Article here. Excerpt:

'Hartland Township Clerk Ann Ulrich played the "sexist" card at a meeting of the Hartland Township Board of Trustees last month, complaining that a male maintenance worker was hired in at a higher rate than a female worker doing the same job.

After the board approved hiring Dennis Goodwin for $12 an hour and Virginia Toor for $11.50 an hour, Ulrich said, "The explanation does just not warrant it. This looks sexist."
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The explanation Township Manager James Wickman gave Ulrich and the board was that Goodwin had more experience and better qualifications than Or; therefore, according to township hiring policies, he should get a better offer. Also, Goodwin is intended to be the primary maintenance worker, while Or is considered a substitute in the event Goodwin is unable to come to work. According to resumes submitted to the township, Goodwin lists some 32 years of maintenance experience while Or has 12 years in the field.'

Story here. Excerpt:

"As a 31-year-old woman, she might be expected to have developed a more mature attitude to pregnancy and childbearing. The reality is anything but. Because Angelica, who claims to be 'addicted to having babies', readily admits to tricking three hapless men in succession into fathering half her brood of illegitimate daughters.

A former model, she now lives in a luxurious house in Hertfordshire with her lawyer partner. And so thrilled is she by her family so far that she is planning to expand it even further, this time by IVF so that she can select a male embryo.
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Defiantly, she says: 'I'll tell them I wanted a baby, but that I didn't tell their fathers I was trying to get pregnant. When they realise that I was prepared to lie to conceive them, they'll know they were really wanted and much-loved babies.'"

Article here. Excerpt:

'MANILA, Philippines—For a woman chief of police like Superintendent Lailene Amparo, duking it out in a man’s world like the national police force is not as hard as it seems.

In fact, she said, what policemen can do, policewomen can do better.
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“Eventually they got used to having a woman police chief,” Amparo said in an interview after the weekly media forum at Camp Crame on Friday.
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Amparo’s advice to other women who want to venture into the man’s world: “If men can do it, women can do it too. Sometimes even better.”

Article here. Excerpt:

'The feminist planner, researcher and activist, who is a founding member of Toronto Women's City Alliance and the author of a recent UN-HABITAT publication on gender and local government, will speak at the city's International Women's Day Celebration in council chambers March 9.

Khosla, who works internationally and lives between Toronto and Vancouver, says administrators in charge of Toronto's skating arenas allotted ice time for hockey players based on who had held slots in the past.
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Decisions about infrastructure, sports and recreation, public transit, public toilets and neighbourhood design would better suit women, seniors and multicultural groups if they were considered through a gender lens, Khosla says, who cited the example of better lighting around bus stops.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Interestingly, however, there's something all these groups studiously avoid talking about. These U.S. education numbers look bad primarily because the schools are failing boys. For the most part, those awful high school graduation numbers are driven by boys, not girls (32 percent of boys drop out, compared to 25 percent of girls). And the lackluster college graduation rates are due primarily to men floundering in college (men earn about 42 percent of four-year degrees). Given that men are far more likely to major in math and science – a special worry for the technical industries -- the chamber should be particularly concerned about men falling behind.

But the gender angle never gets mentioned. Popular, well-thought-out solutions, which include strengthening the high school curriculum, building better after-school programs and making college more affordable, skirt the obvious solution of reaching out to failing boys specifically. As for MDRC's 15-point plan – gender didn't get a mention.'

Article here. Excerpt:

Story here. Excerpt:

'An anti-Heathrow protester has sloshed green custard into Business Secretary Lord Mandelson's face as he arrived at the Government's low carbon economy summit.

Leila Deen, an activist from campaign group Plane Stupid, covered the politician's face in pea-green goo as he got out of his ministerial car.
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A Scotland Yard spokesman said no complaint had been received on the matter.'

The sexist anti-male 'Times of India' is running a poll asking what man should be slapped. Please condemn them on their site by abusing them to your heart's contents. It's on the main page and a direct link is given.

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Ed. note: The link to the poll does not seem to be on the front page anymore. Perhaps they replaced it after getting complaints or just plain thinking better of it. Still, it looks like it had been there for some amount of time, as the link above is valid.

Story here. Excerpt:

'BARTOW, Fla. - One of five Florida teens accused of beating a cheerleader classmate in a videotape seen widely on the Internet received a year of probation.

Brittany Mayes also was ordered Thursday to pay $1,752 to the victim’s family. The 18-year-old was one of five girls who pleaded guilty to battery in connection with the March 2008 attack.
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The victim’s father claimed the teens were motivated by plans to produce a video that would become popular on a video-sharing Web site. But the mother of one girl said the victim provoked the other teens by insulting them on a social networking site.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'A Tyneside woman deliberately bit off her boyfriend's tongue during a drunken birthday kiss, a court has heard.

Tracy Davies, 40, bit a third of Mark Coghill's tongue off, Newcastle Crown Court was told.
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They returned to Mr Coghill's home but Ms Davies grew upset because she wanted a baby but was not yet pregnant.

As Mr Coghill moved to comfort her, she asked him to kiss her, the court heard.

Julian Smith, prosecuting, said: "He did so and within a few seconds, she bit down hard on his tongue.
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After the attack Ms Davies called an ambulance and paramedics then alerted police.

Mr Smith added: "She told police, 'We have had a domestic. I have bitten his tongue off. Here it is'."

He added that Ms Davies was surprised when police arrested her, telling officers: "You're joking".'

Article here. Excerpt:

'The father of murdered baby Aaron Gilbert has accused social services of not doing enough to save his son.

Aaron was subjected to a torrent of abuse from Andrew Lloyd, aged 23, who had moved in with Aaron's mother Rebecca Lewis after starting a relationship with her.

He pleaded guilty to murdering the 13-month-old and 21-year-old Lewis was found guilty of familial murder for allowing the abuse to continue.

Now Aaron's father Gareth Gilbert has said more should have been done to protect his son.

Sharon Hurlow, a cousin of Lewis, called social services on two occasions before Lloyd inflicted the fatal injuries to Aaron on May 5 last year.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'At a forum hosted by the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs in New York this week, a former top United Nations (UN) official criticized the UN’s “deplorable” record on women and the “the hypocrisy within the UN” on gender. In a presentation entitled “The United Nations and Gender: Has Anything Gone Right?,” Stephen Lewis promoted a radical overhaul of the United Nations, starting with a the creation of a new, billion dollar gender office.

Story here. Excerpt:

'NEW YORK – Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has intervened in an international custody dispute over an 8-year-old boy, saying Wednesday she is pushing Brazil to return him to his father in New Jersey.

The boy, whose Brazilian mother died last year, is being raised by his stepfather, a lawyer in Rio de Janeiro.
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Goldman's wife, Bruna, took the boy on a vacation to Brazil in 2004 and never returned to the United States. She divorced him, remarried and died last year after giving birth.

Goldman has said he was denied visitation for years.

Clinton said Goldman's case is an example of a problem around the world. She said there were nearly 50 U.S. children in similar situations in Brazil who should be returned to the U.S. — and more around the world.'

Article here. I really regret to inform everybody that the infamous Rebecca Dawson, who used her fingernails to tear the scrotum of a co-worker, received an unbelievably lenient sentence for her crime. Excerpt:

'A Harnett County woman pleaded guilty Monday to assault in the castration of a man at a Christmas party two years ago.

Rebecca Dawson, 36, pleaded guilty to assault inflicting serious injury, a misdemeanor. She had been charged with malicious castration, a felony.
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Dawson received a 75-day suspended jail sentence and was placed on 18 months of supervised probation. She was ordered not to drink alcohol while on probation, and she must complete an anger management course.'

So I guess the obvious question is if this were the case of a man tearing off part of a woman's private parts, would he get this lenient a sentence? He'd probably never see the light of day again.

Hello everybody. These are the lyrics to my latest hip hop song. I figured you might like it. I was inspired to write this after having to listen to Beyonce's "If I Were A Boy" one too many times.

I want to make it clear to all the female members of the site that the girls I'm refering to in this song are actually the opportunistic women that we MRAs try to steer clear of. I am well aware that not all women are like the ones I describe in this song. I just figured there are so many songs which stereotype all guys as cheaters, it would be refreshing to encounter a song from a guy's point of view.

IF I THOUGHT LIKE A GIRL
by X-TRNL

Since I don't look like a man from a magazine
I'll never be another cog in your machine
I'll never be the guy that you place by your side
Just to cover insecurity and make you feel pride
I'll never ever be able to compete with
Your idea of a perfect guy, it doesn't exist
And I must say it is rather sexist
To judge the other gender on how much they spendin'