Celarnor writes "I stumbled across this article earlier today. Naturally, the young women aren't 'having sex because they want to', but they are doing it 'because they felt their boyfriend would get angry'.

The article, of course, contains the obligatory 'boys bad, women helpless' subtext that is typically seen here. From the article: "That means [. . .] boys to understand what constitutes pressure.", and "The importance of educating boys [. . .] is often the untalked about part.""

zerostress writes "From Angry Harry, here is another story about how the British National Health is discriminating against men by refusing to pay for an alternative to the usual prostate cancer treatment. Business as usual for the NHS, I guess."

Anonymous User writes "I stumbled across this article from a couple months ago, its a double whammy:

'Improving pay for women should be a higher priority than trying to figure out why there is a gender gap between students' performance, some women's advocates say.'

It is so irresponsible for organizations/media to report the 76 cents per dollar gender wage gap myth without breaking down the numbers in any way."

Anonymous User writes "Judge rules SR women's fitness club must open to men

Excerpt:

'In a case that could have repercussions for single-sex fitness clubs, a Sonoma County judge has ordered a Santa Rosa women's health club to open its doors to men.

Judge Knoel Owen said Body Central must provide showers and lockers for men and stop advertising itself as a women-only health club.

He ruled in favor of the state Department of Fair Employment and Housing, which sued Body Central last year for allegedly violating California's anti-discrimination law.'"

AngryMan writes "Check out Men's Links (http://www.mens-links.net), a new men's activism site. The blurb claims "This site was designed as a resource for men's rights activists. The idea is to gather useful men's activism links into single web portal. We hope to keep adding to the content, and any suggestions for new links would be much appreciated." Let's see if we can find them some. Good luck to them."

Anonymous User writes "Here's one that made the front page of Fox. As far as I can tell it only contains one indirect reference. The reference, in my mind, is questionable.

Should be a good article for deconstruction.

BK"

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."