I've been thinking long and hard about the state of men in this country and in the Western world, generally.

Each and every day through media, family courts and other places. The constant belittling, dehumanizing, mockery and gynosexism and over all bigotry against men our "civilization" is bathed in and beaten over the head with. And increasingly, I see the effects on not just men but women, too. The damage is severe. It has been nearly completely absorbed into the public Psyche, things that would now be considered unacceptable to be said or done to ANY group of Americans, and called "bigotry" and "un-American" is said and done to men on an ever flow basis.

We call America a "free country". with "Freedom and Justice for ALL". I don't care WHAT you've been told, this country is NOT "liberty" OR "JUSTICE" for "ALL".

If it were, Native Americans would not be starving to death, living in 3rd world conditions on forgotten wastelands called "reservations". And, if it were, hate speech against MEN would not be tolerated any more that it would be WOMEN.

This story has been all over the news. It has been the top headline on CNN's news site. As usual, we hear very little in regard to the massive disparity of the male homeless population. I work as a psychiatric social worker and take it from me, the vast majority of the mentally ill individuals I place in supportive housing are male. One particular man was living behind a 7-11. During the winter he had his foot amputated because of frost bite. The man was so happy when my agency purchased him a wheel chair. You'll never see such male suffering anywhere on cable news. Excerpt:

"John Quigley, an economics professor at the University of California-Berkeley, said the California housing crisis has left many middle-class families temporarily homeless or forced them to go to food banks to feed their families.

There's nothing like a McElroy article to stir some heated debate. Have fun guys! Excerpt:

'This is a transcription of a speech delivered before a man's rights group.

"When they speak, their voices sound similar to those of women in the 60's when the feminist movement, called Second Wave feminism, swept through our culture like a force of nature and left it changed forever. The women demanded of men, "Give us equal rights, give us respect." Forty years later -- two generations later -- the situation has been reversed. It is now men, not women, who are protesting against systematic discrimination against their sex. Even the issues around which the complaints gather are similar to those raised in the '60s. Men are saying they are not taken seriously by the police as victims of domestic violence. Similar to female rape victims from decades ago, society tends to stigmatize and blame men who are victims of spousal abuse."'

Article here. Excerpt:

'The American Association of University Women, whose 1992 report on how girls are shortchanged in the classroom caused a national debate over gender equity, has turned its attention to debunking the idea of a “boys’ crisis.”

“Girls’ gains have not come at boys’ expense,” says a new report by the group, to be released on Tuesday in Washington.
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“Many people remain uncomfortable with the educational and professional advances of girls and women, especially when they threaten to outdistance their male peers,” the report says , citing Christina Hoff Sommers’s 2000 book, “The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism is Harming Our Young Men.”'

Article here. Excerpt:

"Men with diabetes already know that erectile dysfunction can be a distressing side effect of the illness, adding insult to injury for about 80 percent of those who have the disease.

But sexual symptoms may also signal problems that go beyond impaired intimacy, according to new research that shows diabetic men who struggle with impotence face twice the risk for potentially deadly heart problems.

In fact, erectile dysfunction can predict cardiovascular troubles that include chest pain, heart attack, stroke — and death, according to two new studies published in the latest issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology."

Story here. Excerpt:

'WASHINGTON: Almost a third of men have been victims of domestic violence, though their trauma is often hidden and understudied — just as in the case of women 10 years ago, according to a new study.

The American study, which involved phone interviews with over 400 randomly sampled adult males, came up with some surprising findings.

As many as five percent of the men had experienced domestic violence in the past year, 10% in the past five years, and 29% over their lifetimes.'

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Detroit News also saw the traffic, comment, etc and moved the online story to not only the news section but also on the Detroit News homepage. Thank you! Help us make #1 story by 12EST see home page - On the right side "Most Popular" (http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/frontpage)

Also, because of the traffic online, comments, survey votes Detroit News has added yet another box to the right of the article titled “More information”. Prior to this they only had the “related content” box. They also linked to the DC Rally as well.

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Story here. Excerpt:

'DALLAS, Texas (CNN) -- Wiley Fountain is homeless just five years after he walked out of prison an innocent man. He is one of the 17 men wrongfully convicted in Dallas County, Texas, then cleared by DNA evidence.

He was one of the lucky few to receive financial compensation from the state, but the $190,000 or so that made it into his pocket is long gone.

For awhile, Fountain wandered the streets of Dallas, looking for aluminum cans to trade in for cash. He earned the occasional meal by cleaning the parking lot of a restaurant. At night he had nowhere to go.

Blackburn said these wrongly convicted men get "a double-whammy screw job." He said there's little help from the government to transition back into society and they're still viewed as criminals once they're out of prison.'

This article discusses recent studies indicating that, on the average, women select themselves out of careers in the hard sciences, engineering and information technology.

For example, one study, published in the Journal of Economic Psychology in November 2007, found that "...personal preference was the single largest determinative factor in whether women went into IT." The study found that that "preference accounted for about two-thirds of the gender imbalance" in information technology.

Another study of mathematically precocious men and women found that men were "much more likely to go into engineering or physical sciences than women," whereas women "were more likely to go into careers in medicine, biological sciences, humanities, and social sciences."

Story here. Excerpt:

'Robert Pedersen was devastated three years ago when a divorce judge said he could see his two children only a few days a month.

Pedersen's divorce agreement now includes long weekends, a Wednesday overnight visit and half of summers, holidays and spring breaks with his children. It's almost enough time to make him feel that he can provide an equal amount of parenting to his kids.

Michigan law recommends that custody decisions be based on which parent has been the primary caregiver unless it can be shown that another arrangement is more appropriate, but Pedersen and other noncustodial parents are fighting to modify the law so joint physical custody becomes the norm. They view equal parenting access as a civil rights issue, but opponents say equal time isn't always best for children.'

MAJOR KUDOS TO ALL INVOLVED!

The International Violence Against Women Act (I-VAWA) has been introduced in the U.S House of Representatives. I-VAWA has an innocent-sounding name that belies a radical social agenda and will export the failed polices of VAWA. Under the guise of curbing domestic violence, I-VAWA would also:

The video debates whether this situation is an accident or assault. Reverse the genders, the man does significant jail time.

Story here. Excerpt:

"A TEACHER at a West Australian Christian school had a secret sexual relationship with a teenage student for six months before the boy's girlfriend raised the alarm last month, police said yesterday.

The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is alleged to have had the sexual relationship with the boy, who was a student at the school in the state's southwest where she taught, from July last year, when he was 14, to January this year.
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She has been charged with four counts of sexual penetration of a child between the ages of 13 and 16."

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"A parental rights group says it is mounting a lawsuit against the Hamilton County Sheriff's Department for listing 'dead beat parents' on its website. The "Ohio Council for Fathers Rights" says it wants to sue for libel and character defamation. Local 12's Angela Ingram spoke with the group that says some parents are unfairly targeted.

The group says this list doesn't make a distinction between people who really don't make any effort to pay a dime of child support and parents who have fallen on hard times. The list seems to go on... and on. They are names of men and women who owe back child support, and now, they're on the sheriff's website. But, it's the label "deadbeat" that a parental rights group says amounts to libel."

Article here. Excerpt:

"During my sixteen years practicing psychiatry I have treated dozens of men experiencing major depression after fathering a child. These men have come to my office with symptoms like low mood, tearfulness, decreased self-esteem, impaired sleep and decreased concentration. Some have even struggled with suicidal ideation. It was enough to make me suggest to my publisher a year or so ago that we consider my writing a book on male postpartum depression.

Now, my clinical experiences have been borne out by a scientific study from the Center for Pediatric Research at the Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk. Dr. James Paulson and his colleagues found that about 10 percent of new fathers displayed symptoms of major depression, far more than the three to five percent of men in the general population who suffer with the condition.