Jeff (aka This is Not Equality) writes "A 17-year old Boston girl has earned my respect, and she is, along with her step-brother and his friends, taking on the Selective Service System. With this move, she has done more for women than the NOW could ever hope to accomplish.

"The discrimination is kind of in favor of women," she said yesterday. "But this is kind of an ethical thing. If you say women have the same rights as men, you're going to have to take the good with the bad.""

ABC news has published an article that states some important facts about domestic violence. Some of the valuable statements include:

"men are battered by their partners more than 800,000 times a year, according to surveys cited by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."

and

"(Attorney and psychologist, Claudia) Dias thinks women who batter are much harder to treat than their male counterparts. According to Dias, female batterers 'start from a place where everyone sees them as victims.' She said men tell the very same stories of childhood abuse, yet men are never excused for hitting women. Women, on the other hand, have gotten just the opposite message."

We should write to commend them for this report.

SJones writes "The Texas woman who ran over her husband 3 times while his daughter was riding in the car with her will probably get away with it by claiming, as Lorena Bobbitt did, that she acted out of 'sudden passion' and is therefore not responsible for her actions. Sudden passion is a defense generally reserved only for women who are clearly guilty of horrible violent crimes such as sexual mutilations or murders. It's simply the "temporary insanity" claim reworded and the standard punishment, which the story doesn't mention, is 'counseling' and no jail time. The story is here."

Philalethes writes "You may be familiar with the Flatt case in North Dakota, wherein a newly-enlightened mother is suing the hospital that induced her to sign away her newborn son's foreskin (see "Circumcision Opponents Use the Legal System" under Tuesday). Here is a charming editorial from the University of Southern California's Daily Trojan student newspaper, representing the views of the modern, liberated young American female.

J. Steven Svoboda of Attorneys for the Rights of the Child comments, "Without any credit or mention of journalist Adam Liptak and his recent New York Times article, and without any attempt to directly contact us for comment, the article takes and distorts information from Liptak's piece about the Flatt v. Kantak case (conducted by attorney Zenas Baer) as well as about Attorneys for the Rights of the Child.""

I will host this week's MANN chat, Wednesday night (2/5),
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 in Commercials: What Shall We Do About
the Misandry?"  The National Organization for Women Foundation
(NOWF) has published its href="http://www.nowfoundation.org/watchout3/superbowl.html">assessment
of the television commercials that aired during Super Bowl XXVII.
 NOWF's comments on the commercials are interesting because they
indicate some ground on which men and radical feminists might agree.
 Quite troubling, though, is NOWF's clear approval of some
commercials that may stereotype men or otherwise portray men in a
negative light.  What do you think of this development?  Join
us tonight at MANN chat to have your say.  It will help if you style="font-weight: bold;">read the href="http://www.nowfoundation.org/watchout3/superbowl.html">NOWF
report before attending the
chat.  Hope to see you there!

ppmnow writes "They just don't get 'it'...and neither does msnbc. Why is it that viewer dissatisfaction with this network is at an all time low? Read the following excerpt of a book featured on the front page of MSN....

So, why are so many women single today? I am certain there are different opinions to that query than whats being offered by Whitehead's book. Perhaps they should consider asking some men on this. You know, to add to the whole perspective."

Uberganger writes "Germaine Greer, the feminist 'icon', has written a new book "challenging conventional views on child pornography". Called 'The Boy', it specifically focuses on boys as objects of sexual desire. It is astonishing that, in the current sexual climate, anyone would consider producing such a book. At the same time it seems consistent with a kind of deliberate perversity in relation to boys, to their depiction and treatment, that seems to be growing up in the wake of the wholesale denigration of men. Sick. A related article on sexual assault to boys by older women is here"

After some rough times starting late last December, the iFeminists web site stopped being maintained due to a lack of funding. Fortunately, Wendy McElroy has found support from the Independent Institute, and the web site is slowly being rebuilt again. Note that the main web site is now iFeminists.net - the .org and .com domains now redirect to the new location. If you haven't checked out their site, please do so - this is not your typical group of anti-male feminists.

This NY Times article (free reg. req) talks about how "circumcision opponents use the legal system and legislatures." Must read.

Serge

Dan Lynch writes "This story is specifically about Mark Edward Dexel, but it plays of so many men's lives it could be anyone of us. This man committed suicide because he could no longer fight the system. He felt beaten so he decided to hang himself. Mark left a note to explain his reasons and he aptly blames the system."

westcoast writes "There is movement to remove the anonimity of sperm donors...

It occured to me that if Mother's commit Paternity Fraud then this may challenge the idea of 'In the best interests of the child' raised when DNA tests show a Man is not the real father.

Is it possible to argue that Paternity Fraud and Sperm donation are similar?

From the BBC news coverage....

"Those who favour change argue that children born as a result of donor insemination can be psychologically damaged by discovering in later life that they will never know their biological father."

Of course in Paternity Fraud they can know their biological father, if the Mother reveals it and puts an end to the Fraud."

Dan Lynch writes "Since Feburary is the month of Erin Pizzey's birthday I would like to post as much of her writings and contributions as I can find. If you don't already know who Erin is I will link her bio here. I feel its very important that we all get to know this dynamic woman who has challenged adversity for decades for the sole purpose of improving our lives. Both men and women."

mcc99 writes "Should anyone question misandry as a pan-western world phenomenon I suggest you merely read this article. Well, at least this article reported that the comments were denounced. Read it yourself--I don't make this stuff up, honest."

CJ writes "Actress Jane Fonda has pulled back most of a $12.5 million pledge to Harvard's Graduate School of Education, ending the school's plans for a major research center on gender in education. Fonda's intent was to study the focus of education as it relates to girls only, despite the fact that during the past two decades, most (all?) gender specific studies have been on girls. The most influential study done on gender in education was by Carol Gilligan, which lacked empirical support to back up her claims (even today she still will not provide her research for analysis). Perhaps academic honesty prevailed here, as the media claims that Fonda had to 'scale back'' the project because of concerns about the economy. I think the truth is that some of her money may have benefited boys, who are the only known casualty of the impact feminism has had on secondary education, so Jane pulled her money out." Read an article here.

fightbigotry2002 writes "When politics decides who is guilty.
This article is a study of the systematic nature in which the Maryland legal system bends the rules to ensure a predetermined outcome in civil cases. It is not enough to complain in a general manner that men as a group are discriminated against, we must understand how a system works to inform the public. When we make general complaints we are in danger of trivializing the true nature of what we face as a society. It is not just men or any target group who are loosing their civil rights, it's all of us. If we can not overcome the excuse by government to discriminate then we all have lost our civil liberties. Have so many died in 200+ years to fight tyranny only to lose that freedom by the tap of the gavel?"