The New Double Standard, by Marty Nemko. Excerpt:

'This establishes a new double standard: you can, without reprisal, viciously denigrate men without substantiation but dare you make a milder statement about women, your career is eviscerated. That double standard will make academics, leaders, and the media think 10 times before saying something negative about a woman, but not about a man. That will immeasurably hurt how men are treated today, and in future generations.'

For those wanting a little tabloidism today, the latest in the McCartney divorce news is here. She's going to walk away with a great big chunk of this guy's wealth, all for five minutes of "work": standing there and saying "I do", in a dress no doubt bought by Paul.

This in the NYTimes does a good job of pointing up how men and women are held to substantially different standards of "business attire" and speculates on why that may be. Indeed, heaven help the man who dares wear anything not within very prescribed limits to the office!

“The feminism is a secular religion with its own high priestesses, dogmas, and initiation rituals. Its creation myth holds that on the first day Goddess created Eve, and all was right with the world. But that idyllic state was shattered when first patriarch Adam stumbled into the Garden, pounded on the table, and demanded his apple.”

Carey Roberts, in his usual straightforward (male) fashion, takes another slab at debunking feminism.

Carey’s Article Here

A 19 year old teacher's aide ran off with a 14 year old student at the school where she taught. She is being arraigned on charges of interference with custody, but nothing else. They quote the police claiming the two had a "romantic relationship". They identify the boy, and include a picture of him with the teacher's aide. The age of consent in New Hampshire is 16. Even if the woman isn't charged with rape, it is ridiculous to post a 14 year old boy's picture and name on the internet in a case like this.

Story here. Hat tip to fark.com

John Murtari has completed eight days without food or water in protest of the injustices meted out by the so-called family courts. read about him here in MDN. Excerpt:

"Drawing on his faith, John Murtari is enduring the suffering that comes from eight days of dehydration and starvation, surprisingly, conditions he imposes upon himself. Murtari, father to Domenic, 13, decided his 6-month sentence for child support arrears would include the 'nonviolent action of noncooperation,' to draw attention to the need for Family Law Reform and Parents’ Civil Rights. Murtari, a faithful, loving, gentle man graciously calls it being 'uncomfortable,' yet speaks in a weak voice, saying the feeding tube he once feared was, 'now the best thing I can imagine.'"

The NYTimes seems to have become obsessed of late with such topics as what are people's sleeping arrangements. Nonetheless, this article actually starts discussing some of the issues MRAs have been talking about for years. Alas they don't get too deep into them, but that they are even mentioned and not immediately dismissed or set upon shows there is some MSM progress here.

But soft, we should not get our hopes up too much, for there is always tomorrow's edition!

I'm not sure how many of you have seen this already, but it's a hilarious Q&A about gender feminism's paranoid, anti-male psychosis. It's also about the funniest thing I've ever seen that contains the words "gender" and "feminists". Thanks to Fred X for pointing it out.

It was good to see this blog entry on the Newsbusters site. More of this can only help. For those of you not familiar with Newsbusters, they deconstruct, on a daily basis, the news of the day as fabricated by the MSM. Great stuff.

Kudos to Marc Angelucci for this well-written piece. It was so good, it even got published! At UCLA, no less!

Excerpt:

When problems carry on into adulthood, men today make 85 percent of homeless adults, 92 percent of occupational deaths, 90 percent of prisoners, 80 percent of deaths by suicide, and have higher death rates than women for each of the 10 leading causes of death.

Meanwhile, fatherlessness remains the leading predictor of crime in a community.

The illusion of male privilege at the top of society masks male disposability at the bottom and the rest of society.

Feminism has become a billion-dollar industry, while men's issues remain severely neglected due to a combination of political correctness, chivalry, misandry and the myth of male power.

So here it is(alternate link here). Only women are qualified to hear rape cases. So the assumption here is that somebody's biology, thier vagina in this case -- makes them better qualified at deciding on cases with impartial justice.

"This is a very positive step and will help get justice for the rape victim," said Girija Vyas of India's National Womens' Commission. "Until now, male lawyers were able to threaten the victim and scare her." The government has already introduced new fast-track courts to try to clear the backlog of rape and other serious cases.

By no means do I believe that rape is something that should be taken lightly, but coming from someone who has been falsely accused of it here in the good old USA, does anyone smell the potential for abuse by the ever-increasing number of feminist lawyers and judges that call all intercourse rape?

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“A young woman assaulted an Anchorage police officer Saturday morning in Mountain View after the officer approached her for a routine questioning on the street, police said.”

Notice her bail is only $10,000 even though she had an outstanding warrant for violating her probation from a previous assault charge. If a guy, with a history of assault, attacked a police officer what would his bond be set at?

Artcle Here

I just learned about this fellow. Not making any judgments one way or another re political parties, it is simply very significant that someone has as a major part of his would-be platform such things as mandates for a presumption of joint custody and accountability for how C/S payments are spent. This would not have even appeared on a potential gubenatorial candidate's web site five years ago; now we see it on a possible contender for a major party nomination for president placing it on his campaign's home page. It's progress!

Excerpt:

- introducing an EQUAL PHYSICAL CUSTODY ACT that would mandate states to enact a rebuttal presumption of joint physical custody in divorce;

- introducing the CHILD SUPPORT FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY ACT, which would mandate child support recipients to file reports supported by documentation that child support payments were used for the child’s direct benefit.

This story shows a true bias and a definite problem in the Canadian legal system. Giving a 4th trial to this monsterous killer allows the victim's family to endure nearly a decade thus far, and probably more, than a decade of torture when it's all said and done.

Kelly Ellard will get a 4th trial in the beating death of Reena Virk. It took two trials to get her found guilty and now she's getting a 4th trial almost a decade after the fact.

To give come perspective, her at-the-time boyfriend was an accomplice (though Ellard was the planner, instigator, and primary attacker in the beating) and he only got one trial, was found guilty, and has already finished his sentance. After this long, why on Earth should she get another trial?

Suman Virk, Reena's mother, called the situation "ridiculous."

"I don't know where this judge gets off thinking that Kelly Ellard is entitled to this," she said. "There's been three trials. She's been found guilty.