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."

It's been sooooooo long since we had a good laugh around here, so why not have a mess with the Lifetime Movie Title Generator and post your results here. We could all do with a laugh.

radikal writes "Nothing new or unexpected about this, but I'm interested in how this relates to Warren Farrell and his contemporaries theories on men taking on more dangerous occupations."

Chas writes "Opinion piece in 'The Australian' newpaper of 8th May 2003 by a female journalist. It discusses the significance of fathering - often denigrated - and the role of the Family Court of Australia in parenting orders which favour mothers over fathers.

She says, "So often the deep bond between father and child goes unnoticed. It is underestimated and sadly misunderstood. How else do you explain a society where fatherlessness is so common?"

This is a pro-father item and is refreshing to read when Naomi Wolf in in Melbourne pushing the motherhood bandwagon this week.

An encouraging item.

Chas"

Thundercloud. writes "Recently I posted some submissions about the way men are being depicted in the media. The formost thing that I found disturbing is the images of "men-in-bondage-by-woman" scenerios as well as simple gratuitous violence against men in general, that are alarmingly freaquent in movies and TV., these days.
The responses I saw disturbed me further. I kept seeing posts that said things like; "Men like being abused by women.", "Men like being dominated by women." and "Men like being treated like dirt."
This gave me pause for thought. If men LIKE being dominated, humiliated and abused by women, then what the heck are we fighting for?
On the one hand I hear men complaining about domestic violence, then turn around and say; "But we like being abused."
I hear men complain about "women haveing privliges and too much power over them", then they turn around and say; "But we WANT to be dominated by women."
I find this not only disturbing but CONFUSEING.
Either men want equality, or they DON'T. You can not have equality if one person or people have "dominion" over another.
If men WANT to be dominated by women, and abused, etc., Then they do NOT want equality, they want to be dominated.
It is at this point I am wondering if I should even be spending my energy fighting for a group of people who say one thing, but WANT just the opposite.
I hope someone can clear this up. Because it HAS to be one or the other. It can't be BOTH!
I am dis-heartened and disapointed by this "revealation" if it is true. But most of all I'm just confused. And I have enough aggravation.......-Thundercloud."