From Jeremy S.: An analysis of the advantage given to women by the federally-funded Industrial Training Authority (ITA) in Canada.

A Tale of Two Tradesmen Tradespersons

For a woman who is currently unemployed (or under-employed), and is considering one of the piping trades (plumbing, steam fitting, sprinkler fitting or welding), the ITA will pay for the following:

Six-Week Exploratory Course
Daycare (weekly): $200/child
Transportation (weekly): $23
Lunches (weekly): $50
Shop Clothing (coveralls): Free
Safety Gear (boots, gloves, glasses): Free
School Supplies: Free
Tuition: Free

Four-Month Specialization Course
Daycare (monthly): $800/child
Transportation (monthly): $90
Shop Clothing (coveralls): Free
Safety Gear (boots, gloves, glasses): Free
School Supplies: Free
Tuition: Free

Article here. Excerpt:

'The US recession has opened up the biggest gap between male and female unemployment rates since records began in 1948, as men bear the brunt of the economy’s contraction.

Men have lost almost 80 per cent of the 5.1m jobs that have gone in the US since the recession started, pushing the male unemployment rate to 8.8 per cent. The female jobless rate has hit 7 per cent.

This is a dramatic reversal of the trend over the past few years, where the rates of male and female unemployment barely differed, at about 5 per cent. It also means that women could soon overtake men as the majority of the US labour force.'

The author has to end of course with the usual sop to modern feminist mythology with: "Since women earn on average 20 per cent less than men, that is putting extra strain on many households," with no mention of course of the reasons behind it.

Article here. Excerpt:

'The last couple generations of men are disconnected from their masculinity. They are feminized. That means they have been influenced primarily by women — and men who had little sense of themselves as men — and have grown up to see the world through their mothers’ eyes. As a result, these men continue to seek out other women, rather than men, when they need help with their emotional worlds.

What these men need is to be introduced to something they so desperately needed when they were boys. These men need to be fathered. And it’s not too late.

No matter how old you are, you can benefit from the support of other good men. Seek out a men’s group, reach out to buddies, reconnect with the men in your family, or find a male counselor who can give you the masculine energy and guidance you need.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'TRACY, Calif. — Callers have inundated the phone lines of Tracy police, saying it can't be. Veteran homicide and sex-crime researchers say they cannot recall a case quite like it. Even the investigators themselves looked at the evidence and initially said "no way."

A woman was accused not only of killing someone else's child, but of raping her.
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Tracy police Sgt. Tony Sheneman said dozens of callers a day have insisted that Huckaby could not have acted alone, that no mother would rape another's child, that the scenario was too improbable to be true. The case is so striking that police initially shared the public's reaction.
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When investigators were first looking at this they went 'Huh, no way... Who did she work with?"' Sheneman said. "We got that info and said 'there's no way, that doesn't happen."
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When they do commit sex crimes, women often are acting as accomplices to men, and their victims tend to be teenagers, said David Finkelhor, director of the University of New Hampshire Crimes against Children Research Center.'

Although my heart goes out to the three boys in this story, there is something about this article that doesn't smell right. It's as though the writer is subtly and carefully trying to undermine the concept of Parental Alienation Syndrome:

Article here. After objecting to the double-standard, the author resigns himself after a series of rationalizations. Cognitive dissonance in its fullest glory.

I recall in the 1970s that one of the reasons feminists gave for "allowing" men to continue to pay for sex indirectly through dinner dates was that since women couldn't make as much as men in the same lines of work due to sexism, it made sense for men to pay for dates (ie, sex) since they could and women couldn't. Now that in so many places the script is flipped, a new set of rationalizations is used. The net result, as with the circumcision issue, is set up to be the same: men get the shaft.

Wouldn't it be nice to see an article written by a feminist stating categorically that as long as a woman is making more (in many cases now, much more) than the man she is on a date with, that it should be expected that she pick up the tab? Wouldn't it be nice if it were as prominently displayed as ones like this?

Story here. Excerpt:

'(CBS/AP) Police say a Colorado woman wrapped her boyfriend's dog in packing tape and stuck the animal upside down to a refrigerator because he wouldn't get rid of it.

Abby Toll was arrested Tuesday after police say she got into a fight with her boyfriend. She was charged with felony cruelty, drug possession and other counts and is free on $12,500 bond. She has declined to comment.

Police say Toll, 20, used packing tape to bind the legs, snout and tail of Beck's dog, Rex, a Japanese breed called a Shiba Inu. She told police she stuck the dog to the refrigerator because she was angry Beck wanted to keep it.

Toll also is accused of slapping Beck and throwing a vase and soda bottle at him. In addition, police say they found a trace amount of heroin in her possession at the jail, reports CBS-4 in Denver.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'Lakeland, Florida -- Police have charged an 18-year-old girl with stabbing her boyfriend during an argument over a box of pop tarts.

Catherine Marie Colon was arrested at her residence on Lake Hollingsworth Rd, which she has shared with her boyfriend, Shawn Andrews, 19, for the past three months.

Police say when they arrived, she was cleaning up blood from the floor.

"Colon had moved out of the apartment and had returned to collect belongings when he and Colon began arguing over a box of 'Pop Tarts,'" according to police spokesman Jack Gillen. "At some point, Colon stabbed Andrews with a steak knife."'

Story here.

'(AP) A school spokesman said a southwest Ohio teacher has resigned after acknowledging she accompanied four female students to a male strip club. Butler Tech school district spokesman Bill Solazzo said the 47-year-old teacher resigned Thursday.

He said the teacher told Edgewood High School administrators that the students, all cheerleaders, asked her to take them to the bar in February.

The teacher told school officials in an e-mail that she got permission from the parents of the 17- and 18-year-olds to bring them to the club.

The teacher taught marketing at the school and previously served as a coach for the district's eighth-grade cheerleaders.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'QUINCY, Mass. — A pregnant Massachusetts woman accused of killing her 9-year-old daughter, trying to strangle her 14-year-old daughter and stabbing herself in the stomach to kill her unborn child has been charged with one count of first-degree murder and one count of assault with intent to murder.

The Norfolk District Attorney's office said Friday that 38-year-old Fang Chi Xue was treated for self-inflicted stab wounds to the arms and abdomen at Boston Medical Center and will soon undergo a mental health evaluation. She was 7 1/2 months pregnant.'

Hulk Hogan's "OJ Comment" as reported here sparked this news commentary in a Fox's "Kelly's Court" segment. I was surprised both by the report itself and the analysis. Worth watching, in both the video sense and the case sense. Article excerpt:

'Hulk Hogan said his comments to Rolling Stone magazine that he can "totally understand" O.J. Simpson -- the former football great found liable for the deaths of his wife and another man -- are being misunderstood.
Linda and Hulk Hogan enjoy happier times at the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards in New York.

The pro wrestling legend said Wednesday that he "took the high road" and "didn't do the O.J. Simpson thing" despite the pain of his bitter divorce fight with wife Linda.

Hogan's lawyer said the quotes leaked to a gossip column have been taken out of context and the full article proves Hogan "never condones the O.J. situation." Video Watch Hogan claim he was misquoted.

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Article here. Excerpt:

'President Barack Obama is clear about one thing: he goes to bat for women. That's aptly demonstrated by his immediate signing off on the White House Council on Women and Girls and on what I call his "Ledbetter Payback Act," in reference, of course, to the Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which I believe is a promised payback to feminists and women for their vote.

He may also help men --- some men, at least — in an incidental way with such programs as the construction jobs he hopes to create with his plan to rebuild the infrastructure. (But judging by how feminists are getting most if not all of what they want from him, they may get from him the requirement that the infrastructure contractors hire mostly women because the construction business is already mostly men).

But other than the construction jobs, how, in the direct and selective manner in which Obama helps women, will he help men, especially black men, who need as much help as black women and more help than white women, who are, usually, the main beneficiaries of governments' gender-aid programs?'

From Marc A.: MRA Joe Manthey of Petaluma, CA sent out this article in which misandrist professor Barbara Bloom manufactures a smoke-and-mirrors style "crisis" for female prisoners using the usual one-sided feminist hypocrisy. Most of what Barbara Bloom says about female inmates can also be said of male prisoners, but she misleadingly weaves those things in with a few statistical differences to propagate her myths. And she totally ignores the sentencing disparities that men already face. If you have a moment, please write to the editor at letters-at-pressdemocrat.com and copy Barbara Bloom at bloom-at-sonoma.edu. The letter I sent is below the excerpt as follows:

'We are facing a correctional crisis in California that is unparalleled in other states. With prisons at or above 200 percent of capacity and federal court intervention imminent, a hidden aspect of corrections is the plight of incarcerated women.

Relative to men, the number of women in state prison may seem small. But, at more than 11,000, female prisoners are a growing and significant population, currently the largest in any state. Additionally, there are almost as many women locked up in county jails. The net result is more than 22,000 women in custody.

Not only are women prisoners hidden, their pathways to prison are often neglected and not addressed. Additionally, women have different reasons for being in prison than men, different histories of abuse and addiction, different family roles and relationships, different health concerns and different motivations to change.'

Story here.

'LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles police say a 15-year-old girl was stabbed to death by a woman in a wheelchair possibly twice her age after the pair got into a fight over a man.

Officer Karen Rayner says officers recieved several reports of the incident Wednesday afternoon on a street in South Los Angeles.

Rayner says "it sounds like it was a donnybrook of a lot of people fighting."

The victim was taken to a hospital where she was pronounced dead.

Rayner says the suspect is about 30 years old. Police did not immediately say what charges she faced.'