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.

Article here. Excerpt:

'(TEL AVIV) - Today's Judaism is ready to reject traditional circumcision and to move to compassionate symbolic rituals. The interpretation of Jewish law is constantly in a state of development, flux, and evolution, expanding as the realm of human rights expands. As Jews, we are regularly evolving our lives and practices to adjust to the constantly evolving moral arc of human rights.

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'Since its release last spring, Burns and his co-producers, daughter Sarah Burns and her husband David McMahon, as well as the five men whose convictions in the case were vacated, have traveled the country talking about the film and the as-yet-unsettled $250 million civil suit they brought against the City of New York in 2003.

Our annual conference will be held in Washington DC on June 21-22. If you get your tickets before June 1 you can save $25 per ticket!

This year's theme is "Celebrating Our Progress!"

Our keynote speakers are Erin Pizzey, founder of the international abuse shelter movement, and Kathy King, a former magistrate in Ohio. We'll also hear from persons who have overcome being falsely accused, and more. Dinner Friday and lunch Saturday are included.

Visit the SAVE website for the schedule and info on local lodging: http://www.saveservices.org/dvlp/annual-conference-2013/

Visit eventbrite to register online: http://celebratingourprogress.eventbrite.com/

There is nothing like meeting fellow advocates and activists in person. I hope to see you there!

Teri Stoddard, Program Director
Stop Abusive and Violent Environments
www.saveservices.org

Article here. Excerpt:

'The federal government has intervened in an apparent effort to raise the conviction rate in such campus sexual assault trials, using the gender equity provisions of Title IX. In 2011 the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of the Department of Education advised colleges that they must use the “preponderance of evidence” standard of civil court proceedings, not the “beyond a reasonable doubt” standard of criminal trials. Within a year, almost all institutions, including UNC, had complied rather than risk the loss of federal funding.

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'(CNN) -- The wife of a former justice of the peace in Texas is being held on murder charges in connection with the killings of Kaufman County District Attorney Michael McLelland and his wife, Cynthia, county officials announced Wednesday.

Kim Lene Williams, 46, is also charged with murder in the death of prosecutor Mark Hasse.

She is in jail, with bail set at $10 million. The Kaufman County jail website lists her as being booked about 3 a.m. Wednesday.

The McLellands were killed in March, and Hasse was killed in January.'

Update: She confessed. Reported here.

Article here. Excerpt:

'A FACEBOOK page titled “Slut” has 581,845 likes. The term is used casually in teenage conversations both as a cutting insult and a term of endearment.

Slut-shaming is nothing new; since the days of Nathaniel Hawthorne and “The Scarlet Letter,” girls have been branded with titles because of their sexuality.

And while womens rights have come a long way since the 1850s, social media of the 21st century has morphed sexism and misogyny into a cruel and powerful beast.

Facebook and Twitter make objectifying women easy. A mere click of a button guarantees you a large audience. Teens who never make lewd comments to someone’s face create Facebook groups called “its (sic) not rape if u shout SURPRISE!!!” or “its (sic) not rape, it’s a snuggle struggle” which have almost 1,000 likes.'

Meanwhile:

https://www.facebook.com/mensuck

https://www.facebook.com/groups/227847323895178/

Article here. Excerpt:

'In the wake of the alleged suicide of an IT employee in Bangalore, Save Indian Family Foundation (SIFF) took up the cause of male suicides on Sunday when it held a candlelight vigil in the City demanding that the ‘draconian gender-biased’ dowry-related laws be rectified.

The NGO dedicated to men’s rights, distressed husbands and their families, alleges that over 60,000 men (twice the number of women) commit suicide each year due to fake allegations in 498A cases or due to harassment from their wives and relatives.

In a country that’s deemed absolutely the worst place in the world for women to live, the very notion of men claiming to be the real victims of the system, to put it kindly, beggars belief. Even more so when men’s rights groups anoint themselves ‘the martyrs of marriage,’ asserting that it is men that suffer most in dowry cases which they say are biased solely in favour of the fairer sex. This, at a time when NCRB data estimates that a bride is burned every 90 minutes in this country.

Article here. Excerpt:

'In an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal today titled “A Mother, a Feminist, Aghast,” attorney Judith Grossman writes about her family's harrowing ordeal after her college-age son was accused of “nonconsensual sex” by an ex-girlfriend, several years after their relationship ended.

Grossman’s piece reads like a Kafka-esque nightmare: with no preliminary inquiry by the school into the accusations, Grossman says, the college's Title IX office operated under the assumption that “my son would not be afforded a presumption of innocence.” A campus tribunal—seemingly, with no particular background in the law or in evaluating legal evidence—would rule on the claim, with only half of the tribunal needing to decide that the alleged incident “more likely than not” occurred for punishment to be meted out. ...

Article here. Excerpt:

'Why do you think that women will rule the future? What evidence can you share that proves that?

We don’t think that women alone will rule the future. We think that women with certain leadership skills and traits and men who also possess them, stand a greater chance of success in an ever-more interconnected global economy. This is because the only way to succeed when everyone knows your business is to act in an empathetic, patient, humane, and scrupulously ethical way. Given that people the world over believe these qualities are “female” in a traditional sense, we use “like women” as a shorthand for what can be universal traits.
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What are three things that men can learn from women about career management that will make them more successful?

Story here. Excerpt:

'A local health club's switch to a "women only" policy has ruffled the feathers of some of its male members.

More than 50 men from Dearborn and surrounding communities organized a protest on Tuesday at the Dearborn Fitness USA, one of two Metro Detroit locations that have changed to workouts for women only.

"The company is in breach of its membership contract," Andrew Sluka of Lincoln Park said. "It's discrimination, plain and simple."

According to Sluka, members were notified on Dec. 3 that the Dearborn location would only allow women to use the facility's equipment. Prior to that, the club offered alternate days for male and female members.

"They gave us a two-week notice, and by law, a fitness club is supposed to give its members a 30 day notice if they change a policy," he said.

Article here. Excerpt:

'A teacher in Texas has invoked her own racism in a defense against charges that she fondled an African-American student in her first grade class at Northwest Preparatory Academy Charter School in Humble.

According to a criminal complaint obtained by the Houston Chronicle, the 7-year-old girl said that 61-year-old Esther Irene Stokes sent all of the other students out of the room on March 1 and then touched her “private part” on the outside of her clothes.

“The victim said that she was in the classroom alone with the teacher and that the teacher touched her on the outside of her clothes, on what she called her ‘private part,’ her vaginal area,” Humble Police Department Detective J. Blanchard explained on Tuesday.'

Story here. The female sentencing discount, as murdering mother pleads "no contest" and the prosecutor proposes a 45-day sentence for the murder of a child in 1957. Her son tells of being terrorized throughout his childhood. Excerpt:

'SHEBOYGAN, Wis. - A Wisconsin woman recently convicted of killing her daughter more than 50 years ago is an "evil monster" who deserves to die in prison, said her adult son, who claims he suffered years of horrific abuse at his mother's hands.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Men should be offered a screening test for prostate cancer in their late 40s, researchers say.

The idea is controversial as prostate specific antigen (PSA) testing can be unreliable, throwing up false positive results that can cause undue worry and even treatment over something benign.

But the Swedish team say checking every man aged 45-49 would predict nearly half of all prostate cancer deaths.
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Screening men at the age of 45-49, however, spotted nearly half (44%) of the cancers that went on to be deadly.

In the study, 1,369 of the men had prostate cancer, 241 had advanced disease and 162 died from it.

They say all men should be offered a PSA test in their mid-to-late 40s. Those with a high result would return for frequent screening and checks (and treatment if necessary), while those with normal results could wait until their early 50s for their next PSA test.'

Many of you are already familiar with AntiMisandry.com. For those who are not, it is one of our allies in the battle against feminism and in favor of Men's Rights. The site owner, Karl Matthews, is asking for donations to help keep the site running. He is suffering from some difficult circumstances at present and can't meet the financial requirements on his own to keep the site up. Please give as much as you are able! Request here.