Article here. Excerpt:

'Overwhelmingly, both disciplines adhere to a specific form of feminism that was labeled “gender feminism” by Christina Hoff Sommers, author of The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men. As Sommers observed, “somewhere along the line, conventional masculinity became politically incorrect. In some circles, it's treated as a pathology in need of a cure.”

A foundational premise of gender feminism (and thus a premise of Men’s Studies) is that male culture or “the patriarchy” oppresses women through institutions such as the free market and through dynamics such as the social construction of gender identity. Gender is considered to be a social creation, not a biological one, and traditional masculinity is seen as inherently abusive to women.
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Whatever the truth of the politics, Male Studies is not going away quietly or soon. A second conference is scheduled for April 6 the New York Academy of Medicine. An academic journal is in the offing: Male Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal will be launched in 2011.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'The human papillomavirus is a man's issue.

That's undeniable after Monday's release of a new report that revealed that half of American men might be infected with human papillomavirus . Until then, HPV was thought by most to be a woman’s virus because it causes cervical cancer. That was never true; HPV, which is spread through sexual contact, should always have been as much a male concern as a female concern.
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The vaccines, a miracle of cancer prevention, were approved for females and everyone breathed a sigh of relief. When they were approved for boys and men ages 9-26, the news was largely met with “Why bother? Women can get the vaccination.” Now, though, it’s obvious to everyone that HPV is a male issue, too. So get vaccinated or if you are the parent of a boy, have him vaccinated (parents of girls should have them vaccinated too, of course).'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Author Suzanne Venker doesn’t think the feminist movement liberated women.

In fact, she thinks the movement has sabotaged American women’s happiness. Venker writes “according to a 2007 report from the National Bureau of Economic Research, as women have gained more freedom, more education, and more power, they have become less happy.”
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The saddest part of this misguided view of human nature is that it hasn’t made women any happier. In fact, it has done just the opposite. According to a 2007 report from the National Bureau of Economic Research, “As women have gained more freedom, more education, and more power, they have become less happy."'

Kay Hymowitz, author of "Manning Up: Has The Rise Of Women Turned Men Into Boys?" offers her judgments about young men in this interview. She praises the recent advances women have made relative to men. Then she condemns and shames young men which, she says, aren't "grown up" until they are on their own, making the big bucks, married, and having children. In this humble contributor's estimation, what she's saying is "if men aren't doing what women want them to, i.e., following the female dream scenario, then they aren't grown up." I say that these young men are doing what makes the most sense, given the hostile legal and social environment surrounding dating and marriage. More specifically, young men are going their own way, and not doing what the women want them to do. So I receive this interview as a complaint about the fact that men aren't supporting women like they used to do... and women don't like it. Excerpt:

This is a response to the consultation questions on page 80 of the government White Paper Healthy Lives, Healthy People: Our strategy for public health in England.

The deadline for submissions is 31 March 2011 1600 GMT.

This submission can be made by anybody from any country around the world.

There are two options for making submissions.

Option 1.

Download and save the Word document from the following link (Select 'NO' when prompted to upgrade to RapidPro, click 'Slow Download' on the left and then click 'Download Now!'):

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Open the Word document, type your name and email address (optional) in the appropriate fields, save and close the document. Email the Word document to publichealthengland@dh.gsi.gov.uk with the subject heading "Public Health White Paper Response".

Via email:

Our Second Annual International Conference on Male Studies: Looking Forward to Solutions is only 16 days away, and there's just one week left for the early registration discount.

There has never been any better reason to register right now:

1. You can be a part of a global conglomerate - participants from 16 universities - organizations and individuals, professionals and students - from countries including Germany, Australia, Canada, France, United Kingdom, Italy, India and the U.S.

2. Learn from a team of renowned experts about the problems boys and men face today, and how to stop the trend of lower accomplishment in school, higher suicide and incarceration rates, an anti-mail biased legal system, an international media that shames and belittles boys and men - and what these visionaries are doing and recommend doing to make our society better for both genders.

Link to article here. Excerpt:

'A US sports store worker who told police she was raped and beaten in a robbery in which her co-worker was killed has been charged over the violent attack.

Brittany Norwood, 28, was arrested on Saturday and will appear in court today over the death of Jayna Murray, whose body was found out the back of a Lulemon Athletica store in Bethesda, a small town just northeast of Washington DC.

Norwood, 28, had portrayed herself as another victim in the robbery-turned-murder, telling police that two masked men entered the shop after it closed on March 11.'

This editorial states the obvious: if men are doing it, it must be bad.

"Seventy percent of Colorado's registered users are men, a sign that the state's culture of pot use has little to do with medicine."

Men are nefarious liars who obviously are using medical marijuana for something other than pain. The possibility men may end up in chronic pain more often than women is not even explored. We all know men are just plain bad.

Article here. Excerpt:

'At the gilded gates of a colonial mansion in China's seaside city of Qingdao, giggling young couples pose for snapshots, craning their necks to peer in at the sumptuous grounds and gossip about the scandalous liaisons of the female billionaire who lived there.

'I think she's amazing,' says 24-year-old legal secretary Yan Lili, who made a trip after reading Li Wei's story on the internet.

'She has proved that women can have real power in China as well as men.'

Like many Chinese tycoons hailed as establishment role models, Li Wei has risen from a penniless background to unimaginable wealth. Indeed, she is the most unlikely of heroines for at least three reasons.

I haven't yet come across a job listing on Craigslist for a networking specialist that requires the applicant to be a young man. But one cosmetic surgeon in Dallas, TX openly states that the position can only be filled by a young woman.

http://dallas.craigslist.org/dal/etc/2273453884.html

"Dallas cosmetic surgeon/ Med Spa Medical Director needs a part time assistant for office as well as personal assistance. Our atmosphere and type of clientele requires the applicant to be an attractive and polished young lady with a professional and sweet demeanor."

Submitted by Gogonostop

Article here. Excerpt:

'Children as young as four are being given Ritalin-style medication for behavioural problems in breach of NHS guidelines, the Guardian has discovered, prompting the leading psychological society to call for a national review.
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There are no reliable figures for how many children under six have been given Ritalin. But Professor Tim Kendall, joint director of the National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health, who chaired the Nice guideline committee, confirmed that he had heard reliable reports of children in nursery and pre-school being prescribed medication unnecessarily, and that it was often parents who were putting pressure on GPs. He said: "There are two reasons why parents go shopping for a diagnosis. The first is to improve their child's performance at school, and the second is to get access to benefits. There are always GPs that will do it, but it's wrong to give a child a diagnosis without also consulting schools and teachers."

Article here. Excerpt:

'STANTON, Ky. — The arrest of a Croatian woman in small-town Kentucky for alleged war crimes two decades ago in the former Yugoslavia "brings her long run from justice to an end," a U.S. marshal said.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert E. Wier ordered that Azra Basic, 52, be held without bond pending an April 1 status hearing and appointed her a lawyer.
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As a soldier in the Croatian army, she killed a prisoner and tortured others by forcing them to drink human blood and gasoline, authorities said.
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Court documents accuse her of numerous other atrocities, including: Setting a prisoner ablaze, pulling out prisoners' fingernails with pliers, ripping off a man's ear with pliers and carving crosses and the letter "S" into another man's flesh.'

This is from the comments section of "Illegal Guardians." A link would be better but the comment is too hard to find amid all the others. But I think it's a classic compilation of male/female 2x standards:

Men seeking equal treatment = “backlash”
Women seeking equal treatment = “feminism”
Discrimination against men = “equal opportunity”
Discrimination against women = “discrimination”
A woman with grievances = “victim”
A man with grievances = “angry”
Open discussion of gender issues = “misogyny”
Men looking for equal treatment in the courts = “abuse”

Article here.

'After hundreds of hours investigating an abduction and rape from the Goshen College campus in January, officers now say the victim fabricated the story.'

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Ed.: Also see here.

Story here. Excerpt:

'The innocent man who was wrongly imprisoned for nearly four years because of false rape charges is now suing the city for his ordeal. William McCaffery is seeking $20 million in compensatory damages, as well as another $10 million for what he calls "conduct...so outrageous as to exceed the bounds of all common and civilized decency."