Letter here. Search on "Don't take men's vote for granted" to get to the letter.

'Given the high volatility of the “women’s vote,” as if women were a homogeneous group, I can understand why both President Obama and Mitt Romney are worried that this volatile vote might go to the other guy (“Critics slam Mitt Romney on equal pay,” Oct. 17). However, if men and fathers don’t have a candidate who speaks to their interests and concerns, what makes either candidate think that men will even bother to get out of bed on Election Day?

Today’s boys, men and fathers are not the boys, men and fathers of the greatest generation. Males today are living in a gender-reversed world where they are at the wrong end of gender gaps in education, health and jobs and income in the younger generations.

Feminists would have you believe sexual and romantic indiscretions are pretty much male politicians' turf. Maybe not so much these days. Story here. "Lady"? There's another word I'd use, but this is a "family site" (well, not exactly, but...). Excerpt:

'The former French justice minister Rachida Dati had up to eight lovers, including Nicolas Sarkozy's brother, in the year she fell pregnant with her daughter, a lawyer for the alleged father has claimed.

Dominique Desseigne will use the fact that Ms Dati had several lovers as one argument to refuse to take a paternity test, Le Monde reported.
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Ms Dati, 46, a former minister in Mr Sarkozy's government and now an MEP, filed a paternity case in October to oblige Mr Desseigne, the chief of the Lucien Barriere casino and hotel group, to acknowledge he is the father of three-year-old Zohra.
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Today I thought to myself: What kind of humorous pseudo-story could I come up with for some comedy relief on MANN, heading into tomorrow's debacle that will probably make 2000's pregnant-chad-a-thon look like a slam-dunk Wednesday-morning certainty in comparison? (I really hope I am wrong about this, but only a history that has yet to be made will show if it's true or not.)

So I thought and thought, then came up with this: National Guardsmen called in from wherever to assist with the many tasks needing attention right now in New York City are thrown out of their billet so some Victoria's Secret models could have a place to do their catwalk thing. Perfect! It'll make the guys laugh!

Tomorrow we will experience the most important presidential election of our lifetimes. And talk about exciting... The race is neck and neck.

This reminds me of 2000, when George W. Bush officially won Florida's electoral votes by a margin of only 537 votes out of almost 6 million cast, winning him the election.

This year, if you live in CO, FL, IA, MI, NV, NH, NC, OH, PA, VA, or WI there's a chance that your ballot could decide who will lead our country for the next four years.

But only if you vote.

Please vote. Your vote counts. Every vote counts!

There are close races for seats in the House and Senate as well.

Tell a friend. Share this elert today!

http://www.saveservices.org/campaign-2012

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

Article here. Excerpt:

'A 35-year-old Texas woman accused of having sex with a 14-year-old boy and then claiming to be pregnant from the relationship may have worked as a substitute teacher at least once in the boy’s classroom, a school official said.

Amanda Sotelo, a resident of Von Ormy, was booked into a Bexar County jail on Nov. 1 on a charge of indecency with a child, Louis J. Antu, spokesman with the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office, told NBC News. Bond was set at $75,000.

School district officials learned of the allegations Oct. 31 after the boy's mother alerted them of the relationship, Anne Marie Espinoza, spokeswoman for the Southwest Independent School District in San Antonio, told KSAT-TV.'

Letter here. Excerpt:

'Madam -- I am writing to commend Eilis O'Hanlon on her excellent article entitled 'Sometimes it's not so hard to be a woman' (Sunday Independent, October 28). It is long past time that the feminist industry, which survives by perpetuating the myth that women are oppressed, was exposed for the nonsense that it is.

Ms O'Hanlon very competently demolishes the latest silly feminist claim that the recession is having a disproportionate effect on women. It is almost as ridiculous as the other feminist claim that women suffer more than men in war, repeated by Hillary Clinton among others.

The fact that it is predominantly men who are killed, crippled and maimed in war is an inconvenient truth, but feminists are expert at ignoring truth, no matter how blatantly obvious it may be.

That distortion of reality is an integral part of feminism. Its proponents selectively look up through the glass ceiling but refuse to look down into the glass cellar (ie dangerous and dirty jobs) which are almost totally dominated by men.'

Video here. Text:

'"If you have a penis, on November 6, it's crucial that you stay home and watch porn all day."

That's the message of a new PSA on FX's "Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell." The thing is, women support President Obama far more than men do, and if, in a reverse-19th amendment situation, only women voted, Obama would win in a landslide. (Assuming they don't let their hormones do the talking on Election Day.)

Everyone wins: Men don't have to inconvenience themselves, and women are happy they get a president who will protect their bodies and health. And if women are happy, men are happy, right?'

Article here. Excerpt:

'LOS ANGELES (CBS Las Vegas) – Teens living in homes with lesbian mothers are proving to be more successful in school and generally happier in life.

A new study has found that 17-year-olds with lesbian mothers had high school GPAs ranging between A-minus to B-plus, while having strong family bonds with their mothers, whom the teens consider good role models. The Williams Institute at UCLA, which conducted “Adolescents with Lesbian Mothers Describe Their Own Lives,” tracked 78 adolescents over a 26-year period.
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The research, which appears in the Journal of Homosexuality, indicated that these teens had very close friends that they felt comfortable informing about their lesbian parents. “They teach me to be accepting of all people on this earth, no matter what differences they may have,” wrote one of 38 adolescent boys tracked in the study.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'If you believe women suffer systemic wage discrimination, read the new American Association of University Women (AAUW) study Graduating to a Pay Gap. Bypass the verbal sleights of hand and take a hard look at the numbers. Women are close to achieving the goal of equal pay for equal work. They may be there already.

How many times have you heard that, for the same work, women receive 77 cents for every dollar a man earns? This alleged unfairness is the basis for the annual Equal Pay Day observed each year about mid-April to symbolize how far into the current year women have to work to catch up with men's earnings from the previous year. If the AAUW is right, Equal Pay Day will now have to be moved to early January.

Story here. Inspiring and more to the point, noble. But as a man coming to someone else's rescue, he is indeed a hero, but risking his life for another person is somewhat expected, is it not? He even expected it of himself. Imagine if he had been a woman. Indeed he (as she) may have done the same, but would she have felt the same obligation to act as he said he felt? And would she also not be now lauded nationally as a hero rather than just as an ordinary fellow doing an extraordinary thing due to circumstance? Excerpt:

'Jon Candelaria, a 25-year-old who works in accounting, was in his apartment near the East River, looking out the window as the streets below filled with water. He saw the taxi do a 360-degree turn and end up in the rising flood. Candelaria, dressed in basketball shorts, threw on a jacket and sneakers and rushed down into the street.

Movember web site here: http://www.movember.com/. From the US version site here:

'Movember is all about bringing back the moustache, having fun and doing it for a serious cause; men's health, specifically prostate and testicular cancer initiatives. Mo Bros commit to growing a moustache for the 30 days of Movember, and in doing so become walking and talking billboards for the cause. The moustache is our ribbon, the symbol by which we generate conversations, awareness and raise funds for men's health.

Whilst the growing of Mo's is limited to the guys, Mo Sistas play a vital role in the success of Movember by supporting and encouraging the men in their life to get involved, and participating in raising funds and awareness themselves.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Back in the days when I was dating, before I met my wonderful husband, I would mention my views about circumcision early in a relationship, namely that I was against it and had no plans to circumcise any future sons. I figured I could marry someone with different interests or even political views, but when it came to circumcising a child, that was a deal-breaker.

Of course, not everyone is passionate about this issue before they have kids. Many people don’t give a second thought to circumcision until they are expecting. By then, if turns out there are strong views in opposite directions, it can lead to a lot of heartache.

A reader sent a link to this graphic after reading this story here on MANN. More grist for the mill. Being fat incurs greater health care costs than smoking and drinking *combined*.

Let's call it what it is, guys: fat. That's what it is. You can say "obese" or "overweight", but when people see a fat person of either sex, they simply say to themselves: "fat". That's the reality. Political correctness insists on "obesity", but everyone knows a duck when he sees one-- and he calls it a duck. And the longer a person stays fat, the avoidably shorter their lifespan gets and their quality of life just continues to drop. And the thing is, it's so avoidable. It's the one thing people well and truly have substantial control over: how much they eat and how much exercise they get. It's just a matter of making the right choice, that's all.

Article here. Amazing-- someone in the MSM has finally started to pay attention to the stats around the voting polls! But as I said before, don't expect Obama et al. to pay attention to men's votes. Feminists just don't seem to think men are very important so naturally subconsciously think our votes don't count. Rule #1 in electoral politics: "Every vote counts-- every single one of them." It's a real bush-league mistake to ignore that fact, but myopia is a sin anyone can be guilty of, and it can't be cured by donning rose-colored lenses. Living inside a bubble such as the one every high-level politician sitting in office for any length of time tends to cause such lenses to grow in front of their eyes of their own accord. Excerpt:

'A barrage of attention from the presidential candidates and the news media has been paid to "waitress moms," "Walmart women" and other exhibits of the female species this election, with pundits wondering whether the female gender gap, which works in the president's favor, will carry him over the top on Election Day.

But the focus might be better spent on men.

"The issue is not the women's vote, but the men's vote," Frank Newport, Gallup's editor-in-chief, told Yahoo News. The reason: polls show male voters look much more likely to break from their 2008 voting patterns. If that happens, the men's vote could decide whether Barack Obama or Mitt Romney becomes the next president.

Four years ago, Obama won 49 percent of the male vote, buoyed by historic gains with white men, who chose the Democratic candidate in the highest proportions seen since Jimmy Carter. Even so, most white men—57 percent of them—still voted for John McCain, and a majority of such voters have not backed a Democratic candidate since 1964, when men began abandoning the Democratic party.

Article here. Excerpt:

'In Maryland, the Child Support Payment Incentive Program is taking small steps to chip away at the mountain of bad child support debt. The Office of Child Support Enforcement acknowledges that 63% of fathers in arrears report earnings of $10,000 or less per year.

The Maryland program allows noncustodial parents with incomes below 225 percent of the federal poverty level and who have made 24 months of consecutive child-support payments on their current obligation to have their arrears reduced to zero. Also, as of October 1, the new legislation will automatically suspend child-support orders for anyone sentenced to 18 or more months in jail and lacking the financial means to pay.

While other states continue to strip away licenses to drive and professional and occupational licenses, Maryland is making some small steps to acknowledge that some dads are just “dead-broke” and the state is better off helping them reenter the workforce – and the lives of their children.'