Submitted by anthony on Tue, 2012-02-14 02:54
Article here. Excerpt:
'Douglas — author, columnist and cultural critic — first garnered attention in 1994 when she published her book, Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media. Today, she continues to analyze the normalization of anti-feminism and the mixed messages women receive in mass media.
“Effectively feminism has been … vilified in the media,” Douglas said. In fact, feminism in the media is the “ideological equivalent of anthrax,” she said.
Douglas said a stigma still exists around feminists, who are dismissed as social pariahs and wrongfully cemented as extremists and man-haters.
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According to Douglas, women’s achievements are overrepresented in the media as a way to promote fantasies of power. These attempts are transparent, she said, because gratifying images of success “mask how much still remains to be done for women.”
Submitted by Minuteman on Tue, 2012-02-14 01:27
Submitted by anthony on Tue, 2012-02-14 00:53
Article here. Excerpt:
'The Court of Appeal last week heard an appeal concerning the contact arrangements for a son conceived by IVF treatment. The child lives with his mother and her lesbian partner. The father, who had been married to the mother in a 'marriage of convenience', is seeking staying contact and holiday contact with the boy, now two years old.
The mother claims that prior to conception the father had agreed that the mother and her partner would be primary parents of the child. It was agreed, she says, that the father would not seek to enforce his 'paternal rights'. The father claims that he was more than a mere sperm donor and wishes to play a fuller role in the boy's life.
Alex Verdan QC of 4 Paper Buildings, for the father, urged the court not to allow the father's relationship with his son to 'wither on the vine' at the current level of contact. Charles Howard QC of 1 king's Bench Walk, for the mother, warned that emotional damage could be caused by 'shuttling' the son between two homes and that such an arrangement had never been agreed.
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 2012-02-13 23:35
Last month the CDC released its National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey. The media coverage stressed the harm to women from intimate partner violence. A lot of the controversy surrounds its expanded definition of rape to include sex while high or drunk. But in the meantime, nobody noticed the data it hid about male victims of physical violence.
I've put up an article on http://batteredmen.com/NISVS.htm to refute that. My summary highlights the data they hid:
According to a 2010 national survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Department of Justice, in the last 12 months more men than women were victims of intimate partner physical violence and over 40% of severe physical violence was directed at men. Men were also more often the victim of psychological aggression and control over sexual or reproductive health. Despite this, few services are available to male victims of intimate partner violence.
Submitted by anthony on Mon, 2012-02-13 19:49
Article here. Excerpt:
'To address these shortcomings, Stop Abusive and Violent Environments has developed the Partner Violence Reduction Act, which amends and strengthens the current Violence Against Women Act (6).
"The New York Times editorial calls on Republican lawmakers to 'explain to voters why they refuse to get behind the federal fight against domestic violence and sexual assaults.' But victims of domestic violence are demanding that Times editorialists go beyond partisan posturing, and ask why so many VAWA programs aren't meeting basic expectations of accountability and effectiveness," according to SAVE spokesman Philip W. Cook.'
Submitted by Matt on Sun, 2012-02-12 21:18
From Marc A.:
If you have specific instances of discrimination against male DV victims by any government-funded DV program anywhere in the U.S., I encourage you to send all evidence you have to the following federal agencies as a complaint, and state that this violates United States Code, Title 42, Section 3789d(c)(1)*. Give them as much evidence as you can. They are supposed to investigate it. I made the complaint about a year ago and after many months they wrote back saying "insufficient evidence" and that they would need more info such as dates and times of the discrimination, names of the programs and contact info, names and contact info of witnesses, documents or records, and a detailed chronological narrative. I'm going to send another complaint with more info, but I encourage others to do the same. The more the better.
You can send the complaints by email, mail, or both. Send them to:
Office of Civil Rights
Office of Justice Programs
U.S. Department of Justice
810 7th Street, NW
Washington, DV 20531
Submitted by anthony on Sun, 2012-02-12 00:32
Article here. Excerpt:
'BOZEMAN, Mont. -- An MSU men's group says they're disappointed but not surprised by a lack of attendance at their "Men's Issue's" event, Thursday night.
The MSU chapter of the National Coalition for Men organized a symposium to raise awareness of problems in men's lives.
The group geared the event towards fraternity students at the college and invited speakers to talk about things like men's rights when it comes to sexual misconduct investigations on-campus.
No one showed up to the event but organizers say the lack of attendence is not due to a lack of interest.
Submitted by Matt on Sat, 2012-02-11 20:23
Article here. Excerpt:
'Asking for a prenup--a legal agreement that specifies how couples will divide assets if they divorce--doesn't exactly sound like a romantic gesture. After all, couples marry for love, not money, so who needs to work out the nitty-gritty financial details of a break-up that the couple hopes will never happen?
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Everyone does, insists Silvana Raso, matrimonial attorney with the Englewood Cliffs, N.J.-based law firm Schepisi & McLaughlin. "There's not a single person who couldn't benefit from a prenup, even if you're going into marriage with little assets," says Raso. "You might accumulate assets during the marriage, and even a young couple embarking on their own careers wants to make sure that what they acquire during marriage isn't just left up to a judge to divide," she adds.
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Submitted by Minuteman on Sat, 2012-02-11 03:21
Link here. Excerpt:
'Much orthopaedic research has been devoted to determining why women are far more susceptible to knee ligament injuries than men. According to a new study, the answer may lie in geometry – the length and shape of a patient’s knee bone – more than gender.
Submitted by anthony on Sat, 2012-02-11 00:41
Article here. Excerpt:
'A mother who tossed her toddler into the Hudson River after suddenly spiraling into psychosis can return to her native India and her children, a judge said Friday after she reached a rare form of agreement with prosecutors to resolve her attempted-murder case.
Devi Silvia will continue treatment and medication in India, with New York authorities monitoring her progress during five years of probation.
Her lawyers called it a just result for a woman whose conduct was driven by a mental illness that emerged only in the days before she threw her daughter into the chilly river off Manhattan's Upper West Side, then leaped in herself, in May 2010.'
Submitted by citizend on Fri, 2012-02-10 04:44
Story here. That's right, liars- as long as you are consistent, the hands of justice are tied. Nevermind the ruined lives. Excerpt:
'She insisted she was raped - she just couldn't remember actually having sex.
Maria Di Toro, the woman who accused Greg Kelly of raping her in a Financial District law office, admitted she had no memory of the alleged attack — making it impossible for investigators to pursue a case against the Fox 5 TV anchor, sources said yesterday.
“Not remembering is not tantamount to being raped,” one source said a day after prosecutors announced they’re dropping their probe of Police Commissioner Ray Kelly’s youngest son.
Di Toro, 29, told investigators that she got so drunk the night she left her boyfriend at home to go out with the popular TV newsman that she blacked out on everything that happened after they left the bar to adjourn to the nearby firm where she works as a paralegal.'
Submitted by anthony on Fri, 2012-02-10 02:22
Article here. Excerpt:
'Would the world be more peaceful if women were in charge? A challenging new book by the Harvard University psychologist Steven Pinker says that the answer is “yes.”
In The Better Angels of Our Nature, Pinker presents data showing that human violence, while still very much with us today, has been gradually declining. Moreover, he says, “over the long sweep of history, women have been and will be a pacifying force. Traditional war is a man’s game: tribal women never band together to raid neighboring villages.” As mothers, women have evolutionary incentives to maintain peaceful conditions in which to nurture their offspring and ensure that their genes survive into the next generation.
Submitted by Matt on Fri, 2012-02-10 02:22
Story here. Read this one carefully. This is pretty damned suspicious. Excerpt:
'Authorities say the Tennessee River's current was swift when 25-year-old Christopher Heaton jumped in the water to rescue his girlfriend.
Heaton, of Jasper, Tenn., had driven to Bridgeport, Ala., to meet his girlfriend Tuesday evening. He arrived at their meeting place near a boat ramp to see her car sinking as it was swept down the river, said Jackson County Chief Deputy Rocky Harnen. Witnesses told police Heaton immediately dived into the water.
But the woman -- whom police haven't named -- escaped from the car and was helped from the water by fisherman at a ramp only 20 yards away, Harnen said.
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Family members said in an obituary notice that Heaton believed a small child was trapped in the car. Investigators found a child's car seat in the vehicle when it was pulled from the river.
Harnen said investigators don't know why the woman drove her truck to the edge of the boat ramp.
Submitted by anthony on Fri, 2012-02-10 02:21
Article here. Excerpt:
'David Cameron faced a business backlash last night after warning that companies could be forced to appoint more women to their boards.
The Prime Minister refused to rule out the introduction of so-called ‘golden skirt’ quotas if business leaders fail to meet government demands for more females in top jobs.
In his strongest threat yet to business leaders, Mr Cameron said the promotion of women needed to be ‘accelerated’. The Government has already set voluntary quotas for business leaders to more than double the number of women in boardrooms by 2015.'
Submitted by Matt on Fri, 2012-02-10 02:19
Story here. Excerpt:
'The Pentagon on Thursday will propose rule changes that will allow more women to formally serve in jobs closer to the front lines.
Defense officials say as many as 14,000 positions could be opened up, though the restrictions on women serving in infantry combat units will remain in place.
The rule change reflects the ongoing reality that in a decade of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, women were already dying in combat with the blurring of the traditional definition of front lines. Nearly 300,000 women have served in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and 144 of them have died in those conflicts.
The rule change is included in a report required by Congress as part of last year’s Defense Authorization Bill that has been overdue for months. The new rules likely will not go into effect until the summer if Congress raises no objections to the change.'
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