I will host this week's MANN chat, Wednesday
night (4/23), starting at 9:30 PM Eastern Time, at the href="http://www.mensactivism.org/chat.shtml">usual location. 
The topic for this chat will be "Sexual Abuse of Boys and Men." 
The sexual abuse of boys and men is largely overlooked by
society.  There is a double standard regarding sexual abuse: abuse
of women and girls gets a lot of attention, while abuse of men and boys
is ignored, celebrated, or even rationalized.  The consequences of
these social attitudes are incredibly devastating to male victims of
sexual abuse.  What can we do to fix this situation?  Join us
at this week's chat to discuss what we can do to correct this
problem.  Feel free to invite a friend or two to join us.

Thundercloud. writes "A little while back I submitted a post about yet another anti-male movie that is to be released soon. But I didn't know the name of the movie, untill now. It is called "CHASING PAPI".
As you (may) recall I described this movie as haveing an all hispanic cast. That's not the bad part, of course. The bad part is that this is yet ANOTHER; "Men are all evil, cheating, louses and women get revenge on man, by tying him up and torturing him.
This is simply an Hispanic version of any given anti-male\males-put-in-bondage-by-"righteous"-wome n movie that we have all seen in the past. The whole "Man as lying, cheater" scenario is just an excuse to show the usual; 'women tying up and gagging and dominating a man bondage situation', that has become so prevalant on TV and movies these days.
I don't know who's sicker. The people who keep cranking these hate-films out or the women who go see them...
And women ask why men don't particularly like them, anymore. Yeah, Can't imagine, ladies. Can't imagine."

Freebird writes "This article entitled "Women March To End Violence" entitled shows the usual female tendency to ignore violence against males, which of course makes up the overwhelming majority of violence, not to mention female against male violence being nearly as common as vice versa and increasing year by year. There is a place at the bottom of this page to post feedback regarding the article. We should take advantage of opportunities like this to get the truth about violence out. The more the publice hears it, the better for all of us."

AngelKnight writes "I don't know if you've seen this, but there's been a ruling in Italy where a magistrate who divorced his wife because she would berate him in public and abuse him verbally all the time was wrong in divorcing her - because there was no cause. Of course, she claims that this is just par for the course in married relationships."

I recently posted a link to an essay by Erin Pizzey that discussed the development of the women's movement since the late-1960s. Here's an essay by a man on the development of feminism in the same time period. It's a bit long, but a good read.

CJ writes " What is the future of manliness
itself after decades of ignominious retreat? Get a group of academic feminists together, invite a pro-male College professor, and debate the need for masculine studies on campus at Radcliffe. The head feminist asks "whether masculinity studies isn't a form of ''academic Viagra''-an attempt to resolve the culture-wide crisis of ''hetero-masculinity'' by stealing some of feminism's scholarly mojo." The article ends by implying that women have less justice than men do... unbelievable. I’d like to add that it is time to start lawsuits that demand equal budgets for studies in both sexes on college campus, just like in sports. Normative studies on masculinity are all but gone. Thirty years of hard-line feminist studies on perceived masculine socio-pathological constructs have lead to laws which are biased against men, and have resulted in the “culture-wide crisis of ''hetero-masculinity'' – time for a change."

rage writes "The Men's Health Act bill is currently being reintroduced in the Congress, or will be in a few weeks, so perhaps this amazing breakthrough for men's rights is not too far away now. Keep up the good work, brothers, men's health is perhaps the only one field in which we manage to make our voices heard!

See the latest news in the

following link"

Since when did America start convicting people based on soundbites? Have juries become so stupid to take a man's life away from him without hearing the whole context of a conversation? The prosicution kept replaying over and over a soundbite from a conversation taped decades ago by the police while denying the rest of the conversation to be heard. Our individual rights are nothing but a history lesson. Read Here.

I hope you're sitting down and not drinking anything when you click http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2412808a10,00.html>this link and see how things are
unfolding, It's.... Well, here's a quote from the 21 year old woman who had adult relations
with a 13-year-old swim champion; To quote "He is not a little kid. If he made the decision
to deal with grown up things he needs to own up to what he is doing in a grown up way. Maybe he
is a child. But he chose to do grown up things." It's quite something when a woman goes
around commiting sex crimes on a minor, blaming her victim and practically no-one cares, Don't you
think?

Garth writes "An Ontario judge and later the Ontario Court of Appeals ruled that a spouse should be able to reopen separation agreements simply by showing a material change of circumstance (meaning whenever you feel like it). Now, the Canadian Supreme Court has reversed that and what's more has also stated that judges should not "presume an imbalance of power" between a husband and wife. So, not only do agreements actually mean something now, but the court seems to making a point that husbands aren't always the bad guys."

Tatis writes "April 24 is "Take Our Daughters to Work Day," which was renamed "Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day" for this year. Christina Hoff Sommers, author of The War Against Boys, will join Glenn to discuss the boy crisis in education on His Side with Glenn Sacks on KRLA 870 AM in Los Angeles at 11 PM on Sunday, April 20. To listen to the show live via the Internet, go to http://hisside.com/listen_live.htm>.

Listeners are invited to call the show and join the discussion at 1 866 870-KRLA. To get CDs and cassettes of all previous and future shows and to learn how to support the show, go to http://hisside.com/store/index.htm>"

Ray writes "In
this article
author Elaine Donnely asks (Are 'women') "serving at greater risk?" (than men?) emphasis mine. This article appears to try to delve deeper and ferret out the ramifications, “Are women today who encounter combat at greater risk than men in every way? Are they at greater risk, simply because of their gender’s lesser physical strength and resultant inabilities, or does their physiological roll as sexual attractants to men put them in even greater risk of rape, genital mutilation, torture, and death?” Hum? Could you somehow weave the domestic violence “primary aggressor” rule into some of the replies to these questions? Do policies for women in combat and women in domestic violence reflect an American double standard?" There was also an interesting soc.men thread on this as well.

Philalethes writes "The link (last Tuesday) to BusterB's comments led me eventually to Gender War, Sexuality, and Love, which has a lot of commentary I think MANN readers would enjoy. Perhaps it's been featured before, but not recently. I've been browsing it for the last couple of hours, and particularly enjoyed 'Can't we all just get along? Can't we just go out on a date?,' 'An open letter to women,' 'Masculism, not me-too-ism,' to name only a few. Give it a try."

Andrew74 writes "Old Divorce Agreements Can Not Be Reopened-

Edmonton Journal

This looks like a victory for divorced men whose ex-wives use the anti-family court system to extort money from them. The only problem is that it still leaves loopholes for anti-family judges to reopen cases. Canadian anti-family judges are notorious for utilizing loopholes to push their feminist agenda."

After being very patient with the new Governor of New Hampshire, the NH chapter of the National Congress for Fathers and Children is asking for help in a focused letter writing campaign to get the final members of the New Hampshire Commission on the Status of Men (NHCSM) appointed so that the Commission may fulfill its duties. We suffered attempted sabotage of the commission last year by former Governor Shaheen and now have a more neutral Governor, Craig Benson, in office. However, he apparently doesn't understand the urgency of making these nominations. Please help us demonstrate to Governor Benson that a lot of people care about this Commission and want the nominations to be made immediately. Click here to participate in this campaign. Note that you do not need to be a NH resident for your letter to count. And thank you in advance for your help!