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Western men die some five years earlier than women. They suffer more from nearly every medical disease and ailment that there is. And yet, far more money is spent by governments on women's health than on men's health. Men are also nowadays educationally disadvantaged significantly compared to women; with the curriculum, the teaching methods and the resources being designed to cater far more for women and girls than for men and boys. Men make up 80% of the homeless. There are more of them in social service care-homes as boys. They are many times more likely to be wrongfully arrested, wrongfully imprisoned, mugged, assaulted or murdered. They are 5 times more likely to lose their children when families break down, 4 times more likely to lose their homes, 4 times more likely to commit suicide, 20 times more likely to be killed or injured at work, 20 times more likely to be imprisoned, and, probably, more than 100 times more likely to be demeaned, denigrated and ridiculed by the mainstream media. Men also pay much more in taxes than women but receive far less in benefits from the government.

In other words, when compared to women, men are significantly disadvantaged when it comes to their health, their lifespans, their homes, their children, their education, their families, the tax burden, the law, the benefit system, and even when it comes to their own personal safety. 

They are nowadays also being heavily discriminated against in the work place.

How is it possible, therefore, that women are being 'oppressed' more than men?

In what areas?

Where?

What a Piece of Sh*t is Man

The Trojan Horses Of Feminism

Fools And Feminists

Women - Weak and Pathetic?

Were Women Oppressed in the West?

Fathers Groups Miss The Big Picture

Some BBC Propaganda Tricks

The NSPCC Needs To Be Stopped

A Permanent Gender War?

Rape Baloney

                               

 

8/02/01 

UCD rape figures don't match 

Terri Hardy and Matthew Barrows 

Sacramento Bee

UC Davis officials estimated in a 1999 federal grant application that as many as 700 of its students are victims of rape or attempted rape each year.

The statistic -- based on an extrapolation from national estimates -- figured prominently in the campus's bid to capture more than a half-million dollars in grant money from the U.S. Department of Justice.

But within months of submitting the application, the University of California, Davis, reported in its federally mandated crime report for students, parents and staff that there were no rapes or attempted rapes in 1998 for its main campus and medical center.

The 700 figure was also missing from a copy of the grant application the campus supplied The Bee last year during its investigation of how University of California campuses underreport and miscategorize crime statistics.

The grant application referred to the university's "invisible epidemic" of sexual assaults on campus. Despite that claim, the university crime statistics submitted to the FBI and the U.S. Department of Education under a law known as the Clery Act show only one rape from 1995 to 1998.

Steven Drown, campus counsel for UC Davis, said the 700 figure is only an estimate and the inconsistency between that number and the zero rapes reported that year is because very few victims report their crime to the police.

"An issue that all campuses are facing is that victims are not coming forward," he said.

Requests for comment from UC Davis Chancellor Larry Vanderhoef were declined.

The grant application earned the school $543,000 for a two-year crime-fighting program on campus. Some of the money is being used to hire a detective, a victims advocate and a counselor. All three will concentrate on crimes against women.

Even though some university officials that handle sexual assaults and prepare the annual statistics acknowledged that the crime report numbers were not representative of the problem, they stated in interviews over several months in the spring and summer of 2000 that no accurate estimates were available.

The discrepancy between the grant application filed with the federal government and the one provided to the newspaper was discovered recently when The Bee subsequently requested a number of different documents through the state's public records act.

During that process, Lynette Temple, information practices coordinator for UC Davis, turned over the university's complete file on the federal grant, which included the application and correspondence. That application included the sentence: "And based on estimates from the National Victim Center, we believe that as many as 700 female students at UC Davis are the victims of rape or attempted rape each year."

An official copy of the application, provided to The Bee by the U.S. Department of Justice's legal counsel, confirmed that the sentence was included in the federal government's final copy of the application.

When The Bee published its stories in September, UC Davis administrators, in a nine-page letter to The Bee, said they contained widespread inaccuracies and demanded a retraction. They denied downplaying crime on campus. The Bee stood by its report.

In a recent interview, Jennifer Beeman, the director of the UC Davis' Campus Violence Prevention Program, said that there are several versions of the application and that The Bee was not intentionally given a copy that excluded the estimated 700 rapes and attempted rapes on campus.

That number was extrapolated from those provided by The National Victim Center, which estimates that "approximately 1 in 20 college women are victims of rape or attempted rape each year," according to UC Davis' grant application.

Beeman, who wrote the application, said she removed the sentence at the suggestion of a grant consultant who advised her that the Department of Justice would not be interested in extrapolated numbers.

She said during the application process in the summer of 1999, the Justice Department officials asked her to amend the application several times and as a result she has a number of copies of the application -- some with the sentence, some without.

"If (the sentence) is in there then it's a mistake," Beeman said. "I thought you had the copy I gave the feds. I obviously gave them the wrong copy."

Department of Justice officials said there is only one version of the grant application in their records, and that document includes the 700 estimate.

Beeman said she didn't give The Bee that figure during its investigation because she didn't think the newspaper was interested in extrapolated figures.

"It's a number that we use all the time when we do training," in the campus's violence prevention programs she said.

But Matt Huerta, president of Associated Students at UC Davis, said he's never heard the figure before.

"If it's true, it's horrendous," he said. "People are going to have to rethink what we perceive about our whole environment."

University officials have come under fire recently by campus leaders who have accused them of downplaying violent incidents involving students.

Huerta's student government group organized a campus safety forum last month, citing increased racial tensions, hostilities between fraternities and a growing level of fear among students. At the 90-minute meeting attended by about 50 students, staff and faculty members, many said hate crimes were on the rise, while others complained that university officials rarely addressed the problem of rape on campus.

In the weeks before the forum, members of the Associated Students also charged that university officials were not forthcoming in providing details about the suspicious death of student Andrew Wieman, who was found dead in his on-campus fraternity room. And they criticized the university's decision to wait more than 24 hours to tell the rest of the campus about a possible homicide.
 

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Are you an intelligent person who believes that feminism is about 'equality'? If so, then please just take five minutes of your time to read the piece Equality Between Men and Women Is Not Achievable and you will see that feminism is nothing of the sort. Far from it. It is one of the most malicious and destructive ideologies imaginable. Apply your intelligence for just five minutes, and you will surely see the truth about feminism for yourself.