a graphic photo of a murdered woman or recent murders broadcast on Facebook live.

More to the point: “men are trash” is not hate speech. Largely, men who act offended by things like “men are trash” or “white people suck” are doing it to make a point, not because they really are offended; they seem to think being offended by a slur is a fun activity they’re being left out of.

But I’m sorry, dudes: that just isn’t how it works. “Men are trash” is simply not the same thing as sexist attacks on women, because you don’t face the systemic oppression that makes sexist slurs so toxic. If you’re a man and someone calls you a stupid trash man, wow, I’m sorry you had a bad day. If someone calls a woman a bitch or a slut, that’s tinged with millennia of oppression.

Facebook acting like these are all the same thing—to put “men are trash” in the same category of speech as slurs—shows that, yet again, it just doesn’t get it.

“ systemic oppression “ women aren’t oppressed. And even if they were, “Patriarchy affects men too” would come in to play, so yes, Men Are Trash would become a sexist insult. Pick one.   “Obviously not all men are trash, however, the ones who are really upset about it are the ones who absolutely are.” Behold! The words of a cunt, who was caught acting the cunt.

Oh, NOW Facebook censorship is bad when the pendulum swings the other way.

“but not all feminist” my ass.

I’m completely against censorship; however if Facebook are going to try to shut down offensive speech, I definitely support an equal and fair application of that ideal.

The last time Facebook acted like this is was to shutdown a secret Facebook page where women brag about violence toward men    with stuff like this

Police officer caught her with half-undressed schoolboy, a former pupil, in the back of her car at 2am earlier this week in Florida, USA, but initially said that he was the one seducing her

A DRAMA teacher had an unscripted run in with the law while allegedly performing a sex act on an underage pupil in her car during the middle of the night.

Pamela Stigger, 33, claimed she was “only trying to mentor him” but the 15-year-old told police she had told him to go to the back seat where they took off their trousers and underwear and had sex.

The aspiring actress then reportedly got dressed and was performing oral sex on him when he told her a sheriff’s deputy was walking towards the car.

The female officer swooped in Tamarac, Florida, after a call about a suspicious looking vehicle obstructing traffic with no one in the front seats at approximately 2am.

She said she saw Stigger in the back with the boy who was naked from the waist down.

Sheriff’s spokeswoman Gina Carter said: “When she was questioned about what they were doing and if they had, in fact, engaged in sexual acts, she denied being engaged in these sexual acts… despite the fact that the young man was undressed.”

Stigger faces two charges of sexually assaulting the student who was in her drama class at Forest Glen Middle School in Coral Springs during the academic year 2015-16.

She is also accused of lewd and lascivious activity on a minor.

The lad told investigators Stigger was driving him home when she pulled over and started kissing him in the early hours of Thursday morning.

Stigger, who, according to investigators, has a “custodial relationship” over the teen, is said to have denied having sexual contact with him.

She initially accused him of “attempting to seduce her” before changing her story, said Carter.

The sheriff’s spokeswoman added: “She did say that she was in the process of mentoring this past student of hers, even though it was two o’clock in the morning, and they were in the back seat of a car.”

On Friday a court banned Stigger from having any contact with the boy and she must wear an ankle monitor while out on bail.

Broward County Schools said Stigger had worked for the district since 2008 but that now she had been “administratively reassigned away from the school, and will not be permitted access to students.

“This situation is being taken extremely seriously, and the district will continue to co-operate with the investigation.”

is it a good idea to drink alcohol when you’re pregnant? This is an honest question. Yes or no? No? Good, so in theory, we shouldn’t have to talk about the contents of this article…

Pregnancy charities and researchers are calling for a change to government guidelines which warn expectant mothers to avoid alcohol completely. Dr. Ellie Lee, Director of the Centre of Parenting Culture Studies at the University of Kent, said that, quote, “the exclusion of women from an ordinary activity on the basis of a precaution is sexist.”

Despite the fact that, you know, consistent heavy drinking during pregnancy can result in foetal alcohol syndrome… apparently there is no evidence that light to moderate drinking… or even the one-off night where you try every drink on the menu… will cause any damage. At the moment, it’s hard to say whether or not this is coming from a biologist, or the woman who heads the centre of Parenting Culture Studies. The British Pregnancy Advisory Service is campaigning for a change in the “tone” of the advice given to pregnant women regarding alcohol, stating that this might be, quote, “needlessly scaring women into aborting pregnancies because of fears that a few heavy nights out will have caused the foetus serious harm.”

Of course, trying to determine the effects of light and moderate alcohol consumption during pregnancy would be impossible because it’s unethical.

 But when I say unethical I mean FUCKING Tuskegee experiments unethical.

Having said that, it might just be best to assume that eating and drinking healthy products might be best when you plan to bring a pregnancy to full-term. After all, the thing that should be on your mind shouldn’t be whether or not your feelings are hurt because you can’t abstain from alcohol for nine months, but the HEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF THE BABY.

The bullshit I’m sorry article in question👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

Advising women not to drink when pregnant is “sexist” and causes “needless anxiety”, senior academics have said.Pregnancy charities and researchers have called for a change to the “alarmist” official Government guidelines, which warn expectant mothers to avoid alcohol completely.They say the policy has no basis in evidence and ends up “stigmatising” women and excluding them from society.Studies have shown that consistent heavy drinking during pregnancy can result in foetal alcohol syndrome, which can cause physical developmental and learning difficulties.
However, there is not robust evidence that light to moderate drinking, or even one-off episodes of binge drinking, causes any long-term damage.
Experts at the University of Kent and the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) are claiming that public policy towards pregnant women has “gone down an overtly precautionary route”  and that the Government “needs to be honest” about the evidence.
But last night professional bodies defended the current position.
Last year the Chief Medical Officer, Dame Sally Davies, was accused of scaremongering when she issued updated formal advice on alcohol consumption for all adults, reducing the recommended weekly intake from 21 to 14 units for men, and advising pregnant women not to touch alcohol at all.
The previous guidelines had expecting women not avoid alcohol but noted that if they did choose to drink, they could not consume more than 2 units once or twice a week.
Dr Ellie Lee, Director of the Centre of Parenting Culture Studies at the University of Kent, said the “exclusion of women from an ordinary activity on the basis of a precaution” was “sexist”.
“Public discourse has become very hostile and there is now an assumption that a pregnant woman holding a glass of wine is doing something absolutely wrong,” she said.
“Women are being accosted, spoken to and started at in public.
“People assume that just because you have had one drink you’ve had a bottle of vodka for breakfast.”
She said it was impossible to establish the safe level of exposure to alcohol during pregnancy.
BPAS is also campaigning for a change in the tone of the advice on the basis that it may be needlessly scaring women into aborting pregnancies because of fears that a few heavy nights out will have caused the foetus serious harm.
Clare Murphy, the organisation’s director of external affairs, said: “There can be real consequences to overstating evidence, or implying certainty when there isn’t any.
“Doing so can cause women needless anxiety and alarm – sometimes to the point that they consider ending an unplanned but not unwanted pregnancy because of fears they have caused irreparable harm.
“But just as importantly,  it assumes women cannot be trusted to understand risk, and when it comes to alcohol, the difference between low and heavy consumption.”
The Department of Health refused to comment on the BPAS criticism, however a spokesman for the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) said it was “best to avoid alcohol”.
“This advice is not about policing pregnant women’s behaviour, it is about giving them unbiased information and enabling them to make the choice that is right for them,” said Janet Fyle, RCM Professional Policy Advisor.
“Cumulative and regular alcohol consumption in pregnancy could have an impact on the health and wellbeing of mother and baby.”
She stressed, however, that expectant mothers concerned about their levels of drinking during should be supported by midwives in a “non-judgemental way”.
Accurate data on the the effects of moderate alcohol consumption during pregnancy is almost impossible to achieve because it would be unethical to initiate wide-scale studies which compared the outcomes for children of drinkers to those of non-drinkers.

SERIOUSLY WHY DO WE EVEN HAVE TO HAVE THIS DISCUSSION?

Feminists, you do NOT represent or speak for all women.

YEAH!!! men experience sexism too :’((((( DO NOT PRIORITIZE WOMEN!!! because!!! we all experience sexism!!! like women have lower pay, are disproportionately victims of rape, are dismissed as “being on their periods” when emotional, called hysterical, irrational, discriminated against in fields of science and math and men…………………………………………………….

but like lol I’m not experiencing sexism so feminism has no point lmao 

Wage Gap:

Here are some by women

The Wage Gap Myth

The pay inequality myth: Women are more equal than you think http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa3pKN3XUKM&feature=youtu.be

Labor force participation rate for men has never been lower.http://www.zerohedge.com/news/biggest-shock-fridays-payroll-report-sorry-men

Female U.S. corporate directors out-earn men: studywww.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN0752118220071107?feedType=R

Female CEOs outearned men in 2009. http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=10630664

Women between ages 21 and 30 working full-time made 117% of men’s wages.www.nytimes.com/2007/08/03/nyregion/03women.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, single women between 22 and 30 years old earn an average of $27,000 a year. That’s 8% more than comparable men.http://www.ksee24.com/news/local/Young-Women-Earn-More-159818705.html

Women aged between 22 and 29 earn over £10 per hour on average, compared to men their same age who earn just under this amount. http://www.womenintechnology.co.uk/news/young-women-earn-more-than-men—news-800761492

The only chairwoman in the FTSE 100 index of biggest British companies, when asked about government efforts to force companies to make at least 25% of board member to be female said: “there’s no real evidence to suggest women being on a board makes the companies any better – what we’re doing here is forcing an experiment.” This was further supported in the book “Why Men Earn More” by Warren Farrell, Ph.D., examined 25 career/life choices men and women make (hours, commute times, etc.) that lead to men earning more and women having more balanced lives, and that showed how men in surveys prioritize money while women prioritize flexibility, shorter hours, shorter commutes, less physical risk and other factors conducive to their choice to be primary parents, an option men still largely don’t have. That is why never-married childless women outearn their male counterparts, and female corporate directors now outearn their male counterparts.http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN0752118220071107?feedTy…

Farrell also lists dozens of careers, including fields of science, where women outearn men. Women simply have more options than men to be primary parents, and many of them exercise that option rather than work long, stressful hours. That is why 57% of female graduates of Stanford and Harvard left the workforce within 15 years of entry into the workforce.http://edition.cnn.com/2005/BUSINESS/03/15/optout.revolution/ This is an option few men have (try being a single male and telling women on the first date that you want to stay home).

Blaming men for women’s choices is unfair. In fact research shows most men have no problem with their wives outearning them. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23413243

Research also shows most working dads would quit or take a pay cut to spend more time with kids if their spouses could support the family.http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/Careers/06/13/dads.work/index.html

Research also shows that parents share workloads more when mothers allow men to be primary parents. http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-05-04-equal-parenting_N.htm

ABC News: “Is the Wage Gap Women’s Choice? Research Suggests Career Decisions, Not Sex Bias, Are at Root of Pay Disparity” http://abcnews.go.com/2020/GiveMeABreak/story?id=797045&page=1&CMP=OTC-R

There is also the myth that women are kept out of certain more lucrative fields by sexism. The truth is that women stay away from math out of their own free choice http://sify.com/news/women-stay-away-from-math-out-of-their-own-free-choice-news-scitech-kk1lubiiiee.html

Rape is not the “epidemic” that people are trying to claim it is.  It has actually decreased dramatically in the past few decades - up to 80% since 1979despite an increase in the willingness of victims to report them.  This is even further supported by data directly from the U.S. Bureau of Justice.

Grow up and do some research instead of just mindlessly buying into everything that feminists dish out to you.

Someone got to it before I did. Whatever. Tear em down with facts.

Nuked from orbit.

@lastsonlost More sources for you.

Always appreciate it

AN SJW ALMOST CAME CLOSE TO SELF AWARENESS.

There is a particularly aggressive strand of social justice activism weaving in and out of my Seattle community that has troubled me, silenced my loved ones, and turned away potential allies. I believe in justice. I believe in liberation. I believe it is our duty to obliterate white supremacy, anti-blackness, cisheteropatriarchy, ableism, capitalism, and imperialism. And I also believe there should be openness around the tactics we use and ways our commitments are manifested over time. Beliefs and actions are too often conflated with each other, yet questioning the latter should not renege the former. As a Cultural Studies scholar, I am interested in the ways that culture does the work of power. What then, is the culture of activism, and in what ways are activists restrained by it? To be clear, I’m only one person who is trying to figure things out, and I’m open to revisions and learning. But as someone who has spent the last decade recovering from a forced conversion to evangelical Christianity, I’m seeing a disturbing parallel between religion and activism in the presence of dogma:

1. Seeking purity

There is an underlying current of fear in my activist communities, and it is separate from the daily fear of police brutality, eviction, discrimination, and street harassment. It is the fear of appearing impure. Social death follows when being labeled a “bad” activist or simply “problematic” enough times. I’ve had countless hushed conversations with friends about this anxiety, and how it has led us to refrain from participation in activist events, conversations, and spaces because we feel inadequately radical. I actually don’t prefer to call myself an activist, because I don’t fit the traditional mold of the public figure marching in the streets and interrupting business as usual. When I was a Christian, all I could think about was being good, showing goodness, and proving to my parents and my spiritual leaders that I was on the right path to God. All the while, I believed I would never be good enough, so I had to strain for the rest of my life towards an impossible destination of perfection.

I feel compelled to do the same things as an activist a decade later. I self-police what I say in activist spaces. I stopped commenting on social media with questions or pushback on leftist opinions for fear of being called out. I am always ready to apologize for anything I do that a community member deems wrong, oppressive, or inappropriate- no questions asked. The amount of energy I spend demonstrating purity in order to stay in the good graces of fast-moving activist community is enormous. Activists are some of the judgiest people I’ve ever met, myself included. There’s so much wrongdoing in the world that we work to expose. And yet, grace and forgiveness are hard to come by in these circles. At times, I have found myself performing activism more than doing activism. I’m exhausted, and I’m not even doing the real work I am committed to do. It is a terrible thing to be afraid of my own community members, and know they’re probably just as afraid of me. Ultimately, the quest for political purity is a treacherous distraction for well-intentioned activists.

2. Reproducing colonialist logics

Postcolonialist black Caribbean philosopher Frantz Fanon in his 1961 book Wretched of the Earth writes about the volatile relationship between the colonizer and the colonized, and the conditions of decolonization. In it, he sharply warns the colonized against reproducing and maintaining the oppressive systems of colonization by replacing those at top by those previously at the bottom after a successful revolution.

As a QTPOC (queer, trans person of color), I have experienced discrimination and rejection due to who I am. I have sought out QTPOC-only spaces to heal, find others like me, and celebrate our differences. Those spaces and relationships have saved me from despair time and time again. And yet, I reject QTPOC supremacy, the idea that QTPOCs or any other marginalized groups deserve to dominate society. The experiences of oppression do not grant supremacy, in the same way that being a powerful colonizer does not. Justice will never look like supremacy. I wish for a new societal order that does not revolve around relations of power and domination.

3. Preaching/Punishments

Telling people what to do and how to live out their lives is endemic to dogmatic religion and activism. It’s not that my comrades are the bosses of me, but that dogmatic activism creates an environment that encourages people to tell other people what to do. This is especially prominent on Facebook. Scrolling through my news feed sometimes feels Iike sliding into a pew to be blasted by a fragmented, frenzied sermon. I know that much of the media posted there means to discipline me to be a better activist and community member. But when dictates aren’t followed, a common procedure of punishment ensues. Punishments for saying/doing/believing the wrong thing include shaming, scolding, calling out, isolating, or eviscerating someone’s social standing. Discipline and punishment has been used for all of history to control and destroy people. Why is it being used in movements meant to liberate all of us? We all have made serious mistakes and hurt other people, intentionally or not. We get a chance to learn from them when those around us respond with kindness and patience. Where is our humility when examining the mistakes of others? Why do we position ourselves as morally superior to the un-woke? Who of us came into the world fully awake?

4. Sacred texts

There are also some online publications of dogmatic activism that could be considered sacred texts. For example, the intersectional site Everyday Feminismreceives millions of views a month. It features more than 40 talented writers who pen essays on a wide range of anti-oppression topics, zeroing in on ones that haven’t yet broached larger activist conversations online. When Everyday Feminism articles are shared among my friends, I feel both grateful that the conversation is sparking and also very belittled. Nearly all of their articles follow a standard structure: an instructive title, list of problematic or suggested behaviors, and a final statement of hard opinion. The titles, the educational tone, and the prescriptive checklists contribute to creating the idea that there is only one way to think about and do activism. And it’s a swiftly moving target that is always just out of reach. In trying to liberate readers from the legitimately oppressive structures, I worry that sites like Everyday Feminism are replacing them with equally restrictive orthodoxy on the other end of the political spectrum.

Have I extricated myself from a church to find myself confined in another?

At this year’s Allied Media Conference, BLM co-founder Alicia Garza gave an explosive speech to a theatre full of brilliant and passionate organizers. She urged us to set aside our distrust and critique of newer activists and accept that they will hurt and disappoint us. Don’t shut them out because their politics are outdated or they don’t wield the same language. If we are interested in building the mass movements needed to destroy mass oppression, our movements must include people not like us, people with whom we will never fully agree, and people with whom we have conflict. That’s a much higher calling than railing at people from a distance and labeling them as wrong. Ultimately, according to Garza, building a movement is about restoring humanity to all of us, even to those of us who have been inhumane. Movements are where people are called to be transformed in service of liberation of themselves and others.

I want to spend less time antagonizing and more time crafting alternative futures where we don’t have to fight each other for resources and care. For an introvert like me, that may look like shifting my activism towards small scale projects and recognizing personal relationships as locations of mutual transformation. It might mean carefully choosing whether I want to be part of public disruptions or protests, and giving myself full permission to refrain at times. It may mean drawing attention to the ways in which other people outside of movements have been living out activism, even if no one has ever called it that. It might mean checking in with myself about how I have let my heart grow hard. It may mean admitting that speaking my truth isn’t justification for being mean. It might mean directly dealing with my religious hangups so that I can come to a place where the resonant aspects of theology or spirituality become part of my toolkit. It means cultivating long-term relationships with those outside my (not that) safe and exclusive community, understanding I will learn so much from them. It means ceasing to “other” people and leave them behind. It means honoring their humanity, in spite of their hurtful political beliefs and violent actions. It means seeing them as individuals, not ideologies or systems. It means acknowledging their agency to act justly. It means inviting them to be with us in love, and pushing through repeated rejection. Otherwise, I’m not sure how I can sustain this work for the rest of my life

Leah McLaren wrote the following article on the Canadian site The Globe and Mail:

The other day I was sitting in the park with James, 3, when I picked a dandelion and handed it to him as a present. “No way, Mummy,” he said, pushing away my gift. “Flowers are pretty and I’m a boy.”
And I thought: That’s it. I’m signing him up for ballet.

Wonderful! So her innocent 3 year old boy rejects flowers and she’s going to punish him by putting him in ballet with all girls who wear pink tutus. But wait, there’s more…

As James gets older and begins to discover himself, I realize that he is being guided just as much by what he vehemently rejects as what he genuinely loves (zombies, magic, ice cream, dogs and dancing). Some of the things he now pushes away he truly seems to dislike (yogurt, itchy sweaters, going to bed), but other things he is starting to turn on for reasons of obvious cultural conditioning.
James isn’t entirely sure who he is yet, but he definitely knows what he’s not, and that’s 1) a baby or 2) a girl. Lately, anything that falls into either of those two categories is verboten to him.
But as I watch my son reject flowers and dolls and even pink Popsicles – all things that until, very recently, he adored – on the grounds that they are “girlish,” I have come to see Fine’s point. There is something inherently sexist, even covertly misogynist, in the way we discourage boys away from pretty things while telling girls they can have it all.

So now it’s sexist and misogynist to discourage boys from being effeminate….this is liberalism, folks! It gets better…

This sort of messaging is a bad thing for boys because it’s culturally limiting, but in the broader sense it’s even worse for girls. Because what it is saying is this: Boy stuff is universally cool and girl stuff is silly and worthless.

This internal dialogue is just astounding. This mother is actually internally debating gender theory and lamenting her child seeing the world in binary terms, ie; mommy and daddy, boy and girl but seeks to slowly brainwash this poor child by blurring gender lines…

Much as I dislike the idea of anything being categorized as inherently feminine or masculine, it’s hard to explain poststructuralist gender theory to a three-year old. For James, the world is pretty much binary at the moment, and trying to shift that perspective – little by little – has become my pet project. It’s also a window into what a strange place the world must be for transgender or gender-non-conforming kids.

And this is how this mother believes her son will learn to love and respect women…

If I want my son to love and respect women, I am going to have to teach him to embrace – and ideally appreciate – “girlish” things. That’s why I’m weaving him a dandelion crown and signing him up for ballet.
And here is the grand finale…you just can’t make this stuff up. How do you think this young boy is going to perceive his mother after she forces him to do things that he naturally rejects?

I’m going to turn the little alphabet belcher into a proud princess whether he likes it or not.

Feminist Mom Promises To Turn 3-Year-Old Son “Into A Proud Princess Whether He Likes It Or Not” | Conservative News https://t.co/imUd7oiSrF

— Michael Keyes (@michaelkeyes) May 3, 2017

  • A feminist professor at Occidental College recently argued that MEN MUST RENOUNCE THEIR MASCULINITY and “DENOUNCE ANYONE WHO CHOOSES TO IDENTIFY WITH IT.”
  • Lisa Wade rejects the notion of “toxic masculinity,” saying it is time to recognize that “it is masculinity itself that has become the problem.”

feminist professor at Occidental College recently argued that men must renounce their masculinity and “denounce anyone who chooses to identify with it.”

Lisa Wade, a sociology professor at Occidental, published an essay for Public Books calling for people to “attack masculinity directly” to help the nation survive in the wake of President Trump, who she says perpetuates a “vile enactment of masculinity.”

“If we’re going to survive both President Trump and the kind of people he has emboldened, we need to attack masculinity directly,” she said, clarifying that she doesn’t want to see a “kinder, gentler version of it,” but that she wants it done away with completely.

Calling masculinity a “dangerous idea,” Wade argues that the Trump presidency was caused not merely by toxic forms of masculinity, but by the fact that masculinity itself is toxic.

“We are here in Trump’s America in part because we have been too delicate in our treatment of dangerous ideas. The problem is not toxic masculinity; it’s that masculinity is toxic,” she writes, adding that masculinity is “simply not compatible with liberty and justice for all.”

“We can only give masculinity so many modifiers for so long before we have to confront the possibility that it is masculinity itself that has become the problem,” she says.

Wade concludes her essay by urging people to “call masculinity out as a hazardous ideology and denounce anyone who chooses to identify with it,” saying that doing so is crucial for “gender revolution.”

Wade is best known for her book American Hookup (2017), a feminist look into the sexual culture on college campuses, which has been praised by numerous media outlets including The New York Timesand The Huffington Post.

More recently, Wade called for fraternities to be abolished because they “hoard power” for “wealthy white men,” and noted that she doesn’t “think it is a good idea to be encouraging young males to identify specifically as men.”

Campus Reform reached out to Wade for comment, but did not receive a response in time for publication.

@feminismisahatemovement are you even the least bit surprised?

its funny that everytime i ask a feminist to send me “ what has feminism done for men” they left the conversation 

Of course they left the conversation you fuckhead that’s like asking an animal rights movement “what has animal welfare ever done for Seaworld??” as a checkmate.

Feminism is for women. Feminism does not concern men. Feminism does not serve to benefit women’s oppressors.

Okay, so this might very well be Peak Tumblr for me. Why the fuck would feminism do anything for men? What did the Civil Rights Movement do for White People dumbass? 

@theresagooseinthemainframe You both fail to take into consideration different people. Loads of feminists say feminism is for men too, feminism is for everyone, feminism IS equality. But when these people are confronted on that, they actually have no response.

Some feminism @honeybee-x​ try to stick up every body and that part of the movement that has always inspired me since I was a kid. Today SOME of feminism is trying to fly with one wing. 

it’s been my experience that whenever the question of male rape or abuse comes up you would hear about people like  Karen Ingala Smith who opens abuse shelters for women actively opposes and works against abuse shelters for men. 

Someone would immediately say don’t they know feminism fights for men too. A lot of times this will only come up as a way of saving face or dismissing the whole conversation. I personally consider myself blessed to know some feminist.   who actually do give a fuck. Blogs like @boy-positive​ have feminist mods. I’ve seen critical feminist address the problems in their movement and challenge the indifferent and toxic attitudes that has come way to prevalence.

 I seen some feminist realize that men do have a lot of issues but instead of talking over them they chosen to listen. I just with is was more .

The  Civil Rights Movement also fought for unity. They were soldiers of love in a war for peace. @roslynholcomb

“There were tens of thousands of pilgrims, from all over the world. They were of all colors, from blue-eyed blondes to black-skinned Africans. But we were all participating in the same ritual, displaying a spirit of unity and brotherhood that my experiences in America had led me to believe never could exist between the white and non-white.”

“America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, and even eaten with people who in America would have been considered white - but the white attitude was removed from their minds by the religion of Islam. I have never before seen sincere and true brotherhood practiced by all colors together, irrespective of their color.”

“You may be shocked by these words coming from me. But on this pilgrimage, what I have seen, and experienced, has forced me to rearrange much of my thought-patterns previously held, and to toss aside some of my previous conclusions. This was not too difficult for me. Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds it. I have always kept an open mind, which is necessary to the flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of intelligent search for truth.”

“During the past eleven days here in the Muslim world, I have eaten from the same plate, drunk from the same glass, and slept on the same rug - while praying to the same God - with fellow Muslims, whose eyes were the bluest of blue, whose hair was the blondest of blond, and whose skin was the whitest of white. And in the words and in the deeds of the white Muslims, I felt the same sincerity that I felt among the black African Muslims of Nigeria, Sudan and Ghana.”

“We were truly all the same (brothers) - because their belief in one God had removed the white from their minds, the white from their behavior, and the white from their attitude.”

“I could see from this, that perhaps if white Americans could accept the Oneness of God, then perhaps, too, they could accept in reality the Oneness of Man - and cease to measure, and hinder, and harm others in terms of their ‘differences’ in color.”

Malcolm X’s Letter from Mecca

The  Civil Rights Movement also fought for unity. They were soldiers of love in a war for peace.

The Black Panther Party for self defense have always fought to work with everybody from gay rights to women’s rights to immigrants rights.

Advocating for men’s issues and promoting positivity for males is not misogynistic.

lmao.

What’s so funny about caring about men and men’s issues? I care about my boyfriend’s body issues, and dads depression, and the male suicide rates. I care about the issues transmen face, and the stereotypes imposed upon black male youths. It’s not funny, it’s not a joke. Men have issues too.

we don’t face any issues because we’re male and society is extremely male positive…. and male positivity just reinforces the extreme male positive in our society…. and yes, it is misogynistic, so i laugh at anyone who claims it isn’t…..

Maybe, because I see your name is Julio and it seems like you’re cis, you haven’t. I know plenty of women who haven’t faced misogyny. I haven’t. Misogyny has never come into my life. However, 90% of body positivity, and suicide help is aimed at women. Positivity is not aimed at men. I care about men’s issues, like the fact that only they can be drafted. How about the horrible child custody laws? What about the fact that they have no say in birth control, so if a woman decides to pop a man’s condom so he can get her pregnant so he won’t leave, he cant do anything? How about how unfair child support is towards men? I mean, good luck getting custody of your kid. How about ALMOST EVERY SINGLE BODY POSITIVITY ADVERT BEING AIMED AT CIS WHITE OVERWEIGHT WOMEN? Dove, a lot of underwear companies. What about the fact that male on male rape in prison is more than than male on female rape in general in America? There are male problems.

And since you’re a man disagreeing with me, doesn’t that make you a misogynist, since I’m a woman?

I’m not “cis” there’s no such thing as “cis.” Gender is not innate, it is socialized. I’m not gonna argue about how you ~totally~ don’t face misogyny…..

That’s because SOCIETY is male positive and hates women, hence why positivity is aimed at women and not males….

you mean the draft that’s not even in effect and that was instituted by other males because they think women are weak??? hm, that’s not discrimination against males….

you mean the custody courts that grant male abusers custody 70% of the time?? Yeah, that sucks, but that doesn’t only affect young boys, that affects young girls, too, it sucks to be forced to live with abusive males….

Really? I didn’t realize it was illegal for me to wear a fucking condom….

Lmao, sure, sure that happens a lot…. I’m heard of more males doing that way more than of women doing that…. but let’s pretend males aren’t allowed to waive their parental rights….. or the fact that males abandon their families at high rates….

You mean having to pay for children they fathered, if they don’t waive their parental rights? How awful…. More like child support laws are unfair to mothers because there are BILLIONS of dollars owed to single mothers AND mothers have to spend ALL their paycheck and ALL their time and a male gives a small part of his check and “it’s TOO much” and mothers can’t even buy themselves anything nice without people shitting on them…. but yeah let’s pretend it’s sooo unfair to males…. let’s just ignore that millions of single mothers and their children live in poverty while their father is doing all right for himself…..

Wow, you mean, body positivity is mainly for the sex that gets judged and valued for how close they fit misogynistic beauty standards??? shockerrrr.

There is severe underreporting of rape and sexual assault against women in the United States, underreporting is even higher in the army, so I highly doubt that’s true. But even if it is true, it’s not happening because of ~misandry~ or something. It’s still an issue of MALE violence…. most males don’t end up in jail, most males don’t worry about being raped in jail, if we were crime rates would be extremely low….

oh, you’re one of those people, all right, well i’m done talking to you then bye….

@takashi0 You seem to be good at responding to these people. I have sources, but I’m on mobile, and being that, adding sources are weird.

@cheshireinthemiddle You’re much better with sources than me.

Child Custody

Paternity Fraud

  • -Case where 15 year old boy is deemed guilty of rape in the 1st degree for delaying to pull out by 5 seconds
  • -Underage male rape victim being legally bound to pay for child support
  • Paternity fraud is rampant in the US.  In as many as 30% of cases, fathers are being forced to pay child support for children who are not theirs.

Click for examples of men being forced to pay CS for non-biological children

In at least 3 states (California, Kansas and Tennessee), courts force boys to pay child support to their statutory rapists. In at least two other states, state officials attempt to get boy statutory rape victims to pay child support to their rapists. 

@guys-positivity i’ll have more latter

@guys-positivity @boys-positivity thank you @cheshireinthemiddle

A summary of sources thanks to lady-of-anti-feminism

the 1 in 3 figure (u mean 1 in 6 ? One can never be sure about the information feminists provide).

I haven’t heard that one, but i will research it because those numbers are unfathomable. That means, of the 4 females in my family/household, at least one of them was a victim of sexual assault and that isn’t true. I need to understand what this(these) researcher(s) applied as sexual assault and how they got their numbers, then i will speak on this amusing statistic.  *EDIT* the site where the research is said to come from has been taken down…unless you can provide viable proof (such as the full research or at least the original document’s/site) then this is bullshit. It also largely contradicts with a lot of the other well known “rape” figures so try again.

Lets move on to those well known statistics.  “1 in 4 women will be sexually assaulted before the age of 18.“

I’ve said this enough so i’m going to copy and paste it from the awesome person,  check-your-privilege-feminists

“This alleged “statistic” was culled from a survey of 3,000 college women in 1982, conducted by Ms. Magazine.  These women were asked only three questions:

  1. Have you had sexual intercourse when you didn’t want to because a man gave you alcohol or drugs?
  2. Have you had sexual intercourse when you didn’t want to because a man threatened or used some degree of physical force to make you?
  3. Have you had sexual acts when you didn’t want to because a man threatened to use some degree of physical force to make you?

The trouble is, many of the women the survey counted as “victims” did not actually feel that they had been raped, especially not the entire third of the alleged “victims” that continued to have a consensual sexual relationship with their supposed attacker.  Others that had consensual one-night-stands that they later regretted were also counted as “victims”.

I also advise you to watch this video to further educate yourself on such cases of untrue or statistics.

“Rape is not the “epidemic” that people are trying to claim it is.  It has actually decreased dramatically in the past few decades - up to 80% since 1979, despite an increase in the willingness of victims to report them.  This is even further supported by data directly from the U.S. Bureau of Justice.

and this is not even the tip of the iceberg.

@antifeminism-pro-rubik @lady-of-anti-feminism @badsjw @bodypositivityforthemodernman  if any of you would like to add anything, please do.

I think everything has been covered pretty well with regards to why this buffoon is wrong (I’m assuming we are dealing with a feminist here). It absolutely astounds me that we are currently living in a world where fighting for women’s rights is considered the right thing to do, almost expected of us but fighting for men’s rights is largely considered to be unnecessary, pointless and something of a joke to laugh at.

There are around 7 billion people in this world where roughly half of which are men, I would find it entirely unrealistic if not one single man in this world did not face any sort of problem at all that needed attention from a movement, so it baffles me when feminists try to insist that this is the case. 

My favourite part is: “That’s because SOCIETY is male positive and hates women, hence why positivity is aimed at women and not males….”

Because it seems to me like it is the exact opposite. We are now growing accustomed to pure contempt and hatred towards men and we can certainly thank feminism for that. 

An On the subject of male body issues there is one name I’m surprised I didn’t think of it sooner.

This beautiful man who is touched so many lives has suffered so greatly right before all of our very eyes. For over a decade the world has watched this man’s body an mind deteriorate. Over that time he had 100 operations to change his looks  Michael Jackson’s history of health problems also hereDespite all the fame and fortune this man has suffered his entire life.  that should say something about just how important than the issues are that men and boys face. EVEN KINGS CAN BLEED!!

But back to everyone else….

Research on Males and Eating Disorders

Prevalence in Men

Prevalence figures for males with eating disorders (ED) are somewhat elusive. Many assessment tests have a gender bias, because they were created for females and underscore males (Darcy, 2014). In the past, ED have been characterized as “women’s problems” and men have been stigmatized from coming forward or have been unaware that they could have an ED. Studies have shown an increase in the numbers, although it is uncertain whether more males actually have eating disorders now or are becoming more aware of the gender-neutral nature of ED. Additional research is needed, but several studies provide insight into the male experience of eating disorders:

  • The most widely-quoted study estimates that males have a lifetime prevalence of .3% for anorexia nervosa (AN), .5% for bulimia nervosa (BN) and 2% for binge eating disorder (BED). These figures correspond to males representing 25% of individuals with AN and BN and 36% of those with BED. They are based on DSM-IV criteria (Hudson, 2007).
  • In the United States, 20 million women and 10 million men will suffer from a clinically significant eating disorder at some time in their life, including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, or EDNOS [EDNOS is now recognized as OSFED, other specified feeding or eating disorder, per the DSM-5] (Wade, Keski-Rahkonen, & Hudson, 2011).
  • In a study of 1,383 adolescents, the prevalence of any DSM-5 ED in males was reported to be 1.2% at 14 years, 2.6% at 17 years, and 2.9% at 20 years (Allen, 2013).
  • A study of 2,822 students on a large university campus found that 3.6% of males had positive screens for ED. The female-to-male ratio was 3-to-1 (Eisenburg, 2011).
  • In looking at male sexuality and eating disorders, higher percentage of gay (15%) than heterosexual males (5%) had diagnoses of ED (Feldman, 2007), but when these percentages are applied to population figures, the majority of males with ED are heterosexual.
  • Subclinical eating disordered behaviors (including binge eating, purging, laxative abuse and fasting for weight loss) are nearly as common among males as they are among females (Mond, 2014).
  • Various studies suggest that risk of mortality for males with ED is higher than it is for females (Raevuoni, 2014)
  • Men with eating disorders often suffer from comorbid conditions such as depression, excessive exercise, substance disorders, and anxiety (Weltzin, 2014).

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it’s really disheartening when you realize a lot of stuff is not that hard to find. the truth is out there right in front of our face every single day?

So why are people fighting so hard to ignore it? What is the end gene in pretending it’s not there?