Article here. Excerpt:

'This month marks the 100th anniversary of Father's Day, and a big celebration is planned for June 20 at the Lincoln Memorial. I figured it was a good time to ask a local lawyer who is active in family court, child support and gender issues about what he sees facing boys and men at this milestone.
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"We ought to be looking at why boys are disengaged in primary and secondary education such that they never get to college. What is it about our school system that turns off the boys so that by the time college comes around, they're not in the equation? What is it that is causing boys to have lower academic aspirations than girls?" Mr. Henry asked.

Other topics:

• Domestic violence, which is a national issue with an office of its own when it's against women, but an invisible issue when men are the victims.

Article here . Excerpt:

'But that assumes both parents are reasonable. In this case, the mother is clearly a nutbar who used her kids as weapons against her ex. Jail might have taught her a lesson a lot sooner.

A.L. is "exhausted but very, very happy. He has his children," says his lawyer, Harold Niman.

"This kind of case will hopefully send a message to those people who think it's OK to undermine a relationship between the children and the other parent."'

We criticize Ms. Jacobs when she lets her inherent misandry leak out in a lot of her columns but here she gets it right. Please email and thank her for getting it right this time. It also lets her know we are still watching her. Her email address is at the bottom of the column.

Story here. Excerpt:

'WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The suicide rate among U.S. Army soldiers jumped in May -- continuing a four-month upward trend and on a record pace for a second straight year, according to Army statistics released Thursday.

Last month the deaths of 17 soldiers were either confirmed or suspected to be suicides, up from 13 in April and 13 in March, the new numbers revealed.

The Army said the total number of potential or confirmed suicides since January stands at 82. Last year the Army recorded 133 suicides, the most ever.
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"It's clear we have not found full solutions to this yet. But we are trying every remedy and seeking help from outside agencies that are experts in suicide prevention. There isn't a reasonable suicide prevention tool out there the Army won't potentially employ," he said.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'According to ESPN, a certain Alfred G. Rava took the time to drive from San Diego to Oakland to attend the Oakland A’s Mother’s Day promotion. A lot of the activities were geared towards breast cancer awareness—a 5k fight-breast-cancer run and free mammograms. Rava focused on the fact that Macy’s gave the first 7,500 women attending floppy sun hats.

Rava sued—and sadly enough, nearly won, using California’s Unruh Civil Rights Act of 1959. The judge ruled that any male who can prove that they were among the first 7,500 people to enter the stadium can receive $50, two-for-one A’s tickets, and $25 coupon to Macy’s.'

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Ed. note: The ESPN article is here. Not surprisingly, it is not sympathetic to the point the man was trying to make.

Article here. Excerpt:

• In 2006, Fitness USA agreed to place a divider and frosted glass in its Lincoln Park, Mich., gym to ensure gender separation. The move came after 200 Muslim members of Fitness USA signed a petition saying that the company reneged on a promise to maintain gender separation at that facility.

• Last year, Harvard University agreed to set aside women-only hours at one of its fitness centers for students after Muslim women pleaded their case.

• Curves for Women gyms, a fast-growing franchise in the United States, has rapidly expanded into the Middle East, with more than two dozen facilities in Israel, Egypt, Lebanon, Kuwait, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar opening in the past two years, according to Becky Frusher, head of corporate communications for Curves.
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Mullooly says she helps to maintain a women-only atmosphere at the club, which also has a pool, by stopping all male visitors at the front desk and by scheduling repairs by workmen after hours.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings are not scheduled to begin until mid-July, but her punditocracy hearings are already well underway. This week they’re all about her now infamous (and almost always decontextualized) "wise Latina" comment.

Pat Buchanan regularly reminds the public that Obama's nominee can’t wait to get her hooks into the rights of white men. Michael Steele concurs, explaining: "God help you if you're a white male coming before her bench." Shelby Steele, in a triumphant act of hyperbolism, claimed that “Sotomayor has demonstrated a Hispanic chauvinism so extreme that it sometimes crosses into outright claims of racial supremacy.”'

Article here. Excerpt:

Article here. Excerpt:

'Principal Efe Agbamu, was reading off the names of the top ten academic performers in the class of 2009. Every single one was a female student.

They are very accomplished, talented young women with very bright futures. They are making plans to attend top notch four year institutions and to pursue careers like biomedical engineer, medical doctor, physical therapist, chemical engineer, nurse and the list goes on.

I was very proud of their accomplishments and certainly do not want to take anything away from their hard work, but I couldn’t help but think, “Where are the boys?”
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He informed me that a significant reading gap has developed between our females and our males. We all know how important reading is to success in school and our females are doing much better in reading.
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I don’t have the answers. My goal here is to raise a significant concern in the academic performance of young males.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'The 15-year-old girl charged with first-degree murder in the killing of 78-year-old Frank Tonge has been remanded for a psychiatric assessment.

The young girl, who cannot be identified because of the Youth Criminal Justice Act, made her first court appearance in Hampton on Thursday.

She fought back tears as the charge was read, her mother and sister looking on.

Tonge was found on June 5 laying in a pool of blood in his home in Damascus, near Hampton, by a friend.

The girl did not enter a plea and David Lutz, the defence lawyer, requested a 30-day psychiatric, psychological and medical assessment.
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Meanwhile, the RCMP continues to investigate but the police seem to be backing away from earlier suggestions that other suspects could be charged.'

Once again, no comments allowed by the CBC.

Article here. Excerpt:

"A senior police official says investigators are actively exploring the possibility that the three infants whose remains were found in a London, Ont., home on Saturday did not die there.

Det.-Supt. Ken Heslop said it's possible the deaths occurred in another Ontario community before Jennifer Sinn, the woman charged in the case, moved to London.

Heslop said Peel Regional Police and the Ontario Provincial Police are trying to trace the movements of the 32-year-old woman before she moved to London last October.

Court documents suggest the infants may have died in 2001, 2002 and 2006.

Sinn has been charged with three counts of concealing the body of a dead child and causing an indignity to a dead body."

The CBC NEVER allows comments on these types of stories. I wonder why...

Some equal time for the "Don't Date Him Girl" crowd: http://www.dontdatethis.com/ddtgirl/

"Dontdatethis.com was created to hold girls/women accountable for their actions. Next time your girlfriend cheats, lies, gives you an unexpected trip to the doctor or just does something wrong to you, you have a site to place a warning to all guys all over the world about her.

The goal of this site is to create a user friendly information database that hopefully makes all girls/women think twice before they act."

Looks like they also provide equal-equal time with http://www.dontdatethis.com/ddtguy/.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Judge Sonia Sotomayor once described herself as "a product of affirmative action" who was admitted to two Ivy League schools despite scoring lower on standardized tests than many classmates, which she attributed to "cultural biases" that are "built into testing."

On another occasion, she aligned with conservatives who take a limited view of when international law can be enforced in U.S. courts. But she criticized conservative objections to recent Supreme Court rulings that mention foreign law as being based on a "misunderstanding."

Those comments were among a trove of videos dating back nearly 25 years that shed new light on Sotomayor's views. She provided the videos to the Senate Judiciary Committee last week as it prepares for her Supreme Court confirmation hearing next month.

Follow-up to an earlier story here. Excerpt:

'A nursery school worker was jeered and spat at when she appeared in court today, charged with sexual assault and making and distributing child abuse images.

Vanessa George, 39, who worked at the Little Ted's nursery in Plymouth, was remanded in custody amid angry scenes in and outside the city's magistrates court. George, of Plymouth, faces three counts of sexual assault on girls and one on a boy. She is also accused of making, possessing and distributing indecent images of children.

The charges relate to offences alleged to have taken place between 1 January 2007 and June this year. The first charge relates to an assault in Plymouth of a girl aged around one. In the second, she is alleged to have touched an "infant girl". The third is a serious sexual assault on an "infant boy". Another involved an alleged serious sexual assault on an "infant girl".
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The other three charges were that she took, possessed and distributed indecent images of children.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Great conversation and debate going on at Lylah and Barbara's Child Caring blog about moms who get the creeps leaving their children with male caregivers.

This drives hard-working male teachers, not to mention devoted dads, understandably crazy with outrage over society's sexist double standard. (For the record, I adore the two men teachers at our preschool -- I think they are great role models for the little boys, and all the kids see that teachers of either gender can teach and comfort them.)
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Several months ago, I interviewed male nursing students studying at Bunker Hill Community College's state-of-the-art nursing program who hoped to enter the labor & delivery field.

These were really nice 20-something guys, but during their student-training rounds at big city hospitals, they were regularly ordered by laboring women to get lost.

Story here. Excerpt:

'The Indiana State Department of Health recently cut gay white men as an HIV/AIDS funding priority. African-American and Hispanic men who have sex with men are still included as priority populations. The decision was made by the department's advisory Community Planning Group (CPG).