Blog post here. Excerpt:

'This week’s devastating earthquake in Haiti, which struck near Port au Prince, has led to countless tragedies on the impoverished island, and is a disaster that may rival the recent Sichuan quake in China. The damage struck indiscriminately, killing young and old, rich and poor, and man and woman alike.

However, some relief groups have decided that women deserve more aid, and have come up with a number of reasons why men should be left to die from injuries and disease while women get preferential treatment.

Quoted in Salon.com in an article titled Why “women and children first” persists, Elaine Enarson (probably a Swedish woman*), cofounder of the Gender and Disaster Network (“Calling for a gendered approach in disaster risk reduction”), explains why men are to be excluded:

Column here Excerpt:

'Record cold temperatures are beginning to take their toll on average citizens around the world. In bone-chilled France, frustrated housewives have taken to venting their spleens at their husbands — and for good reason.

For decades, effete French men have indulged themselves with aerosol hair spray for their over-groomed hairpieces, contributing, as we all know, to the thinning of the ozone layer and melting of the polar ice caps.
...
Thankfully, the epidemic of shrieking wives has not escaped the attention of the ever-vigilant French Parliament, which is now considering a ban on the practice. The law would apply to both married and cohabiting couples.

Article here. Excerpt:

'The Israeli local court in Kefar Saba, has extended arrest order of Malka (Mali) Zarihan in 5 days, YNET NEWS has reported today. (Original YNET Article in hebrew here).

Malka (Mali) Zarhian, a 25 year-old woman from Raanana, Israel, is suspected of comitting a series of blackmail and false rape accusation crimes. According to YNET report, Mali Zarihan used to hitch-hike on the roads, and then blackmail the drivers. She would say that unless the drivers give her money she would complain in the Israeli police that they raped her. According to YNET report, several dozens of Israeli drivers fell victim to Mali Zarihan's crime over the last year...
...

From MANN reader Ed:

The great majority of Americans are aware of the problem of male victims of domestic violence. According to a 2006 Harris poll*:

88% of Americans have seen or heard of a male domestic violence victim in the past year 76% of Americans believe domestic violence against men is a “serious” problem.

But representatives of the domestic violence industry work night and day to deny the very existence of male victims. One almost comes to admire the intellectual gymnastics of the VAWA Mafia.

*See Tables 1 and 3.

Story here. Excerpt:

'Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has approved a national concept to fight pervasive alcohol abuse in Russia with the target to cut alcohol consumption in half by 2020 and uproot the illegal market.

Measures to achieve the goals include the introduction of criminal punishment for alcohol production and sales violations, advertising restrictions, a pricing policy dependent on quality, and efforts to promote a healthy lifestyle, the Russian government said on its website on Wednesday.

"The first phase (2010-2012) will include measures to cut alcohol consumption by 15% per capita... The second phase (2012-2020) will see the elimination of the illegal alcohol market and a reduction in consumption levels by 55%," the government said.

The concept is designed to reduce the high mortality caused by alcohol abuse especially among men. More than 23,000 people die of alcohol poisoning annually, while another 75,000 die of alcohol-related diseases, according to official statistics.'

Article here. Excerpt:

"The Y chromosome is often seen as the rotten corner of the human genome — a place of evolutionary decline that is slowly decaying and threatening the end of man. Reports of its imminent demise, however, have been exaggerated.

Research has indicated that, far from stagnating, the male chromosome is a hotspot of evolution that is changing more quickly than any other part of humanity’s genetic code.
...
But the first comparison of the human Y chromosome with its counterpart in chimpanzees has revealed that they differ radically. The findings suggest that the Y chromosomes of both are evolving rapidly and dynamically — probably because of their critical roles in reproduction — and have a vibrant future.

In the new research, which is published in the journal Nature, Dr David Page, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — who first sequenced the Y chromosome in 2003 — has now sequenced the Y chromosome of the chimp, humanity’s closest relative, and compared this with the human version.

Article here. Excerpt:

Making men special special gender-based income tax has been part of the feminist agenda for a long time now. However, in Israel a gender-based men tax is already a reality that is well integrated within the income tax system.
...
...if you are a woman, you will get an additional 0.5 credit points just because you are a woman. It doesn't matter if you have children or not. You just have to be a woman. This additional 0.5 credit point worth about 300$* every year.
...
The worst thing about it is that the Israeli government doesn't even try to hide it or excuse it in some way. The Men Tax is proudly mentioned in the official website of the finance ministry. Search for "Tax Credits" and you will see it there. An Official Men Tax!'

---
1/15/10: UPDATE: What I wrote here originally was wrong:

"Ed. note: A trailing $ indicates the denomination for shekel, or more precisely, the Israeli New Shekel."

Story here Excerpt:

'A Gates day care provider accused of burning an 8-month-old baby has been charged with second-degree assault and reckless assault of a child by a day care provider, according to Gates police.

Kelly Hernandez, 44, 165 Kencrest Drive, who is licensed to operate a day care facility from her home, is accused of changing the baby's diaper on an electric stovetop that she believed was turned off, police said.

The baby suffered first-, second- and third-degree burns and is being treated at Strong Memorial Hospital, police said.'

Very brief report (as they are in these cases - i.e., there is a female suspect), and submitted by someone oddly-named "Staff Report".

Story here.

'OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) -- Court papers allege that an Olympia woman, angry that her husband left her, tampered with his power tools so that he received a powerful electric shock. Carolyn Paulsen-Riat was booked Friday into the Thurston County Jail for investigation of third-degree assault, domestic violence, and second-degree malicious mischief. A judge released the 33-year-old woman on her own recognizance.

The Olympian newspaper reported that court documents said that on Jan. 1, the man was using a 220-volt table saw when he received the shock, knocking him to the ground. Thurston County sheriff's deputies said the man did not need to go to a hospital.

In the documents, deputies said the woman told them she had reversed the wires on his power tools because she was angry he was leaving.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'NASHUA – A local woman is being held on $10,000 cash bail, charged with beating her former boyfriend with a broom.

Anne M. Hughes, 40, of 39 Crown St., Apt. 6, was arrested yesterday afternoon and charged with second degree assault...

Lt. George McCarthy said Hughes had bail conditions barring her from going near her boyfriend... On Saturday, however, she went to his apartment, according to McCarthy.

McCarthy said the two got into an argument and Hughes grabbed a broom with a metal handle and beat her boyfriend in the head with it. He was taken by ambulance to Southern New Hampshire Medical Center where he needed staples to close wounds to his head, McCarthy said.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'City workers arrested for domestic violence would face discipline, and those convicted would be fired, under rules proposed yesterday by Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl.
...
Rules have been in place for police accused of domestic violence for two years. The new, tweaked policy would apply to firefighters, public works employees, paramedics and the rest of the city's 3,300 workers.

Some of the unions representing those workers said they were waiting for the mayor to invite them to discuss the policy.

"Nobody wants to see domestic violence occur at all," said Josh Bloom, a lawyer representing the firefighters union. He welcomed proposed domestic violence awareness training. "However, that doesn't mean that every type of domestic altercation that ever happened in history warrants an employee losing their jobs."
...

From Rod in the UK:

MANN Readers,

I am interested in forming a men-only anti-feminist group in the London area. Hopefully we could start with forming a discussion group, and then (more importantly) form a workable think tank.

I want to form this group this with other men, with the idea for those interested to move onto future activism and further educating more men. All men are welcome irrespective of irrespective of race, sexuality, or faith.

From Fathers & Families' latest newsletter:

'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 & 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. The first success on this issue occurred in 2005 in California with the passage of SB 1082.

Article here. Excerpt:

'The government is starting a pilot scheme in Manchester this month for a national sperm bank — and will target sports fans as potential donors. Fertility experts at St Mary’s hospital have been given funds to run the pilot scheme, which may lead to a national programme along the lines of the blood donation service.

Daniel Brison, professor of clinical embryology at the hospital’s department of reproductive medicine, said sporting events were a good place to find men who might be inclined to donate sperm.

“Approaching sports fans at football and cricket matches in Manchester is a way of accessing large numbers of men,” he said. “We might also get support from the sports clubs themselves. The idea is to make it easier to donate.”
...

From the Boston Globe, article here. Excerpt:

'Women outnumber men here; you knew that. Women outnumber men in US colleges; you probably knew that, too. You might not have known that women receive almost 60 percent of university degrees in America and Europe combined. So who's going to be running the show? You tell me.

More women have jobs in the US than men. The Bureau of Labor Statistics identifies job categories most likely to grow in the next decade. In 10 of the top 15 categories, women constitute two thirds of the workforce.

Witness the battle of the apothegms: A while back, economist Paul Samuelson (who died last month at 94) acknowledged females' second-class socioeconomic status with the famous remark, "Women are men without money." More recently, conservative agitator Christina Hoff Sommers has reversed the terms of trade. Boys, she has observed, "are tomorrow's second sex."