Video story here.

Get the commentary: the reporter says the woman "suffers from Munchausen syndrome..."

"Suffers from"? So if a man runs around and marries, then divorces or abandons a string of women, is he considered a psychiatric case or a criminal? Well this woman is facing criminal charges, but because she is pregnant with her 4th child (by as many men), I doubt she'll do the same kind of time a man would. And what if she didn't have the kids? I doubt she would then, either.

Men get jails, women get diagnoses. Keep an eye on this one.

Article here. Excerpt:

'A Mississippi teacher admitted to cops that she had sex with a 15-year-old male student to whom she sent explicit text messages and trysted with in her Jaguar, which bore the license plate "GRRRRR."
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Bogard, pictured in the mug shot at right, is facing felony sexual battery charges. She has been suspended with pay and is free on $50,000 bail.'

Will she be let go because of some "emotional" issue? She's already back on the street and most likely will get her job back if she gets off.

Article here. Excerpt:

"U.S. Census Bureau data released this month reflects the disparity. About one-third of women between age 25 and 29 had a bachelor's degree or more education last year, compared with 26 percent of males in the same age bracket, according to the bureau.

Enrollment and graduation figures from public New Hampshire and Maine colleges and universities are in line with those statistics.

Enrollment within the University System of New Hampshire has been just under 60 percent female to just more than 40 percent male for at least the past 10 years, according to spokesman Matt Cookson. The system includes UNH, Plymouth State University, Keene State College and Granite State College.
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Economic changes are partly to blame for boys' performance, he said, since a loss of agriculture and manufacturing jobs have put many men out of work and into trouble. He said this has increased the number of boys who grow up without fathers and male role models."

Article here. Excerpt:

"Dr Sax, who is founder of the National Association for Single Sex Public Education in the U.S., claims that boys are suffering a toxic mix of failing to be engaged by the curriculum, over-prescription of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) drugs and a lack of suitable role models. They no longer experience the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat due to a lack of competitive sport in schools. And they often return home to play computer games that make them disconnected from the real world as they displace family activities such as having dinner together."

The authoritative National Coalition of Women and Girls in Education (NCWGE) has issued a comprehensive new report (.pdf file) on the benefits of Title IX and "gender equity" in education. Among their findings:

“The real story is not bad news about boys doing worse; it’s good news about girls doing better. In fact, with a few exceptions, American boys are scoring higher and achieving more than they ever have before. But girls have just improved their performance on some measures even faster. As a result, girls have narrowed or even closed some academic gaps that previously favored boys, while other long-standing gaps that favored girls have widened, leading to the belief that boys are falling behind.”

Oh, I get it. If I just don't BELIEVE boys are falling behind, then I can start thinking clearly.

Article here.

This woman allows her 2 year old to "annoy" the dog instead of removing him from a situation that she knows he could get hurt. She blames it on her 2 tear old son. Pathetic. She is the adult and should know better. Excerpt:

'A little Australian boy's face was horribly scarred by the family dog - but his mother vowed to keep the pet, blaming the attack on her son.

Two-year-old Noah Newbold is lucky to have the sight in his left eye after being mauled by his family's mastiff-staffordshire cross.

Deep cuts and scratches cover the left side of his face.

But, the toddler's mother, Alicia Cottier, said she was keeping the dog despite the attack because it had been provoked by her son pulling the dog's ears.'

This story on the BBC is a nightmare to read - the poor guy is almost deaf, blind and has brain damage - but it's good to hear firstly that she was found guilty, and secondly that not a single word in this article attempts in any way to reduce her culpability or make it out to be in some way 'his fault'. No 'woman as victim' crap.

It boils down to this - she researched methods of killing him on the Internet, settled on poison by anti-freeze, cooked him a meal and laced his wine on their anniversary, and did it all just to pay off some debts, even bragging about it to neighbors. If she doesn't get the book thrown at her it'll be a travesty.

Story here.

I can't stand it when 5 year old boys are accused of sexual harassment. I would also defend a 5 year old girl if accused of harassment at such a young age. This incident is a much different. This is a disturbing case of sexual assault. Excerpt:

'A Texas kindergartener is accusing two of her female classmates of sexual assault, MyFoxHouston reported on Monday.

"She said two of the girls at school put glue in between her legs, in her private parts," the mother of the 6-year-old girl told the station. "Someone hurt my baby; she just seems different now."

The alleged attack took place inside a school bathroom, according to the report.

Doctors confirmed the unidentified girl suffered vaginal trauma and that glue was present when they examined her, the station reported.'

Story here. Excerpt:

"A British girl tried to kill her parents — and filmed her murder attempt — according to testimony presented to a jury on Tuesday, the Daily Mail reported.

The girl, then 15, allegedly tried to strangle her mother in the living room of the family's house in St. Neots, about 57 miles northwest of London, while she was working on the computer.

She also is accused of planning to stab her father with a pair of scissors once he realized what was going on, according to the Mail.

The girl, who is 16, has pleaded not guilty to two counts of attempted murder."

A curious British journalist asks:

"If one in four women are battered in their own homes, you would expect to see some evidence of it. If you work with eight girls in an office, two of them are being battered, or have been, or will be. Yet, where is the evidence? There just isn't any.

I'm not saying that DV never happens. It does. In fact, I've been on the receiving end of it myself. (What? You're a man! Impossible! You must have imagined it!)

The scale of the problem has been grossly exaggerated, and the facts grossly distorted by the feminist movement.

So why do they tell so many lies about it?

Power."

Story here.

A man who claims he was repeatedly battered by his wife is on trial for killing her. The jury trial began yesterday, 28th January. He once had a restraining order against his wife and she was also arrested on suspicion of domestic battery against him so there is a paper trail of abuse against him.

Watch this one.

Read the full and bigoted article entitled "Child-Man in the Promised Land" here.

The response that I sent to the author is here:

"Misandry. Ever hear of it? Because your article was full of it. Did it ever occur to you that men don't marry because the rules are rigged against men? If a divorce follows, who gets the kids? And who gets to deny their former spouse access to those children? If any allegations of domestic violence is made, who automatically gets kicked out of the house (no evidence required)? And who doesn't?

Indeed, your article even stooped to old-style social Darwinism. Chromosomally challenged? Surely it has occurred to your superior intellect that while the male population has EVERY gene that the female population has, they also have additional genes that no females have access to? How does that fit into your superiority paradigm?

Story here.

Another man lied to about his relationship with "his" child. The courts support the liar/defrauder. He pays, the mother collects, the child is lied to/defrauded - what could be more fair (to a gender feminist, maybe...)? Comments are interesting, so far tend to be supportive of the man in this case.

Any man considering a long term relationship needs to ask himself "What's in it for me?" here is an example of what could be in it for a man who doesn't ask that question. Excerpt:

"Paternity doesn't count when it comes to a Hunterdon County man's bid to lower child support payments for a child that's not his.

An appeals court upheld a lower court which denied the man's request in 2006 after he said he discovered he was not the father of the 10-year-old girl.

The appeals panel found the judge put the best interest of the child first."

Story here.

Notice how the father is indirectly blamed for the death. Apparently Dad incorrectly installed a baby seat which prevented Mom from checking on her sons health. Excerpt:

"A Virginia jury acquitted 36-year-old Raelyn Balfour of involuntary manslaughter Friday in the death of her infant son, Bryce, but the pain of his death made it difficult for her to appreciate the exoneration.
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Balfour's nightmare began March 30, 2007, when she returned to her vehicle after work and realized her 9-month-old son was still was strapped in his car seat.
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Police said the temperature inside the sport utility vehicle could have reached 98 degrees in 40 minutes, which is more than enough to kill an infant.
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During her trial, Balfour took the stand and explained how her husband had placed a spare baby seat where Bryce sat normally, so she didn't see him in the other seat behind her. "

It's Super Bowl time, and you know what that means. Wings, beer, new commercials, more beer, play stealing, and, oh yeah, domestic violence mythology. There's a statistic that's trotted out this time of year – "More women are victims of domestic violence on Super Bowl Sunday than on any other day of the year" – that has no basis in fact but is fervently believed and/or promulgated nonetheless. See just one example here.

And more than a decade after it was shown to be a fabrication, the people who make our laws clearly still believe it. Read one example of this here.

Snopes.com, the scourge of urban legends everywhere, has a good article on the apparent origins and subsequent debunking of the myth.