Story here. Excerpt:

'THE organisers of the Electric Picnic festival, which kicks off this Friday, are to highlight the issue of Irish male suicide during the three-day event.
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“We have arranged for five people, all of whom have been affected by Irish male suicide, to light the temple on Sunday,” said Mr Reynolds.

More than 35,000 people are expected to attend the festival this year, headlined by the Sex Pistols, My Bloody Valentine, Franz Ferdinand, Underworld and George Clinton the P Funk Allstars. The festival runs from Friday, August 29th to Sunday, August 31st.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'The University of Rochester Medical Center is hosting "Men's Health Day — Take Time Out For Your Health" from 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 12 ... The free event will include discussions with top men's health specialists, hands-on demonstrations, and a healthy breakfast and lunch.'

Article decrying the relative shortage of eligible men in Australia here. Read this quotation:

'“There is simply less product for 30-something women, in particular, to choose from,” he said.

"In the old days, we believed Mr. or Mrs. Right would show up someday, but as we remain single for much longer, and are far more mobile, the chances are more remote," Salt told Reuters.'

"Product". What's funny (ie, sad) is the speaker is a man.

So they are wondering why Australian men seem to prefer life in the field vs. life in the city. Well if even a man from the city views other men as 'product', we can just imagine why.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Leaders of colleges for traditional-age students spend a lot of time worrying about the behavior of male undergraduates — and specifically the misbehavior of many through excessive drinking, hazing, and abusive behavior toward women. A leading sociologist and gender scholar, Michael Kimmel, has just published a new book that offers an inside look at this young male culture, Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men (HarperCollins). The book covers male development from ages 16 through 26, and features extensive discussion of campus life. Kimmel responded via e-mail to questions about his work.'
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Kimmel from Wikipedia:

Article here. Excerpt:

"The problem—the systematic discrimination, persecution, and now criminalization of fathers by virtue of their classification as “non-custodial parents” by the courts—has been in existence for the better part of 30 years.

The problem shows no sign of abating. Largely speaking, it is an invisible problem. The first question that needs to be asked and answered is: Why has there been no progress in all this time?

Finger-pointing is a staple of the Fathers Rights community. It has always existed because it is quite natural for a failed movement to explain away its failure by assigning blame."

Article here. Excerpt:

"I WOULDN’T HAVE VENTURED into the sensitive debate on circumcision if it did not have direct consequences for my children, and the posterity of the Luo community and other non-circumcising communities around the world.

However, the debate has been fuelled by research carried out in Kenya and Uganda and published in January in BJU International.
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But if you get circumcised, know that they are amputating your foreskin. The sensitivity you feel, not only in that skin, but the surrounding tissues, will be drastically diminished."

Story here. Excerpt:

'African health workers need more training and better tools to circumcise men and boys safely for HIV prevention, according to a World Health Organisation (WHO) study chronicling "shocking" rates of complications.

As many as 35 percent of males circumcised by traditional practitioners in Kenya's Bungoma district suffered complications such as bleeding, infection, excessive pain and erectile dysfunction from the procedure, the WHO researchers found.

"Other common adverse effects reported were pain upon urination, incomplete circumcision requiring recircumcision, and laceration," they wrote, estimating 6 percent of patients had life-long problems as a result.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Theories about why so few men choose to become teachers, particularly at the elementary level, are well-discussed in education circles: the perception that teaching is a "female" profession continues; the pay, especially in the early years, is lower than other fields; the notion that men who choose to work with young children could be viewed as predators persists.

A question that sparks more debate is this: Does having male teachers matter?
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"There's been this equation between how boys do in school and having male teachers, and somehow having a male teacher will make boys better learners," Wallace said. "What they need is really good teachers. And a really good male teacher? Great. A really good female teacher? Great. What we need are really good teachers who are able to engage students at all levels."'

Article here. British women make up 65% of college students yet the higher education system is too masculine? I suspect they'll be a major government based college initiative for women to gain 'equality'. Excerpt:

'The research, based on in-depth interviews with 10 male and 10 female students at a leading international school, demonstrates how the masculine environment still makes it harder for women to fit in. It also shows that both the male majority and the female minority of students appear to accept as an inevitability that business is done according to male rules.
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More subtle strategies are needed to challenge students to understand how gender shapes organisational culture and practices, the study argues.

Introducing examples of less traditional business women and men into the curriculum would show that “working with gender diversity is part of what it means to do business”. So would inviting people from diverse backgrounds to teach case studies.

Story here. Excerpt:

'A 16-year-old girl has been handed a 12 month referral order including counselling sessions after falsely accusing a man of raping her, Yourmaidstone reports.

Maidstone magistrates heard the teenager had claimed a 19-year-old youth had dragged her into his home and raped her.

But she concocted the story after having consensual sex with the man she accused, as she had a boyfriend.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'A BAHRAINI woman has been arrested for reporting a false rape case to police in Isa Town.
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She later changed her story, saying she was out with one of the men, when the other two turned up and all three raped her. But the told prosecutors during questioning that the woman had actually been in a relationship with all three of them and that they never had sex with her against her will.
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The woman has currently been detained on charges of reporting a false case to the police, while two of the men have been charged with theft. All defendants will remain in custody until their case goes to court next week.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Then I left the egalitarianism of the classroom for the cubicle, and everything changed. The realization that the knowledge and skills acquired in school don’t always translate at the office is something that all college graduates, men and women, must face. But for women, I have found, the adjustment tends to be much harder. It was certainly hard for me — I lasted only nine months in my first job out of college.
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RECENTLY I had a conversation with a male friend, a reporter in his mid-20s, about how hard it is to ask for money and negotiate for raises. He looked puzzled that I’d have an aversion to something that he does with ease, telling me: “When I want a raise, I just ask for it. And even if they say no, I’ll keep asking for it.”

The American Association of University Women found that men who are a year out of college make 20 percent more in weekly pay than their female co-workers do. Why? Because my friend and scores of other young men understand the central tenet of a bigger paycheck: ask and you shall receive.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'While the real-estate market was expanding, single women benefited as never before. But when the boom went bust, guess which segment was among the biggest losers.
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Over the past decade or so, single women have become a major force in the housing market. The proportion of single female homebuyers climbed from 14% in 1995 to 22% last year, according to the National Association of Realtors. And by 2010, single women will make up about 28% of homeowners, Fannie Mae estimates.

But those gains haven't come without a price. Several studies have shown that women -- and women of color, in particular -- are more likely than men to be targets of subprime and predatory lenders, and that many of the women who have lost their homes to foreclosure could have qualified for lower-cost loans. And although there are no data comparing foreclosure rates between men and women, subprime loans have a higher rate of default. So with foreclosures soaring, experts say women are at particular risk of losing their homes.'

Utterly astonishing misandry! And from the usually pretty sensible Daily Mail too. I know it's supposed to be a 'humorous' piece, but it's impossible to imagine a similar article with the genders reversed getting published in the mainstream media. Read it here. Excerpt:

"Yes, she is thinking of getting him neutered in the near future, although pleaded with us not to mention this in front of him. 'I know we shouldn't anthropomorphise men, shouldn't assume they feel as we do, but even so,' she said.
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She hopes the neutering will reduce any remaining dominance - 'so wearisome, all the male dominance stuff' - and will also stop him from 'roaming' for bitches. 'I wouldn't mind so much, but he roams late at night using those very expensive phone numbers. It's costing us a fortune.'"

Unbelievable.

Article here. Excerpt:

'In 1984, Walter Mondale's choice of Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate shattered a glass ceiling as old as the republic, thrilled feminists and helped create a gender gap among voters that has aided Democrats ever since. That was 24 years before another woman, Sarah Palin, was named to a national ticket, and this time, it is conservatives who think they have seized the political advantage.
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Palin herself framed her selection in historic terms yesterday, noting it came "88 years almost to the day after the women of America first gained the right to vote," and she seemed to go out of her way to pay homage to Clinton, while declaring that she would carry on her quest to become the first woman elected to national office.

"It was rightly noted in Denver this week that Hillary left 18 million cracks in the highest, hardest glass ceiling in America," she told the crowd. "But it turns out the women of America aren't finished yet, and we can shatter that glass ceiling once and for all."'