Essay here. Excerpt:

"I got a letter from the women's liberation office, throwing me out and banning me from attending any of the collectives. The so-called women's liberation' movement spread like a cancer across the English chattering classes. I visited the houses of feminist women with my son who carried his action man toys. In their houses there was no vestige of anything 'boyish' at all. No Tonka trucks, no boys toys — nothing that could encourage a boy to think of himself as masculine. The whole idea of men and masculinity in those houses, we considered disgusting. We, the mothers, sat around the kitchen tables rearranging the world according to Marx."

Essay here. Excerpt:

"In the big picture, I don't see that this is any special problem. I know there is a lot of worrying going on, though. There's even a view that colleges practice covert affirmative action for boys just to get them up to the unimpressive current levels. If women are better at school or if they develop faster, why is that a problem society needs to fiddle with? Except for historical bias against women educationally, they probably would have been in the majority ever since Socrates gave tutorials."

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Ed. note: Can't seem to locate his email address. Anyone know it?

Story here. Excerpt:

"'The teaching profession in primaries is dominated by women who, with the best will in the world, will tend to deliver a larger proportion of the curriculum in teaching styles that make most sense to them - and therefore favour the girls.'
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Some experts suggest that teachers are deliberately getting pupils labelled as having special needs with reading, for example, because it is an easy way of getting a difficult child out of the classroom for a while."

Essay here. Excerpt:

'So aficionados who wanted to see the quarter finals at Wimbledon ponied up $3,590 to see the men, compared to only $1,590 to see the women. Even at twice the price, the men's tickets sold out sooner.

Sports columnist Alan Mascarenhas has concluded that by almost all criteria, "women's tennis is an inferior product." So if the ladies are bringing in far less revenue but taking home just as much money as the guys, where is their money coming from?

You guessed it -- out of the men's pockets.

So next time you see Hillary climb on to her equal-pay-for-equal-work soapbox, let's ask her this question: "Does three equal five?"'

Report here. Excerpt:

"The police appear reluctant to leave the children in the father's care, even though he's the victim of the alleged assault, with the result that the father refuses to make a statement, thus allowing the children to stay at home and the mother to escape the consequences of her actions.

"If the genders were reversed," says Mrs Turner, "and the father was charged with assaulting the mother, I'm certain the police would have no hesitation in locking up Dad and leaving the children with Mum."

Researchers tracing the development of violent behavior have found a link between teenage violence and domestic violence. The study also found no independent link between an individual's use of alcohol or drugs and committing domestic violence. In addition it showed that nearly twice as many women as men said they perpetrated domestic violence in the past year. Story here.

And the list grows of women-only places created with government sanction...

Story here. Excerpt:

'And it happens all the time. Boy meets girl and boy annoys girl. So, the Italians have enacted an interesting solution to this problem. They have created a beach strictly for women. No men, children or loud disco music are allowed.
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Women can enjoy the sun, sea and sand without the lustful leers of men.
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The beach does have one man.

"The lifeguard must be a man," Ravaglio said in a foreign newspaper interview. "You clearly need a man to save women in the sea. It's a question of muscles."'

Many of you asked when we would finally get the Radio Lia interview up on DaddyBlogger.com and we finally have it. Special thanks to Lia for sending a copy of the interview to both Robb Mackenzie and Robert Pedersen! For those of you not familiar with the Radio Lia show - this is a radio show heard nationwide and Lia has even been awarded a CMA Award for "Broadcast Personality of the Year". Her show is extremely popular for a reason and it is spreading like a wildfire across this country!

Listen to the unedited radio interview at DaddyBlogger.

Article here.

In a recent address promoting greater media diversity, N.O.W.'s president Kim Gandy claims that simply having more women in management creates increased profits:

'"And as you see in any business … more women in management increases the bottom line for stockholders. ... Let's face it --the men behind the curtain -- in this case the white men behind the curtain -- are most comfortable hiring people who look, and talk, and think just like them. And that's not good for the rest of us.

... having more women owners, executives, news directors and so on -- is its own reward for the women you are employing and for their families and for society as a whole. ... But the icing on the cake is that, in the end, employing more women in the media creates a more vibrant public marketplace of ideas."'

Hmmm. If that were true, why would any intelligent capitalist firm wishing to maximize profits employ male managers? (Also note Gandy's blatant sexism, racism, and complete lack of credible supporting data for her assertions ... )

Story here. Excerpt:

"A baby girl died at the hands of her babysitter after suffering injuries consistent with being swung and thrown against a wall, a court has heard.

Lynn Jeffrey, 37, of Nelson, Lancashire, is accused of murdering 11-month-old Courtney Ann Shales in a 'brutal and callous attack'.
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Ms Jeffrey was arrested at the hospital and when interviewed by police maintained the account that Courtney had fallen down the stairs.

Mr O'Byrne said her account had since changed and she was now saying that Mr Elliott inflicted the injuries.

Tony Cross QC, cross examining, suggested that Mr Elliot had been in an aggressive mood because he had been asked to babysit."

This is a video report on Fox covering Title IX.

Happy Fourth of July!

Tony

Article here.

I say partial ban because exemptions exist for traditions and religious purposes. Still a move in the right direction. Also to my knowledge South Africa doesn't widely practice female circumcision, so this seems legitimately aimed towards males. Excerpt:

'Under 16s may not be tested for virginity or be circumcised, unless required by tradition or religion. A child is now regarded as an adult at 18, and no longer 21. This means 18-year-olds can now get into contractual agreements without parental consent. The section dealing with corporal punishment requires regulations and the act should be complete by March next year.'

Story here. Excerpt:

"A new political party has been launched just for women - and its NSW founder pledges to inject more "reality" into federal politics.

The idea of a single-sex party has already attracted controversy - with critics claiming it is sexist.
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One woman will run for the party in the Senate in each state and territory, and a handful of women will run in key marginal House of Representative seats."

Article here. Excerpt:

"In broader terms, this scandal should stimulate a reappraisal of gender favoritism in our criminal justice system. The scales of justice are out of balance. At a time when feminist activists who exploit these kinds of issues demand equal treatment for women in combat, they also insist on preferences and deference for "the weaker sex" when women accuse men of crimes."

This is a schedule of topics submitted by the individuals involved with the upcoming Boy Crisis Conference on July 13-14, 2007 in Washington, DC. There is a ton of information regarding issues that are vital towards our cause.

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Ed. note: This booklet has been around since the first conference. The topics in it cover men's issues generally, though not exhaustively. Still, it serves as a good primer when someone asks "what are men's issues and why care?"