Article here. Excerpt:

'Many states are deliberating whether or not it would be worth-while for them to use GPS tracking systems to monitor the whereabouts of domestic violence offenders who have orders of protection against them. It has been argued by many state governments that often these orders of protection are violated thus resulting in the deaths of many victims.

On the other hand, some lawmakers argue that the GPS systems are likely to help in some cases, but not all. They also argue that the GPS systems would come at a significant cost to tax payers. Furthermore, some states argue that because of these high costs, the thought of using this new technology is simply a delusion of grandeur. Meanwhile countless numbers of abused women have been relating stories of the protection orders being violated by their ex-partners. In one tragic case, a woman named Leigh Ann Olson told the story of how her ex-husband violated his protection order and fatally shot their five year old daughter Makayla, before shooting himself.'

Story here here. Excerpt:

'Nearly 30 local men will step into women's fancy red heels next month to raise Domestic Violence awareness as they "Walk a Mile in Her Shoes."

These male volunteers will be showing off their footwear while emphasizing the importance of men being more involved in stopping violence against women at the Oct. 10 event.

"We wanted it very diverse because we know that violence affects everybody from all walks of life," Van Maanen said. "So we wanted men from all walks of life to participate."

"The guys were really excited about it," she said. "Then some of those guys got other men involved, which is exactly what we wanted to happen."

Historically, the domestic violence and sexual assault movement has been led mainly by women and it's time for men to get involved, Van Maanen said.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Victims of domestic abuse can hide the truth from doctors, but they leave clues in their medical records that a computer program has now learned to follow.

The program could save lives by acting as an early warning system for domestic violence, flagging up possible cases of abuse to doctors months or even years before they would otherwise be detected.

The program produced a set of rules based on the differences it found. These were mainly based on patterns of injuries and bouts of mental illness – signs of abuse that doctors already look for.

But the program also found new clues, including some that pick out victims of one sex but not the other. Alcoholism, for instance, is a red flag for abuse in women, but not men, because it is less common among women in general. In contrast, depression and other mood disorders are a strong predictor of abuse in men, but less so for women.'

Essay here. Excerpt:

Story here. Excerpt:

'SPRING VALLEY - A 42-year-old Nanuet woman has been charged with falsely accusing a village man of raping her and holding her captive, authorities said Monday.

Miriam Chambers' June accusations led Abraham Wilson to spend several months in the county jail as an accused parole violator, authorities said.

...She accused Wilson of beating her, breaking her hand and raping her, police said.

About a week later, however, Chambers recanted her accusations in a letter to Wilson's lawyer - at the Rockland Public Defender's Office.
...
On Thursday, police charged Chambers with a felony count of first-degree making an apparently sworn false statement. Her arrest is part of an investigation into the circumstances surrounding Chambers' filing of the report, Spring Valley Detective Reginald Anderson said.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'New Delhi, Sep 29 (PTI) A young woman, who allegedly blackmailed men by threatening them to frame them in rape cases, was arrested in the national capital, police said today.

The 30-year-old woman was arrested following investigations into a complaint filed by Sanjay Dass, who runs a pest control company, that he was coerced to hand over his belongings to two women after being put under the fear of framing him in a false rape case.
...
"One of them closed the door from inside while the other caught hold of him. She asked Dass to hand over all his belongings or else he will be framed in a case of rape.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'I know you don’t want to hear this, but newlyweds are cheating. The numbers are gnarly; 15 percent of women and 12 percent of men under the age of 35* reported cheating within their first year of marriage! The worst part: Since these stats came from people who admitted it, relationship therapist Dr. Bonnie Eaker said she suspects the real number is more than half. Don’t believe me? Check out this clip from CBS News.

Although Eaker’s estimate is interesting, I'm not sure I agree. I know a ton of couples who've made the long walk down the big white aisle, and while, sadly, many haven't made it past the three-year mark, I can only think of one where infidelity was a factor. I guess the real question is, why does anyone cheat within the so-called honeymoon phase? My guess is that these are people who just can't come to terms with what real marriage is. In short: not a perfect paradise full of roses and gumdrops and sexy-twinkly lighting 24/7.'

----

Site here. For those unfamiliar, more on Bly here. Excerpt:

Article here. Excerpt:

'Growing up in Britain in the 1970s it was impossible not to be aware of Erin Pizzey. She was the iconic face of feminism, as she appeared on television seemingly every other night to expose what she saw as the oppression of women. She also founded of one of the first domestic violence shelters in the world. They were known as battered women’s homes in those days but the nomenclature, as well as the politics, has changed over the years. So, it seems, has Erin Pizzey.

“I would go so far as to say,” she wrote last week, “that the movement, which proclaimed that all men are potential rapists and batterers, was based on a lie that, if allowed to flourish, would result in the complete destruction of family life ... Feminism, I realized, was a lie. Women and men are both capable of extraordinary cruelty. Indeed, the only thing a child really needs — two biological parents under one roof — was being undermined by the very ideology which claimed to speak up for women’s rights.”

Essay here. Excerpt:

'The Uganda-born Asian confidence trickster Farah Damji caused a small sensation in England in 2006 when she absconded from prison and seemed at first to be taunting authorities by keeping in touch with them through a web log. As one-time editrix of a London lifestyle magazine, and a journalist with well-known national and regional papers, she had good media contacts. These got the tale of her exploits into the national news.

Article here.

Would we ever see a report where men rate a woman's love making ability? Could you imagine the backlash if German men said women had bad hygiene or British men saying women were too lazy in bed?

Excerpt:

'A poll of 15,000 women found that Germans are considered "too smelly".

English lovers came second because they are so lazy, while men from Sweden were branded "too quick to finish" and came third.

Spanish men topped the table as the best lovers, followed by Brazilians and Italians.

The poll, carried out by global research site www.OnePoll.com, asked women from 20 countries to rate nations on their ability in bed and give reasons for their answers.

Germans were deemed to have bad body odour, Englishmen were accused of letting women do all the work, whilst Swedes were a bit too quick to finish.

Men from Holland were "too rough" between the bed covers and Americans were accused of being "too dominating" in the bedroom.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Again...this is one of many emails I receive from men who are financially unable to meet alimony/child support payments, from second wives whose husbands are in jail for non-payment of ruinously high judgments, from family members pleading for any relief from a patently unjust family court system... There is little I can do to help these victims of "the system." But I can reprint and publicize their voices.

The following email is particularly interesting because, as the author explains, it includes a "list with many reasons why the law needs to be changed and a copy of my personal story." Although I have verified the list, it looks to be a compelling argument in-and-of-itself against Florida's alimony laws. Moreover, the man's story should be widely circulated as a cautionary tale on how the family court system is financially destroying men and women who marry unwisely and, then, are forced to pay for that mistake for the rest of their lives. Their circumstances are a de facto form of slavery.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'TOKYO, Japan (CNN) -- Had this custody drama played out in the United States, Christopher Savoie might be considered a hero -- snatching his two little children back from an ex-wife who defied the law and ran off with them.

But this story unfolds 7,000 miles away in the Japanese city of Fukuoka, where the U.S. legal system holds no sway.

And here, Savoie sits in jail, charged with the abduction of minors. And his Japanese ex-wife -- a fugitive in the United States for taking his children from Tennessee -- is considered the victim.

After Noriko Savoie took the children to Japan, Savoie filed for and received full custody of the children, Bruno said. And Franklin police issued an arrest warrant for his ex-wife, the television station reported.

"Our court system failed him," said Diane Marshall, a court-appointed parent coordinator who helped Savoie make decisions about the children. "It's just a mess."

Article here. Excerpt:

'The consensus, for once, is right: female circumcision reduces – if not eliminates – sexual pleasure, provides no apparent health benefits, and violates individual autonomy. At its core, female circumcision is a degrading and brutally unfair practice.

All of this is true of male circumcision – the removal of penis foreskin – as well. Yet, as the New York Times recently reported, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), an arm of the United States federal government, is now considering a plan to ‘promote [the] routine circumcision’ of infant boys in the US with the aim of reducing the spread of HIV (1). This proposal is as degrading as it is illiberal.

The scientific evidence that the CDC is relying on in considering the new recommendation is laughably weak. Consider, first, the people who were the object of the study: the population group surveyed was from sub-Saharan Africa, where sexual mores and cultural conditions are utterly different from those of the US.'

Perhaps this is a bit of good news about the "college gap". Excerpt:

'Today, women earn far more Bachelor’s and Associate’s degrees as well as slightly more Master’s and Doctoral degrees than men. Fortunately for men like myself, there is a major flaw in how this data is interpreted. When you look at this chart, what is the first thing that comes to mind? In all likelihood, if your thought was similar to mine, it was that more women are going to college and fewer men are than in the past. Or in other words, women are going to college instead of men. However, it is wrong to assume that because men make up a smaller percentage of college students today than they did in the past, that women must be taking spots previously held by men. The pie is not static; it got bigger, a lot bigger. College admission has exploded since 1970: the number of men in college has actually increased substantially and the percentage of men going to college is greater now than it was in 1970.