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.'
Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2012-05-16 20:56
Article here. Notice that anything that has 'glory' attached to it in any way that just happens to be all-male is immediately pounced upon by feminists as evidence that there is an evil conspiracy going on to exclude women from its ranks. But anything that happens to be all-female is itself touted as glorious for that reason alone, and no excuses are to be made for that state of affairs. Men are being excluded? Not only fine, but desirable-- nay, it's justice! Excerpt:
'CANNES, France (AP) — At this year's Cannes Film Festival, there are directors in their 30s and their 80s, directors from Europe and North America, directors from Asia and the Middle East — but no women.
Not, at least, among the 22 films competing for the coveted Palme D'Or, an absence that has drawn criticism from feminists — and a defense from the festival's artistic director. Thierry Fremaux argues it's not his fault that filmmaking remains primarily "a male sport."
Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2012-05-16 20:50
Article here. Excerpt:
'Here is your chance to stand tall and grab a big victory for the shared parenting movement. But it is imperative that you act immediately.
Everything you need to know follows.
Background:
Both the Minnesota State Senate and Minnesota House have passed bills requiring that each parent get a minimum of 35% of the parenting time—including during temporary orders. Any of you who have been through the custody process knows that temporary orders are crucial—months to years later, they have a way of turning into permanent orders.'
Submitted by anthony on Wed, 2012-05-16 19:24
Article here. Excerpt:
'Kevin Bracken's wrestling career took him all over the world, but he always had a soft spot in his heart for those guys from his college days. That's why it was so hard for him when Illinois State called and wanted to add his name to the Redbirds' Hall of Fame. Hard feelings don't necessarily fade in time, especially with someone as stubborn as a wrestler.
Part of Bracken wanted to tell his old school where to stick that award. In 1995, Bracken's final year of college, Illinois State cut its wrestling program. Strapped with financial constraints and Title IX compliance issues, the school chose to drop wrestling and men's soccer and add a women's soccer team.
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Submitted by anthony on Wed, 2012-05-16 19:08
Article here. Excerpt:
'The Senate is poised to consider S. 1925 this week, the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). Despite the law’s good intentions, more recent reauthorizations—including the bill before the Senate—are seriously flawed and veer away from the legislation’s original goals of protecting vulnerable women.
As Heritage research fellow David Muhlhausen and Independent Women’s Forum visiting fellow Christina Villegas explain in a recent Heritage Backgrounder, the problems with S. 1925 are significant. In addition to broadening the classes of covered victims to include men and prisoners and expanding existing, duplicative programs, S. 1925 fails to rectify VAWA’s inadequate accountability measures—while increasing direct spending by more than $100 million.
As recent investigations by the Department of Justice (DOJ) have revealed, disturbing instances of fraud and embezzlement of some Office on Violence Against Women grants have marred the original law’s intentions. ...'
Submitted by anthony on Wed, 2012-05-16 19:05
Letter here. Excerpt:
'In a May 8 press release, the National Organization For Women condemned the Republican version of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), which was passed by the HouseJudiciary Committee on a mostly party-line vote.
Among other provisions, the Republican version provides greater protection and services for boys and men along with more inclusive “gender neutral” language than does the Democratic version, which presumes that only men are violent and only women are innocent victims (“Domestic-violence law advanced by House panel,” Web, May 8).
A few days before the vote, the Dallas Morning News and Dallas TV stations reported that a naked and blood-covered Cristal Paulette Richardson was charged with castrating and then murdering Cedric Lamont Owens by slitting his throat and stabbing him multiple times in the chest. In this heinous act Ms. Richardson joins at least three other women implicated in castration cases that received media attention: Lorena Bobbitt, Monju Bengum and Catherine Kieu Becker.'
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