Article here. Excerpt:

'In a rare show of solidarity, Governor O’Malley and Maryland Comptroller Peter Franchot have sent the Towson University President a message.

Both want Maravene Loeschke to come to Annapolis to explain how her school’s baseball and soccer teams were eliminated. And, in the meantime, they are both refusing to vote on Towson University’s planned construction of a building on the Harford Community College campus.

Loeschke confirmed to WBAL News that she is planning to meet with the two officials. She added that she was suprised by the request from the Governor and Comptroller.

Earlier this month, President Loeschke talked to a hastily called meeting of the men’s baseball and soccer teams and told the players the sports were being eliminated. According to reports, she walked into the meeting with uniformed police officers, delivered the message and left without taking any questions.'

Latest interview with Mike Buchanan available on YouTube here. The channel page is here. The official blog is here. Excerpt:

'Welcome to the official blog of a new British political party. The party will seek to raise public consciousness about the many disadvantages and discriminations faced by men and boys in modern Britain.

An article published on a leading men’s human rights website, ‘A Voice for Men’, reveals some of the thinking behind our decision to form a new party:

http://www.avoiceformen.com/feminism/government-tyranny/fighting-feminism-lets-get-political/
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Thank you for your interest. We’re working for a brighter future for men and boys, and the women who love them.'

The new VAWA Inclusion Mandate offers us countless opportunities to reform the domestic violence field - abuse shelters, criminal justice programs, information and training activities, and more.
 
Now we need to seize the moment - carpe diem! On Monday, SAVE will be unveiling our new Inclusive-VAWA Resource Center: http://www.saveservices.org/inclusive-vawa/resources
 
Whether you are an activist, a citizen-lobbyist, a blogger, or whatever, you can help make this happen.
 
Join us for a one-hour teleconference, Monday evening, 9pm ET, 8pm Central, 7pm Mountain, 6pm Pacific. To get dial-in information, send me a message at tstoddard-at-saveservices.org
 

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

CNN hits bottom in the title* for this article by assuming that the default for boys is to grow up to be rapists. Excerpt:

'In the aftermath of the guilty verdict in Steubenville, Ohio, parents should be taking this opportunity to ask themselves this painful question. But what parent can even contemplate that a child they love could so callously disregard someone's basic human rights? At the same time, the media is filled with experts chastising parents for not being involved with their kids and wanting to be a friend instead of a parent.
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We must talk to our kids as possible perpetrators and bystanders. And our advice about what to say has got to go beyond, "How would you feel if this happened to your mother or sister?" First, no one has any idea what the perpetrator's relationship is like with those women in his life, but it's not a huge leap to think he doesn't hold a great deal of respect for them. Second, these boys have dehumanized their victim. In that moment, they don't care.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'An unnamed mother, who pleaded guilty to attempting to kill her two young children in a murder-suicide, received a prison sentence in Melfort on Thursday.

Justice R.S. Smith handed down a sentence of four years in a penitentiary, less one year for time served in remand.
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Defense counsel brought up the fact that after her arrest, the woman had gone through a psychiatric assessment that found her to be suffering from severe paranoia and depression.

The defense went on to suggest that at the time of the incident the mother was not in the proper state of mind due to her depression. She stated the mother had said she had suffered a lot from abuse from men and she wanted to save her children from that abuse.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'I recently read a magazine article that explored the problems modern men face, which, despite all the hoopla, aren’t as serious as, say, the problems men faced during the Great Depression or World War II.

The headline asked, “What makes a real man anyway?” The writer suggested that things are going terribly wrong, so men need more therapy and medication. That’s certainly original thinking. While some social critics blame the feminist movement for our disorientation, I have doubts about that theory. If anything, we’re to blame for the problems women face.

Nevertheless, I’m worried about young men, because they don’t seem to be motivated by anything but money, power, sex, and partying. There has to be more to a man’s life than that. (OK, maybe iPhones, sports cars and video games instead.)'

Article here. Excerpt:

'It has been a hard year but very slowly I can see more and more people are beginning to realise that domestic violence is not and never has been a gender issue.

Also the gender war against men and boys has resulted in the collapse of family life and and created a hostile environment for relationships between the sexes.

Western governments played their part in refusing to see quite clearly that the state has usurped the role of fathers.

Men as fathers are being forcibly made redundant.

The new family is now ‘woman and their children.’

Story here. Excerpt:

'The mayor of Dallas has unveiled a list of professional athletes and religious leaders who have signed on to help his campaign against domestic violence.

The campaign asks men to report abuse, help people who are being abused and volunteer with organizations that are helping.

The centerpiece of Mayor Mike Rawlings' campaign is the Men Against Abuse rally scheduled for Saturday at Dallas City Hall.
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"We must stand together and that means, simply, not hitting women -- ever," Rawlings said.'

Meanwhile, Police: Woman kills husband, kids, self near Dallas:

'MESQUITE, TX -- A woman shot and killed her husband and two young adult children before killing herself in their suburban Dallas home, investigators said Thursday.

Story here. Excerpt:

'A privately funded shelter for male victims of domestic abuse — believed to be the only refuge of its kind in the country — has closed.

Men’s rights advocate Earl Silverman said he can’t afford to keep the Men’s Alternative Safe House (MASH) running.

Since it opened out of his house about three years ago, close to 20 men have passed through, he said. Among them was a “father with two children, a one-year-old girl and a nine-year-old boy and he was fleeing a violent, alcoholic wife.”

Absent of federal or provincial funding, Mr. Silverman said he just can’t keep up with the grocery, heat and other bills associated with running the shelter. He said he sold his home last week.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Administrators with the Dallas Independent School District (DISD) say it won’t just be “men” standing up against domestic violence at the Dallas Men Against Abuse rally happening this weekend.

According to school district officials, some 1,000 male students will join in the call to ‘man up’ and end domestic violence. A number of DISD students are featured in Dallas public service announcements. “I pledge to hold my male friends accountable for their violent actions,” one teen declared in a video.'

Story here. Excerpt:

Facebook (FB) Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg has been on a high-profile publicity tour for her new book. She's been interviewed by CBS news magazine "60 Minutes," ABC's "Nightline" and CNN, among others.
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Did Sandberg and Knopf, publisher of her book "Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead," request or choose interviewers based on the sex of the interviewer? Maybe Sandberg is hoping to give the female journalists some advancement with a plum interview. Or did news organizations pander to Sandberg and Knopf by suggesting a woman do the interviewing? The assumption is that female journalists would be more sympathetic to Sandberg's message.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Deputy Montfort Tadier said April's referendum is a great opportunity to encourage more women into government.

The referendum sets three questions over how the island's government is made up in future.

He said seats could be allocated as women only if islanders agreed to create larger political districts.

But Deputy Kristina Moore, first elected in 2011, said: "We have the same percentage of women as the UK, and thankfully our male colleagues treat us with much more respect than their counterparts."'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Courts will be encouraged to hand more community sentences to women offenders – backed by curfews, tagging and unpaid work – in an attempt to reduce the female prison population.

The move, combined with treatment programmes for women with alcohol and drug problems, is designed to reduce the number of families that are broken up when a mother is jailed.

In an interview with The Independent, the Justice Minister, Helen Grant said: “There are some women who are bad and a risk to the public and society and they need to go to prison. But there are other women who are in the system, low-risk women, who would benefit greatly from punitive, credible punishments in the community.”'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has ruled that women convicts serving life sentence in Maharashtra jails are required to spend only 14 years unlike male convicts, who have to be behind bars for a period ranging from 14 to 28 years depending on the nature of offence committed by them.

The ruling was delivered on March 15 by Justices Abhay Thipsay and P V Hardas, who were hearing a petition filed by Usha Upadhyay challenging the decision of the state government in respect of benefit of premature release to be given to her on the basis of guidelines framed by the Government.

"In our opinion, category 1 of 2010 guidelines, which is exclusively for women offenders, must cover all cases of women offenders and that they can be fitted only in that category.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Having skills suited for a variety of careers helps explain why few women pursue math and science jobs, new research finds.

A study by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Michigan revealed that women may be less likely to want careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) because they have more career choices, not because they have less ability.

"Our study shows that it's not lack of ability or differences in ability that orients females to pursue non-STEM careers, it's the greater likelihood that females with high math ability also have high verbal ability," said Ming-Te Wang, one of the study's co-authors and developmental psychologist at the University of Pittsburgh. "Because they're good at both, they can consider a wide range of occupations."'