Article here. Excerpt:

"Ms. Clinton wants to have it both ways. Her pitch is that she's the best person, regardless of gender, to answer the White House phone. But she is also shameless about playing the gender card. Women ought to vote for her because, not only does she know what it's like to be a leader who can pick up the hotline, she also knows what it's like to be a 60-year-old waitress who's had to work hard all her life and put up with a cheating man. And besides, it's about time for a woman to be president.

Story here. Excerpt:

"A Hillsborough County middle school teacher has been arrested and is charged with having sex with a 14-year-old student.

Deputies arrested 28-year-old Stephanie Ragusa around 5 p.m. Thursday.

According to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office, Ragusa had a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old boy at Davidsen Middle School from October of 2006 to May of 2007.
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Ragusa is charged with five counts of lewd and lascivious battery."

Story here. Excerpt:

'A schoolboy who was taking Ritalin has been found hanged in his bedroom.

Anthony Cole, 15, had Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and recently had his prescription for the drug increased.

Recent research claims that Ritalin, also used to combat hyperactivity in children, has led to many developing "manic and psychotic" symptoms.'

Bill would criminalize making false allegations of abuse
March 13, 2008

Via ANCPR:

MARTINSBURG, WV -- Nine times, one aggrieved father says he fought to protect his name and his relationship with his daughters after he was accused of child abuse in a custody dispute.

The man, whose name we will not use to protect the identity of his daughters, said he is pleased that West Virginia legislators last week passed a bill that slaps criminal charges on those who falsely report child abuse or neglect in order to influence a custody case.

On Thursday, state senators passed House Bill 3065, after the measure met overwhelming approval in the House of Delegates last week. The bill charges those who make a false abuse report with a $1,000 fine, or forces the plaintiff to pay for the defendant's legal fees. The misdemeanor crime would also carry a punishment of up to 60 hours of community service.

Story here. Notice the wording; he's 'cleared' of the *crime* of possessing a bag of unauthorized Skittles! Heck, revoke his recreation privileges for two weeks and no Kool-Aid at dinner, neither!

School = prison... for boys, anyway. You know, with every such case of feminist-inspired abuse of boys and men, MRAs win another convert. Think the LAX players at Duke had ever heard of "men's rights" before their ordeal? You can bet they have now, and are ardent supporters. The target of this particular feminist attack will certainly, too, and he's only in 8th grade!

Keep it up, ladies (and manholes). Just keep it up. You're the best recruiting tool we in the Men's Rights Movement have. Excerpt:

'Michael Sheridan, an eighth-grade honors student who was suspended for a day, barred from attending an honors dinner and stripped of his title as class vice president after he was caught with a bag of Skittles candy in school will get his student council post back, school officials said.

The Today show asks "Is your mate cheating and how can you tell?" Absolutely no mention of women's infidelity or how prevalent that is. Replace 'mate' with 'husband'. Video here.

Story here. Excerpt:

An Australian woman stabbed her de facto husband to death after he stopped her playing her favorite Bruce Springsteen CD.

Karen Lee Cooper told arresting police: "I couldn't even play Bruce Springsteen on my stereo -- can you believe that? Can you believe that?"
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In the Supreme Courty in Brisbane Thursday, Cooper, 50, was jailed for eight years.

She pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Kevin Lee Watson on July 8, 2006.
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The court heard Cooper stabbed Watson through the aorta after they had been drinking at their Cedar Grove home, south of Brisbane.'

"Two men are incarcerated by the State, when they should be the stability in two children's lives."

This excellent article discusses two recent notorious cases in the UK. Excerpt:

'The system is merciless to people who question the system. Charles Roy Taylor, whom I wrote about at Christmas, is in a similar situation. Mr Taylor is a 71-year-old with a heart condition. He was sent to prison for 20 months for being in contact with his stepgrandson, who has been in care since his mother died and who has repeatedly run away to see his grandparents. By breaching an agreement not to answer the door to him, Mr Taylor stands accused of “undermining the care plan”. But he and the boy's grandmother are the teenager's only living relatives. They will presumably be his first port of call when he comes of age and is thrown out of the care system. Mr Taylor may not survive that long: last week he suffered an angina attack that put him in hospital for four days. Is that in the interests of the boy?'

Article here. What's unusual is that this link appeared under the "Femail" heading on the DM website. Excerpt:

'I see the long-term harm done by absent dads and the lack of appropriate male role-models, and I experience the damage caused by unsocialised boys - both to themselves and to others - and their inability to function as men.

And yet I abandoned my own son, just at the time when he was starting junior school, and I didn't see him again for those ten crucial years when character development is at its most vulnerable. And I'm still not exactly sure why.
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Fortunately, I knew that if I withdrew from his life, Joe wouldn't lack for male role-models: on his mum's side he has uncles aplenty and they're mostly of that warm, jocular, physical brand of masculinity that is easy and uncomplicated and supportive. They'd do, I thought. They're not me, but they'd do.

Article here. Excerpt:

Dennis Prager says that men are naturally unfaithful, and that for those of us who AREN'T cheating on our wives currently, we should expect a hug for them.

So, men naturally cheat? I'd disagree, as all my exes have cheated on me. My wife listened to it today, and she got mad about it. If it irks a woman, I'm sure it'll irk a man.

It's about eight or nine minutes in. Audio here.

Story here. Excerpt:

'SACRAMENTO COUNTY, Calif. - Police are searching for a woman accused of running over and injuring her ex-boyfriend with a car Friday morning, the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department said. Authorities said the assault occurred around 8:30 a.m. on Wildhawk Drive. The man is expected to survive.

The man was standing in his front yard between the sidewalk and front door when police said his ex-girlfriend drove up the driveway and hit him.

Deputies said they are seeking 25-year-old Faith Powell, who was last seen driving a gray Dodge Magnum.'

This situation redefines the word "weird". Excerpt:

'Deputies said a woman in western Kansas sat on her boyfriend's toilet for two years, and they're investigating whether she was mistreated.

Ness County Sheriff Bryan Whipple said a man called his office last month to report that something was wrong with his girlfriend.
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“She was not glued. She was not tied. She was just physically stuck by her body,” Whipple said. “It is hard to imagine. ... I still have a hard time imagining it myself.”

He told investigators he brought his girlfriend food and water, and asked her every day to come out of the bathroom.

“And her reply would be, ‘Maybe tomorrow,”’ Whipple said. “According to him, she did not want to leave the bathroom.”
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“She said that she didn’t need any help, that she was OK and did not want to leave,” he said.'

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Ed. note: If this were the old board software, I'd've listed it under 'Humor'.

Via Marc A.: This story helps show what we've said all along - that it is not "patriarchy" or male dominance, but choices, that lead to men "earning more" in relationships. Men generally have no problem with their wives outearning them, and they're realizing the breadwinner role is more of a burden than a privilege. If anything, women still seek men who outearn them so they can choose between career and childraising. That option is a power women have, not a disadvantage. This story also gave the "housework" myth, ignoring new studies showing men put in more than their share of hours when combining work inside and outside the home, which is generally true worldwide. Marc

Excerpt:
'It seems we’ve officially left “Leave It to Beaver” behind.

Story here. Excerpt:

'COPENHAGEN (AFP) — Battered women in Denmark have a multitude of shelters to choose from but men in need of a haven after divorce, losing their job or fleeing abusive wives have to elbow for room in just three brimming crisis centres.

Overlooking a canal in the picturesque Christianshavn neighbourhood of Copenhagen sits a red brick building with large bay windows: Mandecentret, the Scandinavian country's newest centre for men in distress.
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Winnie Bendtson, a counsellor at the centre, notes that the men are not usually physically beaten.

"But it does happen that women throw anything within range at their husbands, even threaten them with knives," she says.

The men who seek help are often the victims of "very domineering" women, and some are "forbidden from using their own money, seeing their family and friends, forced to come home at a set time and locked out if they're a few minutes late."'