masculinism writes "G'Day from Sydney Australia. How many times have we all had to endure the verbal assaults of 'dead beat fathers'? I went and looked at the facts and lifted this comment under Section 2.2 Of the Australian Child Support Agancy website. Here is the link
"only 6 per cent of children did not have reasonable maintenance action requirements met on their behalf and, in many cases, this can be a temporary situation." Now correct me if I am wrong wouldn't this indicate that the vast and OVERWHELMING!!!! majority of fathers pay their child support IN FULL. Why then are there never ending media stories on 'dead beat fathers' these fathers represent a very small fraction of fathers, almost to the point of insignificance.
Masculinism"

Chas writes "'Helping boys catch up is a brilliant idea' by Ross Fitgerald is published in "The Australian" newspaper of 22 May 2003. It catalogues the ways in which boys have been educationally disadvantaged in the past three decades. Fitgerald describes federal government initiatives to address the problem following a 2002 House of Representatives survey of boys' education. In 2004, 30 cluster school zones will be established across Australia to improve boys' education. Each cluster will contain a Lighthouse school to champion best practice in boys' education. Funding of up to $60,000 will be provided to the Lighthouse school to develop, facilitate and implement a professional development program for teachers in a cluster of surrounding schools. Each cluster will be required to evaluate its programs in boys' education and its professional development activities under the Lighthouse project."

I will host this week's MANN chat, Wednesday
night (5/21), starting at 9:30 PM Eastern Time, at the href="http://www.mensactivism.org/chat.shtml">usual location. style="font-weight: bold;">The topic for this chat will be "Why
Can't We Let Boys Be Boys?"  That's the title of a recent href="http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/03_21/b3834008_mz001.htm">insightful
commentary, by Marcia Vickers, in the same issue of style="font-style: italic;">Business Week that contains the
controversial cover story, " href="http://www.mensactivism.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/18/1240239&mode=threaded">The
New Gender Gap."  Recounting her son's experience, Vickers warns of the harm that boys can
suffer at the hands of a female-centric school system, particularly in
preschool and in the primary grades.   Do you share her
concerns?  Join us at this week's MANN chat to discuss why there
may be a lot wrong with our educational systems, but little, if
anything, wrong with boys.  Invite some friends to join you!

The Massachusetts Medical Society is sponsoring a symposium on men's health that qualifies as CME credit for physicians. Arnie Robbins, the chair of the recently created Ad Hoc Committee on Men’s Health, would like this info to be distributed as widely as possible. An overview of the symposium and registration forms can be found on this site: "The burgeoning field of men’s health has exploded in the 21st century. The media touts the benefits of wonder drugs, shakes, and equipment -- all directed toward improving the male psyche and physique -- while the core clinical, environmental, and psychological health issues are often lost in the message. The Symposium on Men’s Health will help physicians better communicate with male patients and their families and address strategies for improving health and reducing the increasing rates of morbidity and mortality." I've met Arnie personally and am excited about the progress he's made within the Mass. Medical Society on men's health issues.

Wendy McElroy has a great article on how socialist feminists use their money, i.e... demonize and shortchange men. Much like in Canada where socialist health care it is interesting to know that a prostate cancer check up is the only cancer check up that requires a fee. There has been debate on this board about socialism as an evil, but I want to post this not as a negative response to 'socialism' in and of itself, but rather of how certain groups can run a muk with socialism as it can and as we have seen with capitalism or communism. The end result - men are being demonized unfairly.

warble writes "Paternity fraud victims have experienced a second major win, and they are just friggin out! As everybody knows, AB2240 was vetoed by Gov. Davis last year. As part of the veto, he issued an Executive Order to create a Paternity Workgroup. After five months of nothing, NCFM, LA took action and demanded that the Executive Order be carried out.

The result was that a workgroup, sponsored by the CA-DCSS, started in the last week of Feb. 2002. Prior to the first meeting of the workgroup, the opposition started a bill (AB252) that was designed to give them a means of subverting the efforts of the paternity fraud victims. This bill was worded such that it would have destroyed the efforts of the paternity fraud victims in seeking relief. It would have done this by directly attacking SB1030 and coercing the paternity fraud victims submit to the efforts of the opposition.

That strategy of the opposition has now been thwarted, and the opposition has been put on notice. The vote was close at 34 ayes and 30 noes. It is the abstaining votes that made the difference in this case. The paternity fraud victims are deeply grateful to the Dem's that abstained from voting in favor of AB252.

It is no accident that all Dem's voted in favor of AB252. We believe the opposition misinformed them because they were lied to and haven't heard the truth from the victims. The truth was that AB252 represented the interest of the opposition that was composed of a secret alliance who opposed AB252. Further, the alliance excluded the victims from voicing their objections to AB252 in the analysis that went before the Assembly Committee of Judiciary.

Finally, AB252 failed in that it did not provide any timelines, goals, directives, or specify which categories of paternity fraud were to be addressed by the workgroup. NCFM, LA has made it clear that we will continue to support the Paternity Workgroup despite its being stacked against the victims. This is to demonstrate good faith to the Dem’s and Gov. Davis. In addition, should the workgroup produce an actual product that has merit in relation to the issue of paternity fraud then Senator Ashburn will be most willing to amend SB1030.

Later!

Warble
"

Tim Randles writes "Eureka Whirlwind vacumes has a commercial on television that shows men as incompetent and how easy it is to install their built in systems and that men can do it even if they are incompetent." Can anyone verify this?

Geo writes "I watched the new advertisement of the beer named "Heineken" and it shows an actress of the film "Matrix reloaded" kicking a man because he touched her back. I think you should see that ad." You might be able to catch this at Ifilm if you're lucky.

radikal writes "Another report about women being able to tolerate pain better than men. Didn't someone contest this?"

Earl writes "Boycott "The Body Shop" anti-male campaign.
The Body Shop for many years has been supporting and solicting donations from customers to "Stop the violence against women".

This attitude is blatantly anti male; not recognizing male victims of domestic violence, blaming men for all violence and condoning violence against men by making it a non-issues.

Simply going into a store and telling the manager that they will not shop at the store sends a warning to the management.

Please pass it on!!!"

Freebird writes "In this Op-Ed piece Jim Reeves makes no attempt at all to mask his venomous misandry. Words alone just cannot do justice to this piece. Granted, he's entitled to his opinion, but we should make ours known, not only to him and his newspaper, but everyone else. If this sort of thing goes unanswered, it will just open the floodgates to even more of the same. Now we know how the Jews felt in Germany before the extermination camps began. You'll have to read it to appreciate it."

Anonymous User writes " The biggest problem with this article is how gleefully the author jokes about how boys are falling behind girls in education."

SunCat writes "
Karen Dunne and her associates acknowledged
that women do assault men in relationships, but the problem isn't big enough to justify the amount of time and money spent on it.

Family Violence Coordinating Council of Cecil County"

Martian Bachelor writes "Well, two of our favorite male-bashing mega-companies have now evidently teamed up to spread their hate wide and far across the land: You only have to look at one or two to get the idea. Any great new ideas on how to put an end to this sort of crappola masquerading as hip humor? Cheers! MB"

CPM writes "Female Suicide Bomber Kills Ten She is not the first and will not be the last. The grrls also have their hand in the terrorism business. Don't forget to mention this when your femitwit acquaintences tell you how it is only men who inflict violence."