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An Erection Is Not Consent. In this age of sensitivity about… The Sexual Victimization of Men in America: New Data Challenge Old Assumptions. Carbon-capturing concrete company is "taking CO2 out of the system" Montreal company Carbicrete has developed a method for sequestering carbon in concrete, claiming its product captures more carbon than it emits.

Carbon-capturing concrete company is "taking CO2 out of the system"

The technology cuts out the need for calcium-based cement, a key ingredient in traditional concrete that is responsible for around eight per cent of all global CO2 emissions. "It's negative emissions," Carbicrete CEO Chris Stern told Dezeen. "We're taking CO2 out of the system every time we make a block. " Concrete locks carbon away "forever" The company is one of many that is racing to find low-carbon or carbon-free alternatives to traditional concrete but is one of the only ones claiming to have achieved negative carbon.

Instead of cement, Carbicrete's system combines waste slag from the steel industry plus carbon captured from industrial plants that would otherwise have gone into the atmosphere. The 1 in 6 Statistic - Sexual Abuse and Assault of Boys and Men. A rape epidemic — by women? Column. Writing in Time, Cathy Young notices something interesting in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention figures on rape: Women rape a lot more than people think..

A rape epidemic — by women? Column

If the CDC figures are to be taken at face value, then we must also conclude that, far from being a product of patriarchal violence against women, "rape culture" is a two-way street, with plenty of female perpetrators and male victims. According to a recent study from the University of Missouri, published by the American Psychological Association, male victims of sexual assault are often victimized by women: "A total of 43% of high school boys and young college men reported they had an unwanted sexual experience and of those, 95% said a female acquaintance was the aggressor, according to a study published online in the APA journal Psychology of Men and Masculinity. " This shouldn't be so surprising. Critics tend to dismiss these as trivial, suggesting that the men involved should just "man up. " Research Finds Sexual Victimization Perpetrated by Women More Common than Previously Known - Williams InstituteWilliams Institute. UCLA Shock Study: Women Have Raped 3.6 Million American Men.

By: Taylor Larson MSN, RN.

UCLA Shock Study: Women Have Raped 3.6 Million American Men

Larson is a public health nurse and epidemiologist working with populations exposed to infectious and communicable diseases. A 2016 study released by UCLA found that women have collectively committed millions of sexual offenses against American men including rape, assault, coercion, and harassment. The pandemic of sexual violence committed by women caused the lead author of the study, Lara Stemple, to suggest that Americans rethink “long-held stereotypes about sexual victimization and gender.”

Women aren't the only victims in rape cases now. PUBLISHED: 10:03 17 January 2018 | UPDATED: 10:03 17 January 2018.

Women aren't the only victims in rape cases now

Sexual Victimization by Women Is More Common Than Previously Known. Take a moment and picture an image of a rapist.

Sexual Victimization by Women Is More Common Than Previously Known

Without a doubt, you are thinking about a man. When Women Sexually Abuse Men: The Hidden Side of Rape, Stalking, Harassment ... - Philip W. Cook, Tammy L Hodo - Google Books. Rape Equality. Sexual assault, especially rape, is an epidemic–barbaric, damaging to mind, body and soul, and intolerable.

Rape Equality

The time has come to take bold action to stop it. If fresh thinking and a systematic approach can eliminate various diseases and improve the quality of our lives, then it is not unreasonable to think it can be applied here. Along with better education–which Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai once suggested is “a solution to all problems”–it is conceivable that this threat can be eliminated. Before discussing what needs to be done, it is necessary to understand how a gendered lens has influenced and, unfortunately, distorted perspectives. For most people, the word “rape” conjures up imagery of a helpless young female being held down and forcefully penetrated by a male assailant, a brutal and often bloody act, provoking empathy for the victim and disgust for the attacker. A rape epidemic — by women? Column. Writing in Time, Cathy Young notices something interesting in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention figures on rape: Women rape a lot more than people think..

A rape epidemic — by women? Column

If the CDC figures are to be taken at face value, then we must also conclude that, far from being a product of patriarchal violence against women, "rape culture" is a two-way street, with plenty of female perpetrators and male victims. According to a recent study from the University of Missouri, published by the American Psychological Association, male victims of sexual assault are often victimized by women: "A total of 43% of high school boys and young college men reported they had an unwanted sexual experience and of those, 95% said a female acquaintance was the aggressor, according to a study published online in the APA journal Psychology of Men and Masculinity. " This shouldn't be so surprising. Critics tend to dismiss these as trivial, suggesting that the men involved should just "man up. " I e76e350f9e3d50b6ce07403e0a3d35fe Stemple 60 HLJ 605. College women rape college men but few men tell. (RNN) - College women rape college men far less often than they are victims, but it does happen, experts say.

College women rape college men but few men tell

Female-on-male rape survivors are a hidden, understudied minority. Less often than female rape survivors, the men tell college authorities or police about their experiences. Most research excludes or minimizes the male victims, a fact noted by a scholar who studies college student sexual cultures. Misandry in psychology: Ignoring abused boys. New Study Suggests No Such Thing as ‘Rape Culture’ on U.S. College Campuses. One of the major talking points of millennial social justice warriors is the presence of a ‘rape culture’ on college campuses across the United States.

New Study Suggests No Such Thing as ‘Rape Culture’ on U.S. College Campuses

Who is often penned with the blame for these rapes? The white boogeyman, the token offender of every minority in the world. Feminists have, for years, suggested ‘rape culture’ is a phenomenon that is wide-spread and out of control, that (white) men somehow walk around campuses feasting on flesh with their eyes and looking for their next victim. Unfortunately, they don’t have actual facts to support their claims, and because of this, they have to make up their own ‘alternative facts’. Recent AAUW Report Undermines The Campus Sexual Assault Narrative. Anyone who has followed the campus sexual assault debate over the last decade has heard advocates, politicians, and reporters throwing around the disconcerting statistic that 1-in-5 women will be the victim of sexual assault while in college.

Recent AAUW Report Undermines The Campus Sexual Assault Narrative

The number is jarring…but is it truthful? The federal Clery Act mandates that schools track and disclose reported incidents of campus sexual assault. A national crime victimization survey found that 65% of victims of sexual offenses do not report the assault. Currently, 12.7 million women are enrolled in American degree-granting colleges. UCSB Group Questions Validity of Campus Rape Statistics.

A guest speaker for the UCSB Young Americans for Liberty (YAL) on Wednesday spoke against commonly held beliefs regarding sexual assault on college campuses. Guest Speaker Andrew Cavarno, a fourth-year history major and member of Young Americans for Liberty, argued that a frequently referenced statistic of one in four women being sexually assaulted on college campuses is heavily inflated and lacking in evidence.

“There is absolutely no evidence of a rape epidemic on college campuses,” Cavarno said. “The word epidemic implies that there’s a sudden wave of sexual violence, or that things are getting worse – this is just not the case.” YAL originally intended the event to be a panel discussion featuring speakers from differing sides of the argument. Pointing to an empty chair beside him, Cavarno emphasized that no one with an opposing view was present to make the case for the statistic, even after having sent out “hundreds of emails.” Washington Post Study Finds Zero Rapes on Campuses, and They Claim That’s a Bad Thing.

The Washington Post on Wednesday reported that it conducted a review of federal campus safety data from over 2,220 colleges in the United States that offer bachelor’s or advanced degrees. The results of the newspaper’s analysis showed that over 1,300 those colleges had zero reported rapes on campus in 2014. After having the controversial “one in five” or “one in four” college women are the victim’s of sexual assault stat drilled into our heads over the last several years, one might think the results of the The Post’s study are welcomed news. Nope, at least not to The Post — in fact, the newspaper dedicates the remainder of the article explaining why its own study must be wrong. Please support us. The frenzy over ‘campus rape culture’ is hurting real victims.

If you want to know the difference between someone who is a victim of rape and someone who is a victim of the “rape culture,” you could do worse than compare the recent cases at Stanford and at Columbia. In the case of the former, two graduate students came upon a young woman, unconscious, on the ground behind a trash bin as a man was assaulting her. She awoke in the hospital to find, by her own account, “fingers had been jabbed inside me along with pine needles and debris.” In the case of the latter, a young woman (now widely known as “Mattress Girl” because she carried a mattress around campus to symbolize her plight) claimed that a man with whom she’d previously had consensual sex, assaulted her in her bed and then left. Two days after, he invited her to come to a party, and she said yes, adding that the two should have a “chill sesh.”

Cathy Young: Rape Culture in the West is as Real as 'Witchcraft in Salem' By Hunter Swogger | 12:32 pm, July 8, 2016 Late last month, Emma Sulkowicz (aka Mattress Girl) was given the Woman of Courage award by the National Organization of Women. I discussed the case and the general effect of “rape culture” hysteria recently with Cathy Young, whose article “Columbia Student: I Didn’t Rape Her” was one of the first to cast doubt on the Mattress Girl’s narrative. Here is a lightly edited transcript of that conversation: You became a fairly big public figure over the last year for the article you wrote on the Columbia sexual assault case of Emma Sulkowicz, the “Mattress Girl.”

Tell us about that case and your contribution. The dangerous irony of rape accusation culture. By now, there’s no way you’ve missed the story of Brock Turner, a 20-year-old Stanford swimmer and former Olympic hopeful who in January 2015 was discovered (and chased down) by fellow students as he assaulted an unconscious, partially clothed woman behind a dumpster after a fraternity party. In March, Turner was found guilty of three counts of felony sexual assault, including attempt to rape an intoxicated woman and sexually penetrating an unconscious person with a foreign object.

Prosecutors asked for a sentence of six years in state prison, but last week, Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky sentenced Turner to six months in county jail and three years of probation. In explaining his decision, Persky cited character references supplied by Turner’s friends and family as well as Turner’s age and lack of criminal history. Rape culture and the problem with the 1 in 5 sexual assault statistic - Columbia Daily Spectator. Community of the Wrongly Accused.

Lawyers for 'Jackie' tacitly admit she invented her pretend rapist. UT conference debates occurrance of sexual assault on campus. Students and faculty at University of Texas at Austin are discussing the occurrence and prosecution of sexual assault on campus. The sexual assault conference held this weekend includes presentations from professors, psychologists and legal experts. Did You Actually Read the AAU Sexual Assault Survey? Students and administrators have been rather abuzz lately with the release of the results from a sexual assault survey from the Association of American Universities’ (AAU) that covered 27 schools, including Cornell.

President Elizabeth Garrett initially sent every student an email regarding the study’s findings and the numerous highly effective and meritorious actions the University is taking to reduce the prevalence of sexual assault on campus. That week, the Cornell Sun devoted a section of its front page Tuesday and Wednesday to related coverage and President Garrett and Vice President Ryan Lombardi discussed sexual assault at the Student Assembly meeting. But how many “concerned” Cornellians have actually read the survey, or at least browsed some of the more important sections? Campus rape dogma in the age of promiscuity. Iowa: GOP: Ted Cruz 27.7% (8 delegates), Donald Trump 24.3% (7), Marco Rubio 23.1% (7); Dem.: Hillary Clinton 49.9% (22), Bernie Sanders 49.5 (21) New Hampshire: GOP: Donald Trump 35.8% (10 delegates), John Kasich 16.2% (3), Ted Cruz 11.8 (2); Dem: Bernie Sanders 61.0% (13), Hillary Clinton 39.0% (9) Nevada (Dem.): Saturday, Feb. 20 South Carolina (GOP): Saturday, Feb. 20.

'Guilty until proven innocent': life after a false rape accusation. "You will almost certainly feel that the police believe that you're guilty before trial" Feminists And Progressives Attack College Football With More Dodgy Rape Statistics. Barbara Kay: Rape culture and the problem with numbers. Most mainstream news publications publish, you know, news. Women's group can't accept that 'rape culture' just might not be a thing. The myth of the college “rape culture” DOJ: .61 Percent Of Students Are Sexually Assaulted. Tweet A new analysis of crime data by the Department of Justice has found that collegiate women are less likely to be assaulted than their non-student peers, and their overall victimization rate is closer to one in forty than the oft-cited one in five. Myths » SAVE: Stop Abusive and Violent Environments. Even if false rape reports are rare, they shouldn't be ignored. An open letter of response to the children Of Oberlin, and their love letter to themselves.

A Voice for Men – Humanist Counter-Theory in the Age of Misandry. Article « The Rape Culture Lie « Commentary Magazine. False Rape Society Archives: False Rape Allegations by Eugene J. Kanin. 8 Campus Rape Hoaxes Like UVA Rape Story. Setting the Record Straight on ‘1 in 5′ Boys raped more often than girls. 2015 » SAVE: Stop Abusive and Violent Environments. 2014 » SAVE: Stop Abusive and Violent Environments. No polling organization would ever be taken seriously if its sample size was 73, and neither should this 'study' on college rape » AEI.

‘There is no problem’: Have feminists invented a ‘rape culture’ at universities. Hundreds Of Women In The UK Have Been Prosecuted For Lying About Rape. Ohio Cop Says 20% Of Sexual Assault Reports Are False. Visualization. The Daily Bell - The Proofiness of the Politically Correct Rape. Three Myths of Rape That Need Sunlight.