Article here. Excerpt:

'Men generally work longer hours than women and the time spent in the office compared to a decade ago is increasing.
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Federal Government statistics show fathers of children under 15 years who worked full-time in 2004-05 spent an average of 43 hours per week at work. In comparison, women worked 39.3 hours.

"Men are coming forward now and saying 'I want my kids to be able to relate to me' ... I want to stop the cycle," he said.'

Lionel Tiger in The Decline of Males quoted a 19th century commentator, Charles J. Fox, in which he said that the rulers of the time had implemented policies that contributed to the "rapid decay of the domestic affections among the lower orders of society." Today the classist part of his observation would be criticized, but the general observation held then as it does now. Chalk this one up to that phenomenon in today's world.

What is perhaps most noticeable about the article is the way in which the president of the company openly states he seeks to support men's happiness. This is rare. One may dislike or find distasteful in one or more ways the subject matter of the article, but no one can deny that what is happening here is indeed... happening here. Excerpt:

Story here. Excerpt:

'NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian men cannot be trusted in their sexual behaviour and are fuelling the country's HIV epidemic, a female government minister said on Monday, slamming the country's "hypocrisy" about sex.
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"You cannot trust men or your husbands, with apologies to the men present here," Chowdhury told the inaugural meeting of the National Women Forum of Indian Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (INP+), attended by a few men.

"If you believe that men will be careful, then you can forget about protecting yourself."'

Story here.

Both Finnerty (Loyola College) and Seligmann (Brown University) have done the right thing. They've flushed their invite back to Duke right down the toilet! Excerpt:

"Collin Finnerty was declared innocent of bogus kidnapping, rape and sexual offense charges by North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper and is moving on to Loyola of Maryland, where he should be beyond the reach of the scoundrels at Duke and in Durham, North Carolina.
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There's no doubt that former Durham County, North Carolina District Attorney Michael B. Nifong should have announced after investigation and receipt of the DNA test results that he had no case against any of the team members instead of manipulating grand jurors into issuing unwarranted indictments against the Three targeted by Ms. Mangum.

But there's also no doubt that what Ms. Mangum did should be investigated and why she did it should be determined.

Such an investigation may uncover a conspiracy to obtain enormous sums of money from the families of the Three."

Story here. Excerpt:

"When Vitter's wife was asked about the marital scandals surrounding former Representative Livingston and former President Bill Clinton in 2000 she said, "I'm more like Lorena Bobbit than Hillary, if he does something like that, I'm walking away with one thing, and it's not alimony, trust me."

Article here. Excerpt:

"The numbers tell the story: Fathers do 67 percent more housework and 50 percent more child care than 25 years ago, according to surveys by the Families and Work Institute, a nonprofit organization based in New York.

Decades ago, men responded to fatherhood by honing their ability to support a family. Now, more are making career sacrifices and adjusting their work days as they try to reconcile the roles of provider and parent.

Yet they don’t always find sympathy at their jobs. Bosses and colleagues who nod knowingly when a new mother scales back may react with surprise when a new father wants to do the same. And the biggest career-oriented rewards, many experts say, still go to those with few home duties, who can devote their full energy to work."

Article here. Excerpt:

"It's harder for women to get elected to begin with because men have the networks already in place," said NOW president Kim Gandy. "So women have to keep building new networks over and over. It's certainly been an unexpected consequence of term limits.""

Article here. Excerpt:

“Women relied on men for their support. They still rely on men for their support but, sadly, that support is now being channelled via our tax system and the vast majority of taxes are contributed by men.

“The detritus left in the wake of 30 years of feminism is considerable, an international disaster. And, as with most other disasters, such as 9/11, it falls mainly to men to clear up the mess.”

Article here. Excerpt:

"A woman told police she was abducted in broad daylight, driven to an unknown location and repeatedly raped. But that woman, Mary E. Chafin, has been charged with filing a false report after detectives could find not evidence supporting her claim."

Story here.

Has anyone ever heard of protests during jury selection causing a mistrial? What happened here is that the judge declared a mistrial after protests filled with people with "taped mouths" made it supposedly impossible to find an impartial jury. Does anyone think that this had a motive? Is is possible that this woman and her attorney wanted this result so that she can take the trial to another city and perhaps get another judge who will let her say anything she wants during the trial (like sexual assault kit and sexual assault nurse examiner…I'm not kidding, read the article!)?

Another article on this states that the jury was almost evenly split during a previous trial (a new venue and judge will probably only increase the chances of the "right" verdict being decided). One things for sure, the press is definitely on the side of the defendant. This judge is now called the "word banning judge" by the Omaha World Herald.

Story here.

Boy, don't you just feel sorry for this woman. She had to have a bowl of fruit ready for her husband when he came home…and, he made the household decisions (how abusive!!). And don't forget about her being depressed because of her father dying. She definitely had the right to have a hit man kill her husband. Of course, since the hitman "may" get parole by the age of 40, this woman justifiably should definitely not be given the death penalty or life in prison.

I personally think she should be sent to a mental hospital for 2 months and get her husbands full estate (perhaps I'm being sarcastic!). Yet another sickening article about a female trying to get a free pass from being convicted of a horrible crime. A man doing the same deed would be shouted at by the prosecution and victims for hours before sentencing. A man would get sentenced to additional time for telling about his emotions or difficult marriage!

Story here. Excerpt:

'Family life is under threat from rising divorce rates and the longest working hours in Europe, the Children's Society has warned.
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It claims childhoods are being damaged by parental break-ups and growing pressure on mothers to return to work.
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Experts who submitted evidence to the Children's Society inquiry arrived at 'some consensus' that children were ideally brought up by both parents together.

Living with married parents was linked to a range of positive consequences for children.'

Posted on behalf of Marc A.:

I recently sent a letter to the editor of a newspaper in Malta, the Malta Independent, in response to their gender-biased article on domestic violence that left male victims invisible. I cited and linked the recent 32-nation study by the University of New Hampshire (Straus), which included Malta and which confirmed that female students initiate DV as often as male students and that controlling behavior is found equally in perpetrators of both sexes.
[http://www.unh.edu/news/cj_nr/2006/may/em_060519male.cfm?type=n
http://pubpages.unh.edu/~mas2/ID41E2.pdf]
The editor wrote back and said she would do a story on it. The story just printed, read it here. Excerpt:

"The study’s results challenged the common assumption that violence between partners is mainly a male crime, and that “when women are violent it is self-defence”.

Last week, it was discovered that Katie Couric physically assaulted a subordinate editor for using a word in a news story that she could not pronounce. A unidentified witness to the event said that Katie Couric slapped a fellow male editor in anger "over and over and over again on the arm". (http://nymag.com/news/features/34452/index6.html) "It had seemed like a joke at first, but it quickly became clear that she wasn't kidding".

Couric grudgingly admitted to the assault in a New York Magazine article: "I sort of slapped him around," Couric admits. "I got mad at him and said, 'You can't do this to me. You have to tell me when you're going to use a word like that.' I was aggravated, there's no question about that." (http://nymag.com/news/features/34452/index7.html)

CBS has not yet disciplined Katie Couric for an act which, if the perpetrator were a male, would have probably resulted in immediate termination. This sends the message to all CBS employees that workplace violence by women is acceptable.

"MR 2007" ended yesterday with a lot of good work getting done and new faces and names involved. More details are to follow I am sure, but having just gotten off the plane back from it, I can safely say that it may well be the most successful of the three such conferences held so far, by many measures.

Thanks to everyone who attended and to all the great work that has been, is getting, and will be done for our cause.