MrDave writes "Buster offers much wisdom about how women attempt to manipulate men in thousands of subtle ways. Here’s a sample from his daily blog:
“Women expect to be smiled at. They expect to be talked to. They expect some minimum level of courtesy and respect. If a man doesn't look at or talk to a woman, she thinks that there's something wrong. Women are fearful of negative attention; they take positive attention in stride. The one thing they find puzzling and disturbing is no attention at all.” For more see:
Blogger Archive"

The United Nations has undertaken extensive efforts to improve the lot of girls the world over. The UN has chosen to ignore the plight of boys, however, despite the fact that boys suffer far more than girls in many countries for a variety of reasons. Men's Health America (MHA) has undertaken a campaign to reverse this terrible injustice. Here's an essay by MHA on the status of boys' health around the world. And here's an essay on UNICEF's one-sided pursuit of gender equality (as if gender equality is possible while ignoring the welfare of boys).

Let's thank the fine folks at Men's Health America and work with them as much as possible.

Trudy W. Schuett writes "This AM I wrote a letter to the editor for a friend in NoCal, in protest of a fundraiser for the local domestic violence shelter. Much to my surprise, I discovered there are similar events here in AZ on the same day. (April 26)

So if you’ve got one of these going in your area, send me the e-mail contact info for whatever paper or TV station may be sponsoring the event, along with info for any corporate or government sponsors, and I’ll send them a copy of my letter (with the correct references plugged in, of course). I’ll need the title, location and date of whatever event they’ve got going.

E-mails or the direct URL for any ‘contact us’ form, please! A lot of the corporate websites have their contact info buried, so please don’t make me work too hard! Otherwise I’m happy to do this. There’s still time to get a word in, so e-mail me direct at dsrtlite@mindspring.com with your info. I'll cc you if you like, so you can see what I said."

Tor Ackman writes "This article http://www.tucsonweekly.com/tw/current/feat.html recently appearing in the Tucson Weekly demonstrates how women's violence against men is viewed very differently from male on female violence. Until the cloak of innocence is lifted off of women this hypocrisy will be hard to reverse."

Anon User writes "I am sorry that I can not be specific about the product of this commercial. I can not remember the product due to the overriding message that it exudes about males' ineptness about what is under the hood of a car.

There is one white male looking under the hood of a car for a dip stick. He takes some time to look and appears puzzled. Then a black male comes to help him look for the dip stick and he can not find it either. He also appears puzzled. Then a white female is seen standing on the side of the car. She says something such as, "Have you found it yet?".

I am a female and I thought this was a bit too much....

Commercials present all types in a subtle to profound negative light. I wonder who writes the commercials and are they sensitive to their audience. If you have ever been discriminated against and,in essence, did not have the power or the forum to fight back, you would scrutinize almost every thing seen with a fine tooth comb."

I never saw such a thing. What they did to this little boy is sureal. Read this story and shake your head, just as I did.

Freebird writes "Now here is something you don't see every day - an article from a college newspaper taking Martha Burk to task for her hypocritical crusade against Augusta National. The author loses it a bit when he calls Augusta's practices "obselete" (hmm, and all-women's clubs and female-only colleges aren't? why not?) and says women should be admitted to Augusta, again offering no rationale for his position. Otherwise, a pretty good article."

Luek writes "Last year in the US it was Derrick Miller who publically killed himself in California over an outrageous child support order. Now in Canada, Darren White has committed suicide because of the same misandric burden.

Just when will this insanity end?

The story"

The screwball, Martha Burk's protest against Augusta National for not having any women members went beautifully as far as I'm concerned. Tom has turned us on to this link on another thread, but I enjoyed the article enough to want to make sure as many people as possible read it.

Many thanks to the misandrist, Martha Burk. She's got a lot of people pointing out that men have rights (freedom of association in this case).

Thundercloud. writes "I was just watching the NBC evening news.
They ran a story on the "contraversy" of Augusta national's "men only" policy.
I have to say it was classic far-left, anti-male media bias. They gave Martha (the jerk) Burke plenty of air time to screech like the harpie-feminazi that she is. But the guy who runs Augusta was given perhaps a 3 second blurb to defend his position.
They DID show men counter protesting the feminazi protesters, But they made absolutely certain that they showed the member of the KKK that also showed up at the men's counter rally. This was done, of course, to make it appear that men's activists are SYNONYMOUS with the likes of the Klan!
I find it interesting that the media never asks the question, that if Burke is truely for gender equity, why she and the fem-squad never take to task things like the WNBA, that has no male players. Or why is it that there are at least 500 ALL FEMALE universities in the U.S.A. but NO all men's universities, and why that is the case.
Oh, no. The media would never dare ask such things. If they did Martha (the jerk) Burke's and all feminazi arguments would be rendered completely MOOT! And we can't have that. Not in misandrist America...,

Thundercloud."

zerostress writes "I found this story 2 years ago on an Australian site.
It touched me to know they are still remembered, even if
is only by a small group, the
Men's Titanic Society."

Tatis writes "Martin Luther King went to jail to end segregation. Nelson Mandela went to jail to end apartheid. Edgar, a Los Angeles teacher, risked a long jail sentence for his right to be a father. Hear this heroic father's gripping story on His Side with Glenn Sacks on KRLA 870 AM in Los Angeles at 11 PM on Sunday, April 13. To listen to the show live via the Internet, go to Listen Live http://hisside.com/listen_live.htm. Listeners can call the show at 1 866 870-KRLA.

Also joining Glenn will be Lisa Scott of TABS and former police officer John Brumbaugh."

Looks like the cynics in us are gonna get their fix of cyncism with =http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/women/story/0,1870,39432,00.html>this article telling us about the Japanese women's
standard in money. The bigest problem I have with this is they're not wanting to marry a man, but an image, and images have a
reputation for fading. This quote makes me wonder "The survey also found that 64 per cent of women questioned thought they would
never get married, although it offered no explanation as to whether that had more to do with women's high expectations or
the nature of Japanese men. I do wonder about this sometimes.

Since we're having so much fun discussing Erin Pizzey on another thread, I thought I'd add this essay by her on how she's seen the women's movement develop since the late-60s and early-70s.

By the way, I didn't dig through it, but BC Fathers looks like it may be a good site.

I will host this week's MANN chat, Wednesday
night (4/9), starting at 9:30 PM Eastern Time, at the href="http://www.mensactivism.org/chat.shtml">usual location. 
The topic for this chat will be "Men's Right to Freedom of
Association."  The recent flap about the Augusta National Golf
Club has generated a lot of controversy.  However, one point that
is often overlooked is the value of men-only spaces.  Sometimes,
men want to be in the company of men.  Should men have the right
to have men-only clubs and organizations?  What value do such
groups offer to individual men and to society, as a whole?  We'll
discuss this question from an unabashedly male-friendly perspective at
tonight's chat.  Join us for tonight's chat and share your views
on this issue.