Submitted by anthony on Tue, 2012-02-14 19:27
Article here. Excerpt:
'President Obama has a warning for America's men: don't forget today is February 14th.
"Let me start with a quick public service announcement to all the gentlemen out there: today is Valentine's Day. Do not forget," Obama said during remarks Tuesday. "I speak from experience here. It is important that you remember this."
"And go big. That's my advice," the president added.'
Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2012-02-14 04:32
Via email:
This week SAVE is introducing a new campaign to combat the Department of Education's Directive regarding rape and sexual assault on college campuses across the nation.
The DED has lowered its standard of what constitutes probable cause when an allegation of a sexual assault is reported. Here's an example; if you have a drink with a woman and then become intimate, you are now at risk of being charged with rape if she later regrets her decision.
Accusing U. is a new campaign developed by SAVE, aimed at reversing the government's directive and educating students across the country on this new assault on students' rights.
Please sign our petition, join the Accusing U. Facebook page, and pass along this information to any college students you know! Visit the Accusing U. webpage: www.accusingu.org
Sincerely,
Tom Lemons, Director of Special Events
Stop Abusive and Violent Environments
tlemons-at-saveservices.org
www.saveservices.org
Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2012-02-14 04:26
Article here. Excerpt:
'Like countless men who have been circumcised, I’m angry about what was taken from me. If I could go back in time to the moment before this was done to me, I would use any means necessary to stop it. I wish there’d been a law against it. I’ve spent many nights ruminating in grief. I know other men like me who have sunk into deep depression while wrestling with the pain of this violation.
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While circumcision may not reduce a man’s desire to make love to himself, it irrevocably reduces his capacity to experience sexual pleasure. ...
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From where I sit, arguments like Goldstein’s sound like hate speech. If a man said he needed to cut off part of a woman’s genitals in order to make her “more like a man,” he’d rightly be ostracized. Why do we, as a progressive community, let this kind of dehumanization of men go unchallenged? Yes, male violence against women is a huge social problem and must be addressed. Inflicting irreversible harm onto our innocent sons’ genitals is not the answer.
Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2012-02-14 04:19
From the author of these articles:
Here are some new articles on Jewish Intactivism that I've published this year. Please like them on Facebook and Google+, and share and promote them on Tumbler, and your other social networks.
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Peaceful parenting: The Intactivist Movement Within Judaism
http://www.drmomma.org/2011/10/intactivist-movement-within-judaism.html
Jewish Voices: The Current Judaic Movement to End Circumcision: Part 1
http://www.intactnews.org/node/104/1311886091/jewish-voices-current-judaic-movement-end-circumcision-part-1
Jewish Voices: The Current Judaic Movement to End Circumcision: Part 2
http://www.intactnews.org/node/105/1311886372/jewish-voices-current-judaic-movement-end-circumcision-part-2
Jewish Voices: The Current Judaic Movement to End Circumcision: Part 3
http://www.intactnews.org/node/112/1313862929/jewish-voices-current-judaic-movement-end-circumcision-part-3
Jews Speak Out in Favor of Banning Circumcision on Minors
http://www.intactnews.org/node/103/1311885181/jews-speak-out-favor-banning-circumcision-minors
Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2012-02-14 03:49
Article here. Excerpt:
'It is with equal measures of regret and optimism that I announce Glenn Sacks’ decision to resign his post as Executive Director of Fathers and Families. Fathers and Families grew faster during the past three years under Glenn’s leadership than it has at any point since I helped found it 14 years ago. To my personal regret, Glenn has decided to move on. (see Glenn’s statement below).
Beginning five years ago, I sat with Glenn and his family in his California back yard, trying to cajole him into joining Fathers and Families. I knew I was talking to a special talent. As a journalist and blogger, Glenn had amassed the biggest audience in the world on gender-related issues as seen from the male point of view, including reform of the family courts. He wrote and spoke with precision, a solid grasp of the facts, balance, and with respect for both men and women.
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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.'
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