Article here. Excerpt:

'The National Institutes of Health is funding a program to convince female “light-smokers” in Brazil to kick their bad habit, at a cost to American taxpayers of $653,190.

“There is a great need for the development of gender-relevant tobacco control efforts,” the description of the study on the NIH website reads. “We have established community and institutional capacity to promote gender-relevant tobacco control efforts among women in a tobacco producing states in Brazil.”

Scientists are hoping their research will allow them to design a culturally- and gender-specific “intervention” convincing Brazilian women not to light up.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'One of the first things every one said to me when they found out I was pregnant with my son (my second) was this: "Your husband must be thrilled!" This was soon followed by: "Every man needs a son" and a host of other cliched responses to a male-bearing pregnancy that started to make my skin crawl by the end. Why is it that my husband -- a man who was madly in love with our little girl -- "needed" a son so badly?

It turns out? He didn't. In fact, new research revealed by the New York Times last weekend reveals that daughters (not sons) actually make men better. Daughters make them more generous, more likely to think of others first, and generally more sharing. It's not really that surprising.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Upon co-founding Girton College for female students at Cambridge University in 1869, Davies expressed her intention for it to be ‘a college like a man’s’. What she meant by this was that the same subjects should be taught, in the same way, and to the same academic standard, as in the male colleges. She had previously suggested that the best girls’ schools ‘are precisely those in which the masculine subjects have been introduced’ (mathematics, Latin and Greek), and she carried this view into higher education, insisting that for women to have anything other than equal access to the same knowledge as men would result in their education being forever considered inferior.

Article here. We spend millions to retain girls in engineering, but not a dime to retain boys in reading. And now comes the salt in the wound. This program is to retain autistic girls in engineering. But it is boys who are mostly the victims of autism. So, here are the priorities:

1. Girls
2. Girls with autism
3. Boys (last)

Excerpt:

'Until last week, Courtney Thompson had never really thought about how M&Ms are made. But then she watched an experiment by scientists from IBM who used the candy to illustrate ideas behind quality-control testing.

And now, the 16-year-old from Apple Valley thinks project management is “pretty cool.”

“Do you know which kind of M&M has the fewest defects?” she asked. “It’s yellow. But I like the brown ones.”'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Another week, another gender war -- this time, with the Federal Reserve as the battlefield.

At the center is economist Janet Yellen, vice chairwoman of the Fed's Board of Governors and a top pick to take over its leadership. Yellen would be the first woman to head the powerful institution that sets U.S. monetary policy. Some claim there is a devious campaign to discredit her because she's a woman; others, that her backers are playing the gender card to boost her chances. Compounding the controversy, Yellen's rival for the position, former Treasury Secretary and Harvard president Lawrence Summers, is not just a man but a man who has been accused of sexism.

"Article" here. Excerpt:

Article here. Excerpt:

'For the past few months Britain's feminist community have taken affront with men's magazines.

According to their Lose The Lads Mags campaign, publications such as Nuts, Loaded and Zoo objectify women while green-lighting domestic violence in a nation of misogynistic men.

In a bid to have these titles banned, activists are using equality legislation to scare retailers into submission, arguing they'll face legal action if they disobey their orders.
...
Despite the fact we live in a post-sexual revolution society, where people can enjoy the human body without shame, here we have women taking a moral standpoint on men's free choice as adults.

Yes people, it may be 2013, but we've swapped the repression of women for the repression of men.
...
Apparently, female sexuality is sacred and not up for discussion - especially by men. After all, that would be patriarchal oppression.

Article here. Excerpt:

'A team of criminologists at Birmingham City University has published the first study into the grim phenomenon of "family annihilation", when fathers murder their own children. Academics studied 59 men who, between 1980 and 2012, had murdered their children – and sometimes their spouses – during a single killing event, with most cases coming in the later half of the study.

Attempting to understand what precipitated "family annihilators", they looked for patterns such as the methods used, victim characteristics, possible motivation, offender age, occupation and location of murders.
...
Professor David Wilson, who led the team of criminologists, said the increasing instances of the crime were a reflection of "masculinity in crisis". He said: "Some men are unable to come to terms with different and developing notions of the institution of the family, where women increasingly play a much more dynamic role than they had in the past."'

Article here. Yes, angry indeed. Feminist anger is called justified. MRA anger is called abusive-- or worse. Read the comments on the article site. Excerpt:

'Warren Farrell, a prominent gender activist councillor, and author of The Myth of Male Power, is not surprised that young men today are angry. “In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard,” he says. But their angst, he says, stems from larger feelings of powerlessness. Farrell, 69, is considered the grandfather of the men’s rights movement. He has been writing about boys and men since the 1980s, but only recently have his books begun to do well commercially. In light of this new success, he admits that he is cautiously optimistic about where the men’s rights movement is headed. He drew a sold-out crow—and protests—when he spoke at the University of Toronto last November.

Article here. Excerpt:

'TV lawyer Marilyn Stowe has slammed the government’s Ministry of Justice (MoJ) for ignoring the plight of male victims of domestic violence.

According to Stowe, a family law practitioner and resident legal expert on ITV’s This Morning, The MoJ’s online guidance on legal aid for victims of domestic violence excludes men, saying:

“To get legal aid you must be able to give your solicitor some evidence that you have been a victim of domestic violence by your partner or husband.”

Writing about the issue on her blog, Stowe said:

“Domestic violence against men does exist more frequently than many people imagine, and it certainly should not be casually disregarded in this way. If the government feels that it is appropriate to hang ‘women only’ signs out on a website about practical help for victims, where are men in need supposed to turn?'

Article here. Excerpt:

'The biological father of a 3-year-old Cherokee Indian girl faces arrest in a custody dispute that reached the U.S. Supreme Court.

Dusten Brown, who is a Cherokee and is currently training with the National Guard in Iowa, had been ordered to turn over his daughter, Veronica, to a South Carolina adoptive couple who had initially raised the girl.

An arrest warrant has been issued on a charge of custodial interference because has failed to do so.'

Regarding this topic:

Native News Network: Soldier Dusten Brown in the Fight of His Life – To Keep His Daughter Veronica
Wikipedia: Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl. Excerpt:

Article here. Excerpt:

'Women are rarely found in the tech and entrepreneurial worlds. (See "It's a Guy Thing," 7/5/13.) This is a problem with a complicated answer. But if you have a daughter between 9 and 13, you can do your part. Sign her up for the "Girls Only SCRATCH Class" at the Madison Children's Museum this fall.

SCRATCH is a programming language for beginners. Why girls only? Because experience shows that computer classes and clubs for K-12 kids are dominated by boys. This nine-week class, led by computer science students from UW-Madison, wants to crack the door open for girls.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Many of the pundits, “journalists”, politicians and opinion makers discussing online misogyny - the argument du jour for the British media and the political and chattering classes - are demonstrating the worst sort of hypocrisy and gender prejudice.

Misogyny is of course unacceptable in any form and when it comes packaged in threats of violence and violent abuse it is illegal and should be prosecuted under existing law.

Misogyny should not, however, be seen as an excuse for the sort of casual misandry that is a contributory factor and is allowed to go unchecked and un-commented on in so many different publishing arenas - especially on BBC platforms (TV, web, radio and print).

Nothing is so guaranteed to get a journalist, broadcaster or politician to speak without engaging his or her brain as two or more people gathered together exchanging platitudes about how awful life is for women and how men, ALL men, are responsible.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Congress is moving forward with its “war on women” by failing to pursue an exemption for them from the draft, according to an analyst whose work focuses on the military and the readiness of the services to defend the nation.

“During the House Armed Services Committee’s markup on the National Defense Authorization bill for 2014, committee members would not even consider legislation to preserve young women’s exemption from Selective Service registration and a possible future draft,” according to the Center for Military Readiness, which is run by Elaine Donnelly.

For now, a lawsuit demanding that women be included in any future draft has been dismissed. But critics say direct and specific exemptions need to be established now for women.

The idea is that treating women as equal to men means allowing them to join combat units, which the Obama administration has been advocating.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'JACKSON, Miss. — If a girl younger than 16 gives birth and won’t name the father, a new Mississippi law — likely the first of its kind in the country — says authorities must collect umbilical cord blood and run DNA tests to prove paternity as a step toward prosecuting statutory rape cases.