Story here. I have nothing against Danica Patrick. I have nothing against women competing in NASCAR or anyplace else. What annoys me is when they think they can compete on the same terms as men but then when things don't go their way, invoke "female privilege" to try distance themselves from the issue.

In legal matters as we know here on MANN this is called a "pu$$y pass". In other less-significant cases, I'd call it the "princess pass". Danica needs to lose the princess pass if she is going to be taken seriously--finally. She has the skills to compete. She is not the best driver in the world but neither are 99.9% of the men driving out there either. All she needs to do is cease and desist whining when things don't go her way. Whining from male drivers in intolerable. Likewise should it be from female ones. Excerpt:

Article here. Excerpt:

'WHEN two drunken men fight over a woman, alcohol and stupidity may not be the only things at work. Sadly, evolution may have shaped men to behave this way. Almost all of the traits considered to be masculine—big muscles, facial hair, square jaws, deep voices and a propensity to violence—evolved, it now seems, specifically for their usefulness in fighting off or intimidating other men, allowing the winner to get the girl.

Story here. Excerpt:

'A Pakistani woman living on benefits in the UK despite facing a murder charge in her home country was yesterday facing demands from MPs to return there to stand trial.

Bushra Ferozdin Butt, 35, spent ten months in custody after she was accused of pouring kerosene over her husband Amjad Hussain, 36, and setting him alight.

She was eventually bailed by a judge and travelled to Luton, where she had lived with Mr Hussain for nine years.

Although not a British citizen, she had previously been granted indefinite leave to remain in the UK, which entitles her to £330.70 a week in council tax and housing benefit - equivalent to an annual salary of £22,000 before tax and National Insurance.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'The manager of a care home whose drug addiction led directly to the death of an elderly patient was jailed today for ten years.

Rachel Baker, 44, stole patients’ drugs, forged medical records and then lied to investigators looking into a series of suspicious deaths of residents of Parkfields, a residential home in Butleigh, Somerset.

The investigation led to the exhumation of the bodies of three former residents to the distress of their families. Police investigated the circumstances surrounding the deaths of 12 of Baker’s patients and charged her with the murder of two.

After a ten-week trial during which the extent of Baker’s addiction to prescription drugs was revealed she was convicted only of the manslaughter of 97-year-old Lucy Cox. She was found not guilty of the manslaughter of another elderly woman, Francis Hay, and not guilty of murdering the two women.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'An American mother persuaded police to stage a fake arrest of her son when she
caught him misbehaving.

But far from being a criminal matter the 'offence' was that he was playing with matches - and the boy was just five years old.

Appalled neighbours looked on, unaware the whole thing was a stunt, as officers handcuffed the crying child - who was barely tall enough to reach the wheel of their patrol car - and put him on the back seat.

They threatened him by saying: 'You want to go to jail?' over and over again before finally releasing him back to his mother.
...
'I hope it scared him to not play with matches or lighters again. That was the whole point of it, it was to make him afraid he was going to jail.'

Witnesses disagreed, with one neighbour bursting into tears as she recounted the incident.

'That's not a way to treat a child, that's not a way to teach a lesson to a little boy,' said the woman, in her 30s, said.'

Article here. If this bill becomes law in India, the penalty for kissing an unwilling victim (i.e. sexual assault) will be identical to the penalty for raping them. Of course, consent is defined subjectively by the victim and need not be substantiated, making such a law rife for abuse. Note the section in the bill which results in life imprisonment for putting one's tongue in the victim's mouth. Excerpt:

'MUMBAI: Drastic changes proposed to strengthen rape and sexual assault laws, so that women have more protection, will almost blur the difference between the two crimes. In fact, reactions to the draft bill, sent to the Union home ministry, have termed it "anti-men" with wide scope for misuse.

While there were indications earlier that the draft might propose a gender-neutral law, the draft uploaded by the ministry to invite responses from the public shows that the amendments specifically target crimes by men against women. Women activists told TOI that the proposals were long-pending and necessary.

Story here. Excerpt:

'An assistant principal at a Florida middle school sent a topless photo of herself to a 14-year-old boy, police say.

Lauren Shreve Tilo, a 30-year-old assistant principal at Middleton High School in Tampa, allegedly sent a cell phone picture of her breasts to the teenager on May 7 after meeting him while playing the popular online game World of Warcraft, MyFoxTampaBay.com reports.

Tilo and the boy were initially just friends before they began exchanging text messages about "conducting sexual acts to one another," according to an arrest report filed in Manatee County, where deputies say they learned of the allegations when the unidentified boy told his guidance counselor.
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"It concerns us anytime any teacher does anything against the law, but when an adult teacher has this type of interaction with a teenager, it's an additional concern," Cobbe said.'

Letter here.

'Slackers are not only the fathers in divorce cases. When the courts have awarded the father placement of the kids of a relationship, they receive little help from the local child support system.

Kids are the most important part of this equation, and they should have their rights treated adequately. That is not the only abuse that some males are receiving from the state's child support system.

Some of the delinquent parties are women who run businesses in which they hide most of their income so they don't have to fund their children through child support payments.

I feel that the state should look into the treatment of fathers who have been raising their children, not receiving support and not given a fair deal.

I feel that there should be a website, if there is a problem that can be addressed and can be brought out, so each parent and, most importantly, the children can be treated fairly.

James Vanderloop,

Story here. Excerpt:

'Kenyon Eastin, 41, is on day four of a hunger strike from within the Tooele County Jail, protesting the treatment he has received in Utah divorce court.

That's according to man's girlfriend of three years, Niki Hammond, of Stansbury Park (pictured at right with Eastin). Eastin first went to jail for 15 days in January 2009, but was released due to overcrowding. The jail is still over-crowded--Tooele County Sheriff Frank Park even admits the facility is violating people's civil rights due to the crowd--but 3rd District Judge Stephen Henriod sent Eastin back to jail Friday for 30 days for contempt of court and non-payment of child support. Hammond says Eastin can not afford to hire and attorney and has not been appointed one by the court.

Written by Steven J. Svoboda, via email:

Partnership Parenting: How Men and Women Parent Differently—Why It Helps Your Kids and Can Strengthen Your Marriage. By Kyle Pruett, M.D. and Marsha Kline Pruett, Ph.D. Foreword by T. Berry Brazelton, M.D. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Da Capo Press, 2009. 219 pages. $15.95. www.dacapopress.com. Review by J. Steven Svoboda

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Article here. Excerpt:

'Defendants in rape cases are to be granted anonymity in an unexpected move that women’s groups immediately branded an insult.
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The announcement over anonymity for defendants in rape trials turns the clock back 30 years to the 1970s, when the Sexual Offences Act introduced anonymity for those accused of rape. It was later repealed. Officials said that details of the change had yet to be decided. It is expected that the ban will be lifted after a suspect is convicted.

The proposal provoked anger among campaigners. Ruth Hall, of Women Against Rape, said that the decision was an insult and a backlash against the rising number of rape reports. “More attention needs to be paid to the 94 per cent of reported cases that do not end in conviction rather than the few that are false,” she said. “If men accused of rape got special rights to anonymity, it would reinforce the misconception that lots of women who report rape are lying. False rape allegations are extremely rare but receive disproportionate publicity.”"

Article here. Excerpt:

'OAKLAND -- From where Mills College students Jessica Brennan and Claudia Cinelli lounged on the edge of the campus' lush Toyon Meadow earlier this week, it's easy to see what's different here from most college campuses: Male students are in short supply. Twenty years ago this month, the meadow was the epicenter of an emotional fight over a proposal to make college undergraduate programs coed. It was a fight that attracted national attention.

Fearing for Mills long-term security if it didn't enroll 1,000 undergraduate students -- it had less than 800 at the time -- the school's board of trustees decided in May 1990 to admit men for the first time in the college's 138-year history. The decision had an immediate backlash: more than 300 students boycotted classes, blockaded administration buildings and sparked a national discussion about the value of women-only education.

Sixteen days later, the school board reversed its decision, and the undergraduate school remained women only. Graduate programs have been offered to men and women since the 1920s.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Proponents of no-fault divorce say that forcing couples to accuse each other of wrongdoing, abuse, infidelity, neglect, can make a difficult process even worse -- not only for the couple but for the children involved and also can lead to tremendous legal costs. "No one cares about no-fault divorce until their marriage is falling apart and they find out, "Oh, my god, there is no no-fault option," said Sen. Liz Krueger, who supports the Hassell-Thompson legislation, "Couples find out they have to allege something that may not really be true."

Bing said the legislation will decrease domestic violence by helping the abused partner get out of a bad marriage quickly. "I think for years there was concern that women in a lesser financial situation than their spouse would be in a bad position," said Bing, "But we've seen it work in other states, and it has reduced rates of domestic violence and the cost of divorce, because people aren't spending years in litigation."

Video here. Essentially, the woman and her lawyer blame the victim and school system for her violent outburst. Her lawyer claims the teacher was not trying to hurt the child but just wanted to get his attention by intimidating him. The teacher also places blame on the boy's mother for not being more active in her son's life. This woman seems void of any sense of accountability and appears to have a million excuses for her actions.