Story here. Suppose if the sexes were reversed, she would be facing charges? In either case the other person would have been in the wrong for not doing something sooner. And either person would rightly be called, well, stupid. But the question here is equal treatment/protection under the law. Is a man getting equal treatment as compared to what a woman gets in a comparable situation? Excerpt:

'NESS CITY, Kan. - A man whose girlfriend authorities say spent nearly two years in a bathroom in their house, sitting on the toilet so long that the seat adhered to her body, has been charged with mistreatment of a dependent adult.
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McFarren told authorities that Babcock feared leaving the bathroom and may not have left it in two years, although said he was unsure how long she was in there. He said that he took her food and water daily, and that he repeatedly asked her to come out but that she usually replied “maybe tomorrow.”

“The only thing I am guilty of is I didn’t get her help sooner,” McFarren told The Associated Press nearly a week ago.

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Story here. Women are not in combat roles yet female veterans are suffering from higher rates of mental health issues?

What do you guys make of this "military sexual trauma" rhetoric?

Should I be surprised the VA has started health clinics specifically for women? Excerpt:

'In 2007, the Department of Veterans Affairs found that women are reporting signs of mental health issues when they return home at a higher rate than their male counterparts.

The VA diagnosed 60,000 veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder. Of those, 22 percent of women suffered from "military sexual trauma," which includes sexual harassment or assault, compared with 1 percent of men.

"PTSD is actually something that shows up over time, and so the natural recovery process doesn't happen," said Dr. Darrah Westrup, who counsels female veterans at the VA-run Women's Health Clinic in Menlo Park, California.'

From Terri Lynn at True-Equality.org:

[Click 'Read more' for links to files referred to herein]

The attached is my latest investigative report. It discloses -- through candid video interviews with former shelter residents linked to in the report -- how women are being forced into sexual servitude (forced to have sex with the female shelter staff and others) in order to remain in the shelter. In addition, a former San Diego prosecutor is caught on video all but bragging about how “everyone would be in jail” for perjury if false claims of domestic violence were prosecuted (a link to that interview in included as well).

It is being called my best piece yet. Preview copies sent to radio show hosts have landed me nine shows (booked in one day).

Please accept this one - it pulls no punches for anyone.

I have attached three copies. One Word file includes the charts and tables that support the information proffered in the work. The other has hyperlinks to the charts and tables, no graphics. The third is the HTML.

Story here. Excerpt:

'The decline of marriage is leading to widespread underachievement and indiscipline in schools, teachers warned yesterday.

Children with "chaotic" home lives turn up at school too troubled to learn, wrecking their prospects of success in exams, they said.

Growing numbers are being brought up in splintered families by mothers with children by different fathers, leading to behaviour and mental health problems including eating disorders and suicidal thoughts, a teachers' conference heard.'

Story here. Excerpt:

"The country's leading literary award for women novelists is sexist and should be scrapped, a prominent male novelist claimed yesterday.

Tim Lott said the £30,000 Orange Prize - founded 13 years ago amid claims that women writers fared poorly in awards such as the Booker Prize - was "discriminatory, sexist and perverse".

He said: "I know that I face derision and ridicule but a lot of writers I have spoken to find it [the prize] ridiculous and unfair..."

...Girls in schools are more literate than boys, and pupils are taught reading mainly by female teachers promoting mainly female writers.

"Could the establishment of a men-only prize, with men-only judges, be justified given their level of relative exclusion in schools and the marketplace? Can you imagine the derision with which it would rightly be met?"

Because a man finally objected.

Story here. Intro paragraph reads:

Photo collages on the walls of the Thurston County Family and Juvenile Court building were taken down Monday after an Olympia resident complained they discriminated against men.

The graphics in question have been hanging for four years, passed daily by men on their way to Faimly court to lose their children, their homes, and their life's work. When men raised objections, they were finally taken down. Interestingly, the story doesn't mention who ordered them put up. Ah, the anonymity of bureaucracy!

Read the comments - the implication is that only one man objected, but that does not appear to be true.

Story here.

Thankfully they weren't drinking coffee. Excerpt:

"Heather Mills threw a glass of water over the coiffured hair of Sir Paul McCartney's lawyer after McCartney was ordered to pay her just 24.3 million pounds ($61 million) to settle their divorce, according to British media reports.

Mills emerged from court declaring she was happy with yesterday's ruling, despite it being less than a fifth of what she had demanded.

But The Sun newspaper reported that as the hearing came to an end, Mills calmly walked over to McCartney's lawyer Fiona Shackleton and soaked her.

Shackleton appeared outside court smiling but with wet hair."

Matt Drudge managed to get a full text copy of Barack Obama's speech given today in Philadelphia on the subject of race; currently it is here. (If that link is cold, try this one.)

It is utterly history-making, in my judgment. However I have one peeve with it that MRAs should take note of; the quote is here:

'And it means taking full responsibility for own lives – by demanding more from our fathers, and spending more time with our children, and reading to them, and teaching them that while they may face challenges and discrimination in their own lives, they must never succumb to despair or cynicism; they must always believe that they can write their own destiny.'

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This was published in Australia on News.com.au today.

Apparently, top jobs are still held back from the poor women, the glass ceiling just never goes away does it. So okay, maybe women don't want those jobs, and maybe they prefer more flexibility in their life, but hey that's no reason for them not to get them, right?

The interesting thing is, there's no comparison based on choice. For example I'm a male single parent low-level manager with young kids, in a dynamic fast-moving company. I 'could' choose to go for a higher level management role, but I wouldn't as it would cost me too much in time with my kids - and equally I wouldn't get picked, because management know I'd always be saying no to extra events and evening functions. So, how is that different from how women are treated..?

A direct comparison piece of research is needed here...

Story here. Excerpt:

'ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- Orange County Public Schools is investigating claims that a student was forced to use a lunchbox as a toilet in front of his class at Meadowbrook Middle School.

The teacher will not be coming to school. She will be relieved of her duty with pay as the school district investigates, officials said.
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Orange County Public Schools wouldn't specifically comment about what happened. The district says teachers have to allow students to use the restroom.'

Article here. Excerpt:

"Simply put, I don't want a woman president. Not if she's running to be a "woman president" and not the leader of the United States.
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Instead, she bought into their script: Women are victims, and it will take a woman to ascend to the presidency on the shoulders of the feminist movement for the glass of oppression to break.
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Sadly, real politics this year hasn't fallen too far from the Ms. Ridiculous tree. Given that we're at war, I'd like a candidate who is not playing an identity politics game. I'd like a candidate whose executive experience is more than pillow talk with a president of the United States. I'd like a candidate who is a grown-up and doesn't let her surrogates try to steal her opponents' GI Joes. But I have the audacity to hope the next woman who runs will run because she's qualified to be commander in chief, not because she's a uterine-American.'

Story here. Excerpt:

"New research from the University of Edinburgh suggests that male fertility problems such as low sperm count and testicular cancer are likely linked to hormone levels early in the mother’s pregnancy, BBC News reported.

Research published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation found that levels of male hormones, like testosterone, in a “critical window” of eight to 12 weeks into pregnancy determine the male’s future reproductive health, according to the article.

Common reproductive problems for young boys include cryptorchidism, where the testes do not descend properly into the scrotum. Disorders such as low sperm count and testicular cancer are thought to be along the same path, researchers suggested."

Another video in the women's shelter series in which a mother from Ontario, Canada describes her horrifying experience residing in women's shelters in Ontario. In the shelters where she and others were residents, women were beaten, robbed, intimidated and sexually exploited. Children were exposed to violence, swearing and abuse by the women and often witnessed their mothers being abused and humiliated by shelter staff.

Children are being taught that being "Canadian" and respecting yourself means to hate fathers, lie to your own parents and to call the Children's Aid Society on your mother if you don't get your way. When is the government of Ontario going to put an end to women's shelters being used as indoctrination centers where lesbian women prey on vulnerable women? When is the Ontario government going to make these women's shelters accountable and professional? When is all this government funded madness going to end?