Roy writes "In her
February 8th newsletter, NOW's Prez Kim Gandy approaches her usual near-hysteria over program funding cuts proposed for the FY 2006 federal budget, while shrieking especially loud about funding fathers' rights groups and pro-marriage initiatives:

'This legislation includes up to $50 million annually to fund questionable fatherhood programs ... NOW suspects that some of those monies will end up with extremist "fathers' rights" groups. The authorized total would be $150 million annually for both fatherhood and marriage promotion initiatives; all states will be mandated under this bill to establish marriage promotion programs and to meet numerical performance objectives. NOW regards marriage promotion efforts targeting low-income women as potentially coercive, discriminatory and an invasion of privacy.'"

Roy writes "A first grader was suspended for three days after school officials said he sexually harassed a girl in his class by allegedly putting two fingers inside the girl's waistband while she sat on the floor in front of him. The boy's mother said she "screamed" about last week's suspension, and added her son doesn't know what sexual harassment is. "He doesn't know those things," she told The Enterprise of Brockton, MA. "He's only 6 years old." Proving that for the feminists who dominate K-12 education nowadays, it's never too soon to identify a predatory-patriarch-in-training!"

Seems the girls themselves can't be blamed for it. Read it here. Excerpt:

"It's really sad the girls are winning," said Warren Seigel, chairman of pediatrics at Brooklyn's Coney Island Hospital. "This isn't the game they should be winning at."

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There is no single reason why girls are smoking, drinking and taking pills more than ever. Academics, therapists, teachers and teenagers themselves report that today's young women live in an increasingly stressful environment; many are worried about their appearance, eager to date older boys or recovering from physical or sexual abuse. Unlike young men, who often use illegal substances for an adrenalin rush, teenage girls use alcohol or drugs as an escape."

Only toward the end is parental behavior mentioned as a contributing factor. No one would want to imply "maternal permissiveness" though in any way, given that such isn't P.C., despite the facts that single-parent households are now 28% of all households with children, that 84% of these households are headed by women (ie, are single-mother households), and that the number of single-parent households continues to grow. [You may want to browse more stats and facts on this topic here].

There's so many ways this article ignores relevant facts and tries to shift/conjure blame, it's hard to just get through a single sentence of it without wanting to eat glass!

klp writes "Deputies in Pinellas County, Florida can now be suspended for cheating on their own spouses or doing another person's spouse.

Query: How will the complaints be handled? Will this give a new retaliation vehicle to criminals? Or vengeful ex's?"

Kelly Rice writes
""Draft created patriots, respect"

Whether they wanted it or not.
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Ed. note: Reverse all gender references in this article and see if it would still be the least bit palatable.

al_nbd writes "Story here. Excerpt:

"The number of Swedish men who believe they have been discriminated on the basis of their gender has increased dramatically, according to the equality ombudsman's office, Jämo.

On July 1st last year an amendment was made to the law against discrimination, specifically banning gender discrimination. This has led to a rapid rise in the number of incidents reported by men, who were previously under-represented.

Of 56 cases reported under the new amendment, 45 concerned complaints made by men. Added to a series of complaints under the previous legislation, Jämo is now handling a total of 82 incidents reported by men in 2005, compared to just 23 the year before."

Will the complaints of those men be handled with the same attidude as women's ones? I think discrimination against men will be justified by law soon."

Dittohd writes "If this isn't the ultimate in chutzpuh! The guy is sent to prison unjustly for 13 years, child support continues to accrue plus interest and penalties, and they blame it on him as though it would have been possible to have the child support suspended. Neither women nor the government are ever at fault, no matter what!"

Anonymous User writes "Story here. This is about a proposal for a bill that would make laws banning "female genital mutilation" gender neutral is circulating through congress and fifteen state legislatures. The proposal, and the group advocating it, claims infantile circumcision is mutilation and sexual assault done without a child's consent. As a Jewish man and a man opposed to circumcision I have much interest in this topic. I'm curious as to whether there would have to be first amendment exceptions provided for Jews (and perhaps Muslims) for religious freedom purposes."

All,

Some of you have mentioned in posted comments or by e-mail to MANN admins that you have had problems submitting comments or new stories successfully to MANN.

The problem some are getting is this: After typing in a comment or a story for submission, the user clicks "Post" (or whatever the submission button reads) and after a few seconds, a standard "Unable to display page" error comes up. Frustrating though this is it does not mean the text you have typed is lost! The thing to do when this happens is to click the 'Refresh' button on your web browser. [For the major browsers, this is the third or fourth button from the left at the top of the browser, and looks like two arrows pointing at each other.] You will then get a message saying you are re-posting this data and are you sure you want to? Click "Yes" or "OK", whichever is the affirmative response in the dialog box for your browser. The post should complete OK on the second attempt but if it doesn't, click 'Refresh' to try again.

I have had this problem myself occasionally and this always works to make sure my typing hasn't been for naught.

-- Matt

Clancy writes "This is from a military BLOG called "The Mudville Gazette". I found it a good read. It's a story that I have not heard about. Perhaps some of you guys have. Unfortunately, it is unabashedly tiltted to the right which will likely offend many members of this group. Nevertheless, it puts the spotlight on victim feminism in action within our military."

Click "Read more..." for excerpt.

Dittohd writes "Looks like China has the right idea. $3100 is not all that much but I suppose it's worth a bit more to them assuming their cost of living is lower over there. I wonder how much it would be if we equalized theirs and our two countries' costs of living."

This made it to the legendary spate of Superbowl advertisements yesterday during Superbowl XL. While most of the advertising, if not all of it, was otherwise touting consumer products such as beer, cars, and skin care lotion (with the usual dose of men getting beat on, made out to look like fools or whatever, etc.), the makers of Dove cleansers managed to tout their latest save-the-girls P/R campaign and to solicit donations for it. [I read that Superbowl ad time this year was $33,000/second - it strikes me they could have used that money instead for their own cause rather than using it to try to get TV viewers to fork over the cash!]

Click "Read more..." for more.

Return of the King writes "Link here. Excerpt:

IN THE EARLY 1990s, talk about girls as an endangered species was everywhere. There were studies purporting to show that patriarchy-damaged girls suffered a disastrous drop in self-esteem in adolescence. The American Association of University Women published a report titled ''How Schools Shortchange Girls," which landed on the front pages of many newspapers. Educators and legislators alike rushed to tackle the problem of gender bias that was allegedly keeping girls from reaching their full potential -- despite the fact that, by then, girls were already graduating from America's colleges in higher numbers than boys.'

What will be done for the boys?"

Clancy writes "Nothing to do with Men's Rights but everything to do with men. I cried ... Link here."

Ed. note: This is a must-see, guys. Take the time to go through the photos.

Martian Bachelor writes "In the light of Betty F.'s recent death, and all the subsequent reports about how much women's lives have changed, I thought this was a bit of a reality check...

From "Divorce settlements: B.A.C.K.L.A.S.H."

'The lawyer responsible for one of Britain's most influential divorce settlements has told The Independent on Sunday she 'would not blame men' for deciding not to marry if a divorce settlement before the House of Lords is not overturned.'"