Article here. Excerpt:

'Leading academics and policymakers have pondered long and hard about the problem of how to overcome the poor performance of boys at school.

Now it seems, according to new research published today, the answer may be quite simple – just get them to play more games and the exam passes could take care of themselves.

A study of 508 independent schools by the Independent Schools Council (ISC) reveals for the first time that there is a strong link between the amount of voluntary activities such as chess and cricket undertaken by children and their exam performance. Pupils in the top-performing schools for GCSE results took part, on average, in 50 per cent more activities than those schools at the bottom of the performance ladder. In addition, the research found, the difference in performance was more marked in boys-only schools.'

I wasn't expecting to see it at thinkgeek.com, but here it is. Trying to get the disaffected female market? No excuse. I'll be ordering my novelty Star Trek phasers and Dr. Who sonic screwdrivers from some other merchant. You can contact them at webmonster-at-thinkgeek.com or here.

Story here. Excerpt:

'RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (CNN) -- A Brazilian supreme court judge on Tuesday suspended a lower court's order that would have given custody of a 9-year-old boy to the U.S. Consulate in Rio de Janeiro, where he was to be reunited with his American father.

Judge Marco Aurelio argued against taking Sean Richard Goldman from what has been his home for almost five years to the United States "in an abrupt manner."

Doing so, he wrote in his order published on the court's Web site, could subject the boy to psychological harm.'

Letter here. Excerpt:

'I was so happy to read about the student group “Men in Power” in the Chicago Tribune. Groups like this are part of a growing, global men’s rights movement that advocates for equal treatment of men in areas such as child custody, domestic violence policies, reproductive rights, criminal sentencing, public health policies, paternity laws, the draft, dating expectations, and more.

Opponents of this movement tend to reactively look only at gender disparities at the top of society (government, CEOs) while overlooking the bottom, where men account for 80 to 90 percent of homeless adults, work-related deaths, prisoners, and suicide deaths, as well as 99 percent of combat deaths and the majority of dropouts and special education students. Men also die younger and more often than women for the 10 leading causes of death.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Ever since I started taking active participation in men's issues and related media coverage, one question has stalked my mind like anything, "Why men hate other men so much?" The reason I ask this question is because surprisingly enough I have found stiff resistance from men about men's rights rather than women. Women, have been generally found to be understanding of the problem and empathizing barring a few radical male haters whom I anyways do not consider as women. They are just some non-males born to hate males.

Although I have talked about men's inability to communicate and men being unable to connect to their experiential domain earlier, today I will be talking about why men hate other men so much?

The counter argument to this can be, even women have more jealousies amongst themselves and this comes from the natural physiological behavioral pattern that "Opposites Attract, Likes Distract". However, there is a difference between dislike and hatred. When in hatred, you basically use your power against the hated to unleash your hatred. Currently this is happening with men.'

In his May 27, 2009 story "Former Agent Calls Sham Marriages 'Epidemic,'" CBS4 (Denver) investigator Brian Maass interviewed John Sampson, a former immigration investigator who "says he is seeing an 'epidemic' of fraudulent marriages where foreign women marry American men, then claim domestic violence to escape the marriage and legally remain in the U.S." Since January 2009, when Sampson set up a private business in Aurora, Colorado, he's been contacted by 200 men who say they were falsely accused of domestic violence by foreign women seeking green cards, which, under the Violence Against Women Act, they can get by simply claiming abuse.

According to Sampson, "What happens is they enter into a one-sided sham marriage to defraud an American citizen into believing they love him. And once they get in, they allege domestic violence to get themselves out of the sham marriage and to throw off suspicion this was a sham marriage to begin with."

Scrolling down this California government-funded web site's main page reveals an urgent message from the taxpayer funded, California Commission on the Status of Women:

"OPPOSE ELIMINATION OF THE CALIFORNIA COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN - The California Commission on the Status of Women is on the Budget Conference Committee’s agenda TODAY to be considered for elimination."

These people are using hard earned tax dollars to plead for more tax dollars to further what are (in many cases) misandrist endeavors.

Here is one reader's response to their request:
"ELIMINATE" THE CALIFORNIA COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN"
End Feminist Pork

Recently people who have registered within the last week or so have been leaving links to various web sites that sell things like pre-written college essays, money-making ventures, etc. These posts have been edited to eliminate these links and the registrants banned from making further posts. Others posts that had no comments even remotely germane to MRA issues or the posted article, but only hyperlinks to software sites, for example, have been deleted and the users banned.

MANN is no place for spam. If you start spamming, I will ban you immediately.

Thank you and enjoy your lack of spam.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Women outperform men in almost every single aspect of higher education, according to research published today.

The number of women at university began to exceed the number of men for the first time 16 years ago.

However, for years there were still academics claiming that men had "more where it mattered", ie at elite Russell Group universities – the group which represents 20 of the UK's leading research institutions including Oxford and Cambridge.

One study published in 2005, Class Rifts Eclipsed by Sex Divide, said: "Many women are studying in lower-status universities... the university continues to be a space where class privilege is maintained and women's participation is limited to the bottom of a hierarchical continuum."'

Story here. Excerpt:

'WINNIPEG — The University of Winnipeg is introducing a course in men's studies — an examination of masculinity, boys, men and popular culture.

U of W says men's studies emerged as early as the 1970s, filling a gap left by women's studies that had not dealt with what academics call the gendered construction of masculinity, and masculinity's complex relation to power.

"When Women's Studies became Women's and Gender Studies several years ago, we incorporated perspectives from men's studies into our courses, but this is the first time we have devoted a course specifically to the area," said Prof. Pauline Greenhill, who's teaching the course next winter.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'A POLISH woman accused of murdering her lover in their Co Tyrone home was yesterday granted bail to stay at a shelter in Belfast.

Aneta Sadowska (36), is alleged to have used different knives to stab Marek Sewern (37), through the heart and stomach a day after their son was christened.

Mr Sewern, also a Polish national, was also beaten over the head with a blunt object – possibly an ashtray or frying pan – following a drinking session at the couple’s flat in Omagh last December, according to prosecutors. The court was told that Ms Sadowska, with an address at Rathronan House, Hospital Road, in the town, formed a relationship with the victim after splitting with her husband.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'A former Brazos Middle School teacher pleaded guilty Monday to 10 counts of sexual assault of a child and is asking a judge to place her on deferred probation.

The case was one of two in a Waco courtroom Monday involving women committing sexual offenses with youths.

McLennan County prosecutor Melanie Walker recommended that Tara Allison Hodges, 27, be sentenced to 10 years in prison on each of the 10 counts of improper sexual contact with a 14-year-old male Brazos Middle School student and told 19th State District Judge Ralph Strother that she would oppose Hodges’ request for deferred probation.
...
Hodges had a two-month sexual relationship with the boy in 2008, officials have said. She also smoked marijuana with the boy, bought him shoes, gave him money and sent him explicit cell phone photos of herself, according to records filed in the case.

Story here. Excerpt:

'PHOENIX - A 51-year-old woman used guilt about her family's difficult finances to get her young sons and their friends to help her pay bills by committing at least 20 armed robberies in the Phoenix area, authorities said.

Cynthia Roberson, her two sons, ages 12 and 14, and five others face charges of armed robbery and aggravated assault, investigators said Monday.

"All of us should be disgusted by this," Phoenix police Sgt. Phil Roberts said. "This is absolutely not how to raise your children."'

Story here. Excerpt:

'SEVIERVILLE (WATE) -- There's new information about the Georgia woman who claims she was kidnapped, then raped in a rented Sevier County cabin.

According to broadcast reports in Atlanta, the woman, 24, has been in trouble before. She's accused of filing three "false assault" reports.

In 2004 in Henry County, Georgia, the woman reported that two men broke into her home and sexually assaulted her. Investigators determined that report was false, but didn't charge her.

In 2005 in Cherokee County, Georgia, the woman reported that two men broke into her home, kidnapped and sexually assaulted her. She was found behind a Kohl's department store.

The next day, she was charged with filing a false report. She pleaded guilty to obstruction and got 12 months probation.'

This group is promoted in companies, but men are not allowed. If you contact the organization they will say men may apply. If you ask if any men have attend, you get no answer. A company in my city promotes the program and tell men they cannot apply even though the company policy is not to discriminate against men.

Women are promoted as a result of being apart of this seminar in my company.