There is a commercial running now for the American Express business card showing a man at an airport counter buying a ticket for an important business trip. He plans to pay for it by credit card, but the woman behind the counter sees that the card has a picture of cats on it. this does not meet with her approval [apparently not manly enough for her judgmentally sexist mind] and she signals for two guards to come over and take him away.

One of the guards is a woman who puts on rubber gloves for the obvious reason. Does anyone think that this company would run an ad showing a male guard putting on rubber gloves to examine a female customer. Of course not! I called the company and spoke to a customer service rep who agreed with me and would pass on my comments to management. I also intend to call the advertising department to voice my concern about this issue. I hope others will join me. Contact info here.

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Ed. note: Someone please provide a link to the commercial on-line, if available. I went looking for it but could not find it.

I thought you might find this article interesting. It’s about women who find money to be an aphrodisiac:

There are a three interesting things about this article that call into question certain things we’ve been taught about men and women.

1. Men are often portrayed as the shallower of the sexes, i.e., only interested in looks, while women are portrayed as more emotional and concerned about sensitivity and feelings. Yet, the author states “…if I'm gut-wrenchingly honest with myself, the only reason that I agreed to go out with TFB in the first place -- and the reason I stayed so long -- was that he was loaded.”

Story here. A family court judge gets off after his girlfriend recants her testimony and admits she rubbed her own face on the rug. Meanwhile a retired naval commander is found guilty even after his wife recants her testimony and admits she pulled out her own hair. Man is intent on taking case to Nevada Supreme Court to set a "bright line" standard on recanted allegations. Excerpt:

'Nearly two years ago, Family Court Judge Steven Jones was acquitted of a domestic battery charge after his live-in girlfriend recanted the previous statements she had given in the case.

A month earlier, retired Navy commander Dennis Sarfaty was convicted of the same misdemeanor despite the fact that his wife had recanted her prior statements.

The seemingly conflicting verdicts came from two different judges in Henderson Municipal Court, and Sarfaty's lawyer now wants the Nevada Supreme Court to decide which one was right.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'THE MEDICAL manpower crisis is even worse than previously estimated, with patients almost certain to experience difficulty accessing GP services, new research has shown.

Researchers from the department of primary care and public health at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) have found that women GPs are only half as likely to work full-time at partnership level as male doctors.
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Female doctors also worked fewer unsociable hours, with 51 per cent of female graduates involved in co- operatives and out-of-hours work, compared with 84 per cent of male doctors who worked nights and weekends.
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But a senior medical source described the study as "a severe wake-up call. Clearly we have got the balance wrong gender-wise. We must now rectify this because political correctness will not look after patients."'

Article here. Excerpt:

'...we looked at how the court’s decision to ask a man to compensate his live-in partner for not marrying her had opened a Pandora’s box. ... the section of society that is the most worried, or rather, outraged by some of the recent changes in Indian law, is no doubt the men. ... men seem to have been shortchanged by the entire judicial process. Or so the responses of our readers, bloggers, and a cross section of men we spoke to leads us to believe.

...As one reader writes, "I am astonished that the Indian judiciary system is run by backward thinkers. What is the itch to 'protect' women and make them even 'weaker'? In the Western world all this is not heard of.....We can never be a developed nation without strong social objectives. The law is biased against men."'

Fourteen years after the passage of the Violence Against Women Act in 1994, it is now apparent that VAWA is a badly broken law that harms innocent individuals even as it fails to achieve its stated goal of protecting domestic violence victims.

The Violence Against Women Act:

1. Fails to Help Victims of Domestic Violence
2. Mistreats Women
3. Promotes False Allegations
4. Breaks Up Families Unnecessarily
5. Costs Taxpayers Billions
6. Hurts Black Communities

While VAWA-funded programs have benefited some individuals, its overall effect has been negative.

On July 4, Independence Day, the VAWA Reform Coalition launched a 5-month, high-profile campaign called "Fix VAWA Now!" Bottom line, we want every American to understand how this law has weakened the American family, harmed children forced into a single-parent household, while failing to protect true victims of domestic violence.

AND WE ARE CALLING ON YOU TO HELP SPREAD THE WORD! Americans deserve a truly effective law that deals with the problem without causing massive collateral damage.

Story here. Excerpt:

'A Barrie mother of an autistic girl is considering legal action against her local school board after a psychic's prediction to a special educational assistant sparked a sexual abuse report to the Children's Aid Society.

"I'm in shock," said Colleen Leduc, 38. "They reported me to Children's Aid because of a psychic. Can you imagine?"'

Article here. Excerpt:

"We work with men who have been stabbed, cut with glass and had their teeth knocked out with objects by female partners. They and their children, who are damaged just by seeing it, deserve the same outreach, treatment and dignity as any other victims, but instead they're often stigmatized and told they're oddball class even though they are not."

Story here. Excerpt:

'Men suffering domestic violence at the hands of women say they feel isolated and ignored by a society that appears not to take it seriously.

They feel emasculated and embarrassed about discussing the issue with friends and often suffer in silence.

Home Office figures show one in six men will experience domestic violence at some point in their lives.
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“Violence by women against men is still a taboo. People can talk about paedophilia and that has a media profile, this does not.”'

Article here. Excerpt:

'The words "domestic violence" typically invite images of bruised women and children - and male perpetrators. But the real picture of domestic violence isn't so clear-cut. And the solution to family violence is far more complex than our current criminal justice approach can handle.

One of the primary myths - and the one that meets with the most resistance - is that only men are violent. Women and children indeed suffer the worst injuries and more often die as a result of those injuries, but women initiate violence as often as men.

Ignoring or playing down that fact obscures the real problem of intimate violence and makes solutions less likely. Yet even people who know better are afraid of speaking up lest they be accused of undermining feminist efforts to help women and children in danger.

Story here. Excerpt:

"In an interesting case, a man accused of rape and false promise of marriage, has demanded registration of FIR against the complainant after the police gave him the clean chit.

Rishi Sood (25), a resident of Haibowal, is running from pillar to post to get the FIR registered, which he said is, "Very essential as the woman has ruined my life and career. I have also come to know that she is doing the same to other men as well. I want to teach her a lesson.”
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Sood said, "She has ruined my life. I was arrested, tortured and even sent to jail where I spent seven months. My career suffered and so did my family. All this time, this girl whose actual name is Suman Paul, kept demanding money from me and my family to take the case back. We even came to know the woman is in contact with people who indulge in illegal activities."

Article here. Excerpt:

'The warning comes as a woman appears in Hamilton District Court this morning charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice, arising from rape complaint made last November.

Detective Senior Sergeant Chris Page said the Hamilton woman claimed she was raped after an offender forced his way into her flat but this was proved to be untrue.

"A large amount of police and ESR resources and time was put into the investigation," he said.

"The media coverage of this incident was significant as police dealt with a number of rape allegations at that time. This case has proven to be the third false complaint from that week.'

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Ed. note: Suggest using Internet Explorer to view the story. Using Firefox, I had a problem getting the fold-out ad to close so I could actually read it.

Story here. Excerpt:

'Despite data showing a growing number of children in urban areas living without fathers or other adult men, male kindergarten teachers are a rarity in Rochester and nationally.

The National Center for Education Statistics estimates that men represent only 2 percent of 190,000 kindergarten teachers nationwide. That figure is slightly higher in the Rochester district, where seven of the 113 kindergarten teachers are men.

Researchers cite low pay, a cultural stereotype that teaching elementary school is women's work, and fear among men of being accused of physically abusing children.

"People think that men aren't nurturing, that men don't want to be with children, that men can't do it," said Bryan Nelson, the founder of MenTeach, a Minneapolis-based nonprofit that supports male teachers."'

Essay here. The examples she provides have one common theme; they ignore men. She is a typical politician who adheres to the ideology that the rights of individual men are less important than the communal goals of women. Excerpt:

'The so-called Arizona Civil Rights Initiative is not about protecting civil rights; it's about taking away our rights and freedoms. It would change Arizona's Constitution to prohibit the state (and local governments, schools and universities) from offering any type of equal-opportunity programs to women and people of color in Arizona.

Some examples of programs that will be eliminated if the Connerly initiative becomes law in Arizona are:
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• Arizona State University's Women in Science and Engineering program. This would be eliminated because it supports university women as they pursue careers in science and engineering.'

Parade magazine's poll is published across the nation. Please vote now. The question is: 'Should divorced dads get equal time with their kids?'. Excerpt:

"Despite a shift toward shared custody over the last 20 years, up to half of fathers lose contact with their kids after a divorce. “In 85% of divorces, fathers get just two weekends a month and a couple of hours during the week,” says Mike McCormick of the American Coalition for Fathers and Children."