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."

angry_young_men writes "Hello all, this article I found this morning:New laws designed to stop unsuitable people working with children have left many teachers wrongly accused and their reputations tarnished for life. Bettina Arndt reports. Sounds familiar."

Anonymous User writes "The state of Florida has joined 10 other states by not providing state Medicaid funds for circumcision. You can read about the issue in The St. Petersburg Times . While circumcision is an accepted practice in many religions, in the US millions of boys are circumcised without their consent for what comes down to nothing but cosmetic reasons (since medical justifications for the procedure have long been disproven). The future sexual and psychological health of these boys is risked in what amounts to a double-standard that is still permitted by American society, and in my opinion, should be stopped."

Trudy W Schuett writes "Richard Hayden is the listowner of the Abused Guys Yahoo Group, a support group for domestic violence victims active since 1998. Richard has been a source of much encouragement and support for both me and my activism efforts, and was instrumental in ensuring my research into the subject of DV for my book, "Friends to the End", was accurate. He was also among the first to "break the Pink Barrier" by publishing man-friendly DV works at the now-defunct Themestream website. If it wasn't for Richard there probably wouldn't be a DLJ. When I heard a few weeks ago he'd been diagnosed with leukemia, he also told me a bone marrow transplant could be his only hope. So I was determined to do what I could to help. The rest of this is in the "read more/post comments" section.

rage writes "Check out the following link and especially one of the last paragraphs :
"Surgeons in Saudi Arabia attempted a womb transplant in a 26-year-old woman in April 2000, but it had to be removed after three months because it suffered from blood clots and began to die. If implantable wombs become a reality in humans, they need not be confined to women. Some men might also be keen. "It's technically possible," said Prof Brannstrom."

Of course the article is mainly focused on women, but it appears clearly that such techniques could give a man the ability to carry a child . We are all waiting for ectogenesis and artificial wombs, but despite the articles already posted here, I'm very skeptical that these breakthroughs could occur before, say, fifteen years. And I think artificial wombs would be outlawed as soon as they would appear to cater for the claims of feminist pressure groups, as usual.

But if a man were given the opportunity to give life to a child by himself, it would be the end of feminism. And it's pretty sure this wouldn't be made illegal. Women control 100% of human reproduction these days. And that's why feminism is so hard to tackle. Because men depend on women, whereas women depend far less on men thanks to sperm banks. But if we can make our sons without resorting to a woman (remember the article stating that male stem cells can make eggs ?), we could attack more harshly feminism and destroy this ideology once and for all.

Your French brother,
Rage"

Anonymous User writes "MSNBC.com reports that Montana has enacted a new law that will require the state to provide free educations to anyone convicted in the legal system and then exonerrated by DNA testing. New Mexico is extending its DNA proof deadline to three years instead of one year to allow convicted felons to prove their innocence through DNA testing. "

angry_young_men writes "Now this is what I call justice: A Texas woman who struck a man with her car, drove home and left him to bleed to death while wedged in the windscreen has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for murder. With a sentence of this magnitude, one could have expected the same penalty had the sexes been reversed; hence it shows us that, in sentencing, there exist at least some judges who don't discriminate by sex or gender but rather by severity of the crime."

This week, I've decided to talk about a topic that hasn't been discussed in a while, and that's choice for men or C4M as it's sometimes called. So let's hear your views.

John Gardiner writes "Woman boss fooling around kicks male employee in the groin and creates serious injury. Check this out

This has got to go international. Maintain the rage! Make a noise. It demonstrates the sick and low attitudes held by women and public institutions towards men. An utter disgrace. This is a new low in female behaviour.

Fight the fight,
John"