To the fans of Mensactivism.org,

My name is Joe Soltys. I have started a new live internet radio show dedicated to discussing and debating men and father issues, gender issues, and sexual poitics.

The show will be broadcast live by BlogTalkRadio.com on Sunday mornings and is titled “An Hour With Joe Soltys".

Listeners can voice their opinions during each show by way of a listener phone number, or by way of a live chat room that will be available to my listeners for the duration of the show.

If you cannot listen to the show on Sunday mornings, within an hour of each completed show, a recorded copy will be archived and available at BlogTalkRadio for those who missed the live show.

This Sunday’s topic will be: Should women be forced to sign up for Selective Service, and should they be forced onto the front lines of combat in the name of gender equality?

So stop by, listen to the show, and tell me what you think.

Video report here regarding the firing of Sam(antha) Mason, a popular (former) BBC radio personality. Caption: "A guy with a turban is going to freak her [daughter] out. She's not used to Asians." She also said she would prefer a female driver, too.

The commentary that follows includes a debate among the commentators (all female) that includes speculation that the BBC's actions are not entirely justified or legally defensible, and then goes on to discuss whether or not it would have been less offensive and even a far-more valid concern if she had only asked that the driver be female. They seemed to be in agreement on that point.

They also compared her case to Don Imus' and said the difference between him and her was that Imus said what he did on the air and she did not. They close with the speculation that the taxi company had done her wrong by releasing the tape to the BBC. There is a related print story here.

And so it goes.

Story here. There'll be a line forming by the end of the day. You can be sure most of the dumpees will be boys, too. Excerpt:

'OMAHA, Neb. – A 5-year-old boy has been dropped off at an Omaha, Neb., hospital only a day before the state Legislature begins a meeting to change the state's safe-haven law.

The state Department of Health and Human Services said Friday the boy was left at Immanuel Medical Center about 9 p.m. Thursday. He's from Sarpy County near Omaha.

Nebraska's safe-haven law was intended to protect unwanted newborns from being abandoned, but unlike similar laws in other states, Nebraska's doesn't include an age limit.'

In chicken-egg factories, only female chicks are kept. The males are ground up in large garbage disposal-type units right after they are born. Looks like we may be headed toward that one day if the boy-hating continues to flourish as it is.

Story here. Excerpt:

'The mother accused of killing her two young sons had previously tried to abandon the older boy, it was revealed today.

Jael Mullings dumped two-year-old Romario - with a note attached to him - at the A&E department of a hospital near her home in June 2007. Then in November she left the boy at a doctor's surgery.

Social workers had been monitoring the family, but closed their file on Ms Mullings, judging that the mother was capable of caring for her children with the support of 'other agencies'. Today, an investigation into that decision was under way.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'For 114 years, the Broad Plain Boys' Club has been keeping youngsters occupied and out of trouble.

Its leaders run sports sessions for boys aged between seven and 25 to improve self-discipline and confidence - and twice a week girls are welcomed too.

But it seems that for officials at the town hall, that's not good enough.

So they have told its leaders that they must change it to something more politically correct, such as the Working With Young People Club, and invite more girls in - or face losing the £11,600-a-year funding.

Dennis Stinchcombe, who has been in charge of the club, in Easton, Bristol, for 33 years, said the decision could force the club to close.

'They want us to drop the name Broad Plain Boys' Club, no matter that we have had that name for more than 100 years', he said.

'It will cost thousands to change the name. We would have to get new letterheads and change all the equipment with the name on it.

Story here. Hurry, you have only a few days left to abandon your troublesome teenagers and just walk off! Excerpt:

'LINCOLN, Neb. – The mother was running out of more than patience when she abandoned her 18-year-old daughter at a hospital over the weekend under Nebraska's safe-haven law. She was also running out of time: She knew that state lawmakers would soon meet in a special session to amend the ill-fated law so that it would apply to newborns only.
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The safe-haven law was intended to save "Dumpster babies" by allowing desperate young mothers to abandon their newborns at a hospital without fear of prosecution. But lawmakers could not agree on an age limit, and the law as passed uses only the word "child."

All states have safe-haven laws, but in every state but Nebraska, the law applies to infants only.

Authier said her group and others had warned senators after the law passed early this year that there could be problems, but the lawmakers did not believe it.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'There's increasing chatter in political circles that the Obama camp is not overly happy with the usual suspects for secretary of state these days and that the field might be expanding somewhat beyond Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Gov. Bill Richardson (D-N.M.), Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) and maybe former Democratic senator Sam Nunn of Georgia.

There's talk, indeed, that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) may now be under consideration for the post. Her office referred any questions to the Obama transition; Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor declined to comment.'

Note to Obama: Please, just don't do it.

Story here. Excerpt:

'IVYBRIDGE Fathers 4 Justice activist Jolly Stanesby was today jailed for two months for a rooftop protest at the home of Deputy Prime Minister Harriett Harman.

Fellow protestor Mark Harris, of Elford Crescent in Plympton, was given a conditional discharge.

Members of the group, which had disbanded in September of this year, said they would be staging further protests on the Minister's roof and at the Prime Minister's home in Kirkaldy & Cowdenbeath within the week to protest at what they described as a 'politically conceived show trial.'

Spokesman Mark Harris said: "I am shocked that Mr Stanesby has been imprisoned and know that fellow campaigners will be taking his place on Miss Harman's roof within days if not hours. The court has made a serious error in committing him to prison and in doing so incited angry dads to take further direct action."'

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Ed. note: You can leave messages for Jolly here.

Story here. Excerpt:

'After weeks apart, an emotional Guy Ritchie was reunited with his sons Rocco and David at a London airport this morning.

The director's children were back on English soil after being whisked away to the US by Madonna, who is in the throes of her Sticky and Sweet tour.

But as Guy held his two boys close for the first time in weeks, his estranged wife tightened her grip from the other side of the Atlantic.

The Mail has learned that the 50-year-old has issued a list of demands that Ritchie must meet while the children are with him in London. It includes a ban on TV, non-organic food and clothes not sent by her.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'Laura Sjoberg, a professor of political science, weighed in on her theories of how violent women are treated differently than violent men last night. She took a few minutes to sit down before her lecture to give an overview of her research into the gender gap between men and women in the area of global political violence.

Q: Now what is the most important focal point of your lecture, if you could possibly sum it all up?

A: The focal point for the lecture is that violent women are treated in the media and scholarly accounts as if, first, they don't have any agency in their violence and, second, that violent women are no different from real or "normal" women who are still innocent and peaceful and pure.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'In 1999, at Boston College, associate professor Mary Daly refused to enroll two male students into her “Introduction to Feminist Ethics” class, because she believed that a male’s presence would interfere with the female students’ learning. There was a large backlash against Daly, and she eventually agreed to retire.

Within UC Santa Cruz’s feminist studies department, although significantly outnumbered by women, men do major in feminist studies.

Timothy Clark is a third-year feminist studies major and a teacher’s assistant for “Intro to Feminist Studies.” He is also the only male in his TA seminar. Clark acknowledges that there are still stereotypes about studying feminism.
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“As a man, to be involved with feminist studies, you have to be very open to the idea that you’re the privileged people, and you have to be willing to be uncomfortable some of the time,” Clark said. “Men are generally the dominant voice in society. Feminist studies is trying to change that. It’s working toward a more equal and just society.”

Story here. Excerpt:

'A SCHOOLTEACHER accused of ordering a student to abuse her and treat her as his sex slave has been sent for trial.

Melbourne Magistrate's Court yesterday heard claims Nazira Rafei, 26, did the 15-year-old boy's maths test for him and threatened his grades if he called the relationship off.

"Disrespect me. Say shut the f--- up to me and stuff like that," the boy claims Ms Rafei told him during a tryst in her car.

"Say I'm your sex slave."

Ms Rafei, a married science and maths teacher, pleaded not guilty to sexual penetration of a child under 16 under her supervision or authority and four counts of committing indecent acts.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'ANGOLA - An Angola woman accused of paying an undercover police officer $50 to have her estranged husband killed has pleaded guilty to aggravated battery in an agreement with prosecutors.

Mollie Krontz, 45, was arrested in July 2007 after police said she met with Indiana State Police Detective Mark Heffelfinger and gave him $50 with a promise of $150 more that August.
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Though Krontz didn't have detailed plans about how her husband should be killed, she did suggest that he be shot, police said.

Krontz remains free on a $100,000 bond. A sentencing hearing is set for Jan. 12.'

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Ed. note: This is Angola, Indiana in the US, not the country of Angola.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Some ardent feminists have launched a campaign to block Lawrence H. Summers, former President Bill Clinton’s treasury secretary, from taking the same post in the Obama administration. In raking up old controversies, they threaten to deprive the new government, in the midst of a deepening financial crisis, of the services of a star economist who led the way to a budgetary surplus and a rare reduction in the national debt. Settling old scores is no way to face a dangerous and uncertain economic future.
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Mr. Summers has apologized repeatedly, perhaps too much. He was taking part in a discussion of a real problem in the failure of women to go farther in the scientific professions. He was simply raising the question of whether discrimination against women was entirely to blame. If such questions can’t be asked, for fear of retribution far out of scale to the query, such longstanding problems won’t be resolved. This shortchanges everyone, not just the group that appears to be getting left behind.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'IOWA CITY - The majority of violent crimes are committed by men, but the majority of men are not violent, University of Iowa graduate student Jerrod Koon says.

Getting those men to speak up against violence, especially violence against women, is the key to changing the problem, said Koon, coordinator of the Men's Anti-Violence Council.

Like-minded UI students, faculty and staff attended an open house last night hosted by the new group. About 25 people mingled during the first hour of the two-hour event.

UI freshman Sterling Martin, 18, heard about the open house from a friend, and after getting some information, said he thinks he would like to volunteer with the group. He can see where young college men might be hesitant to join an anti-violence group if they think it is about "taking away their masculinity."'