Harold Leist writes:

Hi everyone,

Well tonight I found out tonight that HB 2294 (in Virginia) is going to come up for a vote in the next few days. We need to urge the committee members to vote for this bill.

Ed. note: You do not need to be a Virginia resident to communicate your support of this bill to the VA Assembly. It is important they know that others out of state are watching their actions, and that this is a national-level issue of concern to people all over the country.

Click "Read more..." for what to do.

bandersnatch writes "From The Telegraph, a bride stabbed her husband to death seven days after they returned from their honeymoon, a court was told yesterday.
Catherine Osliffe, 34, is alleged to have carried out the attack within minutes of telling her victim: 'We`ve only been together for a week and I hate you already. I can't stand you.'"

Clint O writes "I have ?'s and a story. My questions are about the legalities of owning and possessing (female cosmetic) products made from human foreskin. MTV's REALITY TV series "Rich Girls" shows Ally Hilfiger telling her friend, a teenage boy, how her mom's (or step-mom's?) product (some sort of facial product I think) is made from little boys' foreskins. The boy says "What do they do just collect all the foreskins from the little boys getting circumcised?". And it goes on. I think the series still airs on Tuesday nights. Of course I want something and everything done about this. The episode should be pulled, these products should b outlawed and Mrs. Hilfiger should be ashamed at least. Beyond the legal questions, what can I, we do about this particular show and these products? Thanks for this site."

Ed. Note: MANN readers, please post information that may be helpful on this topic, and feel free to add commentary about this particular episode of this particular TV show if you saw it.

Dr. Dan writes "Progressive Insurance is thumbing its nose at us on TV again. A woman interrupts her husband while he’s watching football. He sheepishly takes the phone she’s shoving at him, because he didn’t bother to search hard enough for the best insurance deal. They make sure this male-stereotype incarnate has a facial expression making it plain that he’s a doofus. The commercial is entitled, “Bad Call.”

Progressive will keep up with this crap until it costs them big money."

Harold Leist writes:

Hello everyone,

I am pleased to announce that a website has finally been completed. It has the updated information on it. The information on my personal website, http://www.leist.us/) will remain up for a while.

Click "Read more..." for more.

Posted on behalf of TirryB:

On News.com.au in href="http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,12044730-1248,00.html">this
article, a woman sleeps with a 15 year old boy, is charged with unlawful carnal knowledge of a child and gets a 6 month suspended sentence as she was 'depressed about the breakup of a relationship'. In this
similar article, a teacher admits to an affair with a 15 year old female student and gets three charges of committing an indecent act and one count of sexual penetration of a child under 16. He's awaiting sentencing, but what's the betting he gets a serious jail term as well as losing his job/career?

Read it here, note the elements of her story in the article.

What's your opinion, MANN readers?

Luek writes "A male basketball couch was awarded almost $5 million on a false molestation charge. He may get even more if punitive damages are awarded later this month!

This guy did not rollover and just tried to forget it or get mad.

HE GOT EVEN!"

Contact Ray Billingsley (the comic strip artist) and King Features Syndicate (which distributes the comic strip) and tell them the following:

1. The Curtis comic strip which ran on January 18, 2005 represents mean-spirited and highly inappropriate humor.
2. The comic strip reinforces a societal double-standard which warns, "There is no excuse for domestic violence" when the victim is female; but then says, "But it's perfectly fine for a wife to injure and maim her husband."
3. Mr. Billingsley's comic strip is extremely offensive to the hundreds of thousands of men who suffer from domestic violence each year.

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... for teenage boys, that is. Read it here.

ARVADA, Colorado (AP) -- A 40-year-old woman held sex and drug parties with teenage boys, telling police she wanted to be a "cool mom," authorities say.

Anonymous User writes "Here is an excellent article regarding boy's lagging behind girls in education. Please e-mail the author and thank her for reporting on this important issue."

Ed. Note: Fascinating, this piece, when Harvard's president is knuckling to the feminists (see here). He too can be reached by e-mail, at lawrence_summers-at-harvard.edu . While writing to thank the author of the article on boys' education, why not also let Summers know about its existence as well?

This story is billed as a modern-day Romeo and Juliet tale. But as I recall and as the article points out, Juliet committed suicide upon learning that Romeo had done so out of despair, thinking she was dead. This story's Juliet did not. Also, Romeo and Juliet were both a lot younger and had feuding families to deal with. No mention of that here.

I can only ask myself, would this recent outcry against two male cartoon characters holding hands have arisen if the characters were female? I doubt it.

SacredNaCl writes "According to IOL
South Africa News, this woman was so bold as to attack the man screaming she would file a charge of rape while holding a soiled condom unless he immediately gave her money. Worse, the police were in on the deal and had delt with her 3 times earlier that week, but not had arrested her, and on top of it, tried to extort money from him themselves."

bandersnatch writes "From the BBC, Women are brighter than men, according to the Labour chairman of the Commons education committee. Huddersfield MP Barry Sheerman said there was a "danger" of being obsessed about how boys were doing at school. His comments followed a committee discussion about whether girls or boys found it easier to learn to read.
"My own personal view is that women are brighter than men," the MP said, adding that women now earned on average more than men as middle managers. He said: "We should celebrate this, shouldn't we? The brightest kids are coming through and they happen to be women."
And of course, there's been no calls for him to step down or apologize."

Ed. note: This story was published previously on MANN, but re-publishing it seems appropriate given the recent Harvard flap. The contrast in response is striking, yes?