A follow-up report on the Washington Post's pro-VAWA series, with links and actions to take. Please click "Read more..." for more.

A reader in the DC area who is involved in men's rights work has sent me the following item. This is definitely an activism item for us MANN regulars and for anyone else interested in stopping legislated bigotry and institutionalized judicial inequality.

Please click "Read more..." for the details and, as they say, "follow the directions!"

Anonymous User writes "

This new research shows that when adults' automatic attitudes are measured, they have more positive feelings about women as a group.

"Even though men are often perceived to be at the top, especially in the corporate world, new gender research shows that men are not generally the preferred gender. This new research shows that when adults' automatic attitudes are measured, they have more positive feelings about women as a group.""

Dittohd writes "What happened to the Mensnewsdaily.com website?

Did they close it down? Were they hacked into and brought down by the feminazis?

Just in case things get back to normal between now and when you see this post, this is what I found this afternoon when trying to bring up the site. Everything was centered on an all black background:

Rebellious Fingers Brazilian Defacements Crew!

We'are:

Ackstr0n_X - D3m0n_suspect - failed - FDL

irc.gigachat.com.br on #rf | Email: rf@iname.com

"Pra quem vive na guerra a paz nunca existiu"

"Racionais MC's"

"Negro Drama"

Dittohd"

Ed note: Wow, looks like the site was hacked by some individual or a group calling themseleves "Rebellious Fingers Brazilian Defacements Crew". I hope they will have the site back up soon.

AngryMan writes "Men are more likely than women to die of heart disease. Changing your diet could increase your life span by more than 6 years.

AngryMan writes "Home Secretary David Blunkett has lost his career as a result of his battle for access to the child he believes is his. He went to court to get parental rights, the child's mother responded by making allegations of corruption, and he was forced to resign.

As a follow-up to this story on MANN, contact information for the NPR correspondent who wrote and aired it, Joe Palca, is as follows:

Joe Palca

NPR

635 Massachusetts Ave.

Washington, DC 20008

202-513-2776

jpalca@npr.org

Feel free to share your thoughts on the tone or content of his report with him.

Clancy writes "Great news, men. The faster the glaciers melt, the sooner feminism will die since there will be no more women to support it. They'll all be dead. And, as simple as it was to kill the Martians in H.G. Wells 'War of the worlds', as the oceans rise from melting ice, millions of women will flounder to their death because "...often women don't know how to swim, so in a flood situation that can lead to a higher instance of death or injury,..."

Could it be that simple? Discourage all women from taking swimming lessons???? Beleive it, or not!

How in the name of God's Green Earth can EVERYTHING that happens either naturally, or un-naturally, ALWAYS be detrimental to WOMEN????? Take heart O ye men of the world for we are immortal. We ALL know how to swim!!! BWAAAA HAAAAA HAAAAAA!!!!!"

Perhaps MANN should also add another category called "violent women", simply because there seems to be so much of it even despite the underreporting of it. Apparently she didn't bother to show up for sentencing in the matter either. Story and video here.

Anonymous User writes "A global sex survey reports: "More than half of men globally (59%) would be willing to take the male contraceptive pill - but less than half of women would trust a man to take it responsibly."

What the survey apparently does not ask, is what percentage of men trust a woman to take their birth control responsibly. I know I don't. Mayhaps, if there are two people having sex, neither of whom wish to become parents, both of them should be using birth control?

Why trust anyone, when it comes to such grave decisions, especially if one does not have to."

The infamous child murderer is seeking an overturn of her conviction. Read it here.

Have a read, and listen to the report either by clicking the "Listen" link on the page or you can use use this link. Windows Media Player worked for me.

Click "Read More..." for commentary.

bandersnatch writes "According to this article, the US military is slowly moving towards putting women into combat roles in the US military. And the feminist response? Straight from the article -- "Female soldiers, including young mothers, should not have to pay the price for Pentagon bureaucratic blunders and gender-based recruiting quotas that have caused apparent shortages in male soldiers for the new land-combat brigades," Mrs. Donnelly said. "It does not make sense to sacrifice the advantage of modular organizations, just to make ideological points about gender equality. Land combat is not fair or equal, nor is it even civilized," she said. Sorry sisters, you wanted equality and gender quotas, you got it."

Need I say more?! Here it is. Exercise: Replace the "he"s with "she"s and vice versa, then maybe add/change some of the activities that are described as part of the questions such that at least some of them are the sorts that men may actually enjoy doing, and then see what you get!

Ahh, MSN is sure keeping up its well-earned reputation for hating/devaluing/picking on men. Maybe MANN should have an "MSN" category all its own?

Anonymous User writes "http://www.mensnewsdaily.com/archive/m-n/m-n-misc/ manthey121104.htm"