After months of hard work, our VAWA campaign has registered a major success. On Wednesday the House Judiciary Committee did its mark-up of the Violence Against Women Act and added this language to make the House bill male-inclusive.

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Rand T. writes ""[W]hat happens to sperm in a bank when you stop paying to keep it frozen? Can your estranged wife pick up the freezing bills and use your sperm, then come after you for child support payments?"

Story here."

Wonder what sort of time she'll get-- if any? Story here.

Anonymous User writes "Why is it when a woman slices off a man's penis she is only guilty of aggravated assualt and not aggravated sexual assualt?

It seems to me that there appear to be more and more attacks on mens gentials - well at least this woman was jailed, unlike the Kim Tran case, were the violent woman was given a conditional sentence so she could - get this - still see her children."

Kingsley G. Morse Jr. writes "

Who: Mel Feit of the (U.S.) National Center for
Men



What: Talks about men's reproductive choice



When: July 27th, 2005, 7:30 PM EST



Where: Regional News Network (New York,
Connecticut, New Jersey and North
East Pennsylvania)



Why: Public education"

Anonymous User writes "A commerical for Country Cup Soup in Australia depicts a police officer head-butting a man and then kicking him in as hard as she can in the groin. Once again complaints about violence against men in advertising are dismissed. In fact the kick to the groin is considered "humourous". I was disgusted when I saw this commerical here in Australia and now outraged that the complaints against it are just dismissed as "get a sense of humour".

See http://www.advertisingstandardsbureau.com.au/PDF/05_150.pdf."

Posted on behalf of Matthew Hess:

"I head an organization in San Diego called MGMbill.org, and our goal is to pass federal and state legislation that would amend existing female circumcision laws to make them gender neutral."

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Last Tuesday, July 19th, the Senate Judiciary Committee held "hearings" on the bill to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act which left them no better informed about the truth of VAWA. A transcript of the testimony can be seen at http://judiciary.senate.gov/hearing.cfm?id=1570.

Now we turn our focus to the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime. This week we're asking you to contact members of that committee to inform them of the facts on VAWA.

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The talk I gave at the 2005 Men's Equality Conference in Washington, D.C. last weekend is now available for download. The breakout session was titled "Internet Tools for Promoting Collaboration and Activism," and you can download the mp3 audio of it (9.3 MB) as well as the PDF slides (350 kb) to follow along with (except for the live demo part). My talk didn't exactly set the world on fire but I wanted to make it available in case others might find it useful. Enjoy!

zerostress writes " This article in the Canada.com
talk about the latest book by John Irving ( of The World According to Garp fame ) , Until I Find You. In this book, Irving, himself a victim of sexual abuse by an older female family friend, approach the subject of
of sexual abuse and its repercussion on the life of a man."

zerostress writes " This article in the Globe and Mail
talk about the latest book by John Irving
( of The World According to Garp fame ) , Until I Find You. In this book, Irving, himself a victim of sexual abuse by an older female family friend, approach the subject of
of sexual abuse and its repercussion on the life of a man. Warning : contains spoilers, heeds author's advice."

Anonymous user writes "The Alabama state House passed a bill yesterday that would require mandatory castration of persons convicted of violent sex crimes against children under 12 years old.

The associated press story is available here."

Ray writes "Here's an online site that has a canned letter opposing the VAWA.
Tell Congress to Amend or Reject VAWA!

You can send the message by email or Western Union for $8.95. It's fairly easy to fill out and automatically provides your elected Reps from the address you enter. If you haven't sent something yet, or even if you have, here is an opportunity to voice your opposition to this horrible man-destroying law. The process starts with you entering your zip code."

Pressure continues to mount to reform VAWA, a law that discriminates against men and shreds their civil liberties.

In recent weeks a number of Op-Ed columns have targeted VAWA. On Tuesday, well-known writer Phyllis Schlafly published a bell-ringer column that called VAWA an example of "anti-marriage and anti-male ideology" and called for persons to "stop the act from spending any more taxpayers' money to promote family dissolution and fatherless children."

Her full column is reprinted below.

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Roy writes "The Senate Judiciary Committee has published most of the transcripts from those who testified at yesterday's VAWA hearing. It is the usual litany of feminist misinformation, hysteria, and misandrist screed, with no mention of male DV victims that I could find on a first read. Testifying were the heads of the National Sherriff's Association, Director of the Office on Violence Against Women, Director of the National Network to End Domestic Violence, and actress Salma Hayek, among others."