Video found here. When the web page opens, click under 'watch more video's and a menu will guide you to the VAWA video.

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'PORT ST. LUCIE — A 26-year-old woman is facing charges after allegedly beating a man Monday who told her to leave when she tried to kiss him, according to an arrest affidavit released Tuesday.

Katrina L. Clemente, of the 3100 block of Southwest Chilton Court, also is accused of hitting a 17-year-old girl, who is eight months pregnant, in the stomach.
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A witness reported seeing Clemente get out of the van and start running down the street, striking herself, "so she could call the police and claim that (the male victim) hit her," the affidavit states.'

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'Some advocates for research into other diseases, and some scientists, worry the breast cancer movement is hogging the spotlight — and the money — at the expense of other worthy causes. Some within the breast cancer movement itself accuse advocacy organizations and corporate donors of “pink washing,” using a veneer of altruism to cover up practices these critics find objectionable.

In the world of cancer charities and government funding, breast cancer is queen. The top four breast cancer charities take in a combined annual revenue of roughly $256 million according to their tax returns...
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The National Cancer Institute (NCI) devoted $572.4 million researching breast cancer in 2007. Other National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding for breast cancer boosted the total spent on the disease to $705 million. Plus, the Department of Defense operates its own breast cancer research outfit at a cost of another $138 million in fiscal 2008.

Blog post here. Excerpt:

"Thus, one clear meaning of the glass ceiling is that men are conspiring together against women. This has been one of the themes of feminist rhetoric: Evil men oppress women. In order for women to rise to the top, they not only need to achieve like men do, but they also need to overcome the unfair efforts by men to hold them back.

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'Hillary supporters do not despair: You do have a woman on the Obama ticket and her name is Joseph “Jo” Biden. When Obama talks about wealth distribution, he seldom, if ever, mentions any related programs by name. But you can bet your last dollar – and you won’t have much else left by then – that Jo Biden is percolating plans for a national “man tax.”

Legislating a “man tax” (reparations of sorts) will be done under the noble guise of compensating women to the benefit of all society and, of course, especially children. The Financial Times of London last year allowed two university economics professors to write anonymously in promoting a “man tax.” The commentary in part stated, “Men’s labour supply is more rigid, so an increase in taxes does not reduce their labour supply by much, if at all. … A higher take-home salary for women created by our proposal would allow them to buy more childcare at market prices and, since childcare facilities employ mostly women, they would also benefit on their costs.”

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'The big problem I have with The Tennessean's September 24th editorial topic of targeting teenage dads, and of course the guest editorials that embrace yet another social government program, is that we're left with a truly false dichotomy.

That is, teen motherhood is an absolute "right" while teen fatherhood is just a financial "responsibility." I am so sick and tired of hearing this same old song and dance. Teen mother - good. Teen father - bad. She had no choice but to deliver a baby she cannot afford without taxpayers footing the bill. He had all the choices at hand but now must pay financially through the nose. Not to mention, he must accept that everyone but him decide how little parenting time he actually gets. It's a disgrace par excellence.'

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'Ministers promised yesterday to reduce the secrecy of family courts, which can make decisions about parents' access to children.

The pledge followed a fierce attack from a senior family law judge who said it was time for the public to see 'cases in action'.

The move towards making the workings of the family courts more transparent follows years of controversy over alleged injustice to children and parents.

Cases in which courts have broken up families on the advice of social workers have led to widespread criticism.

Campaign groups such as Fathers 4 Justice have staged demonstrations in the Commons and elsewhere in protest over perceived bias in favour of women in divorce cases and custody orders dealt with by the family courts.'

Article here. Though this study looks like it was done or last edited in 2001, this is still a good resource. Dr. Kanin is also mentioned in the Wikipedia entry on rape statistics, which is also a good page to bookmark in your "MRA Issues" folder. Excerpt:

'Currently, the two main identifiable adversaries involved in the false rape allegations controversy are the feminists and the police. ... Some feminists virtually deny the existence of false rape accusations and believe the concept itself constitutes discriminatory harassment toward women (see Grano, 1990). On the other hand, police are prone to say the reason for not believing some rape complainants resides in the fact that the rapes never occurred (Payton, 1967; Wilson, 1978; Jay, 1991). Medical Examiners lend support to this police position by emphasizing the ever-present possibility that rape complainants may be lying (Shill, 1969, 1971).'

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'It doesn't matter how wealthy, powerful and privileged a woman is, in divorce some women still love to play the victim. Latest case in point--Madonna.

Madonna is worth an estimated $850 million. Whatever one thought of her music and her racy image, she is in many ways the model of the empowered modern woman--a successful businesswoman who rose from nowhere to become rich and famous.'
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According to the UK Telegraph:
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"They include allegations that he told her she 'looked like a granny' on stage compared with her younger backing dancers. He is also alleged to have declared that she could not act, and was 'past it' after she turned 50.

Her lawyers say that 40-year-old Ritchie's comments made Madonna feel worthless, unattractive, unfeminine, insecure and isolated during their eight-year marriage."

Article here. Should I be surprised there's no mention that men still make up the majority of suicides? Excerpt:

'The number of women committing suicide has increased dramatically over the past decade and is driving up the nation's suicide rate as a whole, a new study finds.

The rate of suicide in the United States has risen for the first time in a decade and, for once, middle-age women are being looked at as the culprit driving the increase, according to researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Injury Research and Policy.

The overall suicide rate rose 0.7 percent over the study period, but increased 3.9 percent for middle-age white women and 2.7 percent for white men in the same age group.'

Press release here. Excerpt:

'The case (Woods. v. Shewry) was filed by four men and the daughter of one, against the State of California and its agencies. The lower court dismissed the case on the ground that men and women are "not similarly situated" as victims. The Court of Appeal reversed the decision on October 14, 2008, holding "male victims of domestic violence are similarly situated to female victims for purposes of the statutory programs" and the laws "violate equal protection."'

False claims hurt true victims of violence. Under the Violence Against Women Act, false allegations have reached epidemic levels:

• According to the RADAR Report, "Without Restraint: The Use and Abuse of Domestic Restraining Orders,"[1] at least one million restraining orders are issued each year in which no violence is even alleged.
• A recent analysis found 81% of temporary restraining orders in West Virginia are false or unnecessary.
• In San Diego, prosecuting attorney Casey Gwinn admits, "I would say it’s in the thousands of people who take the witness stand and somewhat modify the truth."

RADAR recently released a White Paper (.pdf file) that analyzes the problem of false allegations. The White Paper presents 10 needed changes to federal and state domestic violence laws to correct this insidious problem:

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'New Westminster - A 21-year-old woman is facing a life sentence in prison for conspiring to murder her mother's common-law husband.

Ashleigh Hiebert, who was 19 at the time of the alleged crime, was originally charged with first-degree murder but has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit murder.

The Crown alleges that Hiebert was a go-between in the alleged murder plot of 26-year-old Jeffrey Sabine, whose body was found by a passerby on Feb. 10, 2006 on the shore of the Fraser River in the 1500-block of Cliveden Avenue on Annacis Island in Delta.'

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'Before he was a best-selling author, respected social philosopher and corporate consultant, Michael Gurian was a 7-year-old boy whom no one seemed to understand.

...He presents evidence that boys think and behave differently than girls based on their brain structures and brain chemistry and encourages public schools and families to embrace all that is enigmatic about boys.

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'The point is not to suggest that either Obama or Biden should come out swinging ugly slurs, half-truths or outright lies. But the conventional wisdom seems to be that the men on the Democratic ticket can't tell Palin precisely what they think of her moose, her hockey pucks and her Joe Six-Pack-isms. If a fella should try, he will be perceived as a bully, as condescending, as ungentlemanly.
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But the reality is that women can deliver a straight-up beatdown as well. In a post-feminist, Title IX culture, there is significant evidence that women are fighting more like men -- and men don't know how to respond.'