Article here. Not that anyone would find a misandrist slant surprising at the NYT, but now they're claiming that the absence of men on university campuses is really a bigger problem for women. Why? Because the poor women can't find dates. Or because “girls feel pressured to do more than they’re comfortable with". Remember that this is the same newspaper that recently ran a whole slew of sympathetic articles claiming that women are only 16% of the military (also men's fault, of course). Where is the sympathetic article about the under-enrollment of men in higher education?

The author is careful to toast "female achievement" and boast about eliminating "affirmative action for boys" while happily dismissing an entire generation of men - particularly black and Hispanic men - who will experience less-than-equal opportunity.

I found it refreshing to find an article that approached the issue from multiple directions, not trying to lay the blame on any single issue. Excerpt:

'The reasons have physical, psychological, social and cultural roots. From birth, males are saddled with certain macho expectations which, combined with a misplaced sense of invincibility, ironically leaves them more vulnerable — they take big risks, are reluctant to ask for help, and won’t easily admit pain or weakness.

While these factors continue to exact a heavy toll on men, women’s health care has blossomed (admittedly from a low base), further widening the gender gap and sparking renewed efforts to correct a health system that is arguably under-serving half the population.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'It’s that time again… When Super Bowl Sunday dominates the U.S. headlines, and people plan their Sunday evenings around a get-together, party, or the game. It’s also a good time to look at two stories related to Super Bowl Sunday.

The first is the largely debunked myth that domestic violence calls spike around Super Bowl Sunday and other drinking holidays of the year (like New Year’s). Snopes originally tracked down the myth and showed it to be nothing more than another urban legend. Since their last update on the myth in 2005, however (and our article 4 years ago), there’s been further research examining the myth.

A 2007 study by Oths & Robertson examined 2,387 crisis call records covering a previous 3-year period. They supplemented the call records with both formal and informal interviews with abused women and staff. What did they find?

The widely held belief that more women seek shelter during “drinking holidays” such as New Year’s and the Super Bowl was unsubstantiated, while the contention that women with school-aged children time their leaving to coincide with breaks in the academic schedule was supported.'

Article here. Once again the media/govt male hate campaign rolls on. Shouldn't it be "violence against anybody"? Excerpt:

'US politicians have called for a $US175 million aid package to combat violence against women and girls in poorer countries such as Haiti and Afghanistan.

"Every day, too many women and girls across the globe endure horrific acts of violence," said Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer, who is backing a Bill that would make preventing violence against women central to US foreign policy.

"They are disfigured by acid, raped and beaten, or they are denied the opportunity to see a doctor."

Another supporter, Democratic Representative Bill Delahunt, said: "The nations with the worst track record in preventing violence against women are also the most unstable and are breeding grounds for terrorism."

The Bill, which enjoys cross-party support, calls for $US175 million ($A202 million) over five years to go towards developing programs to combat violence against women in as many as 20 low-income countries.'

Regarding the recent MANN post revealing Jon Stewart's latest salvo against his own sex: I forgot to include the comment submission link for it.

This piece of "comedy" is so insulting to men in general, MRAs, and men in mythopoetic circles, it's as if they decided to just take on everything pro-male all at once and make fun of and diminish it as much as possible within the short attention span of the typical viewer. I have a hard time thinking of any group that would be the target of such open tastelessness and crude meanness transmitted over cable TV in prime time to a wide viewing audience in this day and age.

I ask feminists this: If men as a class are as respected and damn-near worshiped as you insist we are, would a truly "patriarchal society" even be able to produce such a piece of "humor"? Can you imagine such "humor" being created about feminism or about women? Can you even suggest there is a "patriarchal society" in place that so favors men and so derides women given this sort of thing that you see?

Just what kind of energy and double-think do feminists need to use to keep up their self-delusions and to maintain the lies they tell themselves? Truly, it is mind-boggling.

Score another one for The Innocence Project! Story here. Excerpt:

'ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — A mentally ill New York man who spent nearly six years behind bars for a 1976 rape he insisted he didn't commit was exonerated Thursday after DNA testing showed he was innocent.

The conviction of Freddie Peacock of Rochester, now 60, was based on a false confession police attributed to him just hours after the early morning rape of a 24-year-old woman who lived in the same apartment building.

State Judge David Egan vacated the conviction after lawyers for Peacock and Monroe County prosecutors agreed DNA evidence obtained from the victim's underwear and from Peacock in 2008 proved he wasn't the rapist.
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Peter Neufeld, the Innocence Project's co-director, said that with Peacock's exoneration, "New York becomes the nation's capital of false confessions."

Since 2002, 10 people in New York have been exonerated through DNA testing after false confessions or admissions led to wrongful convictions. That accounts for one-third of all DNA exonerations nationwide since 2002, the group said.
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"Freddie didn't just happen to get wrongly convicted," Neufeld said. "It doesn't work that way. There were two police officers that questioned him and attributed a statement to him, 'I did it' — a bare bones confession at best."

Story here. Excerpt:

'Two Alberta boys found dead this week in their home were victims of homicide, police said.

RCMP confirmed Wednesday that Connor and Jayden McConnell, aged 2½ and 10 months, died in their home in Millet, Alta., about 40 kilometres south of Edmonton.

The bodies of the two boys were found by their father Monday afternoon.

Investigators are not releasing the cause of death. No charges have yet been laid in connection with the deaths.
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Court documents show that Curtis and Allyson McConnell, who got married in Australia in January 2007, separated in November 2009 and began divorce proceedings in December.

According to the documents, Allyson McConnell, 31, wanted to take the children back to her native Australia, where her family lives and where she would be entitled to government support and have better prospects of generating more income than in Canada.

In her statement of defence and counterclaim, McConnell said the father would "continue to have reasonable and generous access" to the children.

Curtis McConnell did not want his children to leave Canada.

"I am completely opposed to this, and I am fearful that she will attempt to do this without my consent or knowledge," he stated in an affidavit filed in Edmonton Court of Queen's Bench on Dec. 11.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'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.

They begin with the curious statement that Women's Studies "are informed by the belief that men and women are equal," a straw statement of remarkable disingenuousness. Nobody at the Post or anywhere else considers this "a radical belief," and I, who have often publicly agreed with the Post's editorial stance, take exception to the implication that it is only Women's Studies that holds that value. All university programs, indeed our entire society believes in gender equality. Actually, our public, tax-funded institutions, our courts, our social service agencies and our charities believe in more than equality, they believe in special entitlements for women.'

Yes, indeed. Because of the name "iPad", the implication is that it is unappealing to women because the name sounds too much like "MaxiPad" or some other kind of similar type of pad. (I recall MAD TV running with the "iPad" idea back in 2006, noting as they did that a legal pad should not be confused with the other kind of pad. The video is here but I will say it is for adult viewing only; there are reasons MAD TV airs late at night on week-ends only. Also some of you will find it offensive regardless of your age, so don't say I didn't warn you.)

Believe it or not, one Susan Estrich has actually put the lackluster debut of the Apple iPad together with this very idea to implicate Apple's failure to come up with a product that appeals to the typical female consumer (or it seems to the typical male one too, according to reports). The solution she says is to get rid of some of those men on the Apple Board (she also notes they all seem to be white), and to replace them with people other than those fitting that genderal-ethnic description. THAT will guarantee the success of a company such as Apple, which as many of us know has been in business over 30 years and has been a leader in the bringing of computers to the home and workplace.

In recent days there has been a great deal of media coverage of the deaths of two little boys in Alberta. They appear to have been drowned by their mother who then attempted to kill herself, at least according to neighbours and the media outside of Canada. So far the RCMP and other sources have refused to comment on the investigation. The Canadian press has been flooded with stories about "domestic disputes" and "bitter custody battles" in an attempt to blame the man for this woman's alleged actions.

Women abusing, kidnapping and murdering children is nothing new, but for several days after the murders the Canadian media and RCMP have been careful never to mention the fact that the mother was accused of drowning the boys as part of a murder-suicide when a custody dispute wasn't going her way. If you wanted to learn those details, you had to visit a news outlet in Australia or the UK. If you have a moment, visit a news site and do a search for coverage of this story. Then compare the Canadian media's coverage with what's being said by media outlets elsewhere in the world.