Article here.

It's pretty common sense to anybody with their eyes open, but it hit a traditional media outlet so I thought I'd share it with you guys. Excerpt:

'Most startling is that little is being done to correct the imbalances. All of the major players — schools, education colleges and researchers — largely ignore the gender gap. Instead of pursuing sound solutions, many educators merely advocate prescribing more attention-focusing Ritalin for the boys, who receive the drug at four to eight times the rate of girls, according to different estimates. "Too often the first reaction to an attention problem is 'Let's medicate,' " says Rockville, Md., child psychologist Neil Hoffman. "Some schools are quick to recommend solutions before they've fully evaluated the problem."'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Santas in Australia's largest city have been told not to use Father Christmas's traditional "ho ho ho" greeting because it may be offensive to women, it was reported Thursday.'

On September 13, 2007, I sent the Ledger-Enquirer a letter asking why they ignored male victims of domestic violence in their article “Getting out isn't easy“ (9/13). In response, editor Ben Holden wrote: "We didn't mention it because anyone with an ounce of common sense (and without a meanspirited private political agenda) knows that as a general proposition, men hurt women in domestic situations, not the other way around. Besides, I always figure if your wife beats you up, you probably deserve it. That's the way it works in my house. Regards, Ben" (The email exchange is below.)

Of course, we all know that's just another stereotype. Even Harvard Medical School just recognized that half of heterosexual domestic violence is reciprocal, half non-reciprocal, and that the *men* are more often hurt in the non-reciprocal violence, which women commit 71% of.

Via Marc A. Article here. Excerpt:

'A New Jersey Superior Court Judge shocked observers during the sentencing hearing of a 43-year-old female teacher who had pleaded guilty to second-degree sexual assault with a 13-year-old boy many times over a six-month period.
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I will give one example, but there are many cases, of bias against male sexual offenders versus females. A male teacher who had sex with three teenage female students was sentenced to 26 years in prison while the next day, a female swimming coach who had an “affair” with an 11-year-old boy and sexual “encounters” with two others got 30 days. Not only is there bias against male offenders, there is the mistaken belief that male victims do not suffer short-term and long-term trauma. It is egregious to think that boys suffer less harm when sexually abused at such a young age than girls. Children, boys as well as girls, are losing their childhood.'

Women are being provided with tasers to use against men. Marc Rudov wrote an interesting article on this subject. Excerpt from the article:

Story here. Excerpt:

'This is the female teacher banned from working with children after she was suspended and cautioned by police over a sex act with a teenage pupil.

Married Jo Gorman, 28, was cautioned for "intentional sexual touching" with a male student at Paignton Community and Sports College in Paignton, Devon.

Police launched an investigation after rumours began to circulate the school about an improper relationship and the headteacher alerted social services.'

Feminist Trained Judges Lack Integrity

"When judges [who are trained through STOP grants funded by the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA)] address domestic violence according to a gender feminist paradigm, instead of constitutional law, they are grossly lacking in integrity."

"When America's judiciary functions with as little integrity as it does today in the area of domestic violence law, the entire legal system reeks with a foul stench of rottenness, wafting in from that area of tyrannical injustice."

Story here.

I suspect NOW will have something to say about Clarence Thomas"s comments. They've been after him like rabid wolverines since he was found not guilty in regards to the Anita Hill hearings during the 1980's. Excerpt:

'"I don't hire women law clerks," Thomas said. "I hire the best law clerks. And it turns out that 30 percent of them happen to be women."
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"If a woman graduates from law school and I say I'm going to hire her because I need a woman, that seems to me dehumanizing, and the job would be tainted," he said. "That's my attitude."'

Story here. Excerpt:

"The attorney for a Nebraska middle school teacher who fled to Mexico with a student who was an illegal immigrant said Monday that the woman could be guilty of nothing except poor judgment.

James Martin Davis said that a kidnapping charge against Kelsey Peterson should be dropped because the boy went with her willingly, and that the boy shares more responsibility for their relationship and flight than authorities allege.

Peterson, 25, fled Lexington with the boy, a former student of hers, on October 26. They were found in a mall parking lot in the border town of Mexicali, Mexico, on November 2."

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Ed. note: A separate submission referred to this case, only with more quotations from the attorney. Read it here.

Story here. Excerpt:

'A woman who has cried rape eight times has been spared jail.

Gemma Gregory repeatedly claimed that she had been raped or sexually assaulted by around seven men over a six-year period.'

She made the allegations against ex-boyfriends who ended up being quizzed by detectives about what she had alleged against them.

The 28-year-old was given a one-year jail term suspended for two years by a judge who said she must receive mental health treatment.'

This is an update regarding a similar article recently submitted to MANN. Excerpt:

'In a comprehensive report being released Monday, a leading U.S. adoption institute says the answer is "Yes" and urges the rest of America to follow the path of the eight states that allow such access to all adults who were adopted.

States' experiences in providing this information make clear that there are minimal, if any, negative repercussions," said the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute. "Outcomes appear to have been overwhelmingly positive for adult adopted persons and birthparents alike."

Opponents of open access argue that unsealing birth records violates the privacy that birthmothers expected when they opted to give up their babies. They raise the specter of birthparents forced into unwanted relationships with grown children who have tracked them down.'

Story here. Excerpt:

"In 1992, a controversial report claiming girls were being shortchanged by public education prompted initiatives credited with improving their academic performance.

Schools hired more female teachers, especially in math and science. Interaction with students in the classroom was tracked and teachers who focused on boys were trained to pay more attention to girls. And girls were encouraged to take more math and science and Advanced Placement classes.
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"Girls outnumber boys in the National Honor Society, take more Advanced Placement courses and have higher grade-point averages, Hilton points out. Among the general population, boys are more than twice as likely as girls to be suspended from school and more than three times as likely to be expelled. They are more frequently diagnosed with learning disabilities. "It was like a huge problem that somehow had been hidden. I can understand why it was hidden. It wasn't on our radar screen — girls were on our radar screen in the 1990s," Hilton said.'

Article here.

Boys are already considered second class citizens throughout the education system. Now they're blaming boys for impeding the girls' education. Excerpt:

"Pupils in all-girl independent schools are almost 24 per cent more likely to get an A grade than girls in private co-ed schools. The difference is particularly marked in subjects such as physics, chemistry, biology and maths.
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Supporters of single-sex education say girls in mixed schools can be held back because boys monopolise teachers' time, girls are less likely to study "male" subjects such as maths and sciences and they have fewer leadership opportunities."

Story here. Excerpt:

"Students in single-sex classrooms tend to concentrate on their lessons better, the National Association for Single Sex Public Education claims. Proponents say that this is in part because the lessons can zero in on different interests and developmental levels between boys and girls of the same age.

Educators have long known of differences in learning methods between boys and girls, but now many public schools in the US are making the move to educate their children separately.

Studies show that American boys concentrate less, have more problems with reading and are overall weaker students than girls, leading more boys to fail than their female counterparts."

"overall weaker"?

The deadline for submitting a question for YouTube/CNN's Republican debate is Sunday, November 25th, just two weeks away. The debate itself is scheduled for the following Wednesday.

Seldom is there such an opportunity to focus the candidates' attention on the issues RADAR addresses -- issues such as: