From Tom: This is a heads up about an excellent resource via the men's health network web site:
http://www.menshealthnetwork.org/stateofmenshealth/

It gives reports on men's health for the US with charts and graphs. Very nicely done. Most importantly it allows the user to select only their state and creates a custom report just on their state. This is good for knowing or checking on the stats but is even better as a lobbying tool. Just send a link to the custom report to your state legislator or the feds with a short email about suicide or prostate cancer or any of the other things the report highlights. It is a great backup to our concerns. Great way to get the word out.

My new co-authored column, In this Turf War, Kids Are the Prize (Tallahassee Democrat, 6/13/07), defends the controversial concept of Parental Alienation against recent attacks from the National Organization for Women, the Family Violence Prevention Fund, and numerous other misguided women's groups.

The column, which appears below and is linked on my blog here, was written primarily as a response to NOW president Kim Gandy's recent anti-father editorial Sick Joke or Sick Reality?

MADAME PRESIDENT
By P. T. Mycas

I have no objection to electing a female President of the United States. As a matter of fact, I believe there are millions of women who could do a better job than the current male President. But that's a pretty low bar. I would like to vote for the most qualified person for President, male or female. Because I do not believe Hillary Clinton would be President for all Americans, I do not believe she is qualified.

Politically, I like to think of myself as an Independent, but in order to vote in primaries, I declare as a Democrat. I am liberal. I hold the usual liberal views with one exception. I generally do not like feminism. Feminism is defined as equality between women and men, but the name itself belies this definition. It is like trying to coin a word which expresses the harmony and equality between Ford and Chevy owners and coming up with the name "Fordism." Chevy owners would not allow such nonsense. By saying feminism is about equality, feminists are hiding that much of feminism is about sexism. Why have we let feminists get away with this?

I just heard an interview with the author of this book: A Rush to Injustice: How Power, Prejudice, Racism, and Political Correctness Overshadowed Truth and Justice in the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case and it sounds like it has the inside story of what Nifong's actual motivations were for rushing to prosecute the Duke LAX players. Should be plenty revealing. If you have read it, please comment.

Nice to to see it! Read How Guys Die. Excerpt:

"In recognition of National Men’s Health Week (June 11-17), MSN Health & Fitness has culled some fundamental facts and figures to raise your awareness of the most fatal conditions facing men in the United States today. With any luck, we’ll also raise your prospects for living a longer, healthier life.

You may be struck by how many risk factors for the life-threatening conditions below are within your capacity to control. We men could add years—even decades —to our lives by simply eating healthily, staying active and not smoking."

Alas, when covering Cause #3 for men's deaths, accidents, they skip over the huge difference in the numbers for men and women, instead quoting an aggregated statistic. Still, this is progress.

Seems Time magazine continues to reinforce its anti-male/-father reputation with its latest. Read about it here and take action. Excerpt:

'TIME magazine's new Father's Day hatchet job on divorced and separated fathers--"Daddy Dearest: What Science Tells Us About Fatherhood"--questions whether fathers "have done a good enough job to deserve the honor" of having a Father's Day. The contents page reads "Behavior: Why some animal fathers are more nurturing dads than many men are."'

Story here. Excerpt:

"Jubilation turned to anger Monday after Georgia's top prosecutor vowed he would fight a judge's order that would have set free Genarlow Wilson, a Georgia man serving a 10-year prison sentence for a consensual sexual encounter he had as a teenager.
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Monday, acting on a petition filed by his attorneys, Monroe County Superior Court Judge Thomas Wilson ruled that Genarlow Wilson's punishment was cruel and unusual and voided it on constitutional grounds. The judge reduced the sentence to one year and said Wilson should not be put on Georgia's sex offender registry, as the old law required."

Story here. Excerpt:

"The North Carolina State Bar has charged Nifong, the district attorney in Durham County, with several violations of the state's rules of professional conduct, all tied to his handling of the lacrosse case.

Among those expected to watch from the gallery of a packed North Carolina Court of Appeals courtroom are Reade Seligmann and Collin Finnerty, two of the once-charged and now cleared players. Several defense attorneys and family members of the three players are also expected to attend."

Essay here. Excerpt:

'It starts with the mainstream media; you won't find a lot of respect for, or truth about men there. Also, today's feminist-driven domestic violence laws don't address the reality of female-perpetrated child abuse, violence, partner aggression or psychological abuse. Battered (even bruised and bleeding) fathers have been arrested after calling the police for help with an out-of-control partner. "Primary aggressor" and "no-drop" policies are part of the problem.

Story here. Excerpt:

'I’VE always known AMY WINEHOUSE was a feisty lady, but she’s going to end up in a cell next to PARIS HILTON if she keeps on misbehaving.
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The Back To Black singer admitted she has a violent streak that comes out when she drinks — and she often uses new hubby Blake Fielder-Civil as a punch bag.
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“I’ll beat up Blake when I’m drunk. I don’t think I’ve ever bruised him, but I do have my way. If he says one thing I don’t like then I’ll chin him.
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“I don’t think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It’s to do with how much anger is in you.”'

Blog entry here. Excerpt:

"Max Elliot Anderson’s books are perfect for summer reading, especially for boys who might not like to read. If there is a boy in your family, or in your circle of friends, he will enjoy these action-adventures and mysteries."

Story here. Excerpt:

"Desperate women who fear they might be HIV-positive are allegedly laying false rape complaints with police to jump the queue for anti-retroviral drugs to prevent infection.

Port Elizabeth police say the increase in rape cases over the last year had been “incredible”, but the complainants seemed to disappear as soon as they were treated with post-exposure ARV drugs."

Essay here. Excerpt:

"Men have begun fighting back against what they now perceive to be bias toward women's health, lobbying the past few years for a federal Office of Men's Health. Ultimately, of course, no one wins the war of healthier-than-thou, while another layer of bureaucratic one-upmanship is just that.

A better means for improving men's health -- and saving the males -- is for women to recognize that males are in trouble and that a world without men, while perhaps calmer, would be far less interesting and fun.

As we've recently witnessed, when women want something, they usually get it."

Everyone remember the boy that got 10 years for getting oral sex from a consenting 15 year old? Well, a judge effectively voided that sentence. Article here. Excerpt:

"A Georgia judge ordered the release Monday of a man sentenced to 10 years in prison for having consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old girl when he was 17."

I put "Man" in quotes because the guy involved is 17 years old. Nice try, mainstream media.

Article here. Excerpt:

"But almost four years into it, McClure-Metz began to feel her husband was maybe too capable. He had become more competent and assertive in the child-care arena and it showed in small ways."