Submitted by anthony on Mon, 2012-05-14 23:59
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.'
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Submitted by anthony on Mon, 2012-05-14 23:58
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.
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Submitted by anthony on Mon, 2012-05-14 23:54
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.
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Submitted by anthony on Mon, 2012-05-14 19:35
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.
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Submitted by anthony on Mon, 2012-05-14 19:27
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.
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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.'
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Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 2012-05-14 18:54
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.'
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Submitted by anthony on Mon, 2012-05-14 18:39
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.
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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.
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Submitted by Matt on Sun, 2012-05-13 21:11
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.
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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.'
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Submitted by Matt on Sun, 2012-05-13 15:59
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.'
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Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 2012-05-12 12:44
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.'
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Submitted by anthony on Fri, 2012-05-11 19:53
Submitted by Matt on Fri, 2012-05-11 15:51
Latest issue is downloadable here as a .pdf file.
Note WILL Magazine is not a men's issues publication exclusively, but it runs articles from time to time dealing with such.
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Submitted by Matt on Fri, 2012-05-11 15:41
This story debunks the stereotype that only male perps engage in such disgusting and criminal behavior. Excerpt:
'RENTON, N.J. (AP) -- A New Jersey woman admitted Wednesday to sexually assaulting a 5-year-old girl she was allegedly babysitting and putting a video of the assault on the Internet.
Jennifer Mahoney, 33, of Manalapan pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to sexual exploitation of a child.
She faces between 15 and 30 years in prison when she is sentenced Aug. 22, and will have to pay restitution to the victim. She had been charged with two counts of sexual exploitation of a child.'
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Submitted by Minuteman on Fri, 2012-05-11 15:33
Link here. Excerpt:
'Gemma Gaye Killeen, 23, was sentenced in the West Australian Supreme Court on Friday to life in prison with a minimum of 13 years to be served before she is eligible for parole.
She had pleaded guilty to murdering her 22-month-old son, Tereringa Wetere, known as Kayden, who was found floating in Hillarys Boat Harbour on November 26, 2010.
In sentencing, Justice Stephen Hall said there was no doubt that Killeen would be "forever blighted" by her decisions that day, despite not intending to kill or harm her son.
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"You were so self-absorbed that you could think only of trying to obtain attention by creating a drama," he said.'
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Submitted by Matt on Fri, 2012-05-11 15:29
Article here. This story was reported on MANN a week or so back and this fact that it is a fake story has come to light. Therefore, the story has been deleted from MANN. Excerpt:
'It seemed like just another weird news story dug up from somewhere far away. The kind of story people can’t help clicking on, sharing, talking about.
“A dentist pulled out all her ex-boyfriend’s teeth after he dumped her for another woman — who has now left him because he is toothless,” reported the website of British tabloid the Daily Mail.
MailOnline was first to report the saga of Polish dentist Anna Mackowiak’s vengeful dental work on an ex-boyfriend. Soon the story spread far and wide in the English press.
Fox News, Huffington Post, Yahoo! News, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the New York Post, and the New York Daily News all took a swing at the story, offering takes on their respective websites. On the home front, CBC.ca wrote a blog post citing the Daily Mail story.
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