This week, I've decided to do something fun and dust off my 8-Ball to see some active service. Yep that's right, you ask the questions and I'll use the 8-Ball to answer, so ask away, and let's have some good questions ok?

CJ writes " Of course little is mentioned in the article
(it would be the reverse if girls were behind). Girls are out performing boys in writing ability by large percentile differences. Federal focus on education has been to eliminate the small gap in math proficiency that boys have over girls, while girls are doing 20% BETTER than the boys (as tested in MA) in writing! Here is an actual quote from the article -"We're seeing it (boys doing poorly)in MCAS, SATs, reading and writing - It's a trend we need to pay attention to." A trend we need to pay attention to!!! What a stupid understatement, I’m sure that they will find a nice feminist solution to the problem. School systems must become boy friendly again and allow programs that interest boys. Right now masculinity is considered a pathogen, as the lesbian-feminist agenda continues to pummel normal and marginal boys into ignorant submission."

angry_young_men writes "This should speak for itself: A VICTORIAN man who donated his sperm in the "usual and customary manner" - by having sex with a lesbian - has been found liable to pay child support."

Mike Franco writes "
For anyone in MA (USA) who is interested in fairness, please help support Senate Bill 1075 for Shared Parenting which will be heard before the Joint Committee on the Judiciary, Thursday, July 24 at 1 p.m. in Room A1 of the Statehouse, Boston. To review the bill, please go to here. Several legislators across the state are sponsoring SB1075. Please help us bring attention to the bill by contacting your local representatives. The Fatherhood Coalition."

This may come as a surprise to no one. If you're a man and a criminal, you might do society and yourself a favor by getting married. However, if you're a genius...

Matt writes "This speaks for itself.

Letters to the editor are a good idea."

(Thomas writing now) This piece drips with hatred. Just one example is Dowd's statement, "Self-love as a survival mechanism: the unflinching narcissism of men may send women into despair at times" It seems the New York Times has learned nothing from its recent debacle over Jayson Blair. If anything like this were said about Jews, blacks, women—any group except men—the writer would be fired. In fact, it wouldn't make it into print in any publication masquerading as a serious medium.

You can contact the NYT at letters@nytimes.com.

It seems that the folks in New Zealand (and Australia) are starting to catch on. Consideration of fathers, who commit suicide after divorce and separation from their children, is terribly overdue, but at least it's finally being addressed.

Davii boy writes "Well, Karen De Coster seems to think that males should live to serve women. I wonder if the males she describes in this op-ed are products of a culture that hates men? It also seems to me that disrespect breeds disrespect, and speaking as a 20-something male with expired dreams of family life, the modern day female doesn't look all that appealing from a male perspective."

This week's MANN chat will be held on
Wednesday night (7/9), starting at 9:30 PM Eastern Time, at the href="http://www.mensactivism.org/chat.shtml">usual location. 
The topic will be "The Degradation of Boys."  MANN recently
reported about the href="http://www.mensactivism.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/08/2318227">degrading
speech and actions that have been directed at boys.  Why are
such things happening to the next generation of male members of our
society?  What can we do to stop such abuses?  Join us to
identify and plan appropriate responses.

Here is a short little write up on the state of things. The author points out exactly who really does benifite from 'divorce' and 'anti-male' legislation. I urge you to check it out.

This is just sick. The boys who didn't want to participate in the fights were confined to their cabins. Girls didn't fight, but I wonder if they watched. Nine to 13 years old.

And here's an essay on the degradation of boys from anti-feminism.com.

Men's activists are invited to the next chat at
MaleDepression.com.  The chat will take place on Tuesday, July 8,
2003, at 8:30 p.m. Central Daylight Savings Time.  (That's
Wednesday, July 9, 2003, at 01:30 GMT.), at MaleDepression.com's href="http://www.maledepression.com/chat.html">chat space, and the
topic will be  "Real Men, Real
Depression."  Real men do suffer from depression. 
However, we don't always recognize it, and we rarely talk about
it.  Take a step toward changing that by joining our online chat,
and invite some friends.  (Click on "Read
More"  below to see more information about the topic.)

Ray writes "Here is a petition;

I saw it posted at Men's News Daily, petitioning the government of Canada regarding hate speech. Read it for yourself. If you agree with its contents as I did, then sign it. Our brothers in Canada (and every other nation) need all the help they can get to protect them from the systematic misandry of governments that are biased against men."

Anon user writes "Former Women’s Studies professor Daphne Patai, co-author of Professing Feminism: Cautionary Tales from the Strange World of Women's Studies, slammed Women's Studies for its hatred of men and fathers on His Side with Glenn Sacks on KRLA 870 AM in Los Angeles on Sunday, July 6. To listen to the show archive, go to His Side Patai's targets included feminist "sexual harassment hysteria" and Women's Studies' relentless promotion of lesbianism."

Luek writes " Here is a female columnist (in misandric ridden Canada no less!!!) who gets it right about older females who rape young underage boys. She points out the condescending hypocrisy of how female rapists are treated by the stupid judiciary as opposed to male sexual offenders. This article is a breath of fresh cool air from the far north."