Ron writes "There is a very sick and disturbing film on its way out under the title 'Off the Chain'.

The film is full of male-bashing jokes, critism and even has a scene
about male castration.

Click here to see a trailer for the movie.

If men were to make a movie about female bashing and cutting off tatters, there would be mobs taking over the set stopping the scenes from being shot!

I am asking everyone to begin a boycott of this film immediately"

Ed. note: Seeing the trailer is easier if you download the .mov file itself to your PC and run it from there using the Apple Quicktime Player or some other video player that can handle .mov files.

To download the file, right-click on this link and choose "Save Link As..." and save the file. This movie was reported in Dec. 2005 here on MANN at this entry but there was no trailer available at the time.

Of likely interest also is the response to MRAs' complaints about the movie that the producers of this film currently have on their home page, here. Apparently, they do not much care about the opinions of MRAs regarding the topic of DV against men.

From their e-mail announcement, posted with permission:

Your free copy of the January/February edition of the Journal of Parental Alienation is now available for download at http://www.helpstoppas.org/.

Click "Read more..." for more.

The current mine tragedy story points up the fact that men are far-more often victims of industrial accidents than women due to the jobs they do and the way they are perceived as being "less valuable" than women, so more readily sacrificed in the name of profit margins. As this story points out, the last thoughts of some seem only to have been of their families. So next time a feminist tries to tell you that men don't care much for their children as compared to women, etc., send them that link as a reply needing no further elaboration.

This article demonstrates the effects that government-induced financial incentives have on people as they evaluate marriage, or staying married, as the case may be. The result is no surprise, really. Excerpt:

With a new law set to come into force in 2007 allowing ex-wives to claim half their husband's pension, domestic media are warning of a possible divorce boom.

The number of Japanese couples parting ways has risen rapidly over the past 20 years to a 2002 peak of 290,000, while divorce among those married more than 20 years has increased even faster.

Now figures are drifting downwards, but many commentators speculate that women -- who initiate the majority of divorces -- are holding out until 2007.

Wait 'til the law is in effect, then take the old man for half, or better -- simple enough, yes?

Misandrope writes "Statistics can tell interesting stories. Here we learn about relative rates of incarceration for men vs women, and we also learn about a HUGE disparity between sentence lengths for the same types of crimes.

Women murderers are sentenced to term lengths about 17% of what men are sentenced to. In particular, I believe this is because in about 88% of the cases, they are murdering men, their spouses, and ex-spouses.

Yet another chilling piece of evidence demonstrating how very misandrous our legal system is.

-M"

The Men's Activism News Network has a new addition to our family of sites, planet.mensactivism.org. Planet Mensactivism is an aggregator of men's rights-oriented blog postings. We currently only have a handful of blogs subscribed to with it, including Cathy Young's blog, the DesertLight Journal, The Men's Hour, and a few more. Please send your blog recommendations to admin@mensactivism.org so we can increase this list. Also, please be aware that there are still some bugs to shake out of the new site and occasionally you'll see some odd formatting of the entries.

The only good news about this piece is that the readers' comments are uniformly against the "advice" the columnist serves up to the letter-writer.

Note that to see premium content (though I myself wouldn't call it that), one must either subscribe to salon.com or put up with watching a 4-page ad for something. At least the ad allows fast click-through to get to the content, and given what a blatantly outrageous apology for F-on-M battery the response represents, it's worth the hassle.

Feel free to make ample use of the "Make a comment to the editor." link as well as the "Post a letter about this article" button.

A few days before Christmas, PBS finally issued their statement on
Breaking the Silence: Children's Stories. (See
http://www.pbs.org/aboutpbs/news/20051221_breakingthesilence.html)
PBS' statement gives their affiliated stations a green light to
continue airing this biased program.

Click "Read more..." for more.

No mention in this essay regarding how 70% of divorces are initiated by the wife, nor any chance for her ex-husband to discuss his own reasons. Classic stuff, indeed, just bursting forth into the new year!

I was surprised, pleasantly, by this piece in the Washington Post. I do get the impression that the author is playing both sides of the fence, however. Still, it's a good thing we're seeing it some discussion of it in mainstream press. Excerpt:

Advertisers make fun of men, in part, because they always have, says ad executive Marian Salzman, who points out that the guys have been the butt of the joke in sitcoms and movies for decades. Men don't seem to mind, she says, and what's more, who else is there to make fun of? Women and members of minority groups have long reacted with hostility to similar portrayals. Says Salzman, "The only people [advertisers] are still allowed to offend these days are straight white men with a full head of hair."

But the "doofus" approach is doomed to fail with young men because it underestimates them, says Salzman, a trend-spotter with the giant ad agency J. Walter Thompson and the co-author of "The Future of Men." "[Men] think with a multiplicity of organs, not just the one below the belt. They want to be respected, admired, entertained, to be part of a community," she says. "They don't want to be patronized like they're a bunch of morons."

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!