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Abuse Hysteria in Maine: The Ghost of Michael Nifong

During the early hours of March 14, 2006, a group of Duke University lacrosse players allegedly raped and sodomized a Black woman. Over the next 13 months, the sleepy town of Durham, North Carolina became witness to a succession of prosecutorial accusations, full-throated media warnings, and castration marches. On April 12, 2007, the state Attorney …

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On Jury Nullification and Rape

There are people that will react to this with outrage and indignation. “How could you?” they will demand, “How could you let someone walk when the evidence shows you that they have committed something as heinous as rape?!”

And the same people, after reading account after account of innocent men being imprisoned, raped, tortured; destroyed, on lies, will reveal the utter depravity of their indifference by refusing to face what is happening or acknowledge that it even matters.

Zimmerman case: Don’t be that bigot

Although there are racial dimensions to men’s human rights issues, all races of men suffer from injustices generated by our gynocentric culture. With the race-obsession over the George ZImmerman/Trayvon Martin affair, a lot of people missed some much deeper issues. August Løvenskiolds has a look at the inherent sexism, and possible homophobia, in the much-ballyhooed story that most people seem to have missed. [Illustration by Typhonblue]

Time to ditch the rape advocates

A recent fit of outrage over an A Voice for Men meme on false allegations came to a peak just as the Washington Times reported that there has been a serious and largely unaddressed increase in the amount of false accusations of sexual assault in the military. It’s not the first time for these concerns.