Article here. Excerpt:

'Children’s right activists from coast to coast have joined together this month to press more than 2,200 lawmakers in Congress and eleven states to enact the Male Genital Mutilation Bill. The proposed bill would protect boys from forced circumcision the same way that girls are protected under federal and state laws.

As director of MGMbill.org’s Florida office, Stacey Butler is leading the effort in her state to make Section 794.08 of Florida’s Sexual Battery Code gender neutral. “All children deserve to be protected from forced genital cutting,” said Butler, a licensed practical nurse and mother of three living in Palm Bay. “Although every girl in America has a legal right to genital integrity, we still allow boys to be circumcised for medically unnecessary reasons. That needs to change. One person at a time, one child at a time, we will make a difference!”'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Being a man accused of a sex crime these days is tantamount to being convicted in the court of public opinion. Even if you are cleared, Google your name until the day you die and the stink of “sexual abuse” or “rape” will be in the first graph of your bio.

Ask any of those young guys falsely accused in the Duke University lacrosse team “rape” scandal. Ask any of the kids who did time for brutalizing the Central Park jogger only for DNA to vindicate them.

This by no means is to suggest that Kelly's accuser is a liar.

Any woman who accuses a man of rape or sexual assault should be taken seriously. I have no evidence to contradict her claims that Kelly date-raped her while she was intoxicated in her law office after they had drinks in October.

But I haven’t seen anything to back up her story yet either.

Article here. Excerpt:

'“She lied to the boyfriend to meet Greg that night. She said, ‘I’m going out with a girlfriend,’ ” said the source.

They had a couple of drinks but the bar tab revealed that the amount of drink taken was “laughably low” — and then went to the woman’s law firm.

They had sexual relations in her boss’s office.

Afterrwards “They continued to text,” the source said. “Part of it was about arranging another date.”

There were 17 text messages in all between the two.

“You don’t text your rapist — other than to say, ‘You’re awful,’” the source said.

But three months later the woman claimed Kelly had raped her and reported it to police. She claimed she was too drunk to resist his advances.
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The key to the case, says the insider is “What drives someone who’s making a delayed report?”'

Link here. Excerpt:

'Research Fellow (Biostatistician/Epidemiologist)
Freemasons Foundation Centre for Men’s Health, School of Medicine

Job Reference Number: 17097

We are seeking an enthusiastic and committed Research Fellow Biostatistician/Epidemiologist to conduct analyses of data generated by researchers, and provide support to students, in the Freemasons Foundation Centre for Men’s Health, School of Medicine at the University of Adelaide.

Position Requirements

At a minimum, the candidate should have the following qualifications:

Article here. This article claims that domestic violence incidents go up when the Denver Broncos lose a football game. It sounds suspiciously like the Super Bowl Hoax--that DV incidents increase on Super Bowl day. It also states the usual half-truths and unfounded statistics about DV. You can post comments under the article or send a Letter to the Editor (via e-mail) to openforum-at-denverpost.com. Excerpt:

'I was never a big sports fan, and I became less of one about 15 years ago.

I was at a tea party hosted by my aunt and shared a conversation with Anne Tapp, executive director of Safe House Alliance, a domestic violence shelter in Boulder. She made a statement that comes to mind literally every time I think of professional sports.

"Our busiest days are when the Broncos lose," she said. Apparently a lot of people take the game pretty seriously."'

Story here. A young woman in Boulder makes up a story of an assailant in order to get her boyfriend's attention. Excerpt:

'BOULDER, Colo. -- A 20-year-old college student admitted to Boulder police that she fabricated a story about fighting off a knife-wielding black man because she wanted attention from her boyfriend, according to police reports obtained by 7NEWS.

Police on Thursday issued Nina Fiorillo a summons for false reporting after she admitted making up the story about being attacked while walking home early Sunday morning. False reporting to authorities is a misdemeanor carrying a maximum penalty of six months in jail and a $750 fine.

The University of Colorado student's bogus claim about an armed attacker at large triggered alarm in the community and an intense investigation by police detectives and patrol officers, according to 43 pages of police reports generated by the manhunt.'

Link here. Excerpt:

'Almost 7 percent of American men and women are infected orally with the human papillomavirus (HPV), new research reveals, with men showing significantly higher infection rates than women.

In fact, the study found that among those between the ages of 14 and 69, men seem to face a nearly threefold greater risk than women for oral HPV infection.

The authors noted that the gender gap grows even wider with respect to HPV-16, a strain that is responsible for the vast majority of HPV-related cases of oral cancer. Men are five times more likely to be infected with HPV-16 than are women, the study found.

The biggest risk factors for oral HPV infection include sex and tobacco use, the researchers say.'

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Story here. The woman reported the alleged assault three months after the encounter and during that span continued contact with him via text messages and phone calls. I'm going to keep a close eye on this story. Excerpt:

'NEW YORK -- The son of New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly is under investigation after a woman accused him of rape, sources tell NBC New York.
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Details of her complaint are unknown at this time, but Greg Kelly has not been arrested or charged with any crime.
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Kelly's attorney, Andrew Lankler, said that his client was aware of the investigation and strongly denied any wrongdoing.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Bill Hudson, father of Kate and Oliver Hudson and the ex-husband of Goldie Hawn, has authored a new book, Two Versions, in which he claims he was alienated from his children by his ex-wife. According to Amazon.com:

Bill Hudson of the Hudson brothers, ex-spouse of Goldie Hawn, explores in this book aspects of the family dealing with fame, marriage, divorce, and the ugliness that can cause relationships between parent and child to become stilted…he covers the bitter side of divorce, his own foibles, as well as such issues as parental alienation and fathers’ rights. Not a ‘Hollywood tell-all’, but instead an emotional outreach to those who have been in or are in the same situations Bill saw.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Fathers and Families and its legislative representative Michael Robinson have been at the forefront of the fight to protect military servicemembers’ often tenuous child custody rights. We’ve successfully worked to pass military parent legislation in dozens of states, including Ohio, Georgia, California, Indiana, Nevada, and Arizona over the past two years.

While the family court system in general is biased against fathers, Fathers and Families has repeatedly warned that there are fathers who have learned how to work the system against mothers, and use it to their unjust advantage. When this occurs, Fathers and Families is on the side of the mother whose loving bonds with her children are being endangered.

In Re the Marriage of Brandt, decided this week by the Colorado Supreme Court, is such a case. Fathers and Families has been assisting Captain Christine Brandt of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps to regain custody of her 12-year-old son.

Story here. Excerpt:

'GARLAND, Texas – Two teenage girls in Texas are facing capital murder charges after a man was found stabbed in a motel room, MyFoxDFW.com reports.

Police say 17-year-old Tatina Daniels and 18-year-old Teresa Price were "partying" Monday night in a motel room with the victim, 40-year-old Jesse Morales, Jr.

Authorities did not give details on what happened in the hotel room that night, but said the "party" involved drugs, sex and alcohol.

"At some point during the night, the party got out of hand," Garland Police public information officer Joe Harn said in a news release. "Police believe that led to the death of Morales."

The girls then allegedly took the victim's van and set fire to it.'

Reference: http://news.mensactivism.org/node/17895

VAWA Vote on Thursday: Have You Made the Call?

• Chuck Grassley (202) 224-3744
• Orrin G. Hatch (202) 224-5251
• Jon Kyl (202) 224-4521
• Jeff Sessions (202) 224-4124
• Lindsey Graham (202) 224-5972
• John Cornyn (202) 224-2934
• Michael S. Lee (202) 224-5444
• Tom Coburn (202) 224-5754

Story here. Notice in these stories there seems to be an emphasis on the fact that the accused or convicted woman is a 'mom'. Umm, forgive me here, but 'moms' don't do stuff like this to their kids. Criminals do. Excerpt:

'A Canandaigua woman was accused of leaving her infant home alone, driving drunk and assaulting a police officer early today.

Ontario County sheriff's deputies stopped Vanessa R. Rosa, 21, of Telyea Street on Route 364 in Gorham, Ontario County, just before 1 a.m. She was allegedly driving outside the appropriate lane, deputies said.

Rosa was also driving without a valid license because hers had been suspended pending a separate DWI arrest that occurred in November, said Ontario County Undersheriff David Tillman. He said charges are pending in that case.

Article here. Excerpt:

"A businessman who was beaten so badly by his 5ft 1ins girlfriend that he almost lost his arm is to have cosmetic surgery to heal his horrific scars.

Ian McNicholl, 49, from Hull, suffered two years of abuse at the hands of Michelle Williamson, including one attack where she sprayed bleach in his eyes.

He also suffered fractures to his skull, cheekbones, and nose, three cracked ribs and horrific burns on his arm from an iron at the hands of his ex-girlfriend.

Williamson, who is now serving a seven-year jail sentence for causing grievous bodily harm, also lit cigarettes and shoved them up her partner’s nose after falsely accusing him of having an affair.

On one occasion, she also poured two kettles full of boiling water over him - and even attacked him with a vacuum cleaner.
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He added: 'I can completely understand why some men will feel embarrassed speaking out - men generally don’t like talking about their feelings.

Link here. Excerpt:

'Obstetricians and gynecologists should screen all patients for intimate partner violence, including during prenatal visits, according to new recommendations from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
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About one in four women has been physically and/or sexually assaulted by a current or former partner, and nearly 324,000 pregnant women are abused by their partners each year in the United States, researchers have found.
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"Women of all ages experience intimate partner violence, but it is most prevalent among reproductive-age women," Dr. Maureen Phipps, chair of the college's Committee on Health Care for Underserved Women, said in the news release. "We have a prime opportunity to identify and help women who are being abused by incorporating this screening into our routine office visits with each and every patient."'