On July 19th, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold hearings on reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act. And right now, Senator Biden only wants to invite persons who will sing the praises of VAWA. In other words, he wants to have a rubber-stamp hearing.

It's crucial that the Judiciary Committee hear the truth about VAWA -- how it ignores the research about DV and grossly discriminates against men.

Two persons who have each spent over three decades researching family violence:

* Murray Straus, Ph.D., founder of the University of New Hampshire Family Research Laboratory

* Richard Gelles, Ph.D., Dean of the School of Social Policy & Practice at the University of Pennsylvania

These are the people who should be testifying on July 19, not the advocates who knowingly slant the truth and discriminate against needy DV victims.

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Practical Feminist writes "There is a way that a man can choose not to have kids.
Keep your dick in your pants!!!!

After conception, the child is part of the woman's body and that is why only the woman can choose what to do.

You guys are a bunch of pathetic morons."

Ed note: I am publishing this submission so that the submitter can be responded to with the appropriate arguments. Go ahead, gang.

Tirryb writes "I followed a link to the UK newspaper the Guardian, and noticed that the story was within a folder called 'gender'. On editing the link I found an index page listing numerous recent gender-based stories. Quite interesting, but if you skip down the list it seems very one-sided - I'd say 10 headline 'poor women' stories for every small 'gee men may have it a bit rough too' story. Or maybe it's just me..."

Dittohd writes "Here's a story about a sexual threesome between two female teachers and a 16 year old student but no charges being filed because the student didn't complain! Does England have a minimum age for a minor to legally give consent to have sex?"

Sorry, folks, I don't know WHAT I was thinking when I made the previous post's headline on MANN out as the Men's Equality Congress being only 6 days away. I have corrected it to reflect reality. I would claim this as a senior moment but alas I am just not old enough yet to get away with it. :) Hope y'all can forgive my mistake.

Come one, come all! This year's Congress promises to rival last year's in progress for the cause of men's/father's rights as well as just plain being a whole lotta fun. Visit the web site where you will find details here.

Again, truth being much stranger than fiction, stories like this one dwarf any fiction ever written.

Would that that were not the case.

bandersnatch writes "From MSNBC:

A 29-year-old Orange County woman has been charged with falsely accusing six men of kidnapping her at gunpoint and raping her.

An indictment returned by an Orange County grand jury also accuses Tamara Anne Moonier with fraudulently receiving more than $1,800 from a state emergency fund for crime victims. Authorities said Moonier went to the Fullerton Police Department on June 6 to report that she had been abducted outside a bar at gunpoint, taken to an unknown location and raped. Police said one of the men Moonier had accused provided a tape showing she had orchestrated the sexual encounter."

cnewbyuk writes "An article that highlights why is probably not a good idea for men to work with children.


I lost my job because I was a man playing with children


I wonder how long it will be before fathers are given rules on how to act around their children."

Anonymous User writes "Fitzroy Barnaby said he had to swerve to avoid hitting the 14-year-old Des Plaines girl who walked in front of his car."

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AngryMan writes "You've heard of the 'glass ceiling' - now here comes the 'glass elevator'. Story here"

Marc A. writes "Mother Jones Magazine just did a totally biased article on domestic violence. It ignored male victims altogether and talked about VAWA and the lack of services for "battered women" only. It didn't even give the token recognition that we're starting to see occasionally.

Years ago they did an article titled "Hitting the Wall" about how researchers are repeatedly finding that women initiate DV as often as men do. It looks like they "forgot" that article.

You send a letter for publishing at backtalk-at-motherjones.com.

Marc A."

Well it's not quite the whole truth, but for MSN, it's a start anyway. This article discusses infidelity and its causes, openly acknowledging (*gasp!*) that yes indeed, women have affairs, too, and for diverse reasons.

Ray writes "This author asks the question, Did Phil Hartman Die from Congressionally-Sanctioned Discrimination? Mark Rosenthal, the author, then states:

"Senator Joseph Biden recently introduced the 2005 VAWA reauthorization bill. When challenged to make the bill gender inclusive, Biden responded, "Nothing in the act denies services, programs, funding or assistance to male victims of violence."

"If these services are so readily available to men abused by their wives, why didn't Phil seek help from one of the numerous battered women's shelters around Los Angeles? Could it be that being "eligible to apply for services" is quite a different thing from being able to receive services when you need them?"

Stanley B. Gaver writes "I've always been skeptical about the effectiveness of online petitions. However, after writing a pointed letter to Senator Joseph Biden about VAWA, I didn't feel that it was sufficient only to write a letter that would likely be ignored by Biden anyway.

VAWA is such an incredibly biased and bigoted law, I think that it's time to turn up the heat on "VAWA Joe", using any legitimate avenue available. I have created a petition on PetitionOnline that summarizes why VAWA is such a bad law and requests Biden to make it gender neutral."

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