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An Atlanta mother was shot and killed by police after they say she attacked her young children, stabbing one of them to death.
Investigators say the woman threw her eight year old son out of a window then stabbed her four year old daughter to death.
The woman allegedly tried to attack police, that's when officers shot and killed her.
Neighbors say the single mom was struggling to make ends meet. She had lost her job and had no utilities in the home she was renting.
The eight year old survived the fall from the window, he is staying with relatives.
http://www2.wsav.com/news/2011/nov/29/atlanta-mom-stabs-daughter-death-being-shot-and-ki-ar-2773408/An Atlanta mother was shot and killed by police after they say she attacked her young... more
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If the corporate-influenced Supreme Court will not hold major corporations accountable for for their structural gender discrimination, the people will.
In East St. Louis, a Federal jury (that's a bunch of citizens) awarded (that means they decided what to hand to the victim) a 20 year-old rental store clerk $95 million on claims that sexual harassment by her boss at a Fairview Heights rent-to-own store ended in a sexual assault.
Ashley Alford alleged that her supervisor Richard Moore began using "pet names" for her eventually leading to a sexual assault during which Moore held the plaintiff down and masturbated and ejaculated on top of her.
Aaron's Rents Inc., Richard Moore and Bard Martin were the alleged parties responsible for the plaintiff's sexual harassment and assault.
The incidents that led to the suit took place while Alford worked at the company's Fairview Heights store between 2005 and 2006.
The 20 year-old woman claimed that Aaron's had knowledge of Moore's conduct and that it violated the company's own sexual harassment policies.
She claims Moore harassed and assaulted her.
She claims that Martin did not take action to discipline Moore or remove him from his employment.
The plaintiff's suit contains eleven counts of retaliation, sexual harassment and other claims.
The plaintiff sought damages in excess of $75,000 per count and punitive damages as relief. And the jury delivered a clear statement about sexual harassment with their punitive award. Something that SCOTUS is too corrupt to do.
The jury's total verdict amounts to $95 million.
The jury's award included damages such as:
- $250,000 for pain and suffering related to the alleged sexual assault
- $ 1.25 million for emotional distress related to the alleged sexual assault
- $3 million for pain and suffering related to negligent supervision
- $3 million related to humiliation and indignity suffered
- $3 million related to the emotional distress caused by Aaron Rents' negligent control
of Moore
- $500,000 for the loss of a normal life caused by the negligent control issue
- $2 million for sexual harassment damages against Aaron's Rents and the related pain and suffering
- $2 million for loss of a normal life related to the sexual harassment
- $30 million in punitive damages against Aaron's Rents for negligent supervision of Moore
- $50 million in punitive damages related to the sexual harassment
U.S. District Court Judge Michael Reagan presided over the case. Judy Cates, Benedict Morelli, Martha McBrayer, and David Ratner represent the plaintiffs.
Now then, SCOTUS, this is a clear of example of citizens truly united think about discrimination whilst 5 of you jack off over corporate "rights." If you haven't the character to act on behalf of people, this will be commonplace until you do.
Congratulations to the plaintiff. Congratulations to women everywhere. And shame, shame, shame on the defendants and SCOTUS Inc.If the corporate-influenced Supreme Court will not hold major corporations accountable... more
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Ponle Corazon!, a new televisions soap opera to empower women launched during a five-day partner workshop in Rancho Santa Lucia, Mexico.
More than 30 participants - all received personal invitations from the First Lady of Chiapas - actively engaged during the workshop during which the program’s framework - the values grid - was produced, main characters defined and a central storyline created to encompass all the issues the drama will address.
“You can picture the process of creation for the telenovela as an hourglass figure,” Media Impact Programs Director, Brenda Campos, told the participants as they celebrated the completion of the story. “You start with a divergence of themes and ideas that converge into a values grid and eventually into a storyline. It is through the characters conflicts and dialogues in the episodes that all the themes unroll into behaviors, rewards and consequences.”
The telenovela, provisionally named Ponle Corazon! (Put your heart into it!), started as an exciting idea and now the project has the support from the State’s ministries of Health, Education, Women, Rural and Agricultural Development, Infrastructure, Environment and Indigenous Peoples. The government is providing the initial funding and production capacity, Media Impact training and mentoring in the Entertainment-Education methodology, and Canal 40 (www.proyecto40.com.mx) a national television network in Mexico, will cover production costs, such as equipment and post-production.
PCI-Media Impact empowers communities worldwide to inspire enduring change through creative storytelling.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsUul8PnuTEPonle Corazon!, a new televisions soap opera to empower women launched during a... more
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~~~~~~~~i married a pornographer , by Emily Southwood
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[ “This is an intellectual swindle that leads women to misjudge male sexuality, which they do at their own emotional and physical peril. Male desire is not a malleable entity that can be constructed through politics, language, or media. Sexuality is not neutral. A warring dynamic based on power and subjugation has always existed between men and women, and the egalitarian view of sex, with its utopian pretensions, offers little insight into the typical male psyche. Internet porn, on the other hand, shows us an unvarnished (albeit partial) view of male sexuality as an often dark force streaked with aggression” ]
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http://imarriedapornographer.com/2011/01/10/thoughts-on-hard-core/~~~~~~~~i married a pornographer , by Emily Southwood
this - particular post, . . .... more
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Over the last several weeks our company has engaged in a series of social media notices
leading up to a webinar on FAQs regarding our leadership development experience in Guatemala. Of those who showed an interest and signed up for the webinar - entirely 100% were women. Now, our numbers would certainly show a limiting and therefore non-valid sample size. But there is a reality that of the people that we have engaged with over the last several months the disproportionate majority are women. Leading me to ask….Where have all the men gone? – and, given the equally disproportionate number of men in the C-Suite –is the gender difference an issue to be reconciled in order to have corporate social responsibility move to the strategic front burner?
Aman Singh at Vault CSR did a nice job of summarizing the Boston College Centre for Corporate Citizenship report on the Profile of the Profession – In her blog Aman pointed out the ten leading characteristics/identifiers of a CSR professional – but for the purpose of this discussion let’s stick to the top four –
1. They hold a bachelors degree
2. They are a women
3. They are white
4. They are more than 35 years old.
I can safely say that these descriptors definitely correspond to those who showed an interest in our work. So of course we need to understand the Why?
http://theacaciagroup.blogspot.com/2010/07/gender-bias-in-csr-where-are-all-men.htmlOver the last several weeks our company has engaged in a series of social media... more
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Outnumbered and Often Isolated, At-Home Dads Face an Extra-Hard Slog Back Into the Work Force
Much has been written about the challenges awaiting at-home mothers who decide to return to work. Few of them, though, have a tougher time of it than the stay-at-home dad.
Compared with at-home moms, who outnumber them by more than 5 to 1, at-home dads face a bigger stigma among would-be employers, and they often have fewer opportunities to network from home. Also, they are returning to a labor market where men have suffered major setbacks; heavy job losses in male-dominated industries and middle management have led pundits to label the latest downturn the "he-cession."
A record 7.4% of fathers in married-couple families with children under 18 were home in 2009 while their wives worked, based on unpublished Bureau of Labor Statistics data set for release next week. That is up two percentage points from 2008 and the highest on record, says Sandra Hofferth, a University of Maryland family-science professor and researcher on family time use.
At-home dads who succeed in landing jobs often have to go to extreme lengths to do so. Morgan Attwood was at home full time during the workweek for two years after the birth of his son. He kept a hand in his career field by working weekend hours that no one else wanted. The Columbia, S.C., photojournalist reported for one or two Friday, Saturday or Sunday night shifts each week at a TV station while his wife, a college professor, was home with their son.Outnumbered and Often Isolated, At-Home Dads Face an Extra-Hard Slog Back Into the... more
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PORTLAND – April 3, 2010, About two dozen women marched topless from Longfellow Square to Tommy's Park this afternoon in an effort to erase what they see as a double standard on male and female nudity.
The women, preceded and followed by several hundred boisterous and m More..ostly male onlookers, many of them carrying cameras, stayed on the sidewalk because they hadn't obtained a demonstration permit to walk in the street. About a thousand people gathered as the march passed through Monument Square, a mix of demonstrators, supporters, onlookers and those just out enjoying a warm and sunny early-spring day.
After the marchers reached Tommy's Park in the Old Port, some turned around and walked back to Longfellow Square, but most stayed and mingled in the park. Some happily posed for pictures.
Police said there were no incidents and no arrests – nudity is illegal in Maine only if genitals are displayed.
Ty McDowell, who organized the march, said she was "enraged" by the turnout of men attracted to the demonstration. The purpose, she said, was for society to have the same reaction to a woman walking around topless as it does to men without shirts on.
However, McDowell said she plans to organize similar demonstrations in the future and said she would be more "aggressive" in discouraging oglers.
By Edward D. Murphy emurphy@mainetoday.com
Staff Writer
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f49_1272828328PORTLAND – April 3, 2010, About two dozen women marched topless from Longfellow... more
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Every day, we hear about the horrors women endure in other countries: rape in Darfur, genital mutilation in Egypt, sex trafficking in Eastern Europe. We shake our heads, forward e-mails and send money.
We have no problem condemning atrocities done to women abroad, yet too many of us in the United States ignore the oppression on our doorstep. We're suffering under the mass delusion that women in America have achieved equality.
And why not -- it's a feel-good illusion. We cry with Oprah and laugh with Tina Fey; we work and take care of our children; we watch Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice proudly and sigh with relief, believing we've come so far. But we're basking in a "girl power" moment that doesn't exist -- it's a mirage of equality that we've been duped into believing is the real thing.
Because despite the indisputable gains over the years, women are still being raped, trafficked, violated and discriminated against -- not just in the rest of the world, but here in the United States. And though feminists continue to fight gender injustices, most people seem to think that outside of a few lingering battles, the work of the women's movement is done.Every day, we hear about the horrors women endure in other countries: rape in Darfur,... more
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Action Aid, a charity group based across the Globe, released an important new report pointing the stalling effect violence against women has on a countries development.
Although violence against women affects countries that are both rich and poor, and women of different backgrounds, authors of the Action Aid report say violence blocks progress in every major development target. This violence ranges from intimate partner violence in couples to sexual violence in the classroom.
Women's eNews Uganda beat reporter Rebecca Harshbarger took a closer look at the report and found out what it had to say.
http://womensenews.org/story/international-policyunited-nations/100305/gender-violence-blocks-development-targets-reportAction Aid, a charity group based across the Globe, released an important new report... more
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Feb. 23 – Groups are calling for Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada to apologize for sexist remarks made yesterday. Reid’s comments served to stereotype men as “abusive,” while ignoring the well-established scientific fact that men and women in partner relationships are equally likely to be violent.
Reid’s remarks on the Senate floor can be seen below.
Over 250 scholarly studies show women are as physically aggressive, or more aggressive, than men in their relationships with their male partners, according to Martin Fiebert, professor of psychology at California State University.
“Senator Reid’s bizarre and unfounded statement reveals an unimaginable disconnect from the millions of unemployed Americans who are not abusive. These persons are understandably frightened about their futures and the security of their families,” notes Paul Elam, editor-in-chief of Mensnewsdaily.com. “Mr. Reid needs to apologize immediately.”Feb. 23 – Groups are calling for Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada to apologize for... more
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What do Chris Brown, Ike Turner, and OJ Simpson have in common? They are all famous men who beat their wives. Chris Brown's case got maximum exposure on Oprah, Ike Turner was vilified in a movie, OJ got all day/every day coverage at his murder trial. Our ability to remember them as examples of "wife beaters" is called the availability heuristic- we develop these associations largely from high profile media events. Since an availability heuristic- the examples of domestic violence we can call to mind-shapes our beliefs and judgments about an issue like domestic violence, the question is raised whether these media examples are representative of typical domestic violence. The answer is that they are not. They mis- represent domestic violence in three ways by making the perpetrators appear to always be black, male and acting alone.
Reality bites- when large sample victim surveys that ask about domestic violence are done, a very different picture emerges. In the first place, domestic violence is not more common in black relationships than white or other racial groups. Perhaps more surprisingly, the stereotype of the male as a bully and the female as hapless victim is not supported by the data. Surveys from 1989 to 2007 keep finding the same thing; the most common form of domestic violence is two -way- both partners assault each other at about the same level of severity. Women are hurt somewhat more but only somewhat- men get hurt too for the obvious reason that everyday weapons get used, knives, frying pans, and boiling water, amongst other things.
Here's another big surprise- "husband battering" (where the woman used severe violence against a non-violent man) is about three times more common as wife battering. A recent large sample survey by the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta found this but it had been found before and Canadian surveys by Stats Can also find a relative equality in domestic violence perpetration. The media does treat violence towards men differently- the killing of NFL Quarterback Steve MacNair by his girlfriend was hardly covered at all, same with the death of Cincinnati Bengals receiver Chris Henry, the killing of London Ontario Police Detective Dave Lucio by his girlfriend Kelly Johnson (also a police officer) was similarly brushed aside.
The most famous example of media misandry was Wayne Bobbit whose wife castrated him. He became a running joke for late night comedians. Imagine this happening with the genders reversed. Controlled studies find that the same action is viewed differently by research subjects when the genders of the perpetrator and victim are varied. If a man does it (for example- asks his wife where she has been) it abuse or control. If a woman does it it's not. When the first shelter for battered men was set up in New Hampshire , the men reported that when they had called local shelters to ask for help they were told that they were the real batterers. All of these men had been injured. These results are found whether the research subjects are the general public or professional psychologists. When a spousal homicide occurs, the media asks the head of a local shelter why it happens. She will inevitably describe it as another example of violence towards women.
When Marc Lepine killed women in a mass shooting in Montreal , it was presented as an example of male violence towards women. When Denis Lortie shot up the Quebec Assembly the year before, he was simply a madman. The truth is, they were both psychotic. The gender paradigm that shapes our views on domestic violence is pervasive and affects everything from police responses to custody decisions in family court. The problem is the scientific data do not support these beliefs- they were just a political theory that was wrong when it was written and is even more askew in the present. Time for a change!
Professor Don Dutton
University of British Columbia
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"Domestic violence 'research' has been misleading, in that data has been extracted from crime reports and/or 'crime victim surveys – in which men underreport more than women – and have been publicized as indicating domestic violence is a gender issue (male-perpetrator/female-victims). In fact, when larger surveys with representative samples are examined, perpetration of domestic violence perpetration is slightly more common for females..."
Dr Don Dutton
Professor of Psychology
University of British Columbia
12th October 2008
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"Put somewhat differently, 999,992 men and 999,997.7 per million women do not kill their spouse. I would say that is not then a gender issue. If such a miniscule group of either gender kills, then something else beside gender must be involved. Government ministries that repeatedly misrepresent domestic violence statistics to perpetuate their existence do no favours to taxpayers, be they male or female”
Dr Don Dutton UBC
Professor of Psychology
University of British Columbia
13h December 2006
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Bitch breaks it down for us about how, amidst an onslaught of new studies about the rising number of women financially succeeding their husbands, we should reconcile other reports that black women's professional successes hurt their love lives.
Take it away Nadra Kareem:
The Pew Research Center’s report about the rising number of women who make more money and have more education than their husbands is everywhere—from the Guardian to CBS News to the New York Times. The Times, in particular, stresses that an increase in the rate of female “breadwinners” actually benefits marriages.
In an article called “She Works. They’re Happy,” Times reporter Tara Parker-Pope writes, “Sociologists and economists say that financially independent women can be more selective in marrying, and they also have more negotiating power within the marriage. But it’s not just women who win. The net result tends to be a marriage that is more fair and equitable to husbands and wives.”
But, if this is the case, how do we account for the onslaught of news stories about black women’s professional successes hurting their prospects for marriage? In December, both the Washington Post and ABC’ s “Nightline” featured stories on this very issue.
In her profile of author Helena Andrews—“Successful, Black and Lonely,” Post reporter DeNeen L. Brown remarks:
In a series of essays, Andrews documents the lives of so many young black women who appear to have everything: looks, charm, Ivy League degrees, great jobs. Closets packed full of fabulous clothes; fabulous condos in fabulous gentrified neighborhoods; fabulous vacations, fabulous friends. And yet they are lonely: Their lives are repetitive, desperate and empty.
So, successful women (which by default means “white women”) can excel professionally and romantically, while successful black women are doomed to lives of desperation and loneliness because black men can’t keep up with us. They’re in jail, uneducated, too working class or on the down low.
I’m not buying it. If having more education and earning more money benefits the marriages of “women,” why wouldn’t education and money benefit black women in the marriage realm? Perhaps the Pew Research Center’s report will shed more light on why just 33 percent of black women were married in 2007. To blame black women’s singleness on their being more successful than black men falls short as an explanation in light of this new research. Moreover, there’s an underlying misogyny to this reasoning. A number of factors likely contribute to low marriage rates in the black community, but the easy answer has been to point the finger at black women for daring to outpace black men. Black women, this logic suggests, have only themselves to blame for being unhappily unwed. If black women want babies and husbands (as these articles imply all women do), they must set their personal bar lower. Don’t get that degree and turn down that high-paying job, this logic says. It’s emasculating.Bitch breaks it down for us about how, amidst an onslaught of new studies about the... more
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Family violence and abuse is a serious and deeply entrenched problem in Australia. It has significant impacts upon the lives of men, women and children. It knows no boundaries of gender, geography, socio-economic status, age, ability, sexual preference, culture, race or religion. Domestic violence (also known as intimate partner violence or IPV), and most elder abuse, child abuse and sexual abuse are all different forms of family violence. Thankfully reducing family violence against women and children has been firmly on the agendas of government for many years. Now is the time to move to the next, more sophisticated stage of tackling the problem: recognising men as victims as well.Family violence and abuse is a serious and deeply entrenched problem in Australia. It... more
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Ironically she even referenced him after she punched her husband in the face saying "what are you going to do, Chris Brown me!?"
Do you think she knows that Rhianna had instigated the fateful incident with Chris Brown?? Why would she say this AFTER punching her husband??
This is the additude of a woman who funds DV shelters and publically proclaims they are onlyfor women...... Her husband was kicked out of the club and she went to the bathroom to fix her hair and continued partying........Ironically she even referenced him after she punched her husband in the face saying... more
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International in scope, ‘Ultra Fabulous, Beyond Drag is a a celebration of gender identification - featuring androgynes, the transgendered, drag queens and tranimals... Going way beyond the boas, glitter and whip-smart sass, it aims to showcase a new filmic genre — a genre we are dubbing ‘transploitation’ — born of, and predicated on the instant accessibility of internet culture, the do-it-yourself ethos of home publishing, and, the humorous narcissism inherent to self-reflection, gender identification and ‘otherness’. All this, through the best new performance video and short film work by established filmmakers, avant-garde performers, iconic chanteuses, Gen Y viral superstars, and developing talents alike. Oh, and a lot of make-up.International in scope, ‘Ultra Fabulous, Beyond Drag is a a celebration of... more
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Hardly anyone noticed this summer when former president Jimmy Carter explained why he had decided to leave the Baptist Church. However “painful and difficult,” wrote Carter in an essay that appeared in the Guardian, his break with the denomination to which he had belonged for sixty years had begun to seem like the only possible response to past opinions expressed and codified by the Southern Baptist Convention. “It was an unavoidable decision when the convention’s leaders, quoting a few carefully selected Bible verses and claiming that Eve was created second to Adam and responsible for original sin, ordained that women must be ‘subservient’ to their husbands and prohibited from serving as deacons, pastors, or chaplains in the military service. This was in conflict with my belief—confirmed in the holy scriptures—that we are all equal in the eyes of God.”
Considerably more attention was generated some months earlier by another story about how religion conceives and enforces its view of a woman’s place. The horrific attack on two Afghan girls en route to school—the young women were severely disfigured by acid allegedly thrown by Taliban fighters—was widely reported and discussed. Obviously, the assault was more brutal, shocking, and newsworthy than an elderly white guy’s regretful decision to separate himself from the misguided pronouncements of some other elderly white guys. And just as clearly, the Taliban’s plans for women far exceed the darkest imaginings of the Southern Baptists, whose tenets—“a wife is to submit herself graciously to the servant leadership of her husband”—seem genial and reassuringly vague when compared to the restrictions that the Taliban impose, and seek to impose, on women, regulations that narrow the parameters of daily life down to a space in which anyone, male or female, would suffocate. Under Taliban rule Afghan women cannot work, attend school, leave home without a male chaperone, or ride in a taxi. Minor infractions, such as showing an ankle, are punished by public whippings. More serious violations, such as adultery, are capital crimes for which the sentence is death by hanging or stoning.
The acid attack on the schoolgirls offered graphic and persuasive confirmation of one reason why we have gone to war, or in any case one reason we’ve been given: according to some, once we defeat the Taliban, every Afghan girl can go to school. That’s the outcome everyone wants, though it is less often mentioned that literacy rates among Afghan women were appallingly low long before the Taliban, back in the 1980s when we were still arming the mujahideen—including many future Taliban warriors—to fight against the Russians. The Taliban’s demonic and demonizing attitude toward women represents merely the most current extreme manifestation of the grotesque misogyny fostered throughout history by religion and patriarchal tribal culture. Both the Taliban and the Southern Baptists employ the “lessons” of biology and scripture to “prove” women’s inferiority, a view of our gender unlikely to be eliminated by another air strike or drone-missile deployment, or by the polite demurrals of a former president.
Sensible, decent Jimmy Carter got it right again. “This view that women are somehow inferior to men is not restricted to one religion or belief. It is widespread. Women are prevented from playing a full and equal role in many faiths. Nor, tragically, does its influence stop at the walls of the church, mosque, synagogue, or temple. This discrimination, unjustifiably attributed to a higher authority, has provided a reason or excuse for the deprivation of women’s equal rights across the world for centuries. The male interpretations of religious texts and the way they interact with and reinforce traditional practices justify some of the most pervasive, persistent, flagrant, and damaging examples of human-rights abuses.”
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http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/essays/the-original-sin.php?page=1Hardly anyone noticed this summer when former president Jimmy Carter explained why he... more
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39% of victims of domestic violence are men, but you'd never know it from these public service announcements.39% of victims of domestic violence are men, but you'd never know it from these... more
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The 44-year-old man who was shot in the head by his wife during a domestic dispute has died.The 44-year-old man who was shot in the head by his wife during a domestic dispute has... more
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