Submitted by Matt on Fri, 2005-10-21 06:15
crescentluna writes "North Country is a movie about female coal miners in Minnesota fighting "male coworker brutality" through a class action lawsuit. Starring Charlize Theron, who is quoted here as saying "This case was only settled seven years ago, and you go, 'How dare you sit back as a young female and think the feminist movement happened in the '60s, some bras were burned and now everything is fine'?"
It is also a plug for http://www.participate.net/, a website with a section on starting your own anti-harassment campaign at school and how to raise caring men."
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Submitted by Matt on Fri, 2005-10-21 06:13
Anonymous User writes "I know these stories are common now, but this one is a good example of the brazen nature of some of these women. She admits kissing the boy, then claims instead he sexually assaulted her, then her solicitors decide they can no longer represent her after she gave evidence in the trial. She has now been found guilty and was criticised by the judge for letting the case get "so far" because she refused to plead guilty. She evidently felt she could do what she liked and get let off because she's a woman and can't possibly be to blame. Ironically, it will probably work out that way. The judge(female) has already told her she won't be imprisoned."
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Submitted by Matt on Fri, 2005-10-21 05:36
Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2005-10-19 04:35
Anonymous User writes:
"'Good Morning America' Celebrates Divorce in the United States
ABC’s Andrea Canning on Sunday's “Good Morning America” did a report on Divorce Parties. That’s right, married women having a party to celebrate their divorces. In fact, Canning in her report referred to the party as “Part celebration, part exorcism.”
At this party, they play games like throwing the wedding ring into the toilet, as well as with voodoo doll figurines of the former husband.
Of particular note, the report made no mention of ex-husbands having such parties. Quite the contrary, the only person in this piece who wasn't celebrating was a divorced man: "I don't find anything about divorce to be funny at all. I find the whole experience rather tragic."
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Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2005-10-18 17:42
Beginning this coming Thursday, PBS stations around the country are planning to air a film entitled "Breaking the Silence, Children's Stories". This film denigrates divorcing fathers with it's bald-faced assertion that in "75% of cases in which fathers contest custody, fathers have history of being batterers".
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Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2005-10-18 14:57
A surprise from MSN: What a Happy Marriage Really Looks Like
I truly believe -- and I know I can get a lot of backing from my fellow husbands on this -- that women worry way too much about The Relationship, worry that even the smallest problem is the first step on the road to divorce court. I would be the last one to deny that there are a certain number of marital stress points. But many of them -- certainly the five detailed below -- are not worth one moment of lost sleep.
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Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2005-10-18 06:48
Well it's nice to see a UN report that isn't all about women. But it comes at such a terrible price. Read about it here.
From the article:
"Stereotypes of men's behaviour in Russia include excess alcohol consumption, drug addiction and smoking as stress reduction measures and ways of demonstrating manhood. Growth of suicides among men is an extreme form of reaction to growing socio-economic pressure and inability to perform the traditional role of breadwinner," the statement said.
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Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2005-10-18 06:42
Way to go, Marc!
"Men are victims, too"
Text:
As an attorney who works with male victims of domestic violence, I was very offended by your article, “Safety and services under one roof” (August). Every example of domestic violence in the article was male-on-female, and the article was prefaced with a drawing of “the difference between the family’s old life and their new life after Dad is gone.” Male victims are stigmatized and ignored enough as it is without having to read articles like yours.
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Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2005-10-18 06:40
Anonymous User writes "If you marry a divorced woman with kids, and it goes sour, at least you don't have to worry about child support... ...or do you? You do in New Jersey."
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Submitted by Matt on Mon, 2005-10-17 06:21
David Brooks helps with the Lace Curtain problem with this article. Alas, the NYT has recently decided to start charging for access to their Op-Ed content, but if you subscribe, apparently, you can register for site access "for free". If not, it's worth a look next time you're at your local library. It's in the Oct. 16, 2005 issue of the New York Times in the Op-Ed section, titled: "Mind Over Muscle". The Times graciously allows unpaying readers the first sentence:
"If we want to help boys keep up with girls, we have to have an honest discussion about innate differences between the sexes."
I read it in the NYT today and thought, "Wow, how did this get past the editor-in-chief?"
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Submitted by Matt on Sun, 2005-10-16 21:23
Rob writes "At last, the actual proof that men are discriminated against in Prostate Cancer funding versus Breast Cancer. The opening paragraphs are:"A MAN diagnosed with prostate cancer has only one-quarter of the cash spent on research into his disease compared to the amount devoted to a woman’s breast cancer. The wide discrepancy shows the scale of the discrimination against men. The two diseases kill similar numbers."
And in the biggest selling UK Sunday newspaper too! Of course the UK's female Health Minister said:“Gender is not a factor in any of the government’s decisions on cancer funding.” Sure - unless you're female!"
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Submitted by Matt on Sat, 2005-10-15 04:02
Posted on behalf of Marc A.:
Story here.
"According to Tech. Sgt. Hastings, the statistics for male victims of abuse are even higher.
'A man is abused every 14 seconds,' he said. That's 6,192 men every day.
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Submitted by Matt on Fri, 2005-10-14 20:23
Submitted by Matt on Fri, 2005-10-14 04:34
Anonymous User writes "The Pasco County Sheriff's Office is keeping the streets free and clear by removing dozens of domestic violence suspects from the streets."
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Submitted by Matt on Fri, 2005-10-14 04:21
bandersnatch writes "From The Independent:
Career sexism that stops women "achieving their full potential" is something that the former trade and industry secretary Patricia Hewitt fought hard against. But it seems that her fight against sexism also includes discriminating positively towards women. Yesterday, it emerged she was found guilty of overlooking a strong male candidate for a job in favour of a weaker female applicant. Mr Hanney used the Freedom of Information Act to access the interviewers' notes, which included comments such as "Malcolm Hanney, much the strongest candidate" and described him as the "clear favourite". The notes concluded the panel "agreed to appoint Malcolm Hanney". But the ultimate decision was left to Patricia Hewitt, who was in charge of sex discrimination laws as minister for women and equality. She appointed Christine Channon, who was placed third in line by the RDA."
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