Article here. Excerpt:

"Children behave better, learn more and are better adjusted if their father is involved in their lives, a major study shows...

...Anna Sarkadi, of Sweden's Uppsala University, where the research was carried out, said: "Our detailed 20-year review shows that overall, children reap positive benefits if they have active and regular engagement with a father figure.

"We found various studies that showed that children who had positively involved father figures were less likely to smoke and get into trouble with the police, achieved better levels of education and developed good friendships with children of both sexes.

"Long-term benefits included women who had better relationships with partners and a greater sense of mental and physical well-being at the age of 33 if they had a good relationship with their father at 16.

"It may seem obvious that what's worked for centuries is good for individuals and society, but that's what we found."

Hey guys. I'm sad to inform you of yet another beer company that thinks the sexual abuse of males is comedy. If this isn't proof that beer must have a detrimental effect on brain cells, I don't what does. In this ad for Rolling Rock, a baseball deflects off of the scoreboard, hitting not one, not two, not three, but about ten men in the crotch. You can view the ad here. I must warn you though, your IQ will probably be cut in half from watching it, as this is the most immature commercial I've ever seen. I decided to write the company.

I sent them this letter regarding the ad:

Professor Gilles Saint-Paul of Toulouse, France just published this fantastic article refuting the pseudo-science behind Harvard Professor Alberto Alesina's "man tax." Excerpt:

'This proposal has long been associated with a fringe of radical feminism, so it surprises me to see it coming out of mainstream economics and the academic establishment. In fact, it is becoming so mainstream that Spain’s allegedly conservative Partido Popular has a tax break for female workers in its platform for the next election. Given that the ruling Socialist Party is unlikely to oppose such a “progressive” measure, the Spaniards will have gender-biased taxation whether they like it or not. This will probably remind them of the good old days of Franco.

I saw this and this and laughed. "She who lives by the PC-sword apparently also dies by it." Well if you're going to keep taking the approach that skin color-ethnicity and/or gender are, or should be, significant factors in decisions that don't really have them as a proper input, I suppose when things don't go your way, you must accept the consequences. I hope she learns something from these happenings but somehow, I doubt she will.

To truly take on a point of view that says to judge people by the content of their character rather than anything else apparently has yet to really make its way into the collective psyche. MLK Jr. would be disappointed, but really, what did he expect? This human race it seems has a long way to go in pulling its collective head out of its collective you-know-what.

Via email submission: A Father's Rights is a movie based on a true story about a father's struggle with the legal system in how his daughter, who was born out of wedlock, was treated differently than other children while fighting for his rights to have a say in said daughter's life. Please go to http://www.williamfain.com/ to find out more about the company and see clips of the movie.

[WFP would like to make you aware of a fundraising opportunity. The soundtrack CDs retail for $15.00; however, WFP will sell them to you for $7.00 so you can resell them for $15.00.]

This article suggests that high tech products would be better designed if more women were recruited to the information technology field. It recycles some traditional feminist myths about women’s natural abilities to enhance teamwork and understand “user interfaces…”. Excerpt:

'Women control more than 83 percent of all consumer purchases, and they outpace men when it comes to buying consumer electronics, but they hold only 27 percent of computer-related jobs...

"One of the biggest criticisms of technology today is that user interfaces are poor," explains a professor of information systems at the University of Arkansas. Men, he says, largely don’t do a great job making the products easier to use because they concentrate more on the "geek" factor of technology. "I think women have more of an intuitive sense of designing interfaces."'

Torrance, California is Site of Second Fathers' Rights Rally

"While a clear blue sky and lush green grass presented a pleasant setting for beaten down Dads to gather, the pleasantry of the setting could not take away from the serious reason for Sunday's rally. Fathers across Los Angeles County, California, and America are being grossly abused by family law courts that do little to dispense just resolutions to family law litigant Fathers who come before them."

Article here.

I remember this story being submitted on this site so here's an update: she's been given a mistrial. I'm guessing she's getting the Yates 5-star treatment. Thoughts? Excerpt:

"DAYTON, Ohio (AP) - A judge in Dayton has declared a mistrial in the case of woman accused of killing her month-old daughter by burning her in a microwave.
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The judge heard testimony privately from a juvenile who said he was at the apartment complex of defendant China Arnold on the night her baby died in 2005. The judge did not give details about juvenile's testimony.
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The judge continued a gag order in the case, so neither prosecutors nor defense attorneys would comment.'

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Ed. note: MANN post on this story here.

How many times have you heard of researchers who jimmy the data in order to slant their findings of partner violence? Well, this time we caught them red-handed. And this time, we're not to let them get away with their underhanded tactics! Here's the scoop ...

The federal Centers for Disease Control does a survey called the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey. This past Friday the CDC reported on its latest survey on intimate partner violence. This is what they reported:

• Percentage male victims: 11.5%
• Percentage female victims: 23.6%

Every legitimate survey of partner violence has found that women are at least as likely as men to engage in partner violence. So how did the CDC come up these results?

Simple.

The widely-used Conflict Tactics Scale focuses on actual acts of violence.

But the CDC researchers decided on their own to expand the questions to include any "attempts" or "threats" of violence, plus that catch-all question, "any unwanted sex," which means a lot of different things to different people.

Article here. An interesting admission that shows women often choose to not "have it all" so they can be with their families. All the while, industry is desperate to put women in top positions...and the girls are turning down the offers... excerpt:

This piece offers pro/con views about whether employers should be able to consider a woman's plans to have babies when hiring her:

(Pro) - "From a position of no equality at all, women are now granted absolute privilege. ... because an employer is forbidden from asking if a woman plans to have children, experience tells them she'll sign up then rush off and start a family, brandishing her contract as a declaration of human rights."

(Con) - "Women have different skill sets from men, not least the ability to multi-task - a skill which defeats most men. If we weren't such good multi-taskers, the human race would not have survived. A woman should be given a job on ability... nothing else matters."

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Ed. note: Before our North American readers post that "the article is dated Nov. 2, 2008, how can that be?" remember that date formats in most non-North American publications are "day-month-year" instead of "month-day-year".

An excerpt from Compelled to Give:

"It's February again. This can mean only one thing: the dreaded, compulsory Valentine's Day is just around the corner. If you forgot, fear not: the onslaught of TV and radio commercials will remind you and remind you and remind you. There is no escaping them, and they all share a common theme: women are entitled to receive; men are compelled to give. Nothing quite captures the essence of love like female entitlement.

Ask the typical woman to define romance. I'll lay odds that she'll describe a man buying and/or doing something for her, without a word about spoiling him. Why such narcissism? Simple. Most women are raised to be self-absorbed takers, and insecure men continue to tolerate and enable them.

Are men worthless? Only if they never demand fairness and reciprocity from women — and many men don't. Valentine's Day, and all of its pathetic rituals, represents the failure of men to stand up to women — who, ironically, don't respect these eunuchs and don't sexually crave them, either."

Story here. Excerpt:

"Police arrested a 13-year-old boy on a battery charge after he threw a broken pencil in class that hit another boy in the back of the head, according to a report released Thursday.
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Two witnesses in class said the suspect, also a seventh grade student, threw the pencil piece.
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When he threw the pencil at one of the witnesses, the witness ducked and the pencil hit the victim.”

Story here. Excerpt:

'NOW-NYS President Marcia Pappas, who denounced Sen. Ted Kennedy for picking Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton, calling it the "ultimate betrayal" of women, just issued a statement slamming MSNBC's David Shuster for suggesting the Clinton campaign "pimped out" Chelsea Clinton by having her make calls to superdelegates, saying: "This awful name-calling is nothing short of abusive."

"When male abusers feel they are failing to reach their spouses, they often go after their children," Pappas wrote. "Every day across the country battered women and their children suffer at the hands of abusers."'

Now the media itself is adopting this batterers' technique. This Schuster remark speaks volumes about the larger picture for mothers and their children. It's not just about hate speech; it's about power and control."

(PS - Shuster has been suspended and may likely be fired for his remark.)

In a little while I will be taking down the Mensactivism.org wiki. It's a project that I haven't had the time or energy to properly nourish, and it requires frequent attention to maintain due to its open nature.

I would not even consider taking it down if it weren't for the fact that some of the participants in that wiki have mirrored its contents at another site. So don't worry - no information will be lost. Instead, I encourage you to bookmark the Equalism Wiki and get involved there.

In particular, I'm really grateful to the folks who participated in compiling a comprehensive list of which colleges and universities have Women's Studies departments but not Men's Studies departments (or classes). That's going to be an important resource when someone finally files a lawsuit to establish Men's Studies as a legitimate academic department and major.