Marc A. writes "This past Sunday the Antelope Valley Press ran a story about Valley Oasis, the only DV shelter in California, perhaps the U.S., that takes both male and female victims.

Valley Oasis' former director was put through "continuous abuse" by other shelter directors for helping men, according to her sworn declaration at: http://www.ncfmla.org/pdf/overberg.pdf.

Men travel hundreds of miles for services at Valley Oasis, in the remote desert community of Lancaster, California, because nobody else will help them."

MSN surprises from time to time, and did so today with this article discussing the most common ways men meet untimely demises, and how to avoid becoming a statistic.

bulldogo.1 writes "The author of this misses the whole point. She says that parenthood isn't about biology, but is about who raises the child and I agree. What is wrong about the situation is that the court only ackowledges fatherhood as an obligation to provide financially. It does not recognise the deception and fraud the mother has committed, not only on the ex-husband, but her own child. How much psychological damage is done when a parent lies to a child about this."

Shattererd Men writes "The Early Show (CBS) has a segment about David Brame. He was a police chief who murdered his wife and then took his own life. There have been charges of domestic violence but we are only hearing one side of this story.

Check Shattered Men for the other side of the story."

A recent article in The Oklahoman, the largest newspaper in
Oklahoma, sticks to the old formula about domestic violence and child
abuse: men = abusers, women and children = victims. The article, by
columnist Tom Lindley, keys off the recent deaths of Kelsey
Smith-Briggs and Caitlin Wooten.

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Surprisingly, MSN features these two stories, this one by "a feminist scholar" and this one which includes off-links to the works of Lionel Tiger and Michael Thompson. It seems they are part of the Jan. 30, 2006 issue of Newsweek.

Here is the review. Excerpt:

"But in its best moments, "Self-Made Man" transcends its premise altogether, offering not an undercover woman's take on male experience, but simply a fascinating, fly-on-the-wall look at various unglamorous male milieus that are well off the radar of most journalists and book authors.


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"Ned's whistle-stop tour of modern manhood also takes him to a Roman Catholic monastery, a lap-dance club, a men's consciousness-raising group and on a series of awkward dates with women. (Amusingly, Vincent is utterly astounded by the amount of rejection and hauteur that heterosexual men put up with.) Conspicuously absent from 'Self-Made Man,' though, are men leading full, contented lives. Perhaps this is a function of the limitations of Vincent's experiment - after all, a "man" created out of thin air and stoppelpaste can't very well insinuate himself into an elegant country club or a loving nuclear family."

Luek writes "Here is a good article about a woman who lost custody of her children to her ex and ambushed and murdered him to regain custody. She was also $7,000 behind on her child support; another deadbeat mom. The ex also got the house too!

It is significant to note what the now convicted murderous felon's mother said at the sentencing. She said, "You cannot take your children away from a mother and come out with the same person," Betty Rountree said. "It's almost like God gave children to a mother, and the father comes second."

Only a real misandrous b1tch would say something like this but unfortunately too many family court judges have the same negative attitude."

Posted on behalf of Peter Allemano of NCFM-GNY:

The American Men's Studies Association ("AMSA") has scheduled its 14th Annual Conference on Men and Masculinities for April 7 - 9, 2006 at the Ypsilanti Marriott at Eagle Crest, in Ypsilanti, Michigan (which is near Detroit); this year's theme is "No Man is an Island: Masculinities-in-Relation."

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I saw this and wanted to scream. The media ignores the relatively much larger numbers of homeless/shelterless men as compared to homeless/shelterless women, all while running "stories" like this one?? Yes, believe it.

Anonymous User writes "No jail time for Citrus County, FL teacher. Excerpt:


'Howard said Lilley received the reduced sentence because the girl's father didn't want to press charges. The vocational teacher and softball coach was arrested Nov. 1 after the girl told deputies about their three-month relationship that began in September. Lilley said it was consensual.'"

Anonymous User writes "The usual frivolous take on a disgusting double standard. Excerpt:

'Singapore‘s drug laws, which include the death penalty for possession of certain amounts of drugs, provide for different punishments for males and females.

While male offenders can be punished with up to 15 strokes of the rattan cane for drug-related offences, female offenders are exempt from caning.'"

bulldogo.1 writes "Most Australians are appalled with the way the conservative Federal government treats political asylum seekers here. They are routinely rounded up and immediately placed in detention centres (jails), where they are held for years. In the past some have been freed, but only if they are women or children. The latest chapter in this sorry story again has humane Australians up in arms. But no-one, now or in the past, comments on the gender discrimination of it all."

Dan writes "This was a study to determine gender differences in seeing pain in other people. It is slanted to say that men like to see others suffer.
The last paragraph of the article does say that the study might be flawed because the men felt threatened."

Marc A. writes "Glenn Sacks just had an article printed in the Alburquerque Tribune re the David Letterman example of the abuse of restraining orders."