Story here. A woman that shook her child and then threw him to the ground was given the vagina pass rather than spending ANY time in jail. Apparently, she is also a pedophile. Excerpt:

'A mum who killed her six-month-old baby by shaking him and throwing him to the ground causing devastating brain injuries has walked free from court.

Martina McHattie, 26, described as a perfect mum, lost her temper with horrific consequences after baby Reece wouldn't stop crying because he was teething.
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But McHattie, who pleaded guilty to manslaughter, was handed just a 12-month suspended prison sentence after a judge was told she had tried to commit suicide and had self-harmed in the years since the death.
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Today she was handed a 26-week prison sentence suspended for a year after she admitted sexual activity with a child following an incident with a 14-year-old boy in July last year.'

RightMarch.com, a conservative grassroots organization, recently threw its support behind RADAR's Fix VAWA Now! campaign, urging its members to ask their Senators and Representatives to begin fixing VAWA "before it's too late."

RightMarch writes:

The "Violence Against Women Act" requires a systematic overhaul. It needs to be changed so victims of violence are helped, so women in abuse shelters are healed, so men are not falsely accused and turned away from getting help, so children are raised by loving and fit parents, so families are safeguarded, so the rule of law is respected, and so the truth is upheld.

VAWA is a badly broken law that, like a cancer, has metastasized into every facet of American society. That's why we're joining RADAR ("Respecting Accuracy in Domestic Abuse Reporting") in this historic crusade to save our families and protect our children."

The entire announcement can be seen here.

Just read this. Admittedly I may be out of the loop and I am not a comic book officianado, so this is the first I have heard of this series.

I feel the reviewer is trying to walk a line here, retaining some ambiguity deliberately in his writings, perhaps to thwart criticism. He is definitely pandering to the feminist crowd on page 1 of his review, then sort of gets less so on the second. All in all though, here's the feel: "Ooo we love to think about a man-less world-- a gendercide of men, hooray! Oh things would be kind of weird at first, but after the evil influences of maleness wear off, everything'll be just fine."

Further comments? The book is found here. The author is, of course, a man.

Story here. Excerpt:

'The 76-year-old Georgia woman sits in a North Carolina jail, accused of hiring a hit man to kill fourth husband Harold Gentry. Authorities are re-examining the deaths of her first child and four of the five men she married, including Gentry.

No motive has been discussed, but records and interviews with relatives and police officials paint Neumar as a domineering matriarch consumed by money.

Said Al Gentry, who pressed North Carolina authorities for 22 years to reopen their investigation of his brother's death: "You can't trust her. You can't believe a word she says."'

Article here. Excerpt:

'One problem with one-issue activists, it seems, is that they often view matters from only one dimension. This has always been one of the characteristics of feminists. Men get blame for being history's conquerors and killers, for instance, but no credit for being its innovators and healers. We will hear about how women "create life" while men only destroy it, but forgotten are the fruits of men's labors. Were it not for male medical advances that virtually eliminated female death during childbirth, many feminists wouldn't be around to crow about their fecundity.

Story here. Excerpt:

'Generous maternity leave and flexible working practices are in danger of sabotaging women's careers, the head of the new equality watchdog has warned.

With women now entitled to a year off for each child, Dr Nicola Brewer, the chief executive of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission, said employers were thinking twice about offering them jobs or promotion.
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She said that her concerns were underlined when the entrepreneur Sir Alan Sugar said that many employers simply binned CVs of women of child-bearing age.
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Sir Alan warned in February that equal opportunity laws had made it harder for a woman to get a job.

Employers are not allowed to ask women about having children - so they would just not employ them, he said.'

All we can say is Wow! The first week of our Fix VAWA Now! campaign absolutely surpassed all expectations!

These are the highlights:

1. RightMarch.com announcement about our campaign went to 800,000 persons
2. Our press release announcing the campaign went to 17,000 media representatives
3. The TV interview resulting from the press release was viewed by tens of thousands persons
4. Gordon Finley's article, "Facing Reality on Domestic Violence" was posted on a number of web sites
5. The Fix VAWA Now! flyers and posters were distributed at a number of events
6. A number of organizations posted the Fix VAWA Now! logo on their websites

OVERALL, WE ESTIMATE THAT WE REACHED ONE MILLION PERSONS IN THE FIRST WEEK ALONE!

And we're just getting started.

Semper Fi,
Ed
http://www.mediaradar.org/

This makes me physically ill. When I see this kind of thing, I ask myself, "Just what are they thinking? Have they actually done any research at all?"

Can you imagine if a group of whites was going around asking black people to sign a pledge foreswearing some kind of behavior rooted in prejudice and stereotyping and to encourage other blacks to do the same? Can you just imagine the outrage, and rightfully so? So these women are going around and asking men to sign a pledge to say they won't be violent against women and to stand up against it or anything that seems like it encourages it. In fact most of the lines of the pledge basically say that the signer agrees to be a door-mat and never disagree with or have anything negative to say to a woman. Why not just ask men to sign a petition to introduce the full outright enslavement of men to women and be done with it?

Story here. Excerpt:

'the LaBarre case could illustrate gender disparities in cases of domestic abuse

Carolyn Lodge said she had concerns about her son’s relationship with Sheila LaBarre from the very beginning. Reached by phone last week, days after LaBarre was sentenced to life in prison without parole for murdering Lodge’s son, Kenneth Countie, Lodge said she had worried for her son’s safety while he was with LaBarre.
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Like women, men are often too embarrassed to report abuse. And, because the news media tends to focus on women as the victims of domestic violence, men are hesitant to step forward, Straus said.

The perception of men as the sole perpetrators of domestic violence stems largely from international statistics showing that men commit roughly 10 times more violent crimes than women, Straus said. In fact, the only crime that has a higher rate among women than men is prostitution, he added.'

In case you missed it the first time, this was reported here. Note the side-linked related articles, too, regarding women as the "forgotten murderers" of children, etc. This is a good page to bookmark, so I wanted to point it out again. MANN also gets it submitted regularly so it is obviously makes a big impression on our readership. Excerpt:

'VANCOUVER - Canada's largest study into the sexual exploitation of street kids and runaways has shattered some myths about who the abusers might be - with the most surprising finding being that many are women seeking sex with young males.

Story here. Excerpt:

'The exhibitionist thief had mugged a disabled 66-elderly woman, stealing her identification and money from her waist pack. When the German granny called for help, a bystander tried to detain the thief, but she tore open her blouse and shouted "Help! Rape!" and escaped.

The 39-year-old man was so stunned and unnerved that he let the wily thief go, police said, adding that the woman managed to cover herself before slipping away.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'The legal ruling, which has just been published, is the first time a Muslim applicant had been rejected by France due to their religious practices.

The unnamed 32-year-old woman is married to a French national. She arrived in the country in 2000, speaks good French and her three children were born in the country.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'So it's entirely possible that Senator Obama is a sexist, misogynistic creep who gleefully rubs his hands together and laughs demonically while scheming to persecute his female employees. Maybe he has nothing better to do. But far more likely is that the aforementioned factors explain his office's inter-sex pay differential. Perhaps his male employees work more hours, have been more likely to accept promotions involving greater responsibility, have more experience, sacrificed "personal fulfillment" and instead chose more lucrative fields, and/or have greater seniority. Whatever the reasons, I'm quite sure of one thing: The phenomenon is attributable to natural, market-based factors and not a conscious desire to disenfranchise women.'

Article here. Excerpt:

"Yet in the United States, many people who consider themselves progressives still view anything to do with women as secondary. They fail to recognize what regressives do: that the ranking of male over female is a basic model children learn early on for equating difference with superiority or inferiority, with dominating or being dominated -- a model that can then easily be generalized to different races, religions, ethnicities, and nations.

In recent years, American regressives have vigorously promoted a family where fathers make the rules and harshly punish disobedience -- the kind of family that prepares people to defer to "strong" leaders who brook no dissent and use force to impose their will. Not coincidentally, over these same years aggressive wars were launched, gains for women and minorities were lost, and a "strong" executive branch held itself above the law."

Story here. Excerpt:

"The bench rejected the plea of the Mahila Vinod Kumar that she was illiterate and hence should be acquitted of the charge and conviction for perjury (misleading court with false evidence).

In this case Mahila had lodged a case of rape against two persons with the Pischhore Police Station in Madhya Pradesh on January 28, 1993. She claimed that the accused waylaid and ravished her by turns.

On the basis of her complaint the accused were arrested and a chargesheet filed by the police under Section 376(2).

However, during the trial she retracted her allegations and denied having made the charge against the men. She also denied having registered the FIR against the accused."