On December 2nd, the Public Broadcasting Service Ombudsman Michael
Getler issued his report on Breaking the Silence: Children's Stories
[http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman].
Getler criticized the program, saying:

• "there was no recognition of opposing views on this program."
• "I thought this particular program had almost no balance, and
  went too far, turning it, at least in my mind, into more of an
  advocacy, or point-of-view, presentation."
• "the totality of the presentation came across as quite tilted"

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Though this article has a rather stupid title and is about television (which means little to me), I found that it contains a few good insights.

As a result of thousands of interviews with young men, to determine what they want in television, Spike TV "found that men responded not only to brave and extremely competent leads but to a menagerie of characters with strikingly antisocial tendencies".

Also, the director of the Center for the Study of Popular Television at Syracuse University, Robert Thompson, states that the enemy of the contemporary male is "the legal, cultural and social infrastructure of the nation itself."

Ya think?

Anonymous User writes "A woman flying officer in the Indian Air Force - Anjali Gupta was court-martialed and dismissed from service for fudging travel bills and indiscipline. After the court-martial procedeeings began, Anjali accused her male seniors of sexual harassment. She claimed she was victimised for standing up to their behaviour. After a long drawn enquiry, charges against her were proved, charges of sexual harassment were dismissed. Now a feminist lawyer comes forward to defend Anjali saying she was punished because she dared to enter a male bastion!"

Fidelbogen writes "Men, so they say, are larger contributors to global greenhouse gassing. Personally, I think that trying to quantify something like this (with its myriad intangibles and ambiguities) is like measuring a gaseous substance with a rubber band. BUT...... notice the call to "integrate gender sensitivity into all mechanisms, policies and measures, and tools and guidelines within the climate debate."
This is the kind of stuff that makes feminism profoundly sinister... link here."

RandomMan writes "Just reading Men's News Daily, and noticed these pieces. The continuous stream of these articles about poor, oppressed child murderers is just depressing. Meanwhile, men are sent to debtor's prison for not paying and paying and paying when they don't have the means. It makes it hard to look an average woman in the eye sometimes, even though I know that most of them would share our revulsion at this nonsense."

quetzal writes "As you may recall, Debra Lafave was the woman arrested for sexual battery in Florida a few months ago. She then reached an agreement with the victim's family such that she would serve no jail time. The agreement has now been nullified by a judge, and it appears she will stand trial for the Marion County charges (and possibly the Hillsborough County charges)!!

Here it is."

Emanslave writes "It seems like our beloved pop culture wants to phase out "metrosexuals" in favor of "ubersexuals", the men who combine masculine traits and feminine traits and are socially aware. This AOL-WebMD article explains how men are redefining manhood and masculinity for themselves. I can tell you this, having the best of both worlds is one thing, but selfishly having a little for yourself is another.
Article here."

mens_issues writes "I received the following post at Men's Issues Online regarding a misandric movie called "Off The Chain.""

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Random Man writes "On the recent anniversary of the killing of 14 fellow students (the dead were female) by a deranged person named Marc Lepine in Montreal, (he also wounded men, who are not honoured at all), all government flags in Canada flew at half mast to honour victims of violence against women. Of course, that same courtesy has only recently been extended to the 100,000 men who died in the world wars, Korea and peacekeeping missions on our "Rememberance Day" on November 11th, when only the flag over the parliament buildings was lowered in honour of the men who died defending our freedom, and then only in response to harsh public criticism of the incredible disrespect Canada's so-called Heritage Department was showing veterans and those killed in action.

It's nice to know where one stands on a quantitative basis. Some details here and here and the FINALLY revised flag-lowering policy that covers Rememberance Day here.

Still, we're now 0.014% as valuable as women. At least it's an improvement from a millionth of that a few years back"

This editorial in USA Today lays it on the line. There's no excess of comments about how we also need to attend to girls. It focusses on the plight of boys. Damn! And it mentions the promise of single sex schools — one of the blessings of my life (Fairfield College Preparatory School in Fairfield, Connecticut).

I'm into financial investment, in part because I want to retire someday, but fertility rate collapse is going to flail society's pot, crank up the heat, and dump in a gallon of Tobasco. At least I know not to invest in feminism. The rate at which it's being debunked today is surprising even me.

Tirryb writes "News.com.au reports here that a mother chopped her own 20 month old son's leg off with an axe. Although she's been charged with attempted murder and other minor charges, she's getting help of course (diagnosis rather than punishment). Quote: "...court heard police had shown her great compassion since the attack... The court was told the mother would be taken to the Thomas Embling secure hospital rather than be kept in prison while on remand."

And, the father is now having to fight for custody with her parents... Where is the justice in this world..."

Anonymous User writes "Please check this film out and tell all -- a must-see for everyone. Thank you for your time GOD BLESS."

bandersnatch writes "From The Independent, Baroness Hale of Richmond will point to the "disproportionate increase" in the numbers of women and teenage girls in custody and call for judges to consider alternative community sentences for female offenders. Delivering the Longford Lecture, sponsored by The Independent, Lady Hale, the only female law lord, will denounce "some very unequal treatment" faced by women and girls who appear before the courts. "A male-ordered world has applied to them its perceptions of the appropriate treatment for male offenders," she will say. More and more in recent years, women and girls have been punished in the same way as men and boys. There seems to be less and less understanding of the ways in which their lives are very different from men's." -- Sorry, ladies -- can't have it both ways! You made your bed, now go lie in it."

Anonymous User writes "Article here:

Excerpt:

Such talk gets gender warriors on the other side loading their muskets.

"When girls were thought to be hurting in schools, the approach was to change the schools," said boys advocate Manthey. "When it's boys who are in trouble, people say, `Change the boy.'"

Dittohd writes "Doesn't Germany have regulations requiring certain percentages of women and men employees? Or are the regulations only applied, like in the U.S., when necessary to increase female employment?"

Excerpt:

Frauenbank's customers are typically university-educated women between 30 and 55.

There is also "a handful" of male clients. "We are women friendly, but that does not mean that we are hostile to men," Miss Hastreiter said.