William "Hootie" Johnson, chairman of Augusta National Golf Club, home to the annual Masters tournament, has dared to stand up to the feminists. Martha Burk, chair of the National Council of Women's Organizations, has contacted Johnson, in a manner that he found "both offensive and coercive," to demand that the all-male golf club admit women. Johnson has refused to submit. Burk has threatened to contact sponsors. If this takes place, perhaps we should contact the same sponsors and go out of our way to purchase their products.

The latest article of Glenn Sacks is sure to put him on the highest ranking of N.O.W's hit list. In it, Sacks exposes fundamental flaws in the survey which the report was based on - not the least of which includes the fact that the survey respondents were all women (it's kind of hard to conclude that courts would be biased against men when men aren't even asked). Sacks' article was printed in the Los Angeles Daily Journal and the San Fransisco Daily Journal, and I'm sure will result in a lot of scrutiny of NOW's report for the foreseeable future. The men's movement owes a debt of gratitude for Sacks for writing such a courageous, well researched article.

Trudy W Schuett writes "The popular DLJ columnist is back, this time with a modernized
version of "Medea." Far from being heavy or obscure, this David
Reiser treatment of the story is readable, while being no less
heart-searing than the original.

As you may know, the most famous version of Medea is the Greek
tragedy by Euripides, the dramatization of an
event that has probably happened many, many times. In the
Euripides version, Medea murders her children in front of their
father, Jason (of Jason and the Argonauts fame). He had left her
for a woman with greater wealth, power, youth, and beauty; not
four attributes likely to endear him to Medea. Medea quickly
realizes that the only way she can adequately achieve revenge
against Jason is by murdering the children. One by one, they line
up obediently, kneel at her feet, and allow her to slit their
throats, as their father is forced to watch."

SJones writes "Progressive Insurance has begun running an ad in which an angry ex-girlfriend or ex-wife is depicted as creating a voo doo doll of her ex and then injuring him in various ways. At the end of the commercial she uses pliers on his genitals and we are shown him making a horrible face for the last shot. Apparently this insurance company thinks sexual abuse of males is a good way to sell insurance. Unless they hear otherwise from us this will likely continue."

J. Steven Svoboda sent in a couple of interesting press releases on the topic of circumcision. The releases are fairly heavily formatted so I will simply make them downloadable in their native MS Word format. The first one outlines a study in the Journal of Health Psychology which shows that circumcision can be the cause of certain psychological problems, including Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The second release announces that the state of Arizona has become the seventh state to bar Medicaid funding for infant circumcision, with other states likely to follow.

This article from the Canadian press mentions the recent revocation of a Budwieser beer ad which showed women slapping their boyfriends for looking at other women. Due to "a handful" of complaints, the ad was pulled, as was a Chrysler ad in 1999 which had the same theme. The article describes the ad as being "pulled", but then says that it will still be run after 11 PM. Still, it's definitely worthwhile to keep track of progress such as this that we can build on.

My jaw dropped as I was forwarded the following press release by Marc Angelucci from the Los Angeles chapter of the National Coalition of Free Men. They have taken the bold step in filing suit against L.A. County for refusing to establish a men's commission, while a women's commission exists. Suits are also to be filed in Orange county and San Bernardino for discrimination against men in domestic violence shelters. Read More below for the whole story. And get involved in this if you can!

In Wendy McElroy's latest FoxNews column, we get more of an idea of how low some radical feminists are willing to stoop to attack prominent supporters of men's rights. The CA NOW Report controversy is looking to become one of the most prominent events highlighting men's rights and how misinformation is being spread by anti-male feminists in recent history - so if you've been waiting for a time to write something to your local newspaper, the time is now. Let's try to heap as much media and public attention on this battle as possible.

Cherie Booth, the wife of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, is apparently about to propose that mothers be sentenced far more leniently than others for given crimes. Her idea is that, if mothers are imprisoned, there is a negative impact on their families. The effect on families of the imprisoning of fathers is, of course, given no such consideration. Maybe the UK should just imprison the children's fathers for the crimes of the mothers.

CJ sent us this Boston Globe story about the prevalence of boys in special education and emotional disability programs. The article is well researched and discusses the fact that the gender gap in these programs is directly related to how vague the "disability" is defined and that we are taking too many active young men and labelling them as disabled rather than dealing with the shortcomings our educational system has with regard to teaching boys.

Tony writes "While this is not recent news it is current news since the the International Labor Union has not changed its policy as of yet. A letter written to the convention in 2001 highlights some of the issues that are still very relevant to male rights around the world.
",... the ILO's Forced Labour Convention designates one group and one group only as legitimate targets for forced labour: these same adult able-bodied men. Article 11 of the Convention states that "Only adult able-bodied males who are of an apparent age of not less than 18 and not more than 45 years may be called upon for forced or compulsory labour," so long as "they are physically fit for the work required and for the conditions under which it is to be carried out" and "the number of adult able-bodied men indispensable for family and social life" is allowed to remain in communities targeted for forced labour. In addition, the ILO states that both the forced labour involved in military conscription and the use of prison labour are acceptable under the terms of the Convention. Both of these institutions, of course, target males close to 100 percent of the time."
Here is the article and other case studies of international targeting of men for gender specific mass murder."

Cathy Young's column in the July issue of Reason magazine examines the issue of gender bias in criminal sentencing, particularly for murder. Young's analysis, as always, attempts to achieve a balance - she criticizes some of Warren Farrell's outline of women-only defenses in criminal cases - but she clearly agrees that there is a substantial bias in courts which obtains more lenient sentences for women. It's definitely a must-read article.

With the Tour de France ongoing, I thought it would be worthwhile to post news that Lance Armstrong has won the prologue and will be wearing the yellow jersey early on in the bike race. Armstrong, of course, is a survivor of testicular cancer and is responsible for a lot of awareness regarding this men's health issue, not to mention the Lance Armstrong Foundation. Let's all hope the best for Armstrong, who has won the last three Tours in a row. Will he make a fourth? Either way, he's a great role model for men and a spokesman for cancer.

Serge sent us this BBC article and excerpts from the article: "Too few men are training to become doctors, the British Medical Association's annual meeting was told on Wednesday...For the first time ever, more women than men graduated from medical schools...Six out of ten present students are women, according to figures, and some are worried that medicine may become overly-dominated by women in the future...[Stephen Sanders] said that just as it had been wrong in the past when the profession was male-dominated, it was equally wrong that the pendulum should swing too far the other way. "

warble writes "My friends, in the state of CA we have the most powerful group of radical feminists in the world. Currently, I have information that they are marshaling their forces to testify against the Paternity Justice Act (AB2240) in California on August 6, 2002. They intend to use their trickery to try and disprove genetic testing as a reliable means of determining paternity. For example, I have been told that they intend to testify that paternity testing is unreliable due to the practice of organ transplants. It is their intent to use rare examples of a person having multiple organs for an organ transplant to prove that DNA testing is an unreliable mechanism of establishing paternity. We must fight this lie with every genetic expert possible. This is especially important because CA legislation tends to set trends for the rest of the nation. Therefore, I am issuing a call for any DNA experts to appear before the CA Committee of Judiciary to explain to them why such feminist lies are wrong or misleading. The testimony of these experts will have a dramatic impact on a man’s right to be free of paternity fraud. Your testimony as a single expert will make a literal difference in men’s rights for the entire planet. We need your help!"