Story here. Excerpt:

"Girls risk falling behind in the classroom because government policies focus on the education standards of boys, a report claims.

A "significant proportion" of girls are struggling to read but many are not getting enough help, it is claimed...

...A study by the National Literacy Trust, a reading charity, says many young girls were "in danger of being overlooked by current policy drives"."

I just found out about this web site. One of the actions is a class-action suit over circumcision.

Successful or not, it will be a good way to show that there are many of us who are not at all happy about it and we are not staying silent. The case looks like it has been started by a user 'gburlin'. gburlin, if you're out there, please post in comments.

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Compare and contrast... the list for husbands asks for small ways in which he is "allowed" to be alive and just be himself without getting whacked. The wife's list is the ways in which she is allowed to curtail his life and decide how he is to behave toward her.

Reminds me of some of those "duties of the master/slave" lists that have popped up throughout history.

Story here. Excerpt:

"Hillsborough County detectives say a teacher has been arrested for a second time on charges she had sex with another student.

This time, investigators say 28-year-old Stephanie Ragusa allegedly had sex with a 15-year-old student at Davidsen Middle School where she was a teacher, and they say the pair had at least 20 encounters over the course of several months.

In all, detectives believe Ragusa and the 15-year-old boy had sex more than 20 times between February 2007 and March 2008. They also say Ragusa gave the boy condoms and alcohol over the course of the relationship.

Last month, Ragusa was charged with having a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old Davidsen Middle School student. She was arrested on March 13, and deputies say in that case she had a number of different encounters with the boy between January 2007 and March 2007."

Story here. Excerpt:

"A newly released 911 call recounts the aftermath of the videotaped beating of a central Florida teen. The 16-year-old victim tells the 911 operator: "I got jumped."

The girl called from a friend's house in Lakeland after the March 30 beating. The friend's mother got on the phone and told the operator: "She's got blood in her mouth a big old knot on her left eye, and we think she's got a tooth broke."

This Michel Odent guy is a real jerk. Here is his anti-male and anti-father diatriabe.

Unfortunately, there aren't any angry emoticons to attach to this message.

Steve

Story here. Excerpt:

'Divorce and out-of-wedlock childbearing cost U.S. taxpayers more than $112 billion a year, according to a study commissioned by four groups advocating more government action to bolster marriages.

Sponsors say the study is the first of its kind and hope it will prompt lawmakers to invest more money in programs aimed at strengthening marriages. Two experts not connected to the study said such programs are of dubious merit and suggested that other investments -- notably job creation -- would be more effective in aiding all types of needy families.

"We're now nearing 40 percent of kids in America born out of wedlock," she said. "I can't fathom that those marriage programs, even with increased investment, are going to reduce that."

Blankenhorn said it was "fair criticism" to note that the study made multiple references to marriage-strengthening programs while not proposing other strategies for reducing the cost of family fragmentation.'

Article here. I'm surprised they were not able to do so already. The next goal will be able to literally take the shirt of their backs. Excerpt:

'For the first time, Maine has the authority to seize state and federal income tax refunds for deadbeat parents who still owe child support for children over 18 - even if that child is now 50.

Economic stimulus checks are up for grabs, too.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'“Once a citizen is labeled a sex offender, it’s the same as a civil death penalty,” he said. “We’ve made the penalties so severe that offenders now are disillusioned to admit wrongdoing, and as a result we’re having many more trials and many more acquittals.”

He believes that the laws have consistently grown in favor of the accuser for the past 20 years. One thing that makes rape charges hard to defend against is the rape shield law. Under this law, the sexual history of the accuser is not allowed to be used in the defense of the accused, unless the accuser has made false allegations of sex crimes in the past, the accused believes that someone else was the source of semen, the accused has a history of sexual behavior with the accuser or if the accuser was engaging in sexual behavior with other parties at the time of the alleged attack.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'The controversy sparked by former Harvard president Lawrence H. Summers in 2005 when he questioned women's "intrinsic aptitude" for science may be over, but the issue continues to provoke lively debate on campus.
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Yesterday afternoon, Rosalind Chait Barnett of Brandeis University and Steven E. Rhoads of the University of Virginia offered students vastly different takes on women's scientific prowess and why they make the professional choices they do, during a seminar titled "What Larry Summers and Nancy Hopkins Didn't Say: Women in Science."'

Article here. Excerpt:

"The women’s rights movement has now proven to be the most destructive force on the face of the earth. Before 1920, feminists made promises and based their arguments on things for which they have never been held accountable, nor produced. To the contrary, their actions have brought the opposite results. Let us therefore grade feminism and see how it has fared..."

Story here. Excerpt:

"There was no shortage of cookies or controversy yesterday at the College Republican's "Anti-Feminist Bake Sale."

The event was met by a crowd of protesters who accused the Republicans of misrepresenting the facts about feminism.

As part of Conservative Week, the College Republicans held their bake sale on the front steps of the Education Building, selling cookies, brownies and other treats for 50 cents each.

Members of the club also handed out a sheet of quotes, which they labeled "The Radical Feminist Agenda."

Some of the quotes included:

"All men are rapists, and that's all they are," said by author Marilyn French.

Other quotes compared marriage to slavery, and life as a suburban housewife to life in a concentration camp."

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Ed. note: There is more than one Bowling Green University/College. The one whose student paper this story references is in Ohio; its web site is here.

Its great to see a student publication acknowledge fathers' rights. Excerpt:

"After thanking the group for their work and making reference to his campaign, Obama told the group, “I think about my own two daughters, Sasha and Malia; and, sometimes it makes me stop and it makes me wonder, ‘What kind of America will our daughters grow up in? What kind of America will our daughters grow up in? Will our daughters grow up with the same opportunities as our sons? Will our daughters have the same rights, the same dreams and the same freedoms to pursue their own version of happiness?’”

Frankly, the idea that sons have any rights-- much less equal rights-- in the abortion decision is to live in the archaic notions about the role of a father in the family. Sons and, therefore, fathers, have no rights or protections regarding the decision to abort a child."

Article here. Excerpt:

'Fathers and children rights custody groups in Israel protesting gender bias discrimination in court custody cases have intensified their public demonstrations.

Last week hundreds of divorced and single fathers met in Tel Aviv to demand joint and or equal custody in a non-violent protest covered by both Israel TV and several local newspapers. The fathers are demanding that the Israel Knesset, Israel family court judges and Israel child welfare departments adopt reforms in the existing Israel Family Custodian Act of 1962 which states that all children under the age of six will automatically have custody under their mother, unless the mother is violent, drug abuser or negligent.

Fathers 4 Justice Israel hijacked all media attention at the Ra'anana annual marathon race this past weekend, with both fathers and their children lining up at the starting line of the Ra'anana run with signs stating: "Children Need Fathers, Not Visitors".'

Article here. Excerpt:

"Girls and boys learn differently, so they should have an option to be taught separately.
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Both genders are more likely to take courses they might not have traditionally taken.
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Boys or girls can get less of a quality education if they don't have access to the same resources.
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Research hasn't proved an academic benefit."

Contrast the preceding to this article:

"Parents, please note -- co-educational schools are better as the presence of girls in the classes "calm" boys and improve their academic performance as well, a new study has revealed.