Submitted by Broadsword on Sat, 2012-05-19 17:23
Article here. Excerpt:
'Working men with stay-at-home wives are a 'pocket of resistance' to equality in the workplace, according to a new study.
After research with hundreds of husbands, the team found those with 'traditional' rather than modern marriages tended to 'view the presence of women in the workplace unfavourably'.
They also found that men with stay-at-home wives - or even 'neo-traditionalists' married to women who worked part-time - thought companies with more women worked 'less smoothly', and found organisations with female bosses 'relatively unattractive'.
And the research paper provides a possible explanation for the so-called 'marzipan layer' - which traps women just below senior jobs: such men 'deny more frequently, qualified female employees opportunities for promotion'.'
Submitted by Matt on Sat, 2012-05-19 16:09
Article here. I have a hunch they'd find just as high numbers-- if they had bothered to check. Excerpt:
'More than 60 percent of males arrested last year for crimes – felonies and misdemeanors – tested positive for drug use, according to a White House study of arrest data from 10 large cities. For some cities, that surpassed 80 percent.
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The range was from a low of 64 percent of arrestees who tested positive for drug use in Atlanta to 81 percent in Sacramento, Calif. That’s up slightly from 2010 when the range was from 52 percent in Washington to more than 80 percent in both Chicago and Sacramento. It did not evaluate female arrestees.'
Submitted by Matt on Sat, 2012-05-19 16:06
Blog here. Excerpt:
'It is often assumed, by legal and mental health professionals alike, that when divorcing parents are unable to come to an agreement in regard to parenting arrangements for their children, and remain locked in high conflict, shared parenting is contraindicated. The belief is that children will remain caught in the middle of their parents’ conflict, and exposure to ongoing conflict is extremely damaging to children’s well-being. In many jurisdictions, there is a legal presumption against shared parenting in high conflict cases. As a result, parents who seek a sole custody arrangement or wish to retain primary caregiving responsibility for their children after divorce often characterize their cases as high conflict. Parents may exaggerate the extent of conflict, or purposefully engage in conflict to resist a court order for shared parenting.
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Submitted by Matt on Sat, 2012-05-19 16:03
Article here. Filled with rationalizations for why certain women are doing what the film shows. Would a film about male sex tourism get such acclaim especially when there is a huge income and class disparity between buyers and sellers? Never, nor should it. So why is this one? You know the answer already. Excerpt:
'A graphic, unflinching look at the delicate interplay of desire, money and power among European women sex tourists and African gigolos hit the screen yesterday in the Cannes contender "Paradise: Love".
Austrian director Ulrich Seidl, who scandalised cinema's top international showcase five years ago with another take on rich and poor and the sex trade, "Import/Export", this time turns his camera on women as the consumers.
"Paradise: Love" stars Margarethe Tiesel as Teresa, a 50-year-old Viennese single mother of an insolent teenage daughter who needs a break from it all, in a breakout performance cheered by audiences here.'
Submitted by anthony on Fri, 2012-05-18 20:50
Video here.
'A feminist accidentally explains her view of the world.'
Submitted by Matt on Fri, 2012-05-18 19:06
Submitted by Matt on Fri, 2012-05-18 19:03
Fine for girls to wear jeans and button-down shirts, but boys in skirts? Nah. Story here. Excerpt:
'A male student was suspended from a southern Maryland school for wearing girls’ clothing, and the incident has sparked a big controversy in Calvert County.
Warren Evans, an openly bisexual student at Calvert High School, was suspended for violating the school’s dress code by wearing a skirt.
Evans says the school is discriminating against him and does not believe he violated any dress code.'
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 2012-05-17 21:32
Article here. Excerpt:
'Last week, on my facebook page, A Sister asked me if I am “for” or “against” child support. I posted a picture, of a Black woman holding a wheelbarrow full of money, and the words above the picture said “Child Support, Way Better Than A Dad”, then I proceeded to answer the question. What I am “for” is choosing wisely when deciding to reproduce and deciding who will reproduce you. What I am “for” is adults being mature if the relationship ends so that the child won’t suffer, become molded in the bitterness of its mother, and caught in an emotional tug of war. What I am “against” is women hustling their wombs SPECIFICALLY for the sole purpose of collecting a child support check. What I am “against” is child support being limited or perceived as just financial assistance. Child support means to support your child mentally, emotionally, spiritually, being there for events, listening to them, encouraging them, showing them love and teaching them lessons so they won’t have to learn lessons in the streets.
Submitted by Matt on Thu, 2012-05-17 16:24
Submitted by redwoodwriter on Thu, 2012-05-17 06:59
Story here. Safeway employee intervenes in domestic violence case and gets fired. Everything that men are supposed to do is getting to be illegal, immoral, or ill-advised. Excerpt:
'DEL REY OAKS, Monterey County (CBS 5) — Safeway’s suspension of a Monterey County employee after stopping a domestic assault has become a public relations headache for the grocery chain.
Police said Ryan Young, a meat clerk at the Del Rey Oaks location, intervened when he saw Quyen Van Tran beating his pregnant girlfriend in the store last month.
“If it was their wife who was pregnant or their daughter who was pregnant who was being attacked, would they want someone to step in and help them?” Young said.'
Submitted by anthony on Thu, 2012-05-17 02:06
Article here. Excerpt:
'WASHINGTON -- The House Republican version of the Violence Against Women Act reauthorization, which has been decried by women's rights groups as a dramatic rollback of protections for domestic violence victims, has picked up the backing of a group that may prove to be an unhelpful ally: the National Coalition For Men.
The coalition argues, in a Tuesday letter to members of Congress that was forwarded to HuffPost, that the Republican bill protects both men and women, while the original VAWA aimed to protect only women.
"Those opposing H.R. 4970 loudly assert that VAWA serves all people, which is absurd on its face given the name of the Act. Opposing versions, by omission and lack of specificity, generally exclude men, particularly heterosexual men, regardless of specious arguments to the contrary," states the letter from coalition President Harry Crouch.
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Submitted by anthony on Thu, 2012-05-17 01:58
Article here. Excerpt:
'On a 222-205 vote, the House passed a GOP-sponsored bill to renew the Violence Against Women Act, an 18-year-old law written by then-Sen. Joe Biden that dedicates federal resources to assist victims of domestic violence.
Wednesday's vote puts the House at odds once again with the Democratic-controlled Senate, which approved its version of the bill last month on a bipartisan 68-31 vote. The Senate bill renews the act for five years, authorizes $659.3 million in annual spending and contains measures to help victims of sexual assault, improve emergency housing services for victims and consolidate some grant programs to make them more efficient.
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Submitted by anthony on Wed, 2012-05-16 21:58
Article here. There is no mention of a father in this video except for a two second clip (1:37) of a man putting a backpack on a young girl. Excerpt:
'Homing in on women's health issues, President Obama's campaign released a new Web video Wednesday afternoon targeting female voters, spotlighting the president's support for contraception coverage through health care policies.
The video, titled, "Letters to the President: The Dreams of Our Daughters," spotlights the life of one mother and her two daughters. The mother reads her voice-over as a letter to Obama about her concerns as a mother raising two daughters.'
Submitted by anthony on Wed, 2012-05-16 21:28
Article here. Excerpt:
'WASHINGTON -- The White House issued a press release on Tuesday threatening to veto the House GOP's version of the Violence Against Women Act reauthorization, which the House is scheduled to vote on Wednesday afternoon.
Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2012-05-16 20:59
Article here. Excerpt:
'A general who defected from the Congolese army last month has forced at least 149 boys and young men to join his mutinying forces, repeating the alleged acts for which he has long been wanted by the International Criminal Court, according to a new report from Human Rights Watch. At least 48 were under 18.
"They tied my hands with a rope. All of us were tied up. Then they marched us to the hill," a 17-year-old student told the human rights group, recounting an episode in which at least 32 high school students were rounded up. "They told us we would fight for Bosco."
Bosco Ntaganda has been wanted by the International Criminal Court for recruiting and using child soldiers while commanding a rebel group during Congo's civil war. Yet after the war ended, Ntaganda was brought into the army and ultimately promoted to general.'
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