Story here. Excerpt:

'How should we describe the false, male-vilifying statistics that are ubiquitous on the modern college campus? Christina Hoff Sommers, author of Who Stole Feminism? calls them "Hate Statistics." That seems apt.

To follow the recent controversy over the feminist "1 in 4 college women are raped" myth, see my recent blog post "It's a lonely job, working the phones at a college rape crisis center...you wait for the casualties to show up but no one calls".'

Article here. Excerpt:

"What’s the latest outrage from The New York Times? Perhaps it’s Kate Zernike, a reporter there (from what I can gather I found no google reference to a specific title) who wrote an opinion column entitled "Post-feminism and Other Fairy Tales” which appeared in their “Week in Review” section.
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In fact, there is so much wrong with her perspective that I am not sure where to begin …but begin I must. Zernike’s basic theme is that feminism should not be dead because women still have it bad in America and that more statist feminism is the method by which to redress their needs. Why would she posit such an absurd claim? For five reasons and I’ll go through now. First, some hecklers told Hillary Clinton to “iron their shirt” at a rally. Second, Hillary had to defend her likeability to critics. Third, the actress portraying her on Saturday Night Live was “shut out” of a fictional debate…on a television program. Fourth, that Governor Spitzer cheated on his wife, and fifth, some Americans deem prostitution to be a victimless crime."

Video report here. Apparently this woman gave him a pair of her underwear and was caught with incriminating text messages.

Story here. More on this 'Barbie' story. It seems the judicial system has identified a man as the mastermind. Though he didn't commit the robberies his sentence was more harsh than the two women. Excerpt:

'A man convicted of being the mastermind behind the so-called "Barbie Bandits" bank theft was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in prison.

Michael Chastang's term was added to the 15 years he already is serving on drug charges.

"For the theft, you used the others," Superior Court Judge Mary Staley told him. "You orchestrated it. You sat in the back and put the pawns out to do it."'

Story here. Excerpt:

"Modeled on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list, a county program officially unveiled today will use wanted posters in an effort to find the 10 "most egregious" child-support-payment evaders, officials said.

The posters will be put up countywide."

Article here. What, not going to take even six months or so to really try it out?

I recall reading someplace, years ago as a teenager, that some sociologist predicted this kind of thing would happen if things kept going the way they were going. I sort of laughed at the idea and thought he must be wrong if a group of people want something so badly. Wouldn't they be happy once they got it? Well, maybe not. It's right up there with that old Chinese curse: "May you get what you want." A lot of wisdom behind that. Anyway, excerpt:

'It wasn't so long ago that my heart would race with pride and excitement when I heard upbeat statistics about women's earning prowess:
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I'm over that now. As the mother of a nearly two-month-old son whose husband is leaving his job to take on most of the child care and prep for graduate school, the title "breadwinner" has come to feel an awful lot like "albatross."'

And of course, whose fault is it? Hubby's. He doesn't cook and clean enough, apparently. But further on, read:

Story here. Excerpt:

'Thousands of women entrepreneurs in developing countries have started their own businesses in the past few years, many with help from local microfinance banks and nonprofits that issued them small loans and financial support. The concept has taken off, but there has been one key flaw in the model: Most of the women have little, if any, formal education and lack the management skills and financial savvy to take their business to the next level. On Mar. 5, investment bank Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS - News) announced it would change the equation by pumping $100 million into educational projects for these women over the next five years.

This video speaks for itself.

Remember the Bush/Quayle ticket and the jokes associated with it? "A Vietnam era movie was made with Dan Quayle as the central character; it's called 'Full Dinner Jacket'". Same thing here. Only at least with Quayle, he didn't lie about his experience. He just tended to look dumb when answering questions. So while you could accuse him of being not-too-bright, you couldn't accuse him of lying bold-facedly to the camera.

Remember these girls? Well the "wheels of justice" turn slowly but eventually... you get a nice cushy sentence, if you're a pretty girl... excerpt:

'MARIETTA, Ga. - The “Barbie bandits” who went on a shopping spree after they were videotaped wearing sunglasses and laughing during an $11,000 bank heist were sentenced Monday, one to prison and another to probation.

Ashley Miller, 19, will have to serve only two years of a 10-year prison sentence and must complete the rest on probation. She pleaded guilty to theft and drug charges.

Heather Johnston, also 19, was sentenced to 10 years’ probation for her role in the February 2007 heist in Acworth, northwest of Atlanta.'

If it had been me, you'd never see me again.

Mensactivism Readers We Need Your Help!

Help us spread the word of this exciting event online by blogging, posting in forums and MySpace and sharing on Facebook. Social Bookmark the main page for the Equal Parenting Bike Trek so that others might find it. Email the main page link to friends and family. Not in the US? It doesn't matter - last year we had significant support from those in other countries and it gives our cyclists the extra boost of energy.

We need to create some serious online buzz for the 2008 Equal Parenting Bike Trek. Five fathers will pedal 758 miles for their children and to spread awareness of all of our concerns. The massive CRISPE bus will be at the departure event for the 2008 EPBT. Dance4Equality, an American Indian shared parenting organization, will be performing their pow wows and more at the departure for the 2008 EPBT. Thank you for your ACTIVE help.

More Information here.

Story here. A couple of weeks ago I posted a story about teenage girls and STD's. I was annoyed that the survey ignored boys but this article goes a step further. Lets blame the boys! Pay close attention to the picture in the story. Excerpt:

"This has got to be one of the most alarming studies of teenagers or is it? A recent study by the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) shows that one in four teenage girls has an STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease) with the most common infection being HPV (human papilloma virus). An alarming 18 percent of teen girls apparently have the virus and if you compare that to the 40 percent of the girls ages 14-19 in the study who were sexually active, that's almost half of all young women who are having sex have contracted the disease.
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Though this study was on teenage girls, it in no way excuses teenage boys, men can, and do, get HPV and other diseases. All teens and parents are encouraged to be more aware."

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Story here. Excerpt:

'PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. - A woman in Port St. Lucie faces charges of chasing her fleeing husband around their yard in a minivan, in attempts to drive over him about 20 times.

Their baby, who was in the back seat of the minivan, was buckled up and was not hurt, deputies said.

Deputies said it started over a dispute over $300 on Friday between Leslie Ann Brown and her husband, Nicholas.'

This article is about much more than male "fragility" and argues for close consideration of all the new research on sex differences and gender preferences in life choices. Excerpt:

"Males are more vulnerable to maternal stresses and pollution in utero — female preemies are almost twice as likely to survive as male preemies. Boys are twice as likely to have attention problems, four times as likely to have language or reading disabilities, and ten times as likely to have Asperger syndrome. Males are more susceptible to almost all chronic diseases, including heart disease, cancer, liver disease and AIDS. They have much shorter life spans.

They are more aggressive and take more risks, which is one reason why there are more male prisoners (the ratio of male to female prisoners is 10 to 1) and male suicides. Victims of work and school violence are 93 percent male. Men catch postsurgical infections more than women do, and 70 percent of them die from this peculiar vulnerability (compared to 30 percent of women). If this is not a picture of fragility, I don’t know what is."

On March 19, 2008, the Seattle Times reported on a story whose ending could have been much worse but should have been much better. The story is of a woman, Katherine M. Clifton, who manufactured false evidence to frame a man and then lodged a false rape charge against him. As a result of the allegation, the man spent nine days in jail and was placed on leave from his teaching job at a college.

A March 21, 2008 article in London's Daily Mail illustrates just how much worse the ending to this story could have been. It reports on another innocent man, but in that case, the false accusation of rape drove him to suicide.

In the Seattle case, when Judge Peter Nault accepted the woman's guilty plea to the charge of making a false rape accusation, he stated: "That we hurry to castigate a person who turns out to be entirely innocent ... I don't know how it could be worse."

File this one under 'Humor'...

"On Fox News Sunday today, White House press secretary Dana Perino was named the “Power Player of the Week.” She explained to host Chris Wallace that, in addition to the pressure to look good, she faces an extra challenge as a woman — understanding military jargon:

Some of the terms I just don’t know, I haven’t grown up knowing. The type of missiles that are out there: patriots and scuds and cruise missiles and tomahawk missiles. And I think that men just by osmosis understand all of these things, and they’re things that I really have to work at — to know the difference between a carrier and a destroyer, and what it means when one of those is being launched to a certain area."