Here's Fred's take on marrying in the US today. I suspect he'd say something similar about marriage in much of the rest of the English speaking world. (Note the exception of Singapore.)

warble writes ""In a 5-0 decision, the court said even a fit father with joint custody and liberal visitation rights does not have an automatic right to know the whereabouts of his child....Cynthia Sacharow accused him [her husband] of domestic violence because he repeatedly called her pager. She said he was harassing and stalking her, acts considered domestic violence under New Jersey law...." Gees. This basically says it all. A father can be fit, reputable, have visitation rights and it can be lost if he calls an x-wife's pager too many times in an attempt to visit a child. To qualify all a woman must do in New Jersey is call the police and report to a domestic violence (DV) shelter. If anybody still doubts that DV shelters are actually family destructions units they must be out-of-their-friggin minds!"

Do men have to wage a Marxist Class(gender) War in order to get fair treatment? Hitler's brand of marxist class war consisted of bloated statistics, vile political cartoons, insinuating and biased "scientific research" studies among other things. Pretty much like many of the feminist research models we see today. I am asking, is it necessary for men's rights groups to 'lie', to inflate statistics, to create a manufactured reality and to drive home dramatic overtones that paralize society with distrust and division in order to advance our agenda, just in order to be heard and considered? Its a 'at what length will we go to acheive our goal' sort of thought. Will we retain respect and dignaty with our objectives? A special thanks to Wendy McElroy, Trudy Schuett, Dianna Thompson and Christina Hoff Sommers for thier relentless efforts for the co-operative love of both sexes.

Chuck Jones writes "The Bush Education Department last Friday affirmed the use of destructive gender quotas in enforcing Title IX in school athletics. These quotas result in eliminating thousands of opportunities for male wrestlers, swimmers, etc., Recently on a 60 Minutes special, a male athlete who loved wrestling all his life but was suddenly told that he couldn't play because he was male, said "I pray that I have daughters because that's the only way they'll have any opportunities to play."

Please follow the URL to take action today and show your disapproval of this cave-in to the quota-advocate gender feminists.

URL: here"

Mangesh writes "Indian Supreme Court has ruled that different retirement age for male and female flight attendants in Air India does not violate the Indian constitution. Currently, the retirement age is 58 and 50 respectively. This was challenged on the ground that it is based on gender discrimination and therefore violates article 14 of the constitution. Feminists have demanded a review of the verdict. You can find a sample article at here. The law on DV in India discriminates against men but feminists have never taken up the issue. If a man subjects his wife to cruelty, he can go to jail for upto 3 years, and cruelty is defined in the most general manner as "any wilful act which is likely to drive her to kill herself or causes or is likely to cause grave danger to her life, limb or health (whether physical or mental)". A woman subjecting her husband to cruelty is not a crime at all!"

mcc99 writes "See: The Washington Times they got our name not quite right - but if you search on the name given in Google, you'll find us!"

amperro writes "July 8 CBS ran an episode of "Judging Amy" about a woman suing her husband for more child support, and then reveals that he isn't the real father! Then Judge Amy Gray threatens to put HIM (not her!) in jail! Frankly, if we are to win the war on paternity fraud, we need to call for the prosecution and imprisonment of the mothers, rather than just relief from child support orders."

Dittohd writes "Do you all buy this?

Looks like just another feminist-created phony survey that claims just the opposite of what the truth really is.

What does everybody here think? How many here know divorced men who feel they gained financially after the divorce?"

Here's another good essay on the societal train wreck known as feminism.

Granted, there are some points in the essay that trouble me. First of all, the author, George Rolph, seems to buy into the fallacy that women were far more oppressed than men in the past. He also seems to feel a need to be some type of feminist, judging by his apparent comfort with what he believes feminism's earliest ideals were--"removing from society those things which discriminate against the female gender in particular and both genders in general." That sounds rather like the statement from "Animal Farm," "All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others."

Still, it's a damn good read.

Men, who think they're going to get a fair deal by marrying foreign (especially Japanese) women, should read this. As fair warning, take note of the statement, "Even if children are taken away from a parent abroad who has legal custody and are brought here, Japan is a haven from international law."

Dittohd writes "The John Walsh Show, a talk show on during the day, did the entire show today (7/15/2003) on fathers forced into fathering children of other men after the wife cheats and doesn't tell the husband. Here's a link to the website giving details of the show. One guy didn't find out until after the divorce because of one of his children's medical problems, that 3 of his 4 children weren't his. If it weren't for that, he still wouldn't know the truth. Another guy didn't find out until after his wife died. A year later, the biological father who had had an affair with the wife, claimed that he was the child's biological father and sought full custody of the child. Naturally, the wife and John Walsh, in the first case, were more on the side of the man sucking it up and continuing to father the children and pay child support ($1100 per month!) for the SAKE OF THE CHILDREN. Don't you get sick of that "for the sake of the children" crap being used whenever it's convenient?"

rage writes "As some of you already know, scientists managed to make eggs out of male embryonic stem cells a few weeks ago. Following this step towards male reproductive independance, here is an explanation
of the whole process to enabling two men to have a baby who is genetically theirs. Note that a donor is required for the first egg used to cloning the man willing to obtain an egg of his own, but once one woman has given an egg, then theorically no more women are needed for every man interested in the experiment, as scientists then have at disposal a virtual infinite supply of eggs thanks to embryonic male stem cells."

WHOA!

Here's an essay on how feminism is leading to anti-social behavior by men. I'd say it hits quite a few nails on the head.

I will be hosting this week's MANN chat in Steve Imparl's place. The topic for this chat will be the new NH Commission on the Status of Men and its future. This Wednesday, NH Governor Craig Benson will announce the final two nominations for the NH Commission on the Status of Men. This is the final step we've been waiting for since last May when former Governor Jeanne Shaheen signed the bill into law. What kinds of strategies do you think the NH Men's Commission should use, given its mission? And how do you think it can overcome the problem of its complete lack of funding? Join us Wednesday night, July 16, starting at 9:30 PM Eastern Time in the usual place for a discussion of this topic.

angry_young_men writes "Woman admits rape lies. She talked her kids into lying on her behalf too - heavy stuff."