Came across this in my travels:
"Price: $10.00 @ door/ ladies are free" (Feel free to call or email them and politely tell them what you think of their discriminatory behavior.)

So, now it's not even about getting 'ladies' into bars so as to attract men to come and pay for drinks while the 'ladies' drink gratis. Now it's things like entire entertainment venue performances.

Wonder when it'll be food, housing, etc., too, all government- (ie, men-) paid? Think I am being too uptight? Think again. It's definitely already happening. It starts in small ways, gets larger, and eventually, becomes expected and 'normal' at larger and larger scales. Wait and see.

Story here. Excerpt:

'Police say 50-year-old John Loxas was holding his grandchild in his arms as he walked around his Scottsdale neighborhood Tuesday night threatening neighbors and police.

"There were at least three officers in position to engage the suspect. At least one of the officers thought he saw something in the suspect's hands," said Sgt. Mark Clark.

Loxas was standing outside of his home with his grandchild still in his arms when Officer James Peters fired one shot to the head, killing the suspect.

Police say the 9-month-old boy was not injured during the shooting.

Officers also escaped unharmed.
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Officer Peters, who fired the fatal shot, has been involved in seven shootings over the past decade.'

Press release here. Excerpt:

'WASHINGTON, Feb. 17, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Stop Abusive and Violent Environments (SAVE) is set to launch Accusing U., a national campaign designed to educate college students about the Department of Education's new Sexual Assault Directive. SAVE says the Directive subverts fundamental due process rights on college campuses.

The Accusing U. campaign will be unveiled at a panel presentation to be held Saturday, February 17 at 10:00am at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Washington DC. The panel will highlight DED's alleged anti-civil rights agenda, which affects students and professors alike.

The American Association of University Professors, National Association of Scholars, and Foundation for Individual Rights in Education have all come out against the Directive (1). Over 30 editorials have criticized the mandate on civil rights grounds (2).

AIDS Circumcision Fallacy Discussion with Dr. Dean Edell

National Coalition For Men
Working together since 1977 to free men from sex discrimination
ncfm.org

News Release

NCFM CALLS ON HILLARY CLINTON TO WOMAN UP ABOUT HER SEXIST HYPOCRISY ON GENITAL MUTILATION

Hilly Clinton's opposition to female genital mutilation while promoting male genital mutilation is just more of her sexist "no excuse" double standards, just like her denouncement of domestic violence while she assaulted her husband

Contact: Marc E. Angelucci, Esq. (626-319-3081) marcangelucci@hotmail.com

For Immediate Release

February 17, 2012 (Los Angeles) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, on February 16, 2012, announced at a State Department meeting that "there is no cultural justification for female genital cutting, a practice that is sometimes referred to as female circumcision." www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/Clinton-Cultural-Tradition-is-No-Excuse-for-Female-Genital-Mutilation--139478343.html

The study was published by the Centre for Economic Performance, full paper (pdf). Article here. Excerpt:

'Ground-breaking research shows that boys lower their sights if they think their work is going to be marked by a woman because they believe their results will be worse.

It also shows their suspicions are correct – female teachers did, on average, award lower marks to boys than unidentified external examiners. Male teachers, by contrast, awarded them higher marks than external examiners.

The findings, published by the Centre for Economic Performance today, could have immense repercussions for boys because of the dearth of male teachers in the profession. Only 15 per cent of primary school staff are men.
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Article here. More from the 'having sex with' files when it is in fact statutory rape. Excerpt:

'EAGLE COUNTY, Colo. -- A teacher in Eagle County was arrested on Thursday on suspicion of sexual assault on a child by one in a position of trust with a pattern of sexual abuse.

Lauren Redfern, 25, is a physical education teacher at Basalt High School.

Redfern is accused of having sex with a 17-year-old male student over a duration of 4 months, deputies said.
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The sexual encounters took place at both Redfern's home and the victim's home in El Jebel, deputies said.'

This letter-to-the-editor acknowledges something rarely acknowledged: that men are at greater risk for suicide than women. It also gives some useful statistics on the issue and supports a bill to help suicidal persons. The letter:

'Colorado has the sixth-highest rate of suicide in the nation (867 deaths in 2010, including 447 in the metro area). The largest number is among men of working age (35 to 54). Suicide is the second-leading cause of death among young people (ages 10 to 34). Men over 75 are at highest risk. A death by suicide has a profound impact on family, friends, the workplace, and results in an untold loss of productivity.

Colorado House Bill 1140 (sponsored by Rep. Matt Jones and Sen. Linda Newell) will, if passed, ask hospitals to provide information about suicide (risk factors, signs and sources of help) to family and friends to whom a suicidal person is being discharged. Any effort that gets information into the hands of those closest to suicidal persons will help save lives.

Susan Marine, Boulder

Those nifty quotation marks are from the original story headline.

Link here. Excerpt:

'A US woman furious at her boyfriend for not giving her a Valentine’s Day gift tried to attack him with a knife, according to reports.
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Police allege she pushed and scratched Mr Brown until he locked himself inside a bedroom in her apartment.

Reed reportedly took a knife to the door, trying to slash her way in as she yelled that she would cut Mr Brown and kill him.'

This is the second time in a few weeks that a false report of sexual assualt was made in Boulder. Excerpt:

'BOULDER, Colo. -- For the second time in three weeks, Boulder police have cited a young woman for fabricating an assault story.

Boulder police on Wednesday said they have cited 18-year-old Allyson M. Manley with false reporting after she claimed that a man tried to sexually assault her in October.'

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Ed. note: Also see here.

Article here. Excerpt:

'NEW YORK, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- A former Marine's lawsuit against New York says a hospital mix-up listed him as female on his birth certificate and the city is refusing to correct the error.

David Hassan, 29, filed a lawsuit in city Supreme Court saying the mistake on his birth certificate was not noticed until 2003, when he was denied a new ID by a clerk who noticed the error, the New York Post reported Thursday.

"I am not, nor have I ever been, female," he said.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'But this year Republicans, previously feminist-pecked, are taking a harder than usual look at VAWA. Senator Charles Grassley, ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, has had the audacity to offer a counterpoint bill that, while not perfect, would introduce more stringent accounting policies and altogether eliminate the Department of Justice’s Office on Violence Against Women. Headed by Susan Carbon, this office administers VAWA, doling out grants nationwide for shelters, often staffed by feminist ideologues, and law enforcement training, often grounded in feminist theory.

The Office on Violence Against Women’s budget request this year is $454,898,000, and, while that is certainly less than was poured down a green rat hole on Solyndra, it should raise eye-brows in economically tough times.

From GenusNytt ("Gender News"), article here.

'Association BRIS - Children's Rights in Society http://www.bris.se/?pageID=61

Notice a statistical trick in the report they have recently sent out. It results in a clear prevalence of girls.

As you can see in their table below is the boys' percentage of young people with suicidal problems being 12.2 percent (while girls account for only 87.1 per cent).

Anyone who goes to the National Centre for Suicide Research and looks at their statistics on completed suicide - which is probably much worse than going into suicidal thoughts - get a totally different picture. Their statistics show that between the ages of 15-24 years is 74 percent of those who committed suicide boys-- that is about three boys to each girl.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'The Episcopal Conference of Malawi (ECM), a college of all catholic bishops in the country, has endorsed government’s proposal for the adaptation of medical male circumcision as a mean for HIV prevention.

However, ECM General Secretary Father George Buleya said the endorsement is on condition that Catholics should be accessing the service in catholic health facilities only.

“We have taken this stand on the understanding that circumcision contravenes no Biblical teachings” said Father Buleya. The cleric said while they have adopted male circumcision, the Catholic Church was still against the use of condoms as an HIV preventive measure. Various researches are agreeing that male circumcision can reduce HIV transmission by 60 percent, on top of reducing by 100 percent transmission of other Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) such as gonorrhea and syphilis. Apart from that, it is also believed that male circumcision greatly reduces risk of cervical cancer in women.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'The use of more traditional phonetics-based lessons helps boys catch up with girls - even doing better on some tests - and prevents some children from needing 'special' schooling, according to new research findings.

A study of synthetic phonics also found children from disadvantaged backgrounds do as well as those from better off homes.
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They have been introduced after damning revelations that four in 10 children have failed to master the three Rs by the time they leave primary school.
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Boys were 20 months ahead while girls were 14 months more advanced than expected.
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"All children can get the most out of learning to read using synthetic phonics.
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"Teachers told us they had fewer disciplinary problems and less trouble in the playground because boys were succeeding and had higher self esteem."'

Link here (click the PDF icon, 160kb). Excerpt:

'SUMMARY: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is seeking on behalf of the Department of Health and Human Services information for an anticipated Surgeon General response to the public health problem of youth violence.
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Potential Areas of Focus: CDC is interested in receiving information on the following:

(1) What is the extent of the problem and its consequences.
(2) What are the differences in youth violence prevalence among subgroups and communities and how might they inform prevention approaches.
(3) What is the availability and adaptability of evidence-based prevention programs.

Purpose of Notice: The purpose of this notice is to provide individuals and organizations the opportunity to identify issues and areas of need for consideration as we gather information to inform the Surgeon General’s document on youth violence. All comments will receive careful consideration.'