Article here. Excerpt:

'Today is a very important day for all victims of domestic violence. Today marks the coming of age of the male domestic violence sector in the UK says Glen Poole of equality4men.

The MARS Conference Centre in Slough may seem like an unlikely place for a revolution brothers (and sisters), but that’s where dozens of men and women will be gathering today for the Second National Conference on Male Victims of domestic abuse, hosted by the charity The ManKind Initiative.

For those unfamiliar with the politics of the domestic violence sector let’s give you a bit of background. There is a global movement working to tackle the problem of domestic violence from a feminist perspective that is held together by the United Nations, the European Union and the public and charity sector at a national and local level.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'The article raises a rather interesting question. We’ve talked before about an educational system biased against boys. What if the spike in autism diagnoses is really that same discomfort with masculine behavior?

I’ve seen boys being routinely misdiagnosed as ADD and medicated for it just for being well… boys. But as problematic as randomly tossing Ritalin at inquisitive boys is... this is even more serious.
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The issue here isn’t communications. It’s an incompatible style of communications. And we’re seeing more and more of this in educational environments where the paradigm is shifting away from logical thinking and toward ostentatious shows of empathy.
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But in our Brave New World, we may be just medicating masculinity.

Last week, we made a difference. Last week, more than fifty people gathered outside Good Samaritan Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio to protest its circumcision clamp study... and people heard us.

• We know people heard us because they shouted their support—and, in some cases, their anger.
• We know people heard us because two different TV stations showed up to cover our press conference.
• We know people heard us because a hospital employee blogged about how our protest made circumcision a "major topic of conversation" among hospital staff.
• We know people heard us because the hospital released a statement in response to us.

Please take a moment to read my report from our protest—a protest which could not have happened without the support of thousands of intactivists like you. More than 6,400 people signed our letter (if you haven't signed it yet, it's not too late to add your name because we plan to send a second set later this year). And together we raised more than $10,000, with every penny going to our presence in Cincinnati.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Well, you may be thinking, there's no problem here. In the U.S. all girls have access to education, and girls even outnumber boys now in high school graduation rates and college enrollment. True enough. And there's no disputing that girls born in the U.S. have won the lottery of life compared to girls in poor and war-torn countries.

But despite our prosperity and universal education, we still have work to do. Girls are lagging far behind in science, math, and technology enrollment. It's a gender gap our country can't afford, and some innovative programs at lower levels are trying to overcome it early.

Two programs doing just that are Coastal Studies for Girls, which introduces junior high girls to marine science, and Girls Who Code which works to educate and inspire high school girls to go into computer science. Both are nurturing the female technology leaders of tomorrow.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'At my freshmen orientation, one memory stands out particularly clearly among the blur of a campus tour, class registration and endlessly awkward get-to-know-each-other activities. What I clearly remember is sitting down in a lecture hall to hear a presentation about the dangers of sexual assault on campus. The presenter shared the horrifying statistic that approximately one in four college women experience rape or an attempted rape. The guy sitting next to me took this moment to lean over and whisper his first words to me:

“Wow, I guess it sucks to be you!”

I sat there, relatively shocked that he made contact with me at all, but unsurprised by the statement itself. Yes, I thought, it does suck to be me.
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I get that it’s probably hard to see the truth when it doesn’t look good. “I’m not a rapist, so stop telling me that everyone with my gender is,” right? I imagine this is how the internal dialogue of men who are upset about a rape prevention course might sound.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Will Connecticut policy makers listen to testimony supporting shared parenting?

Tuesday, October 15 is your last opportunity to join near unanimous grass-roots support for important changes to Child Support Guidelines in Connecticut. People from all walks of life support the effort to have Connecticut change their Guidelines to recognize that both parents share in the financial decision making authority for their children.

On August 1, 2013, Massachusetts changed their Guidelines to actively encourage shared parenting and clarified that up to age 23 family courts have discretion in ordering child support and/or college contribution. National Parents Organization and our members succeeded in making these changes through our presentations at the child support hearings and our well written and researched testimony.'

Article here. Notice right from the title, the objections of men involutarily genitally mutilated are both inaccurately characterized and dismissed. Excerpt:

'Many men, who were circumcised at an early age or have to undergo the procedure later in life for health reasons, have formed online communities to discuss methods of 'foreskin restoration'.

Many men said they have experienced emotional difficulties and feel angry and resentful about the surgery and are looking to find methods of reversing it, News.com.au reported.

According to the Kernel online magazine, users are gathering together on forums such as foreskin-restoration.net and circumstitions.com.'

Article here. Excerpt:

Story here. Excerpt:

'Witness testimony continues Wednesday in the trial of the Stanley woman charged with second-degree murder in the death of her husband, Adam Chase, in June 2012.

Opening statements were given this morning in Ontario County Court in the trial of Rose M. Chase, of 2215 Mott Road. Rose was indicted in February on the charges of second-degree murder, tampering with physical evidence and endangering the welfare of a child.

The indictment alleges that Rose “intentionally caused the death of Adam Chase” on or about June 14, 2012. It further alleges that Rose transported Mr. Chase’s body from their residence to 4675 Hagerty Road in Potter, Yates County, and concealed it there before ultimately burning the body at that location.'

"National Conference on male victims of domestic abuse on 10 October, 2013"

Information links here. Excerpt:

'Reference
http://www.dads-r-us.se/2013/05/22/national-conference-on-male-victims-of-domestic-abuse-10-october-2013/

Booking Form
http://www.mankind.org.uk/conference.html'

Article here. Excerpt:

'America is failing our boys. Today’s boys have lower aspirations for higher education than girls. While the disparity in interest in earning a degree appears when men and women are in their 20s, the problem may start as early as the fifth grade -- where more boys than girls become psychological dropouts.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Under Title IX, colleges and universities are required to provide the same amount of athletic opportunities or roster positions to both genders. This is only fair, right? Not quite.

And ironically, men’s athletics are on the receiving end of the unjustness.

Most schools have more women’s sports than men’s sports because they need to create more roster spots to keep up with the upwards of one hundred football roster spots that men fill. There is no women’s sport equivalent to football in terms of sheer number of players on a team.

Because of this, there are three significant consequences at most colleges: 1. women’s rosters on similar team sports tend to be larger than men’s; 2. there are fewer men’s sports programs; and 3. men’s sports programs are the first to be cut in order to keep the number of athletes “equal” between men and women.'

This story appeared today out of China. Excerpt:

'A CHINESE woman was arrested after she forced her boyfriend to kneel in a Hong Kong street while she slapped him for allegedly cheating on her.

The South China Morning Post reports the incident, which was captured on video, shows the woman, whose name is Cheng, accusing her boyfriend Chui of bringing another woman back to his flat.

"Listen to me first before beating me!" he pleads, before adding: "I told her not to come!"

Cheng however grabs his hair and continues to slap him across the face.

An eyewitness called the police and the girl was arrested.'

Great to see the right response from those around him, at least.

I recently discovered and saw a new film that came out called "The Heat" which came out in August 2013. It stars Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy.

I have never seen so much sexist anti-male hatred in a film before. I nearly stopped watching it after about 20 minutes as it really just took it to the extreme.

You have McCarthy's character calling out that she wanted to "rupture" the man's balls she was chasing, and an interrogation that resulted in her character pointing a gun at the perp's genitalia and threatening to shoot him. In the final scene you see Sandra Bullock come sliding into a room and shooting a man in his genitalia when there was no reason to do so.

It made me so angry that this film had even been made; they have never made a film where people go around shooting women in the breasts or in the vagina, as it would be looked down upon as just crude and disrespectful. Yet in this film, they took every opportunity they had to attack men and their genitalia.

As a member of the American Society of Engineering Education, I get emails about this topic. Each news feed contains information on progarms for ONLY girls. Each time, I go there and post my displeasure. It would be great if others could do the same. Here are the two for today:

Edison Partners with Local Girl Scouts

'Girl Scouts of San Gorgonio, whose reach extends over Riverside to San Bernardino counties, received a generous grant from Southern California Edison to help fund the “Imagine Your STEM Future” project. The programs are targeted at high school-aged girls and aim to encourage increased interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics careers.'

Natalie Portman Launches STEM Contest for Teenage Girls

'Actress NATALIE PORTMAN has launched a contest for teenage girls who are interested in science, technology, engineering and math.