thrudd writes "I am pro-life, but the double standard here is disgusting. "A 19-year-old East Texas man faces a life prison sentence for causing his teenage girlfriend to miscarry twins, even though she wanted to end the pregnancy....Erica Basoria acknowledged asking Flores to help end her pregnancy. But the 17-year-old can't be prosecuted because of her legal right to abortion."

I am against abortion, but I find it hard to see the REAL difference in terms of the law between the boyfriend and Planned Parenthood. At worst, he should have been charged with assault."

Comments? The article is here.

Without a word, the Supreme Court declined to hear the latest challenge to Title IX.

I wonder if she will have to pay for the time and money spent looking for her? Story here.

Thomas writes "The dates of this July's Second National Men's Equality Congress in Washington D.C. are fast approaching. This year promises to be even more successful and enjoyable than last year, with a number of well-known MRAs giving talks.

As you can see on the congress' website, http://www.trueequality.com, Warren Farrell will be speaking as well as Glenn Sacks, Carnell Smith, Stephen Baskerville, Jack Kammer, Dave Burroughs, and others including MANN's founder, Scott Garman.

To keep up on the news, join the email list at:
http://www.trueequality.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi? f=list&l=testo.

I (this is Thomas writing) will do my best to help people save money by finding roommates for their stays at the Washington Court Hotel,
http://www.washingtoncourthotel.com. If you are interested in sharing a room, you can contact me at mensrights01ATyahoo.com. Remember to change the "AT" in mensrights01ATyahoo.com to the "@" symbol.

I will also function as self-appointed Secretary of the Department of
Entertainment for the afternoon and night before the congress opens. If you expect to be in DC the night before the congress begins (that night would be Thursday, July 14) and you would like to meet to traipse around the Smithsonian for a few hours that afternoon or to gather for drinks that evening, contact me at mensrights01ATyahoo.com. Again, remember to change the "AT" in mensrights01ATyahoo.com to the "@" symbol."

Anonymous writes: "There's a bill being introduced before Congress -- the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2005 -- that seeks to provide civil rights protections for persons of any and all actual and/or perceived genders. Confused? N.O.W. "Applauds Groundbreaking Effort to Pass Gender-Inclusive Legislation." At -- http://www.now.org/press/05-05/05-25-b.html

(No heterosexual males are invited to apply. They are not sufficiently conflicted or oppressed about their sexuality.)"

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Nice to see this. Thanks to any and all who made it happen!

Indiana Jones writes "Feminists have long argued that women and children are the (main) victims of war. True, some of them might have been raped or beaten. However, nothing beats a complete gendercide, where a specfic gender is entirely wiped out.

In 1995, the Srebrenica massacre was the worst civilian massacre in europe since WWII. What's worst, it is a massacre of MEN AND BOYS. Men and boys were seperated from women and children, and they were systematically killed one by one while the women and children were hauled off to safety by the Dutch troops.

More proofs of these gendercide against men have emerged as video tapes. Link: http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=8 18874&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312"

Anonymous writes "An illuminating article linked from Angry Harry’s site exposes how the leftist multiculturalist movement has captured college teacher education programs in 37 states, by requiring that students be judged on their "dispositions" --- code for Political Correctness. New standards incorporate the concept of dispositions, which seek to sort out teachers who are likeliest to be successful. Dispositions "are guided by beliefs and attitudes related to values such as caring, fairness, honesty, responsibility, and social justice." Students at CUNY have been punished for deviating from the views of their feminist-leftist professors. Links at --
http://www.nysun.com/article/14604
-or-
http://www.angryharry.com/"

While searching on other matters (I wanted to know linguistic roots of the word "sanguine"), I came across this document (.pdf format). [For those of us who prefer to avoid opening .pdf documents, the HTML version of it can be had here].

The author is very careful to point out he is only identifying correlational factors, not necessarily causative factors, in his report. Nonetheless, there is still good food for thought here on several fronts and fodder for exploration.

SacredNaCl writes "Runaway
Bride - Jennifer Wilbanks, sentenced to probation & a fine.
Just as predicted, not a day of time, and the usual psychological
counseling bit. Disparate justice really ticks me off, especially when
it includes a false rape allegation as well, you can listen to the full tape
of her call to her husband here."

gilligan writes "Monster.com has added this item to their blogs.

Once again, it's the usual biased tripe about how long-suffering women have to endure the terrible burden of endless hours of housework, while their husbands (when they can pry them off the couch and get them to do some sort of work) are barely able to wash a dish, let alone take care of kids, do the laundry, etc. I know it's not a news story, but it bothered me to see yet another instance of socially-sponsored misandry."

CJ writes "Here is a story of three boys (age 16 at the time of the alleged "rape") and a girl who performed oral sex on them who was 15. Statutory rape charges were filed yesterday against these three boys and at the minimum they would have to register as sex offenders; at the maximum, they would be sentenced to life in prison. The article indicates fellow classmates are upset at the charges, and the article blames the culture's "obsession" with sex, and never mentions the impact of feminist "0% tolerance" laws in place against male sexually. The paper published the pictures of these boys (who have not been proven guilty yet) and it is Globe policy not to name victims of alleged sexual abuse without their consent. This is equality? "

Jade Rubick writes "Stop Abuse For Everyone has posted a set of Recommendations for the Reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act 2005. SAFE calls for gender-inclusive language in the bill, so that people can receive services regardless of what type of person they are."

Considering that the majority of those victimized by violent crime are men, why does National Public Radio turn a story about the Federal Crime Victim's Fund into a story about battered women?

Men are 3.4 times as likely to be murdered than women according to the U.S. Dept. of Justice. And although rates for all types of violent crime have dropped significantly in the last decade, men continue to be 38.4% more likely to be victims of violent crime than are women (see http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance/tables/vsxtab.htm).

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