Article here. I suspect absurd violence statistics are used to demonize the school boys. Excerpt:

'The Bonsall Women's Group is planning to start a dating and domestic abuse awareness program at Fallbrook Union High School.

The program, called Love is Not Abuse, would teach students about domestic and dating abuse. The program was developed by Liz Claiborne Inc., a clothing design and distribution company.
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Fallbrook Union High School District Assistant Superintendent Jim Yahr said Thursday he has spoken with La Barge and that he's interested in looking over the materials to see if the program can be integrated into ninth-grade health classes, which currently include some discussion of date rape issues and how to maintain a healthy, respectful relationship.'

I wanted to point out a male-positive commercial by Honda called "Mr. Opportunity". This has been running for the past few years, but I find it's a much better portrayal of a man than a lot of commercials out there.

You may or may not remember the Super Bowl commercials back in 2004, one of which was a Honda Pilot commercial "Run With the Wolves" in which a woman is married to a man who was "raised by wolves." It showed the husband looking all disheveled while licking a plate like a dog, drinking straight from the water cooler at work, and chasing a Frisbee (thrown by his son) into a stream. The commercial is here.

I posted about it at Mensactivism.org shortly after it aired. There was a letter writing campaign that followed this ad, and it would be nice to think that Honda's new Mr. Opportunity ads came about as a result of this protest.

Just to show that activism sometimes can work for us.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Two fathers fighting for child custody rights got the thumbs up from the Supreme Court last week. On Friday, a mother had to withdraw a petition trying to thwart a father’s legal quest for more time with his daughter. The apex court had weighed in on his side, directing the divorced couple to settle it out of court.

On the same day, in another case, where a father has been estranged from his son for two years, the Supreme Court directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to step in. The CBI has been given six weeks to find the mother who has gone absconding with her son. The apex court felt compelled to take this step since its repeated directions to state police departments on the matter had come to naught.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'It's time to leave the male bashers, or female abuse deniers out of the picture. Not all men are abusers, and not all women are innocent, or unlikely to commit abuse.

Jan Brown spent years researching domestic violence and interviewing men who fit the definition of abuse. She discovered that there were very few options for male victims.

So she set out to make it right. In October of 2002, she founded the Domestic Abuse Helpline for Men and Women (DAHMW), a non-profit organization created to help men who have been victims of domestic violence. The unique aspect is that this organization is not only for abused men, but abused women as well.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'This article by Peter Tromp who is a Dutch child and educational psychologist, is, for my money, the best, most comprehensive argument for equally shared parenting in existence. In one piece, he lays out the overwhelming case for equally shared parenting along with a good bibliography in support.

As an exercise, first read Tromp's piece and then read the paper by NAWL, the Canadian women's law association which opposes equally shared parenting. Compare the two. Tromp's evidence is voluminous, comprehensive and compelling. The NAWL paper relies on misinformation and anti-father bias to see it through. Comparing the two is like comparing Tolstoy to a comic book.

Via Jeremy S.: Page is here. Note the posters only seem to show males as perpetrators. Two other posters show what could be women doing the abusing but they are not clearly shown as being women or men. In any case, the bias and ignorance is quite apparent. Contact info is here.

Via email: I came across this video. It's of a man who proposes at a baseball game on live TV and the woman slaps him in the face in front of everyone and storms off.

Even though I don't know the context of this video or the couple's relationship, I feel this is an example of the growing callousness and feelings of entitlement among young women toward men today. Obviously for some reason, she was not pleased and because of that, decided to hit him. Have a good day and thank you for all the work you are doing. Dan.

Article here. We're reaching a new low in domestic abuse rhetoric. The new culprit? You guessed it -- toddlers! The VAWA has abused the constitution to alienate fathers from their families. It pains me to wonder whats in store for our nation's boys. Excerpt:

'A first-of-its-kind-study in Perth has shed a new light on domestic violence and its shocking culprits - children.

Boys and girls starting as young as two have been reported as being verbally abusive towards their mothers before graduating to psychological, emotional and physical abuse at a later age.

Ashleigh Haw, who co-ordinates the Parenting Over Violence Project, has found that teenage boys make up the majority of those committing more serious abuses.'

Article here. Excerpt:

Article here. Excerpt:

'Harriet Harman, minister for women and equality, said the report shone a spotlight on discrimination against women in the financial sector. "We cannot tackle discrimination if it is hidden, which is why I asked the commission to produce this report."

She added it was "unlikely men-only boards and management would ever deliver the change in working culture, such as family-friendly flexible working and childcare, that would allow women to flourish in the workplace".

Tough new measures in the forthcoming equality bill will include gender pay reporting and proposals to ban secrecy clauses that are "particularly prevalent in financial services", she said.

John Cridland, deputy director of the CBI said: "No sector is immune from tackling the gender pay gap, and this report highlights that in parts of the financial services sector there is some further distance to go. But, as in many other areas of business, women applying for the top jobs need more flexibility with hours and childcare responsibilities."

Article here. Excerpt:

'The sleek headquarters of Britain’s equality watchdog is the model of inclusiveness. There’s a breastfeeding room for nursing mothers, subtitles on the television at reception for the hard of hearing, electronic door-opening devices for wheelchair users and an area for saying prayers. The latter was presumably useful this summer as the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) descended into civil war over Trevor Phillips, its leader.
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“I would say that we have a culture that does produce bias, even if people don’t mean it to ... The simple fact is that most offices, no matter how progressive and enlightened, still work on the basis that the average ‘normal’ worker is a white male, whose children are looked after by someone else, who can work 9-5. That doesn’t work for many women.”

Article here. Excerpt:

'While perusing the manifesto of this now defunct STORM, several things struck me as particularly interesting. There was of course the passionate commitment to Marxist ideals, radical feminism, gay lesbian and transgender liberation and the ardent support of the unrepentant murderer Mumia Abu Jamal. And there was this rather innocuous looking paragraph, which I found especially fascinating.

"Storm had a closed membership. People could not just decide to join whenever they wanted to. Instead the group invited small classes of activists to become new members. This insured more consistency and accountability within the membership. It also allowed the group to maintain its strict demographic quota requirements; each class was required to be 75% people of color and 60% women."

Article here. Excerpt:

'Thirty years later, few textbooks bother with the disguise. Entire chunks of the English language have been banned from the classroom, liquidated in a P.C. purge. First to go were words containing the dreaded term "man," the three letters most offensive to professional feminists. Mailman, chairman, snowman, fisherman, manhole cover--every one now extinct, disdained relics of a bygone age.
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So did it work? Did shielding children from scary words like "mailman" turn them into better students? Compare the test scores in your kids' school district to those from 1960, and judge for yourself. Or consider this: When asked about the Vietnam War recently, almost a quarter of students described it as a conflict between North and South Korea.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'SEBOKENG, South Africa — The prosecution finished presenting witnesses Wednesday in the case of a woman accused of abusing six teenagers at Oprah Winfrey's school for poor South African girls, presenting a picture of a short-tempered, jealous young woman.

The testimony from the last prosecution witnesses wrapped up the first stage of the trial, which began more than a year ago.

The defendant, Tiny Virginia Makopo, allegedly tried to kiss and fondle the victims and is also accused of assaulting one of the girls as well as fellow supervisor. The 28-year-old pleaded innocent to 14 charges of indecent assault, assault and criminal injury.

Makopo's lawyer is expected to start the defense stage Monday. A verdict could be months away.

Much of the evidence so far has come from students who testified in a closed session because of their age.

Story here. Excerpt:

'On Wednesday morning, Edith and her big sister, Diana Moreno, 17, were found dead, their throats slashed. On Friday, their mother, Antonia Gomez, 38, was arrested on suspicion of killing her daughters.
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Gomez lost her job at a sandwich shop about three months ago and was hospitalized for stress shortly after, relatives said.
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Fuentes owned the property, and until days before the killings had rented out the home in the front.

But she was unable to make the mortgage, and with the home's value plummeting, the property went into foreclosure. Gomez, her mother and the three girls were going to have to find another place to live, relatives said.
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"She didn't have the mental well-being to deal with too much pressure," Gomez Fuentes said. "I just can't visualize her doing this, killing her girls. If she did, she didn't have her five senses."'