Article here. Excerpt:

'Steve Niro got married in 1981 at age 23 and divorced less than five years later. At the time of the divorce, he and his wife were in their late 20s, and both were working. Niro remarried nearly 15 years ago, but he’s still paying his alimony.

Two years ago, Niro’s youngest son graduated from college, ending child support payments and leaving his former wife with alimony of $65 a week. “The next thing I know, I get summonsed to court for alimony adjustment,’’ he says. A probate court judge increased the alimony to $700 a week even though the couple had divorced nearly a quarter of a century ago — five times longer than they were married.

I am happy to see a site that helps Men to improve their lives. I am a woman, wife and mother of both a boy and a girl. I believe in equal rights for everybody. I also believe that we are born with what nature intended for us to have. When I was pregnant with my son, I was asked if I would have him circumcised. I researched the procedure and found absolutely no proven benefit to cutting a male's foreskin. I did however find many proven potential side effects of cutting, from increased sensitivity to pain, infection, amputation to death! After researching the matter, my husband and I agreed that it would be sick to have our son's perfect anatomy mutilated for no reason. I am writing this to create some more awareness of this very important Male-Rights issue. It's time people started to think about their Sons' health and well being and choose to protect their sons from unnecessary genital mutilation.
I am a Proud Mother of a Healthy, Happy, Intact Boy!

If you're a pro-equality MRA (male or female), and able to attend a weekly brainstorming meeting in Central London on a Tuesday evening for two hours, we would like to hear from you - our mission: To manufacture the ultimate MRA stand up comedian.

A lot of comedians appear to be MRAs at heart, but can usually only manage about two jokes on the subject before moving to safer ground. For a standup to deliver solely MRA material for several minutes will be a challenge - but we have a unique plan to get the most out of the group dynamic, to produce material far beyond the sum of our parts. You may be good with concepts and set-ups, or you may be good with language, or you may be good with punch-lines. Whatever you have to offer, we would like to hear from you.

If interested, email with a little bit about yourself - and please have a go at completing in your own way, the following sayings: Behind every great man... ? A woman needs a man like a... ? Boys will be... ? No woman... ? It's a man's... ? Hell hath no fury... ?

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Article here. Excerpt:

'Let’s face it. Pussy is power. It always has been. Pussy power is so great that women can have an entire world of men working like dogs and handing over their money, yielding seats on life boats, opening their doors, acting like trained seals for their approval, agreeing with whatever bullshit comes out of their mouths, and at the same time have those men nodding and agreeing when women claim that men have all the power and need to do more to make things better for women.

True to their unfortunate nature, men will pass laws, lock each other up and brutalize each other to make sure that all these feminine biddings are done.

If that isn’t power, I’ll eat my hat. And if you don’t believe me, ask Sampson, Dillinger, Bill Clinton, John Edwards, Tiger Woods, the Duke Three, The Hofstra Five or any of about a million men, from average to “powerful,” who have had their heads handed to them by even the weakest of women.

Story here. Excerpt:

'Chicago Ridge officials are not commenting after a village employee was charged with holding parties at her home where she allegedly sexually assaulted four teenage boys while providing them marijuana and alcohol.

Cathleen M. Miller, 40, of the 5800 block of West 109th Street in Chicago Ridge, is charged with three counts of criminal sexual assault and one count of criminal sexual abuse, according to Cook County State's Attorney's office spokesman Andy Conklin. At the Bridgeview courthouse on Tuesday, Miller was ordered held on $900,000 bond, he said.

Miller, who is employed as a secretary for the Chicago Ridge Village Hall, was arrested Monday following an investigation by police and the state's attorney's office, according to Chicago Ridge police.

Chicago Ridge Mayor Eugene Siegel declined to comment on the case in a statement released Thursday, except to say his "thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families, as well as with Miller's family."

Article here. Excerpt:

'The home secretary has said the coalition government aims to end violence against women and girls. Theresa May, also minister for women, pledged more funding for an existing pilot scheme that helps immigrants who are victims of domestic violence.

Ms May told a Women's Aid conference she would also look into using fines criminals pay towards victims' services to open more rape crisis centres.

They would also devise "real solutions" for preventing violence, she added.

The annual conference, organised by Women's Aid, included delegates mainly from the charity's membership of more than 370 regional domestic and sexual violence services.

Following the speech Women's Aid chief executive Nicola Harwin said they were looking forward to working with the government.
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Story here. Excerpt:

'A JAPANESE woman arrested for allegedly strangling her five-year-old daughter to death has told police she also used to trap the child inside a running washing machine, it has been reported.

Junko Egashira, 34, was arrested last month after she allegedly killed her daughter Mone, Fukuoka police say.

The woman admitted that she had several times covered Mone's mouth with adhesive tape, tied up her hands and legs and made her sit in a water-filled washing machine, sometimes turning the machine to spin, the Asahi daily reports.'

Read it here. Excerpt:

'People that were familiar with my writing before the re-launch of this site will probably recall some of my work regarding a newly branded concept of masculinity that I have coined as belonging to the Zeta Male. For those not familiar with it, I give it a fairly complete treatment in the essay The Plague of Modern Masculinity.

In a nutshell, though, zeta masculinity describes a form of manhood that is counter biological in that it is a consciously chosen path of self preservation vs. the genetic mandate to sacrifice where it concerns women. To say it is anti chivalrous is an understatement, and to say it is anti female is a misconception, unless you consider treating women as your equals to be anti-female.

Story here. Excerpt:

'A judge's decision to free a Canadian mother convicted of strangling her 14-year-old daughter with a head scarf has prompted growing outrage from victims' advocates groups.

A suspended sentence was given to Aset Magomadova, 40, by Court of Queen's Bench Justice Sal LoVecchio on Thursday, stunning a national victims' group based in Toronto, the Vancouver Sun reports.

"I really strongly disagree," said Joe Wamback, founder and chairman of the Canadian Crime Victims Foundation. "It sends a message to the rest of the community and the world that her daughter's life was valueless."'

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Ed. note: Barbara Kay comments here. Excerpt:

A reminder that the new BBC Radio segment Men's Hour airs for the first time this Sunday.

With respect to the first episode, "Including features such as Thought for the Gay, Questions You Daren't Ask Your Doctor, M Music Crisis, Token Women, and Hoover the Studio or Apologise for Feminism"

The segment, which has already been referred to here, will feature host Tim Samuels. He has been quoted in an interview saying this about the show "I don't think men's magazines have moved on very far from the laddism of the '90s, so there's nowhere that really caters to what I think the modern man is. He's a mixture - a more complicated creature who wants to talk about emotions and feelings. I don't think there's currently space in the media to talk intelligently about relationships, work or the pressures of life. That's what we're trying to do."

Article here. Excerpt:

'The accolade of being chosen as head boy or girl is often the proudest moment of a pupil's young life.

But one mixed comprehensive has dispensed with its tradition of having one of each - because the boys are not up to scratch.

For the first time since it was founded in 1959, Acle High School in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, will have two head girls. And in a further snub to the boys, the two deputy positions have also been filled by girls.
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Headmaster Tim Phillips admitted many pupils had objected to his decision but insisted it was right.
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'I believe there is a wider issue of why the strongest boys don't put themselves forward for senior positions and we will be looking to work on that with students.'
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Those who applied had to submit an application and be interviewed by the head and two teachers. Ten girls and two boys were selected.

Denise Hines and Emily Douglas have published the first article from their project on male victims of partner abuse entitled "A Closer Look at Men Who Sustain Intimate Terrorism by Women", appearing in "Partner Abuse", Volume 1, Number 3 and Men's Experiences with Partner Aggression Project can also be accessed through the Men’s Experiences with Partner Aggression Project website.

More at New Perspectives on Partner Abuse.
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Ed. note: Already discussed on MANN here, but the foregoing gives a bit more information.

This was the headline video in the newsletter email I received today from the Big Think website.

Video and transcript both provided.

Feminist Attorney, Gloria Allred: "There is No In Between"

Via Abusegate Bob:

Dear colleagues and friends,

Emily Douglas and I are proud to share with you our first published article from our project on men's experiences with partner aggression. It was published this month in the journal Partner Abuse, and is attached. We have another article about to be released in a month or two in the Journal of Aggression, Conflict, and Peace Research, and we will share that when it is released. A draft of that article, along with recent conference presentations and media mentions can be found on our webpage: http://www.clarku.edu/faculty/dhines/results.htm

All the best,

Denise A. Hines, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
Clark University

Blog entry here.

'Because of problems in the family court system, when a divorced or never-married military parent deploys overseas, they often face the possibility of losing their custodial arrangement and their relationship with their children. Fathers and Families and its legislative representative Michael Robinson have been at the forefront of this issue, successfully working to pass military parent legislation in dozens of states.

In 2003, Fathers and Families publicized the heartbreaking case of Lt. Gary S., a San Diego-based US Navy SEAL who had his child permanently moved from California to the Middle East against his will while he was deployed in Afghanistan after the September 11 terrorist attacks.

The first success on this issue occurred in 2005 under Robinson’s leadership with the passage of California SB 1082. SB 1082 addressed the way parents who serve are often taken advantage of in custody and family law matters while they are deployed, and helped resolve the child support nightmare many mobilized reservists face.'