Article here. Excerpt:

'Equality is gaining ground at homes across the USA, but the move toward parity leaves some mothers in a quandary; they're ready to share the workload with their partners, but to do that, they'll also have to come to terms with the loss of hierarchy at home.

"Women who want to create this sometimes don't appreciate the level at which they must let go," says Amy Vachon of Watertown, Mass. She and her husband, Marc, have become the standard-bearers for a philosophy called "equally shared parenting."'

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'As students walk through the quad at this time of year, we are reminded by the men of the Alpha Kappa Lambda fraternity to take a stand against domestic violence. And every year, we trace our hands onto the board and write our name, pledging that "these hands don't hurt."

In 2004, Men Today Men Tomorrow, MT2, was created by a group of men who wanted to take a stand in violence against women. The MT2 message is simple: Respect women. The group hopes to bring awareness to men today and serve as role models for the younger male generation, educating boys and young men to respect women.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'According to a report in the Journal of Men’s Studies, titled “The Feminization of Domestic Violence in America,” contrary to society and the media’s portrayal of women as “recipients of domestic violence...epidemiological surveys on the distribution of violent behavior between adult partners suggest gender parity.”

Once Feminism turned the corner and sought to change the concept of maleness and femaleness, things began to deteriorate quickly.

According to psychologist Dr. Helen Smith, Feminism began to teach women to essentially shed most of their female attributes.

“Feminism taught the current generation of young women to unsex themselves,” said Smith. “The reason they were taught to unsex themselves is because the Second Wave Feminists believed that femininity is inferior to masculinity.“
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To be clear, Feminists created a huge paradigm shift in society, and then began to blame men for the poor results, which include a sharp decline in the marriage rate, and a sharp incline in domestic violence initiated by women.'

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'Now, a few weeks ago I was confident that the various state-subsidised feminist quangos -- from the Rape Crisis Centres, to the National Council of Women, to the Equality Authority -- would say nothing about the preposterously light sentence of seven years for the serial rape of a 14-year-old boy by his mother, and I was right. The fact that the judge was a woman was no doubt a factor in their silence. Her explanation for the light sentence -- that the Edwardian law was more heavily biased against paternal incest was both tendentious and spurious: for the charge of sexual assault alone carries a maximum of 14 years' imprisonment.

Action item here. Excerpt:

'Lifetime TV announced the launch of its new, father-bashing reality show Deadbeat Dads last week, and Lifetime received several thousand protest letters, calls and faxes last week. This week we take our protest to the Hearst Corporation, which owns much of Lifetime TV. To email and fax a protest letter to both Hearst and Lifetime Executives, click here. Also, please call Hearst-Argyle Television, Inc.’s main switchboard at (212) 887-6800. If you participated in Round 1, we invite you to participate in Round 2.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, “Deadbeat Dads, originally developed at Fox, follows National Child Support founder Jim Durham as he tracks down and confronts dads who don’t pay child support.” According to Reuters, Durham “functions as a sort of ‘Dog the Bounty Hunter’ for tracking deadbeats…It’s ambush reality TV.” Durham will target fathers who are behind on their child support by “making their lives miserable — foreclosing on their house, repossessing their car. He will squeeze them.”'

A non-custodial father tried in vain to access the CPS system to save his children from abuse, but failed. One child was eventually murdered by the child's mother's live in boyfriend and while he was given a stiff sentence, that is locking the barn door after the horse escapes, as the old saying goes. In my opinion the non-custodial father was ignored simply because he was a male, which is misandry, and in this case it resulted in a child's death. Excerpt:

'TACOMA, Wash. -- A man who fatally injured a 3-year-old boy when he hurled him in a fit of anger has been sentenced in Tacoma to 50 years in prison.

Noah Jeremiah Thomas was sentenced Friday in Pierce County Superior Court in the death of Michael-Kekoa Ravenell last May 28, when he was babysitting the boy.

The 25-year-old, who was dating the boy's mother, pleaded guilty in March to homicide by abuse.
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Nearly two months before the fatal injuries, the boy's father had called Child Protective Services when he suspected abuse.

Marilyn French, infamous for her statement that "all men are rapists and that's all they are," has died at age 79. Excerpt:

'With steely views about the treatment of woman and a gift for expressing them on the printed page, Ms. French transformed herself from an academic who quietly bristled at the expectations of married women in the post-World War II era to a leading, if controversial, opinionmaker on gender issues who decried the patriarchal society she saw around her. “My goal in life is to change the entire social and economic structure of Western civilization, to make it a feminist world,” she once declared.

Article here. More of a propaganda piece in favor of it, actually. Excerpt:

'You try to avoid getting overtly political in the film. But I have seen people compare circumcision to female genital mutilation.

I absolutely think that it's offensive to women to think that there's any parallel here. Of course, they both involve genitals but are done for very different reasons, and I ran away as far as I could from anything to do with female circumcision, which has to be stopped. It's not comparable. But what does interest me is why the movement against male circumcision needs to be so extreme? They have such a valid point, but they come off as such extremists.'

One of the anti-circumcision activists you interview even gets you arrested while you are filming him. They come across in your film as really, really loony.

What if you knew a bill had been introduced in Congress in which most of the findings were misleading, outdated, or simply false? Welcome to wonderful, wacky world of HR 739, the Security and Financial Empowerment Act (SAFE).

The bill contains 53 different claims. Only 4 of those claims can be verified as accurate, current, and truthful. As for the remaining 49 claims, whoever dreamed up this stuff has an incredible sense of humor!

The following bold-faced quotes come straight from the SAFE Act findings. They are followed by the actual facts. So get ready for some side-splitting humor:

1. "Violence against women has been reported to be the leading cause of physical injury to women." Here's what the website of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services shows:
   • Under the graph the DHHS states, "All of the leading causes of injury in 2006 were unintentional." But domestic violence is an intentional cause of injury. In other words, DV is not even on the list of leading causes of injury.
2. "According to recent Government estimates, approximately 987,400 rapes occur annually in the United States". Here's what the FBI really says:
   • "In 2007, the estimated number of forcible rapes (90,427) decreased 2.5 percent from the 2006 estimate." So the SAFE number is off by about 900,000. We'll just call it a rounding error.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Imagine if Sonoma County’s new 5th District supervisor had told a reporter that he was glad he was elected because he has “long believed that men offer a unique voice to government as rational and protective beings and because of the way we approach conflict and communications.”

Just think of the outrage, charges of being a male chauvinistic pig and calls for his resignation.

However, when the new 3rd District supervisor, Shirlee Zane, was quoted in The Press Democrat saying she has “long believed that women do offer a unique voice to government as caregivers and the way we approach conflict and communications,” there was no outrage; no one called her a female chauvinistic pig or called for her resignation.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'A millionaire businessman has spoken of his relief after he was cleared of carrying out a violent sex attack.

Anthony Atherton, 51, was accused of attacking a 49-year-old woman in the kitchen of his home in Victoria Road, Bolton last August.

A jury at Leeds Crown Court took an hour to acquit Mr Atherton of attempted rape, sexual assault, assault by penetration, making a threat to kill and false imprisonment.

He claimed the woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, set him up.
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He said: "I'm grateful after eight months of hell to be vindicated."

His solicitor Paul Schofield said: "From the very onset Mr Atherton firmly denied all these allegations.

"He claimed that this case was a malicious complaint and a 'set up'. The verdicts, the speed with which they were returned, and the order for costs, all vindicate him completely.'

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'And then she joined Women Build, the organization's female-only building program. This is where we are on a spring day, on a site with nine other female volunteers ranging in age from 19 to their 60s, and in experience from licensed contractors and former engineers to women who have yet to make friends with a power drill.

The latter would be me. And when I confess this to Baron, she wastes no time teaching me how to use hers.

There's a reason her tools are spray-painted pink, and it's not just to demonstrate her girl power. On the many construction sites she's worked on with men, tools tend to stray. This way, at least she doesn't lose hers.'

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'A HEATHFIELD man dressed up as Batman to post nappies to Gordon Brown.

The New Fathers for Justice member who did not want to be named, hopes the prime minister will take notice of members' campaign to fight for the rights of fathers denied access to their children.

He took part in a nationwide campaign in the form of the superhero to ask him to stop disposing of dads in society.'

Please note that the quote from Anastasia de Waal of Civitas in the Daily Mail re women and the glass ceiling was a misquote and has since been corrected to: 'Don't be afraid to take the family with you,' the report said.

However, Anastasia de Waal of the Civitas think-tank said: 'It's not so much invisible discrimination in this case, as 'imaginary' discrimination because it's the parenting responsibilities gap which is the main issue.

'In this context it's less about a gender pay gap per se, but about a childcare gap and that is not necessarily a matter for employers.

'Women do not put themselves forward for promotion or they are not able to work long hours because they are bringing up children. The reasons for that are complex.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Blount County Schools hosted a national conference this week in which an American psychologist and family physician provided teachers with powerful new information about gender differences that could improve student performance.
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"Do not ever assume all girls are one way and all boys are one way. That's a false assumption," said Dr. Leonard Sax, author of "Why Gender Matters," prefacing his speech.

Sax then talked about the differences in typical male and female visual systems. "Everything about sex-difference visual systems we know from the last eight years -- mostly the last four to five years," he said, noting researchers used to only study men.

"The assumption until eight or nine years ago was apparently that females were just shorter males who menstruate," Sax joked. Researchers have learned a typical man's brain is wired differently from girls to make boys more interested in movement.'