Out of touch school pushes PC line

If you ever doubted our sex-saturated culture was pathologising childhood, this story will send shivers up your spine. Two 13-year old and one 14-year-old boys - handsome football stars of Year 8 - have been expelled from a Sydney Catholic school after a female classmate complained they had touched her fully clothed breast three months earlier. The boys, who cannot be named for legal reasons, admitted to touching the 13-year-old girl during an English class, but said it was consensual, "and she had no problem with it", said the mother of one of the boys. A teacher was present in the classroom at the time and the girl did not complain or appear distressed. But three months later, the girl told a teacher and the official sexual harassment machinery swung into action.

Women defend MFB's culture

Nearly half the women firefighters at the Metropolitan Fire Brigade have publicly rejected claims of a "closed culture" and say setting diversity targets is "patronising and forever taints applicants". And the head of the MFB has also come under fire after he said at last Tuesday's gender launch that some male firefighters were too overweight or unwell to stand up from the table. MFB president Adrian Nye said the organisation would not lower standards to attract more women and would do nothing to put the community at risk.

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Barbara Kay: Women's Studies courses are political activism, not academic scholarship (Canada)

In an irate letter to the editor February 2, Penni Stewart, president of the Canadian Association of University Students, and Katherine Giroux-Bougard, national chairperson of the Canadian Federation of Students denounce the Post's Jan. 26 editorial expressing satisfaction with the demise of Womens's Studies programs. They are "shocked" at such an attitude, and set out to explain why Women's Studies are needed more than ever. But the letter actually vindicates the editorial, because almost every sentence in it confirms that Women's Studies are nothing more than political activism with a blackboard, not objective scholarship.

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