Article here. Excerpt:

'The feminists have ratcheted up the laws against men to such an outrageous level that paternity fraud is not just ignored, but routinely rubber stamped by the courts. Whether one agrees with the concept of child support or not, virtually everyone can agree that jailing men for child support over children who are not theirs is morally wrong. Men are routinely sent to jail for falling behind on paying child support, even though debtors' prisons in the U.S. were mostly eliminated in the mid-nineteenth century.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Many modern-day feminists engage in man-bashing rather than making dignified demands for equality, as the feminists of the early twentieth century did. So Robin Morgan unashamedly admits, ‘I feel that man-hating is an honourable and viable political act’. The view many modern feminists seek to spread, in the words of Marilyn French, is that ‘all men are rapists and that’s all they are’. A Feminist Dictionary goes so far as to define ‘male’ as ‘a degeneration and deformity of the female’. This is an effort to make men seem inferior, not to elevate the position of women. It starkly contrasts with the goal of feminists of old, which was to make women be viewed as equal, not superior, to men.
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Feminism used to view women as self-sufficient rather than requiring the protection of the state

Link here. Excerpt:

'Across the 32-year period from 1979 through 2010, the national rate of newborn circumcision declined 10% overall, from 64.5% to 58.3% (Table and Figure 1). During this time, the overall percentage of newborns circumcised during their birth hospitalization was highest in 1981 at 64.9%, and lowest in 2007 at 55.4%.

See the introduction post here. Excerpt:

'As stated in the mission and values page, the first mission of this site is to raise awareness of the structural and cultural inequities men and boys – and in particular male students – face at all levels in our education system, and promote advocacy and activism in their behalf. Those issues, as you may see in the Summary of Issues page (which features an extensive degree of research), are broken down into three main categories:

1. Educational Attainment & Well-Being
2. Academic Culture – Misandry & Conformism
3. Rights & Protections'

Article here. To be fair, looks like it was first run in US News. However, they chose to re-run it, and I'm guessing the stock photo is Yahoo!'s idea: big mean old man raging at two helpless females. But it isn't just the photo that has my wicked, suspicious mind alerted to this cunning and subtle misandry. :) Note item #6: seems specifically targeted at male bosses. Well I can say I've had female supervisors say inappropriate things to me and fellow male employees; if this list-maker wanted the list to be gender-neutral, she could have worded item #6 a bit differently to cover both male and female bosses who cross this sort of line. But that'd be a bit too fair, wouldn't it? Excerpt:

'6. "That dress really flatters your figure." Commenting on employees' physical appearance -- particularly their bodies -- is a good way to make people uncomfortable (few people want to feel that their boss is assessing their attractiveness), as well as invite harassment complaints down the road.'

Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) is still running a TV ad that shows a woman slapping a man across the face. We can't imagine them running an ad like this with the genders reversed. Can you?

This gender biased ad has triggered an international outcry. Persons from 28 countries have signed a petition condemning the KFC ads for promoting "dangerous stereotypes." Facebook comments say KFC is "sexist."

A major research compilation shows female-perpetrated partner violence is more widespread than male-perpetrated violence - 28.3% vs. 21.6%: http://domesticviolenceresearch.org/

Article here. Excerpt:

'The Daily Caller was prepared to take a well-deserved respite from reporting on the national epidemic of teacher-student sex romps because — surely — the number of cases would slow down during the dog days of summer. Right?

That plan turned out to be ridiculously naïve. The last couple months have been a banner time for teachers landing in legal trouble for banging their students. Lust knows no academic year, apparently.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Which leaves France. France has a legitimately great fertility rate: 2.08—which is within spitting distance of the replacement rate. But is French fertility driven by its daycare centers? Not so much. Separate out the fertility rates of native-born Frenchwomen from the foreign-born population and you see a tremendous divide. Native-born French women have a TFR around 1.7. Foreign-born French women are much higher, probably north of 2.8. (Finding hard numbers here is difficult because it is taboo in France to make such demographic distinctions. Which means that in order for French demographers to get the same numbers our Census Bureau puts out every year, they have to hand-count (and sort) birth records. For a good discussion of all of this, see Christopher Caldwell’s definitive Reflections on the Revolution in Europe.)

Article here. Excerpt:

'As school begins in the coming weeks, parents of boys should ask themselves a question: Is my son really welcome? A flurry of incidents last spring suggests that the answer is no. In May, Christopher Marshall, age 7, was suspended from his Virginia school for picking up a pencil and using it to “shoot” a “bad guy” — his friend, who was also suspended. A few months earlier, Josh Welch, also 7, was sent home from his Maryland school for nibbling off the corners of a strawberry Pop-Tart to shape it into a gun. At about the same time, Colorado’s Alex Evans, age 7, was suspended for throwing an imaginary hand grenade at “bad guys” in order to “save the world.”

In all these cases, school officials found the children to be in violation of the school’s zero-tolerance policies for firearms, which is clearly a ludicrous application of the rule. But common sense isn’t the only thing at stake here. In the name of zero tolerance, our schools are becoming hostile environments for young boys.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'A grandmother was arrested for drunken driving Saturday after a family argument at a local park.

Police were called by a man Saturday saying his wife and members of her family had assaulted him at Kern Park following an argument during a family reunion.

The wife, Retha Mae McCoy, allegedly began hitting her husband during the argument and members of her family joined in, kicking and punching him. Their eight grandchildren, aged 1 through 16, were in the car, and when the oldest one attempted to help her grandfather, she was hit in the face.

When police arrived, they smelled alcohol on McCoy's breath and found her blood alcohol content was .09. She was arrested for her 2nd OWI and Battery - Domestic Violence-related. If she is convicted of both crimes, she could face up to one year and three months in prison.'

Link here. Excerpt:

'This initiative seeks applications from applicants that propose to stimulate and expand research in the health of minority men. Specifically, this initiative is intended to: 1) enhance our understanding of the numerous factors (e.g., sociodemographic, community, societal, personal) influencing the health promoting behaviors of racial and ethnic minority males and their subpopulations across the life cycle, and 2) encourage applications focusing on the development and testing of culturally and linguistically appropriate health-promoting interventions designed to reduce health disparities among racially and ethnically diverse males and their subpopulations age 21 and older.
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It is well documented that males experience approximately a five-year shorter life expectancy when compared with females. During the 20th century, life expectancy at birth increased from 48 to 74 years for males and from 51 to 79 years for females. Increases in life expectancy are, in part, attributed to improvements in lifestyle, nutrition, housing, hygiene and medical care. The disparities in life expectancy are more pronounced among men of color and economically disadvantaged males. For example, the life expectancy of European American males and African American males are 74.6 and 67.7 years respectively.

In 2005, the National Center for Health Statistics reported the leading causes of death in males as heart disease, cancer (lung and prostate), accidents, unintentional injuries, stroke, lung disease, diabetes, pneumonia, influenza, suicide, chronic liver disease, and Alzheimer's disease. Mortality rates from these causes of death are higher for minority males because their diseases are at a more advanced stage at diagnosis and are often complicated by co-existing conditions.
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Link here. Excerpt:

'Women are often at the center of healthy and resilient families; they make approximately 80% of all family health care decisions and are more likely to be the primary caregivers for children and elderly parents. To help make women aware of the important benefits available to them and their families through the Affordable Care Act, HHS is initiating this Challenge.
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This Challenge calls for the creation of an innovative, educational Tool that informs women about enrollment in their State’s Marketplace as well as key provisions of the Affordable Care Act designed specifically to improve their health and that of their families. Sponsored by the Office of Women’s Health at the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office on Women’s Health, in collaboration with the Coordinating Committee on Women’s Health, the Challenge aims to reach all women, but particularly those in medically underserved communities.'

MALECARE SEPTEMBER 2013 TELECONFERENCE

"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 #)

Please email your questions for the speakers, in advance, to info-at-malecare.org

MANN admins received a note from the creator of this site: http://gynocentrism.com/. I started reading but admit haven't finished the current home page essay "Christine de Pizan: the first gender warrior" by one Diana Davison. But so far, it looks pretty interesting, though I confess I don't have her background in the source material myself to make an informed opinion. Still, I hope others might and comment. Excerpt:

'A long time ago (15th century) in a land not too far away (France) a protofeminist named Christine de Pizan initiated a public debate later named La Querelle de la Rose. Simone de Beauvoir honours Pizan as the first woman to “take up her pen in defence of her sex”[1] but Christine was not fighting for new rights, she was strictly defending the chivalry-based gynocentric culture that she saw crumbling away before her eyes.

Though some feminists deny Christine’s status as a member of the gang, she did seem to have set the standard for how women change the public narrative; lies, elitism, deception and manipulation of history bordering on fraud.

Article here. Excerpt:

'NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — It has often been perceived that women are constantly fixated on their diets. Now, a growing number of men have become obsessed with “bulking up.”

The new trend has been called “bigorexia” and it could come with some serious health consequences.
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As many as 45-percent of men have fallen victim to bigorexia or muscle dysmorphia, according to Dr. Michele Kerulis the director of sports & health psychology at the Adler School of Professional Psychology.

“I can remember as young as 13 or 14, looking at some of these muscle magazines, and I was conditioned to think that’s what a man looked like. Big shoulders, big legs, just big muscles with veins everywhere,” Moretti said.

The emotional impact can be devastating.

“We see psychological abnormalities, including irritability, angry outbursts, which sometimes people would call ‘roid rage.’ We see depression sometimes, mania,” Dr. Kerulis said.'