Surprise, surprise: infertile men suffer, too. You would easily find out if you only cared to ask them.

From Eurekalert:

Lyon, France: Although most psychosocial research into infertility is centred round the unhappiness it causes women, men suffer just as much, a scientist will tell the 23rd annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology today (Wednesday 4 July). [...] “Perhaps surprisingly, though, we found that men in all four groups suffered equally. Infertile people appear to rely particularly on their social environment for support, and this seems to deteriorate over time. Couples should be made aware of the possible decline in their social support network and encouraged to organise support systems that no not solely include close friends and family.”

Story here.

An Israeli Knesset (parliament) committee has decided to investigate whether women who make false accusations go unpunished. Excerpt:

'"We contend that the police do nothing when it comes to light that women are lying in their accusations," said Gil Ronen, head of a group called Familists, which asked for Wednesday's meeting to follow up a similar one held last year.

Ronen said the failure to prosecute these women was particularly common in divorce proceedings, where, he said "lawyers advise their female clients to do this in order to win [key elements] in divorce cases."
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"Many of these men's groups claims of discrimination are baseless," Kramer told the Post following the meeting. ...

She said she hoped that discussing the issue in an official forum would not deter female victims of rape and sexual assault from coming forward in the future.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'LONDON, July 4 (UPI) -- An unmarried Irish father's request to the British High Court for the return of his sons may have longstanding legal implications in his native land.
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The man alleges his former wife took their 2-year-old twin sons to Britain without his consent and in violation of Hague Convention terms.
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Mr. G argued he was not given the opportunity to seek guardianship rights under Irish law before his ex-wife took the children out of the country.'

Story here. Excerpt:

"South Wales Police yesterday apologised to a male rape victim after the Independent Police Complaints Commission ruled officers did not at first appreciate the seriousness of the man’s allegation.
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By failing to properly preserve the potential crime scene South Wales Police did not serve Mr Cole or the people of South Wales well in this instance.”

The report found an officer who should have attended the scene did not do so, another “was not conscientious and diligent” and another did not appreciate the seriousness of the allegation at first."

The female activists are at it again--with their war on men--and this time they have even invaded public bathrooms. That's right PUBLIC bathrooms for MEN are being haunted by a new device known as Spuk which says in a rather rude voice(once the toilet seat is lifted) "Hey, stand-peeing is not allowed here and will be punished with fines, so if you don’t want any trouble, you’d best sit down" or "Excuse me, but there’s a penalty for peeing while standing in this house,” it warns culprits. “You’d better not risk any problems and sit down!”

If the customer is adamant about retaining his right to use the bathroom the way men usually do he gets this(in a female flight attendants voice): "We welcome you aboard Never Come Back Airlines,” the voice says. “We’d like to ask our male passengers in particular to sit down, buckle up and refrain from smoking.”

The small gadget is made to look like a ghost. You can read more on Spuk (and see the actual gadget which fits under the toilet seat lid) here.

After blinding her boyfriend by stabbing him in the left eye six years ago, the same woman stabbed him in both eyes earlier this year. The latest pair of attacks damaged his vision in the one eye she spared during the first attack and drew blood from the eye she destroyed six years ago. Story here.

Notice the "cute" headline? Or the fact that the woman only received a 6-month sentence for blinding the man in one eye and reducing his vision 20% in the other in a total of three attacks? Or that the courts chose to ignore a clear pattern of domestic violence resulting in grave injuries over a period of years when passing sentence on the woman?

Yeah, I'm sure that 6-month sentence will send a message - the same message it sends when the media chooses to make the murder, mutilation and maiming of men by their wives and girlfriends a joke. How anyone could expect men to take violence against women any more seriously than women are expected to take violence against men is beyond me.

Essay here. Excerpt:

"I got a letter from the women's liberation office, throwing me out and banning me from attending any of the collectives. The so-called women's liberation' movement spread like a cancer across the English chattering classes. I visited the houses of feminist women with my son who carried his action man toys. In their houses there was no vestige of anything 'boyish' at all. No Tonka trucks, no boys toys — nothing that could encourage a boy to think of himself as masculine. The whole idea of men and masculinity in those houses, we considered disgusting. We, the mothers, sat around the kitchen tables rearranging the world according to Marx."

Essay here. Excerpt:

"In the big picture, I don't see that this is any special problem. I know there is a lot of worrying going on, though. There's even a view that colleges practice covert affirmative action for boys just to get them up to the unimpressive current levels. If women are better at school or if they develop faster, why is that a problem society needs to fiddle with? Except for historical bias against women educationally, they probably would have been in the majority ever since Socrates gave tutorials."

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Ed. note: Can't seem to locate his email address. Anyone know it?

Story here. Excerpt:

"'The teaching profession in primaries is dominated by women who, with the best will in the world, will tend to deliver a larger proportion of the curriculum in teaching styles that make most sense to them - and therefore favour the girls.'
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Some experts suggest that teachers are deliberately getting pupils labelled as having special needs with reading, for example, because it is an easy way of getting a difficult child out of the classroom for a while."

Essay here. Excerpt:

'So aficionados who wanted to see the quarter finals at Wimbledon ponied up $3,590 to see the men, compared to only $1,590 to see the women. Even at twice the price, the men's tickets sold out sooner.

Sports columnist Alan Mascarenhas has concluded that by almost all criteria, "women's tennis is an inferior product." So if the ladies are bringing in far less revenue but taking home just as much money as the guys, where is their money coming from?

You guessed it -- out of the men's pockets.

So next time you see Hillary climb on to her equal-pay-for-equal-work soapbox, let's ask her this question: "Does three equal five?"'

Report here. Excerpt:

"The police appear reluctant to leave the children in the father's care, even though he's the victim of the alleged assault, with the result that the father refuses to make a statement, thus allowing the children to stay at home and the mother to escape the consequences of her actions.

"If the genders were reversed," says Mrs Turner, "and the father was charged with assaulting the mother, I'm certain the police would have no hesitation in locking up Dad and leaving the children with Mum."

Researchers tracing the development of violent behavior have found a link between teenage violence and domestic violence. The study also found no independent link between an individual's use of alcohol or drugs and committing domestic violence. In addition it showed that nearly twice as many women as men said they perpetrated domestic violence in the past year. Story here.

And the list grows of women-only places created with government sanction...

Story here. Excerpt:

'And it happens all the time. Boy meets girl and boy annoys girl. So, the Italians have enacted an interesting solution to this problem. They have created a beach strictly for women. No men, children or loud disco music are allowed.
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Women can enjoy the sun, sea and sand without the lustful leers of men.
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The beach does have one man.

"The lifeguard must be a man," Ravaglio said in a foreign newspaper interview. "You clearly need a man to save women in the sea. It's a question of muscles."'

Many of you asked when we would finally get the Radio Lia interview up on DaddyBlogger.com and we finally have it. Special thanks to Lia for sending a copy of the interview to both Robb Mackenzie and Robert Pedersen! For those of you not familiar with the Radio Lia show - this is a radio show heard nationwide and Lia has even been awarded a CMA Award for "Broadcast Personality of the Year". Her show is extremely popular for a reason and it is spreading like a wildfire across this country!

Listen to the unedited radio interview at DaddyBlogger.

Article here.

In a recent address promoting greater media diversity, N.O.W.'s president Kim Gandy claims that simply having more women in management creates increased profits:

'"And as you see in any business … more women in management increases the bottom line for stockholders. ... Let's face it --the men behind the curtain -- in this case the white men behind the curtain -- are most comfortable hiring people who look, and talk, and think just like them. And that's not good for the rest of us.

... having more women owners, executives, news directors and so on -- is its own reward for the women you are employing and for their families and for society as a whole. ... But the icing on the cake is that, in the end, employing more women in the media creates a more vibrant public marketplace of ideas."'

Hmmm. If that were true, why would any intelligent capitalist firm wishing to maximize profits employ male managers? (Also note Gandy's blatant sexism, racism, and complete lack of credible supporting data for her assertions ... )