Following is part of Glenn Sacks' April 12, 2006 newsletter. It calls for action on the NYS Shared Parenting Bill, so I though it was too important not to post, even though many MANN regulars get his newsletter.

In response
to over 7,000 calls and letters to the New York
Assembly Committee on Children & Families in
support of A330, the

New York Shared Parenting Bill, the New
York State Chapter of the National Organization
for Women and



Stop Family Violence
have launched a counterattack.
To see NOW's Call to Action, click

here. To read the



Stop Family Violence

Call to Action,
click

here.

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AngryMan writes "Scientists have produced evidence linking high cholesterol levels to a raised risk of prostate cancer. Story here."

jim4146 writes "Fellow Activists... here is another two feminists refusing to acknowledge the current crisis young men face today in education. As usual the spin is wielded, "The boy crisis we're hearing about is largely a manufactured one, the product of both a backlash against the women's movement and the media's penchant for continuously churning out news about the latest dire threat to the nation." Please check it out and respond to the authors or the Washington Post accordingly."

Tirryb writes "According to News.com.au in a story here, men are twice as likely as women to get the sack in the workplace. They are also less likely than women to 'see the end of their marriage coming'.

Of course the excuses are instantly made. Quote: "It is possible that, at any given job level, women are somewhat more competent, or perhaps less likely to cause trouble at work than men," the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia report says.

No consideration for the fact that most employers are terrified of sacking women because they get dragged into unfair dismissal claims based on gender almost immediately. Or that women call it quits in marriage far more often than men, which is why men 'don't see it coming'. Nope, it's all the fault of us dumb, useless, incompetent males...."

cmft_jihad writes "It seems as though body image and self-esteem issues only affect women, at least according to to Pink. She recently visited a Toronto area shcool to talk about these issues with the female students while the male students attended their regular classes. And I can't be the only one who sees the ominous similarity between the terms "Girl Power" and "White Power". Both seem pretty oppressive to those who don't belong."

Anonymous User writes "Police claim they are searching for four women who beat a man to death over his bingo winnings. According to witnesses the man refused to hand over his $1,000 bingo jackpot and so they beat him to death over it. Question: If there were witnesses why did no one come this man's aid when he was under attack by this female gang? Answer: Well, he's a man! He's expected to be able to protect himself and everyone else for that matter. After all his attackers were only female. It's not like they were capable of injuring anyone, especially a man. Sadly, if this man had managed to fight back an win, this news story would have been framed as, "Yet another terrible act of violence against women." The fact this story was reported at all amazed me. Excerpt:

'When Youkhana refused to hand over the jackpot, the women kicked and punched him, the report said.

Witnesses said the man stumbled back into the bingo hall after the attack and later died from his injuries.'"

Anonymous User writes "LAW VICTIMS ORGANIZE

By Barry Weinstein

In a sprawling yellow two story house in the seaside Boston suburb of Hull a 50ish, balding and chunky lawyer is working over time to bring radical change to his profession.

David Grossack has been though a lot of battles, having won some and lost some, but in every move using his wars to organize what he immodesty calls a Second American Revolution."

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I debated which category to post this under: News, False Accusations, The Media, or Inequality. Really, this story touches all of them, so I went with "News" since that is the most general, though it sort of seems like it underemphasizes what is a very comprehensive example of how men and male sexuality in particular is attacked and condemned.

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RADAR has recently released reports that reveal how the Violence
Against Women Act routinely discriminates against male victims,
tramples on due process protections, and undermines the family.

Today, RADAR is issuing a fourth report: "Justice Denied: Arrest
Policies for Domestic Violence." The report reveals how mandatory
arrest policies have turned "innocent until proven guilty" into "guilty unless proven otherwise." The report is available at: http://www.mediaradar.org/docs/Justice-Denied-DV-Arrest-Policies.pdf.

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zerostress writes "I found this blog entry
while searching blogs. Look like what has been said all along by many peoples is right: single-gender classroom benefits both gender. Let's all hope now their experiment won't be closed down by some feminazi."

Surfed over to cnn.com and saw this article reporting that almost 1/3 of US high school students don't graduate. It's only part of the actual "Time" magazine article, which of course requires a paid subscription to see the entire thing. But in the part on cnn.com that is there, what is amazingly absent is any mention of gender breakdown-- even though they do mention the ethnic breakdown of the drop-outs. MANN regulars already know that this 1/3 of high school drop-outs are most assuredly overwhelmingly male. cnn.com also has this report on the now-critical shortage of child psychiatrists in all our states. Again, anyone care to guess how many of these underserved children are boys?

oregon dad writes "This article shows that progress is slow, but steady. Even the woman attorneys are stating that women are losing ground...and its about time.

Excerpt:

"This is the new underdog," said Michigan family law attorney Michele Kelly, who represents mostly men tangled in paternity disputes. "I was a staunch feminist. I marched with Gloria Steinem. But the new victims in America are working men. All they are is a mule train.""

Anonymous User writes "Story here. Excerpt:

'A mother charged with murder for cutting off her baby daughter's arms in what her lawyers portrayed as a religious frenzy was found not guilty by reason of insanity Friday by a judge.

Dena Schlosser, 38, will be sent to a state mental hospital and held until she is no longer deemed a threat to herself or others.'

How thoughtful of our judicial system. A psychotic baby killer is being given the opportunity to be "healed" and ultimately released back into society. Presumably as if nothing ever happened. I wonder, would a man be treated with such leniency as to be committed to a state mental hospital for a few years and then let go? Not a chance. At the very least he'd be behind bars for the rest of his natural life. But more than likely he would be counting the minutes until his speedy execution."

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.