The Core Values of Feminism and Christopher Kilmartin and the Frozen Vagina. Excerpts:

'With this piece I take you close to the edge without dropping off. I take you as close as I can to feminist thought while still having a brain left to think with. Won’t you come with me on a tour of this haunted mansion, the feminist cranium? I don’t pretend to have distilled feminist thought in its entirety. You’ll notice that many of these bleed together, but like the female mind, things aren’t so distinct and separate.'

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'Kilmartin, the real postmodern man among men, lays out the plain, simple and unassailable facts as only a men’s studies scholar could, or would. He writes,

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'Unspecified psychological studies or evaluations have been ordered for a jailed father who, in violation of the procedures of the government-run social services that instructed police officers to abduct his then-7-year-old son because he was being homeschooled, took him home for a visit.

Details are sketchy about the local court hearing, held just before Christmas, in the Gotland, Sweden, case involving Christer Johansson, but a Swedish broadcast station website reveals that Johansson is accused of kidnapping or unlawful detention for the Thanksgiving week incident in which he took his son, now 9, with him following a social services-supervised visit.
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Government authorities then awarded custody of Domenic to social services because he was being homeschooled, and he has been allowed visits with his parents only about once every five weeks since.'

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'A Camden County, N.J., woman was in police custody Saturday charged with setting her boyfriend on fire on New Year's Eve.

Richard King Jr. was in stable condition in a Philadelphia burn center after a blanket he was using was set on fire, local newspaper the Courier-Post reported.

Police in Audubon, Pa., said Pamela Rozzelle, 50, was charged with second-degree aggravated arson and second-degree aggravated assault.

Rozzelle told police she could not find her car keys and tried to wake King, who was asleep on a couch. Rozzelle said she then lit a cigarette and a match fell onto a blanket that covered King, which in turn lit on fire, according to the report.'

http://www.cleaningforareason.org/

I guess men don't get cancer. What is up with these women-only deals?

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'PHOENIX – The daughter of a county supervisor has been arrested on suspicion of sexual misconduct with the same teenage boy that her mother is accused of sexually abusing over a three-year period, police said Thursday.

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'A family acquaintance has been charged with capital murder in the case of Jonathan Foster, a 12-year-old Texas boy last seen Christmas Eve before a burned body believed to be his was found Tuesday, according to local media reports.

Mona Yvette Nelson, 44, an acquaintance of Foster's family, was named a person of interest early Wednesday and questioned by police, ABC News station KTRK in Houston reported. The Harris County, Texas, District Attorney's Office later told KTRK that it had accepted capital murder charges against Nelson.
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"The body ... is that of a child, but it was so badly burned that we can't determine the gender or identification," Houston Police Department spokesman Kese Smith told ABCNews.com. "The Medical Examiner's office has that unfortunate task to determine, and until that happens, we are treating these two incidents as separate cases.'

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'Female child abusers are the 21st century equivalent of lesbians in the Victorian age: not legislated against because they do not exist. The nature of woman being incapable of “deviancy”, as the bigoted Victorians said. Hence in New Zealand, the Accident Compensation Corporation was unable to accept claims from boys sexually abused by women, until the law changed in 2005. Prior to that the perpetrator of “sexual indecency” had to be male.

However, statistics indicate that female child abusers not only exist, but in numbers approaching those of males. In New Zealand, 48 per cent of child abusers for 2006, where the perpetrator gender was known, were women. In the USA in 2002 63 per cent of all child abuse, from neglect to sexual abuse, was perpetrated by the mother. In 40 per cent of cases the mother acted alone.

From SAVE:

TEPA Accreditation Program Promotes Evidence-Based Policy and Practice

Our nation’s decades-long effort to curb domestic violence rests on the three-legged stool of criminal justice programs, shelter services, and training, education, and public awareness. Criminal justice programs and shelters are already monitored by a variety of regulatory and professional oversight bodies.

But how do we know that abuse information that is disseminated to police officers, judges, and the general public is accurate, unbiased, and up-to-date? Philip Cook, author of Abused Men, believes “there is more false, falsely famed, or disingenuously deceptive information about domestic violence than another other significant public and social issue.”

Article here. Not just the libraries, but police depts., too. And guess what-- seems all the perps are men and portrayed as, you guessed it, relatives and friends. No mention at all of aunts, sisters, or female teachers. Excerpt:

'A new video coming to libraries statewide shows the faces of four sex predators, men who became nightmares for parents after winning their trust and access to their children.

While parents fear strangers, trusted acquaintances are almost always the culprits, said Tina Stanford, narrator and director of state Office of Victim Services.

"As a former prosecutor and crime victim advocate who has dealt with sex offenders and seen the impact of their crimes on their victims, none of footage in this video surprises me," she said.

Based on reported crime data, the FBI estimates one-quarter of U.S. children are molested, and about one-third of the victims will report it, but on average 15 years after the abuse occurred.'

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'Hmm. Let me humbly offer one: it’s really about civil-military relations, not military culture or raison d’etre per se. A post-masculinized military, as I imagine it, would differ from the system she’s critiquing not in its ability to use violence (in other words, I don’t share Laura’s view, finally, that it would look like a ‘cross between the peace corps and a chain gang.’) And it would not merely be constituted by who is in the military or what kind of masculinity the military privileges in its soldiers (though these things matter). More significantly, one would know a post-masculinized military system by the character of the military’s relationship to the civilian world it serves. And I would argue with Sjoberg that there is further (beneficial) work to do, but also that we are heading in the right direction faster that she might acknowledge.'

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'The Atlantic Ballet's latest production is an effort to raise awareness about domestic abuse.

Susan Chalmers-Gauvin, CEO of the Moncton, N.B.-based ballet company, says Ghosts of Violence will be on tour across the country.

"The most shocking statistic, I think, is the fact that the largest number of women killed are under the age of 25 years, so we really would like to be able to reach out to that younger demographic," said Chalmers-Gauvin.'

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'It's time for those of us who are good men to start acknowledging the role that male socialization plays in domestic and sexual violence. As good men, we must begin to acknowledge and own our responsibility to be part of the solution to ending violence against women and girls.

What is a good man?

A good man is a man who believes women should be respected. A good man would not assault a woman. A good man believes in equality for women. A good man honors the women in his life. A good man, for all practical purposes, is a nice guy. We believe this to be the majority of men.'

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'In a recent interview, Julian Assange joined defenders who have blamed feminism, writ large, for his recent sexual assault charges, saying that he "fell into a hornets' nest of revolutionary feminism." He added that one of the women who claims that she was sexually assaulted by him took a "trophy photo" of him lying naked in her bed (so clearly, she's a liar).
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It doesn't take a "revolutionary feminist" (who clearly want to castrate all men, starting with Assange) to see that there is a difference between flirting and wearing a revealing sweater and consenting to unprotected sex, or even between enthusiastically participating in protected sex the night before and objecting to being forced into a much riskier form of intercourse in the morning. Assange claims that the two women became angry when one contacted the other and found out that he had slept with both of them, but their anger is justified, since he had had unprotected sex with both of them.'

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'Indianapolis — Teen Mom Amber Portwood is out of jail but not out of trouble. The MTV reality star spent Monday night in the Madison County Jail and faces charges of domestic battery and child neglect.

Anderson police started investigating 20-year-old Portwood after video of her hitting her boyfriend aired on MTV. The network handed over raw footage to Anderson Police as part of the investigation. The video shows Portwood hitting Gary Shirley, the baby's father, several times.

Police arrested Portwood Monday in Anderson on two counts of felony domestic battery and one count of felony child neglect, because one of the alleged attacks happened in front of their daughter Leah.'

Related: Teen Mom Amber Portwood: MTV Made Me Hit Gary!

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'WASHINGTON — When Adele Freeman fired five .38-caliber bullets into her boyfriend in 2000, she contributed to an often-overlooked statistic within the sometimes-deadly world of partner abuse: namely, that more than one-third of all homicides each year connected to domestic violence are perpetrated by women.
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The fact of female abusers and male victims is often lost in the discussion of domestic violence. In fact, women's advocates have used selective statistics — the same federally funded survey that found women are equally as abusive to men — to bolster their plea for funding and services.

That absence of attention to the men's side of the coin has contributed to an imbalance of services for men who are victimized in abusive relationships.'