Posted on behalf of Marc A:

Joseph D. just showed me this BIASED article by the L.A. Times on the "inequities of women." PLEASE, let's FLOOD them with letters immediately so we can get as many as possible printed! Email them at letters-at-latimes.com, and copy the author at carla.hall-at-latimes.com.

The article says things like:

"Most striking is that 40% of the estimated 88,000 homeless people in the county are women and children." But combining women and children together is totally deceptive. According to the Institute for Homelessness and Poverty's 2004 report, 77% of single adult homeless were male." Cite (.pdf)

Story here.

"A prosecutor will argue that she had a legal duty to intervene. They will say she should have known the boy was being severely hurt," said Jack King, spokesman for the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers."

"But King said a defense attorney could argue that there was little Schmidt could have done to stop the guards: "They might say she was just one woman surrounded by a bunch of crazed men, by these goons that were going crazy."

Read it here, best on an empty stomach.

The urge to close the browser after the first one or two paragraphs is strong, but keep a-reading anyway. Some degree of reality seeps through in one paragraph (below), but the overall tone of this peice of writing is that men-as-fathers are vestigial organs at best and a necessary (for now anyway) evil that has to be carefully managed and allowed involvement in their own children's lives only at the permission and fine-grained-control management of the mother. All in all, a real barf-maker. The review's author has her own web site, here, which also lists a contact email address. Excerpt:

The Globe and Mail, Canada's largest national newspaper, printed this editorial:

"From the opposition outcry over budget cuts to Status of Women Canada, Canadians might think the Conservatives had throttled women's aspirations for equality. That is simply incorrect. Instead, 35 years after the creation of a status-of-women cabinet post and 22 years after the recognition of women's equality rights in the Constitution, Ottawa has decided to close 12 of the agency's 16 regional offices across the country. The closings come as Ottawa pares $5-million from the agency's $23-million annual budget over two years. It's about time."

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"Today, it seems more like a government relic, laden with jargon from old wars."

Story here.

"Now detectives have the accuser, Sherry Mullins, 35, of 318 Walker Road, Morganton, behind bars. Mullins is charged with filing a false police report."

"Detectives invested about 25-30 hours in the case, Huffman says. That time could have been spent on other, real cases, he says. Filing a false police report in North Carolina is a misdemeanor.

Story here.

"Liverpool fan Patricia Miller, 26, had consensual sex with the 19-year-old student Charles Brown hours after the Champions League final on 25 May 2005."

"But she told police she had been raped by Mr Brown at her flat in Acomb, York."

"Jailing her for nine months at York Crown Court, Judge Stephen Ashurst said Miller had told "a pack of lies".

Great news! Read it here. Excerpt:

"Contact: Teri Stoddard of AKidsRight.Org, 925-628-1206 or teri@akidsright.org

SYRACUSE, N.Y., Nov. 30 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Family rights activist and AKidsRight.Org's founder John Murtari will be released from prison Friday after spending four months incarcerated for "willful" failure to pay child support. Murtari denies the charge, saying support was calculated with a salary he no longer had, and travel expenses to see his son exceed the amount ordered after the courts allowed his ex-wife to move their son across the country.

Inspired by Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Murtari embarked on a peaceful protest July 31, the day he reported to serve his 6-month sentence. For 10 days Murtari had no food or water. Medical personnel tried to tempt him with candy, and threatened not to intervene. He lost 27 pounds and suffered dehydration, low blood sugar, low blood pressure and an irregular heartbeat before prison officials gave him a feeding tube."

Story here. Excerpt:

"The teen told police Kalinowicz became pregnant and he thought he was the father, although Kalinowicz told police she'd slept with three other men. Kalinowicz had an abortion when she was five months pregnant, court records state."

Story here.

"A former gym teacher has admitted to improper conduct with a 13-year-old boy at a Middlesex County middle school where she taught for nearly a decade."

"Under the plea bargain, Amy Burke faces up to four years in state prison and agreed to surrender her teaching certificates."

Story here. Excerpt:

"A warrant has been issued for a 30-year-old Bay City woman who is charged with sexual assault of a child, a 16-year-old boy who worked with her at a fast-food restaurant."

"The charges were made following an investigation that started Nov. 20 when the boy's mother went to police to express her concerns about the possible assault."

Article here. Excerpt:

"In October, the United Nations (UN) released its much-anticipated Secretary-General's Study on Violence Against Women (SVAW) - a global overview and update on the issue. The SVAW is a lumbering 139-page behemoth of a document that is embarrassingly inaccurate, ideological and biased against men."

"SVAW stresses that psychological neglect or abuse and lack of medical care are forms of violence against women. But, worldwide, men are 3.5 times as likely to commit suicide and their life expectancy is lower than women's"

Story here. So girls can still play on boys' teams, but not vice versa. Excerpt:

"MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A state appeals court on Thursday rejected a lawsuit by a boy who wanted to compete on his high school's girls' gymnastics team.

The District 4 Court of Appeals upheld a judge's dismissal of Keith Michael Bukowski's lawsuit against the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association, which has a rule prohibiting boys from competing in girls' sports."

The men's rights movement does exist in India. The sheer volume of population can give an idea that India is likely to have more men's rights activists then Australia in spite of the fact that the feminists have started to hit-and-bat at will only from year 2000 onwards.

Only a feminist can make dating allowance seem like a crime the link to this is here.

But unfortunately for her the MRAs were available and the reaction was swift in a day with SIF and Asha-kiran; it made front page news.

The first case of Domestic violence in India and it is proved to have been misused.

"OTTAWA (CP) - The Conservative government is taking an axe to Status of Women Canada, closing three-quarters of its regional offices and outraging critics in the process.

Heritage Minister Bev Oda revealed Wednesday that 12 of the federal agency's 16 regional offices will be shut down by April 1.

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'We don't need to separate the men from the women in this country. . . This government as a whole is responsible to develop policies and programs that address the needs of both men and women.'"

Story here.

The situation in the UK continues to get worse. Check this story out.

Courts should go easy on women who kill abusive partners, a review of the laws on murder said yesterday.

Women who kill in cold blood can escape the mandatory life sentence imposed for the crime if they prove they were "provoked" by fear of domestic violence.

But the plan, delivered to ministers yesterday by the Government's law reform advisers, says that men who kill wives or girlfriends in anger over betrayal or family break-up should get more severe treatment.

So much for sexual equality.