Submitted by Matt on Mon, 2013-01-14 16:53
Article here. Summary: single women are annoyed that single men are not interested in blowing $100 on a "date", thereby reducing how "special" they feel and worse yet, they can't eat for free on the week-ends. Though the comments are closed, they're interesting reading. Excerpt:
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Submitted by Matt on Mon, 2013-01-14 02:45
Article here. Excerpt:
'Anyhow, that we, PappaRättsGruppen (The Fathers Rights Group), would get one million visits on our Home Page wasn't something anyone would have believed or expected – not even we ourselves.
In any case, we are incredible proud and humble before the fact that there are people who are interested in the topics we write about.'
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Submitted by Matt on Mon, 2013-01-14 01:53
Article here. Is death a defensible punishment for murder, rape, and other crimes? That's a separate issue. Point is, Saudi law says these crimes are capital offenses. Next question is this: Is the "world's outrage" because capital punishment is so objectionable or is it because the executed person is young and female? I'd guess so. It doesn't seem anyone is disputing the facts of the case. If a recent MALE immigrant from Sri Lanka had suffocated an infant over an argument with one of the baby's parents, would ANYONE be raising a stink? No way. Excerpt:
'Saudi Arabia on Sunday criticised world reaction to its beheading a Sri Lankan maid convicted of killing her employer's baby, the official SPA news agency reported.
Riyadh "deplores the statements made... over the execution of a Sri Lankan maid who had plotted and killed an infant by suffocating him to death, one week after she arrived in the kingdom," the government spokesman said.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Sun, 2013-01-13 20:54
Article here. Excerpt:
'Title IX was passed to end discrimination in schools and colleges. But contrary to the intent of the law, Title IX is used to impose gender quotas. Schools and colleges must equate the ratio of males and females in sports programs to their overall enrollment. When there are more women than men in college, as is now typical, Title IX regulations mandate that women outnumber men by the same ratio on its competitive sports teams. Title IX has compelled colleges to eliminate hundreds of men’s teams. At the same time, women take an athletic scholarship mainly to get free college tuition, not because they were keen on sports. Colleges are offering full-ride scholarships to women with no experience in sports that are easy to learn, such as crew.
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The United States spends more on sports than any other country in the world, perhaps more than all other countries combined. But if our future great athletes have their spots taken away from them in the name of gender equality, what are we getting for our money?'
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Submitted by MikeJH on Sun, 2013-01-13 13:55
Story here. Excerpt:
'A man who discovered that the son and daughter he raised into their teenage years were not his has been awarded £25,000 in damages after suing his ex-wife for deceit.
Richard Rodwell was a loving father to Adam and Laura until his marriage to their mother Helen broke down.
After the divorce he paid regular child maintenance for more than four years, from his salary as a factory manager.
But in 2008 Mr Rodwell ordered DNA tests after hearing rumours about his daughter’s paternity – and the results showed that each child was fathered by a different man.
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Following the results, the children cut off all contact with him. He claims his ex-wife turned them against him.'
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Submitted by MikeJH on Sat, 2013-01-12 21:53
Article here. Excerpt:
'In England and Wales, the biggest peacetime difference between the life expectancies at birth of the two sexes was 6.3 years. That was in 1967. It is now 4.1 years, and falling. In the early 1980s women who made it to 65, the traditional age of retirement for British men, could expect to live four years longer than their male counterparts. The gap now is less than three years (see chart), though there is still some way to go before things return to the nine-month gap that prevailed in the 1840s, when records began. Other industrialised countries, except Japan and Russia, show something similar.
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A further fifth of the longevity gap between the sexes is explained by alcohol. In this case, however, the gap is widening. In 1979 two men died from alcohol-related causes for every woman who succumbed. In 2009 it was 2.4.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Sat, 2013-01-12 18:11
Article here. Excerpt:
'Our culture pretends that if it represses boys’ violent tendencies, violence will decrease. Society does this by trying to emasculate boys into girls. It encourages boys to play with gender-neutral toys, drugs boys into submission at school and otherwise suppresses their instinctive rough-and-tumble, smash-and-bang physical nature.
But none of these feminist-approved techniques erase the influence of genetics and testosterone. That persistent biochemical is something every boy must learn to handle. Testosterone gives boys less impulse control, more muscle strength and, yes, more violent tendencies. Unchecked, testosterone can cause boys to explode when they hit adolescence … unless they’re trained otherwise.
It takes a man – not a woman – to teach boys how to handle themselves. Without a male mentor, boys often give in to their animal nature and become violent.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Sat, 2013-01-12 17:55
Article here. Excerpt:
'Evidence of intra-firm gender discrimination in the assignment of tasks and irrational aversion to appointing women to boards of directors is fascinating to me not only because sexism is an important issue, but because there's a very clear and simple theoretical argument that this kind of widespread gender discrimination can't exist. In a well-functioning competitive marketplace, firms that don't discriminate will outperform those that do. And yet it's obvious that systematic implicit discrimination against women is in fact widespread. So it should come as new surprise that the latest reports show that the small minority of hedge funds run by women outperform the (dismal) industry average.'
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Submitted by Matt on Sat, 2013-01-12 03:21
Testimony at press conference in Berlin found here. His testimony is given in English.
English translation of Mr. Sadeh's message in Hebrew:
I hereby call Jews in Israel and anywhere in the world: learn about the advantages of an intact penis, learn about the disadvantages of a cut penis, and join the unstoppable movement of tens of thousands of Jews all over the world who welcome their sons to the world without violating their bodily integrity, without hurting them, and without putting them at risk. Here ends a year and its maledictions and a new one begins with its blessings. Happy New Year / Rosh Hashana
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Submitted by Mastodon on Fri, 2013-01-11 07:29
Article here. Excerpt:
'Unmarried couples who live together hold very conventional views of household gender roles, new research has found. In particular, researchers found that the men in unwed couples are still seen as the primary breadwinners even when they are not, while the women are seen as being responsible for domestic work.
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"A number of these working-class men wanted the respect of being the breadwinner but were not necessarily taking on that role," Miller said. "While they were content to let their girlfriends pay at least half of the rent, they admitted that they had no plans to take on half of the housework, even if their partners were very unhappy about doing more than their fair share."
Men have a very specific reason for holding onto those viewpoints, Miller and Sassler said. In particular, men are holding onto the privileges of being the breadwinner in a household because they have lost other privileges in the workplace recently.'
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Submitted by Matt on Fri, 2013-01-11 02:00
Article here. Excerpt:
'The former N.F.L. linebacker Junior Seau had a degenerative brain disease linked to repeated head trauma when he committed suicide last spring, the National Institutes of Health said Thursday.
The findings were consistent with chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease widely connected to athletes who have absorbed frequent blows to the head, the N.I.H. said in a statement. Seau is the latest and most prominent player to be associated with the disease, which has bedeviled the sport in recent years as a proliferation of studies have exposed the possible long-term cognitive impact of head injuries sustained on the field.
“The type of findings seen in Mr. Seau’s brain have been recently reported in autopsies of individuals with exposure to repetitive head injury,” the N.I.H. said, “including professional and amateur athletes who played contact sports, individuals with multiple concussions, and veterans exposed to blast injury and other trauma.”'
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Submitted by Matt on Fri, 2013-01-11 01:54
Article here. Excerpt:
'WASHINGTON/January 8, 2013 – The upcoming 60 Minutes appearance of Brian Banks will highlight flaws in the American criminal justice system, including laws pertaining to sexual assault. Brian Banks, who spent 5 years in prison on a false allegation of rape, will be featured during the January 13, 2013 broadcast of the CBS show 60 Minutes.
Brian Banks was a 16-year-old football star in Long Beach, Calif. when he was accused of rape by Wanetta Gibson. Fearing a life sentence, Banks agreed to a plea bargain, even though there was no DNA, witnesses, or other evidence to support the accusation.
Banks spent over five years in prison. After his release, Wanetta Gibson admitted during a taped interview that her accusation was fabricated. On May 24, 2012, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mark C. Kim exonerated Mr. Banks.'
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Submitted by Matt on Fri, 2013-01-11 01:17
Father of two, Gordon Smith was the victim of 14 false police reports by his ex-wife Tiffany Marie Smith of Dover, Delaware. Mr. Smith was falsely arrested nine times for various domestic violence charges, one terrifying time at gunpoint.
Tiffany Smith was caught in her web of deception last September after she cut herself and lay in a ditch, accusing Mr. Smith of attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon. Police used Gordon's electronic device to confirm that he was nowhere near Tiffany at the time, and Tiffany was finally arrested.
Unfortunately, Gordon Smith's arrest record was never expunged. These records will be available to any and all future potential employers. So Tiffany's rein of terror continues.
Today I'm asking you to contact Delaware Attorney General Joseph "Beau" Biden, lll. Tell him: "Expunge Gordon Smith's arrest record!"
Beau Biden Contact Info
beau.biden-at-state.de.us
(302) 577-8500
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Submitted by Mastodon on Thu, 2013-01-10 22:06
Story here. Excerpt:
'A Florida woman, her brother and another accomplice allegedly shot her ex-husband with a stun gun, held him at gun point, beat him and used a pickup truck to drag him a half-mile down a dirt road, MyFoxOrlando.com reported.
The victim, Robert Hall, managed to get to a nearby home and asked for help. He told police Tuesday night that the three tried to kill him.
Hall was badly injured in the attack, the report said. He suffered a broken pelvis, broken facial bones and bleeding on his brain.
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Jeanette Morris, 61, and her brother, Harold Anderson, 63, face attempted murder and aggravated assault charges for a "brutal attack" on Hall, Volusia County investigators said.
A third accomplice, Joan Hobart, 46, of New Smyrna Beach, was found in Port Orange and booked on the same charges.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Thu, 2013-01-10 21:44
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