Felony Charges Filed Against Girl for Rock Assault on Boy

Would there be any controversy if the assailant had been a boy? Story here. Really calls to mind the whole "Boys are stupid, throw rocks at them" T-shirts, doesn't it?

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Female Catholic School Teacher Charged with Statutory Rape

Another one surfaces. From the article:

"If [Geisel] were a man, she'd likely be referred to as a predator," said Colonie Police Chief Steven Heider."

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RADAR Alert: Use August to Build on our Momentum

On August 1 our elected officials began their August recess. The August recess is when they go back to their home districts and see how the political winds are blowing. And this year, our Senators and Congressmen will be meeting with persons saying that VAWA needs to be changed!

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Popular feminist website source of hilarious parody

Anonymous User writes "Looks like some fine ladies sympathic to our cause have put together a satire parody of feministing.com, a popular feminist website. You can find the spoof at http://www.feministing.org/. It's funny because its true, yes?"

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Woman on Woman Domestic Violence

CJ writes "A woman was sentenced to 18 to 20 years in prison Tuesday for fatally stabbing her girlfriend multiple times in a hotel room in and leaving her body in a waste bin. Not suprisingly, this story was not a highly visible news story, it was buried in the back pages of the paper."

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MSN Article On Women and "Career Off-Tracking"

This article addresses the wage gap myth indirectly, but the implications are obvious: you can't do two different things at the same time in the same time space allotted, not unlike how two objects can't occupy the same space at the same time.

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Indian Supreme Court Upholds DV Law

Anonymous User writes "The Indian Supreme Court has upheld the constitutional validity of Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code which makes `cruelty to a married women by the husband or his relatives' a criminal offense. This law was enacted in 1983 under pressure from feminist groups. There are widespread reports that this law is being used by many women as a tool of revenge. The Supreme Court also advised the legislature to evolve guidelines to prevent misuse."

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8-year-old boy charged for being sexually assaulted

Rand T. writes "Charges were dropped, although the District Attorney claims "both the child and teenager were equal participants." (So why wasn't the girl charged?) Story here."

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Violence Against Women - Australia Says No

Anonymous User writes "Well the "Violence Against Women - Australia Says No" campaign from last year has resurfaced its ugly head here in Australia again. We are being bombarded with misandrist commericals here that protray men as the ugly perpertartors/rapist/abusers and women as helpless victims at their mercy."

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Doctoral Student Seeks Testimony from Male DV Victims

Posted on behalf of Jessi Eckstein:


ARE YOU MALE? Have you been in a heterosexual relationship?
ABUSIVE, HETEROSEXUAL RELATIONSHIP?

My name is Jessi Eckstein and I am working on doctoral studies in
communication at the University of Illinois. I am conducting a
study on the experiences of men who have been abused in heterosexual
relationships.

The goal of this study is to better understand abused men's
experiences, with the hope that this understanding can be used to
help others.

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Mother Abandons Son on Capital Beltway

The lace curtain gets a little thinner - at the expense of this boy who has been abused and abandoned. Story here.

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Man cleared of sexual abuse charges levelled for kissing his son on the belly

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Agape Press publishes article quoting Sacks & Baskerville

Ray writes "Agape Press, a conservative Christian news source heavily quotes Glenn Sacks and Dr. Stephen Basherville in this just published article, Critics Claim Act Curbing Violence Against Women Leaves Men Unprotected."

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RADAR Alert: Success in the House!

After months of hard work, our VAWA campaign has registered a major success. On Wednesday the House Judiciary Committee did its mark-up of the Violence Against Women Act and added this language to make the House bill male-inclusive.

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Man whose frozen sperm was stolen by wife is required to pay C/S

Rand T. writes ""[W]hat happens to sperm in a bank when you stop paying to keep it frozen? Can your estranged wife pick up the freezing bills and use your sperm, then come after you for child support payments?"

Story here."

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