Story here. Suppose if a woman were in a "men-only" poker tourney (which as we know would not ever exist in a public forum) and she won it, and then the runner-up complained, do you suppose he'd get a lot of sympathy? Seems women can play on men's teams but not the other way around, even when physical skills have nothing to do with it. Excerpt:

'She was among more than 260 women who each put up $300 to play in the tournament, but when the dust cleared, Abraham Korotki, 65, of Ventnor City, N.J., took home the trophy and $20,982 first prize.
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"When you're a woman and you play poker, 99 percent of the time you're at a table with nine men," Rowe, who won $11,889, said yesterday during a phone interview, adding that playing against a field of women is "something I look forward to.

"Why did he have to ruin it for us? Why would he do this?"

Report here.

'(Ottawa) – On Saturday, September 12, 2009, at approximately 3:21am, Ottawa Police responded to a report of an assault in the 1400 block of Caldwell Avenue. Upon arrival, officers located a 50-year-old man with what appeared to be puncture wounds consistent with those from a syringe.

The police investigation revealed that the victim had a verbal altercation with a 28-year-old woman. The woman stabbed the victim with a syringe while making death threats to the victim and a third party.

The Ottawa Paramedic Service treated the male victim at the scene and he is currently being treated for possible communicable disease contamination.

Angela ARVISAIS, 28-years-old, of Ottawa, has been charged with attempted murder and uttering death threats. She will appear in court today.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'FINDLAY - It may have been "ill-advised" to threaten to castrate an irate caller, but Hancock County Commissioner Emily Walton said Friday she has no plans to resign her elected office.

"Suffice to say, it was an ill-advised comment precipitated by my unsuccessful request that he treat our staff politely and with respect," said Dr. Walton, a long-time veterinarian.
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"People disagree. They blow off steam. They use the Lord's name in vain, but this stunned me," Mr. Davidson said yesterday.
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The comment may have shocked Mr. Davidson, but did not surprise those who know Dr. Walton.

"Emily's Emily. She's demonstrative," Mr. Ingold said. "She has brought a shovel in before at a meeting to demonstrate because she felt that all we get done is shoveling stuff that got left on our plate because the former commissioners didn't handle it. She's used her veterinary tools for emphasis on a number of occasions."'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Finnish boys aged 15 to 16 are more likely to experience violence from their dating partners than girls of the same age. The matter comes out in a study by the National Research Institute on Legal Policy.

An extensive survey on youth crime shows that 22 per cent of boys in a dating relationship had been hit at least once by their girlfriends. Only six per cent of girls had experienced similar events.

The most serious types of violence is striking someone with a fist or a hard object, or kicking. Nine per cent of boys and two per cent of girls had experienced such attacks.

Being grabbed, or prevented from moving was the only type of violence that girls experienced more often than boys. The figures were 19 per cent and 14 per cent respectively.

The results were not very surprising, and followed the lines of a survey conducted in 2004, says Venla Salmi, who conducted the present study.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Us women are more egocentric and narcissistic than we ever used to be, according to extensive research by two leading psychologists.

More of us have huge expectations of ourselves, our lives and everyone in them. We think the universe resolves around us, with a deluded sense of our own fabulousness, and believe we are cleverer, more talented and more attractive than we actually are.

We have trouble accepting criticism and extending empathy because we are so preoccupied with ourselves.
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She pointed out that she owned a gorgeous flat with gorgeous things in it, had a nice car, was a member of a fancy gym and wore designer dresses. 'I do what I like, when I like,' she said.

She'd been told, and appears to believe, that she's too successful and too well-educated for most men.'

Story here. This particular incident wherein one performer interrupts another performer while she is giving an award acceptance speech is indeed an example of incivility and rudeness. No one denies that. The problem here is the way this story is discussed by this particular blogger. The most telling paragraph:

"Not only was Kanye's approach disrespectful, it was especially disrespectful because it was directed towards a woman--a teenage girl, actually. Taylor won't turn 20 until December. I can only imagine how her father feels. I'm sure he would like to have a talk to Kanye. I'm not related to her, and I'd like to have a talk with him."

Story here. Excerpt:

'PERUGIA, Italy — An Italian court on Monday rejected defense lawyers' requests to throw out the murder indictments of an American student and her former boyfriend on trial for the slaying of her British roommate.

Lawyers for Amanda Knox and co-defendant Raffaele Sollecito, accused in the 2007 slaying of Meredith Kercher, had challenged key DNA findings in the case and asked the court to toss out the indictments. The indictments are partly based on DNA evidence.

Knox and Sollecito, who were both in court as the trial resumed after a summer break, deny wrongdoing.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Bardes, who lost 126 friends in the World Trade Center attack on September 11, wanted nothing more than to be a good dad and equal parent to his son and daughter. He didn't ask his wife to have an affair with the nanny's husband. And when his ex-wife moved their children to another state after the divorce, Bardes followed, twice.

Due to the children living in three states over a short period of time (PA, NC, SC) Bardes had all three states charging him child support, resulting in mistaken arrears. Bardes says he never willfully withheld child support, and documents related to his Federal court case (#02:08-487-PMD-RSC) support his claim.

Bardes developed severe depression after being treated like a criminal. He says they "seized assets, destroyed my credit ratings, destroyed my business and income, and my mental health." He lost so much weight he was "skin and bones." This man who once made $180,000 a year now had a hard time finding employment.'

Article here. Excerpt:

Story here. Excerpt:

'FINDLAY, Ohio — A county commissioner said she was joking when she told a former county resident she wanted to castrate him and had the tools to do it. Jeff Davidson said Hancock County Commissioner Emily Walton, who is a veterinarian, made the comment to him during a heated telephone conversation last week over a neighborhood drainage issue. Davidson said the comment was unprofessional and that Walton should resign as commissioner.

Walton said Davidson had been disrespectful on the phone to her and to women working in the commission office several times. She says the castration comment is one she has used for years and that people with half a sense of humor understand.'

Hancock County Commissioner office: commissioners-at-co.hancock.oh.us

http://www.meninpower.com/

'MiP is a Registered Student Organization at the University of Chicago that provides a unique opportunity for undergraduate men at the University of Chicago to expand and sharpen their knowledge of business, politics, and networking—giving them the skills they will need to become future leaders of the world. The group also seeks to address issues and challenges modern men face in their lives, with acknowledgment of the tremendous hardship that the female sex have suffered.'

Story here.

'A 41-year-old Austrian woman has been arrested after a man was found strangled to death at her flat.

The 36-year-old Spanish man was killed last Friday at the woman’s flat in Adliswil, Switzerland, according to Zurich police.

They said today (Fri) she had called them at 7am that morning to say she had found a dead man in her flat.

Zurich police said the Spaniard had been visiting the woman before his death. They have no information as yet about the woman’s possible motive for killing the Spaniard.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'Two women have been arrested in connection with an assault and rape in Oklahoma City, police said Friday.

Police arrested Sonya Carr, 26, and Carla Terrazas, 19, on Thursday, Sgt. Jennifer Wardlow said.

On Aug. 30, a woman reported she had been attacked and raped about 5 a.m. that day in south Oklahoma City. She was found in her vehicle by a passer-by in the area of SW 41 and Youngs Boulevard. The passer-by called a friend of the victim, who took her to the hospital, Wardlow said.'

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People new to MANN may be interested in this site. Contrary to popular belief, woman-on-woman sexual assaults occur much more than presumed. Feminists would have us believe such is not the case.

Story here.

'NORFOLK, Va. - Norfolk Police say they arrested a woman who confessed to driving around a victim who had been duct taped and beaten.

Police say Sonia Green and two other males grabbed a victim in the 3800 block of Granby Street last Sunday.

The victim, Obdulio Salazar, was duct taped, beaten and put into a van. The suspects then allegedly drove him around the city demanding his ATM pin numbers.

He managed to escape and identified Green through a photo lineup.

She was arrested and police say she confessed to the crime.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'A Sudanese woman who emigrated to the United States in 2005 is facing a murder charge in connection with the death of her 5-month-old son.

Marlen Ramadan Taboor, 21, was arrested Friday by Henrico County police and last night was being held in the Roanoke City Jail, according to law enforcement spokesmen.

Taboor, according to online court records, was charged in Roanoke Tuesday last week with the murder of her son, Christopher George, in October last year. It was unclear last night why Taboor was in the Richmond area. She was arrested in the 6300 block of Clover Lane in Henrico, near the intersection of Lakeside Avenue and Hilliard Road.

Taboor moved to the Roanoke area from Sudan in 2005, according to a news story then in the Roanoke Times newspaper. She was charged with grand larceny days before her son's death and given a suspended prison sentence, according to court records.'