mens_issues writes "The League of Women Voters and Emily's List have been part of an effort to increase the female vote over the last few decades. While men and women voted in roughly equal numbers in the early 1960s, there was an 8 million vote deficit for men by the 2000 election. This 15% gap cannot be good for democracy. Fortunately, a long overdue League of Men Voters was created earlier this year to address this problem.

Jack Thomas, Jr. writes "I am so pleased to see a web site dedicated to men fighting back in a society gone berserk under the guise of "feminism" and "women's rights".



I am becoming more and more distressed each day as I witness the continuous, blatant and unrelenting bashing and discarding of men, especially white men, on television. It is very obvious on sitcoms and tabloid/talk shows, but I think it is the worst on commercials. I suppose that it is because they only have 60 seconds to complete their task, which is to make a guy look foolish, inane, and lacking intelligence and to completely destroy his self-respect and image as the head of the household.



The vast majority of television commercials now have a new purpose. Not to sell a product, but to show how many ways a man can be belittled, humiliated and shown to be an inept, blithering idiot to the delight of a "superior" in-your-face female.



There are two things I don't understand about this. The first is why the sponsors approve of and buy this garbage, which is supposedly designed to make the entire population, which I believe still technically includes us "lowly" men, buy their product or service. Do they feel that men are so incapable of making intelligent decisions, have no control over purchasing, and are so are totally inane, that it doesn't matter that the commercials make such fools of us day after day? I keep a list of commercials that offend me in this respect and I refuse the buy their products. If more and more guys did this, believe me, this insane mindset would disappear."



It's a tough battle. Women control 80% of all consumer dollars. Much like the idiotic, clumsy, ape-like, lazy black Jim Crow charicatures promoted a century ago to appeal to the elitist white dollar, the idiotic, clumsy, ape-like, lazy man charicatures promoted today are designed to appeal to the elitist female dollar. The first "Secret" deodorant commercial really exposed just how profitable appeals to female elitism are when their product was yanked out of the hands of a man (filmed in black and white with his face kept off the screen), by a woman, (filmed in color), as the message "made for us" was narrated. Other deodorants, whose commercials showed women or men picking up the deodorant off of the shelf and made no attempts to dehumanize the men by hiding their faces got clobbered by Secret deodorant. In addition to these "women violating the rights of insignificant men who submissively let them" types of ads Hallmark's Shoebox division came out in the early 90s appealing to female elitism by making horribly anti-male greeting cards, often depicting sexual abuse of men as humor. These cards outsold all the other Mother's Day, Birthday, and Christmas cards, (the ones that weren't produced by Shoebox), quickly becoming the most profitable division for Hallmark. There's a lot of money in appealing to the female supremacist majority, and when even most men can't see that Homer Simpson is identical to the charicature of "Sambo" from the Jim Crow days given a bleach job you know misandry has become so infiltrated into the social code as to be invisible.



See *read more* below for the rest of Jack's article.

Ray writes "Happy holidays to battered men. Here's a rather plaintiff letter from a male victim of domestic violence.



What I wondered about most was, "Why did this man feel compelled to not identify himself, by name, with the horrible treatment he lived/lives through?" Do you think America should treat this man/all men with more understanding and compassion, or should they just continue showing men the "get tough or die" formula that the D.V. industry, and most of America, now shows to its battered men?"

bledso writes "This site provides information on advertising and advertising agency's. It could be an excellent resource when misandric ads pop up, as they always do. http://www.adforum.com/"



Thanks Bledso, I think this will prove very useful over time and encourage others interested in media misandry to add it to their bookmarks.

Anonymous User writes... "Bon Macy's has pulled T-shirts which say "Boys are Stupid--Throw Rocks at Them" after a storm of protest led by men's advocates. To learn more, see Wendy McElroy's "Christmas in a War Zone" and MND Newswire's "Bon-Macy's Pulls Anti-Boy Shirts as His Side Listeners Flood Store with Calls, E-Mails" at "Bon-Macy's Pulls Anti-Boy Shirts as His Side Listeners Flood Store with Calls, E-Mails"



Good work and thanks to everyone who was involved in this protest, and a special thanks to Glenn Sacks for letting the public know about it. Great job!

Raymond Cuttill writes "Britain's first safe house for battered men is to open in secret over the New Year. So far: 1 for men, 426 for women. Women's Aid wants to double the number for women, that's equality for you! "There should be at least 70 refuges for men." Full article at Battered men get their own refuge From the Men's Hour Blog"

CJ writes "For the first time since tracking began 20 years ago, U.S. women outnumber men in higher paying, white collar managerial and professional occupations. The gap will continue because of a self-perpetuating cycle of workplace gains for women, according to international outplacment firm Chicago-based Challenger, Gray & Christmas.
Article here."



In the younger groups, women far outnumber men in these positions. It's only because many older women have chosen to be housewives that it's even close.

Ray writes "Are today's activist men, in today's men's movement, following, lock step in the same "whining," complaining patterns of the "militant feminists of past decades as this author would have us believe, or are they marching to the tune of a different drummer with valid issues completely unique to the real oppressions they are facing? Is their activism just "whining" or do they really have valid grievances?"

Doctor Damage writes "Apparently the answer to the question in the subject is "equality". At least, this is what the president of Australian Women Lawyers, Jennifer Batrouney, SC is quoted as claiming in this article at the Sydney Morning Herald.

The whole quote goes like this:

But the president of Australian Women Lawyers, Jennifer Batrouney, SC, says affirmative action is needed because "equality involves the recognition of genuine difference and, where it exists, different treatment".

I keep seeing this stuff and like the feminists of the 80s used to do, I just shake my head and say: they just don't get it.
When are they going to figure out that equality does not involve the granting of priveliged status for favored groups?"



Anybody else notice how she says equality and different in the same sentance? Oh yeah, no double standards there *rolls eyes skyward*

Fathers 4 Justice, the tireless father's rights crusaders in the UK, staged a repeat of last years Santa protest when 200 members dressed as Santa Clause to present Minister Margaret Hodge with a 6 foot turkey. Details here.

It seems that UK police are demonstrating a pattern in dealing with the F4J civil rights crusaders. A recent demonstration in which five campaigners dressed as Santa and held signs on a walkway above a major road resulted in police assuming they were dangerous, closing the road to traffic, and then charging them with being a public nuisance. Article here.

However unlike the case with David Chick, (aka spiderman), there was no crane or any other impediment to the police simply walking up and arresting them. So why was the road closed? Is this the UK police force's way of trying to bias the populace against father's rights protestors, by making them think they "force" roads to be closed? Would the actions of the protestors be legal under UK law had police not decided traffic needed to be diverted thus causing the Santas to become a public nuisance?

Matt writes "Week-end before last, some restless misandry-despising members of NCFM-DC decided to get the word out on man-hater Joe Farah. Read about it, see the pics at the NCFM-DC home page.

Misandrists be warned: we are not going away!

Happy holidays, all, and I am so glad this site is back up!

-Matt"

Well, we're back, even if it is a bit late :). The server is in its new home and we should have some more bandwidth to boot. Thanks, everyone, for being so patient during the outage!

Both the Mensactivism.org web server and mail server will be unavailable beginning Friday, December 12. Downtime is expected to be up to one week until the servers are relocated. I wish I could have planned this better, but the shutdown is required. Thanks for your patience and understanding.

jenk writes "
Here is a site
with war posters reworked to fit the anti-peonage movement. Some are very clever, and worth putting up. The Biscuit Queen"



Note - Peonage refers to the imprisonment or forced labor of debtors.