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."'

Just yesterday RADAR announced the release of our new special report (.pdf file), "$1 Billion for DV Programs That Misuse Taxpayer Money and Place Victims at Risk".  Our report could hardly have been more timely.  Just today we've learned of a major campaign to pressure legislators to increase the VAWA appropriation in the President's 2009 budget.

Please contact your Representative on Capitol Hill and tell them that Violence Against Women Act funds have been subject to widespread waste and fraud.  Furthermore, scores of research studies show that a great many domestic violence programs are ineffective at best and harmful at worst.  The National Academy of Sciences describes these programs as "driven by ideology and stakeholder interests rather than by plausible theories and scientific evidence of cause."  Tell your Representative you want to see funding spent on programs that actually work.

Story here. Excerpt:

'Parents of two four-year-old boys in New York are suing officials after their sons were allegedly handcuffed for refusing to take a nap.

Lawyer Scott Agulnick says a substitute teacher took Jaden Diaz and Christopher Brito to an empty classroom.

Then, a school safety officer allegedly entered the room, cuffed the boys' wrists - and told them they would never see their parents again.'

This video clip interview with a $3,000 per hour prostitute is very interesting. Calling herself a "Ho-fessional," the twenty-eight year old female explains that she is a business woman making a half-million per year selling herself as a commodity and enjoying every minute of it.

This is the ultimate Raunch Culture Girl and she is the future of what little is left of femininity in America.

Story here. Excerpt:

'At least one in four teenage girls nationwide has a sexually transmitted disease, or more than 3 million teens, according to the first study of its kind in this age group.
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Dr. John Douglas, director of the CDC's division of STD prevention, said the results are the first to examine the combined national prevalence of common sexually transmitted diseases among adolescent girls. He said the data, from 2003-04, probably reflect current rates of infection.

"High STD rates among young women, particularly African-American young women, are clear signs that we must continue developing ways to reach those most at risk," Douglas said.

The CDC's Dr. Kevin Fenton said given that STDs can cause infertility and cervical cancer in women, "screening, vaccination and other prevention strategies for sexually active women are among our highest public health priorities."'

Story here. Sen. Barack Obama's top strategist Tuesday demanded that Sen. Hillary Clinton sever ties with Geraldine Ferraro, a top Clinton fundraiser who said Obama was a major presidential contender only because he is a black man. Excerpt:

'(CNN) -- Geraldine Ferraro defended her controversial comment that Sen. Barack Obama's campaign was successful because he was black, telling an interviewer Tuesday that she was being attacked because she was white.
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"Racism works in two different directions. I really think they're attacking me because I'm white. How's that?"
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"I said in large measure, because he is black. I said, Let me also say in 1984 -- and if I have said it once, I have said it 20, 60, 100 times -- in 1984, if my name was Gerard Ferraro instead of Geraldine Ferraro, I would never have been the nominee for vice president," she said.

Story here. Excerpt:

'A Gates mother of three who pleaded guilty to having sex with two teenage boys will do six months in jail. Today a judge sentenced Dena Greene and also gave her 10 years of intensive probation. She's also required to register as a level-one sex offender.'

Another one off-linked: Fairmont Woman Accused of Having Sex with Teen Boy. "The criminal complaint says Watkins admitted to having sex with a 14 year old boy two times last month..."

I read these four articles (click 'Read more' to get to the links) and my mind sort of boggled. It's amazing how ambivalent, confused, and "double-standarded" westerners are about such things. But all in all, and I think it's hard to dispute, the underlying message is still the same: It's OK for men to pay for "the company" of a woman provided it is not an explicit this-for-that transaction, and if it is, the woman is the victim and the man the evil-doer. In other words, there always has to be this uncertainty about the outcome, and then it's OK.

This system allows a woman to bail on the whole thing-- ie, it's OK for her to be uncommitted to any form of payment for time and trouble while it's OK for a man to be.

Story here.

"What has brought this on is a survey, published last week, which compared the perfect 1950s housewife with her 2008 counterpart and asked 2,309 men what kind of woman they preferred. The majority seemed to prefer living with feisty modern babes rather than glorified butlers who change for dinner. But can that be right?

Chez Millard, in any case, it is 1955. For one day. And we are about to put the survey to the test."

Check out the comments at the end.

Article here. Excerpt:

"Mothers could be offered a financial incentive to start up their own business after having children, in a Government attempt to boost the number of women entrepreneurs.

They would be given advice on how to run a firm, pitch for bank loans and prepare business plans under the enterprise strategy being launched tomorrow...

...The enterprise strategy will be aimed at women who are either young, out of a job, from an ethnic minority or eager to work after having children. Mothers using children's centres will also be targeted with business advice."

Interview here. Excerpt:

"I support a woman's right to have equal opportunity. But I do not applaud a woman's right to be just like a man. That is different. Increasingly, college women are - under the guidance of feminists - acting more and more like college boys who just want to get drunk and have sex without commitment.

I believe that feminism has become a political movement that seeks to obtain unlimited rights for woman without corresponding responsibilities via the suppression of feminism."

Fathers Are Great Teachers

"Once again, we were able to debut a new sign (far left in photo), countering the Father vilifying mainstream media. Once again, we were able to express our commitment to speak well of Fathers. February is President's month so who better than Abe Lincoln to emphasize the fact that "Fathers Are Great Teachers.""

Article here.

It highlights that gender based voting requirements may actually be a threat to democracy. Excerpt:

'"I paused for a long time," says McFadden. "Then I told her I voted for a boy - I wasn't going to lie." McFadden, who has worked on women's issues for twenty years, says the room went silent and the board chair chastised her. "It was clear that I had betrayed feminism by voting for Barack Obama. It became obvious - if you didn't vote for Hillary Clinton, you were less than a feminist and only marginally a woman."'