Story here. Excerpt:

"On Friday, Judge Maria del Mar Verdin handed 18 life sentences, five 20-year sentences, seven 17-year sentences, four 5-year sentences, and nine 1 1/2-year sentences to James Wallace Galloway, 52, said Mike Scerbo, a spokesman for the county attorney's office.

Galloway was convicted on 43 counts relating to the sexual abuse and molestation of minor children, furnishing obscene material to children and public sexual indecency, Scerbo said."

Comments? Would a woman receive this type of dramatic and emotional sentence by a male judge? What are his chances of getting the sentence reduced?

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Ed. note: The point here is not should he be punished with what is effectively a life sentence-- some may think that is too much, others not enough. The point is this: would a female convict of the same crimes get the same kind of sentence?

Blog entry here. Excerpt:

'...In many ways Sarah Palin is a model of what feminists have long said they wanted - women who are able to build a successful career on their own without depending on their husband’s position to get where they want to go. And to have a family with a husband who fully shares in the parenting duties. Yet now we know that that is not enough. A woman also has to be a liberal to be a true role model: When Gloria Steinem takes to the pages of The Los Angeles Times to tell us that Palin is not the right woman for other women because of her positions, I guess that is a step forward that Palin can be evaluated on the basis of her positions more than on her gender, but it also helps clarify that organizations like NOW were never really about women but only about liberal women. And what they’re now horrified to discover is that there are a whole lot of women out there who don’t ascribe to that agenda.

Story here. Excerpt:

'Opening the case for the prosecution Michael Chambers QC told Chester Crown Court that Mrs Hill was "ashamed and embarrassed" of her daughter's condition and murdered her in a "determined and planned act".
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"The defendant put her in the bath and drowned her by holding her head under the water for a long time until she was dead."

After the killing, Mrs Hill dressed her daughter's body as if nothing was amiss and drove her around for eight hours, drinking several glasses of wine, before taking her to hospital claiming she was unconscious, the jury heard.
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Mrs Hill, who denies murder but admits manslaughter, told police she had been suffering from suicidal thoughts before the killing and later suggested she was psychotic.
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"The defendant couldn't cope with caring for Naomi and left a lot of the everyday care to her husband Simon," said the barrister.

Via email: I thought this might be of interest to you, especially for Men's
Activism. There is a published article I wrote that they just posted at the site in the Blog Section [at the top] and the struggles for males in finding help for recovery concerns around abuse & trauma, Recovery For Men - What's Different. Excerpt:

'I remember attending a Speak Out against sexual abuse and a male survivor got up to share – he shared a letter sent to him from a well-known advocate against abuse towards women. This letter was full of hate towards men and she let him know in no uncertain terms that she did not care what had happened to him and she did indeed blame men. This man who had written for help was once a young boy, a child, just as I was and what are we as men supposed to feel and think when we get such responses?'

Minister Ronald Smith has passed. An incredible father, husband, man, friend, and much more. A huge advocate for fathers having equal time with their children after divorce. Excerpt:

'A tragedy. A shock. Extremely sad news for all who knew this special man. Minister Ron Smith was one of the best friends I have ever known. Minister Ronald Smith passed away on Friday September 5, 2008 from a heart attack. I am still very shook up from this news and will let our readers know more as soon as I get it. He was such an incredible man and just recently brought the 2008 Million Man March to Michigan. Minister Ronald Smith was also the founder of the National Fatherhood Summit and was one of the co-founders of the Family Preservation Festival. Minister Ronald Smith was co-author of the book Cheated. Minister Ronald Smith was the CEO of Children Need Both Parents, Inc. Most of all Minister Ronald Smith was an amazing father and husband!'

Story here. Excerpt:

'PASADENA, Texas -- Two teenage girls are accused of stabbing a 75-year-old man to death in a robbery that netted them just $15, and police say the mother of one of the teens helped put them up to it.

Dannette R. Gillespie, 38, gave knives to her 15-year-old daughter and Vanessa Anne Ocampo, 19, then waited in the back seat of their car while the teens robbed and killed Eugene Palma, according to a probable cause warrant.

All three were charged with capital murder Friday. It was not immediately clear if they had attorneys.'
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"He would've given them money -- that's the crazy thing," Kim Nawrot, a bartender at Palma's bar, told the Houston Chronicle. "He was the kind of guy that would've given anyone the shirt off of his back."

Gillespie and her daughter, who is not being identified because she is a juvenile, were arrested in Pasadena. Ocampo was arrested in San Antonio. They were being held without bond.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'Casey Anthony returned home from jail Friday to face renewed protests over the disappearance of her 3-year-old daughter and new questions about whether her family is making money off the case.
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Denise Freideman and Anita Castillo spent several hours searching for Caylee on Thursday with Texas EquuSearch, a volunteer search-and-recovery team working on the case. The Clermont women planned to return to the task Friday, but first they stopped outside the Anthony home.

"We just couldn't believe she is being released," Castillo said.
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Meanwhile, a Department of Children and Families spokeswoman confirmed Friday that the state agency has an open child-abuse investigation involving Anthony.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'(WebMD) Listen up, guys. It may be time to drop the bravado and consider these sobering
statistics:

Coronary artery disease (CAD) is three times higher among men who are clinically depressed.

Male suicides outnumber female suicides in every age group.

Homicide and suicide are among the top three causes for death among males between the ages of 15 and 34.

By the age of 85, women outnumber men in the U.S. 2.2 to 1; this rises to 3 to 1 if they reach their 90s.
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Male mortality is shorter in part, Legato says, because males are more fragile and inherently vulnerable than females from birth. And unlike women, who have fought hard to have their specific health needs validated and addressed, men haven't demanded equal treatment.

"It is a need that has never been addressed," Legato says. "Men have been tremendously neglected and it doesn't have to be that way."'

Story here. Excerpt:

"The B.C. Court of Appeal has overturned Kelly Ellard's second-degree murder conviction and ordered a fourth trial for her in the death of teenager Reena Virk, who was found beaten and drowned in a Victoria waterway in 1997.
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[Virk] was 14 when she was swarmed and beaten under a bridge in Saanich on Vancouver Island on Nov. 14, 1997, by a group of teenagers who were mainly girls, police said. Battered and bloodied, Virk managed to get up and stagger across the bridge toward a bus stop to make her way home. But two of the original attackers dragged her back, hit her again and left her in a waterway."

Does it get any more brutal than this?

Story here. Excerpt:

'(CBS/AP) Soldier suicides this year could surpass the record rate of last year, Army officials said Thursday, urging military leaders at all levels to redouble prevention efforts for a force strained by two wars.

If all are confirmed, that means that the number for 2008 could eclipse the 115 of last year - and the rate per 100,000 could surpass that of the civilian population, Col. Eddie Stephens, deputy director of human resources policy, said at a Pentagon news conference.

"Army leaders are fully aware that repeated deployments have led to increased distress and anxiety for both soldiers and their families," Army Secretary Pete Geren said.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'MEPs want TV regulators in the EU to set guidelines which would see the end of anything deemed to portray women as sex objects or reinforce gender stereotypes.
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The new rules come in a report by the EU's women's rights committee.

Swedish MEP Eva-Britt Svensson urged Britain and other members to use existing equality, sexism and discrimination laws to control advertising.
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She added: "Gender stereotyping in advertising is one of several factors that have a big influence in efforts to make society more gender equal.'

Guess there'll be a review panel made up of feminists for each commercial an advertises wants to air? I wonder if anti-male stereotyping will also be on their hit list?

Story here. Seems public-funded girls/women-only schools, etc. are fine. Publicly-funded programs for boys/men? They will be resisted at all turns! Excerpt:

'Boys' Latin of Philadelphia, one of the city's newer charter schools, began its second year on Wednesday, aiming to be an educational beacon in the financially and academically troubled district.

Because it's a single-sex public school — one of four in the city — Boys' Latin faced huge opposition and almost didn't exist.
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The Women's Law Project and the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania had opposed Hardy's charter application based on its exclusion of girls.

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New rules implemented by the U.S. Education Department in 2006 allow same-sex education whenever schools think it will expand the diversity of courses, improve students' achievement or meet their individual needs.

A contestant on the game show 'DadaGiri' in India apparently doesn't realize that physical violence will be included in the program. In a surprise move, he receives a vicious slap from a woman posing as a dominatrix. But instead of just taking it, he immediately hits her back and asks "How can she slap (me)?"

Then, all hell breaks loose as crew members decide to come to the aid of the woman and deal out punishment to the man who is obviously just defending himself.

Essay here. Excerpt:

'The daughter is 17 years old. Her boyfriend is 18 years old. She is five months pregnant. From that we can assume that they, at the very latest, had intercourse sometime in May. The girl will turn 18 in October. We do not know, nor is it anyone’s business, how old she was the first time she had sex with her boyfriend.
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What would have happened had the young couple in question engaged in youthful sexuality in Arizona? There the young man would become both a “father-to-be” and a felon at the same time. Any sexual act by an 18-year-old and a 17-year-old is a felony in Arizona, even if the girl’s mother is running for vice president of the United States.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'Female Republicans embraced identity politics with gusto today, touting the virtues of presumptive vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin and suggesting that any attempts to question her qualifications amounted to blatant sexism.

In a "hear me roar"-style press conference, a parade of elected officials and GOP operatives issued a lengthy defense of the Alaska governor's credentials, and former Massachusetts governor Jane Swift said Palin has been the target of "an outrageous smear campaign."'

Wow... I'd really hoped that a McCain administration would, while not outright championing men's rights, at least provide a bulkhead against the tide of irrational gynocentrism that's sweeping the western world. Turns out McCain has no problem pandering to emotional, irrational, and destructively entitled women as long as they label themselves "conservatives".

Relatedly, submitted by anthony:

Article here. Excerpt: