Middle school students at Mt. Nebo School in Payson Utah held a walk out protest today against unhinged school officials that allow “furries’ to terrorize them at school.
The students report in the video below that the “furries” bite, scratch, and bark at them. The furries also chew on sticks in class and a kitty litter box was set up in the girls restroom for them to use.
In the video by LifeIsDriving the children also note that they are required to keep a distance from “furries,” whereas the same rule does not apply for the “furries.”
The protesting youth believe that the school’s tolerance stems from the principal, whose child happens to be a “furry.”
This is insane. The children are the adults here.
Category: Sexual Harassment
NSW barrister sexually harassed law students – Lawyers Weekly
Although the conduct amounted to unsatisfactory professional conduct – and professional misconduct when taken together – the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal (NCAT) declined to find Waterstreet is not a fit and proper person to engage in legal practice.
Senior member Harry Dixon and general member Mary Bolt said the conduct was a “product of Waterstreet’s then undiagnosed, and therefore poorly controlled, bipolar II disorder, in combination with being an expression of some of his personality traits”.
Source: NSW barrister sexually harassed law students – Lawyers Weekly
Hannah Waddingham hits back at sexist remark
The internet has actor Hannah Waddingham’s back after she took snappy aim at a photographer who made a sexist suggestion to her on the red carpet.
[W]hile she was posing for photos ahead of the ceremony, one brazen photographer, reportedly a male, yelled out for Waddingham to “show a little leg”.
In a video of the interaction, the request can’t be heard, but Waddingham’s response is loud and clear.
“Oh my God, you’d never say that to a man, my friend,” she said, rather gently.
“Don’t be a dick, otherwise I’ll move off. Don’t say ‘show a little leg’. No.”
Waddingham did actually move on, as bystanders cheered.
“Have some manners,” she tossed back as she left.
Attorney Calls Out Judge for “Boys Club” Ruling: Now She’s Facing Suspension | Women’s Coalition
An attorney representing a mother in a Family Court case has the audacity to call the judge out for his “boys’ club” ruling switching custody to the abusive father.
Now the Old Boys are coming after her.
Charlotte Proudman is facing suspension of her license to practice law and, meanwhile, the Boys have been trolling her despicably on social media with misogynistic slurs.
The funny part? The judge is actually a member of a literal Boys Only club! And this club happens to boast as members most of the male judges and powerful Old Boys in the UK.
Charlotte is perhaps the most well-known attorney in the UK for representing mothers in custody cases. Seeing up front and center how mothers are systematically discriminated against and oppressed has caused her to be a long-time critic of the Family Court system.
The last straw for the Old Boys with Charlotte (or perhaps the opportunity they were waiting for?) was when she had the temerity to post a 14-tweet thread about a case she had just lost. In it she referred to Judge Jonathan Cohen’s ruling, which gave the abusive father custody, as having “echoes of the boys’ club”.
I lost the case. I do not accept the judge’s reasoning. This judgment has echoes of the “boys’ club” which still exists among men in powerful positions.
Soon after she tweeted this thread, the Bar, also infested with Old Boys, initiated disciplinary proceedings with 5 charges against her.
Not surprisingly, another Old Boy was assigned to hear Charlotte’s disciplinary proceeding: Judge Philip Havers. Amusingly, he is a member of the same, literal Old Boys club! Charlotte requested his recusal and he recently agreed, perhaps because of the publicity her case is getting.
Charlotte was verbally abused in tweets posted by a ton of lawyers. They’ve branded her a cunt, whore, narcissist, dreadful, and an idiot. Charlotte has reported more than 50 lawyers for this abuse and asked the Bar to take action. She says this onslaught has seriously affected her well-being. She is now fearful and has to work with colleagues who’ve been allowed to verbally attack her.
But the Bar minimized the Boys’ attacks on her as just “unpleasant and inflammatory”. They refuse to take action because the messages supposedly do not meet the threshold for regulatory action.
There is a long history of Old Boys retaliating against attorneys who represent mothers well.
Source: (18) Attorney Calls Out Judge for “Boys Club” Ruling: Now She’s Facing Suspension
Qatar Airways avoids Australian lawsuit over women’s invasive examinations
Five Australian women who were strip-searched and invasively examined at Doha airport have failed in their bid to sue Qatar Airways.
They and other women were ordered off a flight and checked for whether they had given birth after a baby was found abandoned in an airport bin in 2020.
The incident sparked public outrage and it was condemned by several nations.
An Australian court found the state-owned airline could not be prosecuted under the laws governing global travel.
Justice Halley also struck out the women’s case against Qatar’s aviation regulator, saying it was immune from foreign prosecution.
However he said they could pursue their claim against a subsidiary of Qatar Airlines called Matar, which is contracted to run Hamad International Airport.
Source: Qatar Airways avoids Australian lawsuit over women’s invasive examinations
NZ gymnasts can now wear shorts over their leotards – why is this a big deal for female athletes?
Recent changes in New Zealand sporting dress codes have led to a collective sigh of relief in women’s gymnastics. No longer will competitive gymnasts be penalised for accidentally revealing their underwear while performing.
Indeed, Gymnastics New Zealand (GNZ) has finally modernised its uniform rules, allowing girls and women to wear shorts or leggings over their leotards – just like their male counterparts.
This timely rule change builds on the past few years of global advocacy in which some sportswomen have voiced concerns about how their outfits impede their movements and their confidence.
In 2021, there were also dress code protests by female performers at the European Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Switzerland. German gymnasts donned full-body suits, in response to the ongoing objectification and sexualisation of women in sport.
It was no coincidence that the German gymnasts’ decision to cover up followed one of the biggest sexual abuse scandals in sports history – in the United States, 156 women gave testimonies at the 2018 sentence hearing for the former USA Gymnastics team doctor, Larry Nassar, who was jailed for up to 175 years.
Other gymnasts were prompted to speak out across the world.
In the United Kingdom, multiple elite British gymnasts exposed the emotional and physical trauma they endured at the hands of their coaches. More than 400 submissions by traumatised UK gymnasts were subsequently documented in the 2022 Whyte Review, exposing widespread physical, emotional and sexual abuse by coaches.
In New Zealand, former Blenheim Gymnastics Club coach Gregory Pask pleaded guilty in March 2024 to more than 60 sexual offence charges against girls under his tutelage.
Recent research involving more than 3,000 girls across eight countries confirmed sports uniforms are an important influence on girls’ engagement in physical activity. If girls experience flexible uniform policies, it is possible to keep them active for longer.
Source: NZ gymnasts can now wear shorts over their leotards – why is this a big deal for female athletes?
Hundreds of NSW women get legal help for workplace sexual harassment and discrimination | Legal Aid News – March 2024
Women needing help with sexual harassment and discrimination in the workplace because of pregnancy, sex and disability have dominated the first year of demand for Legal Aid NSW’s new Respect at Work Legal Service (RAWLS).
New data showed high numbers of women seeking help with workplace sexual harassment and discrimination, with over 800 workers seeking help and 1153 advice and representation services provided since the service, RAWLS, began in January 2023.
Of those services, 71 per cent were for female clients with the most common complaints being disability discrimination (27 per cent) followed by sexual harassment (20 per cent) and sex discrimination (14 per cent).
Source: Legal Aid News – March 2024
Dozens of children strip-searched by police over summer | SMH
NSW police strip-searched more than two dozen children, including a 12-year-old, in the four months to mid-February, despite a Minns government promise to review the controversial practice.
A freedom-of-information request filed by the Herald suggested that NSW Police continued strip-searching children at the same rate as before the government review was announced.
Strip-searching children, in which police direct children to remove their clothes and sometimes to lift their genitals, usually without a parent or guardian present, has been criticised by health experts for causing serious long-term trauma and harm to children’s development.
Redfern Legal Centre senior solicitor Samantha Lee said there should be a pause on all strip-searches of children while the review was ongoing.
Lee said that when she met clients who had been strip-searched as children, there was a deep level of shame and trauma that was similar to speaking to a survivor of sexual assault. Often the child never told their parents about it.
Greens justice spokeswoman Sue Higginson said strip-searching children was a policing method that did not work, given that most of the time nothing was found.
“We know that [strip-]searching is a terribly degrading exercise and a genuine violation of somebody’s dignity, and the reality is the threshold for a police officer to have the power to do that is very, very low,” Higginson said.
The FOI figures suggest police are disproportionately searching Aboriginal children. In the October-February timeframe, seven of the 26 children were Aboriginal. The 2021 census shows only one in 16 children in NSW is Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander.
Source: 12ft
Former female staff at Sydney’s elite Cranbrook School warn of ‘toxic’ culture as it prepares to go co-ed – ABC News
Teachers given fluffy handcuffs. Wolf-whistling and orgasm noises on playground duty. An attempted blackmail for nudes. Being told you can expect to be sexually harassed because you’re good-looking. Victimisation, a toxic culture, a boys’ club.
These allegations by former female teachers and staff at Sydney’s elite Cranbrook School for boys paint a devastating picture of their workplace.
Cranbrook is nestled among Sydney’s most expensive real estate. It’s the alma mater of captains of industry and billionaires. Its headmaster has been found to be the second-most generously remunerated principal in the nation.
As Cranbrook prepares to enrol girls from 2026, multiple female former staff warn this 105-year-old institution has a women problem.
Transgender police officers will only be allowed to strip search suspects of the same biological sex under new government plans after concerns women’s safety was being compromised | UK | Daily Mail Online
Transgender police officers may no longer be allowed to strip search suspects of the opposite biological sex as the government orders a review.
Under the currently national policing guidance, police officers who were born male but identify as female can strip search women suspects if they have a gender recognition certificate.
Women’s groups were outraged when it emerged that most – 34 out of 43 – police forces in England and Wales either intended to or had implemented the controversial policy.