Article here. Excerpt:

'This week Labour staked its claim to be the country’s most father-friendly political party.

Jon Cruddas, the party’s policy co-ordinator, claimed that “the Conservatives have dominated debate about the family with their stereotype of a feckless underclass of absent fathers”.

According to Cruddas, “the majority of men feel fathers are undervalued,” but not for much longer, because “Labour will value the role of fathers”.
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But if Labour is to achieve its ambition of becoming “the daddy” of all political parties, then it needs to understand why it has historically had an uneasy relationship with dads.

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"Look into the eyes of many of the troubled and often unhealthy young men leaving school early," she said, "who are at one with anthems of hyper-masculinised music lyrics, and YouTube clips of bullying. Look into the eyes of many of the men sitting in the cubicles of bureaucratic English offices, with a disintegrating family life. Look into the eyes of men sitting in the plush offices of the top City firms, with little of note to show for it but a nice car and often shallow relationships. Do you see clear sense of pride?"

Seen this one? Nothing funny or cute about it. Kia is perhaps trying to dodge criticism by making the "woman" a robot. Sorry, that doesn't pass. Contact Kia here ("Sales and Products" seems the best choice; country is US and possibly also Canada, if indeed it's running in that market) and let them know you won't be considering buying one of their cars as long as they try to sell them with "humorous violence"-- and would they have dared produce such an ad with the characters' sexes reversed?

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'The Justice Department put its contempt for the First Amendment on full display with its snooping on journalists at The Associated Press. It's a display of contempt for freedom of the press equaled only by the administration's disdain for freedom of speech, another of the essential First Amendment protections. The military has lately demonstrated a similar contempt for freedom of religious expression.

The Justice Department is making common cause with the Department of Education to renew the push for "speech codes" on campus. The sordid scheme was revealed in a letter of May 9 to President Royce Engstrom at the University of Montana, where the federal government proposes to limit free expression as a "blueprint for colleges and universities throughout the country."
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The Constitution recognizes freedom of speech and of the press as necessary to sustain a free society. Americans should speak up against the administration's attack on the First Amendment — while they still can.'

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'Approval of this legislation would allow alimony payers to: modify their existing agreements; determine the recipients’ alimony by preset formulas based entirely upon the length of the marriage, regardless of specifics such as disability of a spouse or child, ages of the parties, inheritance, attorney/judicial review and more; grant alimony for no longer than about half the number of years of the marriage; and eliminate the word “permanent” from any alimony award, with such support ending at the latest by the time the payer retires.
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National Organization of Women (NOW) New Jersey president Jennifer Armiger said that NOW opposes this legislation as “it advances the interest of alimony payers — a majority of men and a small handful of women — who are seeking to overturn their alimony payments while disregarding the economic circumstances of the recipients.”'

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'Tawana Brawley, who falsely accused six men of raping her 25 years ago, was celebrated at a fundraising event in New Jersey, officials said.

Attendees paid $50 for the Sunday event at Integrity Masonic Temple in Paterson, the New York Post reported.

While proceeds from the event went to fund a kids camp run by the Freedom Retreat for Children, some attendees also filled envelopes with cash for Brawley. It wasn't known how much she received.

When Brawley was 15, she was found in a trash bag in Dutchess County with slurs written on her body. She alleged she had been raped by six men, including former Dutchess County prosecutor Steven Pagones and a police officer. However, a grand jury found Brawley's accusations to be false.'

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - More than 20 South African boys have died over the past week during coming of age rituals, police said on Thursday, and they blamed botched circumcisions as the likely cause of death.

Northern Mpumalanga province's police department has opened 22 murder cases but no arrests have been made so far, spokesman Colonel Leonard Hlathi said.
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Deaths are often caused by blood loss or infection when circumcisions are poorly performed by traditional practitioners.

Minister in the Presidency Collins Chabane this week called the recent deaths "regrettable".'

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'The new task force includes a cross-section of faculty, students and staff who regularly deal with sexual harassment and assault, including counselors and coordinators who handle rape prevention education, student complaints and investigations. There is a law enforcement representative and a university attorney, as well as a professor who does research on violence against women, a member of a feminist student group and the director of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer center on campus.
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Already, differing opinions began to emerge Wednesday. Several members said there should be some recognition that women are disproportionately affected by sexual violence and that a “fair and balanced” standard may not work in a society where men and women are not always treated equally.'

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'For probably as long as it has existed, alimony has been a man vs. woman thing. Men get ordered to pay, women get alimony and men get bitter. But as women have become more economically powerful, the game has changed.

In 2012, a new law came into effect in Massachusetts that abolished permanent alimony and set up a formula for future payments. Some men there had been paying for decades to women to whom they’d only been married very briefly. While Massachusetts is the front runner, several states, especially Florida, are rethinking the way alimony is awarded.

Should men still have to pay alimony when women can now be educated and make (almost) as much as men? What about women who live with another guy but still take alimony? What do women who pay alimony think? And if we abolish alimony, how do older women without job skills get by?'

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'Forget “binders full of women” — the IRS’s persecution of hundreds of tea party groups is the real war on women. I co-founded the movement in my hometown of St. Louis and have travelled the country with various tea party groups and I’ve seen it first hand: the tea party movement was predominately led by women. It isn’t a slight to our men; in speech after speech I mentioned how the nation’s men have been neutralized in this fight by the left’s ridiculous identity politics and bunk sexism claims. I’ve opined more than once “My husband can’t hit a girl, but I can.” It’s the truth — and it’s why women raised up from around the country to lead the charge.

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'Male MPs show "every type of patriarchal behaviour" said the shadow public health minister as she spoke about her speech on men to the Demos think-tank.

Diane Abbott claimed society and the economy had changed in ways which challenged issues around masculinity.

She debated her speech and ideas - and whether there should be a minister for men - with Ian Collins from LBC, former Labour pollster Deborah Mattinson and Andrew Neil on the Daily Politics.'

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'Tackling men's issues in this way requires the women's sector to share the gender equality pie. It also means allowing for a greater diversity of viewpoints, which will ultimately challenge the dominance of feminist thinking in the gender equality sector.

Faced with this eventuality, it is inevitable that women's groups and feminist thinkers will resist attempts to target the problems that men and boys face and try to shift the focus back on to the problems that men and boys cause.

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'Arkansas enacted legislation, Act 1156, concerning child custody presumption in divorce cases. It specifies that in an action for divorce, an award of joint custody is favored in Arkansas.

Obviously, National Parents Organization would prefer a presumption of joint custody. But, this is a step. The legislation also stipulates that if one of the parents "demonstrates a pattern of willfully creating conflict," the court may change a joint custody order to a primary custody order and award that custody to the nondisruptive parent.

The act defines joint custody as, "the approximate and reasonable equal division of time with the child by both parents."'

On Tuesday, Stop Abusive and Violent Environments (SAVE) released the ground-breaking report, "Prosecutor Bias and Misconduct in Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Cases:" http://www.saveservices.org/downloads/Prosecutor-Bias-Misconduct-in-Domestic-Violence

The SAVE report reveals that prosecutors often engage in zealous practices that erode constitutional guarantees of due process of law and probable cause. It also shows that despite the fact that half of domestic violence is perpetrated by women, the vast majority of those arrested and charged are men. Such gender-biased charging policies are unconstitutional.

Section 101 of the Violence Against Women Act addresses STOP formula grants - STOP stands for Services, Training, Officers, and Prosecutors. One-quarter of the STOP funds go to support prosecutors.

Let's make sure that prosecutors who receive VAWA funding do their jobs fairly. Please contact Attorney General Eric Holder today:

Last Thursday the US Dept. of Education (DED) and Dept. of Justice issued a joint decision that:

1. Expands the definition of sexual harassment on college campuses to include any sexually-related conduct that is “unwelcome”
2. Expands the definition of “conduct” to include “verbal conduct”, i.e., speech
3. Removes the “reasonable person standard” and substitutes the “he hurt my feelings” standard

The effect of these changes is to mandate a speech code that severely abridges college students’ First Amendment rights, in addition to the worrisome restrictions on due process protections for students accused of sexual misconduct.

Since the Dept. of Education issued its Sexual Assault Directive in April 2011, over 100 editorials critical of the policy have been published: http://www.saveservices.org/camp/ded-directive/ded-editorials/ And less than one week after the DED/DOJ announced their decision, 22 more editorials blasting the decision have come out – see listing below.