Story here. Excerpt:

'Mrs Benussi runs a large matrimonial law firm in Birmingham specialising in high-value divorce cases and has almost 30 years' experience. She said piranhas "want a highearning, high-flying, high-virility man" who will place a ring on their finger.

"Office parties are a brilliant opportunity for them to lead a colleague astray. The alcohol is flowing, they can wear sexier clothes and they just generally loosen up.

"There are women who join companies with large amounts of male employees with the sole intention of looking for a partner, and by that I mean an equity partner - one of the owners of the business."

She said that for such women, joining a large firm of accountants or solicitors can be more advantageous than signing up with a dating agency.

She warned: "A piranha will hang on for the kill and will rip any man to shreds."'

Author and Men's Rights activist Marc Rudov talks about what's wrong with chivalry and women's feeling of entitlement.

Watch the Video.

The MANN comment sections have been buzzing a lot lately. Unfortunately a lot of this buzz has been the result of many personal attacks and unproductive anger.

We've seen this problem come and go in cycles in the past, but this time it seems to have become especially bad. The administrators of MANN have become concerned about this and feel it's become necessary to take a more proactive stance to try to bring the MANN comment boards out of this rut. We can't simply sit by and watch the site become little more than a place for individuals to flame and entertain each other by trying to write shock-entertainment posts. Mensactivism.org was created to be more than that, and we need to return to a reasonable level of decorum. Read More to continue...

Not only is this trend counter-productive, but it is discouraging genuinely interested parties from taking the site seriously as well as discouraging actual, substantive debate. When debates that are basically about ideas degenerate regularly and quickly into name-calling and over-use of profanity, especially targeted specifically to other posters, the value of any site is damaged.

Story here. Excerpt:

"A man wrongly jailed when a woman cried rape has failed to prevent being charged £12,500 for his "board and lodging" while in prison.

Warren Blackwell, 38, spent three years in jail as a convicted sex attacker until his 'victim' was unmasked as a fantasist.

It was revealed he has been awarded £252,500 compensation for his lost years - but minus the estimated cost of his food and accommodation while behind bars."

In 2007 domestic violence programs around the country continued to encourage false allegations, undermine families, force children into single-parent households, ignore the civil rights of the falsely accused, and discriminate against male victims.

And as RADAR's Special Report "Why Have Domestic
Violence Programs Failed to Stop Partner Abuse?" reveals, these
programs have been flatly ineffective in reducing abuse rates – and in some cases placed victims at greater risk of violence. http://www.mediaradar.org/docs/RADARreport-Why-DV-Programs-Fail-to-Stop-Abuse.pdf

In response RADAR and the VAWA Reform Coalition continued to make the case for reform. Highlights of the year included:

Story here. Excerpt:

'The San Mateo woman who will be serving 90 days in county jail for a false rape report in June may also be required to repay the county agencies that spent time and resources investigating her false claims.

On Monday, 24-year-old Karyn Adele Galila pleaded no contest to one count of filing a false police report, a misdemeanor, Chief Deputy District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said.

She was charged with two counts of filing false reports for her initial claim and a subsequent follow-up interview with a detective and a district attorney in which she again told the rape story.
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“Our belief is that the reason she made this false report related to family matters, trying to avoid coming up with an explanation for where she was,” Wagstaffe said.'

Essay here. Excerpt:

"What price equality? It's apparently always too high for those who mistakenly believe they have the most to lose. One in four Norwegian businesses allegedly face the threat of closure because they have failed to ensure that 40% of directors are female - abiding by a law passed in 2003. Business heads have had five years to meet the quota - and a great deal of change has resulted.
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Feminism was never about women competing in a male world. It was about changing the system. Women need an income and some also need a career that's paramount in their lives just like men - but at the same time, if capitalism isn't going to thoroughly destroy all that matters, feminism has also argued that it's important to fight to make the workplace more humane, the work ethic less all-pervasive, the rewards fairer and the personal sacrifices less damaging to children and relationships."

Story here. Excerpt:

'A University of Arizona law school student and beauty queen has been indicted on charges that she and three others held her former boyfriend captive for 10 hours while torturing and robbing him.

Kumari Fulbright was indicted Dec. 18 on five felony charges – armed robbery, aggravated robbery, kidnapping and two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon... According to court documents, Fulbright and three men used plastic cable ties and duct tape to tie up a 24-year-old man on Dec. 8 and held him captive...'

PS – check out the several posted reader comments asking “what HE did” to provoke her!

Announcement here. Excerpt:

'The most significant change going into 2008 takes place with respect to the office of ACFC President. As many of you know, Dr. Stephen Baskerville has returned to academic pursuits, taking a position as associate professor of government at Patrick Henry College in Virginia.
...
Our search committee members considered and discussed the position with several candidates and are pleased to announce ACFC's new President for 2008, Dr. Linda Nielsen.

For the past two decades Dr. Nielsen has been a proponent of Shared Parenting. She is a tenured faculty member at Wake Forest University in North Carolina. Her background as a social researcher combined with her training as an adolescent psychologist, make hers a voice which cannot be ignored in the expanding debate over the need for Shared Parenting and the important necessity of a Fathers contribution in child rearing.

Story here. Excerpt:

"Three days following the death of seven-month-old Jillian Engelman, the Fresno County District Attorney's office files formal charges on her mother, Lisa May Brown...

Brown is now facing one count of murder and one count of child abuse, causing death.

Both counts carry a minimum sentence of 25 years to life.

According to the search warrant served to brown on Monday, Brown told officials that she drowned the baby because it was possessed by demons and that the devil told her to do it.
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Hickey says, "More often than not, women who kill their babies like this usually suffer from some form of mental illness."

Hickey says this case reminds him of Texas mother, Andrea Yates, who, back in 2001, was charged with drowning all five of her children in a bathtub.

Hickey says, "It's not uncommon for someone to come down with postpartum blues, have very deep depression, have deep psychotic breaks, have hallucinations, hear voices sometimes."

Story here. Excerpt:

"A mother accused of throwing her young son off a balcony three months ago waived her right to a preliminary hearing Thursday, sending the case to trial.

Rita Sativa Kraft's 18-month-old son Connor suffered multiple skull and facial fractures after he fell 21 feet off a balcony at the family's Lompico home on the morning of Sept. 12, according to authorities. The boy, who suffered significant brain trauma, was unconscious and not breathing after landing on the packed dirt below the balcony.

He was resuscitated by a housemate who had medical training, then airlifted to a trauma center over the hill.

The child has since been released from the hospital into his father's custody. Doctors say it may be some time before the full extent of his brain injuries are known.
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Kraft's attorney, Jon Minsloff, previously told the Sentinel his client was suffering from postpartum depression when the incident occurred. He also told the paper that Kraft has a family history of mental illness."

Story here. Excerpt:

'LILLINGTON — A judge has declared a mistrial this afternoon in the case of a Harnett County woman who was accused of castrating a man with her fingernails at a Christmas party last year.
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The foreman indicated this afternoon that the jury was split 8 to 4 on two charges: malicious castration and assault with intent to inflict serious injury.

According to juror Harvey “Bart” Bartlett of Coats, four jurors favored not guilty and eight voted for guilty. He was among the four who believed Dawson was not guilty.
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Defendant Rebecca Dawson is accused of using her fingernails to tear off a man’s scrotum at a Christmas party last year. In closing arguments Friday, the defense said Dawson tore Kevin Russ’ scrotum in self defense. But the prosecutor said Russ was the victim, and described the injury as a vicious attack from an angry, drunken woman.'

FYI: The Jury was comprised of eight women, four men and one female alternate.

Story here. Excerpt:

'According to Education Minnesota, the teachers' union, the percentage of male teachers in Minnesota has decreased from 43 percent in 1980 to 29 percent in 2005. That's why finding books for boys is a problem.

Female teachers and librarians don't gravitate toward the books that boys like, which Baxter says are about "disasters, wild animals, spies, machines, dinosaurs, and creepy-crawly things."

Showing boys male reading role models also helps catch boys' interest. In Apple Valley, two female teachers host the book club, but each month a different male teacher reads to the club.

Theresa Back, one of the female teachers that started the club, said that boys interact well with the male leaders. "We just didn't have the 'boy connection,' " she said about the female teachers.'

Happy Holidays Include Fathers

I had a bit of a grinch like attitude earlier in the month as I contemplated skipping this month’s rally, and pursuing the usual holiday merriment instead, but a little voice in my ear kept whispering that a rally for Dads was needed this month - more than ever. I'm not sure exactly what the suicide statistics are for men and Fathers in the month of December, but given the disgracefully high numbers for a typical year, and the disgraceful lack of care from America, I couldn't in good conscious let this month go by without saying to the world, "Dads, you're more than wallets. You’re a blessing, and a gift, for your children, at the holidays and all throughout the year."

Marc Rudov destroys yet another woman's pathetic, misandric argument on Your World with Neil Cavuto. In a debate over women wanting boys to wear "Hello Kitty" shirts -- which were originally made for girls -- and play with dolls.

According "to the woman taking part in the debate" boys are extremely violent and playing with girls toys, wearing girls clothes -- and basically becoming girls in everyway possible -- will make them "less violent."

At one point the woman asks for proof that mothers are more violent towards their children than men. Mr. Rudov cites a government statistic that supports his claim and as always the woman then dismisses it as not being relevant.

I suppose even the network got tired of hearing her fraudulent, pathetic, biased, pro-woman argument because the station cut her off towards the end of the debate!

Also, is that Lis Wiehl "hosting" the debate?

Watch the video.