Article here. Excerpt:

'Maryville, Mo. — Peg Tyre — who had made something of a career out of studying how schools deal with, and sometimes fail, their boy students — spoke to a full house Wednesday evening at the Ron Houston Center for the Performing Arts as part of Northwest's Ploghoft Lecture Series.
...
Tyre said as she began wondering about a perceived failure of many boys to do well in school, she decided to go to the data. She noted that boys are expelled from school five times more often than girls, and that, as a group, exhibit a far higher number of behavioral problems.

"From the data, I found that 70 percent of special education students are boys," she said.

"Girls typically make As and Bs while boys make Cs and Ds. Boys do less homework. Boys are more apt to be involved in violent activities. The difference we see between boys and girls now will affect how kids live their lives now and in the future."

Story here. Excerpt:

'DUNCAN, OK -- A former school band instructor is accused of having a sexual relationship with a student. The female instructor was arrested Thursday night in Marshall County and was brought back to Stephens County the next day. Court records allege the relationship started in 2008 and lasted about a year and a half. The band instructor resigned her position last May.

Friday afternoon, Stephens County deputies picked up Christyn Raincrow, a former band instructor at Empire Public Schools.

She was charged with second-degree rape by instrumentation and forcible sodomy of a 17-year-old female student.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'A woman accused of filing a false rape claim is expected to appear in an Orange County courtroom today.

Emily Marie Riker, 21, of Orlando, told a security guard at a convenience store in June that someone had pulled her into a vehicle and raped her, but deputies said her story was inconsistent and did not match the physical evidence.

She faces charges of filing a false claim to a law-enforcement officer.

Riker later said she lied because she was angry with the man she had been with, according to the Orange County Sheriff's Office.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'LAST week the Perth District Court imposed a Muslim cultural practice on a group of non-Muslim men.

Judge Shauna Deane told the men - all journalists - to leave her court so a Muslim woman could feel free to give evidence in a fraud trial without wearing her niqab.

Deane had earlier ruled that Tasneem, whose last name has been suppressed, had to remove her face-covering veil so the jury could read her face as well as hear her words.

But the male journalists were ejected, despite applications from the Seven, Nine and Ten networks to let them stay.

No doubt Deane thought this a fair compromise. Tasneem's Muslim beliefs - in this case, that a woman not show her face to men outside her family - were infringed upon only to the extent required for justice to operate fairly.

Male jurors could see her, but male journalists not.

But what of traditional Australian values? What of a man's right to see justice being done? To report it? To be free of sexual discrimination at work?'

Article here. Excerpt:

'The American male has lately been undergoing an identity crisis: there’s the clearly self-conscious Men’s Rights movement, a shifting economy in which women are tops, and the optimal male has been brought down to size. And that’s okay. This gender-bending upheaval should be an opportunity to expand the definition of not only a good “man,” but what it means to be a good person.

Apology, responsibility, honesty, these attributes and more are part of what make an exemplary human, that perhaps Utopian character we — I hope — all hope to emulate. Surely playing on a man’s male vanity can work in some situations, like telling a man to take care of his child, but such tactics should be used sparingly, because accountability isn’t about masculinity. It’s about being an adult.

Article here. Excerpt:

'WASHINGTON, DC – Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), Chair of the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee (JEC) and a senior member of the House Financial Services Committee, applauded the Administration’s newly-released report, “Jobs and Economic Security for America’s Women,” prepared by the National Economic Council (NEC).

“Women’s economic equity and success are integral to getting our economy thriving again,” said Rep. Maloney. “But as this report and the work of the Joint Economic Committee have pointed out, we still have significant challenges.”'

Article here. Excerpt:

'President Obama continued his final major campaign push before the midterms with events in Seattle and San Francisco on Thursday.

Accompanied by women who own businesses, Obama spoke in one family's backyard about the economy's effects on women, and outlined ways he said his policies have helped them, such as the first piece of legislation he signed –- the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.

"Things like equal pay for equal work aren't just women's issues, they're middle-class family issues," he said. "Because how well women do will help determine how well middle-class families do as a whole."'

From A Voice For Men, here. Excerpt:

'David Futrelle of the blog Manboobz has agreed to enter a debate on the subject of domestic violence with me here at A Voice for Men. Since Mr. Futrelle maintains a blog in which he asserts that MRA’s have pretty much everything wrong, and in which he specifically claims he will, concerning MRA’s, “dismantle their rickety logic and dubious statistics,” it should follow that he will do just that on the subject of DV, starting right now.

During the brief negotiations it was decided that my excellent centerpiece article on domestic violence, and the research it was based on, will serve as the object of his dissent. For readers convenience I am posting the video version of that article and the research links here as well.'

Article here. Except:

'1968 Playboy Playmate of the Year Angela Dorian has been charged with attempted murder after she allegedly shot her boyfriend from close range in their Hollywood apartment Saturday night, TMZ has learned.

66-year-old Dorian -- aka Victoria Rathgeb -- aka Victoria Vetri -- (currently 5'5", 110 lbs) was arrested late Saturday night -- and is still behind bars. Bail has been set at $1,000,000.

Law enforcement sources tell us ... they believe Dorian and her BF were having an argument that turned physical -- and that's when Dorian grabbed a handgun and fired at least one shot into her boyfriend's upper body.'

Article here.

'DALLAS -- A Dallas woman accused of throwing her two children from a freeway overpass and then jumping off the 20-foot-high span has been found not guilty by reason of insanity.

A judge in Dallas ruled Thursday in the trial of Khandi Busby, who was charged with attempted murder and injury to a child. The judge then ordered her to spend roughly 30 days in a state mental institution, MyFoxDFW.com reports.

Investigators say the boys were ages 6 and 8 when they were injured after being thrown from the highway overpass on March 12, 2008. They were treated and placed in foster care, where they remain.

Defense attorney David Pire says Busby felt God had told her to throw her sons off the bridge to protect them from Satan.

Relatives say Busby is bipolar and had stopped taking her medication.'

Page here.

Organized by The Anti-Feminist Interest Group (IGAF, Interessengemeinschaft Antifeminismus)
English-translated announcement here

Media:
"It´s a historical moment"
Interview with Ulf Andersson from PappaRättsGruppen, translated, here
and
"The Anti-feminists are charging", translated, here.

From an F&F newsletter here. Excerpt:

'This year Fathers and Families led the passage of seven different family law bills nationwide, as Governor Schwarzenegger recently signed the remaining three California F & F bills. F & F was also instrumental in helping defeat three harmful bills. The seven bills we were instrumental in passing include:

1. Alimony Reform (CA. SB 1482): Parents who face alimony increases after their child support ends will now be able to demand a vocational examination for their ex-spouses, and judges are required to calculate alimony based on the examiner’s estimate of the ex-spouse’s earning capacity.'

Supplied by a reader, file available for download here. Heck in some states, it's durned near anything!

Blog entry here. Excerpt:

'The National Economic Council released a report today (“Jobs and Economic Security for America’s Women”) “on the impact of the recession on women and how the Obama administration’s economic policies benefit American women. The report lays out the economic landscape facing women today and details some of the many ways the administration is committed to making sure the government is working for all Americans especially American women.”

And yet, measured by job losses and unemployment rates, it was men, not women, who suffered such a hugely disproportionate share of the economic hardship of the last recession—such that it is now frequently referred to as the “Great Mancession.” In a statement last June to a House Ways and Means Subcommittee based on my report “The Great Mancession of 2008-2009,” I testified that “there has probably never been a previous recession in U.S. history where the negative effects of unemployment and job losses fell so disproportionately on one gender.”'

On "A Voice For Men", here. Please enjoy the comments.