I hope to see more articles about this obvious double standard. Watching The Today Show interview, I noticed the rapist (divorced by her husband) has seemingly kept the house with an impressive swimming pool. Can her ex-husband petition the court to force this rapist to take back her maiden name?

Notice how the associated press only one time* in this entire article made reference to the suspect being a female. ("...any woman who talked about wanting a child or acted pregnant recently.") If you take that line out of the story, you would have no idea it was a female. The words "Attacker", "Abducter", and "Someone" were used instead of directly stating "woman".

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* Ed. note: Actually there was one other reference: 'They fought after the woman told Ochsenbine "I'm here to take your child,"'. But that one was the only other such reference I could find, and I agree the word 'man' would have appeared a lot more had the suspect been known to be male rather than female.

This and most other similar news reports are careful to avoid saying it, but every once in a while it slips by that all these victims are men:

Latest one here from BBC:

"Forty-seven bodies have been found across Baghdad, police say, raising the total number of corpses found in recent days in the Iraqi capital to 176.

Many of the victims had been tortured or shot in the head or chest."

Truly shocking story. I'm not sure if you've covered this in the past:

"When Lobato, now 23, realized Bailey didn't have any drugs, she pulled out a butterfly knife, cut off his penis and killed him with a combination of stabbings and blows to the head with a baseball bat, according to Kephart."

Looks like the "murdering grannies" are gonna fight it out. Story here. Starts with:

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Two women pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges that they killed two homeless men in hit-and-run crashes so they could collect on the victims' life insurance.

Helen Golay, 75, and Hungarian-born Olga Rutterschmidt, 73, were being held without bail.

At the hearing, Superior Court Commissioner James Bianco denied Golay's request to use makeup, get tweezers to pluck her eyebrows, wear her own clothes and be awakened no earlier than 7 a.m. on court days.

Outside the courthouse, her lawyer, Roger Jon Diamond, explained her request.

"Any lady would want to be well groomed to make an appearance in court," he said. "If she looks haggard and not well groomed and she appears in the press, then a jury pool would be affected by that."

Feminists in charge of Harvard have long been supporting biased research (read all about what happenned a few years ago).

Well now they are explicitly working with lobbying groups. The National Network to End Domestic Violence-- a lobbying organization for women who opposed fair funding for male victims of domestic violence--is working with a researcher at Harvard University to make up more numbers about domestic violence.

I found out more about this project at this report (.pdf file).

It's on page 6. The study is going to show how many women are victims completely ignoring men and ignoring how many of these women are kidnapping their children and using federally funded hiding spots to help them.

Convicted rapist Debra Lafave has been granted permission to sit down with Matt Laurer and explain "her side" regarding the rape of a 14-year-old student. How many television interviews has anyone seen regarding a male who had sex with a 14 year old girl? She uses her bipolar disorder as an exuse. Millions of people suffer from a bipolar disorder, how many of them rape? I watched the interview (morbid curosity) and here is a direct qoute from the rapist: "He wanted it, so I gave it to him"!

Let’s say you’ve never physically abused your spouse or children. Now imagine the following scenario:

1. Your spouse accused you of domestic violence on the basis that you “harassed” her. (According to RADAR’s recent report, “Expanding Definitions of Domestic Violence, Vanishing Rule of Law,” 17 states now consider harassment to be a form of domestic “violence.”)
2. The accusation was made during an ex parte hearing, so you had no opportunity to be present during the hearing or to refute the charge.
3. As a result of the false accusation, temporary custody of your children and other benefits were awarded to the accuser.
4. State laws in 26 states require the incident to be considered by the divorce judge as a “best interest of the child” consideration. As a result, you were not able to receive shared custody, even though you never abused your children, or were never even accused of abuse.

Each year, over 2-3 million restraining orders are issued – in half those, there is not even an allegation of violence.

You know, every time one of these stories creeps up (which is quite often), I notice more and more that there is ALWAYS an excuse given for the woman's horrific behavior. It is ALWAYS somebody else's fault. Never once is a woman blamed or expected to take responsibility for any of her actions. Yet, on the other hand, there is never a legal, emotional, social, or any other kind of excuse afforded to a male. Women truly are the WEAKER sex.

A Montreal woman may avoid jail after she poured fondue fuel (mostly methanol) on a man's penis and set it on fire while he slept. The attack followed the well-known female pattern of attacking men with a weapon while they are defenseless and when the woman is in no danger herself. She was convicted of aggravated assault last year, and remains free on bail, despite having committed a violent and potentially deadly assault. Story here, with details here.

If the man had poured methanol on her and set her genitals on fire, hospitalizing her for a month with third degree burns and scarring her for life, would he be spared jail? Would he be free on bail? Will she be spared the "blame and shame", Duluth model "treatment" programs?

I'll take the issue of "violence against women" seriously just as soon as society starts taking the issue of "violence against men" seriously.

This has been a hot topic on this board for a long time. We have all been wondering if PBS would respond to criticisms of 'Breaking The Silence', a completely one-sided documentary on divorce issues and domestic violence, by subsequently showing a more non-biased documentary.

Glen Sacks' aricle is here.

Although he lauds PBS for the new documentary, he points out that there are still some weaknesses in it.

There is also a proverbial WEALTH of information on related issues at the above link. Enjoy!

The Daily Mail (of the UK) has put a story about a serial rape accuser on the front page (of both print and online versions of the newspaper) entitled Man freed but serial rape accuser remains anonymous. Excerpt:

"An innocent man jailed for a sex attack was dramatically cleared after it emerged that his 'victim' is a serial liar with a long history of crying rape.

But because of laws that protect her anonymity, judges are powerless to name and shame her, leaving her free to make more false accusations against blameless members of the public."

In their new campaign against rape, the Sun promotes many familiar myths, and makes absolutely no mention of false accusations.

Go to the Sun's website and sign their petition.

Name: STOP STIRRING UP HATRED
Address: AGAINST MEN

Feminuts Gloria Steinem and Jane Fonda are trying to start a talk radio network run by women for women. That's right folks, the femnags are now trying to take control the of the New Media which people are flocking to these days. They finally realized that it's male dominated so, as usual, they have to try and take it over and ruin it like everything else they touch. The ironic part of this news release is their characterization of the, "male dominated talk radio world as hostile and argumentative." What do they think feminists are?

Here is a blog entry from Melbourne's The Age concerning the myth of male privilege. Have a read and then join the discussion below. The author seems to have ticked off a lot of feminists. Starts with:

"I argue that men do not enjoy a life of privilege. Far from it, a look at the life of the average man is a fairly depressing sight. What kind of privilege it that bestows on men a ten-year-shorter life span than women, and a higher incidence of disease, crime, alcoholism and drug addiction? What kind of privilege is it that blesses men with a frequently self-destructive need to achieve?"