Story here. Excerpt:

'TALLAHASSEE -- Former spouses saddled with perpetual alimony payments, rejoice.

The Florida Legislature is here to help.

On Thursday, the House passed a contentious bill that would end permanent alimony payments, and enable the courts to modify some existing arrangements between ex-spouses. The proposal would also require judges to give divorced parents equal custody of their children, unless there were extraordinary circumstances.

Gov. Rick Scott has not indicated if he will sign the bill, which would not eliminate alimony but put limits on it. The bill passed the Senate by a 29-11 vote earlier this month.

But the governor is certain to hear from alimony payers and recipients, many of whom lent their pointed opinions and personal stories to one of the session’s most emotional debates.'

Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Justice, April 21-27 is National Crime Victims' Rights Week. This week's theme is "New Challenges, New Solutions."

Unfortunately, discriminatory practices have been documented against male, LGBT, and immigrant victims of abuse. So we believe the critical "new challenge" is to review and update organizational policies, staffing patterns, and outreach efforts to end illegal exclusionary practices.

The VAWA Inclusion Mandate requires recipients of Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) funding to refrain from discriminatory practices, and includes provisions specific to LGBT, male, and immigrant victims. The Mandate also applies to all criminal justice organizations that receive VAWA funding -- prosecutors, law enforcement, and the judiciary.

Attorney General Eric Holder has noted: "I applaud Congress for passing a bipartisan reauthorization that protects everyone - women and men, gay and straight, children and adults of all races, ethnicities, countries of origin, and tribal affiliations."

Story here. Again, remember feminist claims that female law enforcers were not just less likely but much less likely to color outside the lines? Excerpt:

'HAWTHORNE (CBSLA.com) — A group of Orange County female bounty hunters is under fire for breaking into a Hawthorne woman’s apartment looking for a suspect.

Shavonna Sutton, 25, said the Lipstick Bounty Hunters burst through her home last Friday to apprehend fugitive Ricky Lewis.
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Chris Alvarez, the bounty hunter who led the search for Lewis, said they tried several times to get Sutton to open the door.

Alvarez said Sutton refused, so they had a right to break-in.

“All she had to do is say, ‘Look. He’s not here.’ We had reason to believe he’s in there, and that’s why we forced entry,” said Alvarez.

Meantime, the bounty hunters were recently served a lawsuit from a man who claims they used excessive force during his attempted arrest.'

Article here. Excerpt:

Feminism is outdated. In the 21st century, feminists are finding more and more ways to play victim. Instead of promoting women’s rights, they’re just making us laugh.
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Don’t misunderstand me – I am pro-equal opportunity for both sexes in all capacities. However, I strongly disagree with the way many feminists go about things. They play victim to everything: men, the media, the workplace and even in education.

So when will the feminist movement be happy enough to back down and let the rest of us peacefully continue on with our lives?
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The movement helped turn around women’s lives and make everyone equal. However, in 2013, feminism has proven to be more controversial than beneficial. It has grown to stand for the exact opposite of what women in the 1800s had in mind.
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It is an obsolete movement that most women nowadays abuse to gain power and attention.

PRESS RELEASE

Contact: Teri Stoddard
Email: tstoddard@saveservices.org

WASHINGTON / April 22, 2013 – In recognition of National Crime Victims’ Rights Week, Stop Abusive and Violent Environments (SAVE) is calling on lawmakers, state Attorney Generals, and prosecutors to move quickly to implement the VAWA Inclusion Mandate.

Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Justice, National Crime Victims’ Rights Week is being observed April 21-27. The Week’s theme is “New Challenges, New Solutions.”

Discriminatory practices have been documented against male (1), LGBT (2), and immigrant (3) victims of abuse. So the critical “new challenge” is to review and upgrade organizational policies, staffing patterns, and outreach efforts to end illegal exclusionary practices, the victim-rights coalition says.

The VAWA Inclusion Mandate requires recipients of Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) funding to refrain from discriminatory practices on the basis of “race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, or disability.” The Inclusion Mandate also includes provisions specific to LGBT, male, and immigrant victims (4).

Article here. Excerpt:

'The poorly designed Y chromosome that makes men is degrading rapidly and will disappear, even if humans are still around.
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"The X chromosome is all alone in the male, but in the female it has a friend so it can swap bits and repair itself. If the Y gets a hit it's a downward spiral."

The X has about 1000 genes left, too many relating to sex and intelligence, she says.

The smaller Y started with about 1700 genes but only has 45 left, and that's mostly "junk".

"It is a lovely example of what I call dumb design," she said.

"It is an evolutionary accident."

If humans don't become extinct, new sex-determining genes and chromosomes will evolve, maybe leading to the evolution of new hominid species.

This had happened in the Japanese spiny rat, which had survived the loss of its Y, she said.'

Article here. In this story, a mother who has kidnapped a child and then uses the child to gain empathy gets favorable news coverage. Note that she had shared custody in the country where she and the child had lived with the father. But, rather than accept the judgement of the court, she chose to kidnap the child and attempt to gain sole custody through the use of accusations of abuse against the father. The reporter includes an interview with the child that is apparently supposed to make readers sympathetic to her cause. Shouldn't she be facing kidnapping charges rather than a sympathetic news story? Excerpt:

'Olivia, who turned 5 on Saturday, is at the center of a bitter international legal dispute between her two divorced parents.

Article here. Just ask yourself: If this were a man with this kind of history, would he ever even get to 396 arrests? Excerpt:

'Since 1978, Chicago Police alone have arrested Miles 396 times, mostly on the North Side — under at least 83 different aliases. Those arrests include 92 for theft, 65 for disorderly conduct, 59 for prostitution-related crimes and five for robbery or attempted robbery.
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Miles is a master at working the system, says Rolon. She fakes seizures that mean costly hospital visits. She gets judges to delay her cases. And then she returns to the streets to be arrested again and again — so many times that she ranks in the top 1 percent for all current CPD arrestees.

Article here. Excerpt:

'BERLIN — In a rare political setback for the world’s most powerful woman, Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday found herself forced to give in to a rebellious bloc in her own party who insisted that Germany’s leading companies be compelled to increase the number of women on their boards.

Ms. Merkel, Germany’s first female chancellor, has long resisted the quota system for giving women board membership. It is an issue much debated throughout Europe, and adopted in countries from Norway to France but fiercely contested elsewhere — nowhere more so than in the Continent’s most powerful economy.

Malecare April Teleconference

"Understanding the New Options for Men with Advanced Prostate Cancer – Treatments, Immunotherapy & Clinical Trials"

1 - An overview of the new treatments now available for men with castrate resistant advanced prostate including a discussion of the sequencing and combining of these treatments.
2 - A discussion about immunotherapies and their role in current treatment.
3 - Q&A

The conference is scheduled for Tuesday, April 30, 2013 at 6PM EDT

Simply dial in at 800-920-7487 or direct dial 404 920 1710, conference code 8534374

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

Speakers:
James L. Gulley, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.P.
Director, Clinical Trials Group &
Deputy Chief, Laboratory of Tumor Immunology and Biology
Senior Investigator, Medical Oncology Branch
Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute National Institutes of Health

Joel Nowak, MSW, MS
Director, Advocacy and Advanced Stage Disease
Malecare Cancer Support

Letter here. Excerpt:

'First, some background for any bystanders who need it: Men’s rights activists (MRAs) have been growing in number for a while as a sort of counter-movement against feminism. Turns out that when women try to get uppity, people get upset. Undoing thousands of years of oppression? That doesn’t sit well with MRAs.

But back to you, MRAs. I’ve seen you on the Internet, commenting on articles about feminist issues. “But what about the men?” is your rallying cry. I wouldn’t be surprised if you comment on this article — prove me wrong, please.

Link here. Excerpt:

'By Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor to the President
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On Monday, I attended the launch of EMPOWERED, Alicia Keys’ new campaign with Greater than AIDS to reach and inform women about HIV/AIDS, at an event hosted by the Kaiser Family Foundation. This is the second event that Alicia Keys and I have attended at Kaiser within the last year, both focused on ending AIDS.

The women were thrilled to meet Alicia Keys, and Alicia, who was deeply moved by their stories, committed to add her powerful international voice to helping to end the epidemic here in the U.S. Alicia and I intended to lift up the women. But really, it was their strength, courage, resilience, good spirit, and humor that lifted us up.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'Rebecca McBrain, the wife of Iron Maiden drummer Nicko McBrain has been charged with domestic abuse after being arrested for an incident that happened at the couple's Florida home earlier this year.

BocaNewsNow.com reports that Rebecca attempted to stab someone with a decorative sword before throwing and hitting the victim with logs from a firepit in the couple's garden.

Although the victim is yet to be identified, the fact that Rebecca has been charged with domestic abuse indicates that the person was a resident of the home or a relative.

Rebecca was in court today (April 18) for sentencing and has a trial date set for May 3, 2013. The original incident is reported to have taken place on February 24 when Rebecca was released from Palm Beach County Jail on $3,000 bail.'

Article here. Excerpt:

Story here.

'(CBS/AP) SANTA ANA, Calif. - A California prosecutor says a jealous wife yelled "You deserve it" before severing her estranged husband's penis with a kitchen knife and throwing it in a garbage disposal.

The Orange County Register reports a jury heard opening statements Wednesday in the case of 50-year-old Catherine Kieu, who is accused of drugging her husband's tofu with sleeping pills and tying him to a bed before the attack.

Deputy District Attorney John Christl says audio of the July 11, 2011 incident was captured by a voice-activated recorder Kieu had hidden in the bedroom.

Deputy Public Defender Frank Bittar says Kieu's severely traumatic childhood in war-torn Vietnam, including rape by her older brother, caused mental illness that bars her from a mayhem or torture conviction.'

For those who don't recall, this was the subject of "The Talk" issue of not long ago. Video here.