Story here. Check out who his lawyer is. Excerpt:

'A Los Angeles weatherman has filed a lawsuit claiming he was passed over for jobs at two prominent stations because he wasn't a young, good-looking woman.

Kyle Hunter, who has worked as a meteorologist in various southern California markets during a 23-year career, filed an employment discrimination lawsuit against CBS Broadcasting and its owned-and-operated Los Angeles stations KCBS and KCAL on Thursday. He's represented by Gloria Allred.

Hunter alleges "that within the past few years, KCAL and KCBS decided to hire young attractive women as weathercasters in prime time rather than men in order to induce more men to watch their prime time newscasts," according to the suit. That means there was no place for Hunter, an over-40 male meteorologist with impeccable credentials, he says.'

Article here. Unfortunately children are often medicated for such behavior. Excerpt:

'A study has found that people who appear to be constantly distracted have more “working memory”, giving them the ability to hold a lot of information in their heads and manipulate it mentally.

Children at school need this type of memory on a daily basis for a variety of tasks, such as following teachers’ instructions or remembering dictated sentences.

During the study, volunteers were asked to perform one of two simple tasks during which researchers checked to ask if the participants’ minds were wandering.

At the end, participants measured their working memory capacity by their ability to remember a series of letters interspersed with simple maths questions.

Daniel Levinson, a psychologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States, said that those with higher working memory capacity reported “more mind wandering during these simple tasks”, but their performance did not suffer.'

Article here. Excerpt:

Last week 400 Mississippi State men were pressured to walk around campus wearing high heels. [i] Billed as a rape awareness event, the activity was funded by a $300,000 grant awarded to the university under the Violence Against Women Act, [ii] as part of VAWA’s $9.4 million Violent Crimes on Campus program (Section 304).

Let me get this right…American taxpayers are spending $300,000 to pay college students to play dress-up?

Four Rapes

Rape is a terrible thing to happen. Fortunately at Mississippi State, rapes are rare. According to campus police reports, only four rapes were reported from 2005 to 2010. Of course not all rapes are reported, but it’s safe to say there is no epidemic of rape at Mississippi State.

But in 2011, the MSU Department of Outreach and Sexual Assault Services received a $300,000 grant from the Office of Violence Against Women.

According to director LeWanda Swan, the money would be used to “flood the campus with prevention education.” That included distribution of flyers in campus bathrooms that featured questionable statistics such as, “one in four women will be raped in their lifetime.”

Article here. Excerpt:

'In gatherer and early gardening societies, built on the matricentric core of the human family, women often had real power and prestige, when food-gathering and agriculture also meant female control of resources. Such societies achieved real gender parity of power when they constructed ways of drawing in the adult male contribution to work and parenting, conceding to him real and symbolic spheres of prestige and power, while limiting male aggression. But the conditions of such societies began to break down as the agricultural revolution moved toward more crowded urban societies about five thousand years ago, and only remnants still exist today. (170)

In a somewhat surprising, maybe even shocking, admission, Ruether, a leading feminist, says that “this matricentric pattern [of primitive societies and of families in general] is itself the breeding ground of male resentment and violence, rooted in male strategies of exploitative subversion of women’s power….” (171)

Article here. Excerpt:

'It has become received wisdom that women are much more likely than men to lose their jobs in the current downturn. But is it true? It sounds so plausible - women make up a larger proportion of the public sector where the cuts are biting. And the latest unemployment figures do show that of the 28,000 rise in jobless in the latest figures, 22,000 are women.

But that doesn't mean more women lost their jobs. In fact, more women have won jobs - the female employment rate in Britain has risen. In the year to last autumn, an additional 32,000 women were in work and experts say the trend has continued since then.
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Article here. Excerpt:

'Mind, I don’t unequivocally state we are the smarter of the species. I only repeat a question posed in Foreign Service applications. Question: “Do you know what they call anybody with an IQ of 80 in Slobbovia?” Answer: “Mr. President.”

I’d never deign to think males are dim. I only wonder why big-time executives jog a half-hour for exercise then take the elevator up to the second floor.

Understand, men may complain. Like saying the wife is a lousy driver. Like: “If she were an Arab, she’d come home with a dented camel.”

But, the National Academy of Sciences with MRIs, graphs, charts, images, brain scans and maybe playing “Pin the Tail on the Donkey” has decreed that women’s brains are wired more keenly than those belonging to the manly persuasions.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'It's been trending wildly on the internet, has spawned, outrage, online petitions and tearful mea culpas from Kimberly - Clark spokespeople. Their Huggies commercial is criticized as dad bashing. So I asked the dad I know best - my husband - for his thoughts. He's not just a dad - he's been calling out dad-bashing since authoring "Mack Daddy," a bestselling parenting book written from a decidedly male point of view.
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Undoubtedly, some folks at Huggies' marketing department may now be wearing Depends - so fearful are they for their jobs. And I say... yippee. Squirm. Sweat. Have a full blown unemployment panic attack. You deserve it after the latest Huggies commercial.
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Maybe this Huggies commercial debacle will serve as a clarion call to sitcom writers and ad copywriters around the globe. Find a fresh laughingstock for your formulaic jokes. They stink like dirty diapers.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Baseball is included in that count. Wisconsin scrapped its program entirely, and Cal-Berkeley committed to discarding its program in 2010 before fundraising raised enough to keep it afloat.

“Women didn’t want to kill men’s sports, they just wanted it to be equal,” said former LSU athletic director and baseball coach Skip Bertman. “I think baseball is pretty much a victim of Title IX.”

The NCAA mandates a roster limit for each team, allowing only 35 players.

Just 27 are allowed to receive any sort of scholarship.

“You can’t even cover a full backup spot,” said former LSU first baseman Blake Dean. “You need at least a full 18 scholarships. … You could field two full teams with 18 scholarships. That would be a little more reasonable.”'

Article here. Excerpt:

'If a guy offers to carry a box for a female co-worker, help her with Google Analytics or compliments her for what a good mom she seems to be, she may be better off turning down the help and deflecting the compliments. These seemingly nice gestures and complimentary comments towards women may be a form of subtle sexism, experts say.

Chivalrous acts and compliments on female qualities, like mothering or nurturing, studies show, can be just as damaging to women as more blatant sexism and catcalls. Offering to assist women in traditionally male tasks, which experts call benevolent sexism, reinforces the notion that men are more competent than women, and women are weak and fragile.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Anyone who has ever taken to the streets as part of campaigns to stop violence against women (increasingly relevant after a new Alberta survey purports to reveal that one in 10 men think it's OK to hit a woman if she makes him angry), has probably come across the following argument: Where are all the campaigns to stop violence against men? For many who have yet to stumble upon the heated forums, blog rants, and protests that embellish the heart of this argument -- this may be your first foray into the men's rights movement.

Story here. Excerpt:

'The woman's husband was charged with six counts of rape in 2009 to which he pleaded not guilty, but she later said the allegations she had made were false.

The prosecution offered no evidence against him when he appeared at Mold Crown Court and not-guilty verdicts were entered.

Initially she was charged with perverting the course of justice on the basis of making a false complaint, but she later asserted that it was the retraction, rather than the allegation of rape, which was false.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'The Violence Against Women Act, passed in 1994, is up for its third reauthorization in Congress this spring. The legislation, which promotes stronger state policies combating domestic violence and sexual assault and secures federal funds for related programs, has always enjoyed bipartisan support. But no longer. While the 2012 bill is co-sponsored by Democrat Patrick Leahy of Vermont and Republican Mike Crapo of Idaho, the Senate Judiciary committee approved it last month on a 10-8 partisan vote, with not one Republican voting for it.

Republicans have lately been accused of waging a "war on women," which puts them in a bad position to demand a critical review of the law. And that's unfortunate, because it needs one.

Article here. Excerpt:

Story here. Excerpt:

'Miguel Morin was 8 months old when, police say, his baby sitter took him for what was supposed to be just one night in 2004. The sitter, Krystle Rochelle Tanner, was Miguel’s godmother and friends with his mother, police say.

Now, eight years after his disappearance, Miguel will be reunited with his mother, Auboni Champion-Morin of Houston, pending a DNA test, Click2houston.com reported Wednesday. She says she never gave up hope that she would find her child.

"I prayed every night that he was safe, loved and he would come home one day," Champion-Morin told the Houston television station.'