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."

The Gonzo Kid writes " On the main editorial page of this major paper, an attorney and guest columnist comes out and down on the side of truth. The current link is at: http://www.indystar.com/print/articles/7/039206-97 17-021.html

Dan Lynch writes "Here is a link to a great commentary site on 1984. It's one of the better ones I have seen. It not only shows how Orwell criticizes communism and socialism, it shows how other giant statist organizations are destructive to society. Like the all powerful churches, monarchy's or just bureaucracy in general, that way we won't have to make this about left/right wing politics. It can be about how the state can get out of control when it seeks control. (But if you want to point out why you think its more rightest or leftist I don't want to stop you, but I am hoping that *we* as 'men's activists' can look at it objectively in concern to our common ground here). Its amazing how we can line up the similarities from Orwell's story to our modern day. One being how "TACK BACK THE NIGHT" events are almost identical to the "HATE WEEK" rallies in the book, which use total lies and biaism to maintain that 2 + 2 = 5 (Which is why I think 'Feminism' is 'Totaltarian' and not a true 'Liberal' ideal). They have released the DVD back in April and I am hoping to make it popular again as it becomes classic next year. I think that Orwell's work could be a great basis for language for us all (and to many it already is I realize) to understand the concepts. One being "Some Animals are more Equal than others" from 'Animal Farm' or the 'Doublethink' or 'Newspeak' from 1984 etc..."

Freebird writes "A judge actually getting punished for condoning the statutory rape of a 13 year old boy by his former teacher. ""Gaeta said he didn't see the harm in the sexual encounters. "It's just something between two people that clicked beyond the teacher-student relationship," he said." Yeah, sure judge. Would that pervert - which is exactly what he is - say the same if a male teacher had done the same with a female student? We all know the answer to that one. Here is the article

Even better is the fact that people actually got UPSET about this judge's leniency with the teacher. Society is, although slowly, coming around to the fact that women who have sex with little boys are indeed sexual predators, and should be treated as such."

radikal writes "SINK SCUM, acronym
Single, Independent, No Kids: the Self-Centered Urban Male. Used to describe the growing number of heterosexual men who have little or no interest in marriage and children.

Interesting acronym from our friends at Wordspy"

Dittohd writes "For those looking for a good chuckle, try this out."

Futharon writes "Is it just me, or have we slipped so far in gender relations to practically promote female pedophilia? Check out this article, where a judge...even a male judge on this one...gets 'repremanded' for saying something "just clicked" in the relationship between a teacher and a 13 year old BOY. Why is it I get this funny feeling that he should just be terminated?"

MrDave writes "Women cannot be depicted as caregivers or doing
household chores ... Men cannot be lawyers or doctors or plumbers.
They must be nurturing helpmates ... Old people cannot be feeble or dependent; they must jog or repair the roof ... Children cannot be shown as disobedient or in conflict with adults. Those are just some of the guidelines used by textbook publishers according to "The Language Police" by Diane Ravitch. For a review of the book see:
http://www.languagepolice.com"

CJ writes "Here is an outrageous double standard: While TV commercials depict woman hitting men (like in the Saturn commercial where the sales guy says, "please stop hitting me"), and today there is a plethora of shows where men are cast as evil and therefore get the stuffing knocked out of them by beautiful models, a Boston Globe columnist gets suspended for saying that a pro-athletes wife should get "smacked" for her self promotion by means of her husbands fame. The phrase the reporter chose to make on a local talk show may not be the best choice of words, but suspending him and threatening his career is akin to an Orwellian (1984 thought-crime) nightmare. The "system" will use him as an example to shut up any dissent against the abuses men suffer in the highly sexist DV industry."

Dittohd writes "I just heard that Wal-Mart has decided to no longer carry Maxim, Stuff, and FHM men's magazines because they have been deemed "too racy."I'm not very familiar with these three magazines (I've purchased Maxim twice in the distant past) but I don't remember it as all that bad. Here is a link to the article What do you all think of the content and pictures in these magazines as compared to all the women's magazines that have scantily clad women's pictures on their covers? Are only men's magazines bad and women's magazines with similar content perfectly OK? Are these men's magazines so much worse than their women's magazine counterparts?"

Sorry folks, I won't be able to start it this week, due to going through various bouts of nausea, indegestion, and the odd headache/migraine right now. I guess I should have heated those microwaveable snacks a bit better, and the fizzy drink afterwards didn't help either. Ugh, next week hopefully.

MrDave writes "This lends new meaning to the phrase, "You go, grrrl":
FOX news reports, "A touch football game between suburban Chicago high school girls turned into a brutal hazing in which players were slapped, punched, doused with paint and splattered in the face with mud and feces." Girls will be girls!"

LeMorteMark writes "Hey,

Did you guys hear that new show hosted by Dianna Thompson and Jane Silk? It was great! I'm happy to hear these ladies standing up for us. It just proves that there are good women in America. The show is on Sunday nights at 10 pm. The website for the show is families under siege"

crescentluna writes " These are examples of out-dated but still used methods of psychoanalysis, with examples of misintrepretation. A lot of the bad examples involve child custody battles with guess who losing. I think anyone involved in one should ask for a second opinion when any of these experts claim a child has been abused or a parent is an abuser using these methods."

CJ writes "This is an excellent article in the Boston Globe by Cathy Young. It covers many issues relevant here: pay wage gap myth, domestic violence, double standards, and how Ireland's leadership at NOW embraced virulent hostility toward fathers. Under Ireland, NOW issued an ''Action Alert on `Fathers' Rights' ''she accused divorced men who seek a role in their children's lives of abusing power ''in the same fashion as do batterers'' and urging feminist activists to combat such proposals as joint custody and divorce mediation instead of litigation. What impact will Ireland bring to the YWCA? Her appointment is a radical 'slap in the face' to the founding mothers of this institution."