As tempted as I am to go off on an editorial, I will let MANN readers do the honors. Read it and laugh/weep/fume/etc.

Posted on behalf of author:

Hello everyone.

I am working directly with the United States coordinator for Fathers 4 Justice and would like to hear from anyone that is being raked over the coals and that would be interested in becoming active with F4J on any level.

Many of our local groups tread lightly and speak with a soft voice and we have all seen exactly how much hasn't changed for any of us. While some are intimidated by F4J, as you have seen people are taking notice whether it is Batman or Santa, things are happening abroad as a result of their efforts and the time has come for us to get on board here.

We owe it to ourselves and our children to do whatever it takes (legally of course) to make change happen. If you are willing to be an active participant in a demonstration or if you'd prefer to be involved behind the scenes we need your help.

I can be contacted at MnDadsRock@aol.com. I look forward to hearing from you.

AngryMan writes "A 'Mob' of 40 girls suspended from school after attacking and threatening to kill a girl in a dispute over a boyfriend. What was that about 'sugar and spice'? Story here"

Anonymous User writes "Please consider our new web site as it relates to McGarry Bowen and the Verizon DSL advertising campaign. Please let them know what you think, and pass it on!


Ed. note: This is a follow-up to the issue discussed here.

A.J. writes "In this article Jim Walsh at the Arizona Republic removes a few threads from the lace curtain. He proposes that women are less likely than men to get the death penalty in capital offenses due to cultural reasons. A quote from the article: "In the minds of the jury and the judge, they don't believe women deserve the death penalty." The author can be contacted at: jim.walsh@arizonarepublic.com.

AngryMan writes "In London, a mother is accused of killing her 9-year-old son by deliberate salt poisoning. Story here"

The Lace Curtain getting a few tears in it.... encouraging story here. Their website is here.

Ahhh, nice to read this after a long and tiring holiday week-end... good work guys!

Linucs writes "Reuters tells us about the latest news from the "nurturing department": "HOUSTON (Reuters) - A Texas woman who allegedly severed her 11-month-old daughter's arms and then called police to report the crime was charged with capital murder on Monday, authorities said. Police in the Dallas suburb of Plano said Dena Schlosser, 35, sounded calm when she phoned the department and told officers what she had done." Of course, it's always due to depression. Also note the usual lack of the strong words..."

mens_issues writes "This article is a rationalization by a law professor (Jan Laitos)
regarding the increasing arrest of women in domestic violence
cases. It appears that she can't accept the reality that women are
as responsible for domestic violence as are men. She is mostly concerned that the arrest of women in DV cases is "inappropriate"

A link to the story is:

here
To email this station: kusa@9news.com

To email Jan Laitos: jlaitos@law.du.edu"

chicago joe writes "An article appearing in the Chicago Tribune today explored the controversy surrounding the use of a testosterone skin patch to treat female sexual dysfunction. In the article, Amy Allina, the Program and Policy Director for the National Women's Health Network based in Washington D.C. states that a lack of sexual desire in a woman can be related to one thing; "Maybe the real problem is their husband is a jerk."
Here is a woman that is a program and policy director for a national organization and she finds comfort and confidence using ugly gender stereotypes and degrading language to analyze and procure policy in Washington D.C..
Anybody else find this disturbing?
I'm going to drop them a few words explaining how disgusted I am with their imature "Sex and the City" approach to serious healthcare issues. If anyone cares to join me, their contact info is: nwhn@nwhn.org.
Maybe they need to find a real woman to do Mrs. Allina's job because this teenage approach isn't working."

Luek writes "Here is an article about a woman who posed as a Saudi Princess and got a special big spender's credit card from American Express and maxed it out big time. Now she is claiming innocence and compensable injury because AmEx should have known she was a fake and mentally unbalanced and is suing them for $2,000,000. She is out of jail on $100,000 bail which she probably put on another credit card. Something gives me the feeling that she might win!"

this is not equality writes "Granted, this is occuring in the middle east, but shouldn't someone be calling these mothers out for abusing their sons by encouraging them to commit suicide in the name of allah...by using lies, pressure, propoganda and pseudo-martyrdom status?!?!

mens_issues writes "One of the anti-male Jared commercials reappeared on TV earlier this week. Please click on "Read More/Post Comments" to see my message to them at:

this link

"Jared has in the past run several commercials where the men who buy their wives Jared jewelry receive the incredulous response "He went to Jared!" In contrast, the men that don't are treated with disdain by their wives. Several months ago there was a letter writing campaign which targeted these commercials, resulting in an apologetic response from Jared.

For some time it appeared that these commercials had been taken off the air. Unfortunately, at least one of these commercials seems to have reappeared."


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MANN Admins received the following from William Levy of The Council for the Status of Men - Canada. It is as follows:

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Press Release:

Open letter to Mr. Paul Martin

11-24-04

HOW MUCH MORE BLOOD Mr. Martin!

10 YEARS AND 30,000 MALE SUICIDES

- STILL NOT A PENNY FOR MEN

The Suicide Letter of Andrew T. Renouf (10 YEARS AGO October 17) - http://www.fact.on.ca/renouf/r_letter.htm

If Andy was a Woman, he would still be alive today, clothed and fed, seeing his now Adult daughter and getting money for his home and free counseling.

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