From Abusegate Bob:

The first two weeks of May are featuring an unprecedented period of grass-roots activism centered around reforming the multi-billion dollar domestic violence industry.

The national campaign includes the release of Special Reports, press releases, radio interviews, op-ed columns, lobbying on Capitol Hill, advocacy telethons, and more!

Do your part to reform the Violence Against Women Act, and keep up with all the action at Abusegate: http://abusegate.mensnewsdaily.com/

Story here. If a man would have gotten the same punishment withy the same facts, then great. Would he have? I dunno. I do know this: it is nice to see the sexual abuse of boys by women now finally getting some serious attention from at least one court. Excerpt:

'While obviously deeply moved with her plea and confessing dismay at why no plea bargain was ever offered to the Twin falls woman, Memeo had no choice but to sentence the 34 year old Taylor to the only sentence allowed by the legislature-- Life in prison with the earliest possible parole after ten years.
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Taylor was convicted of lewdness with a minor under 14 in November after a week-long trial.

According to Kirkpatrick the woman had been offered no plea bargain and that the jury had not been informed that the life sentence would be imposed on Taylor should she be found guilty.

This article summarizes the global mortality rates of men and women aged 15 to 59 years from 1970 to 2010. The study published April 30th, 2010 in the Lancet is the first of its kind to comprehensively collect data from censuses, surveys on household deaths, vital registration data, and sibling survival histories. Previous studies have largely relied on child mortality numbers to estimate adult mortality rates. Excerpt:

'Women overall have seen their health improve more then men have. In the 40 years between 1970 and 2010, adult mortality fell by 34 percent and 19 percent in men globally. The gap between adult male and female mortality widened by 27 percent in that period.

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Article here. Yes, society can continue to make family court a black hole of discrimination and human rights abuses where information about discrimination doesn't get our, but discrimination in education and labor will only get increasingly hard to ignore. They try to skirt over it a little in this article, but how much longer will this be effective depends on people like us. Excerpt:

'Middle-skills jobs have lost share in the employment pool in the last three decades, a trend of labor-market "polarization" reinforced by the recession, according to a report released Friday.
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"Perhaps most alarmingly, males as a group have adapted comparatively poorly to the changing labor market," Autor wrote. "For males without a four-year college degree, wages have stagnated or fallen over three decades. And as these males have moved out of middle-skill blue-collar jobs, they have generally moved downward in the occupational skill and earnings distribution."

Story here. Excerpt:

'CAMBRIDGE, Ohio -- It's being dubbed "The Case Of The Sexy Substitute."
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"The teacher came in, in a sweat suit to start off the day at school, and then proceeded to strip down into a bikini with a lace cover-up over it," said Sally Dyer, recounting what her 11-year-old son described. "She kissed some other boys on the cheek, and she showed off her tan lines."

After three hours of this, word got out, and Superintendent Dennis Dettra says he rushed to the school and confronted the substitute, asking her if she did those things.

"She kind of nodded and said yeah," recalled Dettra. "Just very pecular, the way she answered it. I told her those were highly inappropriate actions for a school setting."
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She also speculated that if it had been a male teacher with female students, there would have been an immediate arrest, not just an investigation.

"I believe he would already be in jail," Dyer said. "I think there would have been no questions asked.'

Article here. Notice how the concern is giving women privacy. Excerpt:

'The U.S. Navy formally announced on Thursday that it will for the first time recruit women into its submarine force.

It has been 20 years since the Navy first allowed women to serve on its surface warfare ships. But submarines remained off-limits for several reasons.

The main reason had to do with cramped quarters on the subs, where there is little privacy. Now the chief of the Navy's task force on women in submarines, Rear Admiral Barry Bruner, says larger, more modern subs have changed that.

"The reason it's available to women is that we can give them privacy," said Admiral Bruner. "So we're finally where we can do it. And I'm pleased that the submarine force is headed down this path."'

Story here. Excerpt:

'The Ohio mother who set off a nationwide manhunt when she ran away with another man earlier this month will face no charges in Ohio, but she and the man will pay thousands in restitution to the county, an attorney for the woman told ABC News today.

"My clients have agreed to make full restitution for the investigation in whatever amount the prosecutor deemed appropriate," Jon Paul Rion, attorney for former missing mother Tiffany Tehan and boyfriend Tre Hutcherson, told ABC News today. "I think that they've always wanted to make this county as whole as possible."

While Rion would not disclose the exact amount that was settled on, he said it is greater than $5,000.

From an IA e-mail:

ACT NOW

Earlier this week, Georganne Chapin, Executive Director of Intact America, spoke with Dr. Peter Kilmarx, Chief of HIV/AIDS Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control. They discussed the CDC's forthcoming guidelines on male infant circumcision, and she'll be sending him a follow-up letter next week – along with the petition signatures we've received from you and other supporters...

...and we're only 300 signatures shy of our 25,000-signature goal!

Please help us by asking your friends to sign our petition RIGHT NOW – asking the CDC not to recommend infant circumcision. We're so close to our goal, we just need a few more signatures!

You can also help by sharing this campaign on Twitter and Facebook.

Thank you again for being such a powerful advocate for our infant boys.

Article here. Excerpt:

"Scientists have finally worked out what women really want.

They have created a spray that makes men more caring, affectionate and in tune with others' feelings.

Just a puff or two and even the most macho of males is as sensitive as a woman, they claim.

The spray is based on oxytocin - a hormone naturally made in the body and involved in sex, sexual attraction, trust and confidence.

It is released into the blood during labour - triggering the production of breast milk - and floods the brain during breastfeeding, helping mother and baby bond.

In spray form, it seems that the so-called 'cuddle chemical' can make a man feel like a woman.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'FOUR YEARS ago, Duke University became the center of a national controversy about sexual assault, wrongful accusations, and campus politics when four lacrosse players were falsely accused of raping an exotic dancer at a party. Now, Duke is back in the news with a campus policy that ostensibly seeks to prevent sexual assault — but, in fact, infantilizes women, redefines much consensual sex as potentially criminal, and does a grave disservice to both sexes.

But the policy’s far-reaching definition of sex without “affirmative consent’’ covers much more. Unlike the notorious Antioch College rules of the 1990s that required verbal consent to every new level of intimacy, Duke’s policy recognizes non-verbal expressions of consent. However, it stresses that “consent may not be inferred from silence [or] passivity’’ — even in an ongoing sexual relationship.

Article here. Excerpt:

'West Lafayette, IN (PRWEB) April 28, 2010 -- The International Coalition for Genital Integrity (ICGI) acknowledges a critical, important, new study, published Monday in Thymos: Journal of Boyhood Studies, and believes it accurately estimates that more than 100 baby boys die from circumcision complications each year.

ICGI applauds that, for the first time, a rational attempt has been made to estimate the scale of the problem, and is simultaneously appalled by how many baby boys needlessly die each year in the United States.

The study concluded: “These boys died because physicians have been either complicit or duplicitous, and because parents ignorantly said ‘Yes,’ or lacked the courage to say ‘No.’” And called the deaths “an unrecognized sacrifice of innocents.”

Story here. Excerpt:

'Louis Bardo Bullock is the name of Sandra Bullock's newly adopted black son from New Orleans. And as the World swoons over photos of happy mom and son, interesting news from the People Magazine exclusive interview are coming out. One is that Bullock gave son Louis Bardo a Jewish circumcision ceremony with "full on Jewish brit."
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Sandra Bullock calls the private circumcision "the greatest moment I have ever had in my life" in People Magazine. Considering all the pain she's gone through with Jesse James in the cheating scandal, Bullock deserves more great moments.

Congratulations to her.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'With few exceptions, girls who have wanted to play high school sports in Ontario over the years have had to do so on girls' teams, if one was available.

No more.

As of last week, girls now have carte blanche to play on boys' teams if they can make it. Even when a girls' team is available.

The decision stems from the case of a Waterloo high school student who filed a human rights complaint recently after her demand to play on the boys' soccer team was denied. As the process rolled on, Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations lawyers decided they were going to lose the fight, so the organization relented before legal precedent was set. A negotiated settlement allowed it to write its own policy rather than being force-fed the wording.
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OFSAA's executive director Doug Gellatly says the new policy -- which he was against -- raises a number of issues.

Start with the obvious question before it's even asked: No, Gellatly says, if a girl takes a boys' spot on a team, a boy can't try out for a girls' squad in return.

Story here. Excerpt:

'BANGALORE: The government will be working towards making laws gender neutral in the next four years, Union minister of law and justice M Veerappa Moily said on Sunday.

He also said after legislating the Right to Education Act the government will soon come up with a Food Security Act.

“We have already passed the Right to Education Act and Food Security Act is coming shortly,” Moily said while inaugurating a three-day 'Civil Society Summit: The state of the Indian Republic @ 60', here. Observing that a number of laws were gender-biased, he said “they (laws) should become gender neutral and I assure you in the next four years this will be done.” '

This has been a demand from Indian MRAs and Indian feminists are upset. Yesterday, I was talking to a feminist legal scholar from the local Law College. She claims that DV laws in many US states are still gender-specific. As far as I know, California was the only state with gender-specific DV laws, and that was before `Woods v Shewry'.