Article here. Excerpt:

'However, there is a lack of acceptance that men, too, are increasingly becoming silent victims of domestic abuse and violence at the hands of their partners, and that there is a growing number of same-sex couples experiencing domestic violence from their partners.
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In a recent study on emerging attitudes and patterns of domestic violence, Glasgow University found that of the 200 women surveyed, 60 percent said "it was acceptable for women to hit their husbands" while 35 percent admitted assaulting their partners and a total of 8 percent admitted to physically injuring them.
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Owing to societal pressures and socialisation, men are less likely to talk about the abuse they suffer behind closed doors.

And not much is done to encourage men to report cases of domestic abuse, although many civil society organisations fighting domestic abuse and violence claim to represent men as well.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'A woman who conceived a child after a one-night stand with a colleague and hid her pregnancy from everyone has won the right to keep the birth a secret from the father.

The woman, who is now 20 and cannot be named for legal reasons, became pregnant when she was 19, but did not realise until a late stage. She told no one, shunned medical help until she went into labour, and put the girl up for adoption as soon as she was born.

In September, after an application from the local authority, a county court judge ruled that the woman's parents and the father of the child should be told. But yesterday, three appeal judges overruled him and, in a landmark judgment, agreed that the mother has "the ultimate veto" over who should be told about her child.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Technology has transformed the work place, replacing the masculine qualities of muscle, system, specialism and dictation with the feminine aptitudes of dexterity, multi-tasking and negotiation.

The emphasis within human organisation and business has moved from competition to collaboration, with a new emphasis on 'others'. This is seen in support systems, restorative justice, health and safety, and a therapy culture for victims, whether of trauma or disadvantage.

The new human narrative is creating an essentially feminine paradigm.

It is possible that the resurgence of masculinity is simply a cry of protest from a gender in decline, as it faces up to the redundancy of those qualities by which it has hitherto dominated the stage.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Mr Obama has acknowledged in speeches and memoirs his debt to his womenfolk: they were resourceful, capable and unsinkable while the men in his life were flaky, fragile and absent.

Conflicts Mr Obama sees in his own wife have led him to promote policies supporting work-life balance. “Michelle is like a lot of women of her generation in that she has carried within herself two very powerful ideas: one, that she’s as smart as any man, on the other hand, she loves being a mother,” he has said. “We have a society that doesn’t really provide a lot of support for women in those roles. We don’t provide the kind of maternity and paternity leave that other countries do.”

Article here. Excerpt:

'In his book The Suicide of Reason Lee Harris argues that our present state of liberal democracy has led to "eliminating the alpha males from our midst, and at a dizzyingly accelerating rate." Instead of supporting and valuing testosterone's virtues we're "drugging our alpha boys with Ritalin." In addition, one could view Barack Obama's election as the triumph of yin over yang. Obama's policies promise to cast the father out of America's parks and replace him with the more "caring" and yin oriented federal government. For Lee Harris however the feminization of American men comes at an extremely high price:

    "The end of testosterone in the West alone will not culminate in the end of history,
    but it may well culminate in the end of the West."

Story here. Excerpt:

'The Movember Foundation is working in conjunction with the Prostate Cancer Foundation, a 501 (c) (3) organization, sponsoring Movember. Movember (the month formerly known as November) is a charity event held during November each year.

At the start of Movember guys register a clean shaven face. The Movember participants, known as Mo Bros have the remainder of the month to grow and groom their Mo (Australian slang for mustache).

The purpose is to raise money and awareness along the way for men's health and the fight against prostate cancer.
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Prostate cancer is the most common non-skin cancer in the U.S. with 1-in-6 American men developing the disease and more than 28,000 men dying of the disease every year.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'CHICAGO, Nov. 18 -- Men involved in clinical studies of inoperable non-small-cell lung cancer appear to be at a 23% greater risk of mortality during a trial than comparable women, researchers said here.

Being a woman is a clear advantage, Corey Langer, M.D., director of thoracic oncology at the University of Pennsylvania, said at the 2008 Chicago Multidisciplinary Symposium on Thoracic Cancer.

"Across the board, independent of race or partnering status, men did worse than women," said Dr. Langer. "This is an observation that has been repeatedly observed in multiple epithelial malignancies, not just lung cancer."

Article here. Excerpt:

'Almost 80% of teenage boys from impoverished Protestant estates in Northern Ireland leave school without adequate grades, the Education minister revealed.

Those failing to obtain at least five GCSE C grades in deprived unionist areas is significantly higher than the 64% rate in disadvantaged Catholic/nationalist estates, Caitriona Ruane told the Assembly.

The Sinn Fein minister said tackling underachievement among Protestant boys would be a priority of the new Educational Skills Authority (ESA). The centralised delivery body is set to replace the five existing education boards in 2010 under plans to streamline public administration in the region.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'Less than a year after four strangers risked their lives to save Michelle Kehoe and her sons from an icy Iowa River, the mother is accused of slashing the two boys' throats and leaving them to die.

Kehoe's 2-year-old son was found dead the morning of October 27 outside the family's van, which was parked a short distance from the Hook-n-Liner pond in Littleton, Iowa.

Her 7-year-old son was injured but still alive inside the van. He was rushed to the hospital for surgery, according to the Iowa Department of Public Safety.
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Some act on genuine psychotic delusions, as jurors determined to be the case with Texas mother Andrea Yates, who told doctors she drowned her five children because God told her to do so. Others can be motivated by selfish reasons: Susan Smith's alleged motive for killing her children was that she perceived them to be an obstacle in her relationship with her boyfriend.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'The 40-year-old mother of a Salt Lake City-area high school student faces charges of having sex with minors in her Utah home after allegedly sending nude photos of herself to the cell phones of several teenage boys.

Kimberly Arigot of Syracuse, Utah, is accused of sending naked pictures of herself to boys in her neighborhood ranging in age from 15 to 18 years old, MyFOXUtah.com reported.

Police said the sexy texting ultimately led two boys, 15 and 17, to have sex with Arigot.
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Arigot reportedly cooperated with police and allegedly confessed before she was released on bail earlier this week. She faces felony charges of unlawful sex and unlawful contact with minors and providing alcohol to the underage boys.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'Her boy toy may have been a stud, but he was no student.

A Queens teacher fired for bedding a 17-year-old male model is suing to win her job back, saying she had no idea her lover boy was enrolled in high school during their affair.

Gina Salamino, 37, contends her job as a tenured second-grade teacher at Public School 121 should have been spared because Joshua Walter was so busy catwalking he never attended a single class during the 2006-07 school year.
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Walter, now 19, met Salamino in 2002, when he was 12. He saw her again, records show, at an August 2006 party. That flirty encounter led to dates at the movies, hundreds of phone calls, nights at her Howard Beach apartment and sex.'

Read this disturbing article here. Excerpt:

'Carleton University’s Students Union’s decision not to do Shinerama next year because cystic fibrosis “affects mainly white males,” is based on misinformation, says the head of the Canadian CF Foundation.

“It’s the most common, fatal, genetic disease affecting young people in this country,” CEO Cathleen Morrison said.

“Hopefully people are making decisions based on information that is correct.”

At their monthly meeting Monday night, student councillors heard a motion to stop supporting Shinerama that included the whereas clauses that they want to be “inclusive as possible,” “support diverse communities” and that “CF has recently been revealed to affect white people and primarily men.”'

Got to love that liberal arts education.

Story here. Excerpt:

'INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Logan Young has been playing baseball with the boys for nine years, and she and her parents don't think that should change now that she's in high school.

The 14-year-old and her family have filed a federal lawsuit over an Indiana High School Athletic Association rule that prohibits the Bloomington South freshman from trying out for the high school baseball team because she is female.

"In this day and age, a girl should have the opportunity to participate on an equal footing with the boys in high school sports and the IHSAA precludes that," Tae Sture, one of the family's attorney's, said Monday.'

Do you suppose I can try out for a spot on the local women's softball team and get a fair shake at that?

Glenn Sacks Newsletter item here. Exceprt:

This article lists all the insane reasons someone has been put on the sex offender list. This list needs to be removed because it is a complete waste of taxpayer resources and ruins innocent lives. Excerpt:

'One of the prevailing myths in society is that everyone on registries are all violent rapists or pedophiles. However, landing on a sex offender registry (or even the prospect of landing on the registry) is a very real threat. Over the years, I have collected some very outlandish cases which have either landed someone on the registry or have at least made them potentially subject to placement on the registry. Some are sad, some are ludicrous, others leave you questioning the laws. However, it is important to keep in mind how easily one can be caught up in the registries. Think about that next time you look at a sex offender registry.'