Article here. Excerpt:

'ATLANTA, Dec 12, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Men's increasing relevance as an influential buying audience in the home environment is featured in a new white paper, Missing Males, just released by Kleber & Associates (K&A).

Missing Males provides the marketplace with evidence of the importance of tapping into the male demographic to increase market share, and ways to effectively market and sell to today's male consumers by identifying five male personas -- Solo Pilot, 21st Century Bachelor, Domestic Techie, Practical Papa and Mr. Gender Neutrality.

Article here. Excerpt:

"It's a shameful fact that when you look at a homeless population, you can go '1,2,3,4,' and that fourth person will be a homeless vet," he said.

Patterson said that according to a 2007 count by the Greater Lansing Homeless Resolution Network, there are about 800 homeless veterans in Lansing.

"When you look at the addition of beds for the homeless - homeless vets in particular - it's something that's needed," said Joan Jackson Johnson, director of Lansing's Human Relations and Community Services Department, who attended the ceremony. "We have too many veterans that are homeless."

Article here. Excerpt:

'I wouldn’t be at all surprised if The Dangerous Book for Boys were banned by zealous school groups, social workers, and other moral busybodies. I first encountered this admirable work when it was published in London last year. I liked its retro look–the lettering and typography of the cover recalls an earlier, more swashbuckling era–and I thought at first it must be a reprint. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that a book containing instructions on how to make catapults, how to hunt and cook a rabbit, how to play poker, how to make a waterbomb, was published today, the high noon of nannydom.
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And speaking of “boys,” have you noticed how unprogressive the word sounds in today’s English? It is almost as retrograde as “girls,” a word that I knew was on the way out when an academic couple I know proudly announced that they had just presented the world with a “baby woman.”

Article here. Excerpt:

'The male suicide rate is nearly three times higher than that of women, according to figures released today by the Ministry of Health.

The figures relate to deaths in 2006, the most recent data available. 524 deaths by suicide with recorded in 2006, of which 386 were male.

Suicide Prevention Information New Zealand (SPINZ), a service of the Mental Health Foundation, says the rate of male suicide has decreased 22.7% since 1995, but the over-representation of men continues to be an area of concern.

"Depression is the single biggest risk factor for suicide, and for many men - particularly Maori men - it remains undiagnosed," says Merryn Statham, Director of SPINZ. "Reaching people, especially men, with information encouraging them to seek help is essential, as well as ensuring that mental health services are truly responsive."'

Essay here. Excerpt:

'This victim mentality is self-limiting. Far too many women attribute their personal failures to societal bias. While sexism does fuel some people’s actions, discrimination alone does not account for all outcome inequalities. Blaming others for our situation is often much easier than self-reflection, but avoiding responsibility is not a successful life strategy. Instead, focusing on self-improvement is a proactive way to handle setbacks. Character development can only happen when we take responsibility for our actions.

Victims see themselves at the mercy of some kind of construct such as “the system” or “the Man” and may resign themselves to a lower position than they otherwise could achieve. Many women’s advocacy groups overemphasize sexism in American society and portray women as helpless victims. This mindset does not empower women to take control of their lives. Rather, it places women at the mercy of ambiguous societal pressures.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'BROWNWOOD -- The former foster mom accused of having sex with a 13-year-old foster child in her care, and having a child by the boy, was found guilty Friday and sentenced to 10 years probation.

The jury deliberated less than an hour before returning a guilty verdict about 11:30 a.m. against Phylicia Humphries, 26, for sexual assault of a child.

But it took more than five hours of deliberation before the jury assessed 10 years probation and a $10,000 fine. The sentence was handed down by 35th District Judge Stephen Ellis at around 7 p.m. Ellis added 90 days in jail as a condition of the sentence. Humphries will begin serving the 90-day sentence at the Brown County Jail on Dec. 29. Humphries also will be restricted from being around children under 17 and must register as a sex offender.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Summary: A guy buys his wife a vaccum cleaner for their anniversary, and she's none too pleased. Ha ha. Then she makes him get down on all fours and enter a doghouse. A little silly, a little creepy, but still a funny ad. Then the guy ends up in the dungeon, with the other naughty husbands. You could actually cut it there and it would be a fun ad. But it turns out all the guys have been there forever, never get released, have to eat food out of dog bowls and beg before an appeals board of privileged white women.

Would there be an outcry if the genders were reversed? Of course. Did Saatchi know about the misandry angle in this ad? Totally. They count on it not only for the initial laughs — extremes are (often) funny! — but also for some internet outcry like this post right here, and the inevitable others scads of blogs everywhere. The ad isn't getting skipped on a TiVo, and, hell, JCPenney doesn't even have to pay to air it.'

Article here, study here (.pdf file). Excerpts:

'The largest empirical analysis of the top echelons of publicly traded companies determined that women earned about $100,000 more per year than men of the same age, educational background and experience.'

'Female executives on the whole still earn less than male executives, but that's because more women quit before they reach the top, the study says.'

I'm sure this study will help dispel many of the typical feminist myths about income inequality. However, I still can't help but point out the irony in this:

'"That common perception is not borne out by this study," said Robert A. Miller, professor of economics and strategy and one of the authors. "If you're looking for evidence of gender discrimination in executive promotion and compensation, it's not happening there."'

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'A 15-year-old Hagerstown girl suspected of being part of a clique of teens who liked to suck one another's blood approached a friend on a crowded high school bus in October and asked him to kill her father, prosecutors say.

Prosecutors in Washington County in Western Maryland allege that she told the friend, a male classmate, that he could find her father at 5 a.m., climbing into the work truck he parked in the alley behind their rowhouse.

And that was where, on Halloween morning, her father's body was found in a pool of blood. He had been stabbed repeatedly in the head and neck.

This week, the girl was ordered held without bond on charges of soliciting murder.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Hillary Clinton might have won, if not for that. It isn't a good idea for anyone seeking a singular office like the Presidency to make that distinction. This country has been run for centuries by men only, and men named Adams and Wilson, Ford and Reagan, Carter and Clinton. To break that mold, you almost had to avoid the subject of breaking any mold whatsoever. (Witness some of Obama's recent appointments.)

But in a state like New York, teeming with talented, ambitious and dedicated women within its political circles, in a state like New York that has already elected a woman to one of its current US Senate terms, in any state wherein the Congressional delegation provides for two US Senators to hold office, Governor David Paterson must appoint a woman to replace Senator Clinton. It is not difficult to imagine that we are at the place in the history of New York politics where this is "the women's seat" of the two from New York.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Where the report has failed spectacularly, however, is in the omission of any specific reference to the role of men in childcare. It refers pointedly throughout to “parents”, not just mothers, and includes parental and paternity leave, not just maternity leave.

But nowhere does it dig beneath the surface to explore the possibility that actively involving fathers more in childcare might produce better results all round, for families and the economy. Nowhere does it say out loud that this is a man’s issue too.'

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'Should the discovery of skeletal remains near the home of missing Orlando girl Caylee Anthony's family could be particularly damning evidence in the accused mother's trial, but the mother also has a number of defense options, attorneys told FOXNews.com.

If the duct tape-bound remains are proven to be those of Caylee — who has been missing since June -- the method used to dispose of the body will become a significant factor in the first-degree murder trial of the girl's mother, Casey Anthony, attorney Scott H. Cupp said.
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"In any case where someone is charged with killing a child, the first thing you explore is some type of psychiatric defense," he said. "No one in their right mind would do something like this, so I'd hire my own experts to examine and explore her mental history and behavior to see if I can mount some type of psychiatric defense. No criminal would commit such a crime in such a fashion unless there was a psychiatric component."

Article here. Excerpt:

'Marking the 19th annual commemoration of the Ecole Polytechnique massacre, Mr. Ignatieff issued a statement commiserating with the 14 female victims' families. Well and good.

Not well and good was the lily-gilding statement, "Even today, nearly one in three Canadian women are victims of spousal abuse."

This oft-cited figure is a myth, fabricated from whole ideological cloth. If true, the epidemic social pathology it represents would render Canada as dysfunctional as Darfur.
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Here are the facts Mr. Ignatieff's staff could not be bothered to research: The five-year incidence of spousal assault victimization reported by women in a recent StatsCan survey was 8% for women, 7% for men. It is not reported whether, as is likely, many of the victims were also perpetrators, since half of intimate partner violence (IPV) is reciprocal. For severe violence, the annual reported figures are 2.6% for men and 4.2% for women.

Story here. Excerpt:

'DECEMBER 10--Meet Brittany Phillips. Early Saturday morning, the 19-year-old Louisiana woman wanted some sex from her boyfriend. But Todd Stewart, 35, was apparently not in the mood. In fact, he tried to push Phillips off of him in the bedroom of the pair's West Monroe home. That much the couple can agree upon, according to Ouachita Parish Sheriff's Office reports. Phillips claims Stewart became violent after rebuffing her advances. Stewart told an investigator that he left the bedroom to sleep on a living room couch, but that Phillips "would not leave him alone." At some point, he added, things got physical and he was stabbed in the lower lip with "a long metal object which appeared to be a knife."'

Excellent article from Psychology Today here. Excerpt:

'One of the things that evolution has done is to make men and women very different. In some ways (though not in others), males of one species are often more similar to males of other species than to females of their own species, and vice versa. In some ways, in many ways, men are more similar to male chimpanzees or gorillas than to women. One of the ways that men and women are different is in what makes them happy.

Forget what feminists, hippies, and liberals have told you in the last half century. They are all lies based on political ideology and conviction, not on science. Contrary to what they may have told you, it is very unlikely that money, promotions, the corner office, social status, and political power will make women happy. Similarly, it is very unlikely that quitting their jobs, dropping out of the rat race, and becoming stay-at-home dads to spend all their times with their children will make men happy.'