A 32-nation study of violence against dating partners by university partners found that about a third had been violent, and most incidents of partner violence involve violence by both the man and woman, according to Murray Straus, founder and co-director of the Family Research Laboratory at the University of New Hampshire. The second largest category was couples where the female partner was the only one to carry about physical attacks, not the male partner.

As studies, such as this, make their way into mainstream thinking, perhaps most reasonable people will start calling into question feminist myths that have yielded them much and altered social policy in destructive ways?

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Wendy's iFeminist site gets some props for publishing a new essay by Erin Pizzey. Just a sample of E.P.'s quotes -- "(Feminists) redefined the Marxist goalposts and declared that it was MEN (the patriarchs) not Capitalism that held power advantages over women ... and all men were now the enemy."... "It cannot therefore be assumed that men are bound to be an asset to family life." ... "Both sexes are harmed when exposed to violence and either sex can become a victim or a perpetrator."... "The feminist movement resolutely refuted any argument that women should be allowed to take responsibility for their choice of relationships. The image of women as victims, as helpless childish dependents upon brutal men worldwide has damaged relationships between the sexes."

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Read how many possible excuses were made for this horrible child murderer. She was possessed and depressed with the tagline that she had postpartum depression: "Yates suffered from severe postpartum psychosis, which he called the cruelest of mental illnesses" Yes the cruelest, and it ONLY happens to women. How convenient.

This is our mission: To meet with every Congressman between now and November 7 to explain how VAWA is violating civil rights and breaking up families.

Last week's Alert laid out the Talking Points for the meeting: http://www.mediaradar.org/alert20060716.php. But a successful meeting also depends on your ability to present yourself in the best possible light.

Here are a few tips how to get the Congressman or staff to become persuaded of the need to call for civil rights hearings:

This is a good sign, and unexpected indeed. Progress! Starts with:

"It's not politically correct to say that child support laws are biased against men. But cases of questionable fatherhood and bizarre prosecutions of disproved dads show that, sometimes, it's true."

Here (.mp3 file - 4.5 MB) is a taped phone call by a men's rights activist to a Canadian feminist government worker. She cannot defend her position when asked various questions about feminist beliefs.

After Cusack got a retraining order on his female stalker, she requested a restraining order against him. The court obliged her pending a hearing in August even though she is the predator. We only hear about cases like this when a celebrity is targeted. Makes me wonder how many female whack-jobs are awarded retraining orders against their prey? Story here.

Check your blood pressure after reading this piece of misandry. Despite the disclaimer that this is not a tryoical 'men bad - women good' article - it is.

This isn't a news story, per se. It's a question regarding PBS 'Breaking the Silence' propaganda piece. PBS had promised to bring out another program with 'balance'. (Even alluding to the truth would probably provide more balance than was in the original piece). They had promised this in the Spring. Spring has come and gone and there's still no program that I'm aware of. Does anyone know what the status of this is? All I'm aware of is silence...

Breaking the silence on 'Breaking the Silence'.

Woody Zimmerman does a nice job of summarizing areas that remain largely male turf. Despite radical feminism’s incessant attempts at minimizing naturalistic gender differences that give advantage to males in certain domains, males continue to outperform females in these areas. They (radical feminists) can jump up and down and scream all they want; however, their protests will not change what is.

Syndicated advice columnist Ellie Tesher suggests that a man beaten by his girlfriend seek joint custody with his abuser, even though the girlfriend is a danger to him and their child.

Several times, she has hit me, usually after several drinks [...] all while I was holding our 20-month-old baby.

Her advice: "... focus on getting a legal separation with joint child custody."
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Story here. No surprise it has come to this: children must sue now to get to be with their fathers. Notice too this man was paying child support for years while his daughter was in a foster home. Did the money he was sending in actually get to his daughter in any way, shape, or form, or was it just another entry in the LA County's General Accounts Receivable system? Excerpt:

'But the lawsuit alleges that the Department of Children and Family Services failed to use "due diligence" to locate Thomas Smith. It claims the agency never notified Smith, who had continued making child support payments, that his daughter was in foster care and never gave him a chance to claim her.

"He's a registered voter with a valid driver's license 'and an open child support case," said Smith's attorney, L. Wallace Pate. "All they had to do, at any time during those 10 years, was pick up the phone and ask the L.A. County Child Support Services Department: `Do you have a contact on this man?"''

It seems this idea is finally gaining momentum. Citing a "new study", this article also mentions that there is no difference in literacy between home-schooled boys and girls. Why aren't the women who dominate elementary teaching being disciplined for failing to educate half of their students?

This article is instructive. I would have said 'eye-opening', but anyone with half a brain should have passed the 'eye-opening' stage years ago.

Having read the above article, the results of this article should cause one to ask some questions.

All three winners of this fair are women. The gender distribution of the fair participants, though not given in this article, was, according to other articles on the subject, 'still skewed'. I may be wrong, but I take this to mean that more boys than girls were participating. Still, assume that the genders were equally represented. This means roughly, a 12.5% random chance all three winners were women. If, say, a third of the participants were women, this means a ~4% random chance all three winners were women. All this in spite of the fact that boys still, somehow, manage to achieve higher scores on science aptitude tests. Indeed.