bull writes "Carey Roberts’ article, “The day the matriarchy came to power,” summarizes key events during what he calls the “Clinton Co-Presidency” that firmly entrenched feminists in key positions of power. Hillary may have a shot at the presidency in 2008. Roberts’ article gives a good feel for what one might expect with her at the helm. It would be a sad day for Men’s Activism should she be elected! Excerpt:

“It was a bloodless coup. It happened under the penumbra of the law. In fact chief justice William Rehnquist presided at the event. The date was January 20, 1993.” Click here to read more."

Anonymous User writes "Check out this story - RIT Student Fights Sexual Assault Accusation. Excerpt:

'Taylor and his family prepared to launch an aggressive defense.

Taylor’s lawyers arranged a polygraph test. He passed.
...

The report says the accuser has a history of making false allegations.

The private investigator visited the woman’s hometown. He discovered a restraining order she took out four years earlier against a high school classmate. The investigator tracked down the boy, who said she accused him of raping her and threatening her with a knife. The boy said the case was dropped after two of her friends told police she admitted making the story up. The boy was never arrested.

...

“We allow hearsay in our process,” said Rob Eckhart, Assistant Director for Student Conduct. “It’s not a criminal process. I want to make it very clear it’s not criminal. This is RIT’s student conduct process and when we make a decision, it’s based on what’s most likely to have happened.”'"

MANN regulars will want to have their barf bags handy for this one; it is getting syndicated all around the country and trumpets the 76-cents-on-the-dollar wage gap myth along with the "they're aren't enough female engineering professors in colleges!" complaint.

Meanwhile, along with the majority of all college degrees getting awarded to women in every category (i.e.: liberal arts, engineering, and the physical sciences), and at the current rate of implosion, you will be hard-pressed to find a 25-year-old college-educated American man by the year 2020. Only at the bottom of the article does it mention the deteriorating educational condition of men in some way as to make it sound undesirable. [I would post the article author's e-mail address but I wasn't able to locate it on-line. If anyone can find it, please post it.]

In fact the whole report is generally bleak, with US schools consistently underperfoming Asian and some European countries, particularly in math and science.

Anonymous User writes "More British divorce silliness. As many of us suspected, they're now trying to extend divorce to cover unmarried people who live together, as if there aren't enough ways for women to pick men's pockets. Wonder if they've figured out that this will mean no support for women who cohabitate after divorce, but avoid marriage to continue receiving alimony. Time to start packing up your stuff, guys."

AngryMan writes "If you get falsely accused in Scotland, you won't even get a lawyer to defend you, unless you are rich enough to pay for it yourself. Lawyers are planning to refuse sexual offence cases unless the government pays them more. Story here."

... it just never seems to end, really (though you wouldn't know it by watching Dateline): Woman jailed for hiding child groom. Excerpt:

DOUGLASVILLE, Georgia (AP) -- A 37-year-old woman who married one of her son's 15-year-old friends pleaded guilty to helping her young husband escape from state custody.

Lisa Clark was sentenced Wednesday to two years in jail and three years' probation after entering the plea to two counts of hindering the apprehension of a child.

NBC could use some education on the topic of sexual predation. Take a look at Dateline's main page and see how they are dealing with the issue of Internet predators. In case anyone has been following this series, they are catching men who make illicit contact with supposed underage girls for sexual encounters, and then when they show up, they are getting interviewed by Dateline and then arrested by local police. This is a good thing and NBC should be commended for having the courage to go this far in addressing this sort of problem. Where NBC is failing is in how they are not reporting in a balanced fashion. Next week's episode promises to review the Mary Kay Letourneau case and all but makes it out to be a matter of love-denied-by-evil-society. The reality contrasts sharply with the perception.

Feel free to send them an email from their web form at the lower center portion of the series' home page.

AngryMan writes "A German woman has been found guilty of the manslaughter of eight of her newborn babies. A ninth baby also died, but too long ago to allow prosecution.
Sabine H, 40, was sentenced to 15 years in prison, the maximum jail term the Frankfurt court could hand down. Story here."

Anonymous User writes "I got my first one these coins the other day in my change and couldn't help wondering if there will ever be a coin for prostate cancer victims. Obviously there never will be. I don't know the statistics but I'm sure prostate cancer kills a number on par with breast cancer. Not only is there this coin but the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation also organizes a marathon in large cities every year that recieves a lot of press."

This morning, New Hampshire Public Radio's "The Exchange" program covered the problems boys are facing in education. Interviewed are both Dr. Michael Thompson (author of Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys) and Kathy Stevens, (co-author of The Minds of Boys: Saving Our Sons from Falling Behind in School and Life). The program was generally very male-positive and can be listened to on-line here.

Hang in there, Mr. Starr. The power of cognitive dissonance knows no limits and soon, you too will be back to thinking of them as goddesses on Earth (just as many of them also do, apparently).

From
Why are women athletes in college choosing to mimic the worst behaviors of their male counterparts?:

Instead they appear to be mimicking the basest instincts of male athletes, embracing a pathetic notion that predicates acceptance on the willingness to share humiliating rituals. Indeed there is almost nothing that distinguishes this Northwestern affair from the seamy and demeaning antics of the Duke men’s lacrosse team at their team fiesta—except, of course, that at Duke it escalated into allegations of criminal behavior.

A Men's Studies curriculum will soon be established at Nottingham Trent University in the UK. The program will offer degrees.

The course convener, Jim Wild, states, "...we need to apply what we have learned from feminists about men's abuse within the family, and apply it to day-to-day work."

The article goes on to state, "Wild is keen to emphasise the high levels of physical, emotional and sexual violence men inflict on women, children and one another. Students will explore why some men are abusive and how the structures that maintain this behaviour can be challenged. 'I want the course to contribute to ways in which statutory and voluntary agencies can assist men to break out of these patterns of behaviour and, as a consequence, protect women and children from such abuse.'"

The article makes no mention of violence by women against anyone.

Kyle Knutson writes "Save the Males

by Richard Doyle of Forest Lake, Minnesota

Available at http://www.lulu.com/content/279780

Prices: $6.95 Download, $16.45 Print

Description:

"Save the Males" presents a common sense approach to gender issues.
The 236 page book is divided into three parts. In the first part,
author Richard Doyle examines differential treatment in four areas -
criminal justice, family law, employment and image - finding that
men, as a class, are shortchanged nearly everywhere. Part II
concerns itself with the search for causes and culprits. Among the
culprits he finds legislators, judges, attorneys, politicians,
feminists, the media and even men themselves. Part III, "Reality,
Sensibility, Liberation," explores ideas for solutions to the
problems identified in the first two parts.

The book is intended to restore men and traditional families to their
formerly respected status by defeating the widespread discrimination
against men throughout society. Warning: this book is incorrect
politically. It has `attitude. A philosophic street-fighter, Doyle
takes on highly sensitive issues such as feminism, homosexuality and
SNAGS (sensitive new age guys)."

Roy writes "Story here. Excerpt:

'ALL couples were advised last night to sign prenuptial agreements before getting married after a landmark ruling that gives wives much bigger divorce settlements... In the most important judgment on divorce for more than 20 years the law lords ruled that women who sacrifice careers to bring up children and look after the home should be compensated and may claim a share of their husband's future income.'"

AngryMan writes "This story describes the seizure by police of a £4.4m haul of the drug GHB in Lothian, Scotland. The story states that the drug "In small doses...can have a relaxing effect, lowering inhibitions and making the user feel talkative and elated." The story seems to imply that the purpose of the drug is for rape, that only rapists would buy it, and that rape is some kind of lucrative industry. We could equally say that GHB is a robbery drug, or that alcohol is a rape drug. This story has nothing to do with rape. Thanks once again, BBC feminists."