I saw an ad for a new movie today, and checked it out at Rotten Tomatoes (check it here. Stars Uma Thurman, it's not some byway b-movie.

The outline is basically this: Nice guy meets neurotic, controlling girl, they date, she gets too freaky, so he breaks up. The kicker being that she actually has super powers. What then follows - at least based on the outline and trailer - is her berating, embarrassing and beating him up and generally trying to ruin the poor guys life.

Official outline is: "Everyone's had a painful parting of the ways with a romantic partner. We pick up the pieces and move on. But for one New York guy, it's not going to be so easy. When he breaks up with his girlfriend, he discovers his ex is actually the reluctant superhero, G-Girl. A scorned woman, she unleashes her super powers to humiliate and torment him."

So now we have yet another major movie release showing that it's acceptable and even funny to torture and otherwise humiliate men, even when they've done nothing wrong - time to boycott for all we're worth...

From MSNBC -- A man who spent more than two decades in prison after being wrongfully convicted of a brutal rape was freed Thursday because DNA evidence has cleared him. Relatives of Alan Newton, 44, whooped loudly as he entered the crowded courtroom. Newton stood quietly in a beige suit and bright blue shirt as Judge John Byrne signed the order declaring him free. After his paperwork was processed, he stepped outside the courthouse, thanking his attorneys and offering his sympathy to the woman whose rape led to his wrongful conviction.

Feminists present Indian women are to the whole world as weak and helpless. But, in reality, Indian Visual Media suppresses most stories where the women commit heinous crimes including proxy murders of husbands, torture and murder of children.

Here is what an urban Indian Woman of 40 did in her posh apartment in Mumbai. Excerpt:

'Roma Bhatia caught her 10-year old maidservant trying on her mother’s make up, flew into rage and PUSHED AN ALUMINIUM ROD up the anus of this child not older than her three kids, bound her hands and feet, and left her to bleed to death.'

Well, it just keeps happening. Another man has been exonerated through DNA evidence (or lack thereof), of a rape that happened 21 years ago.

A particularly noteworthy point in this story is the falsely accused man never admitted to the rape, and lost several chances at making parole because of that. Turns out he did the right thing. Now, I hope his lawyers do the right thing and get him a huge monetary settlement from the state. The only way to get rid of institutionalized misandry is to make it costly.

During the June 2006 meeting of the New Hampshire Commission on the Status of Men, UNH Family Violence Professor Murry Straus testified on domestic violence issues, and answered questions regarding the Conflict Tactics Scale. Foster's Daily Democrat reported on Dr. Straus' testimony today, but as of this time the article is not available on the Foster's web site. Read more below to view a temporary version of the article. Also, an audio recording of the testimony will be made available from the NH CSM's web site later this month. Perhaps this information will help the NCFM-LA letter writing effort?

Researcher calls for women to stop abusing men

Wednesday, July 5, 2006

By Chloe Johnson
Staff Writer
ljohnson@fosters.com

CONCORD — Murray Straus says its time for a men's movement.

Posters and broadcasts on partner violence always portray male perpetrators and female victims, he said. According to his new research findings, that leaves the other half out of the picture.

BBC News reports here that two girls reportedly mugged a guy that they made contact with on the MySpace site.

From the article: "Two teenage girls in the US have been charged with holding up at gunpoint a man they are said to have contacted on social networking website MySpace.com.

Yana Galilova and Rafaella Yusupova, 14 and 13, are accused of armed robbery and carrying a concealed weapon. The girls, from Florida, are said to have posed as an 18-year-old to lure men into chatting to them online."

Of course, the article then immediately sets about mentioning a previous incident of a man sexually assaulting a girl he met on MySpace as if to balance out any idea that girls can be evil all on their own.

...BTW This is Tirryb, changed my nick when registering again for the new site.

Posted on behalf of Marc A.:
NCFM is caught up in a battle between two rival newspapers. One is honest and ethical about DV stats, etc., while the other insists on PCness, bias and reactionism.Please write letters in support of NCFM-LA and editor Steve Tobia of the Mountain Valley News. Tobia had printed a positive article on NCFM-LA that cited the DV data and admitted he was wrong in previously citing the 95% DV figure.
In response, editor Larry Wilson of the Pasadena Star News criticized Tobia, attacked NCFM and reactively dismissed NCFM's claim about gender and DV by quoting a local DV shelter and a cop but without looking at randomized research. Tobia then defended himself and the 50/50 data, citing Gelles and the New Hampshire Commission on the Status of Men, and challenged Wilson (.pdf file) for his PCness, bias and personal motives. He also printed two letters to the editor supporting NCFM-LA.

Text here. Relevant excerpt:

AP: You have apologized for your controversial remarks that innate ability may partly explain why fewer women reach top-level science jobs, but you also said any idea should be on the table as a university. How do you reconcile that?

Summers: As president I bear responsibility for the signal that my remarks send, and the signal that was sent by those remarks was anything but what I intended or what I believe. And so I have taken responsibility for that. At the same time, no subject should be off limits for academic research in a university, and at a time when 30 percent more women are graduating from college than men, I think we ignore the whole topic of gender differences in learning styles very much at our peril.

Mensactivism.org is back now, at least 99% of what I wanted to accomplish this weekend. There are still a couple of minor things I'd like to change, but I felt the rest of you would prefer that the site become available again ASAP.

If you're using Internet Explorer, the menu tabs at the top of the page look horrible, and I do intend to remedy that. There are some minor formatting issues from our old static pages that need some attention as well. But you should now be able to submit new stories and post comments on this story and stories posted after this one (all previous ones are frozen).

Please let us know about any problems that arise when using the new site: admin@mensactivism.org. Thanks for your patience, and we hope it was worth the wait!

Remember, all user accounts must be re-registered now. I was unable to migrate them from the old site due to complex dependencies in the old database.

Pastor's wife said she 'snapped', agent testified

SELMER, Tennessee (AP) -- A woman charged with murdering her minister husband told police she shot him after they argued over family finances and then told him "I'm sorry" as he lay dying in their bedroom, according to testimony at a bail hearing Friday.

www.mensactivism.org will be down this weekend (July 1-2) so that I can migrate the site to a new, faster, and much more modern server and web engine. This is an exciting change for the site, which has remained in its current state more or less since its inception in late May of 2000. The migration will not be as seamless as I would like, but it needs to be done because the old server and software it's currently running on is getting close to failure. Please Read More below to view some Q&A on the migration process.

AngryMan writes "One of the girl-bullying cases reported on last year has gone to trial. One girl repeatedly punched another in school so that her head was banging against the wall. The next day the victim retaliated by slashing her attacker's face with a razor. The razor-wielding girl is in court. So much for the natural peace-loving nature of women."

Anonymous User writes "Story here. Excerpt:

'The lawsuit filed on behalf of Mr. Hollis, 38, of East Liberty, said Ms. Joseph has "conspired with disingenuous people whose only agenda is to attack the character of those individuals who have been identified on her site." The suit says there are no protocols to ensure statements on the site are valid or truthful. Mr. Hollis, who has practiced criminal law for 12 years, claims statements posted on the site, which appear to be by different people, have affected his practice and family life.'"

AngryMan writes "Two girls in the US, aged 13 and 14, have been charged with holding up at gunpoint a man they are said to have contacted on social networking website MySpace.com."

bull writes "Another gem by Carey Roberts; he offers a solution for women who have been programmed by the feminist movement to be victims and not take responsibilty for their own lives.

'The solution is a 12-step self-help program — you guessed it: Feminists Anonymous. With no apologies to the Friends of Bill, here are the 12 Steps to gender recovery...'"