Story here. Excerpt:

'The BBC has decreed that its new 'bite-size' news bulletins must be presented by young and attractive women, according to claims.
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Last night a BBC spokesman denied there was any explicit mention of pretty young women in the market research, but refused to reveal what it had said about the type of presenter viewers wanted.'

"Attractive male news readers wanted for one-minute newscasts"

Can you imagine the shrill accusations of sexism? It happens to men, and is greeted pretty much with silence.

Story here. Excerpt:

'The number of women taking employers to court claiming unfair pay has risen to record levels.
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Jenny Watson, chair of the Equal Opportunities Commission, said that this flood of pay claims was pushing the tribunal system to breaking point.

She said the surge of cases was due to women being recruited by no-win no-fee lawyers promising to win pay rises and backdated cash.

She warned that these lawyers may now target women working in the private sector, which is just as vulnerable to legal action.'

Story here. Excerpt:

"A woman who falsely claimed to have been raped by two different men - forcing them to spend time behind bars - has been jailed for eight months."

Eight months seems lenient for attempting to destroy two families, and putting innocent men in prison. However, it is a positive development because:

(1) She is in jail.
(2) She has not been given the usual anonymity.

Maybe the tide is beginning to turn...

Story here. Excerpt:

"The government has at last officially supported male circumcision as a tool to fight against HIV/Aids. But the acknowledgement comes with a call for maximum caution from the health ministry.
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The Health ministry says that Rwanda has adopted male circumcision as one of the preventive measures against the disease."

Story here. Excerpt:

"A judge ruled Wednesday that a woman who killed her minister-husband with a shotgun can begin supervised visits with her three young daughters, but did not decide whether she can have custody of them.

Mary Winkler, who said she needs to help her children heal emotionally from the loss of their father, can visit with them starting Sept. 29, Judge Ron Harmon ruled."

Thanks to Marc A. for this. Article here. Excerpt:

'Women are kicking their mates out of the house in record numbers in Costa Rica. Some of them are enjoying it and using the law designed to protect women against domestic violence to swindle expats. Many expats come to Costa Rica in search of a relationship and end up shooting themselves in the foot by making bad choices.

Police in Heredia say women are abusing Law 8589 Article 7. The article states, “In order to protect the victims, they will be able to request, from the start of the complaint, the protective measures contemplated in the law against domestic violence, as well as the necessary precautionary measures foreseen in the penal code of procedure.”'

Article here.

Apparently a German town had been suffering a mass exodus of young people from it's bordered, so it's novel approach to a solution is to pay women almost $3000, just for agreeing to live in the city for 3 years.

Article here. Excerpt:

"What did Summers, a distinguished economist and a liberal Democrat who served in the Clinton administration, do to deserve such obloquy? In 2005, he suggested that it's worth researching whether, among other factors, innate differences between men and women may play a role in the greater prominence of men in the sciences -- a hypothesis that has some support in the relevant scientific literature.

Summers desperately tried to make amends, issuing an abject apology for even raising the subject. Nevertheless, and despite strong support for him among Harvard students, he was drummed out of the Harvard presidency by the Cambridge academic equivalent of a lynch mob.

Apparently his sins against feminist orthodoxy were so grave that he's still not welcome to give so much as a dinner speech to the UC Board of Regents more than two years later."

Thanks to Marc A. for this one. Article here. Excerpt:

'Child advocate John Walsh advises parents to never hire a male baby sitter.
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So when the topic of male nannies - mannies - came up in a conversation with friends, I didn't think too long before voicing my take on the trend.

I actually said - aloud - something to the effect of: "Even if we could afford it, I'd never hire a mannie. Too risky that he'd turn out to be a predator.'
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Sexual molestations committed by women are seriously underreported in this country, Rice said. Such cases often involve adult women having sex with adolescent boys whom they know. Which, sadly, too many people still don't consider sexual abuse, but rather good fortune on the boy's part.
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Rudov says statistics about male sexual predators are distorted because sexual abuse by women is not reported or not even considered abuse. He also cites federal statistics that show physically abused children are more often victims of female perpetrators.'

News.com.au reports here on an interesting story.

Two lesbians pay a prominent doc for IVF. It succeeds. But then they sue, because the doc accidentally implants two eggs, and they get twin girls instead of one.

My favourite quote: "Their mothers, whose combined income is almost $120,000, want $398,000 to cover the costs of raising one of the girls, including fees for a private Steiner school in Melbourne."

So they get twin girls, but have to make the doc who got them preggers to pay for them to send the girls to a private school??? Man, the world is insane...

Orissa State Women's Commission accepts that male victimization is happening on a large scale. This is the first time that a government agency (in India) has accepted this fact so openly. Excerpt:

'In the past couple of years, there has been a perceptible increase in the number of such men - bullied and blackmailed, tormented and terrorised. It is true that we have a whole lot of wicked women who misuse their legal weapon." And here's the last word from her: "Contrary to popular belief, torture of men does not take place in urban areas only. It is rampant in villages also."

Also, here:
"This is only the tip of the iceberg. The number of such atrocities against men by women is rising in Orissa. Since May 2007, the Commission has registered 38 such cases," chairperson Namita Panda said.'

The war on boys is unabated. Read this story and gawk at the insanity. Excerpt:

'THE Education Department has investigated claims a six-year-old student ran a "sex club" at an eastern suburban primary school, involving up to up to half a dozen grade 1 students.
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The mother has been unable to make a police report because the law states sexual assault by a child under 10 cannot be prosecuted.

"Victims of a perpetrator who is under the age of 10 should still have the same rights as any other victim of a sexual crime," she said.'

"Crime"? At the age of 6 showing off your wanky is a criminal act that some think should be punishable as such? The article shows how the matter has become a political issue to be addressed in a legislature! When I was in grade school boys who showed off their wankies were sent to the principal's office, maybe they got a note to take home to show mom and dad, and that settled it. Now it has become a matter for legislators? Absolute madness.

Men's Issues Presenters Encounter Hope and Biases At International Conference

"Sunday and Monday of this week I attended the annual, International Conference on Violence, Abuse and Trauma in San Diego, California."

"The morning went well, with an openness displayed by attendees that was reminiscent of our experiences from the day before. No one was overtly challenging our call to address the issue of domestic violence against men, and children. By late morning to early afternoon our booth was fully staffed and ready to meet the throng of conference attendees who had been in workshops for most of the morning."

"While the news from this conference can certainly be viewed in part as encouraging, the sad fact remains that huge segments of the domestic violence industry are still steeped in bigoted, man-hating, anti-patriarchy ideology."

Story here.

This story is disturbing. I pray these three young girls are able to fully recover. Excerpt:

'HALTOM CITY, Texas — A woman whose three young daughters were seriously burned was arrested, and neighbors said the mother told a fire investigator she had doused the children with gasoline and set them on fire.

The oldest girl, just 7, screamed, "Why mommy? Why mommy? Why did you do this to me?" after she and her sisters were pulled out of their burning house Saturday, neighbor Kevin Lopez said Monday.

The woman, Alysha Green, 29, had no answer for the fire investigator, Lopez said.

"She was crying and saying `I'm sorry' and she didn't know why she did it," Lopez told The Associated Press.

The girls — ages 7, 5 and 3 — remained in the burn unit of a Dallas hospital Monday; their conditions were not released.'

Recently I heard that the Walk a Mile in Her Shoes "event" was happening in my city. Read about it here. The idea is this: Men wear women's shoes and walk a mile in them to raise awareness of DV. Predictably there is no mention at all of male DV victims during the event or on the web site.

Does this really frost your behind? It should. Contact page is here. Note the founder/organizer is a man, too. He has his email and phone number published right there on the contact page, but I am going to ask you all NOT to bombard him with phone calls. Send him emails sure, but not phone calls. That is likely to be counter-productive and make HIM out to be some kind of victim, and remember that it is possible he just doesn't have all the facts, and this may just need some enlightening on the matter.