MrDave writes "Communist leader Leon Trotsky observed, 'You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.' ... A perfect view of the war on men ... In the 1930's, in Germany, perceptive Jews escaped to England, Canada, Australia, South Africa, or the USA, fleeing the war of death on their horizon ... Today, where can men escape the war on us?? ... Nowhere in the USA is safe ... Male-bashing is endemic in Canada, Australia, and the U.K. ... I have stopped trying to stem the tidal wave of anti-man attitudes ... I have come to the conclusion that stoping it is impossible ... Now I simply want to get away from this war on men ... Is there any place, anywhere, where a man can escape?" While I did post about such a place in the first Ask Ads announcement, running away will only make things get much worse.

CPM writes "Court Appearance for Texas Woman Charged in Sons' Deaths

OK I'll get the ball rolling... I suppose she had post-partum psychotic mestrual patriarchal oppression depression/psychosis! Perhaps we can even invent a few more. Also, lets not forget any men who happen to be nearby. For it is not Miss Laney who did this, some man somewhere must certainly be totally responsible for this horrible tragedy.

"We all believe as a family that this wasn't our Dee that did this to her children," I sincerely sympathize with this family, but I can assure you that it was Dee who did this. She said so herself!

"I'm not sure if she can truthfully say she understands what is going on," Files told the judge.

Perhaps a needle in the arm will help to enlighten this "petite" "wide-eyed" angelic picture of innocence.

"bashed their heads in with a rock," Sheriff J.B. Smith said.
I'll see you in hell Miss Laney; you can room with me..."

I will host this week's MANN chat, Wednesday
night (5/14), starting at 9:30 PM Eastern Time, at the href="http://www.mensactivism.org/chat.shtml">usual location. MANN
has a new chat server! The
topic for this chat will be "Gearing Up for Men's Health Week."  href="http://www.menshealthweek.org/imhw/imhw.htm">International Men's
Health Week will be observed June 9-15, 2003.  The organizers
of Men's Health Week want to raise awareness about health issues that
affect men.  Various men's health events are planned all over the
world during this week.  What can we as men's activists do to
celebrate International Men's Health Week and make the public more
aware of men's health concerns?  Join us at the style="font-weight: bold;">new MANN chat server as we share
ideas to celebrate this important week.  Tell a friend or two!

What with our buddy, Hootie at Augusta National, standing up to the lunatic fembots, and now men like Vijay Singh and Nick Price daring to forthrightly speak the truth, I'm becoming quite the fan of golfers, if not the sport itself. This Sports Illustrated article reports on the ploy of allowing the Swedish woman, Annika Sorenstam, to play in the PGA's Colonial next week.

Women have the LPGA. By letting a woman play in a PGA tournament, the sports powers-that-be nudge out a man, who would otherwise have gotten to play (a man who might well clean the links with Sorenstam).

Maybe it's time to eliminate special teams and leagues for women. Then again, maybe we should create separate teams and leagues for every special interest group that can't measure up. If I were in college, I wouldn't make the basketball team because I am not tall enough and I'm no longer as fast and agile as I once was. Maybe there should be a separate basketball league for people over 40, who are within 4 inches of average height (and yet another league for those who are shorter). The league should receive equal government funding, of course, and the public should be guilt tripped into attending games.

On the other hand, maybe there should be one team per sport per school, and the best men and women should get to be on the team.

Mangesh writes "According to the latest figures released by the Indian government, the proportion of women holding a job in the organized sector in India has gone up from 15 % to 18.5 % in the last five years. In India, the organized sector accounts for only 7% of the total workforce, and a job in this sector is a passport to prosperity. What is worrying is that male employment in this sector actually declined by 1.3 million and female employment increased by 0.4 million. This data explodes the feminist perpetrated myth of `feminization of poverty'. The following link is to the story in the English language daily `The Economic Times'.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/u ncomp/articleshow?msid=45504919"

MrDave writes "Time magazine - back in 1994! - wrote: 'the overt man bashing of recent years has now refined itself into a certain atmospheric snideness – has settled down to a vague male aversion, as if masculinity were a bad smell in the room.' (Time, Feb. 14, 1994) ... This quote in a thoughtful essay by Gerald L. Rowles, Ph.D.,
"From M.L.K. To N.O.W. To NAMBLA, Devolution And The Abuse Of Power". ... Rowles' essay offers a thoughtful perspective on what society will be like in the years ahead ... http://toogoodreports.com/column/general/rowles/20 020520.htm"

Here's an excellent essay by our ally Wendy McElroy. It's a call for an end to male-bashing, to anti-male hatred, really. And it's a great read.

radikal writes "Bridget Harrison of the New York Post, compares the movies The Real Cancun and Down With Love to real life tension over casual sex between men and women. Post-feminists never had it so angsty!

It's big post time, so brace yourselves: H. Vincent writes "This story was very big in canada
An alderwoman from Alberta went on a trip to the States with some other councillors and went missing. She turned up in a Las Vegas hotel and "told Las Vegas police she had been kidnapped and sexually assaulted but refused a medical examination and wouldn't offer police any details." People thought she was dead and the police searched for her at the taxpayer's expense. It turns out she just had a fling and got caught so she told the usual lies. She has been charged but it will be interesting to so how "accountable" she will be held. One other thing is that she has children. For making them think that their mom had been kidnapped and maybe killed she should be punished. That is very cruel abuse to put a child through. I wish they would prevent her from contacting them." Andrew74 writes "Here is a story about a Lethbridge alderman who had a whole city fooled. She went missing and when found she claimed to have been raped and kidnapped. Under further investigation police found that she had made up the whole story and instead had run off with a married man. She cried lots after being caught in her lies and we should all feel sorry for her hairaising ordeal. She shouldn't resign from her post as alderman and just take leave so she can get better after all she went through. At least at the end some Lethbridge folk use there brains and see her for the horrible manipulator and embarresment she is. I'm unsure of how long the story will be here so read it while you can." Garth writes "Darlene Heatherington, a Lethbridge, Alberta alderwoman, vanished recently, turning up later in Las Vegas. She had a dramatic tale of abduction and rape. Under police questioning, however, her story fell to pieces, and she now claims she got tired of her life and ran off with a married man for a chance at a new life. This second story has yet to be substantiated. The police are quite unhappy with her, but there is no indication yet that she will face charges."

RPB659 writes "Here's a link to a story about a woman who escaped from jail, kidnapped her 3-year old kid, and held a gun to her own child's head when confronted by police. Of course it had to have been those evil men that made her do it..." {sarcasm} Yeah, and it was in the best interests of the child too. {/sarcasm}

radikal writes "Stone Phillips, in support of the Westchester County Depression Support Network, talked on Thursday about his father's bout with depression in order to promote depression awareness Links to outside sources are included in the article."

frank h writes "Just another case of Domestic Abuse, by a woman against a man, of course."

CJ writes "A new “Study” indicates woman get biased treatment from unemployment services, yet the study states that women leave work for different reasons than men. This is a non- empirical study, it compares different sociological data with the assumption that women are short-changed somehow. The underlying premise of this study is to offer women more options for unemployment services than men. In some states women (only) have provisions that permit them to quit their jobs because of domestic violence to collect unemployment insurance. With todays broadly defined standards of "abuse" (because of relentless one-sided advocacy) and with the continual addition of incentives (divorce, custody, property, benefits...) for one gender only to claim that they were abused, inevitably more and more women will play the "abuse card" for payouts, and the feminist DV industry becomes a self-fulfilling anti-male reality.

http://bostonworks.boston.com/globe/out_field/"

Tatis writes "Syndicated columnist Kathleen Parker and Boston Globe columnist Cathy Young will join His Side with Glenn Sacks http://www.HisSide.com as the show celebrates Mother's Day 2003 by honoring women who help men. The show can be heard on KRLA 870 AM in Los Angeles and live via the Internet at 11 PM on Sunday, May 11. CDs and cassettes of the show and all previous shows are available at http://www.hisside.com/store"

locksley2k writes "Eighteen High School baseball players from my hometown of Massapequa, NY were suspended from school and thrown off the team for visiting a strip joint while they had official unsupervised "free" time during the attendence of a baseball camp in FL. while on Spring Break. The coach and assistant coach were fired although they had no knowledge of what the players were up to. They were supossed to be at the beach. All the players were 17 or 18 years old.

As far as I'm concerened this is a good example of the ill conceived and dangerous concept of ZERO TOLERANCE that appears to have infected our schools on a national level. Zero Tolerance (ZT) has caused the suspention of first graders for sexual harrasment, put tens of thousands of students on Ritalin and forced unnatural and superficial behavior upon a whole generation of minors,mostly boys.
It appears to me that ZT is attempting to convolute children into a short sighted concept of the perfect social member while destroying whom they really are. They are saying to the children "We are going to remove what makes you you because it may offend someone. If you have excess energy we will drug you (I'm not refering to ADD but kids who just fidget), if you stomp in a puddle we will arrest you, if you act like a healthy teenager we will severely punish you, if you are 6 years old we will still treat you like a pervert without regard to the fact that you innocently do not understand.

I wonder if the ball players had visited a gay strip joint they would have been so radically punished.
I believe they wouldn't have been, a message like that may offend someone."