Story here. Excerpt:

'EAGLE POINT — A first-grader was suspended Tuesday for drawing a stick figure shooting another in the head with a gun and allegedly threatening students.

Little Butte School officials sent 6-year-old Ryan Weathers home after receiving complaints from parents saying he threatened their children, said Douglas Weathers, the boy's father.
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The disciplinary report given to Weathers stated the reason for the suspension was the boy "threatened to shoot two girls in the head."

The drawing was inspired by an episode of "The Simpsons," Weathers said. In the television cartoon, a character displays a drawing of a student being shot by a gun.

Weathers said he understands the concerns other parents may have, but felt the school went too far in suspending his son for one day.

"You can't blame the parents," he said. "I told the principal that I agreed that he shouldn't have done the drawing, but suspending him seems like a policy with no intelligence behind it.

Story here. Excerpt:

'Authorities said Kennedy plunged her son into the water on Christmas Day 2005. The boy suffered severe burns and went a week without treatment before dying.

"You took away his life in a way that was preventable," Circuit Judge Jeffrey Levinson told Kennedy. "You subjected him to pain, you subjected him to suffering, and you let him wither."'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Clinton was playing the gender card -- even if she denied doing so.

"I'm not playing, as some people say, the gender card here in Las Vegas, I'm just trying to play the winning card," the candidate chirped. "I understand very well that people are not attacking me because I'm a woman. They're attacking me because I'm ahead."

The senator was having it both ways. Even as she cashed in on the fact that she is mounting a historic campaign for the presidency -- not the first by a woman, but the first in which a woman might prevail -- Clinton said she was not "running because I'm a woman." Rather, she said, "I'm running because I think I'm the best qualified and experienced person to hit the ground running."'

Video report here. Some good lines include:

"...it was not a student-teacher relationship." (So it wasn't so bad then? "Relationship".)

"... is accused of having sex with a 15-year-old boy..." (There it is again, "having sex with", as predictable as the tides.)

Article here.

I once heard someone say at an MRA event that it's OK to acknowledge the traumatic experiences of women but not men. Another time I heard a therapist mention that the grief of men was taboo but not of women. Things like this documentary only point up these observations. Traumatized men are casualties. Traumatized women are victims. It matters not, it seems, whether the person wears a uniform, but only if that person is male or female.

Story here. Excerpt:

'[A woman] swindled more than £40,000 in benefits payments with a bogus brood of seven babies in the space of 18 months.

Ironically, efforts to prosecute her were delayed by the fact that she was genuinely pregnant this time.
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Judge Roger Thomas QC warned her: "You have pleaded guilty to the vast majority of the charges against you. The next step is for sentence to be considered.

"There is a lot of overpayment on the face of it and it looks like a very deliberate deception to obtain tax credit."

The case was adjourned until December 5 to allow pre-sentence reports to be compiled before Young is sentenced.'

Article here.

It's pretty common sense to anybody with their eyes open, but it hit a traditional media outlet so I thought I'd share it with you guys. Excerpt:

'Most startling is that little is being done to correct the imbalances. All of the major players — schools, education colleges and researchers — largely ignore the gender gap. Instead of pursuing sound solutions, many educators merely advocate prescribing more attention-focusing Ritalin for the boys, who receive the drug at four to eight times the rate of girls, according to different estimates. "Too often the first reaction to an attention problem is 'Let's medicate,' " says Rockville, Md., child psychologist Neil Hoffman. "Some schools are quick to recommend solutions before they've fully evaluated the problem."'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Santas in Australia's largest city have been told not to use Father Christmas's traditional "ho ho ho" greeting because it may be offensive to women, it was reported Thursday.'

On September 13, 2007, I sent the Ledger-Enquirer a letter asking why they ignored male victims of domestic violence in their article “Getting out isn't easy“ (9/13). In response, editor Ben Holden wrote: "We didn't mention it because anyone with an ounce of common sense (and without a meanspirited private political agenda) knows that as a general proposition, men hurt women in domestic situations, not the other way around. Besides, I always figure if your wife beats you up, you probably deserve it. That's the way it works in my house. Regards, Ben" (The email exchange is below.)

Of course, we all know that's just another stereotype. Even Harvard Medical School just recognized that half of heterosexual domestic violence is reciprocal, half non-reciprocal, and that the *men* are more often hurt in the non-reciprocal violence, which women commit 71% of.

Via Marc A. Article here. Excerpt:

'A New Jersey Superior Court Judge shocked observers during the sentencing hearing of a 43-year-old female teacher who had pleaded guilty to second-degree sexual assault with a 13-year-old boy many times over a six-month period.
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I will give one example, but there are many cases, of bias against male sexual offenders versus females. A male teacher who had sex with three teenage female students was sentenced to 26 years in prison while the next day, a female swimming coach who had an “affair” with an 11-year-old boy and sexual “encounters” with two others got 30 days. Not only is there bias against male offenders, there is the mistaken belief that male victims do not suffer short-term and long-term trauma. It is egregious to think that boys suffer less harm when sexually abused at such a young age than girls. Children, boys as well as girls, are losing their childhood.'

Women are being provided with tasers to use against men. Marc Rudov wrote an interesting article on this subject. Excerpt from the article:

Story here. Excerpt:

'This is the female teacher banned from working with children after she was suspended and cautioned by police over a sex act with a teenage pupil.

Married Jo Gorman, 28, was cautioned for "intentional sexual touching" with a male student at Paignton Community and Sports College in Paignton, Devon.

Police launched an investigation after rumours began to circulate the school about an improper relationship and the headteacher alerted social services.'

Feminist Trained Judges Lack Integrity

"When judges [who are trained through STOP grants funded by the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA)] address domestic violence according to a gender feminist paradigm, instead of constitutional law, they are grossly lacking in integrity."

"When America's judiciary functions with as little integrity as it does today in the area of domestic violence law, the entire legal system reeks with a foul stench of rottenness, wafting in from that area of tyrannical injustice."

Story here.

I suspect NOW will have something to say about Clarence Thomas"s comments. They've been after him like rabid wolverines since he was found not guilty in regards to the Anita Hill hearings during the 1980's. Excerpt:

'"I don't hire women law clerks," Thomas said. "I hire the best law clerks. And it turns out that 30 percent of them happen to be women."
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"If a woman graduates from law school and I say I'm going to hire her because I need a woman, that seems to me dehumanizing, and the job would be tainted," he said. "That's my attitude."'

Story here. Excerpt:

"The attorney for a Nebraska middle school teacher who fled to Mexico with a student who was an illegal immigrant said Monday that the woman could be guilty of nothing except poor judgment.

James Martin Davis said that a kidnapping charge against Kelsey Peterson should be dropped because the boy went with her willingly, and that the boy shares more responsibility for their relationship and flight than authorities allege.

Peterson, 25, fled Lexington with the boy, a former student of hers, on October 26. They were found in a mall parking lot in the border town of Mexicali, Mexico, on November 2."

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Ed. note: A separate submission referred to this case, only with more quotations from the attorney. Read it here.