From a MANN reader:

In case you missed it, yesterday was International Women's Day. I'm passing along the placards they distributed in India featuring the theme, "No more gender war." Great to know our struggle is being waged on the other side of the globe.

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From: Uma Challa
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 4:01 AM
To: Uma Challa
Subject: Int'l Women's Day Placards

Attached are the placards I have designed and got printed today.

You are free to print and use them.

Thanks
Uma

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Ed. note: The off-linked placards in .pdf format were so good I registered on MediaFire just to make them available.

Article here. Excerpt:

'A group of 50 mental health experts from 10 countries are part of an effort to add Parental Alienation Disorder to the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM V), the American Psychiatric Association’s “bible” of diagnoses. This scientific coalition is led by psychiatrist William Bernet, who explains that adding PAD to DSM “would spur insurance coverage, stimulate more systematic research, lend credence to a charge of parental alienation in court, and raise the odds that children would get timely treatment.”

Story here. Good for him! Excerpt:

'A Vancouver man who was mistakenly beaten by two police officers says Delta police have botched their investigation of the incident.

In the early hours of Jan. 21, Yao Wei Wu, 44, was woken up, dragged out of his house on Lanark Street and beaten by two police officers in plain clothes.

Wu, a tiling subcontractor, suffered fractures to his face and injuries to his legs and back. His eyes were swollen shut. His wife, Chi Nan Man, who was present during the assault, says she has suffered serious psychological trauma.

Vancouver police subsequently apologized, saying the officers had been called to a domestic-violence incident but had got the wrong address.

Police Chief Jim Chu asked the Delta police to conduct an “independent” investigation into the matter.'

Via Abusegate Bob:

Friend –

The family is the most protective institution of women and men in the world – that’s true in every country, and even more so in low-income countries that have little or no “safety net” for the dispossessed.

One month ago the International Violence Against Women Act was introduced in the House and the Senate. Let’s be candid: I-VAWA is a thinly-disguised attempt to export a radical gender ideology and break up families around the world.

Originally, we hoped the rad-fems weren’t going to move I-VAWA very fast. But as of today, I-VAWA has 42 co-sponsors in the Senate and 40 co-sponsors in the House. It now appears the liberals are hoping everyone will be distracted by the healthcare reform debate, so they can slip this through while no one is watching.

It is critical that we act promptly to get word out that this bill is a pig in a poke. Instead of helping women, it will harm them by breaking up the family and forcing women to become dependent on the state.

From a MANN reader. Thanks, Marie!

"Hi, there!

I just wanted to pass along, for you to post on the website, that I've created a fanpage on Facebook for Men.

Here's the link: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Men/353116132365

Thanks,
Marie"

A very good video here defending the Fifth Amendment. Makes reference to Innocence Project exonerees at time mark 11:49.

In this story, women/girls of a town in Washington state are being provided with free HIV tests for a day while the men/boys of the same town are not. While the group providing the tests is a "local public health agency" it appears that this only applies to women/girls in the county. Excerpt:

'Women and girls: It’s time to get tested for HIV.

That’s the message from the Snohomish Health District, which is offering free HIV tests today, Tuesday and Wednesday in support of National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, which is Wednesday.

District clinics will offer prevention information and free anonymous or confidential HIV tests for females age 14 and older who are at risk for HIV infection from unprotected sex, from injection drug use, or from mother-to-child contact during pregnancy, birth or breastfeeding.'

Story here. Why was the husband charged? Possibly behaving disorderly after the bride was arrested. Undoubtedly they were both drinking. But I would like to know just why he was charged anyway, other than just assuming he happened to be a passenger in a car driven by a homicidal woman. As to the charge against her, it is I hope the initial charge and that more serious ones are pending. We shall see.

'HYANNIS, Mass. — A newlywed Massachusetts couple spent their wedding night in separate jail cells after police said the bride tried to run over an old flame of the groom.

Police say 22-year-old Hyannis resident Marissa Ann Putignano-Keene tried Monday to run over the other woman and the woman's son in a parking lot. The intended victim later told police that she had previously been in an intimate relationship with the groom.

Police say the couple got married at Barnstable Town Hall and split a bottle of Champagne afterward.

Saw the statistic quoted here. I am assuming that, like in other countries, the French statisticians exclude full-time students in this accounting. Excerpt:

'Politicians on both sides said the economy was weighing on voters' minds, with data last week showing the unemployment rate hitting 10 percent in France for the first time in a decade.

More alarming still for the government, a record 25.3 percent of males aged 15 to 24 were registered as unemployed.

"The government's strategy has led to more poverty and more unemployment, so the regional elections have come at the right moment," Socialist party spokesman Benoit Hamon told Canal+ television on Sunday.'

Noticeably absent is any mention of the unemployment rate for women in France in that same age group. Given how incredibly high the 25% figure is, and the lack of the female statistical equivalent being mentioned, I can only assume that French women in that age group are doing better (perhaps a lot) than their male counterparts.

Article here. The Ottawa Citizens resident misandrist Janice Kennedy is at it again spewing well worn falsehoods and vitriol. Excerpt:

'It is a good time to consider that litany of wrongs (a litany I can't help trotting out every year with depressing predictability) that, so far, have shown little sign of disappearing: wrongs like the terrible injustices done to women in cultures that formally encourage their subjugation. Or the shocking gender discrepancy in poverty rates around the world (including here at home, where we don't formally encourage the subjugation of women). Or the abuse perpetrated overwhelmingly by men against women in what is benignly termed "domestic" violence. Or the stark under-representation of women in meaningful decision-making domains, from corporate boardrooms to political arenas, both backroom and front-of-house.'

*Yawn* The comment section is open. Have at her but be polite.

Article here. Not to say there are not abusive commanders in the armed forces who are not also men; indeed, since the vast majority of ship commanders in the USN are men, nearly all abusive ship commanders in the USN are very likely also to be men-- this by deduction. The point of this article appearing on MANN is to show that the dogmatic feminist assertion that by appointing more women to positions of command (naval or not) is likely to make more commanders (as a percentage of commanders) *less* likely to be abusive or exploit their positions for personal gain is spurious. Excerpt:

Article here. Excerpt:

'The recession has contributed to a spike of nearly 50 per cent in the number of men applying to become teachers, figures showed today.

Statistics released from the Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA) revealed a 49 per cent increase in male applicants, from 7,885 in the 2008/09 year to 11,721 for 2009/10.

Research suggests that the economic downturn has led to the jump in those wanting to teach, with recession and redundancies forcing people to re-evaluate their career goals.

Maths is one of the main winners. The number of people wanting to teach the subject has soared by 33 per cent.

It will go some way to address a perceived shortage of maths teachers in recent years.'

Story here.

'NEW YORK — An affluent housewife in Long Island, New York, accused of hiring a hit man to off her hubby lamented she could only afford to maim him — but then was thrilled to learn she could whack him at a bargain-basement price of just $20,000, authorities told the New York Post.

That's the stone-cold, cost-calculating mentality of sick soccer mom Susan Williams, 43, who allegedly hired an undercover cop this week to whack her husband of 21 years. She was held yesterday on $1 million bail.

The twisted plot didn't surprise her long-suffering spouse, Peter Williams.

His lawyer said the woman "tortured" the poor man with sick lies during their divorce in a grab for their million-dollar Garden City home and other cushy assets.

She even allegedly turned their four kids — ages 11 to 19 — against him.

"I can't believe it took her this long" to try to kill Peter, said his divorce lawyer, Nancy Dreeben.

"She's a desperate woman, and she will just do whatever she needs to do to get what she wants. She's a narcissist."'

Story here. Excerpt:

'The District will become the first city in the United States to distribute female condoms free, part of a project that will make 500,000 of them available in beauty salons, convenience stores and high schools in parts of the city with high HIV rates.

City officials said the distribution could begin within the next three weeks in parts of wards 1, 2, 3, 6 and 7, where a study showed that large numbers of African American heterosexuals engage in risky sexual behavior that could easily lead to infection.

The move is an official acknowledgment of the futility of relying solely on the use of male condoms, which have been distributed citywide for nearly a decade, to stem the District's epidemic of HIV and AIDS. Officials said they are turning to female condoms to give women more power to protect themselves from HIV and sexually transmitted diseases when their partners refuse to use protection.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'The House and Senate are considering bills that would change the standard of proof needed to grant a final protective order. The bills, H.B. 700 by Del. C. Sue Hecht (D-Frederick) and S.B. 823 by Sen. Jennie M. Forehand (D-Montgomery), would replace the current standard of "clear and convincing evidence" to a "preponderance of the evidence." Maryland is the only state that uses this higher standard when victims -- and generally they are women -- seek orders to protect themselves from their alleged abusers. In all other civil matters, Maryland courts require only a preponderance of evidence.