Video here.

Some people, particularly casual visitors to MANN, might ask, "Why does MANN keep putting stories up about violent women and girls, high schoolers getting stat. raped by female teachers, etc., etc. We all know it happens, why keep on about it?"

Well the reason is just this: most of us wouldn't know about it unless someone pointed it out, as such stories are usually buried on page C15 rather than on A1, where the stories about male criminals are printed.

The urge to deny that women and girls are just as capable of violence and other criminal acts is very strong: a toxic mix of chivalry, bigotry, and cognitive dissonance keep the wheels turning. So MANN keeps posting these sorts of reports because the mainstream media keeps airing one spun-out excuse-making report for female criminal activity after another. In short: *We* won't stop until *they* stop.

Since the beginning of September, we have called on you to contact members of the U.S. House of Representatives to "Say NO to HRES 590." And our efforts are working!

To date the House Education and Labor Committee not voted on this hateful resolution. Even better news, the bill hasn't been scheduled for debate! That's exactly where we want it to stay.

And now we have a great opportunity – not only can we deep-six the bill, we can also send a powerful message to several Representatives who are running for president. Four current house members are running for President in their parties' primaries:
Duncan Hunter
Dennis J. Kucinich
Ron Paul
Thomas G. Tancredo

Because they are current House members they will also have to vote on HRES 590. We can continue our efforts to stop HRES 590, and perhaps influence the Presidential campaign, by making these four Congressman the focus of our efforts this week. For a reminder of just what's so offensive about HRES 590, see RADAR's critique here (.pdf file).

Something interesting from the National Post... here's the link.

"The stereotype of the male stud who is always up for sex is being challenged by new research from the University of Guelph showing that men are almost as likely to be coerced in the bedroom as women.

A study of 518 university students found that 38.8% of men and 47.9% of women reported being pressured into a range of sexual activity, from kissing and cuddling to intercourse and oral sex."

Story here. Excerpt:

'Fort Lauderdale, Florida-CNN has concealed the name of a perpetrator of "paternity fraud". Why?

Francisco Rodriquez is the victim of an ordinary case of paternity fraud. The state of Florida insists that he owes $10,000 in back child support payments for a fifteen year old girl who, according to DNA results, is not his daughter. The state even jailed Rodriquez for failure to pay.

Here is my twist on this otherwise ordinary case: In reporting this story, CNN refused to divulge the name of the mother – a perpetrator of fraud who wrongly named Mr. Rodriquez the father. Why did CNN protect her? She is not a victim. She is a perpetrator.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'DES MOINES, Iowa -- Two women are in custody, accused of assaulting a 12-year-old boy who's also a relative.

"They assaulted him and caused serious injury," said Lt. Jeff Miller of the West Des Moines Police Department.

Police said Jaton Warren, 27, and her mother, Maia Beadeau, 51, are responsible for beating the boy Wednesday.'

Story here. Excerpt:

"A city court sentenced a woman to five years' rigorous imprisonment for framing four men in a fake rape case. The verdict comes on the heels of the Supreme Court's recent direction to courts for handling allegations of rape with 'caution'.

Meera, 49, had framed four men in a fake rape case and then extorted money from them during the trial. She was arrested after the court had established inconsistencies in her statements in court. The four men were freed in 2005 after court found them innocent "as the Meera had been making different contradictory statements at various stages, which was very difficult to believe".

Story here.

Make sure you check out the video for this story. Excerpt:

"A North Little Rock woman is arrested for making a false rape charge. Police say that on August 5th, 31-year-old Paula Renee Kay said she was raped in Burns Park. North Little Rock Police then spent many man hours and money -- including hiring a sketch artist -- to find that man. "It's a sad situation that we've had to arrest someone who alleged that they were a victim. But at the same time, our investigators were able to close this case. More importantly, we're able to give the community some sense of security again, that Burns Park is an okay place to go - it's safe," NLR police spokesperson, Sgt. Terry Kuykendall said. Filing a false report is a felony, punishable by up to six years in prison."

Story here. Excerpt:

'"It's an international trend that experts widely described as the "feminization of education."
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"Martin blames the trend on the public schools, which he said switched gears through the 1970s to appeal to the learning style of girls because they weren't doing as well as boys.

"Boys are getting shafted," said Martin, starting in the early elementary school grades where there is "zero tolerance on horsing around" and boys are treated as learning disabled and put on medication if they misbehave."'

Story here. Excerpt:

"DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) - An unmarried father of twin boys must have his children returned to his custody from England, a Dublin judge ruled Tuesday in a landmark judgment for the parental rights of unmarried men.
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Until now, Irish law recognized no custody rights for unmarried fathers, chiefly because Ireland's conservative 1937 constitution emphasizes that such rights flow from marriage and motherhood.

But High Court Justice Liam McKechnie said the man, a school teacher identified in court only as «Mr. G,» was the de-facto joint guardian of the twins before the mother took them without warning to Manchester, northwest England, eight months ago."

Story here. Excerpt:

"On the third day of deliberations, the six women and six men of the jury concluded that Ms. Bédard was guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of kidnapping her then-11-year-old daughter and taking her to the United States last fall with the criminal intent of depriving the father, her ex-husband Jean Paquet, of his custody rights."
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"We will take into account the two weeks of provisional detention she spent in a United States jail," Ms. Lemieux said yesterday. Her comments were an indication that the Crown may request that Ms. Bédard, who faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in jail, be handed a much lighter sentence."
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"In February, Ms. Bédard regained custody of her child in a ruling that reiterated Mr. Paquet's custodial rights."

Canadian government cancels $300K yearly handout to feminist group: National Association of Women and the Law ("NAWL").

The closure is treated mostly as a non-event. It doesn't even make headlines in most of Canada's mainstream media.

NAWL news release here.

Toronto Star: Prints two articles here and here.

Ottawa Citizen: here.

Even the notoriously feminist Toronto Star buried the article in the back of its news section.

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."