Story here.

Men united for a just cause....another vital move in the right direction. The more we speak, the more people will listen. The MRA movement is gaining momentum. Let's be positive! Excerpt:

"CHARLESTON - Properly identifying and providing services to male victims of domestic violence and sexual assault will be the focus of a day-long conference next week in Charleston.

In observance of National Crime Victims Right's Week, a coalition of survivor support and political action groups, in conjunction with the U. S. Department of Justice's Office for Victims of Crime, are sponsoring "Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault: Not Just Problems for Women."

Article here.

Unexpected but needed saying; author advocates for allowing boys to play rough and tumble, cops and robbers, etc., and why it is better that they play at such things rather than live them out. Excerpt:

"Children, and particularly boys, are acutely sensitive to the violence around them. They play out violent themes to help relieve themselves of the natural fear and confusion they feel."
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Please note I have also added this story to the beta site. Please take this opportunity to look at it, register, vote for it (or not), and consider submitting stories yourself. Personally I really like the way the software does so much of the headlining and linking work for you.

Story here. Excerpt:

"BELLEVILLE, Ill. - A baby sitter already accused of killing a pregnant friend was charged Friday with drowning the woman's three children in a bath tub and then hiding the bodies in the family's washing machine and dryer.

Grand jurors indicted Tiffany Hall, 24, on three counts of first-degree murder in the East St. Louis deaths last September of DeMond Tunstall, 7, Ivan Tunstall-Collins, 2, and Jinela Tunstall, 1.

A county coroner's jury ruled the deaths of the children, their mother, Jimella Tunstall, and her fetus to be homicides."

All,

Today we announce that MANN is trying a user-centric approach to news article review and endorsement. Scott, thanks for setting this up and getting it going. You de man.

It's no secret some regulars feel that the editing of news stories is too exclusive. Well, being that their comments are directed largely at myself, I will refrain here from commenting on their comments. Nonetheless it is fair to say that a more democratic form of news story parsing and rating is in keeping with the spirit of the Internet generally. So MANN now has a beta news site using the Pligg software system of content review and rating-- entirely user-driven. So please, click on the Beta News Site tab at the top, register, and submit and review stories. If it turns out to be a popular means of posting stories here on MANN, we'll switch over to it entirely.

While it's true then that I'll be out of a job, it is also true that I'll have more time to do other MRA-related stuff. So all for the best no matter what.

Remember this?

Good news. She went down for 14 years yesterday. Excerpt:

'A sadistic foster mother who subjected three children in her care to horrifying physical and mental abuse over two decades was jailed for 14 years yesterday.

Judge Simon Darwall-Smith told Eunice Spry, 62, that it was the worst case he had come across in his career.

The judge said: "Frankly, it's difficult for anyone to understand how any human being could have even contemplated what you did, let alone with the regularity and premeditation you employed."'

Posted on behalf of Marc A. Story here. Excerpt:

'The United Nations has slammed the New Zealand legal system for denying justice to a man accused of abusing his children.

The Government now has three months to explain itself to the international body and offer a solution to the man.

Human rights lawyer Tony Ellis took the man's case to the UN's Human Rights Committee saying his client's right to a fair trial had been ignored by the Family and then the Appeal Courts.'

Story here. No, not murder. Not even close. She *could* get 3-6 years and get released. Sex composition of the jury: 10 women, two men. Justice served? Excerpt:

'SELMER, Tennessee (CNN) -- A Tennessee jury on Thursday found Mary Winkler guilty of voluntary manslaughter in the shotgun killing of her husband.

Winkler showed no emotion when the verdict was announced.

The judge ruled that she would remain free on bond until her sentencing, which is scheduled for May 18.

The manslaughter conviction could send Winkler to prison for between three and six years.
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The 10 women and two men deliberated for about six hours, before reaching a verdict.

She could have been convicted of first-degree murder, which would have been punishable by 51 to 60 years in prison. Early in the case, prosecutors decided not to pursue the death penalty.'

Your mission this week, should you decide to accept it, is to familiarize yourself with the Duke case.

• Read That Night At Duke, and watch the videos there. Terri Lynn Tersak of True-Equality Network can be heard in '2. Audio: Duke: Case Dismissed'.
• And you don't want to miss Duke Players, AG Speak Out.

"This woman has destroyed everything I worked for in my life," said David Evans, former Duke lacrosse player recently exonerated of sexual offense and kidnapping charges. Crystal Gail Mangum, single mom and "exotic dancer" put Evans and two other young men, as well as their families and friends, through 395 days of hell. And it easily cost these families a million dollars each; all to keep innocent young men from 30 years in prison.

Mangum was able to maintain her deceit for so long because she had the enthusiastic help of Durham County District Attorney Michael Nifong.

Story here. Excerpt:

'Man Describes Alleged Attack By 7 Lesbians In N.J.
Claims '06 Incident Was Hate Crime Against Straight Man

(CBS/AP) NEW YORK A man who was beaten and stabbed after a street fight with seven avowed lesbians testified Wednesday that he thought he was going to die after they jumped him last year.
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Buckle, who has called the incident "a hate crime against a straight man," was testifying in Manhattan's state Supreme Court at the trial of Patreese Johnson, 20, Renata Hill, 25, Venice Brown, 19, and Terrain Dandridge, 20, all of Newark, N.J.
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Three of the seven women pleaded guilty to assault charges in exchange for sentences of six months in jail and five years probation.'

Story here. Supposedly her husband "made her" wear "slutty costumes" for sex and was going to kill their daughter since he wanted a son instead. Also, she didn't pull the trigger. The gun just went off.

Yes, indeed. It wasn't her fault in any way, shape or form. She should be released immediately. Uh-huh.

Story here. Excerpt:

"Two Mormon women tortured six young children by forcing them to eat red-hot chillies and whipping them with nettles, a court was told yesterday. Deidre Carrington, 41, and Maria Keable, 60, are also alleged to have punched and kneed the four girls and two boys, hit them with wooden spoons and rolling pins, and gagged them."

Article here. Excerpt:

'But "rape-crisis feminism" (as the writer Katie Roiphe dubbed it) replaced one set of prejudices with another, such as the notion that women virtually never lie about rape. As the radical feminist law professor Catharine MacKinnon wrote in her 1987 book, Feminism Unmodified, "Feminism is built on believing women's accounts of sexual use and abuse by men."
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The Duke case also makes it clear that the feminist dogma on rape is far from benign. It is hostile both to men and to basic principles of justice.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'CONSTRUCTION has started on the world's first Woman-town, where disobedient men will get a spanking.

The 2.3sqkm Shuangqiao district in China's Chongqing will have a motto proclaiming its philosophy: "A woman never makes a mistake, a man must not refuse a woman's request."'

Check out this story. Yet another female paedo teacher. Excerpt:

'Jennie Saville-King, an assistant teacher would book hotel rooms for sex with the teenager who was just 15 when the relationship began, or take him to her home while her husband was at work in London, it was claimed.

Three days before she gave birth to her baby, Saville King who had also been responsible for the pastoral care of the youngster was continuing to have sex with him, a court was told.

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"Full sex didn't happen until after he was 16. He says he stopped short of full sex because he didn't want her to feel bad about having sex with him whilst he was underage," said the prosecutor."'

'He' stopped short? 'He' didn't want 'her' to feel bad?

What do you think she'll get? A slap on the wrist and some nice therapy. I bet she won't even lose her job. What would a man get in the same position? Hard jail time for sure.

I just received a communication from Peter Warhurst, CEO of the advertising agency that created the amazingly offensive ads for the PGA tour. Full letter stored here.

"I am in receipt of the comments you recently provided regarding our television commercial. Upon further consideration of the spot, and with the feelings of our customers as well as the general public in mind, I have decided to pull it from its rotation and no longer air it. While the commercial was created to be lighthearted and comical, I am sensitive to the fact that we have failed in that it has proven offensive to some people. This was never our intent and I am truly sorry for any discomfort or unpleasantness it has caused. Thank you for taking the time to bring your concerns to us."