Article here. Excerpt:

'Paul Elam, the founder of men’s rights group and human garbage army A Voice for Men, wants women to just leave men alone already because women are always getting in the way and then society can’t be excellent! (Men are excellent at excellence, but women are never doing excellent things, obviously.)
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There’s just a different way that men do things with each other, and it results in excellence,” Elam said on something called the ManStream Media. “In civilization. In the aqueducts being built. To people landing on the moon and cures being found to disease.”

“I’m sorry, ladies,” he continued, “but if we want society to advance, we need to leave men alone to do their work — to do their thing and be with each other to get things done. Because that’s how it works.”

Article here. Excerpt:

'Sigh. A new current has developed in the polluted ocean of online videos. If you're a Facebook user, you'll have noticed it: it involves women, and men, and the former being incessantly harassed by the latter.
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Depictions of decent men have now become strikingly absent online. The overall suggestion is that men are guilty until proven innocent; this only reinforces gender stereotyping.

Indeed, we have reached a stage where feminist sites like Jezebel run stories like “How to kick men in the balls: an illustrated guide”, confirming the impression that the internet hates men. Misogynist trolling by horrid little men is a huge concern, but the answer is not to alienate the rest of us.

Story here. Actually safe for work. Most Femen-related stories are NSFW. Excerpt:

'Femen, the women's rights group known for topless protests, took their act to a new level of provocation on Friday with an explicitly sexually suggestive demonstration in front of the Vatican.

In what they described as a protest over Pope Francis's upcoming visit to the European Parliament, three members of the group appeared on St Peter's square wearing only leather mini-skirts and flower garlands in their hair.

Two of them had "Keep it Inside" written on their backs - a slogan apparently related to what followed.

After bending forward, the women dropped down on to all fours, all the time appearing to simulate anal sex with a crucifix.
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It was not immediately clear if the activists would face any criminal charges.

According to the group, the protest was organized because they regard the Pope's November 25th visit to the European Parliament as an attack on secular principles.

Article here. Poor kid, accused by a crazy woman, then grilled for hours until he made a "confession." No corroborating evidence. His parents put out $200,000 in legal fees. Excerpt:

'Prosecutors dismissed charges Thursday against an intern at a pricey preschool who was accused of molesting 13 children.

Malthe Thomsen, 22, was cleared before a packed courtroom by prosecutors who said that “after a careful and thorough investigation” they decided they “could not prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt.”
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The allegations by the co-worker, Mariangela Kefalas, would not bring him down, he said.

“I won’t let one person and a crazy justice system ruin that,” he said, telling reporters that he has pending job offers from supporters at home.
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Kefalas first reported the allegations to her bosses, who cleared Thomsen internally after interviews with staff and observations.

After she was let go, she went to police with her story about Thomsen.

Story here. Excerpt:

'NOVEMBER 12--The viral video claiming to show a series of men plotting to take advantage of a drunk Los Angeles woman was staged by the clip’s creators, who fed lines to the purported predators, dupes who thought they were appearing in a student film, The Smoking Gun has learned.

The video, “Drunk Girl In Public,” is described as a “social experiment” by creator Stephen Zhang, 20, who apparently sought to ride the coattails of the 35 milllion-view Hollaback! video showing a woman being peppered with catcalls as she walked across New York City.

Zhang’s video, shot on Hollywood Boulevard, has been viewed nearly 4.5 million times since it was uploaded to YouTube on November 8.

Story here. Excerpt:

'A woman in the audience at an American Film Institute (AFI) screening of Mr. Turner at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood responded in an unusual fashion to a man who asked her to turn off her cell phone—she maced him. 
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Unaware that the cell phone user was a woman, the man reportedly said, "Excuse me, sir." Ignored, the man repeated his request several times. Finally, fed up, he tapped her arm, whereupon she went ballistic.

An eyewitness reported, "She stands up and starts cursing, saying 'You hit me, you hit me, I'm going to call the police.'" The woman reportedly turned on her flashlight app and directed the light into the man’s face. She followed that by threatening to mace him, and indeed, maced him.
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Interviewed by the Hollywood Reporter, the American Film Institute simply stated, “There was an incident, and it has been handled, and everyone is OK."'

Article here. Excerpt:

'As the Justice Department investigates 50-odd universities for shrouding rape accusations, we face a major progressive shift in sexual politics on campus. Meanwhile, the National Coalition for Men (NCFM) is toiling to reverse this trend by using male victimhood as a weapon against female accusers. Some state chapters publish headshots of women on a page that reads “false victims”—i.e. where rape reports have been dismissed by a college disciplinary board, or where the sheriff’s department isn’t buying a woman’s story. Harry Crouch, the NCFM president, says his coalition’s brief includes helping victims, protecting the falsely accused, and unseating the “men’s violence industry.” This last catchphrase is Crouch’s way of saying that domestic violence is massively over-reported and that “often the woman initiates violence herself.”

Story here.

'An Indiana woman who sliced an 18-year-old's penis with a box cutter won't be serving any time in jail.

Bonita Vela attacked her daughter's boyfriend after she believed he molested her two-year-old son.

Vela and two men reportedly held the teen in a neighbour's house, who then told the teen he had to choose between his penis or his life.

NYDailyNews reports that Vela pleaded guilty to confinement and battery in Johnson County Court and was sentenced Thursday to 10 months of home detention with an ankle bracelet.

She claimed she only wanted to scare the teen and that he cut himself when he tried to knock the blade from her hand.

According to a police report, she told the teen if he "didn't have anything to hide then he should let her cut him and that regardless of what happened he was to leave and never come back."

The 18-year-old filed a complaint saying he never touched the toddler.

Vela admits her suspicions developed after she had smoked marijuana.'

Nov. 11 was Remembrance Day in the UK and Canada and a tremendous art installation of 888,246 ceramic red poppies was launched in the moat of the Tower of London to honour those who sacrificed themselves in WWI - as 2014 marks the 100th Anniversary of the beginning of that conflict. [In French, known as "La Guerre Mondiale".]

It was an amazing visual display. More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Swept_Lands_and_Seas_of_Red

Press release here. Excerpt:

'WASHINGTON / November 12, 2014 – A national opinion poll has revealed the vast majority of persons are opposed to laws that seek to mandate how persons give consent to sexual relations. When asked whether the government should have the “authority to determine how partners give their consent to sex,” 85% of respondents answered ‘No.’

In late September, Gov. Jerry Brown signed a controversial Affirmative Consent bill requiring that all California college students give their ongoing “affirmative, conscious, and voluntary” consent during the course of having sex. Similar laws are being considered in other states.

The survey was conducted October 27 – 28. Over 600 persons participated in the telephone poll. The respondents consisted of 55.6% males and 44.4% females. Detailed findings can be viewed here: http://www.saveservices.org/camp/affirmative-confusion/survey/findings/

Story here. Excerpt:

'A besotted nurse tricked a man into thinking he had fathered a baby with her during a one-night stand.

Charmaine Wilson, 25, forged a birth certificate and faked a DNA test to convince Liam Griffiths of her deception in a ‘lie that snowballed out of control’.

Mr Griffiths, 31 was taken in by the lie and grew to love the boy he believed he had fathered her child during the one-off drunken encounter.
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In fact, the two-year-old toddler belonged to one of Wilson’s friends – who also had no idea what she had been up to.
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Wilson has now been jailed for four months after admitting two counts of fraud.
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Wilson, from Bridgend, south Wales, abused her position as a nurse at The Princess of Wales Hospital to forge documents when Mr Griffith raised doubts he was the dad.

Article here. Excerpt:

'The Pentagon is mindful of the survey’s critics. Rand, in a sense, will be double-checking the accuracy of previous polls.

“The Defense Department contracted with Rand to have an independent, outside organization conduct the biennial prevalence survey,” said Army Maj. James Brindle, a Pentagon spokesman. “Rand’s survey methodology will allow the department to accurately compare data among all previous surveys so that we can seamlessly assess progress the department is making in preventing and responding to the crime of sexual assault.”

Critics do not point only to a supposed skewed sample. They say the Pentagon’s results do not mesh with society as a whole.

The Bureau of Justice Statistics reported a sex assault rate of just four-tenths of 1 percent for women age 18-34, a range that roughly matches the military population. The Bureau’s polling in 2010 relied not on Internet responses but on phone calls and personal interviews conducted by the Census Bureau.

Article here. Excerpt:

'The Department of Education pushed out a letter to universities across America in 2011, sanctifying college bureaucrats with the legal ability to determine the guilt or innocence of people accused of sexual assault. Today, a slew of men who were allegedly wrongfully found guilty of rape by reckless college administrators are retaliating with lawsuits against the universities.

As of this month, there have been 50 known lawsuits filed by men found guilty of rape looking for justice to clear their names and legal record, according to A Voice For Male Students’ website.

Article here. Excerpt:

'I hope you are as excited about Nov. 19, International Men’s Day, as I am. “It is an occasion,” its organizers say, “for men to celebrate their achievements and contributions, in particular their contributions to community, family, marriage, and child care, while highlighting the discrimination against them.”
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Throughout my life, women have treated me more fairly, with greater intelligence and compassion than men. I chalk it up to evolution; men want to kill other men, and women seek men for mates. I’m a lover, not a killer. To heck with International Men’s Day, and the rotten gender it purports to champion.

It’s true that International Men’s Day is about where International Women’s Day was 30 years ago: not widely observed. But men are so needy, please help them celebrate. Step up and give a man a hug — he thinks he deserves it.'

Story here. Poor guy. I'm posting this since there's been some speculation here on MANN and elsewhere that he committed suicide due to the stresses of an unhappy marriage (and I have no idea what state his marriage was in) and fears that a divorce would ultimately ruin him financially. Turns out, his motivation seems to have been far more calculated, for lack of a better way to put it. Excerpt:

'Robin Williams' suicide could have been triggered by a common but devastating form of dementia that may have disrupted his normal brain function.

Court documents obtained by TMZ reveal that Williams, who was found hanging from a belt at his home in California last August, was suffering from dementia with Lewy bodies.

Sources connected with the troubled comic's family told the news site that the degenerative disease was the 'key factor' they believe drove him to take his own life.'