Story here. Excerpt:

"Supermodel Naomi Campbell has pleaded guilty to assaulting two police officers at Heathrow Airport.

Miss Campbell, 38, admitted six offences relating to the fracas after she was removed from a British Airways flight to Los Angeles in April.
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She could be jailed for up to six months and fined up to £5,000 for each count of assaulting a constable."

UPDATE: She avoids jail time, predictably. Story here. Excerpt:

"Shamed model Naomi Campbell avoided jail today, despite admitting kicking and spitting at police officers on board a plane at Heathrow."

Who can deny that country music is anti-male? Carrie Underwood has a song about destroying her boyfriend's truck, Miranda Lambert has a song about setting a man's house on fire, the Dixie chicks have a song about helping their friend poison her husband and dispose of the body, and the Forrester Sisters have a song complaining about men, without any validity whatsoever. I'm now sad to say that a couple videos have also decided to now include the sexual abuse of males. I'm talking about groin shots. Apparently, some country artists think that rape against males is comedy.

The two guilty of including this in their videos are Gretchen Wilson and Toby Keith. Gretchen shows a man getting struck in the groin in her video for All Jacked Up and for no reason whatsoever. He's just playing guitar when these two midgets walk up and hit him in the groin with their guitars.

Story here. Excerpt:

'NEW YORK -- A woman accused of orchestrating the killing of her husband at a Queens playground in front of their daughter can have jailhouse visits with the 5-year-old girl.

Queens Family Court Judge Linda Tally ruled Wednesday that Dr. Mazoltuv Borukhova can see her daughter, Michelle, in a "child-friendly" visiting room at Rikers Island.

Borukhova was arrested on charges that she paid an uncle to kill her estranged husband, Daniel Malakov. The uncle has been charged in the killing.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'Japanese professionals in their thirties are killing themselves at unprecedented rates, as the nation struggles with a runaway suicide epidemic.

Newly published figures show that 30,093 people took their own lives in 2007 — a 2.9 per cent increase in a year — leaving the country as the most suicide-prone anywhere in the developed world and rendering government efforts to combat the problem a failure.

Suicide rates remained highest among men — at 71 per cent of the total — and very high among Japan’s rising population of over-60s. Geographically, most suicides took place in the prefecture of Yamanashi, where the forested foothills of Mount Fuji continue to attract the suicidal from around Japan.

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The crisis of despair gripping young working Japanese has triggered plenty of official and media hand-wringing, though little in the way of change in corporate Japan. Wages remain low, and hierarchies rigid.

Exactly 15 days from today we will be launching our Fix VAWA Now! campaign. We’re making great progress in getting ready for this incredible blow-out event – contributions are coming in, columnists are promising to write op-eds, and people are getting psyched!

But we’re lagging in one department – state-level VAWA Reform Captains. Right now we have 6 volunteers in California , Michigan , Oklahoma , Colorado , and Utah . But we’d like to have at least 25.

The VAWA Captains will distribute the flyers at political rallies, speeches, meetings, libraries, etc. We’re also working on a poster. The main thing is, the message to Fix VAWA Now! has to reach all corners of society.

So please let us know, as soon as possible, if you can spare 1-2 hours a month between now and Election Day to make a difference in the lives of families and children. RADAR's contact page is here.

Best,

Ed

P.S. This just came in – we will be organizing a Fix VAWA Now! vigil at the Democratic National Convention in Denver in August. Momentum is building!

Article here. Excerpt:

"Suppose you ran a physical education program and discovered that girls were much more likely to suffer serious injuries than boys are. Before recruiting any more girls, would you want to alert them to this fact?
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I’m not surprised at the advocates’ reluctance, because for decades it’s been politically incorrect to discuss certain gender differences when it comes to sports. The pendulum swung from one extreme — telling girls that they were too weak to compete — to the other extreme portraying girls as just smaller versions of boys: just as interested in competitive sports, just as likely to benefit from the long training required to become elite college athletes. What started out as an understandable desire to give girls equal opportunities turned into a campaign to legally mandate equal outcomes. If girls seemed to show less interest than boys did in competitive sports, it was blamed on discrimination.

Via Marc A. Article here. Excerpt:

'RECENTLY, THE Aarushi murder case made quite a sensational headline With all the major news channels running bizzare with their never ending assumptions and stories. Minister of Women and Child Development, Renuka Choudhary also took the police force to task for not handling the case properly and using derogatory language for Aarushi and demanded a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the same. But what everyone conveniently forgot here is the fact that there were two murder victims, the second one being the male servant, Hemraj. But barely do we hear any news of the unfortunate male victim in the twin murder episode in Noida.

Article here. Excerpt:

'When a story unfolds that is as obscene as the deaths of Amy and Owen Philcox by the hands of their father Brian, most of us try to work our way through the unthinkable steps of it: how carefully he planned the murders and how cruelly he hinted at what was to come.
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Some men, and their children, are certainly dealt a lousy hand in matters of custody, maintenance and access.

But I also believe that among all the men I have known who bellyache about their lot, almost without exception their real grievance is rooted in their relationship with their former wife - and 'anguish' about 'missing' the children is just a stick with which to beat her.

It's amazing how many men get over the 'grief' within moments of finding a new woman.

Article here. Excerpt:

'...In 90% of disputed custody cases mothers walk away with “primary care” (in effect sole custody) of their children because, deservedly or not, judges feel sorry for them and find a technical or legal opening to issue the judgment they have already made in their hearts.

The introduction to a book presently nearing completion, called "Deadbeat Judges: How Courts Disenfranchise Fathers", outlines the triple cause of the syndrome. In the absence of constitutional protection of parental rights, and masking their power-grab under the guise of “best interests of the child,” courts have usurped disputatious parents’ natural right to equal guardianship of their children. Add to that judges’ superannuated impulse toward chivalry for the perceived underdog — virtually always the mother in their eyes — bolstered by a legal culture dominated by third-wave, anti-father feminism.

Yup. They played a childish prank, pouring urine down the water fountain drain, and the teacher made the boys drink out of the fountain. This is abuse, plain and simple. What proof did the teacher have? What if it was a girl who did it? Excerpt:

'A Banks county assistant principal is facing potential trouble. Parents say she went too far in disciplining several students. Reaction is strong following accusations from parents, an assistant principal at Banks County Elementary School forced several 5th grade boys to drink from a urine tainted water fountain.

One parent said, “I think it’s ridiculous that we trust these people with our children’s health during the day and they let something like this happen.”'

Via email:

"I am doing a research study on male victims of partner violence. We are looking for male victims of heterosexual partner violence who sustained some kind of aggression within the previous year to fill out a confidential, anonymous, online survey about their experiences with partner violence, their health, and their experiences with seeking help for their partner violence victimization. Here is a copy of our IRB-approved advertisement for this study:

"Researchers at Clark University and Bridgewater State College are conducting a study on men who experience aggression from their girlfriends, wives, or female partners. If you are a man between the ages of 18-59 and have experienced aggression from your partner within the past 12 months, you may be eligible to participate in this study. We invite you to follow this link to the study webpage where you can complete an Internet survey about your experiences. Link: http://www.clarku.edu/faculty/dhines

Story here. Excerpt:

"Plans to toughen laws on rape, consent, spiking drinks and offensive e-mails and texts have been unveiled as part of an overhaul of sex crime legislation. Under the Scottish Government bill, consent would be defined in law, creating a broader statutory offence which includes male rape. There would also be new offences for sexually offensive e-mails and texts and spiking people's drinks.
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As well as a broader definition of rape, the bill creates a range of statutory sexual offences and a definition of consent based on "free agreement", with illustrative scenarios. One of these scenarios would be where a victim was incapable of consent through alcohol or other substances."

The article is unclear about what documentation proving consent would protect a man accused of rape.

Excellent interview of Kathleen Parker here regarding her new book highlighting some of the sections of the book. This will be of general interest to MRAs. Excerpt:

'Kathryn Jean Lopez: Well count me among those who think men matter. Why do they need saving though? Don’t they usually do the rescue missions?

Kathleen Parker: Men are, indeed, excellent rescuers. We like that about men. In fact, Western men rescued women once upon a time from their status as pack mules. As my friend Matt Labash might say, I like to call that Western Civilization. Men also created the big-idea documents that ultimately resulted in women’s suffrage and equality under the law. Women have demonstrated their gratitude by reaching the summit and basically pulling the ladder up behind them. “See ya, guys. You’re on your own now. Oh, and we’re taking the kids.”'

Advice Goddess Amy Alkon replies to a feminist blogger who accuses her of being a “colluder” with men’s rights advocates. From her site:

(Blogger) “A colluder is a woman that disavows feminism for men's rights.They feel that feminism has reached all of its goals, and that the women that are complaining today aren't interested in equality...oh no, we are interested in ruling men. Since females in roles of power are counter gender norms, this simply cannot be tolerated.”

Ms. Alkon replies - “If you're against discrimination and injustice, you're against discrimination and injustice of all kinds. And you don't create discrimination and foment hate, just as long as the discriminatee has a penis, which is what feminism tends to do. … I'm against feminism because I'm against discrimination against men or anyone, and feminism is, far too often, a big whine for special treatment under the guise of equal treatment. It's also, very often, a cover for man-hating… feminism is about promoting injustice not stopping it. Which is why I'm a proud "colluder."

Why bother reading fiction when you have the news? It's just sad. So, it's come to this. Excerpt:

'A Japanese firm has produced a 15-inch tall robotic girlfriend that kisses on command, to go on sale in September for around $175, with a target market of lonely adult men.

Using her infrared sensors and battery power, the diminutive damsel named "EMA" puckers up for nearby human heads, entering what designers call its "love mode."'

This is only the beginning, a test-marketing of sorts, as if they needed to do one. In a few decades, assuming the world doesn't implode on itself, a life-sized "fully-functional, 99% passable" android will be available. Think I'm kidding? Look how far electronics and robotics have already come in just 10 years!

Can relations between the sexes generally get any worse? Robotic replacements for one another is about as bad I think it can get short of gunfights in the streets.