Update on the Men's Rights 2004 Congress

Thanks to many of you for registering for the Men's Rights Congress in
Washington DC on June 18-19. The response has been great. We have men
signed up to attend from Texas, Utah, Colorado, Minnesota, Florida, New
Hampshire, Maryland, Virginia and of course Washington DC. We are
looking forward to a great time together in June and hope that more of you will be registering.

Glenn Sacks and Steven Baskerville are now confirmed as speakers for the event as are Carnell Smith and Dean Tong. Mike Geanoulis from the New Hampshire Men's Commission will also be a speaker.

It will be great to be around like-minded men and women who are
working on these issues. Join us and make a difference. If you don't take a stand, who will?

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CJ writes "The cover up has already begun. Even media outlets are allowing General Janis Karpinski a chance to state her innocence. Karpanski is in charge of the prison where naked male Iraqi prisoners of war were humiliated into forced sex simulations and endured female taunting of their genitals. The Army has photographs that show a detainee with wires attached to his genitals. Another shows a dog attacking an Iraqi prisoner. Other photos have piles of naked men bent over with their genitals exposed with a smiling female soldier stands behind them. If you remember how the feminists used Tailhook (an incident where male officers were accused of touching some women) as a national outrage to effect change within the “patriarchal” military, what should be the logical outcome of this mess? If the genders were reversed, the media would still be force feeding us this atrocity, and any male general in charge would already likely be out of power. The media would be demanding a breakdown of the whole chain of power. These Iraqi men are victims of female sexual assault, yet this type of thinking is not part of the dialogue on this matter. Link to pics

The emphasis in bold is my doing, to remind you of how this is most definitely a men's issue, and that the link leads to pics of the torture, so be warned.

mens_issues writes "Ucomics.com has a new cartoon called Clear Blue Water (by Karen Montague-Reyes) that got off on the wrong foot with me. The May 5 strip features the quote of the wife about men "You can spit, and belch, and scratch yourself, and lots of other things."

The cartoon is here:

http://www.ucomics.com/clearbluewater/2004/05/05/

Steve"

Anonymous User writes "Its kind of sad that 35,000 children were involved in divorces in 2002, but the good news is that Dads are way more involved with their kids now.

"Fewer than half of the dependents were put in custody of the wife in 2002. Of 35,000 dependents for whom custody was awarded by the courts, 49.5 per cent went to the wife.

About 42 per cent of dependents were put into joint custody.

In 1988, custody for 75 per cent of dependents was granted to the wife in divorce proceedings." Article is

here"

borgy1 writes "WISCONSIN
More moms made to pay child support
A single mother in Milwaukee who had spent years raising her son without the financial support of his father gasped when informed that she would be required to pay child support. This article seems gender biased at first, but does give the male viewpoint toward the end of the

article."

Luek also submitted this story and said: "This article from Wisconsin, a misandric crazed state if there ever was one, states that more women are being required to pay child support. The article has some telling points that are very interesting like these:

"It was pure sexism," said John Hayes, director of the Milwaukee County child-support agency. "Fifteen years ago, you simply didn't ask for child-support orders against women."

Last June, the daughter was placed in Holland's care all but six hours each week. While he could use money to help pay off the $10,000 in attorneys' fees he owes from the custody battle, Holland doubts he'd succeed if he sought support from the mother. "During the custody case no matter what Mom did, I was held to a higher bar," Holland said. "I don't care what people say. The system still treats women differently than men."

Indeed, expect to hear cries of "reform!" quite soon if this trend continues.

Workingassets.com has an action center release to contact representatives re the draft. It is found here. Please use it to lobby against the reintroduction of the draft.

hurkle writes "A new study in the QJE shows that women do not compete well against men in a competitive environment. They do, however, compete well against other women. Has implications for the "glass ceiling" and single-sex education.

http://www.stanford.edu/~niederle/Gender.pdf"

mens_issues writes "Denver’s 9news.com posted a story about the reading gap between boys and girls in Colorado schools. At least this issue received some attention this time.

An excerpt from the story:

"Educators are scrambling to find books that appeal to third-grade boys after statewide scores released Monday show they consistently lag behind girls on reading tests. ... The results showed 77 percent of girls tested proficient and advanced, compared with 70 percent of the boys."

The story is here:

http://9news.com/acm_news.aspx?OSGNAME=KUSA&IKOBJE CTID=4b839e04-0abe-421a-01d8-f8efb06b2c46&TEMPLATE ID=0c76dce6-ac1f-02d8-0047-c589c01ca7bf

Steve"

MSN, not content to hate men and blame *us* for the rise in divorce as this article does, now is also adopting snooty classist tendencies. Only, they peddle them in a softer, less elitist way. Take not my word for it, read up and barf on it for yourself.

Marc writes "The following detailed story of the paternity fraud case of Taron James, a Navyman, Gulf War veteran, and NCFM-LA member, appears on the front page of the 5/3/04 issue of the Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journals, the official newspapers of the city and county of Los Angeles and San Francisco and the largest legal newspapers in California. (The Monday issue comes out on Saturdays.) It has a big photo of Taron on the front page wearing his military medals, and a statement that he is suing L.A. County. The story broke as a result of an NCFM-LA news release that also resulted in a short NBC4.TV story at www.nbc4.tv/news/2891653/detail.html. There is no link because it's subscription only. It could be harder-hitting and it has errors but it's a good eye-opener especially considering the caliber of the paper and its circulation.

Marc

CPM writes "http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,118627,00.html

To the extent that these guys are guilty of being terrorists, I really don't give a $hit what happens to them. But, just look at the delight on her face. I think these soldiers should be disciplined for this but somehow I think that the fact that a female is involved will not find its way into the history books. Also, yeah I know their giblets were blurred out but there is no way in hell a photo of naked female prisoners in this type of situation would be shown on mainstream news TV(these same pictures were just shown on FOX a few minutes ago) like this, as if they would even TAKE female prisoners - you know all that "women and children" crap!"

OldManSenile writes " Heres one to boggle your mind here,
Isn't child support for the children? I think some judges were smoking something."



This is why it should really be called mommy support.

mens_issues writes "There are at least two Jared commercials in which the men who buy their wives Jared jewelry receive the incredulous response "He went to Jared!" while the men that don't are treated with disdain by their wives. One of these men gets a cold look from his wife, while in another commercial the "offending" husband has a piece of "non-Jared" jewelry dropped in his drink.

You can let Jared know what you think of their commercials at here.



Steve"

Doctor Damage writes "It seems that every time I turn around, I am seeing hopeful signs of a change in the wind. A landmark ruling by the California Supreme Court upheld a decision by a lower court to transfer custody to the father if the childrens mother chose to move out of state. Even more hopeful in my opinion, are these words from NOW:

"The National Organization for Women said the decision "binds the lives of many women and men, for that matter, who are trying to provide safety and economic opportunity for their families."

Setting aside the blatant attempt to portray moveaway moms as abused waifs fleeing from the depredations of slavering males, if even the NOW is beginning to recognise that it takes more than weeping over the hardships of women to move public and/or official opinion, then perhaps our work has not been in vain."

CJ writes "Here is a glimpse into one of the many different directions that feminism is going in today. Granted this is just an op-ed piece, but do not think for one moment that things are not already heading this way: Any time a court ordered child support parent (read father) loses a job, quits one, or even gets laid off, this person would automatically be put into a government run - forced labor program to collect child support. If a person is forced into jail because they can not meet the court ordered payment level, the same program would exist for these poor convicts. Can you imagine what type of people would run this forced labor program? "1984" was different in what way?

article"