Misandrope writes "I keep getting told that there is a mythical pendulum of rights that was very in favor of men at one point, that now has swung in favor of women, and against men - but just how long has the pendulum favored women? Over 111 years, I found out."

Hard to believe, or is it? Read it here. Excerpt:

Cozad was in assistant Principal Martha Beseau Bock's office Oct. 11 at Park Glen Elementary School in Fort Worth to discuss her son's one-day suspension for a fight on a school bus, according to Fort Worth police reports. Park Glen is in the Keller school district.

After the door was closed, Cozad took a handgun and holster from her purse and placed it on a shelf near the assistant principal, according to reports.

No shots were fired, and Cozad left the office with the gun, police said.

She got probation. Wonder what 'dad' would have drawn at court had he done the same thing?

Tirryb writes "News.com.au reports here that a "sex expo" in Perth, Australia is opening a Sex Train Ride - kind of like a ghost train, but with simulated sex scenes instead of coffins and skeletons.

Nothing wrong with that, until you reach this paragraph:

'And then there's the reenactment of the infamous 1993 Bobbit attack, in which American woman Lorena Bobbitt cut off part of her husband John's penis.'"

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Doug Baker writes "Missouri’s second largest college is charged with teaching male-discrimination. As part of a course, a male student says, 'the class was assigned to read and discuss 96 pages of text that denigrated men and elevated women, which I believe discriminated against males. I was then denied educational opportunities when the school provided no way to avoid the discrimination except to drop the class. Similar data is being taught in other courses and throughout higher education nation-wide. The government has failed to objectively investigate my complaints.'

Go to http://EmasculationOfAmerica.com/ for the entire story, full case documentation, and a wealth of research information."

Change is in the air!

In the past month and a half, RADAR has
orchestrated a campaign to inform legislators about civil rights
abuses under VAWA that Congress surely did not intend.

Twenty-seven organizations across the country co-signed a
Resolution Regarding the Violence Against Women Act.
(See http://www.mediaradar.org/docs/VAWA-Resolution.pdf)

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Anonymous User writes "Perhaps these two stories should be read in conjunction.

One is about the effects of pesticides containing estrogen like compounds on male fetal development, how overexposure can result in decreased penis size and abnormalities and potentially effect fertility.

The other is about a teenager driven to suicide over his belief his penis was too small.

I'm sure we have all heard about the increasing concern over chemical compounds containing pthalates which have an estrogen like effect. The EU has gone so far as to begin considering restrictions if not bans on the plastic softeners, but the US does nothing."

If you are past a certain age and don't find what this article reports as even a wee disturbing, then perhaps you are not past that "certain age" just yet. Excerpt:

To her, the tension-and-release cycle that accompanies cinematic terror brings about something like a gambler's high. "It's not that I'm a self-mutilator," she said, "but it's just a powerful rush when you can overcome some pain."

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Of the 25 top-grossing movies released so far this year, almost a quarter are horror films. David Edelstein, a critic for New York Magazine, equated some with "torture porn."

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"I loved how the women used their bodies to deceive," Ms. Zelez said, referring to the women in "Hostel," who appear to be sexual playthings for the victims but actually lure the men to their deaths. As women, she asserted, "We use our bodies and get what we want. And they definitely got what they wanted."

I wonder how popular these movies would be among teenage girls and young women if both the slashers and slashees were female.

MANN Admins received the following from the author of the MANN submission found here.

"I recently submitted a story to the site about Twyana Davis.

This is a woman who recently confessed to raping her 12 yr old male cousin some 10 yrs ago. The rape resulted in a pregnancy, she then hid the pregnancy, threw the baby out, lied and said the child was the result of her being raped, and recieved leniency from the court, getting no jail time and eventually regaining custody of her child. She then wrote a book about her tragedy, continuing her lie about the rape and was featured on 20/20 and Oprah."

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Some good news here. Of course there has to be the ding on men with this thrown in there:

However, far fewer women said they would trust men in general to use the contraceptive.

Still, it's good news, and the Pill-4-Men can't come too soon.

Another story of an intoxicated mother passing out onto her baby during breastfeeding only to wake up to find she had smothered the child to death. How much time does she get? Not that much. Would a dad who drunkenly passed out while cradling a baby and smothering the child to death as a result also just get "some time"? Doubt it. Excerpt:

Prosecutor John Jorgensen said he would recommend that she receive at least some prison time.

"We just believe she should be held accountable for the neglect," he said.

Hawkins had been drinking at a bowling alley in February 2005, and after her husband dropped her and the child off at home, she started breast-feeding the baby but fell asleep, a criminal complaint said.

Apparently the fact that circumcision doesn't prevent HIV transmission is irrelevant to the Zambian government. Story here.

Anonymous User writes "See this story.

This woman had a child and placed it in a trash bag and then into a dumpster to abandon it to die. Luckily a passer by found it. She lied and said the child was the product of a rape at a party. I wonder how many men were harassed on these false charges. The charges against her for trying to kill her child were dropped. Turns out the father of the child was her cousin, who at the time was 12, I believe she was about 20 when she raped him. Currently rape of a child under 13 carries a life sentence, but did not at the time, so she faces 5-25 yrs, and is expected to serve at least three. We know all this becuase she admitted it, trying to make things right."

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Read it and weep... hard to even come close to believing the excuses she is coming up with, and of course, guess who is really responsible... her husband!

I find it hard to believe that either of them were this stupid/ignorant. Something really evil and/or nuts was going on here.

Steven Brown writes "A good thing he only sneered at her, otherwise who knows what she'll have been forced to do to him! Story here. Excerpt:

'Mr Hamilton believes had he not sneered at his wife, she wouldn't have carried out these actions.'

These 'actions' being lunging at him with two knives! Also note the headline and general tone of the story. She's referred to as 'mum' and he's referred to as 'husband' not 'dad'!

No need to say of course, that if the genders had been reversed he'd be in prison and she'd be hailed as survivor of domestic violence.

The silly man has decided to stay with her..."

Ragtime writes "From the story:

'A veteran Chatham police officer who headed the force's domestic-violence unit has been charged with assault following a domestic dispute.'

I suspect this violent police woman fully expected to be treated like the "victim" after she slapped and kicked a man, just like so many other violent women before her, "but police were called by a witness, Chief Carl Herder said yesterday." "We have an obligation to the community," Herder said. "We're there to protect the victims, regardless of who the accused is." Nice to see a police chief who's grown a pair!."