Article here. Excerpt:

'I would not refer my worst enemy to our local women’s shelter. The reason is clear: they provide a single solution for everyone, regardless of circumstances. That solution is a divorce...

The ugly, backward provisions of VAWA need to be removed from our communities and its proponents sent back to the fringes of society where they belong. Otherwise, almost no one will be helped, and no progress made in new approaches, and we need far more from our tax dollars than that.'

Note the link in the left sidebar to Trudy's new web site: 'New Perspectives on Partner Abuse' (link here: partnerabuse.com. Note there is no 'www' in the URL.)

Story here. Excerpt:

'A new study challenges the common belief that testosterone causes aggression in humans and proposes instead that the hormone encourages status-seeking behavior, the journal Nature reported.'

Hopefully this will break the stereotype that men are inherently violent due to their high testosterone level.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Being a mistress of a famous sports star is a part-time job but it pays full-time money!

This story represents a unique application of the "battered woman syndrome". Basically, this woman is using her boyfriend's alleged DV to excuse her taping his dog to the fridge. I guess if you can use DV to justify murder you can use it to justify anything. Only problem: in Boulder, pets actually have value and rights. Not so sure about men. Excerpt:

'A former University of Colorado student who was arrested in April on suspicion of taping her boyfriend's dog to the refrigerator pleaded in court Wednesday that she suffered from an “impaired mental condition” that excuses her behavior.
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Toll's defense attorney George Kokus has argued that his client should be allowed to use the mental defense at trial because she was an “ongoing victim of domestic violence,” putting her in a mental state that either justifies, excuses or mitigates her actions.

Story here.

'Suffolk police arrested a woman for allegedly stabbing her boyfriend to death in Riverhead on Tuesday morning.

Riverhead Town Police received a call of a domestic disturbance at an East Main Street apartment, the home of 21-year-old Kianna Coach and upon arrival, they discovered 25-year-old James Wheeler of Riverhead laying on the lawn outside the apartment at 11:40 a.m.

He had been stabbed in the chest, according to Homicide Squad detectives. He was taken to Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead where he died.

Coach was charged with first-degree manslaughter. The time and location of her arraignment has not been determined, police said.'

Story here.

'DUNNELLON, Fla. — A 53-year-old Dunnellon woman has been arrested after alledgedly hitting a man in the head with a raw steak.

According to a Marion County Sheriff's Office report, the man told deputies that Elsie Egan repeatedly hit him with the uncooked meat and slapped his face after he refused a piece of sliced bread. The man said he wanted a bread roll.

Egan denied hitting the man with the steak but did admit to slapping him, saying she did it "so that he could learn."

The man told deputies that Egan was his live-in girlfriend. He declined medical assistance.

Egan is charged with abuse of a disabled adult. According to online records, she has been released on $2,500 bond and is scheduled to appear in court in January. It's unclear if she has an attorney.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'In the Bill Clinton administration, another aggressive feminist, Norma Cantu, ran the Education Department's Civil Rights Office and essentially made "proportionality" the only test that matters for Title IX compliance by colleges that must cut their sports budgets. She used the power of the bureaucracy and activist judges to threaten college athletic departments.

Colleges have every reason to fear lawsuits from failure to kowtow to feminist dictates. Losing a lawsuit means the college must pay the feminist lawyers' attorneys' fees and suffer adverse publicity.

Article here. Excerpt:

Some Obamacare supporters want to tax cosmetic surgical procedure as a way of helping pay for its costs. I am no fan of cosmetic surgery, but oppose taxing it on principle, as I wrote here.

At the time, I had no idea feminism has devolved into what we could call “Victoria’s Secret Feminism,” which holds that “feeling good” about oneself through cosmetic alteration should be a driving principle of the sisterhood. But that seems to be the case as the National Organization for Women opposes the tax because it wants nothing to interfere with women getting those frown lines removals and tummy tucks. From a column by New York Times columnist Judith Warner:

Yes, standing up for the rights of middle-aged women to have access to cosmetic enhancement is part of the work of contemporary feminism, [NOW president Terry] O’Neill told me this week. It’s the sorry consequence of a number of sorrier truths: The economy is terrible. Middle-aged women, many of whom reduced their working hours, limiting their earning power and ambition, when they had kids or, later, found themselves having to care for their parents, are in a particularly vulnerable spot these days, as they’re increasingly called upon to supplement or take over the lion’s share of family money-making. And any number of studies have shown that people with better (read: younger) looks have a better chance of getting a good job. Particularly women.

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Article here. Excerpt:

'Bra-burning, man-hating females still exist in America. Overall, however, their cry for female superiority is less aggressive than it has been in previous decades.

Nonetheless, their historical legacy remains at the forefront of the feminism label. This last Wednesday, Whitworth hosted a feminism panel, appropriately called “The F Word,” which took part in discussing feminism as a whole, revealing many aspects of feminism that have nothing to do with burning bras or hating men. As the evening’s motto suggests, “you don’t have to be anti-man to be pro-woman.”

Why be pro-woman in this day and age? American women have the right to vote, the right to drive, and the right to an education and career–which is more than women in some other countries can boast. Nevertheless, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, women still are paid only 77 cents for each dollar a man makes. That means a woman will make an average of $2 million less than a man will during lifetime, despite a woman’s education or career position.
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'I frequently receive stories similar to the following one. Unfortunately, there is no advice I can offer the fellow who has become another victim of the unreasonable and brutal DV industry. ...

My story briefly:

November 4, 2009 6 AM - My wife had a seizure due to a medication problem and fell out of bed. I called 911. EMS decided I'd been beaten her over the head, although there was no head trauma. They kept me away from her and called the police, who detained me and ruled the incident accidental. Still the the EMS workers insisted she'd been beaten and fabricated stories about an imaginary bloody bat and blood on my shoes (I'd just woken up).

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'SUITLAND, Md. — A 29-year-old homeless woman has given birth to a baby girl after, police said, she was befriended by a Maryland woman who held her captive for several days and tried to cut the baby from her womb.

Officer Michelle Reedy, a spokeswoman for Prince George's County police, said 40-year-old Veronica Deramous of Suitland, Md., has been charged with attempted first-degree murder, false imprisonment and other related charges. Police said Deramous befriended Teka Adams at a southeast Washington homeless shelter and persuaded her to come to her apartment on Dec. 1 with a promise of baby clothes and other items for the unborn child.

Once there, Reedy said, Deramous bound the woman, who was in her third trimester. Days later, the woman escaped after Deramous tried to cut the unborn baby from her body, Reedy said.

"She bound the victim's hands and proceeded to try to cut the victim's abdomen to try to get the baby out," she said. "They believe she wanted the victim's baby."'

Blog post here. Excerpt:

'I'm not sure if this has been discussed already. there's a new SNL skit that you can watch on hulu:

at first when i watched it i did laugh at the "breaking news" aspect and mockery of the situation. but soon i was just disturbed at the way it mocked domestic violence. if there's a possibility that Tiger Woods's wife really assaulted him, then we shouldn't be making light of the situation, no matter how many shocking extra marital affairs he has. besides that, the violence joked about in the skit was serious and can't be made fun of in any domestic violence situation.

I certainly wouldn't have appreciated any jokes about rihanna. So I don't want to see a double standard when the violence is the other way around.

Also, I was going to post this under "domestic violence" category, but alas, Feministing has "violence against women" not "domestic violence." time to add another category!'

Via the Dec. 8, 2009 F&F Newsletter, item one here regarding getting PAS into the next edition of the DSM (in case you haven't taken action already), and a new one: Are You a Military Parent Who Has Had Family Law Problems?. Excerpt:

'Are you a military parent who has had family law problems? Fathers & Families is submitting military parents’ cases to the Secretary of Defense—to be included, please fill out the form below.

Fathers & Families‘ legislative representative Michael Robinson worked with Mark Sullivan of the American Bar Association on the National Defense Reauthorization Act (HR 2647), which was signed by President Obama in October, 2009. The bill mandates that the Secretary of Defense produce a report on child custody litigation involving members of the Armed Forces, as well as international intrafamilial abductions of servicemembers’ children.'

This is a French Orangina commercial which is one of the most bizarre and demeaning misandric commercials I've ever seen. It depicts a black cat-woman in a bikini with a whip vocally demanding that a man dance and strip. The cat-woman is, of course, very fit and the man, of course, fat and bald and appears to be terrified. At the end the cat-woman hits the man across the face with the whip.

Looks like we have something else to add to the boycott list.

Can you imagine a commercial in which, say, a muscular tiger-man with a whip wearing only shorts does the same to an overweight woman? Can you imagine the uproar that would cause?

Article here. Excerpt:

'STATEN ISLAND, N.Y., Dec. 7 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Leading scholars concerned about today's men and boys will convene here April 7, 2010 to plan for a new academic discipline focusing on male studies at the university level. The event sponsored by The On Step Institute will be held at Wagner College and hosted by Professor Miles Groth, Ph.D., Editor, The International Journal of Men's Health and Thymos: Journal of Boyhood Studies. It will lay out the groundwork for the First International Conference on Male Studies scheduled for October 2010 and the launch of the Male Studies Journal.
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It will encompass a broad range of topics relevant to the study of boys and men in contemporary society ranging from their roles in the family, and workforce, as well as their physical and emotional health, to the growing problem of misandry -- the hatred of males, an unacknowledged but underlying socio-cultural, economic, political and legal phenomenon endangering the well-being of both genders.'