Letter here.

'It is unfortunate that Terry O'Neill, president of the National Organization for Women, described domestic violence in terms of men only when quoted in the Aug. 10 Associated Press Style story "Controversial song features abuse." By doing so, she mischaracterized a significant problem.

Domestic violence is not the province of one gender; abusers can be male or female, heterosexual or homosexual. Although abuse by males is widely recognized, abuse by females is generally not. As a consequence, male victims face problems because of the general lack of recognition of their plight.

Additionally, Ms. O'Neill should not have resorted to playground name-calling by saying that "it's only 2-year-olds and violent men who use violence to get what they want." This trivializes an important issue.'

Story here. Excerpt:

"A vicious fight on Aug. 1 was almost the beginning of the end for Jennifer Freeman and Earl Watson's marriage. According to nydailynews.com, when Freeman got a text message late at night on Sunday, Aug. 1,, Watson "became suspicious" and "took her phone to check the message."

In a flash, Freeman became enraged, and hit Watson in his face. Then, in a sudden rush of aggression, Freeman bit down on Watson's hand. According to Watson, this bite was responsible for "breaking the skin, leaving teeth marks and drawing blood." Freeman continued on a violent rampage as she supposedly "proceeded to bite down on [Watson's] chest." She then attempted to "attack Watson with an iron," which Watson managed to pry out of her hand. After the attack, Watson petitioned for a divorce from Freeman but he recently withdrew it.
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Day 14 and we are stuck between #183 and #185

Hello Mensactivism Members and Supporters,

I am in hopes that you all are continuing to online and text message vote for us to win the Pepsi competition daily. For those of you who aren't aware or aren't voting (perhaps because you don't know about it or don't know enough about it)...read on...

I have been an advocate for men who are or were in relationships with abusive women for 13 years now. In 2000 I founded the only national non profit in the USA with a toll free helpline that specializes in offering supportive services and public awareness to male victims of domestic violence.

From Abusegate Bob:

The domestic violence industry shows a remarkable propensity to conjure up the most creative claims and then present them as scientific "fact." In this article, the author makes this claim: "In fact, studies have shown that up to 48 percent of women delay leaving an abusive home out of fear that their pets will be harmed if left behind."

But when you realize that the great majority of women in abuse shelters are poor and often homeless, the notion that half of them can't flee an abusive situation because of a pet is flat-out absurd.

No surprise, the author conveniently forgets to provide the source of her claim. Maybe if every Abusegater were to contact Allie Phillips at PAWSprogram@americanhumane.org and ask her to provide the reference for her "statistic," the lies might begin to stop.

Enjoy.

'PAWS® Program
Guest Author - Allie Phillips, J.D. Vice President of Human-Animal Strategic Initiatives, American Humane Association

Article here. Excerpt:

'he Food and Drug Administration approved a controversial new form of emergency contraception Friday that can prevent a pregnancy as many as five days after sex.

The decision to allow the sale of the pill, which will be marketed under the brand name "ella," was welcomed by family-planning proponents as a crucial new option to prevent unwanted pregnancies. But critics condemned the decision, arguing that it was misleading to approve ella as a contraceptive because the drug could also be used to induce an abortion.
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Critics, however, are convinced it will and fear that a woman who does not realize she is pregnant will use the drug, unwittingly giving herself an abortion. They also worry that men will slip ella to unsuspecting women. And, the critics say, a woman might knowingly use ella to try to abort a fetus, putting herself at risk for potentially serious complications that have been reported among a small number of women using RU-486 and possibly damaging her developing child if it doesn't work.'

Article here. Excerpt:

"The fate of the 43-year-old Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning took a sinister turn yesterday when she appeared on Iranian state television to confess to her “crimes”. Her lawyer fears she will now be executed imminently, probably hung by the neck until she is dead.
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Yet the response of feminists in the West has been strangely muted.

Hillary Clinton lost no opportunity to brandish her feminist credentials during her campaign to become the Democratic Party’s Presidential nominee in 2008 and even went so far as to blame her failure to beat Barack Obama on the “glass ceiling”. Unfortunately, the concrete ceiling of Ashtiani’s jail cell hasn’t inspired any comparable rhetoric. All she has said is that she’s “troubled” by Ashtiani’s case.

Article here. Excerpt:

'The lack of women at the top of Britain's biggest companies is laid bare today as research by The Independent reveals the full extent of the gender imbalance in UK boardrooms.

When the former trade minister Lord (Mervyn) Davies was appointed to look into the problem last week, the coalition Government admitted that only 12 per cent (139) of the directors of FTSE 100 companies are female. But the situation is far worse.

Because several of them hold multiple positions, in fact there are only 120 individual women on boards, out of the total pool of 1,100 directors. And just 20 of them – 6 per cent – are the executive directors who run the company on a daily basis, compared with the 309 who are male.
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Story here. Excerpt:

"Jennifer Aniston has lost a friend in right-wing news pundit Bill O'Reilly.

He's said she was being 'destructive to our society' for saying that women don't need to wait for a man to have a child.

The 60-year-old Fox News TV rottweiler lashed out on his show at the remark by the 41-year-old actress.

Aniston told a press conference for her new film The Switch: 'Women are realising it more and more knowing that they don't have to settle with a man just to have that child.

'Times have changed and that is also what is amazing is that we do have so many options these days, as opposed to our parents' days when you can't have children because you have waited too long.'"

From Abusegate Bob:

Wikipedia is the world’s largest online encyclopedia. Now, Wikipedia has set up an interest group it calls “WikiProject Feminism” (I’m not kidding – see for yourself: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Feminism) The idea behind WikiProject Feminism is to promote feminist concepts and myths throughout Wiki-world.

So no surprise, many DV entries in Wikipedia are biased and false. So two stalwart individuals – Dr. Don Dutton and Andy Stachura – have volunteered to comb through these sites – see list below -- and make them right based on SAVE’s Special Reports.

If you become aware of other examples of biased Wikipedia DV entries, please shoot an email to Andy: andy.stachura-at-yahoo.com

From Abusegate Bob:

The last several weeks I’ve been telling you about SAVE’s upcoming Social Media initiative. Well, the long-awaited moment has finally arrived:

Check out SAVE’s resources for victims and survivors of domestic violence here

Sign up for our new Facebook page for victims and survivors here

Participate in our Online Support Group for victims and survivors here

Watch this. This woman freaks out because she can't get McNuggets. And these people are news people?

“Take Back the Sports Page?” by Christina Hoff Sommers appeared in today’s American. Your readers might find it interesting. Excerpt:

'The political wing of the women’s sports movement is in trouble. These activists are accustomed to challenging timid bureaucrats and university administrators. But in taking on TV sports coverage, they are challenging the market itself.
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According to the report, coverage of women’s professional teams has “nearly evaporated” and a “deepening silence” has enveloped women’s professional soccer, basketball, golf, field hockey, and softball. “Nothing short of stunning” says author Michael Messner, a feminist sociologist at USC. “This is simply intolerable.”
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Read this article carefully. Excerpt:

'Good looks can kill a woman's chances of snaring jobs considered "masculine," according to a study by the University of Colorado Denver Business School.

Attractive women faced discrimination when they applied for jobs where appearance was not seen as important. These positions included job titles like manager of research and development, director of finance, mechanical engineer and construction supervisor.'

And so you think you know the gist of the article. But read on:

"In every other kind of job, attractive women were preferred. This wasn't the case with men which shows that there is still a double standard when it comes to gender."
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Article here. Excerpt:

"Men are overwhelmingly seen as better bosses, a surprising new survey has revealed.

Two thirds of the nation's employees, both male and female, agree they would rather work for a man than a woman.

Female bosses were accused of being bitchy, hormonal and incapable of leaving their personal lives at home.

A third of those polled claimed women in charge are 'loose cannons' - ready to stab colleagues in the back at any time, and who constantly feel threatened by other people in positions of authority.

By contrast, both male and female workers believe male bosses were less likely to get involved in office politics, were easier to reason with and rarely suffered from mood swings.

Men are also said to be more straight-talking than women and rarely talk about others behind their backs, it emerged.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'New research published in the August edition of the American Psychological Association’s Journal of Abnormal Psychology, is providing a better picture of the roles played by gender, personality and mental illness in domestic violence.
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Walsh and colleagues Marc Swogger (University of Rochester), Brian O’Connor(UBC), Yael Schonbrun (Brown University), Tracie Shea (Brown University), and Gregory Stuart (University of Tennessee-Knoxville) analyzed data drawn from the MacArthur Violence Risk Assessment Study to examine normal personality psychopathic characteristics, and mental illness among 567 civil psychiatric patients, including 138 women and 93 men with histories of domestic violence.

“Although both men and women engage in substantial levels of domestic violence, fewer studies have examined female perpetrators,” says Walsh. “These new findings are among the first to highlight similarities between subtypes of domestically violent men and women.”'