I guess the Netscape folks want to compete with MSN so they maintain their "news" portal in much the same vein as MSN. You need only visit their main page to see articles and stories the likes of these: No. 1 Reason Women are Unfaithful (complete with racy strip-tease-like picture) and Man Said to Fake Death, Keep Child Support (complete with inside-the-prison picture).

Summary: Cheating women get sexualized while desperate men get demonized.

AngryMan writes "The UK fathers' rights group Fathers 4 Justice has decided to suspend its activities following newspaper reports that fringe elements were plotting to kidnap Tony Blair's son Leo as a publicity stunt. Story here."

Feature submission addressing the deaths of the 12 miners in West Virginia, and how they are part of a flood of largely unrecognized male victims of workplace accidents/violence.

Click "Read more..." to read this outstanding essay.

SJones writes "Sunday night, January 15, CBS ran a Tom Selleck movie, Jesse Stone: Night Passage in which the so-called hero, Sheriff Jesse Stone, goes to his very first call as sheriff to a domestic dispute. At the house he finds Stephen Baldwin playing the lesbian-feminst stereotype of a divorced man. Baldwin says obnoxious things, but has no weapons and does not make any threatening motions towards anyone. Tom Selleck then kicks Baldwin in the groin."

Click "Read more..." for more.

Anonymous User writes "Story here.

Excerpt:

'The high court ruled in a 45-page decision that Cary did not receive a fair trial because instructions about self-defense were not given to the jury. The Supreme Court said Circuit Judge Charles D. Griffith Jr., who presided over the trial, erred in keeping that information from the jury.'
"

Roy writes "There's an intriguing media battle going on right now as feminists are mounting a P.R. assault on satellite network DISH TV for pulling the plug on the womyn-centric "Lifetime" channel. Claiming that DISH TV, a private company, has no right to "deprive women of their favorite entertainment...." Lifetime's CEO writes -- "DISH has no right to decide for women that they should not have all of the viewing options for which they have paid — especially their favorite networks. The only disservice to women in this dispute is keeping Lifetime off the air." Another Evil Patriarchal plot to make women unhappy?"

Kathleen Parker wrote an excellent editorial about an effort underway in New Hampshire to put some teeth into child visitation orders. Rep. David Bickford is sponsoring the bill, HB 1585, whose idea was originally proposed by psychologist Dr. Stevan Gressitt of Maine. The bill would refer violators of child visitation orders to the state's Department of Health and Human Services to prompt an investigation for child abuse or neglect. New Hampshire's head of DHHS supports the legislation. This bill could help reduce the number of Parental Alienation Syndrome cases in the state, and is definitely a piece of legislation to keep an eye on.

Anonymous User writes "Columnist Mona Charen writes about Kate O'Beirne's new book "Women Who Make the World Worse".

To use a quote by Charen:
"Against the better judgment of generals and admirals, women have been given more and more access to combat, to the point where scores of women have been killed and wounded in Iraq."

SCORES of women have been killed and wounded in Iraq!! Is that REALLY worse than the THOUSANDS of MEN killed and wounded in Iraq?

Apparently, it's not just the feminists that are anti-male. Even the anti-feminists like Charen and O'Beirne are anti-male!"

We've been contacted by someone who is going through an intense divorce, and is looking for other men's groups or male-friendly support resources in or near the Orlando, Florida area. Does anyone know of anything around there? Please post anything in the comments section here if you can. It would also be of help to post any internet resources such as e-mail lists or forums that might be useful to someone in the midst of this kind of crisis. Thank you for your help!

This article is definitely written from the "It's men's fault but women are blamed. Waaaaa!" perspective. Nevertheless, it presents some interesting points about what seems to be the Japanese equivalent of American men's Marriage Strike. The odd thing to me is that it implies that Japanese men have turned away from sex, whereas the US has a hearty hook-up scene. Maybe Japanese men just prefer to spank the bishop while preserving their integrity and sanity.

ahhkaboom writes "An older version of present domestic violence accusations is: White Slavery.

Wikipedia defines this as a moral panic in late 19th century and early 20th century United States, where there was a perception that abduction of (white) girls into forced prostitution was a danger to every young woman.

In this moral panic, the selected scapegoats were Chinese immigrants (known as Yellow peril), who were stereotyped and demonized as white slavers (eg: Thoroughly Modern Millie)."

Ed. note: Note the off-site link at the bottom of the entry leading to here, discussing the current scare regarding "trafficking in women" by one Jo Doezema.

Anonymous User writes "In her new book Women Who Make The World Worse and How Their Radical Feminist Assault Is Ruining Our Schools, Families, Military and Sports, author Kate O'Beirne has shown the courage to expose the plan, name the perpetrators and give fair warning to all who will listen. All concerned men and women should buy, and read this book to show the publishing world that there is a market for any authors willing, and courageous enough to stand up and say to the man haters "we have all had enough"."

Well, not really... take a look:

http://www.offthechain.us/

Apparently loose lips sink more than ships... even minor wisecracks with any implications of sexual tension made by a man in uniform is enough to get him into a military court. Ms. Parker addresses the latest excess of the militarized-P.C.-world here.

mens_issues writes "Note the latest gem from ABCNews.com called "Retired Husband Syndrome." The reference to wanting to toss one's husband out the window is apparently OK in this article - with the roles reversed it would be "domestic violence."

The demeaning article can be found here.

Steve"

Ed. note: A recent MANN post on the divorce boom wating to break in Japan is found here.