Christopher Nolan has been arrested after allegedly assaulting former figure skater, Tonya Harding. Though Nolan stated that Harding attacked him, and Harding lied to the police, apparently only Nolan was arrested.

Note that the article states that Harding's husband hired a hit man for the January 6, 1994, attack on champion figure skater, Nancy Kerrigan, but no mention is made of any criminal activity by Harding in the case. (She later plead guilty to hampering the investigation into the attack.) More details on the attack on Kerrigan can be found here. In addition, as noted here, the U.S. Figure Skating Association later concluded, using civil standards (preponderance of evidence) not criminal standards, that Harding "had prior knowledge and was involved prior to the incident." In addition, Jeff Gillooly, Harding's husband at the time of the Kerrigan attack, and Shawn Eckardt, who arranged it, both testified that "Harding had prior knowledge of the attack on Kerrigan and procured information that helped them carry it out."

But, once again, only the man, Christopher Nolan, was arrested in the recent fracas.

Marc A. writes "Does anyone know this student in Utah who printed this men's rights letter to the editor of his campus newspaper?

Marc A."

CJ writes "The domestic violence hysteria clans expand their networks in MA: Noah's Arkis - a domestic violence service for pets! It will be housed in the newly opened Family Justice Center in MA. The DV organizers will recruit and train potential foster owners, particularly on the sensitive and secretive nature of their roles. Animals won't be walked near areas where they originally lived, for fear that the abusive men will see them. Classes in foster care will be held at the Family Justice Center, at the MSPCA, and at the Animal Rescue League. What the article fails to mention is that men are removed from their homes for up to a year without due process and are arrested and often incarcerated without evidence when any type of allegation of DV is made. Naturally, this article got front page coverage."

Anonymous User writes "With all the misandry in todays movies - is it any wonder that boys are turning their backs on Hollywood?"

Every once in a while, it's good to lighten up with a little humor.

First, from The Onion, astronomers discovered a new galaxy.

Then there's this insight from Fred Reed.

Enjoy.

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."