A day of infamy... 3rd anniversary of 'Larry Summers and the feminist purges of Academia'! Analysis here. Excerpt:

'Unlike most religious fundamentalists, these feminists were pursuing a careerist, self-serving agenda. This cause can put money in their pockets.

Summers's suggestion—now ignominiously retracted, with groveling, Soviet-show-trial-style apologies—was that sex discrimination and the reluctance of mothers to work 80 hours a week are not the only possible explanations for gender imbalances in the math-science area. He noted that high school boys have many more of the highest math scores than girls, and suggested that this might reflect genetic differences. He also stressed the need for further research into all three possible explanations.'

The New Hampshire primary campaign appearance schedule for all of the major candidates is available here.

Contact Richard at societypmm-at-fathersandhusbands.org if you'd like to collaborate in making our concerns heard by the candidates.

Story here. Excerpt:

"Cincinnati police have charged a woman with child endangering after a strange incident on Tuesday afternoon.

Officers said that Danielle Kah chased after her child's father's car on Sedler Street, ramming it from behind until he stopped.

When the father stopped, police said, Kah opened the door of his car and took their 4-year-old daughter, then fled into a nearby wooded area.

Police said the child was not dressed for the freezing temperatures.

Officers were able to find Kah and her child and take them into custody. The child was not seriously hurt.

Bond for Kah was set at $2,000 on Wednesday."

Story here. Excerpt:

"A man imprisoned since 1981 for sexual assault was freed after a judge recommended overturning his conviction.

Charles Chatman, 47, was released on his recognizance after serving nearly 27 years of a 99-year sentence. He was freed on the basis of new DNA testing that lawyers say proves his innocence and adds to Dallas County's nationally unmatched number of wrongfully convicted inmates.

Chatman became the 15th inmate from Dallas County since 2001 to be freed by DNA testing. That is more than any other county nationwide, said Natalie Roetzel of the Innocence Project of Texas, an organization of volunteers who investigate claims of wrongful conviction.

Texas leads the country in prisoners freed by DNA testing. Including Chatman, the state will have released at least 30 wrongfully convicted inmates since 2001, according to the Innocence Project."

This is actually kind of significant. This isn't an anonymous donor, and most of us will be familiar with the fact that often 'friendly' donations for invitro are often not enough to establish non-liability.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that a woman who promised a sperm donor he would not have to pay child support cannot renege on the deal.

The 3-2 decision overturns lower court rulings under which Joel L. McKiernan had been paying up to $1,500 a month to support twin boys born in August 1994 to Ivonne V. Ferguson, his former girlfriend and co-worker.

Survivor shows that breaking the cycle of violence can be done

This article says, "She wants to empower women she meets through her company and at the domestic violence center."

As this article strongly indicates, men are wasting their time seeking shelter at this taxpayer funded domestic violence shelter. It seves only women.

A more honest title for this article, IMO, would have been, "Survivor shows that breaking the cycle of violence can be done - unless you're a man."

Here is my letter to the editor, and the author (below), at these two emails addresses. I redacted my address and phone number from this post. Feel free to use whatever parts of this post you choose if you choose to send them an email, which I hope you do. It appears they limit publishing of letters to the editor at 150 words.

dnopinion@dailynews.com

jerry.berrios@dailynews.com

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.