Tirryb writes "News.com.au reports that Japanese company Yamaha has come up with a novel solution to keep Japanese women happy.

Apparently husbands can be very annoying with the noise and mess they make, so Yahama have developed a big sound-proof box called 'MyRoom' that can be installed in the home and decked out with mini tables etc for the husband to 'spend his time in without annoying the wife'. Apparently Japanese wive's are mortified about losing their tranquility (i.e. living at home while their husbands kill themselves working hard) when hubby retires. The solution, of course, is to shove him in a box so you can carry on being a couch potato.

Of course the media is treating this as a hilarious story, men treated like pets or little kids to be locked away.

Yamaha has already heard from me on how they've lost my business for good - anyone else want to tell them what men think of this, the Yamaha corporation of America can be contacted on infostation@yamaha.com. This article was originally written by The Times of London, Leo Lewis. The Times online editor can be contacted at online.editor@timesonline.co.uk."



I wonder how many fair women, who are grateful to their husbands for working their whole lives to pay for their homes, will object to their sacrifices being demeaned like this? - Hombre

Anonymous User writes "I am searching for men who have been victimized by paternity fraud in South Carolina. Please resond to soboski@bellsouth.net."

Read it here. Excerpt:

The crisis undermining masculinity has now reached alarming proportions. Under the aegis of the masculine mystique, masculinity has become the "shadow" gender. This is especially apparent in the general view that many men and women have of male sexuality. Masculine sexuality has become routinely associated with promiscuity, rape, and violence. Phallic penetration is most often analogized to the destructive penetration of guns (bullets) and missiles. The concept of generative penetration, the phallus as seed bearer, similar to the creative penetration of planting seeds in the soil or communicating a penetrating idea, is almost never associated with masculine power in our culture but was commonplace in virtually all prior cultures.

Dittohd writes "From Australia: Do you find it really strange that a judge would deny a woman use of her dead husband's sperm because he hadn't given permission prior to death? I suspect the deal killer must have been that the courts would have no one to hit up for child support."

Luek writes "Here are two news stories about how Australians view victims of judicial tyranny.

The first is about how a 27 yo Australian female who got busted in Indonesia for smuggling in drugs and was sentenced to 20 years. It seems the whole nation of Australia is all aflutter and outraged about this gross miscarriage of justice against a woman. She even has a rich male financial backer supporting her case.

The other is about a misandric Domestic Violence law in the state of Tasmania. Here a judge criticizes the law in denying bail to a man accused of DV after having spent 5 weeks awaiting the bail hearing as being unfair and not in the best tradition of Western jurisprudence where innocence is presumed until proven guilty. Of course this story is buried in the back pages and evidently the citizenry of Tasmania and the rest of the nation don't seem to give a damn."

Tom writes "Warren Farrell is to be on 20/20 tonight Friday May 27th at 10:00 pm eastern time. It looks likely that the show will validate his views and put Hillary Clinton and Martha Burk in a position of looking silly and supporting half truths and misinformation. This could be a huge event for our cause. It would mark the first time a major television network has openly and plainly shown that a feminist inspired myth is just that, a myth with the intent of whipping women into a victim frenzy.

Let's hope 20/20 has the fortitude to tell the truth."

Click "Read more..." for more.

The Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journal, the biggest legal newspapers in California, just printed the following op ed which informs the legal community about the Blumhorst decision's denial of civil rights testers standing to sue and how this dealt a blow to male DV victims but is not the end of it.

Click "Read more..." for the rest of Marc's post and the op-ed.

Roy writes "A new TV documentary on domestic violence in Sweden has sparked controversy over a comment by the president of Sweden's version of N.O.W. During a filmed interview, she rejected the idea that the Swedish government should fund "rehabilitation shelters" for men who batter their partners, referring to men as "animals," and stated that there is a worldwide "gender civil war."

Of course, there was no acknowledgement whatsoever of battered men.

"Controversy continues here surrounding ROKS, the National Organization for Women’s Shelters, one of Sweden’s largest non-government organizations to help the victims of domestic violence. In a television documentary broadcast Sunday night the group’s president opposed rehabilitation centers for men who abuse their partners, with the comment that all 'men are animals'".

Full article here."

federico writes "Here is an article about parental rights for same-sex couple in the San Francisco Chronicle.
Besides the fact that I'm not sure that this is a great idea one thing really attracted my attention:
altough in the all article it's seems all about "same-sex cases" (gay and lesbian) the title on the front page states "Lesbian Parenthood Debated". Now I think that this is a typo (or maybe more a lapsus) that tells a lot about what we already know, that of course for gay couples there will never be any right to parenthood. In fact all the examples in the article are lesbian couples."

Let's see if they stick! Story here.

Anonymous User writes "In a few more days Memorial Day will be upon us, and here is information you'll seldom, if ever, find in any college women's studies, gender studies, or even "His"tory class. "Historically, it is men who almost exclusively make up the millions who’ve been “asked” to die for their country, and in that group of millions is a select group of men seldom mentioned. Sadly, that group of Americans (all male) from a recent time in our history, were asked to make the supreme sacrifice for their country (and did so) without having ever been granted the sacred right of voting in their own country (America).'"

AngryMan writes "In the recent UK election, Blair's Labour Party lost its safest seat in Wales because they tried to rig the election by allowing only women candidates. The local politician, Peter Law, stood as an independent and won. A victory for democracy and a slap in the face for the feminists. Now they are getting their revenge. Twenty people - anyone who supported Law's campaign - are being expelled from the Labour Party. Maybe it should rename itself the 'Communist Party'."

GuyOutHere writes "In this news story from Australia, "Exhausted Mothers Walk Out On Families", we learn that "modern mothers are resorting to a Kramer vs Kramer-style escape from their families to strike a better balance between personal freedom and the demands of children." Read the entire article. Not a word, of course, about how men have had to deal with work/family balance for ages!"

Luek writes "Here is a bit of good news.

The women who falsely accused University of Colorado football players of raping them are ordered to pay the university's legal defense fees.

They will not of course serve any prison time for their crime of false rape allegations but this is a start."

Anonymous User writes "As Mary Kay Letourneau marries her former child victim, the BBC reports it as a happy ending, in a story which is largely sympathetic to her, although it does use the word 'rape'."