Category: Society
Student activist Annie Teriba to resign from political campaigning
An excerpt from HERE: http://oxfordstudent.com/2015/10/10/student-activist-annie-teriba-to-resign-from-political-campaigning/ Annie Teriba, prominent student activist, has released a public statement announcing that she will be “stepping back” from political campaigning and resigning from all prominent political positions after admitting to non-consensual sex. Teriba released the…
Handling Adversity
I found this on the internet and thought I’d share: A young woman went to her grandmother and told her about her life and how things were so hard for her – her husband had cheated on her and she…
Slavery By Another Name
I just finished this book. It’s amazing. One of the first books to open my eyes to the reality of our system of “corrections” was The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander. Other books like Taken Into Custody by Stephen…
Obama on liberal college students who want to be “coddled”: “That’s not the way we learn”
It’s not just sometimes folks who are mad that colleges are too liberal that have a problem. Sometimes there are folks on college campuses who are liberal, and maybe even agree with me on a bunch of issues, who sometimes…
Do Parents Matter? Judith Rich Harris – The Nurture Assumption
I’m reading this book now. VERY interesting. Judith Rich Harris – The Nurture Assumption
A bizarre custody case in New York could be the beginning of a complicated new legal era
I’m overjoyed that more and more cases like this are on the docket. If we didn’t have this, the mother bias that runs rampant through our family court system may never be exposed. Father’s rights organizations and those who have…
Dr. Wayne Dyer
During my divorce, I tried various spiritual paths to deal with the incredible pain that accompanies a high conflict divorce with children. I followed the advice of a few key people and found that certain things resonated more than…
This Is How We Do It
Fatherhood 101:
Landmark case shines light on real campus rape ‘epidemic’: equating regret with rape
An excerpt: A landmark judicial decision was handed last week that will have important implications for college men wrongly accused of sexual assault. In Doe v. Washington & Lee Univ., 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 102426 (W.D. Va. 2015), a federal…
Feminist Pornography
Scientific Reasons Why Women Just Won’t Go For The Nice Guys
I’m glad I stopped that nice guy stuff. It got me nowhere. Pay attention fellas: An excerpt from this article: http://elitedaily.com/dating/science-women-nice-guys/1000116/ Most women claim to want the guy who is sensitive, emotionally fluent and intimate. Yet, when it comes down to…
Parental Alienation Awareness
Dr. Amy J. L. Baker discusses her novel about parental alienation syndrome, “The Misery Checklist,” as well as the latest developments in the field of PAS.
Divorced parents support bills to change child custody standard
People who feel they have been treated unfairly by Maine’s family court system Tuesday urged the Legislature’s Judiciary Committee to change how judges decide custody issues. Two bills — LD 346 and LD 642 — would require judges to consider…
FIRE and SPLC File ‘Amici’ Brief for Kansas Student Expelled for Tweets
Last Monday, FIRE and the Student Press Law Center (SPLC) jointly applied for permission to file an amici curiae (friends-of-the-court) brief with the Kansas Court of Appeals in Yeasin v. University of Kansas. The brief argues that public universities cannot…
Ruling in favor of UC student accused of sex assault could ripple across U.S.
It began as a typical college hookup: two students at UC San Diego met at a party last year, began drinking and ended up in bed. The encounter snowballed into a sexual assault complaint, university investigation and a finding that…
Who’s Lying, Who’s Self-Justifying? Origins of the He Said/She Said Gap in Sexual Allegations
The Woody Allen sex scandal of 2013 triggered a national conversation on who to believe, with people lining up on each side as if they knew what really happened. Based on recent research on how people navigate the often tricky waters of sexual negotiation, Dr. Carol Tavris shows that it is entirely possible in some sexual assault cases neither side is lying, but instead both sides feel justified in their positions. This talk was considered one of the best ever given at The Amazing Meeting.
What Makes a Woman?
The “I was born in the wrong body” rhetoric favored by other trans people doesn’t work any better and is just as offensive, reducing us to our collective breasts and vaginas. Imagine the reaction if a young white man suddenly…
Better or worse?
Honest questions: Many thought things were going to get better for people who looked like the brown skinned man and his even browner skinned wife now live in the White House. Have things gotten better or is this more of…
Can she consent to sex after drinking?
Can a woman consent to sex when she’s been drinking? Universities have decided that the answer is no. “We heard that students don’t understand that it is illegal to have sex with someone who is drunk because they can’t…
