Female and LGBTI+ Student Perpetrator Diversion Programs on Australian University Campuses

Please join me in signing a petition just launched by ‘Concerned Students’ of Sydney, Australia, and maybe leave some comments. Their description in the petition:

We are a bunch of concerned students in Australian Universities. Our role is to stop feminists profiting from our University and stealing our university funds.

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Kathy Gyngell: Policing Twitter returns us to the dark ages

An excellent piece on TCW. I do wish the site would put up a box for people to enter their email addresses, in order to get automatic notifications of new pieces as they’re published. There’s so much terrific material published by the site, it’s easy to miss pieces.

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Prisons using cruel punishment that restricts male inmates (but not female inmates) from seeing children

Our thanks to George for this. The start of the piece:

Prisoners are being banned from seeing their children as a punishment, leaving thousands of youngsters “traumatised” and inmates more likely to reoffend, campaigners have warned.

Hundreds of children are having contact time with their fathers cut to just two hours a month, as a privileges scheme in prisons reduces visiting hours if inmates fail to show “positive and motivated” behaviour.

Campaigners say the system, known as the Incentives and Earned Privileges (IEP) Scheme, is “cruel and damaging” to the children of prisoners and counterproductive in efforts to rehabilitate inmates.

Changes to the scheme in 2013 saw male prisoners entitled to “basic” visiting rights, which give them just two hours a month to see their children. They can earn “enhanced” status, which raises the hours to four, by demonstrating motivation, seeking qualifications and helping other prisoners or staff.

But the new system has seen a growing number of inmates seeing their visits reduced, with the percentage of prisoners on basic status having increased by 52 per cent between 2012 and 2014 – amounting to 900 more prisoners – while those on enhanced status decreased by 16 per cent, 5,900 fewer.

Visiting rights are different in women’s prisons, where guidelines state that children “should not be penalised from visiting or contacting their mother because of the mother’s behaviour” and that the number of visits by children “should not be restricted in order to serve the needs of an incentive scheme”. [J4MB: Our emphasis.]

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Paddy Jackson and Stuart Olding, Irish rugby players, to appear in court charged with rape

Our thanks to Sean for this. The start of the piece:

Two Irish rugby stars are due in court later today to face rape charges. Paddy Jackson (25) and Stuart Olding (24) strenuously deny the offences, which were alleged to have been committed against the same woman in Belfast last June.

Olding, of Ardenlee Street, Belfast, is charged with two counts of rape. Jackson, of Oakleigh Park in the city, is charged with one count of rape and one count of sexual assault.

The Irish Rugby Football Union and Ulster Rugby have said Jackson and Olding will not play again until the court process concludes. [J4MB: In plain English, they’re regarded as guilty until and unless they manage to ‘prove’ to a jury that they’re innocent.]

Given the length of time proceedings take in Northern Ireland, it is likely both will miss the entirety of the coming season at the very least.

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Austrian brothel buys a second sex doll after its first became more popular with customers than real women

Our thanks to Martin for this. He writes:

Could it be men are so tired of feminism and modern women, that they prefer a robot?

It could. I wonder when the ‘Cameron Diaz’ and ‘Keira Knightley’ models will be available…

Now, when will scientists perfect the artificial human womb? Could that, along with lifelike – but not whiny and demanding – sex dolls spell redundancy for many women? It could.

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Online abuse is vile. But it’s NOT on a par with being attacked in the street.

Our thanks to Ken for this. The end of the piece:

Britain’s public sector is bursting at the seams with professional offence-takers who can’t pop out for a pint of milk without being outraged at something. They share Ms Saunders’s view that ‘left unchallenged, even low-level offending can fuel hostility’.

Under normal circumstances, a Tory government would tell the DPP that she’s overstepped the mark. Yet it seems no minister is willing to take her on.

I’m tempted to call for the sacking of this sanctimonious woman. But I won’t because hate crimes are defined by the victims, Ms Saunders has a notoriously thin skin, and I don’t want the coppers knocking at the door.

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