Essay here. Excerpt:

"Child custody disputes are some of the bloodiest battlefields in the gender wars—battlefields upon which allegations of spousal and child abuse are widely regarded as a nuclear weapon. But there are two opposite views of this problem. Fathers’ advocates claim abuse allegations are routinely used to deny divorced fathers contact with their children and to poison children’s minds against their fathers, in what the activists and some psychologists call “parental alienation syndrome.” Feminists argue that well-founded accusations of abuse are often dismissed and even turned against the accusing mothers."

Article here. Excerpt:

"My father's generation defined their wives: nowadays, the role has completely reversed and men are defined by women. As a result, their definition of themselves has faltered and society has been cruel towards their attempts to redefine themselves."

"Women, meanwhile, are groomed relentlessly to succeed. How did we get into such a predicament? No feminist I ever knew wanted to see a world in which men were beaten by women: a world in which one dominant group was just replaced by another."

Story here. Excerpt:

OTTAWA (CP) - Diplomatic immunity is no excuse for domestic violence, says a consortium of police and government agencies that has launched a new website aimed at helping women and children who find themselves in such situations.
The multilingual site maintained by Ottawa police in partnership with the RCMP, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Immigrant Women Services Ottawa outlines the rights of all Canadians regardless of nationality."

Story here. Excerpt:

"A woman suspected of killing her month-old daughter by putting her in a microwave oven was indicted on a charge of aggravated murder Thursday, and the prosecutor said he would seek the death penalty."

In the old site software I would have posted this article under "Men and Religion". Anyway, this is an interesting development. Sort of like a "ManKind Project meets Promise Keepers" phenomenon. As an interesting observation, the authors of this piece are women. Excerpt:

'It's an apt anthem for a contrarian movement gaining momentum on the fringes of Christianity. In daybreak fraternity meetings and weekend paintball wars, in wilderness retreats and X-rated chats about lust, thousands of Christian men are reaching for more forceful, more rugged expressions of their faith.

Stine's daylong revival meeting, which he calls "GodMen," is cruder than most. But it's built around the same theory as the other experimental forums: Traditional church worship is emasculating.

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This little story from the Globe and Mail should serve as a reminder to all that feminism is sending the wrong messages to the young women of the world - in this case about the unequal distribution of household chores - and that women are violent and capable of awful acts of humiliation and degradation against those they feel has wronged them.

Excerpt: 'Four people, including the victim's ex-girlfriend, are in custody charged with kidnapping and forcible confinement after a Kingston man was grabbed at his home, confined and beaten.

There he was assaulted again overnight and forced to clean the apartment with the threat he'd be beaten with a baseball bat.'

Wonder what the coverage would be like if a man and a few of his buddies decided to abduct, beat, and force to clean house one of his ex-girlfriends?

Excerpt: "Andrea Johnson had just finished university, escaped the confines of a women's shelter and got her own apartment in April.

Though there were signs she was depressed, no one seemed to realize the pain the 30-year-old was living with — pain that would cause her to throw herself and her 2-year-old child from an overpass on to Highway 401."

This has been national headlines and front page news for days now in Canada. All coverage takes a similar tone - tragic that this poor woman has died and gushing with praise about what a wonderful person she was.

I just find it strange that when a father does this the articles are never quite as favorable.

Read the Toronto Star's latest on this story here.

Carrie Lukas at the Independent Women’s Forum writes – "More than 40 years after Betty Friedan urged women to exchange their aprons for business suits, by many measures, women’s progress in the workforce has stalled.

Certainly today more women work and hold more prestigious jobs than ever before: as of 2002, women accounted for 46.5 percent of the workforce and held more than half of managerial and professional specialty jobs. Yet few women make it to the very top of the business world...

Why is this? Liberal feminist groups, like the National Organization for Women (NOW), tend to insist that sexism and discrimination are the primary cause. Yet many individual women recognize that their choices — particularly the choices they make once they have children — make the difference."

(Rather balanced article; nice to know that women actually have/make choices; though it omits any mention of our unquestioned cultural expectations that men must become lifelong wage-slaves with fewer choices than women.)

National Post columnist, Barbara Kay, writes about how men are still being made to feel guilty over Mark Lepine's school shooting 17 years ago that killed 16 women. She states, "From this human tragedy of no inherent political significance, a political industry emerged, which produced in the massacre's name: gun control laws, lavish public spending on women's causes, feminist-guided school curricula and a high tolerance for overt misandry."

Story here.

"Mother Of Boy Who Had Sex With Teacher"?? Does this title somehow imply the boy was the aggressor and the woman was victimized? What about: "Teacher who raped boy being sued"?

Excerpt:

"The mother of a boy who had a sexual relationship with a teacher at Kent County High School is suing the teacher and the county Board of Education."

"The lawsuit claimed the boy suffered mental anguish and has incurred huge medical bills as a result of the abuse."

Story here.

VANCOUVER — A British Columbia judge lashed out at a French woman yesterday for a nationwide campaign of vilification against her ex-husband that castigated him and the Canadian justice system on newscasts and front pages across France.

Hostility was so intense that the Canadian embassy was forced into the fray to defend Canada's role in the bitter child-custody case, while the French village where Nathalie Gettliffe lived "seemed determined to lynch" her former husband, Scott Grant, according to Madam Justice Marvyn Koenigsberg.

[...]

"They also said he was guilty of abusive behaviour. . . . This persistent and deliberate alienation from their father . . . is a terrible burden for any child to bear and may mark them for life."

The maximum penalty for Ms. Gettliffe's crime is two years in jail, plus three years of probation. Judge Koenigsberg called her 16-month sentence a severe judgment, required because of her prolonged defiance of the courts and the serious harm to her children.

This past week our hard work was rewarded with two victories. And both of them stemmed from flawed reports from the United Nations.

1. UN Study on Violence Against Women

   The first report was the UN secretary-general's Study on Violence Against Women. The document amounted to an ideological denunciation of the "patriarchy" and recommended that every country around the world enact VAWA-like laws: http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/vaw. Columnist Wendy McElroy described the report as "embarrassingly inaccurate, ideological, and biased against men." (http://www.ifeminists.net/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.55)

   What happened next was nothing short of miraculous.

Article here. Excerpt:

"What drives a woman to strap a suicide belt to her body and blow herself up among a crowd of people?"

"Aside from highlighting the differences in Israeli and Arab coverage of the phenomenon, he reminds us that the lives of female suicide terrorists are no less tragic than those of male suicide bombers, yet the media accords women more sympathy and treats them with "kid gloves."

Story here. Excerpt:

"A woman charged with murder in the slaying of her police officer husband was indicted Wednesday on dozens of charges stemming from alleged financial crimes."

"The 58 counts brought in Iredell County Superior Court against Misty Keller Witherspoon include allegations of embezzlement, identity theft and obtaining property by false pretenses."

Story here. Excerpt:

"Later that day, as Jon White was leaving work, his wife chased him back into the Woodland Towers building by driving her Ford Explorer through the glass doors and into the lobby, according to testimony. She struck her husband, causing him to flip over the vehicle and fall to the floor."

"Schatz said he may be able to argue at trial that Brenda White was suffering from "extreme emotional distress."