A fascinating segment from 20/20 on YouTube.

He confronts the false assumptions underlying the belief that "men are paid more".

Story here. Excerpt:

'On his wedding day three months ago, Michael Forbes made a special announcement to his guests: He and his new wife would be moving into a beautiful home in Merrick.

"Everyone thought it was nice, was happy for him," his uncle, Cecil Dudley, said Thursday.

No one realized how horribly wrong things on Frankel Boulevard would turn.

On Wednesday morning, Kelly Forbes grabbed a long, orange, heavy-duty electrical cord, put it around her husband's neck and strangled him, Nassau police said. Forbes, 29, called 911 on a cell phone from the house. When paramedics and police arrived, they found Michael Forbes, 50, on the floor in a room next to the master suite. He was unresponsive and died about an hour later at 10 a.m. at Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Radical feminists have devised a scheme to cash in on the flow of taxpayer money in a big way. Their good buddy, Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., has just introduced Senate Bill 2279, called the International Violence Against Women Act.

The act earmarks at least 10 percent of its program funds to be granted to a certain type of women's organizations. Biden's press release identifies the favored groups: NOW's Legal Momentum, Family Violence Prevention Fund, Women's Edge Coalition, and Center for Women's Global Leadership.
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Orders of protection were designed to be a "shield" to protect against domestic violence. This article bluntly describes how a petitioner can use an order of protection as a "sword" to obtain child custody in an expedited manner, to restrict a father's visitation with his children and to gain exclusive use of the home.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'A woman who became pregnant after a one-night stand yesterday won the right to keep the existence of her baby a secret from its father.

In a landmark decision, three Appeal Court judges agreed that the 20-year-old single mother has "the ultimate veto" over whom should be told about the child, who is being put up for adoption.

Describing the case as "on any view extraordinary", Lord Justice Thorpe ruled there was no justification for "breaking open the mother's secret".

And Lady Justice Arden said this was not a violation of the father's rights to family life under the Human Rights Act because he had no rights to be violated.'

ADELAIDE, SALISBURY & MURRAY BRIDGE COMMUNITY CONSULTATION EVENTS

With Elizabeth Broderick, Sex Discrimination Commissioner and Commissioner responsible for Age Discrimination.

Have your say on building a fair and equal society for women and men in Australia.

The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC), in partnership with the Hawke Centre, the Equal Opportunity Commission of South Australia and Safe Work SA invite you join HREOC's new Sex Discrimination Commissioner and Commissioner responsible for Age Discrimination, Elizabeth Broderick, for a community consultation.

This consultation is part of Commissioner Broderick's national Listening Tour. The Listening Tour is an opportunity for people all over Australia to make their voices heard on the issues that matter to them.

Mon Nov 26, 5.15pm for 5.30pm start to 7.30pm
UniSA Hawke Building - Level 5, Bradley Forum,
50-60 North Terrace, Adelaide
08 8302 0215

Thu Nov 29, 12 noon - 2pm
Council Chamber,
Local Government Centre,
2 Seventh Street, Murray Bridge
08 8539 1100

Column here. Excerpt:

'...commentator Melanie Phillips is adamant: “What we know beyond a shadow of a doubt is that children need their fathers.”

Really? Why? What for? And when did anybody last even ask? It might be very nice indeed for a child to have a dad around the house — provided, naturally, that he's the proper kind: the devoted, sober, gentle giant much given to manly rites of passage like the proud purchase of a brace of season tickets to Arsenal. But nice is not the same as need and certainly not as “rights”; further, if the hands-on presence of a father were actually so imperative, our species would have died out in the primordial swamp.'

From a press release from Men's Health Australia:

'This Sunday is White Ribbon Day (WRD) and the start of the 16 Days of Activism to Stop Violence Against Women. However the 2005 Personal Safety Australia survey found that in the past 12 months almost twice as many men as women (808,300) were victims of all types of violence; twice as many men as women (485,400) were victims of physical assault; nearly a third of sexual assault victims were men; 864,300 men were harassed and 110,700 men were stalked. The same study found that men were almost as likely as women to experience physical violence within the home (half from females, half from males) and were just as likely as women to experience physical violence from perpetrators who were known to them. Yet the WRD campaign focuses solely on the prevention of violence against women by men.

Via Marc A. Story here. Excerpt:

'(IsraelNN.com) A new Knesset subcommittee for fathers' rights in divorce and child-custody proceedings held its first meeting Monday.

The Subcommittee on the Family Crisis in Israel was presided over by its chairman, MK Chaim Amsalem (Shas). Committee member and initiator Avraham Ravitz (UTJ) delivered the opening statement which ignited a stormy clash between government representatives and rights groups.
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Dr. Orli Iness of the University of Haifa told the committee that “when the Knesset adopted legislation on the matter of protecting women from violence, it was reported that about 20 percent of complaints filed were false, but it adopted the legislation as the price to pay in order to protect the weak… Presently, there have been reports that in some precincts the figure [for false complaints] is as high as 50%. If that had been the case at the time, the Knesset would have thought differently about the matter.”

Story here. Excerpt:

'Police say the boys -- who are 8 and 9 years old -- are in a Cobb County youth detention center but face adult criminal charges.
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Police reports show the girl went to authorities Saturday for the alleged attack, which she says happened Thursday.'

I know none of the details of the case but my gut says that there is some hysterical overreaction going on for what were most likely innocent childhood games. No matter what happened, I can't conceive any valid reason to charge boys this young as adults.

Via Marc A. Article here. Excerpt:

'MEN'S groups are calling for mandatory paternity testing of all newborns as it emerges a record number of men are finding they are not the fathers of children they believed to be theirs.

Almost a quarter of paternity tests conducted by one of Australia's largest DNA laboratory companies show the man submitting a sample is not the father, compared to an estimated one in 10 "exclusions" 10 years ago.

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Thousands of men are turning to DIY testing kits - available online - to discover whether they are the biological father while they are still in a relationship and without telling their partners about their suspicions.
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Professor Margaret Otlowski, deputy director of the University of Tasmania's Centre for Law and Genetics, said: "I don't think mandatory testing is a good idea.

In a report to Congress on services provided to domestic violence and sexual assault victims, the U.S. General Accounting Office identified a number of grant programs whose funds are used to provide direct services to victims.

RADAR then submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking data on the services provided to victims, categorized by gender. On October 23, 2007, the Office on Violence Against Women responded to the RADAR request.

Via Marc A. Article here. Excerpt:

'The Reuters report stands in stark contrast to the politically correct — but empirically incorrect — Associated Press story that blanketed the nation on April 23, 2007. The AP story was based on the advocacy press release of the American Association of University Women (AAUW) that claimed after one year out of college women earned 20 percent less than men and that the gap widened 10 years later to 31 percent. The AP did not tell the nation that statistical analyses accompanying the press release reduced the two purported gaps to 5 percent and 12 percent respectively...'

A friend sent me a link to this on-line version of part of the book "Shyness & Love: Causes, Consequences, and Treatment", which is now out-of-print. I read some of the parts available for reading and found the author's direct candor about men and where they are at very refreshing, though a number of his comments seemed clouded by "normative expectations" and the kind of judgmentality seemingly reserved more for men than women. Food for thought and debate for sure; doubtless you will read it and agree to some stuff, disagree with others. Excerpts:

From the chapter The Male Lesbian, read:

Marc Rudov calls women that buy tasers "Jane Bond" with a license to kill men. Mr. Rudov points out a few incidents where men have been murdered via the 50k volts that tasers deliver to men and now women are being sold these weapons to use against men with impunity. Taser International does not require that these women have permits for these weapons. Men are now at the whim of women whom are armed with weapons to use against anyone they choose.

Marc Rudov recently debated feminist Lis Wiehl concerning this matter.

The debate can be viewed here.

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Ed. note: If you have trouble loading the video via the the target page to the link above, the direct link is here

Article here. Excerpt:

'ScienceDaily (Nov. 12, 2007) — Physical dating violence (PDV) affects almost one in every 11 adolescents, according to research presented at the American Public Health Association’s 135th Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.

The study, which looked at data from the 2005 National Youth Risk Behavior Study, also found that contrary to common general perception, males and females equally report being victims of PDV. The researchers found that in their study population of 6,951 male and 6,807 female students in grades 9 through 12, 9 percent of boys and 9.2 percent of girls responded yes to the question “during the past 12 months, did your boyfriend or girlfriend ever hit, slap, or physically hurt you on purpose.”'