Roy writes "According to the National Network to End Domestic Violence, VAWA (S. 1197) was passed in the Senate today, "by unanimous consent."

Copy from NNEDV's always-lovely Allison...

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frank h writes "Country singer Chris Cagle has had a little bit of disappointing news of late. It seems he is not the father of the baby him and his "girlfriend" were expecting.

OBTW, this morning (10-5-2005), Diane Sawyer had a piece where a non-father was interviewed, along with his (female) lawyer. It seems his ex-wife duped him, and by G-d, the lawyer actually used the term "paternity fraud." I was shocked, SHOCKED, I tell you."

This at standyourground.com. Hooray to those who get the message out!

Rob writes "You'll remember an article here a while back about a 12yr old girl who hung a 5yr old boy from a tree. The boy nearly died. Before being caught, she blamed 3 other boys who were all taken from their homes and interrogated at a police station.

Anyway, she effectively escapes punishment. Read it here. Also, read her defence lawyers mitigating claims and his anger at her being treated as an "Adult". I'm not sure what his complaint is. IF she was an adult, she'd probably still got off."

Section 1402 of the Senate version of VAWA states how the funds will be used:

  (b) USE OF FUNDS- Grants awarded under this section shall be used--

`(1) to provide personnel, training, technical assistance, advocacy, intervention, risk reduction and prevention of domestic violence, dating violence, stalking, and sexual assault against disabled women and girls;

Note that disabled women and girls qualify, but apparently not disabled boys or men. This is simply outrageous.

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mens_issues writes "Our friend Thomas (Tom) Fullery has created a satirical new Yahoo group called The Patriarchy. Its web address is:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ThePatriarchy"

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Anonymous User writes "This mother got drunk and suffocated her baby by falling asleep on the child. She gets three years 'community rehabilitation'. If you get drunk and kill someone in an car accident you go to jail - but get drunk and kill your own baby and somehow that is different.

Now imagine how many years in prison a man would have got for a similar offence. "

Despite enormous pressure by VAWA advocates, the Senate failed to vote on the Violence Against Women Act yesterday. We believe the reason for the delay is that bill contains a number of contentious issues. The Senate has now adjourned, and will come back into session this coming Wednesday.

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Anonymous User writes "In light of the recent Cornyn/Kyl amendment to VAWA, the following article is disconcerting. Maybe a simple archive on VAWA background materials might be started/added on one of the MRA sites (mediaradar.org has a good start). Here is the URL."

ArtflDgr writes "A friend (whose name I will not divulge) was a bit perturbed at a kind of protest of Roberts on abortion grounds and ended up getting into a large discusion on abortion and such in relation to men's rights. You have to page down to get to some great stuff!

The page can be found here.

I think that many people here would love to see someone take so many of them on, and actually not get censored, attacked too much, and actually have a back and forth.

Enjoy!"

Anonymous User writes "Here are two recent stories.

In one case, the man was lucky enough to be discharged at investigation stage (the story does not mention that but that's what happened later).

In another case, the man committed suicide a day before being cleared by the court."

Anonymous User writes "MIsForMalevolent posts some uplifting thoughts and suggestions for those of us who feel depressed or crushed by the current status of men, and our own personal situations."

mens_issues writes "While at a local Target I noticed that there was a packet of Carlton Cards collectible magnets in the greeting card rack. One was titled "Men - you can't live with 'em." Here is what was on these magnets..."

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Baniadam writes "Story here.

"Gender-bending chemicals are to be exempted from tough new Europe-wide safety controls despite increasing concern that they are causing bizarre sex changes in children and wildlife, leaked documents reveal.

...

Research published in May showed that boys born to mothers exposed to phthalates, used to make plastics more pliable, had smaller penises and other signs of genital feminisation..."

In the EU we have some laws. In the North America I believe it is (even) more lax. I think (not in EU) phthalates are still being used in stuff like cling-film and food wrappings etc. This is particularly important for every man (person) who has a young boy or even more so if with a pregnant wife."

Anonymous User writes "Multiple false rape allegations in the same area, 8 week police investigation, fear and hysteria and a poster campaign. All unnecessary - police are taking action against 2 females and calling off the hunt for a gang of "predatory men". Read it here."