Story here. Excerpt:

"A mother accused of throwing her young son off a balcony three months ago waived her right to a preliminary hearing Thursday, sending the case to trial.

Rita Sativa Kraft's 18-month-old son Connor suffered multiple skull and facial fractures after he fell 21 feet off a balcony at the family's Lompico home on the morning of Sept. 12, according to authorities. The boy, who suffered significant brain trauma, was unconscious and not breathing after landing on the packed dirt below the balcony.

He was resuscitated by a housemate who had medical training, then airlifted to a trauma center over the hill.

The child has since been released from the hospital into his father's custody. Doctors say it may be some time before the full extent of his brain injuries are known.
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Kraft's attorney, Jon Minsloff, previously told the Sentinel his client was suffering from postpartum depression when the incident occurred. He also told the paper that Kraft has a family history of mental illness."

Story here. Excerpt:

'LILLINGTON — A judge has declared a mistrial this afternoon in the case of a Harnett County woman who was accused of castrating a man with her fingernails at a Christmas party last year.
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The foreman indicated this afternoon that the jury was split 8 to 4 on two charges: malicious castration and assault with intent to inflict serious injury.

According to juror Harvey “Bart” Bartlett of Coats, four jurors favored not guilty and eight voted for guilty. He was among the four who believed Dawson was not guilty.
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Defendant Rebecca Dawson is accused of using her fingernails to tear off a man’s scrotum at a Christmas party last year. In closing arguments Friday, the defense said Dawson tore Kevin Russ’ scrotum in self defense. But the prosecutor said Russ was the victim, and described the injury as a vicious attack from an angry, drunken woman.'

FYI: The Jury was comprised of eight women, four men and one female alternate.

Story here. Excerpt:

'According to Education Minnesota, the teachers' union, the percentage of male teachers in Minnesota has decreased from 43 percent in 1980 to 29 percent in 2005. That's why finding books for boys is a problem.

Female teachers and librarians don't gravitate toward the books that boys like, which Baxter says are about "disasters, wild animals, spies, machines, dinosaurs, and creepy-crawly things."

Showing boys male reading role models also helps catch boys' interest. In Apple Valley, two female teachers host the book club, but each month a different male teacher reads to the club.

Theresa Back, one of the female teachers that started the club, said that boys interact well with the male leaders. "We just didn't have the 'boy connection,' " she said about the female teachers.'

Happy Holidays Include Fathers

I had a bit of a grinch like attitude earlier in the month as I contemplated skipping this month’s rally, and pursuing the usual holiday merriment instead, but a little voice in my ear kept whispering that a rally for Dads was needed this month - more than ever. I'm not sure exactly what the suicide statistics are for men and Fathers in the month of December, but given the disgracefully high numbers for a typical year, and the disgraceful lack of care from America, I couldn't in good conscious let this month go by without saying to the world, "Dads, you're more than wallets. You’re a blessing, and a gift, for your children, at the holidays and all throughout the year."

Marc Rudov destroys yet another woman's pathetic, misandric argument on Your World with Neil Cavuto. In a debate over women wanting boys to wear "Hello Kitty" shirts -- which were originally made for girls -- and play with dolls.

According "to the woman taking part in the debate" boys are extremely violent and playing with girls toys, wearing girls clothes -- and basically becoming girls in everyway possible -- will make them "less violent."

At one point the woman asks for proof that mothers are more violent towards their children than men. Mr. Rudov cites a government statistic that supports his claim and as always the woman then dismisses it as not being relevant.

I suppose even the network got tired of hearing her fraudulent, pathetic, biased, pro-woman argument because the station cut her off towards the end of the debate!

Also, is that Lis Wiehl "hosting" the debate?

Watch the video.

Story here. Excerpt:

'CHICAGO - Family members arranged a meeting at an undisclosed location between investigators and a married woman from Illinois whose disappearance on Christmas Eve prompted a $250,000 search.
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Cell phone records indicated Solanki had left voluntarily with a 23-year-old male friend from California, authorities said earlier Friday. Mayberry did not know whether the friend, Karan C. Jani, had returned with Solanki.
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Solanki's husband, who lived with his wife near suburban Des Plaines, was not aware of her friendship with Jani, Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart told reporters.

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Dart said authorities did not know how Solanki and Jani met, but the cell phone records suggested they had been in contact for about a year.

Anu Solanki called a friend Monday afternoon and said four men were following her, then called back saying they were not following her anymore, relatives have said.

If you read nothing else to celebrate the New Year, check out this link.

The MR movement turned out in force with letters to the editor of the newspaper in LaCrosse, Wisconsin -- interrogating to the max the misandrist and gender-biased policy of letting women out of jail... because they are women.

Really read these dozens of posts and take some heart that MRAs are starting to hit the mainstream radar screen!

(And BTW -- a lot of you MANN guys are "guilty" of sending in your comments, because I have parsed your writing styles and can identify you at any airport.)

Good work!

And the story defends her actions! Excerpt:

"When it comes to Mama Lucy, Kenyans have a male chauvinist view of how a First Lady should behave. Nobody ever asks themselves why she slapped Musyimi. Nobody asks why Mama Lucy visited the offices of the Nation Media. Do we know what pressures she works under? Why are we against her freedom of expression? Don’t we as human beings have the right to be angry?

THERE WERE ALWAYS ALLEGATIONS that during his rule, Kenyatta whipped his ministers and yet that was never an issue. We do not recall President Kibaki being criticised by liberally using the word pumbavu (fool). When will these double standards end?

It is arguable that when women beat up men they are doing so in self-defence. The collective violence that is visited on mothers, sisters, daughters and wives must be resisted. Mama Lucy has been a victim of violence by men and she has the right to defend herself."

A confessional essay truly worth reading. Excerpt:

"I had become a fat, unpleasant, middle-aged princess because I had refused to grow up. Sure, I had taken on grown-up responsibilities (marriage, career, house, motherhood) but at the core of my psyche was a 13-year-old girl who stamped her feet and whined when she didn’t get her way. Of course, I had stopped whining years ago but I simply replaced the whining with emotional manipulation and ornery bitchiness. No wonder I was still single and my two teenaged sons spent all their free time with their father... being a dilettante feminist, I swallowed the standard line that women can have it all... I had lots of blame to dole out. There was no way that the current state of my life was the result of my decisions. My single girlfriends all told me that, many, many times over copious cocktails in sundry singles bars. I read a lot of women’s magazines and the advice I got said pretty much the same thing - a woman is never to blame... Looking back in brutal honesty, I was a stark, raving bitch."

Not content to arrest men for wearing speedos in a McDonald's, law enforcement now has to start luring them into sexual situations in parks and arrest them. Story here. Excerpt:

'Robin Garrison, an off-duty 42-year-old firefighter, was walking in Berliner Park in Columbus, Ohio, in May when he saw a woman sunbathing topless under a tree.
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Eventually, she asked to see Garrison's penis; he unzipped his pants and complied.

Seconds later, undercover police officers pulled up in a van and arrested Garrison; he was later charged with public indecency, a misdemeanor, based on video footage taken by cops who were targeting men having sex or masturbating in the park. While topless sunbathing is legal in the city's parks, exposing more than that is against the law.

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At Garrison's trial, his attorney argued that it was a case of entrapment. "Columbus police utilized this topless woman to snare this man," said Sam Shamansky. "He sees her day after day. He's not some seedy pervert."

I find this to be very encouraging news. Someone is actually looking at how certain interactions ACTUALLY affect boys, and not just making assumptions based off of some notion of political correctness. Article here.

'Playing with toy weapons helps the development of young boys, according to new Government advice to nurseries and playgroups.

Staff have been told they must resist their "natural instinct" to stop boys using pretend weapons such as guns or light sabres in games with other toddlers.

Fantasy play involving weapons and superheroes allows healthy and safe risk-taking and can also make learning more appealing, says the guidance.'

National Fatherhood Summit
Jan. 4th 2008 Grand Rapids, Michigan
Grand Rapids, Michigan - Release Date: 12/28/07

2008 National Fatherhood Summit - Jan 4th 2008 - 8:30am-4:30pm

Location: Abundant Life Ministries, 1725 Division SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49503

Contact Information: Minister Ronald Smith 616-301-1515

Numerous elected officials, authors, religious leaders, family preservation organizations, experts, advocates and a Michigan District Court Judge will be speaking at this historic event!

The Jan 4th 2008 National Fatherhood Summit will bring together husbands, wives, mothers, fathers and grandparents in an effort to begin the New Year recognizing the need for repair of fatherhood nationwide. The 2008 National Fatherhood Summit is the first event leading up to the 2nd Annual Family Preservation Festival which is to take place on August 15th-17th 2008 at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.

We need to fight for equality of everyone, and MRAs know that better than anyone else.

It's saddening, then, to see the rules put in place that limit women's freedoms in some countries. It's equally saddening when men's freedoms are limited. Add to that the burdens of legal responsibilities solely put upon men in many countries, and the perception from the West that only women are oppressed, and you have the perfect storm.

Western women and men speak out for women's rights in other countries. They complain that women can't vote, that women can't drive, and women can't leave the house without a man. I always have had a great deal of sympathy for those women, and I continue to, but this Letter of the Day in the National Post opened my eyes to burdens that men suffer in those countries. We only hear one side of the story.

Letter of the Day in the National Post here.

An excerpt from the article: "Over the past several decades, feminist leaders like the late Betty Friedan, who was a founder of the National Organization for Women, and Gloria Steinem of Ms. magazine fame have decried the roles of women as mothers and housewives, suggesting they are forms of sexual exploitation. The modern feminist movement, as a result, has placed a higher value on women's place in the working world -- and its influence has had far-reaching consequences.

For example, Joseph D'Agostino, vice president for communications at the Population Research Institute, sees feminism's influence on nations' birth rates. He notes that modern societies now are organized around economic production, not the production of the next generation of human beings. The result? D'Agostino says feminism "destroys" every single society it touches.

Via Greg Andresen:

MELBOURNE COMMUNITY CONSULTATION EVENT

With Elizabeth Broderick, Sex Discrimination Commissioner and Commissioner responsible for Age Discrimination

Have your say on building a fair and equal society for women and men in Australia.

The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) and the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission invite you join HREOC's new Sex Discrimination Commissioner and Commissioner responsible for Age Discrimination, Elizabeth Broderick, for a community consultation.

This consultation is part of Commissioner Broderick's national Listening Tour. The Listening Tour is an opportunity for people all over Australia to make their voices heard on the issues that matter to them.