Stephen Baskerville, Ph.D., political science teacher at Howard University, gives his take on the growing marriage boycott by men. Doctor Baskerville states, "men themselves express a weightier explanation of why they fear marriage: For many men, starting a family is a one-way ticket to jail, and even worse." How sad and how true. He also states, "Portraying marriage as a man’s ball-and-chain used to be a joke. Now, it is a political problem." I would add that it is also a societal problem that is accompanied by a dangerous rate of population collapse.

Marc writes "California Assemblyman Rod Wright, who authored the anti paternity fraud bill AB2240, defended his bill in an editorial in the Sacramento Bee. He introduces what appear to be some new terms: 'deeppocket paternity,' 'revenge paternity,' and 'convenience paternity' (along with honest mistakes).

Note: feminists successfully diluted AB2240 to give judges total discretion. We (NCFM LA) still support the bill but we oppose the discretionary language because it allows bias and inconsistency. Some of us will drive to Sacramento from L.A. to testify at the 8/6 hearing. Anyone who wants to join us should email me."

According to this discussion thread on ifeminists.com, Wendy McElroy is possibly being threatened with lawsuits for "ridiculing" the CA NOW Family Court Report 2002. According to McElroy herself, "I have been told to cease "ridiculing" the CA NOW report and associated feminists. Monetary compensation has been "demanded." But the actual filing of a lawsuit has not occurred." This only suggests to me that these people know their lies are being exposed and they will take any desperate action to silence the truth.

Glenn Sacks and Dianna Thompson describe the injustice of a new anti-father device imposed by the courts. In her recent decision, Judge E. Chouteau Merrill determined that virtual visitation by computer link is an appropriate replacement for true visitation, where a man might actually be able to hug his children.

William "Hootie" Johnson, chairman of Augusta National Golf Club, home to the annual Masters tournament, has dared to stand up to the feminists. Martha Burk, chair of the National Council of Women's Organizations, has contacted Johnson, in a manner that he found "both offensive and coercive," to demand that the all-male golf club admit women. Johnson has refused to submit. Burk has threatened to contact sponsors. If this takes place, perhaps we should contact the same sponsors and go out of our way to purchase their products.

The latest article of Glenn Sacks is sure to put him on the highest ranking of N.O.W's hit list. In it, Sacks exposes fundamental flaws in the survey which the report was based on - not the least of which includes the fact that the survey respondents were all women (it's kind of hard to conclude that courts would be biased against men when men aren't even asked). Sacks' article was printed in the Los Angeles Daily Journal and the San Fransisco Daily Journal, and I'm sure will result in a lot of scrutiny of NOW's report for the foreseeable future. The men's movement owes a debt of gratitude for Sacks for writing such a courageous, well researched article.

Trudy W Schuett writes "The popular DLJ columnist is back, this time with a modernized
version of "Medea." Far from being heavy or obscure, this David
Reiser treatment of the story is readable, while being no less
heart-searing than the original.

As you may know, the most famous version of Medea is the Greek
tragedy by Euripides, the dramatization of an
event that has probably happened many, many times. In the
Euripides version, Medea murders her children in front of their
father, Jason (of Jason and the Argonauts fame). He had left her
for a woman with greater wealth, power, youth, and beauty; not
four attributes likely to endear him to Medea. Medea quickly
realizes that the only way she can adequately achieve revenge
against Jason is by murdering the children. One by one, they line
up obediently, kneel at her feet, and allow her to slit their
throats, as their father is forced to watch."

SJones writes "Progressive Insurance has begun running an ad in which an angry ex-girlfriend or ex-wife is depicted as creating a voo doo doll of her ex and then injuring him in various ways. At the end of the commercial she uses pliers on his genitals and we are shown him making a horrible face for the last shot. Apparently this insurance company thinks sexual abuse of males is a good way to sell insurance. Unless they hear otherwise from us this will likely continue."

J. Steven Svoboda sent in a couple of interesting press releases on the topic of circumcision. The releases are fairly heavily formatted so I will simply make them downloadable in their native MS Word format. The first one outlines a study in the Journal of Health Psychology which shows that circumcision can be the cause of certain psychological problems, including Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The second release announces that the state of Arizona has become the seventh state to bar Medicaid funding for infant circumcision, with other states likely to follow.

This article from the Canadian press mentions the recent revocation of a Budwieser beer ad which showed women slapping their boyfriends for looking at other women. Due to "a handful" of complaints, the ad was pulled, as was a Chrysler ad in 1999 which had the same theme. The article describes the ad as being "pulled", but then says that it will still be run after 11 PM. Still, it's definitely worthwhile to keep track of progress such as this that we can build on.

My jaw dropped as I was forwarded the following press release by Marc Angelucci from the Los Angeles chapter of the National Coalition of Free Men. They have taken the bold step in filing suit against L.A. County for refusing to establish a men's commission, while a women's commission exists. Suits are also to be filed in Orange county and San Bernardino for discrimination against men in domestic violence shelters. Read More below for the whole story. And get involved in this if you can!

In Wendy McElroy's latest FoxNews column, we get more of an idea of how low some radical feminists are willing to stoop to attack prominent supporters of men's rights. The CA NOW Report controversy is looking to become one of the most prominent events highlighting men's rights and how misinformation is being spread by anti-male feminists in recent history - so if you've been waiting for a time to write something to your local newspaper, the time is now. Let's try to heap as much media and public attention on this battle as possible.

Cherie Booth, the wife of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, is apparently about to propose that mothers be sentenced far more leniently than others for given crimes. Her idea is that, if mothers are imprisoned, there is a negative impact on their families. The effect on families of the imprisoning of fathers is, of course, given no such consideration. Maybe the UK should just imprison the children's fathers for the crimes of the mothers.

CJ sent us this Boston Globe story about the prevalence of boys in special education and emotional disability programs. The article is well researched and discusses the fact that the gender gap in these programs is directly related to how vague the "disability" is defined and that we are taking too many active young men and labelling them as disabled rather than dealing with the shortcomings our educational system has with regard to teaching boys.

Tony writes "While this is not recent news it is current news since the the International Labor Union has not changed its policy as of yet. A letter written to the convention in 2001 highlights some of the issues that are still very relevant to male rights around the world.
",... the ILO's Forced Labour Convention designates one group and one group only as legitimate targets for forced labour: these same adult able-bodied men. Article 11 of the Convention states that "Only adult able-bodied males who are of an apparent age of not less than 18 and not more than 45 years may be called upon for forced or compulsory labour," so long as "they are physically fit for the work required and for the conditions under which it is to be carried out" and "the number of adult able-bodied men indispensable for family and social life" is allowed to remain in communities targeted for forced labour. In addition, the ILO states that both the forced labour involved in military conscription and the use of prison labour are acceptable under the terms of the Convention. Both of these institutions, of course, target males close to 100 percent of the time."
Here is the article and other case studies of international targeting of men for gender specific mass murder."