I wonder what motivates some people, sometimes. I can only speculate. Rather brief and under-descriptive story here.

Rethinking Domestic Violence to be released May 8, 2006. There is at least one other book by this title out there already, so note the author, publisher, and year when looking for it. First reader(s), please submit reviews.

From the "About the book" section on the publisher's site:

After twenty years of viewing intimate partner violence as generated by gender and focusing on a punitive “law and order” approach, Dutton now argues that this approach must be more varied and flexible. Treatment providers, criminal justice system personnel, lawyers, and researchers have indicated the need for a new view of the problem – one less invested in gender politics and more open to collaborative views and interdisciplinary insights.

Also note that Amazon.com already has a stub for this book here.

Anonymous User writes "Let's see, the police tazed him for trying not to get caught with her and he is the father of her child -- he'll be paying soon... story here."

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.

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.

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..."

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.

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.

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.'"

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.'"

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.

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.

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."

Next Wednesday, April 5^th, 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.

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.

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