Truth about DV in mainstream media

Facts continue to slip, on occasion, into reports by mainstream media. This article on CNN reports on DV by women against men. It ends with a bit about anger and frustration felt by many women, which to me sounds like an insinuation of an excuse, but on the whole it's a decent article.

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New Prostate Cancer Tests Developed

Article here. Excerpt:



Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in U.S. men. It is diagnosed in 232,000 men every year and kills up to 30,000 of them. Worldwide, 221,000 men die from prostate cancer each year.

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Are Schools Geared to Girls?

Martian Bachelor writes ""Battle of the Sexes: Are Schools Geared to Girls?", by Martha Brockenbrough, is pretty standard msn.com drivel, but some of what she writes may motivate you to email her at martha-at-marthabee.com..."

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Class Action Suit by EEOC Against Restaurants

Marc A writes "The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission just filed a class action lawsuit against Lawry’s Restaurants, Inc., dba Lawry’s The Prime Rib, Five Crowns, and the Tam O’Shanter Inn, on behalf of male applicants who were systematically rejected for hire as food servers due to their gender. Lawry’s, a California-based corporation, operates restaurants in Las Vegas, Nevada, Chicago, Illinois, Dallas, Texas, Los Angeles, Beverly Hills and Corona del Mar, Calif.

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BBC.com: "Woman jailed for Paris 'slavery'"

Story here. I wonder, why is the BBC using quotes in the headline of this article? I notice they do this a lot with not just these but other kinds of news items as well, perhaps as a way of avoiding accusations of bias of some kind. But it only makes them look (even more) stupid, IMHO. Excerpt:


The events began in 1990, when Mensah went to her country and brought the then 15-year-old Olivia back to France with the promise to her parents she would receive an education in return for a few hours' babysitting.

But the reality turned out to be completely different.

Once in Paris, Olivia was locked up in the house working 20 hours a day, and told to sleep in the basement.

She was badly beaten up, burned with cigarettes and sexually abused every time she was accused of making a mistake in her housework.

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Female Teacher and 13-year-old Student

Anonymous User writes "Yep, it's a woman. Another female teacher caught having sex with an underaged male. At least this one is in jail after admitting to the whole thing. Who wants to bet she'll get off scott free? Also, included on this webpage is a bunch of hyperlinks to arrest records for other female teachers who did the same thing and got caught. Book mark it and email to the next person who claims that
only MEN do that sort of thing. Excerpt:

'APRIL 4--Meet Rachel Holt. The 34-year-old Delaware teacher is facing rape charges for allegedly having sex with a 13-year-old student 28 times during a one-week period last month.'"

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Female Judge Mocks Male Assault Victim

Anonymous User writes "Another for the "reverse the genders" file...

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/04/04/D8GP9IPG6 .html

Excerpt:

'A municipal judge has accepted censure as punishment for mocking an assault victim by comparing him to a lying character on "Saturday Night Live."

The state Commission on Judicial Conduct said Monday that Syracuse City Court Judge Karen Uplinger "demeaned and mocked" assault victim Anthony Nushwat in October 2004.'"

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CALL FOR ACTION: Phone Senators TODAY re VAWA

Originated by Lee Newman, Exec. Dir. of SAFE-NH:


VAWA violates people's civil rights, undermines families, and causes fatherlessness. Please make these calls by noon Wednesday, in time for the VAWA hearings which will start Wednesday (April 5, 2006) at 2PM.

Click "Read more..." for what to do.

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NY Shared Parenting Bill Stalled in Committee

According to Glenn Sacks' most recent e-mail newsletter, the Shared Parenting bill in the NYS Assembly has been stalled. He is asking for the resumption of emails and faxes (initially suspended due to their request, since so many were arriving that they couldn't do anything else).

Click "Read more..." for how to act.

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Congresswoman Assaults Capitol Police Officer - Uses Ethnicity and Gender as Defense

Anonymous User writes "This little excerpt explains why a man in this stiuation would be arrested on the spot: he is white and male...

'WASHINGTON (CNN) -- As U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney, D-Georgia, faces possible criminal charges for a Wednesday altercation with a Capitol Police officer, one of her lawyers said Friday that the real issues were "sex, race and Ms. McKinney's progressiveness."

In a news conference featuring actor Danny Glover and singer Harry Belafonte, McKinney said she would be exonerated and that "this whole incident was instigated by the inappropriate touching and stopping of me, a female, black congresswoman.'

Story here."

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RADAR Alert: VAWA Appropriations Hearings on April 5th - Call Senators ASAP

Next Wednesday, April 5th, the Senate Appropriations
Subcommittee will hold hearings concerning funding for the Violence
Against Women Act. And for the first time since VAWA was initially
passed, the 2005 reauthorization bill includes language explicitly
stating that VAWA-funded benefits and services are to be available to
male as well as female victims.

Click "Read more..." for more.

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MSN and "Marie Claire": Women Must Trade Sex for Food

Read this. Excerpt:

In war-torn countries, food is frequently a barter tool through which women are exploited. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Uganda, and many other countries, “food for sex” is well documented by human-rights organizations: That is, food is withheld by peacekeepers (as in the case of the DRC) or local soldiers (as is the situation in Uganda) until women, at the brink of starvation, submit to sex.

Comments?

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Why Parenting Time Motions Fail and Child Support

Lary Holland writes "An overview of why parenting time motions are more likely to fail than child support motions are to succeed. Short concise statement of a major issue surrounding bias in the family courts.


After a Friend of the Court Citizen Advisory Committee (Michigan FOC) meeting an attorney indicated that it seemed that their parenting time motions seem to fail more frequently than child support motions succeed. This was a brilliant observation and I wanted to take a quick moment and tell you why."


Click "Read more..." for more

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Mass. Family Courts Expose

Anonymous User writes "In case you hadn't heard, Mr. Kevin Thompson has written a book about the bias and corruption found in the Massachusettes Family Courts. This book landed him in hot water. The kangaroo courts didn't want this information public. While they tried to get it banned it is still available from Lulu.com. Please get it and distribute it as widely as possible."

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Weirdest False Rape Conviction Story Yet

Anonymous User writes "This article is about a man who has served 5 years in prison for sodomizing his daughter. He was convicted on the state's expert witnesses testimony that his daughter was suffering from repressed memory syndrome. This expect witness the state relied so heavily on for conviction got her doctorate degree from an unaccredited online internet university! Additionally, the judge who threw out his conviction noted he was poorly represented by his defense counsel.

Also, the daughter who was supposed to have been sodomized was killed by a pregnant woman when the daughter tried to cut out her baby and claim it for her own.

However, the man still remains in jail. The state may ask for a retrial for some stupid reason. Society doesn't have money to pay for proper veteran's medical care and other worthwhile causes but we have tons of money to keep innocent men in prison on bogus sex assault charges."

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