dschmidt writes "A bit late on this, I know, but just wanted to point out the 10/16/2005 comic strip "Mallard Fillmore" mentions Warren Farrell's recent book and even seems sympathetic to what it has to say! If your paper carries this strip, I'd suggest writing them in support of keeping it. (Hint: Read it as sarcasm/humor)



We all know how few in the media are so openly supportive of men's issues."

Last week RADAR requested that PBS delay the release of Breaking the Silence: Children's Stories until it could be revised to reflect basic journalistic standards of accuracy and fairness. Ignoring the thousands of e-mails, phone calls, and letters, PBS went ahead and released the program anyway.

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Anonymous User writes "
Notice that women now account for 25% of arrests but only 7% of inmates in jails?"

Normally I don't initiate the post of links to widely-syndicated mainstream columnists myself, but this one from our old pal Ellen Goodman warrants an exception. If you can find an argument of some kind in here or some sense of what she is trying to get at, please, post it and clue me in!

You can't deny though that she is an entertaining writer, from a style perspective anyway, depite the lines (or circles) of argument she does (or doesn't) draw...

bandersnatch writes "From The Sun Sentinel:

"Danica Patrick didn't hold back words or apparently one of her fists after she got tangled up with Jaques Lazier late in Sunday's Toyota Indy 400 at the California Speedway. "The first person I saw after the accident was Jaques, and that wasn't a good thing," said Patrick, who blamed Lazier for the Turn 4 mishap that knocked both from the race with 15 laps remaining. "I confronted him. I told him how I felt. I was mad at him." But sometime during the ride to the infield-care center in the back of an IRL safety-team vehicle, Patrick evidently took it up a notch. The Press-Telegram learned that the 23-year-old IRL rookie sensation struck Lazier in the face. The driver of the SUV had to stop briefly to tend to the situation, which reverted back to verbal sparring as they circled the track."

Check out Google News for more journalists defending Danica for assaulting a man... I mean fair and balanced news stories."

Wonder what the feminist establishment will do with this?

bandersnatch writes "From The Globe and Mail:

Legendary adman Neil French is leaving one of the premier jobs in advertising after telling a Toronto audience that family duties usually prevent women from succeeding in the business. Mr. French confirmed yesterday that he has quit as worldwide creative director of WPP Group PLC, the world's second-largest marketing company where he oversaw famous agency networks including Ogilvy & Mather, JWT, Young & Rubicam and Grey Worldwide."

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zerostress writes "I have always wished that women would stop making movies about how they are poor victims of men and do a movie about, let's say, what a man can feel after spending 20 years in jail for a rape he did not commit.

It seems that my prayers have been answered. This movie, After Innocence seems to be very interesting. I will not judge a movie by its website but this is something I am definitely going to see. Another thing I can't wait to see is also the reaction of the feminists."

Rand T. writes ""Feminist Initiative is in disarray with the loss of several founding members who abruptly departed over the radical direction the party was taking" ... "Support for feminism took another hit this summer with the airing of a Swedish television documentary ... which showed militant feminism to be widespread, reaching into official circles: Ireen von Wachenfeldt, the chairman of Roks, Sweden's largest women's shelter organization, for one, was shown asserting that "men are animals."

Full article here"

crescentluna writes "North Country is a movie about female coal miners in Minnesota fighting "male coworker brutality" through a class action lawsuit. Starring Charlize Theron, who is quoted here as saying "This case was only settled seven years ago, and you go, 'How dare you sit back as a young female and think the feminist movement happened in the '60s, some bras were burned and now everything is fine'?"
It is also a plug for http://www.participate.net/, a website with a section on starting your own anti-harassment campaign at school and how to raise caring men."

Anonymous User writes "I know these stories are common now, but this one is a good example of the brazen nature of some of these women. She admits kissing the boy, then claims instead he sexually assaulted her, then her solicitors decide they can no longer represent her after she gave evidence in the trial. She has now been found guilty and was criticised by the judge for letting the case get "so far" because she refused to plead guilty. She evidently felt she could do what she liked and get let off because she's a woman and can't possibly be to blame. Ironically, it will probably work out that way. The judge(female) has already told her she won't be imprisoned."

mens_issues writes "It seems that USA TODAY is finally recognizing that the education system over the last few decades has been so tilted against boys that it is resulting in a gender gap of 57% women to 43% men. The disparity is even greater for black men.

While the article is not perfect (it also mentions the so-called wage gap as if it were fact), it is an improvement. The article is here.

Also, see these related articles:
http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20051020/admitboyside.art.htm

http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20051020/d_admitboysgraphic19.art.htm

Steve"

Anonymous User writes:

"'Good Morning America' Celebrates Divorce in the United States

ABC’s Andrea Canning on Sunday's “Good Morning America” did a report on Divorce Parties. That’s right, married women having a party to celebrate their divorces. In fact, Canning in her report referred to the party as “Part celebration, part exorcism.”

At this party, they play games like throwing the wedding ring into the toilet, as well as with voodoo doll figurines of the former husband.

Of particular note, the report made no mention of ex-husbands having such parties. Quite the contrary, the only person in this piece who wasn't celebrating was a divorced man: "I don't find anything about divorce to be funny at all. I find the whole experience rather tragic."

Beginning this coming Thursday, PBS stations around the country are planning to air a film entitled "Breaking the Silence, Children's Stories". This film denigrates divorcing fathers with it's bald-faced assertion that in "75% of cases in which fathers contest custody, fathers have history of being batterers".

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A surprise from MSN: What a Happy Marriage Really Looks Like

I truly believe -- and I know I can get a lot of backing from my fellow husbands on this -- that women worry way too much about The Relationship, worry that even the smallest problem is the first step on the road to divorce court. I would be the last one to deny that there are a certain number of marital stress points. But many of them -- certainly the five detailed below -- are not worth one moment of lost sleep.