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In alarmed response to emerging "men's rights awareness" groups (MRA) on a number of Canadian campuses, the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS), a union body representing some 500,000 students, seeks to amend its "Sexual Assault and Violence Against Women on Campus" policy.
The CFS rejects any need of formal fellowship around specifically male issues, alleging MRA groups' real purpose is to promote "misogynist, hateful views" and to "justify sexual assault." Simon Fraser University's recently inaugurated $30,000-funded men's centre, for example, was demonized as a place to "celebrate hegemonic masculinity."
What nonsense! The actual benign nature of MRA groups, where both sexes are welcome to discuss male-centred concerns, can be seen in a publicity campaign video of a relatively new organization, which has become a lightning rod for anti-male activism, the Canadian Association for Equality (C.A.F.E.).
There is, apparently, an ominous threat to female autonomy growing on Canadian campuses, and it masquerades under the guise of "men's rights awareness." These deceptive collectives purport to offer support and resources to men in the community, but, according to the Canadian Federation of Students, they actually promote "misogynist, hateful views," and "justify sexual assault." Well, then.
The Canadian Federation of Students (CFS), the union body representing over 500,000 students across the country, will consider this and other matters over the next week as part of its 63rd semi-annual nation general meeting. On the agenda roster is a motion to amend the "Sexual Assault and Violence Against Women on Campus" policy to account for the "increase in the presence" of men's groups on Canadian campuses.
According to the motion:
"The groups provide environments for sexism, patriarchy, and misogyny to manifest and be perpetuated on campus" and "promote misogynist, hateful views toward women and ideologies that promote gender equity, challenges women's bodily autonomy, justifies sexual assault, and decries feminism as violent."
"Messages from these groups claim to be of equality, but are in fact messages that are misogynist, sexist, cissexist, heterosexist, and homophobic responses to the challenge of cis-male privilege in society."
Gender notions are widespread, and even have some truth to them: Girls are thought to be more focused and harder workers, while boys are rambunctious and more hands-on. But teachers can make pivotal decisions, such as whether a child advances to a more intense class or whether to bulk up on a certain approach to learning because there are more boys than girls in the class, based on their gender, according to Tasha Riley, a post-doctoral research fellow at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia.
Her paper -- Boys are like puppies, girls aim to please: How teachers' attributions and associations lead to gender stereotypes -- reveals that while only some teachers decided to hold a child back or advance them based on their gender, most if not all were very upfront in saying they felt boys and girls learn very differently.
"The danger here is that people are too dependent on these stereotypes instead of looking at the individual child that's right in front of them," she said. "Paying more attention to these assumptions, that's what's going to get people into trouble."
Brian Lilley comments on the death of Canadian abortion leader Dr. Henry Morgentaler.
May 31, 2013 19:58
Kay Hymowitz, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute speaks with Tom Brodbeck about the implications of women becoming 40% of breadwinners in US households.
"Our analysis...suggests that gender identity considerations may lead a woman who seems threatening to her husband because she earns more than he does to engage in a larger share of home production activities, particularly household chores," the Times quoted the economists' paper as saying.
It's hard, at first glance, not to feel wonderfully liberated by this statistic: According to a new study, 40 per cent of U.S. homes with kids under the age of 18 now have moms bringing home the biggest paycheque. That's a quadrupling since 1960, and not that far away from the 50-per-cent mark. After-work cocktails, all around.
That is, if you're a breadwinning mom who can afford them.
"Over the years, research on partner abuse has become unnecessarily fragmented and politicized," commented John Hamel, Editor-in-Chief of Partner Abuse and PASK Director. "The purpose of this project is to bring together, in a rigorously evidence-based, transparent and methodical manner, existing knowledge about partner abuse, with reliable, up-to-date research that can easily be accessed by anyone. PASK is grounded in the premises that everyone is entitled to their opinion, but not to their own facts; that these facts should be available to everyone, and that domestic violence intervention and policy ought to be based upon these facts rather than ideology and special interests."
Among PASK's findings are that, except for sexual coercion, men and women perpetrate physical and non-physical forms of abuse at comparable rates, most domestic violence is mutual, women are as controlling as men, domestic violence by men and women is correlated with essentially the same risk factors, and male and female perpetrators are motivated for similar reasons.
Deep in the weeds of the Pentagon's response to a lawsuit detailing a nasty list of sex crimes perpetrated against several women in uniform is a phrase that neatly sums up the U.S. military's view of why civilian courts have no business considering such accusations.
"There can be no question," says the Pentagon's legal brief last year, that the rapes and assaults were "incident to the military service" of the women involved.
In other words, they go with the job.
The District Court for the District of Columbia agreed, and tossed out the suit.
Watch 'The Invisible War,' a Oscar-nominated documentary about the epidemic of rape within the U.S. military.
http://www.cbc.ca/passionateeye/episode/invisible-war.html Runs 1:25:40
For public consumption, of course, the Pentagon's line on sexual assaults in the service is rather more sympathetic.
It portrays military justice as a rigorous mirror of the civilian system, and says all the right things about the topic.
"Sexual assault is a crime that has no place in the Department of Defence," declares the first sentence of the U.S. military's latest annual report on the subject, released last week.
The facts suggest otherwise.
Using anonymous internal questionnaires, the Pentagon itself calculates there were 26,000 sexual assaults, ranging from rape to abusive sexual contact, against soldiers, male and female, in 2012.
That's an average of over 70 a day, and an increase of about 35 per cent over the previous two years.
Military authorities "routinely and systemically fail to catch predators," says Susan Burke, the D.C. lawyer who, out of sheer frustration, filed the civil suit on behalf of the 12 plaintiffs that was thrown out in District Court. "And most predators are serial offenders, so of course you have a serially growing predation problem."
Why are so many women's groups & feminists demanding women be given leniency when they commit crimes? How can they keep a straight face while stating they seek equality?
It is with great sadness that I report on the suicide of the founder of Canada's only safehouse for men.
According to a 2008-2009 Department of Justice report, the vast majority of prison guards who have sex with inmates are female, she points out.
"Among the 39,121 male prison inmates who had been victims of staff sexual misconduct, 69 per cent reported sexual activity with female staff," the study found.
In juvenile facilities, the numbers are even more staggering. Ninety per cent of boys who complained of sexual harassment by prison officials said they were solicited, and often raped, by women.
"This is a problem that isn't going away, and in fact may become more prevalent in the years to come," Smith said
I see a danger to the MRA that's been growing for several months now, and it may be difficult for tolerant guys like us to address. If we don't address it however, it could cost us 40% of potential future MRA's as well as a good sized chunk of current MRAs. So here goes. I'm going to have to say it.
The internet can be an unfriendly place for women at times -- especially those who self-identify as feminists.
After browsing through some of the past year's most prominent anti-feminist cyber harassment stories (like that of Canadian-born Anita Sarkeesian who was brutally hounded by online mobs for speaking out against misogyny in video games) many would say that "unfriendly" is putting it lightly.
Earlier this week, in a 4Chan post titled "Let's piss off some feminists," an anonymous message board user encouraged others to Tweet on a hashtag called #INeedMasculismBecause. The user included a series of pre-written, anti-feminist messages for inspiration.
As the DailyDot's Aja Romano reports, both serious proponents of "masculism" and Twitter trolls began filling the hashtag with inflammatory statements.
The Conservatives really need to open up on and instill an equal custody arrangement after divorce or seperation.
Kid's need both parent's in their live's.
There also need to be new law's regarding false allegations in custody battle's.
There should be automatic jail-time for claiming abuse or any other false claims that are consistantly used as a silver bullet in custody dispute's.
There is no innocent untill proven guilty if you are the father.
It is guilty untill you prove yourself innocent,which is unfair and can lead to parental alienation because of the slow process of the family court system.
Months can feel like years to any child.
Also,like the native scenario and accountability,there needs to be accountability from the domestic violence shelter's and it's time for them to open their books.
I believe the government is being taken by the feminist mantra that it is only men who are abuser's,when in fact,it is the men who are abused who are truly hidden victim's of domestic violence.
These shelter's need to help iether gender when in need,not leave father's with no where to go for support or resources,when attempting to escape domestic violence with their children.
Investigators have released the identities of a woman and her two children in a double murder-suicide that has left emergency responders and a west Ottawa neighbourhood reeling.
Police were called to a Stittsville house at 25 Granite Ridge Dr. on Monday at about 5:30 p.m. ET after a man returned home and discovered the bodies of his wife and two children in the basement.
The confirmed victims are 40-year-old Alison Easton and her two children, six-year-old Katie (Katheryn) Corchis and 10-year-old Alex (Jon Alexander) Corchis.
Police sources said two notes were left inside the home -- one for the father and another for Ottawa police.
Investigators believe Easton killed her children and then herself. No charges are expected to be laid.
The murder weapon was a knife, police sources confirmed.
The deaths have rocked the west Ottawa community. Both children attended Stittsville Public School just across the street from their home, and the family was well known by neighbours.