This column discusses the syphilis experiments conducted on the Tuskegee Airmen and on Guatemalan prisoners. In Tuskegee, researchers deliberately withheld treatment from black airmen known to have syphilis. In Guatemala, researchers deliberately infected male prisoners with syphilis and then treated it in hopes of determining the effectiveness of the cure.

In both experiments, the subjects were men. As Warren Farrell points out, it's easy to recognize the racism of conducting illicit medical experiments on black airmen--but it's easy to miss the sexism.

Feminists have often complained women were left out of medical experiments, citing this as proof we don't care enough about women. The truth is just the opposite: we leave women out because we care more about women than men. The columnist who wrote this piece is, I believe, a feminist--but she voices no complaints about the lack of women as test subjects.

Link to story here. Excerpt:

'A 31-year-old Ohio woman has admitted to posing as a teenage boy so she could date a teenage girl, pleading guilty to misdemeanor sexual imposition.

A prosecutor's spokesman says Patricia Dye also pleaded guilty on Wednesday to misdemeanor attempted sexual imposition and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

A judge in Warren County Juvenile Court in Lebanon sentenced Dye to six months in jail.
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Dye's lawyer says Dye feels remorse and has learned from the experience.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'PHOENIX, Arizona, October 4. IT is time for a change. Specifically, Title IX needs to be changed. Unfortunately, the wrongs that Title IX set out to right 38 years ago are now being inflicted on our sons. While this particular forum is focused on swimming, you could easily substitute many other sports that are suffering the same fate.

The factual evidence is quite compelling. I believe the reason there is not a greater outcry, is that people are just not aware of the situation. But the time has come for some righteous indignation about what is happening to our sons.

Link to story here In full:

'A new clinic opens at the Royal Women's Hospital this week, providing services to reverse acts of female circumcision.

A landmark de-infibulation clinic opens at the Royal Women's Hospital this Friday.

The clinic provides a discreet half-day procedure to reverse female circumcision - commonly known as Female Genital Mutilation - or just simply FGM.

Richelle Hunt takes an exclusive tour through the facility just as it prepares to open for service, speaking to Dr Khai Mohhammed-Noor, who is responsible for developing this Australian-first service.

For more information about this service, call the Women's Health Information Centre on 8345 3037 and ask to be referred to the FARREP Program.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'An American toddler is back living at home with his mother after she and her boyfriend were jailed for duct taping him to a wall.

The 22-month old boy was originally placed in the custody of the US state of Nebraska after photos emerged of the abuse.

But the boy has now been put back in the custody of his 18-year-old mother Jayla Hamm, ABC News reports.'

An anonymous submission mentioned "The Leadership Council", a group I never heard of before, and very generically-named at that. I Googled the phrase and discovered such a group indeed exists and is working to discredit FRAs' efforts around PAS issues, among other things. The PAS-related page is here. From their Mission page:

'The Leadership Council is a nonprofit independent scientific organization composed of respected scientists, clinicians, educators, legal scholars, journalists, and public policy analysts.
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Goals
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- To correct misinformation on psychological science used to serve vested interests or used as evidence in important cases affecting legal rights related to mental health issues.
- To improve coordination among professionals, develop guidelines, encourage research, further interdisciplinary professional education, and provide guidance, support, and encouragement for professionals in the field of traumatic studies.'

Alert here. Excerpt:

'Short Version: A new national Associated Press article covers the heated debate over Parental Alienation. We want you to write a letter to the DSM committee explaining that Parental Alienation is very real and needs to be taken seriously by our family courts–to do so, click here. Also, please write a Letter to the Editor concerning the AP article–click here and choose the email address of the appropriate newspaper(s).

Action Alert–We Want Your Participation

Article here. Excerpt:

'In a recently published study in the journal Addiction, researchers from Bowling Green State University report evidence of an association between father’s incarceration and substantially elevated risks for illegal drug use in adolescence and early adulthood.

Story here. Excerpt:

'The blonde girl who was filmed hurling puppies into a river to drown will not face animal cruelty charges, furious animal rights campaigners have announced.

Police in Bugojna, Bosnia, have dropped plans to prosecute the youngster because they say she is not old enough to face court.

The decision was revealed by angry animal rights campaigners PETA in Germany, today (Tuesday).

They say local police and animal care groups claim all the pups were rescued from the fast flowing Vbras river by an onlooker.

But PETA spokeswoman Nadja Kutscher said: "This is outrageous. The puppies that the old woman was with were completely different ones to those thrown into the river in the video.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'ATLANTA- A year ago, after 20 years of marriage, my ex-wife falsely accused me of striking her. I didn't touch her.

As a result of her lie, I have experienced arrest, incarceration, conviction, and loss of freedom. I am penniless and lived in my car for three months. I ate out of trash cans.

I now have temporary accommodation courtesy of a Veteran's Administration program for homeless men. I am 44-years-old.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'PHOENIX - The Sojourner Center celebrated the grand opening of its newest campus for victims of domestic violence Saturday.

The Phoenix campus is a transitional facility, designed to help women get back out on their own by living in a community setting.

The campus houses 29 one, two and three bedroom apartments and a clubhouse in a gated complex.

“This brings everything together so the women can really create that sense of community, a real neighborhood where neighbors help neighbors, and women look after each other,” said Connie Phillips, Executive Director of Sojourner Center.'

Article here, as follows:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqfp2aKj02w

According to an email I received these PSAs are running in Georgia. I've written to every TV station there informing them that these PSAs are not accurate. If you'd like to do the same, here are some of the addresses (the rest had fill-in forms on their websites).

Claim: Abusive fathers are successful in winning sole child custody about 70% of the time.

Analysis: This figure appears to be an embellishment of a claim in a 1989 report by the Gender Bias Committee of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court which claimed that in 70% of cases, fathers (not abusive fathers) were successful in winning some form of child custody, though not necessarily physical custody or sole custody.

Article here. This is an article I found interesting. There are women fighting for this cause as well. I am one of them. Excerpt:

'Do Men Really have Equal Rights?

It is a question I really never thought of until recently. It was just last week, in fact, that I was sitting in a court room waiting for my 18 year old son’s hearing to end. He was taken to court to pay child support for a child he did not want and did not agree to have, who he was, in fact, tricked into fathering by a dishonest young woman. Unfortunately, he was the "winner" of the paternity test (We were told it could have been one of three boys). I told my son he wasn’t a winner at all, because being the winner of the DNA test he just lost everything that he doesn’t even have yet.

Thanks for bringing attention to "She Fears You."

Here's the latest--see top headline at http://www.thefire.org/

Adam Kissel

Story here. Excerpt:

'Once virtually unheard of in the public system, single-sex schools such as University Prep are becoming more common as educators look for new ways to help students learn and to bridge the achievement gap between white and minority students. In 1996, there were just three single-sex public schools in the United States. Now, more than 540 public schools have at least one single-sex classroom, and about 100 cater exclusively to one gender.

The growth follows a wave of research that suggests boys and girls learn differently, and that educators can tap into those differences to help students do better academically. The model is becoming popular in urban school districts such as Rochester, which have struggled for years to help students — particularly African-American boys who tend to lag behind their female classmates — do better.