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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Submitted by Minuteman on Fri, 2012-05-11 15:16
Didn't they just have one of these? Link here. Excerpt:
'Starting with Mother’s Day, May 13, we are observing National Women’s Health Week; the theme this year is “It’s Your Time.” We can all celebrate the women in our lives during National Women’s Health Week by encouraging them to make the time to address their own health. Healthy, strong women are essential to having healthy strong children and communities, but too often women place the needs of others before their own needs.
Because of the new health care law, the Affordable Care Act, being a woman will no longer be considered a pre-existing condition.'
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Submitted by anthony on Thu, 2012-05-10 21:54
Article here. Excerpt:
'The same thing that makes many men a “manly” man is also the same thing that leads men to die, on average, 5-10 years before their female counterparts: masculinity.
Some argue that this difference is due to the sex hormone, testosterone, which makes younger men prone to make rash decisions. While higher testosterone levels slowly harden men’s arteries, the impact of natural and biologically oriented masculinity on society is very slight. Past the age of 35, testosterone slowly declines—fortunate because if not, men would die far earlier than they do already.
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These arbitrary, hyper-masculine standards for what means to be a man cause suffering for all people in our society, even men. When men disregard all other aspects of their personality in order to conform to rigid gender norms set by our society, they fail as men, as human beings and our society as a whole fails.
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Submitted by anthony on Thu, 2012-05-10 20:07
Article here. Excerpt:
'That’s the view of Carol Tindall, chairman of the Cockermouth-based West Cumbria Rape Crisis Unit, who spoke out after two women admitted making up rape claims in Carlisle, sparking huge police investigations and fear on city streets.
Takara Jayne Harding, 18, of Low Meadow, Raffles, Carlisle, pretended she had been the victim of a terrifying sex attack in a Carlisle car park and was in court on Monday where she was given a suspended prison sentence.
A week earlier, Chloe Jayne Fox, 20, of Spencer Street, admitted she had lied when she said she had been dragged into an alley and brutally raped.
Ms Tindall said: “It’s detrimental. It puts the police to a lot of trouble and effort. It devalues true victim and gives them a hard time.
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Submitted by anthony on Thu, 2012-05-10 19:43
Article here. Excerpt:
'The Paycheck Fairness Act failed to become law in the 111th Congress, when the House and Senate had overwhelming Democratic majorities and President Obama, in his State of the Union Address, called the bill "common sense."
Why?
The act is based on a misapplied statistic, that women earn 77 cents on a man's dollar. This is true when comparing all women's wages with all men's wages, but not when comparing men and women with the same experience in the same job. The 77 cent statistic combines men and women who work in different jobs with different numbers of hours. When job, experience, and hours of work are taken into account, rigorous economic studies show women make about the same as men—95 cents on a man's dollar.
When women believe they are the victims of discrimination, they have many laws under which to seek justice, such as the Equal Pay Act, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, and the Civil Rights Act.
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Submitted by anthony on Thu, 2012-05-10 19:42
Article here (paid registration required). Excerpt:
'Feminists have long wanted enlightened government officials, rather than the indifferent market, to determine salaries. Information collection and government-compensation guidelines today could easily become regulations and mandates tomorrow.
Such meddling would be disastrous for the economy, but men particularly should be warned: Bureaucrats micromanaging compensation standards will mean many male workers should expect a pay cut.
We've seen how this works. Soon Democrats will celebrate the 40th anniversary of Title IX as a triumph for women's equality, but mothers of would-be wrestlers and male gymnasts know this well-intentioned law has a darker history.
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Submitted by anthony on Thu, 2012-05-10 19:37
Submitted by Broadsword on Thu, 2012-05-10 18:23
Article here. Excerpt:
'Simon Marcus, a charity boss appointed to investigate the riots, has launched a blistering attack on the Government, local councils and police for being “in denial” about the gang culture behind the unrest.
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Writing in the Spectator, he said few are willing to admit that an “epidemic of father absence” had lead to a vacuum which is now filled by dangerous gangs that give young people security, identity, loyalty and money.
“Many may be in denial of this reality - but in many parts of our country this culture now owns the streets and last August it simply did what it says on the tin,” he said.
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He said the problem was made worse when councils fail to address the problem directly and identified a “local government culture of psychobabble”.'
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