This article in the National Review suggests that Harvard's publishing house refused to publish a book titled The Case of Marriage out of a political bias for feminist orthodoxy rather than the reasons the publishing house's board originally stated: that they believed the book failed to provide evidence of casual benefits of marriage. Now, though, researchers claim to have proven those benefits: For the first time in the history of research on marriage, Ginther and Zovodny appear to have successfully shown that the "marriage premium" — the tendency of married individuals to make more money than single people — is an actual effect of marriage, and not just a function of a preference shown by both employers and potential spouses for people with qualities likely to bring about success.

Cathy Young eloquently writes about the oppression of men under the Taliban regime, and reminds us that the suffering of men should not be forgotten amid all the discussion in the media of the oppression of women.

Here's a refreshing tale from law.com. A man falsely accused of rape by a co-worker was branded a rapist without due process, prodded and invaded by his employer, and subjected to all kinds of humiliation. Subsequently, a jury has awarded him $150,000 in damages.

HombreVIII writes "Bob Rowan, the man who recently became known as El Dildo Bandito, was gracious enough to allow me to interview him via e-mail. I kept it fairly short with just 9 questions, and here are the results." Click Read More below for the interview. And thanks, Hombre! :)

Thomas writes "According to this article in today's Rocky Mountain News, Bob Rowan has received a summons for misdemeanor criminal tampering. The charge is for his removal of the "Hang 'em out to dry" exhibit from the Boulder Public Library. It's worth noting that, when I spoke with him this morning, he was very upbeat because of the amount of community support that he is receiving." Update: Rowan has e-mailed me personally and will be attending tonight's chat! Remember, it starts at 9:30 PM Eastern Time tonight, and you can participate by clicking here to go to the on-line chat page. Update 2: Bob called and said he wasn't able to make it tonight, but would like to come on next week. Sorry about the let-down...

I'm half tempted to not post the latest piece of anti-father psuedo-science by womensenews.org but I think some activism is needed here. To get straight to it, they blame fathers for the nearest mothers' problems and think a socialistic quick fix is the answer, among other points of mindless folly. If you want to respond to this, try writing in the letters to the editors section. And guess what? it says "Note: Women's Enews reserves the right to edit or delete letters." Funny thing is, that wasn't there last week...

Steve writes "The ACLU wants to prosecute the man who stole the ceramic penises. The story is here. You can also vote on whether he should be charged, and comment on it." It looks like they've closed the voting poll, but people have clearly come out against the display, saying that the man was justified in removing it.

Erik has an excellent web site about false accusations, particularly with regard to sexual harassment. Anyone with personal experience or other interest in this topic should check it out: http://mensrights.bizhosting.com. He includes information about many high profile sexual harassment cases, some of which are real eye-openers.

Fredpro writes "I was just browsing through my University's online jobs listing, and of the three relevant positions available one specifically (and quite obviously) encourages females to apply.
The job is in the physics/engineering/computer science field and I understand that females are a minority in this particular area. My question is, are they allowed to recommend a specific gender should apply? I'm unsure, and before I whine to the employer, I would like to get my facts straight. Thanks!" Also note that this University is in Australia.

This is a currently unverified rumor, but I have been told that Robert Rowan, the man who stole the male bashing art display from the Boulder, CO library, is going to participate in our on-line chat tomorrow night. More details will follow as they become available. Don't get your hopes up just yet, though....

I wrote this column about the draft and the perceived expendability of men versus women a while back for my now-defunct The Guy Code column. Wendy McElroy at ifeminists.com graciously agreed to use it as a guest editorial on her page. I am also linking to it from MANN because the draft is, of course, a hot topic for us.

Amazing. This story on BBC News details the awarding of a "domestic violence" award to an Asian woman for "breaking the silence" about domestic violence against women. What did this Asian woman do that deserved the award? She murdered her husband rather than going to the police. In fact, she was jailed for life for the brutal murder, in which she set her husband on fire. Scott's note: Also thanks to an Anon User who submitted this story.

The Men's Hour, an internet radio program about men's issues, has released program number 7, which can be listened to with either the WindowsMedia or Real players. They also just registered a new domain name, www.menshour.com. This espisode was shortened due to technical problems but they discussed news about World Male Health Day, the proposed "Men's Day of Shame," and calls for submissions to the upcoming masculist anthology. Check it out.

nagzi writes "This is a game show from Japan which centers on the father. The point is the show gives the father a task to do. He has one week to practice the task, and then he does the task on tv. If he completes his task his family wins a total of 3 million yen in various prizes. It won the "Golden Rose Award" from Geneva, Switzerland in 2000. The show is available in the US (Hawaii only) via Kikutv, or the internet if you know where to look. The tasks range from completing a Rubic Qube in less than 3mins to memorizing the first 100 places of the square root of 3."

Although the timing is now pretty bad (it's 40 minutes until midnight), I wanted to post something about Veteran's Day. First of all, I hope everyone took some time out to reflect upon the sacrifices that war veterans have made for us, and what we owe to them. Ed Bartlett wrote up a short essay that relates to men's issues and the way war is often spoken of as an expression of masculinity - when the only thing particularly masculine about it is the body count. Click Read More for the submission.