This Italian man had the unmitigated gall to publicly kiss his daughter while on vacation in Brazil. He's now in custody awaiting possible criminal proceedings. I say lock him up for good. Eight to fifteen years in prison isn't nearly enough for any man who displays the slightest bit of affection towards his children.

Sarcasm aside, while it's important to protect children from exploitation, this is another example of the appalling way society views and treats men. Excerpt:

'There is growing controversy in Brazil over the arrest of an Italian tourist held after kissing his eight-year-old daughter in public.
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Under a strict new law partly designed to combat child sex abuse in South America's largest country, he faces eight to 15 years in jail if convicted.

The unnamed man has been in custody for almost a week. A new attempt to secure his release this weekend failed.

His Brazilian wife says the case is all a misunderstanding, while staff at the resort where the incident took place have been reported as saying they saw nothing unusual.'

Piece here

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'Harriet Harman has spent many years of her political life stirring up hatred towards men in order to enrage women and to make them feel antagonistic towards men.

The idea behind this is to rally the support of women so that she can pursue her own ambitions - which have got nothing to do with gender 'equality' and nothing to do with any genuine concern about 'women'.

Her persistent hate-stirring is just a callous, calculating, well tried and tested mechanism through which feminists the world over have gained enormous power.'

[For those who don't know, Harriet Harman, MP (a.k.a. Harriet Har-person, Harriet Harm-man) is a British Labour Party politician and the Member of Parliament for Camberwell and Peckham since 1997.]

Also see the August 9th post about her on the Steve Moxon blog.

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'The feminists had no sympathy with the fact that men were victims of most of the lost jobs because the majority of manufacturing and construction jobs are men's jobs. The segments of our economy dominated by women, social services, education, health, child care, and welfare have actually gained jobs during this recession.

Nevertheless, the feminists demanded that half the Stimulus jobs be given to women. The feminists worked to achieve this result by directing the Stimulus funds into the types of jobs where women predominate and by allocating at least a third of the spending in manufacturing and construction industries to training women for those men's jobs.

All the feminist organizations joined in the political clatter. They called for a meeting so they could lecture Obama's economic advisers and hurl their demands that the Stimulus package create jobs that women like, such as workplace-comfortable inside jobs with air-conditioned offices and carpeted floors.

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'HANOI (Reuters) - The ratio of boys born in Vietnam compared with girls has grown at an unusually rapid pace in recent years and could lead to a rise in sex work and trafficking, the United Nations said.

The sex ratio at birth was 112.1 male births per 100 female births in 2008, up from an estimated 106.2 in 2000, the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA) said in a report.

With growth since 2006 of one percentage point per year, the ratio might cross the 115 mark within three years, it said.

By 2035, the surplus of adult men would be 10 percent or more of the female population if the sex ratio did not return to 105 male births per 100 females, it said.

"Scarcity of women would increase pressure for them to marry at a younger age, there may be a rising demand for sex work and the trafficking networks may also expand in response to this imbalance," UNFPA said.

"Examples of gender-based violence and human trafficking have already been observed in Vietnam and point to some of the risks faced by vulnerable girls and women."'

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'Wilfong and Ricky disappeared in Nov. 2007 after a contentious custody battle that resulted in temporary custody for the boy's father, Mike Chekevdia.

Wilfong's mother claims she and her daughter hid her grandson to protect him from Chekevdia, who they claim sexually abused the boy.

As she was being led away from the courthouse, Wilfong contended to reporters Tuesday, "My little boy said that he was scared to go back, because his dad was gonna tie him up again."

The judge has ordered Ricky to stay with one of Mike Chekevdia's relatives until a November custody hearing, but indicated his desire to reunite father and son after thorough counseling.'

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'RENO, Nev. — The attorney for Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger is rejecting a settlement offer by a former Nevada casino worker who claims the Super Bowl winner sexually assaulted her.

Roethlisberger attorney David Cornwell says the woman's offer is bizarre.

The woman wants Roethlisberger to admit to the allegations, apologize and donate $100,000 to the Committee to Aid Abused Women, a Reno nonprofit organization that offers support to domestic violence victims.

In a statement Wednesday, Cornwell says the proposal insults women who have legitimately suffered from sexual misconduct.'

Story here. Finally, some common sense! If the current president of the US or PM of Britain want to up their increasingly dismal approval ratings among men, this'd be one sure way to do it. Excerpt:

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'With endowments shrinking, donations falling and operating budgets squeezed, colleges and universities face great pressure to cut costs. Athletic departments are an obvious target. But, troublingly, men's sports are disproportionately bearing the brunt.

Story here. Check out the picture of a man with lipstick on his collar. Excerpt:

'(AP) A man whose penis was glued to his stomach testified Tuesday that a motel tryst with a girlfriend involving a bondage fantasy turned painful and humiliating after his wife, a second girlfriend and another woman burst into the room and harassed him because of his cheating ways.

The 37-year-old Fond du Lac man told Calumet County Circuit Court Judge Timothy Van Akkeren that during the July 30 ordeal, which lasted about 30 minutes, he was punched in the face twice. The woman he had gone to the motel to meet, Therese Ziemann, super glued his penis to his stomach while at least two of the other women watched, the man said.
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Sewell's attorney, Nila Robinson, said she would seek to have the charge against her client dismissed because of a lack of evidence.
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She called the man dishonest, a liar and a con man. He tricked the women he called his girlfriends by telling them he loved them and wanted futures with them, Robinson said.'

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'Once again, Britain is recoiling from the sickening spectacle of childhood innocence being turned into its monstrous antithesis.

Two young brothers aged ten and 11 from Edlington, South Yorkshire, subjected two other little boys aged nine and 11 to sadistic attack and torture, leaving one fighting for his life.
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People call these boys 'evil' because such absence of feeling is inhuman. But they are not evil. They are children.

We are all born with the capacity for both good and bad. Everything depends on whether the immature child is raised in a way that develops the good and discourages the bad, or whether something goes wrong with that process.
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Their mother, who has seven sons by three fathers, is an alcoholic and drug addict who left them to forage from rubbish bins and fed them cannabis to keep them quiet; their father is a drunken brute, who regularly beat them and forced them to watch violent horror films.

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'A mother stabbed her two teenage daughters to death in their beds in an attempt to destroy her former husband’s life, a court was told yesterday.

Rekha Kumari-Baker, 41, carried out a frenzied attack on Davina Baker, 16, and Jasmine Baker, 13, after “softening them up” on a shopping trip, Cambridge Crown Court heard.

There had been contention between Ms Kumari-Baker, 41, and her former husband David Baker, 44, about the care and custody of the girls, John Farmer for the prosecution, said.

The sisters were attacked in their mother’s home in Stretham, near Ely, Cambridgeshire, in the early hours of June 13, 2007. She stabbed Davina 39 times and launched a similar assault on Jasmine, the court was told.'

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'False report charges have been issued against the woman who alleged a sexual assault on a Peachtree City golf cart path.

On Aug. 27, officers of the Peachtree City Police Department responded to the Piedmont/Fayette Community Hospital to investigate an incident involving a female victim reporting that she was sexually assaulted on the multi-use path system, according to Captain Rosanna Dove, public information officer.

The victim reported that at approximately 5:30 a.m., while she was running on the multi-use path adjacent to Lake Kedron and the cul-de-sac of Samiel Point and Larkins Landing, a white male approached her from behind and then forced her to the ground. The suspect was said by the woman to have sexually assaulted her and fled the scene.

Follow-up investigations revealed that the complainant falsely reported the sexual assault.'

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'The most common, and most often dismissed, argument against Title IX is that it has led to the destruction of many men’s athletic teams. Hundreds of men’s wrestling, gymnastics and tennis teams have been cut from D-I athletics programs around the country in order to allow universities to meet Title IX proportionality requirements, according to 60 Minutes. While this should be cause for concern for those who claim to support equality in college athletics, it is often dismissed as unimportant or blamed on football.

There are many Title IX supporters who claim that if universities would spend less on football, they would be able to have as many wrestlers and male gymnasts as they wanted. This is a ridiculous argument, however, in a country that is built on the tradition of college football.

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'Feminism is the theory that men and women are equal in every respect--except for those in which women are superior. The trick is to interpret every social indicator as though it demonstrates arbitrary male privilege or genuine female superiority.

For example, when studies show that girls perform less well than boys at advanced math, it is due to systemic discrimination in favor of boys; but when the same studies show that boys’ under-performance in the language arts is four times as great as that of girls in math, well that is due to girls’ innate superiority.'

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'In fact, I started playing around with different ways that you can be critical of feminism, and came up with Six Different Levels of Feminist Critics

1.At this level you have no criticism towards feminism and believe that feminism is spot-on. You are a feminist yourself and possibly self-identify with a particular branch of the movement.

2.Some mild criticism starts appearing. You find it important that masculinity studies within the feminist framework are carried out, since you believe that patriarchy hurts men too. Many liberal men and cultural creatives can be found in this category.