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.
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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."
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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.”
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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."

[Submitter of this item: Please be sure to click "Read more" and read my "Ed. note" comments. Thank you. -- Matt ]

Article here . Excerpt:

It is very uncommon to see a politician speaking in public against feminism, in the political correctness atmosphere that controls the Israeli politics and media. However, in a brave speech, Dr. Dafna Netanyahu is presenting Anti-Feminist views in open air, in a conference of the Israeli Likud Party. The Israeli Likud party is a moderate right-wing party. The Current Israeli Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, is from the Likud Party.

A translation of Danfa Netanyahu's speech:
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The anthropologist has explained that when a society reaches such a level of lack of compassion, even between a mother and her child, the rehabilitation of such a society is no longer possible. Apparently the emotional relationship between family members is a glue that is necessary to the existence of a any group, as it functions as the basis for the emotional ability of humans to feel dedication to a group. First for his family, then close groups outside the family, and finally to other humans.
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Blog entry here. Excerpt:

'Israeli MK* Michael Ben Ari (link added) is taking "Shdulat Hanashim" ("Women's Lobby"), an Israeli women's organization, to court, the Israeli media has reported today. In the framework of a discussion in the Israeli Parliament about a law to extend women's maternity leave from 3 months to 6 months, MK Ben Ari has argued that Israeli employers might refrain from hiring women in the first place. "The proposed law might end up hurting women's status rather than helping them", MK Ben Ari said. MK Ben Ari has given an imaginary example of an accountant's office that would prefer hiring men rather than women as a result of the proposed law.'

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Ed. note: "MK" is short for "Member of the Knesset", which you can read about here if you are unfamiliar with it. Also, I tried, but could not found a source article on this report. If anyone can post, please do so.

Are you divorced and separated from your kids? Are you a man being abused by his wife (or significant other)? Are you a man who feels like nobody cares? Or are you a man with a good life, a solid marriage and children, or grandchildren, who wonders about the institutions of marriage and family disappearing before your eyes?

The DesertLight Group on Facebook cares. Right now we are a small collection of people with no access to legal or medical/psychological help. All we want to do is give you the opportunity to tell your story and know that someone hears.

That’s because we do care. Men still hold up half the sky, and fill the majority of the protective positions such as military and law enforcement. Men do the ditch digging, the crop harvesting, the building of wondrous structures.

Men are still our only fathers. Men are the people most women simply can’t live without.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Abusegate: a generation deceived
By Trudy W. Schuett

January 11, 2010

Article here. Excerpt:

'BEIJING (AFP) – More than 24 million Chinese men of marrying age could find themselves without spouses in 2020, state media reported on Monday, citing a study that blamed sex-specific abortions as a major factor.

The study, by the government-backed Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, named the gender imbalance among newborns as the most serious demographic problem for the country's population of 1.3 billion, the Global Times said.

"Sex-specific abortions remained extremely commonplace, especially in rural areas," where the cultural preference for boys over girls is strongest, the study said, while noting the reasons for the gender imbalance were "complex."
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China first implemented its population control policy in 1979, generally limiting families to one child, with some exceptions for rural farmers, ethnic minorities and other groups.

It has said the policy has averted 400 million births.

Researchers said the gender imbalance problem cropped up in the late 1980s when the use of ultrasound technology became more prevalent.

This allowed women to easily determine the sex of their foetuses, leading to an increased number of sex-selective abortions.'

Article here. A well-informed article by Robert Smol posted on the Canadian Broadcast Company' website which is astonishing in itself due to its far left leanings. Excerpt:

'Looking at the demographics of university-bound students today, it is hard to believe that not so long ago we were developing programs to get more girls into university.

By all indications now, that same spirit of reform and innovation is needed to push more boys into higher education — for all that may be worth.

These days I need only peek into a class and I can tell by the gender makeup whether or not it is academic or applied.

Those classes where the majority are female students are invariably academic. Those where the majority is male are not.

No surprise then that the face of university education in this country is increasingly becoming female as women have been overtaking men in both the participation rate as well as in the percentage who graduate.

Indeed, it seems that women are such timid and easily-frightened creatures, with men being so foreboding, menacing, and indeed, unbelievably dangerous, that otherwise public services need to create women-only parking lots with pink parking space lines and wider-than-typical parking spaces in order for them to "feel safe".

Add China to the growing list of countries that is allowing women-only public spaces or services of this or that kind while gleefully ignoring the way they they are short-changing their male citizens. But I couldn't make this stuff up if you paid me. Excerpt:

'A shopping centre in China's Hebei province has built a car park with wider spaces that it says is designed especially to suit women drivers.

The women-only car park in Shijiazhuang city is also painted in pink and light purple to appeal to female tastes.

Official Wang Zheng told AFP news agency the car park was meant to cater to women's "strong sense of colour and different sense of distance".

The parking bays are one metre (3ft) wider than normal spaces, he said.