Link here. Excerpt:

'Statement of Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases National Institutes of Health

There is a growing consensus that we can significantly curtail the HIV/AIDS pandemic by implementing scientifically proven HIV prevention strategies, such as voluntary medically supervised adult male circumcision, prevention of mother-to-child transmission and treatment as prevention. With 2.7 million new HIV infections in 2010 alone, however, it is likely that controlling and ultimately ending the HIV/AIDS pandemic will require an effective vaccine as well. This past year, there have been a number of encouraging findings on this front.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Though their father risked his freedom to regain custody of them, two of his three children are poised to be advertised on Michigan's website for adoption.

The man, an undocumented Guatemalan immigrant, had returned to the U.S. after being deported from the country to fight for his family: a girl and two boys, all under the age of 10.

He's since lost them to the state of Michigan: His daughter is living with a foster family that intends to adopt her, and it is unknown when his sons will find a permanent home in the system.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'David Cameron and Nick Clegg promised “unprecedented support for parents” with a new Children and Families Bill, which also contained measures to make it easier to adopt, and more support for children with special needs.

Parents’ groups “cautiously welcomed” the proposals but business leaders warned that making parental leave more flexible would impose complex “burdens” on employers.

Officials said current rules on maternity and paternity leave were “outdated” because they presumed that women will do the “vast majority” of caring for infants.

A spokesman for the Department for Business said: "Parents should be able to choose their childcare arrangements for themselves.”'

Article here. Excerpt:

'A new, 20-year research project shows women still outlive men but that their life spans are increasing more slowly than men's. — The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation conducted a county-by-county estimate and comparison of U.S. life expectancies from 1989 to 2009.

Nationwide, life expectancy grew by 4.6 years for men and 2.7 years for women in those two decades.

"Men are catching up with them," said Dr. Ali Mokdad, head of the study's U.S. County Performance team. "Men and women should have exactly the same life expectancy (gains)."

Chipping away at women's life spans are preventable causes of death, including tobacco, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, obesity and alcohol, researchers say.

"Their life spans are getting shorter because they are not able to control the risk factors," Mokdad said.

Like I told you last week, in politics, some people will say anything to win. I know this, but I'm still floored by all of the misinformation being published about HR4970. Maybe they are blindly believing members of the domestic violence industry.

Recent fundraising emails from major VAWA-funded organizations are the worst offenders. Even though the GAO and the DOJ found misuse of funds and fraud, these organizations are fighting against accountability. And they're doing this by misrepresenting how HR4970 will affect the LGBT community.

What they don't say, is that HR4970 is the only VAWA that removes all discrimination, the only VAWA that allows service providers to open shelters for men who are abused (40% of all injured victims!). If we, as a society, are going to claim to want to help every victim, shouldn't that include heterosexual men?

Let's not let them get away with this smoke and mirrors trick.

So, whether you want abused men to have services, or whether you want your tax dollars spent correctly, please contact your Representative and ask them to vote YES on HR4970.

Article here. Excerpt:

'A student has been spared jail for a false rape claim which led to a man being arrested and detained for nine hours.

Hannah Byron, 20, invented the sex attack in an attempt to win back an ex-boyfriend, a court was told.

She was told by a judge that she avoided a jail sentence 'by a short whisker' for what police describe as a 'malicious report'.

Police strongly criticised Byron for putting the man through such an ordeal, for wasting their time, and possibly putting off genuine victims.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'PROBLEM: These days, American women receive 57 percent of all bachelor's and 60 percent of all master's degrees in college. Are there repercussions to having this gender imbalance on campus?

METHODOLOGY: Researchers led by University of Texas at San Antonio professor Kristina Durante examined historical data on the ratio of single men to single women in each U.S. state and Washington D.C. They also looked into the desire of hundreds of female college students to focus on career or family after they led them to believe that there were either more men or less men on campus by reading one of two news article about the student population.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Eighty cents on the dollar - that is the gender pay gap figure often quoted these days. It seems incredible that, in our modern world, such inequity in pay for male and female workers can exist. PayScale wanted to find out more about this figure and what we discovered is that "80 cents on the dollar" isn't accurate in most cases.

Article here. Excerpt:

'You might not have realised it, but men are being oppressed. In many walks of life, they are routinely discriminated against in ways women are not. So unrecognised is this phenomenon that the mere mention of it will appear laughable to some.

That, at least, is the premise of a book by a South African philosophy professor which claims that sexism against men is a widespread yet unspoken malaise. In The Second Sexism, shortly to be published in the UK, David Benatar, head of the philosophy department at Cape Town University, argues that "more boys drop out of school, fewer men earn degrees, more men die younger, more are incarcerated" and that the issue is so under-researched it has become the prejudice that dare not speak its name.

Article here. Excerpt:

'While everyone is celebrating the upcoming 40th birthday of Title IX, shouldn't we also hold a funeral for men's sports?

I hate to rain on the party (not really), but if Title IX is gender equity (it isn't), then we should look at the effects of the law from the men's side, too.
...
All this notwithstanding, the way Title IX has been interpreted is wrong, period.

The original law, as passed in 1972, stated, "no person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance."

But that is exactly what is happening in collegiate sports, except now it's the men who are being denied opportunities and subjected to discrimination.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'A man who was subjected to terrifying violence at the hands of his petite wife has described the moment she plunged a steak knife into his heart.

Kieron Bell, 36, only found the courage to leave his wife Sarah after she stabbed him and left him to die.

Even after she was jailed Kieron found it hard to admit he had been a victim of domestic violence at the hands of his wife.

But he hopes telling his story will encourage more men to come forward.

He said: 'There is a misconception that men who are victims are weak but that couldn't be more wrong.'

Kieron, of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, was a strapping nightclub bouncer when he became a victim of domestic violence.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Barack Obama is buying votes. The Paycheck Fairness Act (PFA) is a blatant sop thrown to a voting block on which his next presidency may depend: women, specifically, liberal women. Obama also hopes it will weaken Mitt Romney, who is trying to woo women himself and, yet, cannot endorse the PFA without alienating conservatives.

The PFA (HR 1519) seeks to amend the Equal Pay Act (EPA) of 1963 and the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) of 1938, to which the EPA itself was an amendment. The goal is to strengthen protections and sanctions against the currently illegal business practice of paying unequal wages to men and women who do substantially comparable work.
...

The PFA is profoundly anti-business.

It is also anti-male. For example, the PFA authorizes the awarding of grants to organizations in order for them to teach females how to negotiate better salaries and other compensation. Women's competitors in the job market are men. Tax money, including taxes paid by men, will be used to advantage one sex over the other in the job market.

Article here. Grist for the thought mill. Excerpt:

'A commonly asked question by those on the fence about both men’s rights and feminism is what the difference is between the two movements. Feminism has been around for over five decades and the public is understandably more familiar as a movement.
...
When I brought up the fact that MRAs have caused no legal discrimination against women and only wish to abolish the unjust laws set in place by feminism the counterpoint from both the feminist and the neutral observer were “but men in the past set laws in place that discriminated against/oppressed women.”

The feminist, again as one would expect, could not grasp the concept that “MRA” is not synonymous with “man,” however, the neutral observer eventually conceded that MRAs are indeed men and women who oppose the legal bigotry put in place by the feminist movement.'

Do fathers behind bars get the same treatment on Fathers' Day? Not that I know of. Slideshow here. Caption:

'Mothers watch their children arrive to visit at California Institute for Women state prison in Chino, California May 5, 2012.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'A student has been spared jail for a false rape claim which led to a man being arrested and detained for nine hours.

Hannah Byron, 20, invented the sex attack in an attempt to win back an
ex-boyfriend, a court was told.

She was told by a judge that she avoided a jail sentence 'by a short whisker' for what police describe as a 'malicious report'.

Police strongly criticised Byron for putting the man through such an ordeal, for wasting their time, and possibly putting off genuine victims.'