Article here. Excerpt:

'Today marks the 19th anniversary of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). As the original author and champion of VAWA, Vice President Biden brought national attention to what had too-long been a hidden problem. Then-Senator Biden held the first hearing on violence against women in the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1990 and introduced the first version of the Act that same year. After five years of hearings exposing the extent of rape, battering and stalking, the Act finally passed Congress and was signed into law by President Clinton on September 13, 1994.

Article here. Excerpt:

Article here. Excerpt:

'When it comes to the Violence Against Women Act, House Republicans behaved as if they were living in the Stone Age, according to Joe Biden.
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Biden characterized skeptics of reauthorization as “this sort of Neanderthal crowd,” according to a pool report.

The Republican-led House renewed the act in February after it was in legislative limbo for a year following its expiration in September 2011. It passed with a 286 to 138 vote, with a majority of GOPers voting against it. All Democrats and 87 Republican lawmakers voted in favor for it.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'The by-election will take place next month and campaigners say electing a woman would be a fitting response to the manner of Walker's departure following his conviction for domestic abuse.

The idea of all-party shortlists in Dunfermline has support from political bloggers Susan Dalgety and Kate Higgins, who have supported the idea from opposite sides of the political divide.

Others say the move would amount to positive discrimination and exclude potentially good candidates because they are male. Scotland Tonight asked Kate Higgins why she backed the idea.'

Article here. Excerpt:

The slowly recovering U.S. job market has helped women rebound faster than men: They’ve now regained all the jobs they lost to the Great Recession. Men are still 2.1 million jobs short.

And the gender gap is expected to persist until the job market is much healthier.
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Lower-wage industries, like retail, education, restaurants and hotels, have been hiring the fastest. Women are predominant in those areas. Men, by contrast, dominate sectors like construction and manufacturing, which have yet to recover millions of jobs lost in the recession.
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Even though women’s employment has recovered faster than men’s, there are still more men with jobs than women. And more men than women have found work since the recession ended. Yet men still haven’t recovered all their losses because the cuts were so deep in sectors such as manufacturing and construction.'

This story has been mentioned before on MANN, but now it is discussed in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Feel free to post your thoughts on Yale's absurd policy. Excerpt:

Article here. Excerpt:

'Benton Police have arrested a woman for filing a false rape report.

According to Lt. Kevin Russell, Kristin Johnson, 24, was charged with filing a false police report after she told officers that a man had broken into her home and raped her shortly before 3:30 p.m. Aug. 19.

Russell said through extensive investigation, officers learned that Johnson was lying and arrested her on Sept. 10.

This is an on-going investigation and additional charges could be possible.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Port Wentworth Police want your help after a woman’s false report of rape costs thousands of dollars in manpower and leaves a scar in the community.

Police are actively looking for the woman who filed that claim.

They say it’s not just about the wasted manpower, that false rape claims trivialize the true victims of that crime.

The crime report happened in March.

Port Wentworth Police responded to a 911 call of rape at a home on south coastal highway.

There was a scene. The female caller said the perpetrator had just fled. But the dogs couldn’t find a scent.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Recently, the Wisconsin state Court of Appeals reversed a trial court's order. In the case of Belva Bowden vs. Amy Korslin, the result is that the court stopped child support payments from Bowden to Korslin, ordered Korslin to return payments she had already received, and upheld Bowden’s regular visitation with the child who is now a teenager.

Their daughter was born in 1998 while the women were in a long-term committed relationship. The couple split in 2006. They had agreed to share expenses of raising their daughter and to equal placement, but in 2008, Korslin sought to restrict their daughter’s time with Bowden. The Wood County judged had ruled that Bowden could have visitation — every other weekend and one weeknight every other week and during some holidays, but the judge would not grant 50% placement. In addition to this the judge ordered her to pay 17% of her gross income in child support to Korslin.

Story here. Excerpt:

'An image of woman, apparently, pointing a gun at a toddler's head has gone viral, sparking outrage -- and questions.

Is the gun real? Is it a prank? And, most importantly, who is she?

Hoping to answer those questions -- and ascertain whether the pictured child is in danger -- an anti-domestic violence blog is widely publicizing the image.

"I was sent this picture today by a friend who was very distressed to see it on her page," an entry at No Longer Victims notes. "It apparently was posted to see if anybody could find the girl and if they cared well we do care and we have to find this baby as this scares the hell out of me."'

Story here. Excerpt:

'A Scottish teacher whose affair with an underage student led to her being placed on a sex offenders registry has moved the student into the home she previously shared with her husband.

Earlier this year, Eppie Sprung Dawson, 27, a teacher at St Joseph’s College in Dumfries, Scotland, was caught having sex with Matthew Robinson, a 17-year-old student.

The incident, which occurred after a high school dance at Christmastime, cost Dawson her job and marriage.

She narrowly avoided a prison sentence but was ordered to register as a sex offender, according to the Daily Record.

It must have been an affair to remember because Robinson, now 18, recently moved in with Dawson, after getting into an argument with his parents over an unwillingness to clean his room, according to his mother, Sheree Robinson.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'The principal of Lee Elementary School in Paradise Hills was placed on leave following her weekend arrest on suspicion of possessing illegal drugs and a stolen gun, authorities reported today.

Rachel Yolanda Escobedo, 45, was arrested in the Rolando Park area on Saturday, according to San Diego police.
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The patrolman spotted an open vodka bottle inside the vehicle and a small amount of what turned out to be marijuana in an ashtray, the lieutenant said.

After getting permission to search the car from Escobedo, who was in the driver's seat, the officer allegedly found a loaded .22-caliber pistol in the trunk, along with about two dozen prescription pills that appeared to be hydrocodone and four small baggies containing a white crystalline powder, Mayer said.

The apparent drugs were submitted for lab testing to positively identify them, he said, adding that a computer check showed that the handgun had been reported stolen.'

Malecare.org: "Understanding the New Tests For Prostate Cancer"
Thursday, September 12, 2013 at 6PM EDT

1- An overview of the new tests becoming available for men regarding prostate cancer
2- A discussion about these new tests and their role in current treatment choices.
3- Q&A
Dial in at 1.800.868.1837 or direct dial 1.404.920.6440
conference code 537349# (don't forget to press #)

Questions to be covered include:
1. How do researchers use genetics to better understand prostate cancer?
Background/overview on genetics and genetic studies in common disease.
2. How is one's risk of prostate cancer currently predicted?
Prediction of prostate cancer - emphasis on utility of family history
3. Can genetics be used to improve prostate cancer prediction?
iCOGs study, genetic correction of PSA values
4. How does genomic analysis of tumor inform treatment? (briefly)
Genetic sequencing of tumors; Biomarker-based (non-DNA) diagnostics

(Dr. Moul, originally scheduled as a speaker, will be rescheduled for early 2014.)

Story here. Excerpt:

'Tuesday was a day to remember for two Chicago men who were released from prison after the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office dropped charges against them. The state’s attorney herself admitted it was time to right these legal wrongs.

58-year-old Carl Chatman was behind bars for 11 years accused of raping a woman in the Daley Center back in 2002. The facts of that case against him just didn’t add up and today, Chatman left the Dixon Correctional Center after more than a decade.

“God answered my dream today,” he said.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Over the past few decades, ‘gender violence’ has been defined as violence by men against women. Women’s violence against the male gender has been considered to be either non-existent, or the fault of men, or has been trivialised and justified in a variety of ways.

This interpretation further implies that women’s aggression is a reaction to men’s actions towards them, blaming the victim for his plight.

There are many factors contributing to this, but the most relevant and most important is the radical feminist philosophy which holds that the sexes are adversarially poised; that all forms of violence are derived from the power men have over women; and that men are a class of aggressors, from which arise individuals with greater or lesser aggressive capacity.
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Hatred of men (misandry) and female aggression against males is a hard and indisputable reality, and it is no different from hatred of women (misogyny) and men’s aggression against females.