Article here. Excerpt:

'Fathers still have the odds stacked against them when it comes to custody battles in the family court system, but are warring parents forgetting what and who they are fighting for?
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When Paul returned home from a six-month tour of duty in Afghanistan, he found his key no longer fitted his front door.

"My wife had changed the locks on the house I was paying the mortgage on, and my kids were inside with her new bloke," he said. "I can't tell you what I felt, trying to make sense of it all. It was a bad dream. She had a lawyer lined up to talk about money and they seemed stunned when I said I wanted contact.

"I had kids because I wanted to be a dad. I am a dad, not a sperm donor."

His little boys were then aged three and 18 months. He hasn't seen them for almost two years and struggles on with his legal battle.'

Article here. Well I doubt we shall see the very last of her any time soon, but the perilous edge on which the UK teetered it seems has been (at least for now) if not avoided, then delayed. Excerpt:

'It took her 30 years to get to the top of the Labour Party but, after just 137 days, her reign is over. Harriet Harman took a final wander through the grand rooms accorded to the Leader of the Opposition in Parliament last week, looking almost wistfully at the view across the Thames, before vacating in preparation for the arrival of the new Labour leader. She will return to the other end of the shadow cabinet table with her colleagues next month, but at least she will have the consolation of having reached the top of a particularly treacherous career ladder.'

Announced on A Voice for Men here. Excerpt:

'Our good friend Bernard Chapin has come up with a plan for some real activism. A men’s voting block. It is such a good idea that I really can’t imagine why no one has done this before. Here is the Inferno-meister himself to explain it, and a link to the Facebook page under the vid.'

Story here. Well, good for her! Can a boy at that high school run on the girl's track team, too? Excerpt:

'She didn't make a tackle, or even break up a pass. Still, Northwestern (Fla.) High School's Jaline DeJesus made history in the Miami school's 38-12 victory over Hialeah Miami Lakes on Thursday night, becoming the first girl to play in a game for one of the top-ranked teams in Florida's highest division, 6A. In fact, Northwestern stacks up well with the best programs in the entire country, too; the Bulls are currently ranked No. 71 in the RivalsHigh 100.

Article here. Excerpt:

'The men’s movement has long carried with it a strong undercurrent of frustration. We lack organization, have made all but inconsequential progress on the political and legal fronts, and remain on the outside of an impenetrable wall around the mainstream media. Countless times the ambitions of MRA’s start up in a flash and falter as just as quickly. Uncle Zed himself has dubbed our tendency to undermine any emergent leaders, and each other, as The Circular Firing Squad.

In other words, we are doing just fine, thank you very much.

From Abusegate Bob:

This flyer was distributed to all 435 Representatives and 100 Senators on Capitol Hill on 9/23/10. The flyer highlights the fact that mandatory arrest policies in 20 states are the cause of 600 intimate partner homicides each year.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Men, according to conventional wisdom, are stubbornly unwilling to apologize. Countless pop psychology books have referenced this reluctance, explaining that our egos are too fragile to admit we’re wrong, or we’re oblivious to important nuances of social interaction.

Sorry to disrupt that lovely feeling of superiority, ladies, but newly published research suggests such smug explanations miss the mark. Writing in the journal Psychological Science, University of Waterloo psychologists Karina Schumann and Michael Ross report that men are, indeed, less likely to say “I’m sorry.” But they’re also less likely to take offense and expect an apology from someone else.'

Article here. Excerpt:

There was a time when middle-class families would prioritise their son’s education over their daughter’s. After all, a well-brought-up young lady from a good family could marry well, while her brother would be expected to provide for his own family. It’s a tradition most people would assume had long since died out, yet, as the Daily Mail discovered, many modern parents with limited funds are choosing to buy their boy’s education, while putting their girl through the state system.
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Psychologist Tim Francis says: ‘In the state sector, we have a culture of conformity that does not exist in the private sector. The National Curriculum decrees that all pupils progress at the same level and suppresses individuality and “boisterousness”.

Article here. Excerpt:

Can men and women ever compete fairly in a sport like running? Yes, but it requires a little bit of maths know-how. "What time did you get?" It is the first question runners ask of each other when the race is over. But is it the right question? You see, distance running is unfair.

Men experience this unfairness as they get older. Ten miles into a half-marathon, older men can only struggle on with growing irritation as younger men - men who would not have stood a chance against them in their prime - sail past. For women, the feeling of injustice comes as soon as we start racing.

Story here. Excerpt:

'There now are more collegiate rifle teams for women than there are for men. More schools offer women’s equestrian teams than men’s water polo teams. Quinnipiac has seven sports for men and 14 for women. UCLA has a swimming team for women but not for men.
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To achieve gender equity amid enrollment shifts and reduced revenue, colleges have been chopping men’s sports, with at least half a dozen on the endangered list and a couple facing extinction.

“Every April, you hear about the spring slaughter,’’ said Minnesota men’s gymnastics coach Mike Burns, whose program is one of 17 remaining in a sport that numbered 124 in 1972.
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With female students now outnumbering males at most schools and the number of big-roster football programs rising from 497 in 1981 to 633, colleges are finding it more difficult to keep their programs in balance. In 2006, James Madison, which has a 60-40 female-male ratio, dropped 10 sports, including women’s gymnastics, fencing, and archery.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Virginia put to death a 41-year-old woman Thursday night, the first execution of a female in the country in five years and the first in that state for nearly a century.
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Legal scholars attribute the "gender bias" in executions to women's lower propensity to kill and the tendency of those who do to kill a husband, lover or child in the heat of emotion, seldom with the "aggravating factors" states require for a death sentence. Lewis pleaded guilty to having arranged the killings to collect $250,000 in insurance money on her stepson.

"The way capital punishment statutes are written inadvertently favor women. They make it a worse crime if a homicide is committed during a felony, like robbery or rape, which are rarely involved in women's homicides," said Victor Streib, a Northern Ohio University law professor who has spent 30 years researching condemned women. "It's also easier to convince a jury that women suffer emotional distress or other emotional problems more than men."'

Article here. Excerpt:

"Every major non-geological disaster in history has been man-made, from climate change to the credit crunch and from warfare to genocide.

"Men's denial of vulnerability and the need to consume and acquire are intricately connected."

Masculinity, argues Jukes, is like an illness acquired in early boyhood. It is, he believes, built on a 'fault' created during the Oedipal crisis and is hugely destructive.

"It is like two sides of a divide. One side is a boy's relationship with his mother, and later the pressure not to be so deeply attached to the mother because it is seen as feminising.
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"Maleness and masculinity are not the same thing. Masculinity is a psychological, socially based construct whereas maleness is a biological given," he says.

Article here. Excerpt:

'We've arrived at another crossroads," declares Newsweek — and this one represents a crisis for masculinity. As the magazine's current cover story asserts, "The prevailing codes of manhood have yet to adjust to the changing demands on men." With this cover story dedicated to "rethinking" masculinity, Newsweek launches itself into a very relevant cultural conversation.

"Man Up!" is the message the magazine conveys on its cover, though by the time a reader actually reads the article, he or she may be forgiven for having little idea of what this means. If, indeed, the traditional male is "an endangered species," where does this leave men?

Article here. Excerpt:

Article here. Excerpt:

'Some bad ideas never die. On Tuesday, during Senate debate, Majority Leader Harry Reid announced that, “I’m going to do my utmost to see if we can find a way to have a vote on the Paycheck Fairness Act. It is so fair to do that, to do a better job of equalizing pay between men and women when they do the same work. It seems fairly basic and fair.”

Senator Reid has apparently not read the bill. In addition to the 2009 “Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act,” this latest Democratic pre-election pandering to the trial lawyers and some women’s organizations is creating an administrative and legal nightmare for any employer trying to manage his or her workforce. It could totally upend criteria for hiring and setting pay. What do President Obama and the Democrats consider “unfair” about paying workers more if they have more experience, more education, or specific skills?