frank h submitted this article from the Washington Times. The article discusses a new controversial sexual harassment policy being drafted at George Washington University, which says that "faculty members accused of sexual harassment would not be told the identity of the accuser or the specific charges against them...teachers could be charged with sexual harassment if something they say in class can be construed as such." Frank writes "Again, we see that men are no longer afforded protection under the Fourteenth Amendment." Well, I'm hoping that since the faculty are the ones up in arms, that something will actually be done to stop this. The lack of student outrage about Columbia's rape policy is more than a bit disturbing.

Considering Columbia's new Sexual Misconduct Policy and the controversy it has created, the courage of student Jaime Sneider is even more awe inspiring. Sneider's NY Daily News article debunks the statistics used by the promoters of Columbia's Take Back the Night rally, including the "1 in 4" rape statistic and domestic violence myths. It seems that Jaime and I were thinking along the same lines recently (more about that on Monday).

jonathan writes "This feature from New Scientist, taken from a review paper, reveals some interesting results relating to the biological basis for monogamous relationships." One has to wonder how much truth there are to stereotypes about men and women - I felt there were some really good points made in the article, but is biology really destiny? I guess it's up to us to decide.

Spartacus and Not PC submitted this link to news that the Unborn Victims of Violence Act was recently passed, which will make it a federal crime to harm a pregnant woman, because the fetus also may be harmed. The bill specifically makes an exemption allowing for women to abort the "person," so there is a great deal of controversy over whether this is contradictory. It certainly seems so to me.

J. Steven Svoboda, Executive Director of Attorneys for the Rights of the Child (ARC) submitted an abstract of an article about the needless procedure of circumcision. "The article, "Informed Consent for Neonatal Circumcision-An Ethical and Legal Conundrum," appears in the Winter 2000 issue of the Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy." Click "Read More" below to view more info on this article and what it's all about.

Ed Bartlett from Men's Health America had an article (scroll to bottom of page) printed in the Spring 2001 issue of the American Public Health Association's Journal Section on Epidemiology. Ed tallied the participation in several key research areas, including heart disease, stroke, cancer, and injury, among others, demonstrating the fallacy that women were routinely discriminated against in health research. Check it out.

Elliot Zaret from TheGuyCode sent me a link to this article, which is superb. It discusses the hypocrisy of female stars, such as Jennifer Lopez, who complain about the way women are portrayed in film but then "flaunt their stuff" when it is to their advantage. The article is also interesting in that it is laid out as a dialogue between himself and Lisa Napoli, the co-author, with each side giving their own take on the issue. Both agree that women's sexual power is a very real force and one that isn't recognized as such these days. It's a great read.

Not PC and Jim Castelli submitted this link from the Boston Globe, a serious setback for male reproductive rights. Not PC writes, "The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court says that it doesn't matter if there is a biological connection of a man to a child, he's still the father. In other words, he's guilty of being a man. Women, on the other hand, can bear children from any man and never worry about getting paid for it. They can even get college expenses for those children in Massachusetts." "Guilty for being a man" is exactly right.

Further evidence of bias against men in medical health research was noted in Ed Bartlett's MHA mailing list, message 319. "The journal, Statistics in Medicine, has just published an important article that compares the number of single-sex studies done for men and women, and compares that number with the disease burden faced by both sexes. The study, "Estimation of Gender Bias in Clinical Trials" looks at articles published from 1966-1995. The article...concludes that while women were underrepresented in heart disease trials, men were underrepresented both in cancer and in other trials. The article further abolishes the myth that women were "routinely excluded" from medical research.

Dr. Murray Straus e-mailed me about this report from the American Medical Association about violence against men. He wrote, "despite the title, [this report] presents a quite reasonable statement on male domestic violence victims. Since the AMA is such an authoritative source, you might want to look at it and quote from it, perhaps especially the recommendations at the end."

Wendy McElroy's ifeminist.com newsletter featured this web site by a woman who's had enough feminist propaganda thrown at her. It was described as, "Dedicated to advancing reason rather than feminist propaganda on campus. "Are you tired of male-bashing and victimology? Have you had your fill of feminist 'Ms./Information?' Have you been mislead by factually challenged professors?" Take their test and see if you need to be de-programmed."

AngryHarry submitted this story from the UK Telegraph. In Tony Blair's campaign for re-election, he has promised to reserve a position in every government department for a woman. This move is intended to "compensate" for the fact that he disbanded the women's unit, which we reported on earlier this month. (Warning: sarcasm ahead) It's nice to now that, in this day and age, gender discrimination is so unacceptable to our enlightened souls.

Not PC submitted this article from Town Hall and writes, "After years of attempting to educate women on the foolishness of having children out of wedlock, it would appear that the next step is to blame men. Suzanne Fields says that 1.3 million babies are born without fathers. Of course, these children have fathers -- it took two people to make a baby. What she really means is that either these women don't know who is the father of their children or that the father of their child is not married to them. Let's put the blame where it belongs, Suzanne!"

frank h directed me to the International Reading Association's special interest group on Gender Issues in Reading Achievement and writes, "The person who currently chairs this group is unable to continue and the group is likely to fold. This is a wonderful opportunity to have a direct, positive effect on the success of males in reading education, especially considering the demonstrated poor performance of males in the recent NAEP results." Please consider volunteering if you have the background, and pass this information around to anyone you know who might be interested. Contact information is on the web page linked to above.

Anonymous User writes "Here is an article I think you may find interesting about male-on-male rape in men's prisons in the USA." From the article: ""I have been sexually assaulted twice since being incarcerated. Both times the staff refused to do anything except to lock me up and make accusations that I'm homosexual...," wrote J.G. of Florida...."Roughly half of all states don't even gather specific data on prison rape. And those that do, the data is just not realistic," said Joanne Mariner, author of the report. "The fact that other states aren't even collecting the data shows that they are not taking the issue seriously.""