Dear Editor,

This may be the first time there has been a very positive review from a mainstream national newspaper (Canada's National Post) praising a male-positive perspective over a feminist perspective. It is a review of Does Feminism Discriminate Against Men?: A Debate between Warren Farrell (with Steven Svoboda) and James P. Sterba. You can read it here.

More important, "Does Feminism Discriminate Against Men?" is the first time one of the two main academic presses (Oxford U Press and Harvard U Press) has attempted to introduce a male-positive perspective to feminist gender studies professors in the U.S. and Canada. If we each contact a local university to suggest this book, its adoption will encourage other academic presses to introduce more books incorporating male-positive perspectives.

How badly is this needed in universities? Look at this email I received yesterday...

Story here. Excerpt:

'SEATTLE — A woman accused of biting off two-thirds of her ex-boyfriend's lower lip as they were kissing in bed was charged Wednesday with second-degree domestic-violence assault.
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Brummel said he and Cutler kissed several times when, without provocation, she bit off his lip and spat it out, deputies said. Doctors at Highline Hospital were unable to reattach the lip and said the man will likely be permanently disfigured.'

Article here.

The word "veterans" could easily replaced by simply stating men. Most of these homeless men are Vietnam Vets. Many of these men suffer from Post-Traumatic Stress disorder. Now the Iraq war is contributing to this crisis. These men are not properly treated and live a life on the streets eating out of garbage cans. I suspect with the increasing number of female military personnel, this issue will become a serious topic. Society will never tolerate homeless female veterans. A military clerical position held by a woman would probably be more of a priority than the man who served in heavy combat. I would not be surprised if the victim industry pushes for a Congressional bill preventing any female vet. from becoming homeless. Such a bill would probably be initiated by man hater, Joe Biden. As for the men, find a warm spot on the streets during the winter and good luck! Excerpt:

Article here. Excerpt:

'Former Democratic vice presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro raced to her defense as well, stating to the New York Times that Clinton had been unfairly “attacked” during the debate: “It’s OK in this country to be sexist,” she said, and “I don’t think Barack Obama would have been attacked for two hours.

Herein lies the sexism. There was not a single question asked of her during the debate that would have been stated differently if she were a man. She says she wants to be treated as an equal, but really, she wants to be treated differently: more gently, and as a superior. That’s because SHE believes she’s superior by virtue of her “womanhood.”
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But she’s not getting away with the double-game this time. Either she’s a fragile woman who needs special courtesies, or she’s tough-as-nails and ready to be commander-in-chief. Can’t be both. Pick one, Senator. And let’s see if you can stick with it.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'A 20-year-old West Chester Township woman not only stole a 12-year-old boy’s innocence, she also robbed him of dignity when she had sexual contact with him, his mother told a judge this week.

“He was very disturbed, embarrassed and ashamed,” an assistant prosecutor said, summarizing a statement the boy’s mother read during Jennifer L. Whitson’s sentencing in Butler County Common Pleas Court on Tuesday.

Whitson’s lawyer, Christopher Alexander of Mason, said he questions whether the encounter was the boy’s first sexual experience. He also said his client used no force, that the contact was “very quick” and stopped short of intercourse. Even so, Alexander said, “I’m sure it’s going to have a lasting effect on that young man.”'

Also via Marc A.

Story here. Excerpt:

'NEW YORK (Reuters) - They may be a small minority in corporate boardrooms, but women directors typically earn more than men, a new U.S. study has found.

Female directors in corporate America earned median compensation of $120,000, based on the most recently available pay data, compared with $104,375 for male board members, research group The Corporate Library said in its annual director pay report on Wednesday.

At the same time, the study said, women in corporate boardrooms are outnumbered eight to one.'

Via Marc A.

The Time story omits recent research showing circumcision removes the most sensitive part of the penis. See:

http://www.nocirc.org/touch-test/bju_6685.pdf
http://www.livescience.com/health/070615_penis_sensitivity.html

Letters can be sent to Time at letters@time.com.

Story here. Excerpt:

'LANSING, Michigan (AP) -- A federal appeals court has upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit nicknamed "Roe v. Wade for Men" filed by a men's rights group on behalf of a man who said he shouldn't have to pay child support for his ex-girlfriend's daughter.

A three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a decision released Tuesday, agreed with a lower court judge that Matthew Dubay's suit was frivolous.

Dubay, 25, had said ex-girlfriend Lauren Wells knew he didn't want to have a child and assured him repeatedly she couldn't get pregnant because of a medical condition.

He argued that if a pregnant woman can choose among abortion, adoption or raising a child, a man involved in an unintended pregnancy should have the choice of declining the financial responsibilities of fatherhood.

U.S. District Judge David Lawson in Bay City disagreed, rejecting Dubay's argument that Michigan's paternity law violates the U.S. Constitution's equal protection clause because it didn't extend reproductive rights to men.'

Does anyone have any information as to which PBS channels recently rebroadcast the unfair and biased 'documentary' "Breaking the silence'?

A spokeswoman for PBS and their ombudsman are both interested in knowing this information so that they can investigate the matter. Our pressure is beginning to make an impact. I hope someone will post the stations that did the dastardly deed on the website so that I can inform the spokeswoman and ombudsman of PBS of this information. We should keep up the pressure to make sure this does not happen again.

"Mom allegedly slept with daughter's pal, 13": Video here.

Video only, no text.

Go National Post! You're two for two in one day!

"As Remembrance Day approaches, the media's wartime love affair with our troops serves as an ironic reminder of how rarely in the fourth estate one sees sympathetic editorial treatment of manhood.

Most of the year, men -- not as individuals but as representative of their sex --are far more likely to be portrayed negatively: as control freaks, perverts and in general people to fear. Only for a brief annual pre-Nov. 11 interlude do we ever see glowing tributes to the traditional male virtues of honour, gallantry, steadfastness, stoicism, brotherhood and chivalry."

Thanks to Barbara Kay for this article.

Makes you wonder, though... Why is it that only female journalists can write about men's issues, but male journalists are silenced?

Of course it's rare, but I love to see women receiving the stupid, paranoid treatment we men are subjected to on a consistent basis.

Some may say that two wrongs don't make a right (spare me!), but in the stupid atmosphere we are in in the U.S. these days, nothing will get corrected until women have to put up with the same treatment we men are so often subjected to. Excerpt:

'MASCOUTAH — A 13-year-old junior high school student was given two days of detention after school officials spotted her hugging friends after school last Friday.

Megan Coulter, an eighth-grade student at Mascoutah Middle School, was hugging her friends goodbye after school Friday when vice principal, Randy Blakely, saw her and told her she would receive two after-school detentions.'

I stumbled upon this article that discusses circumscision in a (gasp) negative light.

Example:

Circumcised men are said to suffer from, wait for it, “significant penile sensory deficit”, although – get this – a Men’s Health magazine survey in 2000 suggested that uncircumcised men lasted an average of four minutes longer during sex than their circumcised peers.

Story here. Excerpt:

'COLUMBIA, S.C. — The mother of a 7-year-old boy who claimed a carjacker killed her son was arrested Monday and charged with murder in her son's death, Greenville County Sheriff Steve Loftis said.

Amanda Reagan Smith was arrested nearly three months after she told authorities that a knife-wielding carjacker forced her to drive to a secluded, wooded area in Greenville on Aug. 12. Once there, she said the carjacker locked the car doors and pressed a pillow to the face of her 7-year-old son.

"Investigators have concluded that Amanda Smith is responsible for the death of her son," Loftis said during a news conference in Greenville. "We are confident that we have the suspect in jail now."'

Folks, we need to fight this. Release here. Excerpt:

'BIDEN/LUGAR Introduce the International Violence Against Women Act Groundbreaking Legislation Integrates U.S. Efforts to End Gender-Based Violence on a Global Scale