I am collaborating with Dr. Ed Stephens (president of NCFM's Greater New York chapter) to do some research necessary for an effort to get Men's Studies programs established at major 4-year colleges and universities. There is now a wiki page where you can participate in this project, and this is a perfect activism project from the standpoint that you can made a helpful contribution with as little as ten minutes' research on the web. The information we collect will be used to approach these colleges and universities to request that Men's Studies departments be created, to collect paperwork of their responses, and (in all likelihood), have a strong body of documentation that could be used in a future sex discrimination lawsuit. Please take a look at this project and offer some help - there is a lot of work to do, but it will be easy if a good number of people participate to help break up the tasks.

Thundercloud writes "If anyone still doubts that violence against men in "entertainment" is MUCH worse than at any other time in our history, I present to you the latest Quentin Tarantino movie called "HOSTEL" (Macromedia Flash required).

In this movie two American males are led to believe that they are going to have sex with beautiful women. Instead the women lead the men to the Hostel to be kidnapped, bound and gagged, tortured, sodomized and cut up into pieces for the viewing pleasure of the "audience".

This type of "hate-male" imagery is becoming worse, more graphic and more sadistic with each like movie. Not only is it a disturbing trend, it is a harmful one to our society.
If this were FEMALES portrayed in this manner, even to a lesser extent, it would NEVER make it to the screen.
It is time for MRAs to break the silence on this issue, NOW!
The silence is deafening..."

Anonymous User writes "

Article published - Dec 29, 2005

BODY CENTRAL

State sues SR health club

Lawsuit says gym's women-only policy illegally discriminates against men

By STEVE HART

THE PRESS DEMOCRAT

A state agency that enforces civil rights laws has filed a lawsuit against a Santa Rosa women's health club, charging its women-only policy unlawfully discriminates against men.

The state Department of Fair Employment and Housing is seeking a court injunction against Body Central, a fitness center on Ross Street in downtown Santa Rosa.

(snip)"

Luek writes "Well, this is rare!

A woman who was attacking her 73 yo father with a pair of scissors during a DV confrontation was shot and killed by her son.

This woman's death during this domestic violence incident was ruled justifiable homicide.
No charges filed against the son or his grandfather."

Marc A. writes "Sacks/Angelucci print column on class action lawsuit to end state's discrimination against male DV victims in California here. A Superior Court family law judge called me saying he read this and he wants to know the data on male DV victims.

A CBS video covering this effort can be seen here."

Ed. note: Way to go, guys!

Hmmm, this is the kind of story I ponder about because the question is, is she being let off light (with a mere reprimand, when any "ordinary person" would lose a professional license, get jailed, etc.) because she is female, or a senior citizen, or a state supreme court justice, or because she is cop-friendly, or any combination/all of these? That is, is this a gender/class/sandbox thing or a combination thereof? What do YOU think?

mens_issues writes "CNN wants to hear from male victims of domestic violence. If you were a victim within the last three years, this is your chance to present the other side of the domestic violence issue.

This information is from a newsletter sent out by Chuck Corry of the Equal Justice Foundation."

Click on Read More/Post Comments to see the original newsletter with his announcement.

Marc A. writes "Today the Wall Street Journal printed two supportive letters responding to Professor Lionel Tiger's op ed on neglected issues affecting men and on the findings of the New Hampshire Commission on the Status of Men."

Good news for David Letterman... problem is, it never should have been issued in the first place. Story here.

mens_issues writes "One year after the horrific Indian Ocean tsunami, it appears that most of the survivors are still living in tents or other rudimentary conditions. Unfortunately, USA Today just had to put in something unsubstantiated about women survivors being particularly vulnerable to abuse (from the “beastly male” tsunami survivors, one is led to assume).

It's sad that a tragedy like this has to be reported on through the distorted lens of gender-feminist groups.

A link to this article is here."

She just can't seem to control herself, can she? Story here.

GOLDEN, Colo. - A woman who authorities said had sex with high school boys so she could be a “cool mom” was injured while riding in an SUV that veered off an interstate a day before she was to be sentenced. The driver was a 14-year-old girl.

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Johnson and three other passengers — her 14-year-old daughter, 11-year-old son and a 12-year-old boy — were hospitalized with serious injuries, authorities said. Only the driver was wearing a seat belt and escaped serious injury, authorities said.

Not much mention here of "dads in prison" or any chance they have (or don't) to see their kids today.

Anonymous User writes "Story here.
Both female. I wonder if there will be any real punishment? Excerpt:

'NEWARK, Ohio — A Licking County grand jury yesterday indicted a former assistant softball coach at Newark High School on three counts each of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor and sexual battery.

Jessica Spain, 26, of Newark, was arrested Dec. 16 by Newark police after they investigated a relationship between Spain and a player on the high-school team. Some staff members and a police officer assigned to the school observed Spain and the 16-year-old girl kissing in a car in a school parking lot on Dec. 14, authorities said.'"

Anonymous User writes "The enemy was his own wife. Story here.

Excerpt:

'RALEIGH, N.C. --Home for Christmas after nearly a year in the Middle East, Navy Reservist Paul Berkley was making up for lost time with his family.

He arrived Wednesday, in time to hear his 18-year-old son, Zeke, sing the national anthem with his high school chorus. On Friday, he and 16-year-old daughter Becky ate pizza, watched movies and danced.

By Sunday, the 46-year-old sailor was dead, shot once in the head during a walk in the park with his wife, Monique. She now stands charged with his slaying, along with two men -- her alleged teenage lover and her stepdaughter Becky's boyfriend.'"

If you haven't seem the Innocence Project web site yet, please take a look. The number of men who have been railroaded into jail on flimsy evidence for the crime of rape is truly heartbreaking, and DNA testing that exonerates them is showing "The System's" routinized knee-jerk anti-male bigotry for what it is. Most recent news of DNA testing-based exonerations is here. Excerpt:

He wasn't always that resolute. He remembers saying over and over to himself the night he was convicted: "I am innocent. I am not a rapist." It was a refrain he would repeat in the coming years in handwritten letters to judges and lawyers and advocates for those wrongly imprisoned.

Thurman said he trusted the criminal justice system; he said he believed it wouldn't fail him. But in the end, it did, he said, and his only choice was to carry out his sentence in silence.