Britain appears to be competing with Canada for the top spot in feminist tyranny -- story here. Excerpt:

'New discrimination laws to make employers liable for customers behaviour may make banter with the barmaid a thing of the past.

Landlords who allow sexist jokes or even words like “darling” or “love” at the bar could be taken before tribunal and handed unlimited fines.

Operators will need to show they have tried to combat sexual harassment of workers by customers if they are to guard against the risk of compensation claims.

Pubs have been advised to put up warning notices telling punters that staff harassment will not be tolerated.

The new rules, pushed through by Women and Equalities Minister Harriet Harman, allow tribunals to award damages for injury to feelings if a case is proved. The regulations will come into force on Sunday.'

(More criminalization of normal heterosexual behaviors? Injury to feelings? If the barmaid tells the customer to bleep off, is that also an injury to HIS feelings?)

Article here. Excerpt:

"Judges, bureaucrats, and college administrators have interpreted the law to demand "statistical proportionality" - so if a school's student body is 60% female, then 60% of its scholarship athletes must be too. Never mind that, from earliest childhood, boys are far more interested in athletic competition than girls are, or that everyone else is generally more interested in boys' competition too.
...
The Title IX problem is just going to get worse, as schools' student bodies become increasingly majority-female. More programs will be eliminated. Until ND cuts to the chase and re-names its teams the Peacing Multiculties, we're still the Fighting Irish. Wrestling's the only intercollegiate sport that even comes close to fighting. Let's bring it back to Notre Dame."

Hillary Clinton repeatedly introduces the Paycheck Fairness Act on Equal Pay Day (in 2008, it will be April 22). This distinguishes her from both Barack Obama and John McCain.

But Dr. Warren Farrell, author of Why Men Earn More, says both the Paycheck Fairness Act and Equal Pay Day rest on a false assumption: that the gap in male-female pay reflects discrimination. He feels, therefore, that they would more appropriately be introduced on April Fool's Day.

Equal Pay Day was originated by the National Committee on Pay Equity (NCPE) in 1996. April 22 represents how long into 2008 a woman would allegedly have to work to earn as much as her male counterpart could have earned for the same work in 2007 alone.

Dr. Farrell, the only man ever elected three times to the Board of Directors of the National Organization for Women in New York City, and an organizer of protests against pay discrimination against women, changed his mind about the pay gap reflecting discrimination after he spent about a decade researching the subject. Instead, he discovered twenty-five measurable differences between men and women's work-life choices.

This video identifies male breast reduction. This is an issue discussed once before on MANN. I thought some extra information on the subject might help men who suffer from this condition.

Article here. Excerpt:

'The fact that women travel less than men – measured in person- kilometers per car, plane, boat and motorcycle – means that women cause considerably fewer CO2 emissions than men and thus considerable less climate change.

"If women’s consumption levels were to be the norm, both emissions and climate change would be significantly less than today. To put it differently, if men were to change their behavior, emissions and climate change might be a much more limited problem as compared to what it is today."--Gerd Johnsson-Latham'

We are asking for your help in a very simple task which requires NO ACCOUNT. Simply visit this article on the Lansing State Journal website and click on “Recommended” which is towards the top and to the right of “Read Comments”.

Doing this helps because it drives the article towards the top of their news online. The exposure for the Equal Parenting Bike Trek is tremendous and very helpful. This article has funneled new traffic that is equivalent to that which the Protein Wisdom article on the Bike Trek provided. The Michigan Government seems to visit it very frequently. :) Currently we lost our #1 ranking on their website and have fallen to #2. We truly need your help for this very simple task, which again requires no account.

If you are ambitious you can also comment but this requires an account.

Thanks,
Robert and Angela Pedersen
2008 Equal Parenting Bike Trek

Article here. Excerpt:

'The three-minute clip, filmed on a mobile phone, apparently showed a young and unconscious mother being gang raped as she lay helpless in her own home.
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The alleged victim claims it shows her being raped by three boys in front of her screaming children, aged two and four, after being drugged.

But yesterday it was revealed that the 24-year-old woman has now been arrested on suspicion of unlawful sexual intercourse with a 14-year-old and perverting the course of justice.

Scotland Yard confirmed it will take no further action against two 16-year-olds and a 14-year old arrested in February in connection with the video.'

As you may be aware, there appears to be a distinct lack of representation on men's issues (male health, fatherhood, boys' education, etc) at Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's 2020 Summit.

Only one men's health advocate made it onto the list as far as I am aware - Professor Gary Wittert from the University of Adelaide. At the same time, many women's issues appear to be strongly represented (as they should be).

Warwick Marsh and myself are collating a list of unsuccessful nominees with a view to putting out a press release in the next day or so. If you, or any of your colleagues who work in the men's, fathers' and boy's sector, were nominated for the summit but were unsuccessful (or successful for that matter), could you please let me know via email at your earliest convenience?

Many thanks.

Kind regards,

Greg

Greg Andresen
Research & Media Liaison
Men's Health Australia
http://www.menshealthaustralia.net/

Via Marc A.:

Feminists at Colorado College can distribute material about "male castration," but if men distribute a satirical response, they get charged with violating a campus code. You can post comments under the story and email the Bulletin at publisher-at-thebulletin.us and jkidd-at-thebulletin.us.

Excerpt:

'A Colorado college has found two students guilty of violating the conduct code against violence after the students distributed a satirical flyer poking fun at the college's Feminist and Gender Studies program. Chris Robinson and a second student who wished to remain nameless now must hold a campus forum to discuss the very issues that landed them in hot water.

Love him, hate him, respect him, reject him, you have to admit the man can write, and he is unflinchingly fearless in the application of his trade. Article here. Excerpt:

'The punishment visited on Sen. Hillary Clinton for her flagrant, hysterical, repetitive, pathological lying about her visit to Bosnia should be much heavier than it has yet been and should be exacted for much more than just the lying itself. There are two kinds of deliberate and premeditated deceit...
... Sen. Clinton has managed to commit both of these offenses to veracity and decency and how in doing so she has rivaled, if not indeed surpassed, the disbarred and perjured hack who is her husband and tutor.

Article here. Excerpt:

"Yahoo is taking aim at the distinct content and buying power of women with a new Website called Shine.

Women in the male dominated technology business said there is a real need for Web content that speaks directly to women. They said Websites like Shine and Channelweb Women of the Channel are necessary to educate young girls to compete in corporate America.

Steward said she hopes Shine addresses how woman think differently than men. "Understanding how woman work is critical," she said. "We work differently. Woman are extreme multitaskers. Because of this the way we do business is very different. We leap ahead five or ten steps."

CONTRAST:

Study: More girls than boys are blogging or writing online

Men’s Issues Matter Too - by Hillary Clinton*

April 1, 2008

The following is a transcript of the speech given by presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at the California Men’s Center this morning:

Welcome. It is good to see you all here this morning.

Firstly, I would like to thank the National Coalition of Free Men, and Harry Crouch, director of the California Men’s Center, for inviting me here to speak today.

As you all probably know, I have long been an advocate for women’s rights and issues. However, it has become increasingly clear to me during my presidential campaign that I have overlooked the issues that American men face. Well, I have done some soul searching on these issues, and have had a change of heart in my approach toward gender politics. After all, men’s issues matter too, and I will now detail my new ideas here.

Two months ago RADAR blew the whistle on a junk science report from the federal Centers for Disease Control. The report purported to show that in their lifetime, women are more than twice as likely as men to suffer from intimate partner violence – 23.6% vs. 11.5%.

The problem is the CDC researchers loaded the questionnaire, counting any "attempts" or "threats" of violence, or "any unwanted sex," on the same level as actual acts of violence – and then lumping all the answers together!

So on February 11 we put out an Alert – and thousands of you responded!

Then the CDC rechecked the raw numbers. OOOPS! Turns out the numbers were wrong – but the CDC didn't explain why. The percentages are actually 26.4% for women vs. 15.9% for men. So on March 7 the CDC issued a correction.

But here we are almost two months later, and the CDC has not fixed the main problem – three of the four questions they used have not been validated.

The CDC needs to hear from you – TODAY!

Email CDC director Dr. Julie Gerberding at jyg2-at-cdc.gov, or call her office at 1-404-639-7000.

Article here.

Even though it's common sense to anyone with a brain, a study shows that you are still able to catch STDs no matter how mutilated your penis is.

Excerpt:

Circumcision does not appear to shield men from the types of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) common in the developed world, according to new research by Dr. Nigel P. Dickson and colleagues in the Journal of Pediatrics.from New Zealand.

Article here. Excerpt:

"Anti-feminists on the other hand propound that women have advanced in all spheres and share equal status in the world and due to this reason feminism is not required.

The view of anti-feminists that women are not dependant on men and that they share equal status, shows that this ideology is very different from male chauvinism.

Masculinism is associated with men’s rights and seeks to promote them. Masculinism, like anti-feminism, is also a response to feminism, but masculinism gets into concerns of equal child rights and social issues affecting men’s rights.

Masculinism is thus a counterpart of feminism and seeks to empower males in society and redress discrimination against them. Anti-feminists differ from masculists as anti-feminism is an ideology against feminism rather than an advocacy of male rights."