Article here. Excerpt:

'The philosopher Iain Brassington has recently expressed a similar concern. On the Journal of Medical Ethics blog, he wrote: “Though I [have] mentioned the [recent] decision of the German court that ritual circumcision constituted assault, I’ve wanted to stay clear of saying more about it [because] it seemed too potentially toxic”[2] (Brassington, 2012, para. 2). To give another example, the bioethicist Dan O’Connor from Johns Hopkins University—in an article entitled “A Piece I Really Didn’t Want to Write on Circumcision”—has recently said that: “when [a reporter] calls my work and ask[s] if there is a bioethicist in the house who will give the anti-circumcision viewpoint, I beg off. … I would be a terrible interviewee anyway, [since I would have to preface] my every argument against circumcision with rambling spiels about what loving and caring parents my [Jewish] friends are” (O’Connor, 2012, para. 10).

Something smells very rotten in Ellsworth, Maine.

Even though you made the calls this week on behalf of falsely accused and persecuted domestic violence victim and single father Vladek Filler, he was incarcerated yesterday. But that's not the worst of it.

Asst. District Attorney Mary N. Kellett is facing a disciplinary hearing next week for procedural misconduct in the Filler case. And now Vladek is in Mary Kellet's jail. He's in her jail without an attorney.

Background: http://www.saveservices.org/camp/intolerable-injustice/

Six weeks ago Vladek filed two motions, including one asking the court to recognize his new attorney. Judge Robert E. Murray waited until the very last minute, then denied both motions. Vladek Filler doesn't have an attorney to make sure he is allowed to testify at Kellett's disciplinary hearing next week.

Do you smell it now?

Please call the Board of Overseers of the Bar. Tell them to bring prosecutor Mary Kellett to justice at 207-623-1121

Article here. Undoubtedly the vast majority of adults in Scouting are NOT child molesters, in the same way that the same can be said for college football coaches and clergymen. The issue here is that once again, boys were the victims of sexual predators (male or female, makes no difference), and instead of other adults standing to defend them, they turned their backs on them. Need I make the point yet again: Would they have done thus if the victims had been girls? No way. Excerpt:

'PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An array of local authorities — police chiefs, prosecutors, pastors and town Boy Scout leaders among them — quietly shielded scoutmasters and others who allegedly molested children, according to a newly opened trove of confidential files compiled from 1959 to1985.

Articles here and here. Excerpt from one:

'More than 20,000 boys left primary school this summer with the reading skills of a seven-year-old or worse, according to official figures.

Seven per cent of 11-year-old boys will be starting secondary education with ability levels no better than those expected of the average infant, it was revealed.

Despite a record rise in results this year, figures showed that boys were almost twice as likely as girls to fail basic reading tests.

In all, some 20,300 boys were at Level 2 or below in reading – the standard normally expected after just two years of compulsory schooling – compared with 10,400 girls.

The disclosure comes amid concerns that a lack of male role models at home and school may be turning boys off reading at a young age.

Article here. Excerpt:

'We hear it over and over again: the myth of the wage gap. In Tuesday’s presidential debate, Katherine Fenton asked President Obama what he intended to do about “women making only 72 percent of what their male counterparts earn.”

Just one problem: Women make about 95 percent of what their male counterparts earn, if the male counterparts are in the same job with the same experience.

Obama’s answer was to brag about the increased regulations he’s put in place through the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which he signed into law in January 2009 — even though women have brought only about 35 lawsuits under the new law.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Only one in seven women describes herself as a "feminist", while one in five said feminism was 'not relevant' to the modern generation, according to a new UK survey.

One in three modern women view traditional radical feminism as "too aggressive" towards men, the survey by a UK-based parenting website found.

Fewer than one in ten women aged 25 to 29 identified with feminism, compared with a quarter of those aged 45 to 50 and just one in seven women describes herself as a "feminist" with younger women even less likely to describe themselves as such.

A third view traditional radical feminism as "too aggressive" towards men, while a quarter no longer view it as a positive label, the Daily Mail reported.'

Article here.  Excerpt:

"And on the campaign trail and on the air, the candidates and their allies argued intensely all day over who would do more to help women. At the same time, the topic of whether the heated encounter Tuesday night had alienated the very female voters they were seeking to connect with became fodder for cable TV discussions.

The level of intensity left little doubt that the election was coming down not only to a state-by-state fight for territory, but also to one for the allegiance of vital demographic groups, chief among them undecided women.
...
Mr. Romney, at a campaign rally in Chesapeake, Va., hit back. “This president has failed America’s women,” he said. “They’ve suffered in terms of getting jobs. They’ve suffered in terms of falling into poverty.”

For Mr. Romney, the imperative, with less than three weeks until Election Day, is cutting into what has been Mr. Obama’s sizable lead among women.

Article here. Excerpt:

'According to the most recent data available from the Illinois Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries and Illnesses, the careers associated with the highest number of occupational fatalities were transportation and material moving, management (including farming) and construction. Sales-related occupations were fourth, while protective services rounded out the top five.
...
In Illinois alone, there were 203 injury-related occupational deaths in 2010, up from 158 deaths the year before. The 28 percent increase is attributed to an unusually low number of work-related deaths in 2009.

"That year was an abnormally low number," Wamack said. "There was a downturn in the economy and less construction, which is one of the possible reasons" for fewer workplace deaths in 2009.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Officially sanctioned injustice focuses the victim’s mind wonderfully. When such an injustice befalls someone of high intelligence, iron will and an enormous reservoir of patience, sometimes one person can change a system.

Meet Toronto tax consultant Lucien Khodeir. Khodeir got screwed over years ago through Canada’s recipient-biased 1997 Child Support Guidelines. He tasked himself to analyze them exhaustively, prove their bias and force judicial reform.

Article here. Excerpt:

'On a radio show one morning last year, a female professor at a well-known university tossed off the thought that if men are just going to hang out with their pals at the bar every night, women will take a pass on having kids with them. She didn't cite any studies, and she almost certainly didn't know any men who fit that description. But it didn't matter.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Figures show that 15 per cent of boys struggle to form simple words such as “dog”, “cat”, “mum” and “dad” from memory at the end of the reception year.

They are around twice as likely as girls to fail in basic writing at the end of pre-school, it emerged.

Data from the Department for Education also showed that some four-in-10 boys and almost a fifth of girls cannot write a simple shopping list or a letter to Santa.

In further figures, It was revealed that eight per cent of boys cannot count up to 10, compared with just five per cent of girls. They were also considerably more likely to struggle to dress independently and manage their own hygiene.'

Letter here. Excerpt:

'According to the 2010 National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey given by the Centers for Disease Control, one in four women and one in seven men in the United States will experience severe physical violence by an intimate partner in their lifetime. There is a stigma in this country that men cannot be victims so the services available to them are limited. As a social work graduate student who works at a domestic violence agency, I am concerned by the amount of support males are able to receive. I have had calls from both homosexual and heterosexual male victims asking for support. In reality, until we raise awareness and reduce the stigma, male victims will continue to be underserved. Shelters are only for women so men end up having to go to a homeless shelter and often face discrimination even from shelter staff.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Obese teenage boys are at risk for more than diabetes and heart disease, a new study has found. They also have alarmingly low levels of testosterone - between 40 to 50% less than males of the same age with a normal body mass index.

The study, published this week in the journal Clinical Endocrinology, investigated the effect of obesity on testosterone levels in young males.

It has its origins in earlier research, which showed that type II diabetes and obesity in older men are linked to a high rate (25-33%) of hypogonadism, or low testosterone levels. According to the new study, the rate of hypogonadism in type II diabetic men ages 18-35 is greater than 50%.

In addition, concentrations of free testosterone — testosterone that isn’t chemically bound and thus available to the body — were shown to be negatively related to BMI: The higher the body mass, the lower the concentration.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) arguably is one of the most misguided pieces of legislation ever passed by Congress. From conceptualization to consequences it has wreaked a wide swath of destruction across American society and accurately can be described as “A War on Men.” Conceptually, VAWA is based on the false Duluth Power and Control Wheel model. VAWA falsely presumes that all Domestic Violence (DV) is perpetrated by evil patriarchal males against virtuously innocent female victims. This false gender ideology has no research support.

Change.org petition here. Looks a lot to me like they are ignoring what is happening to this guy because he's male. If this were a female getting sexually abused this way by men or women, I am sure the DA would be all over it. Men have the right to live lives free of assault and abuse by people of either sex, and it's time the powers-that-be knew it. Excerpt: