Link here. Excerpt:

'A new study is challenging the widely held notion that men's minds are preoccupied with one topic: sex.

The research in college-age participants suggests that while men do think about sex more often than women, the subject crosses their mind an average of only about 19 times per day, compared to 10 times per day for women.

The results seem to disprove the popular notion that men think about sex every seven seconds, which would total more than 8,000 thoughts about sex in 16 waking hours, the Ohio State University researchers said.

Press release here. Excerpt:

'Washington, DC/November 29, 2011 — A domestic violence video produced by the Verizon Foundation distorts the facts, plays on emotions, and serves to alarm and frighten young children. Stop Abusive and Violent Environments (SAVE), an advocate for domestic violence victims, has communicated with Verizon executives about the numerous factual errors, but the company refuses to correct its dangerous misinformation.

Titled “Monsters,” the video revels in powerful yet destructive stereotypes: fathers as abusers, wives as victims, and young boys as future abusers. “The child who lives with domestic violence… is afraid of the monster just down the hall,” a girl’s voiceover intones, while frightening images of a hunchbacked monster-dad flit across the screen: http://www.multivu.com/mnr/52044-verizon-foundation-national-domestic-hotline-video-launch-monsters.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Short version: Washington Department of Social and Health Services seized Maile Metalwala, the 4-year-old daughter of Solomon Metalwala, away from her unfit mother, Julia Biryukova, and put Maile in foster care. It is a common but unjust practice for child welfare agencies to put children in foster care instead of giving them to their fathers. Moreover, the Washington court separated Maile from Solomon based on spurious abuse allegations from a now thoroughly discredited accuser.

We want you to contact all relevant Washington authorities and demand that Solomon and little Maile be reunited--to email and fax them a letter, click here.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'A COURT in France has ordered a man to pay 10,000 euros in damages to his long-frustrated ex-wife after he failed in his marriage "duties" by withholding sex from her for years. In the May ruling, published overnight in the Gazette du Palais judicial review, an appeals court in the southern city of Aix-en-Provence upheld an earlier decision to award the damages for "absence of sexual relations".

The couple, who are both 51, married in 1986 and have two children. They divorced in January 2009 in Nice.

In its ruling, the court said the man's wife deserved the damages due to the suffering she endured because of her sexless marriage.

"The wife's expectations were legitimate in the sense that sexual relations between married people are an expression of their mutual affection and part of the duties that proceed from marriage," the court said.

Article here. Excerpt:

'A new study finds women can be downright nasty when they don't approve of members of their sex.

The harsh reactions of 43 women to a provocatively dressed peer, caught on tape by Canadian researchers, reveal just how sassy women get when they think someone else is sexier.

"I was convinced, having lived a life as a woman, that we're not as pleasant as some people make us out to be," said Tracy Vaillancourt, professor of psychology at the University of Ottawa and lead author of the study published in Aggressive Behavior.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Now the feminists in Barack Obama’s Department of Education are starting to apply the same anti-male regulations to high schools and demand that high schools apply the same gender quotas that have cut back men’s teams in colleges. The feminists have filed charges against hundreds of high schools all over the country.

Much research shows that males and females have different interest levels in sports, but the feminists claim that is “a stereotype” that can even be ruled “impermissible” under the Title IX law. Research and common sense are unlikely to deter feminist activists. They’ve made it clear time and time again that their real goal is not equal opportunities for women, but equal outcomes, regardless of whether most women desire that equal outcome or not. It is predictable that if boys sports are reduced, we will have more and more high school dropouts.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'While men's attitudes are difficult to gauge, The VicHealth National Survey on Community Attitudes to Violence against Women 2009 found that 22% of men believed that rates of violence were equal between men and women and just under two-thirds of Australian men would describe violence against women as a "common" problem; alarming figures that hint at a wider scepticism about the clear contrasts between victimisation and perpetration rates in Australia.

Some simply do not trust the appalling national and state statistics that have either remained unchanged over the years or risen in some areas. Every time a journalist dares publish a figure that slightly widens the lens to better view the full horrifying scope of the issue, the internet comment backlash is merciless.

Article here. Excerpt:

'NEW YORK – A New York man was stunned to find out that his four-year-old twins were not an accidental pregnancy after all -- but that his desperate girlfriend secretly stashed away his sperm and used it for an in-vitro procedure, he charges in a lawsuit.

Joseph Pressil, 36, was not planning on having children with Anetria Burnett, with whom he was in a relationship for six months in 2007, he said.

So she took matters into her own hands, he told the New York Post, in order to remain in his Texas house and make a legal bid for half of his possessions.

"A gold digger is an understatement. She was trying to get community property and alimony. She's ruthless," he said.

Now, Pressil is suing Burnett in Texas for custody of their sons.

"This is more than a nightmare -- it's a horror story," he told the Post.

Pressil, a telecommunications manager, said he hooked up with Burnett, 34, when he lived in Texas -- and was a little surprised when she announced she was pregnant.

Story here.

'PHILADELPHIA -- Police in Philadelphia said a woman fatally crushed her boyfriend with a car early Sunday following an argument.

The incident occurred at around 2:00 a.m. local time in the city's Grays Ferry neighborhood after the couple was arguing inside the car, WPVI-TV reported.

When the man got out, his girlfriend struck him with the car and pushed him into the side of a home.

He was crushed by the impact and pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

The woman was arrested at the scene and was facing several criminal charges Sunday.

Police have not yet identified the man or woman, according to WPVI.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Gerald Lebovits ruled that there was probable cause to hold McIntosh in custody while prosecutors take more time to present his felony case to a grand jury, which they are generally required to do within five days of an arrest, in order to keep the suspect in custody.

Video of the incident, which rapidly spread online, was played in court, but the excerpt did not include the moment as the women jumped over the counter. Prosecutors blamed the missing footage on a glitch in the recording.'

Hmmmm...the version of the video available online at http://www.helpfreerayonmcintosh.org/ does not suffer from this "glitch."

Something's fishy, no?

Article here. Yep, that's Rachel Edwards, who along with accomplice Denise Darbeau attacked employee Rayon McIntosh at a Greenwich Village McDonald's. One of them slapped him and then jumped over the counter, pursuing and cornering him. He grabbed a pan cleaning utensil, dubbed a "metal bar" or "pipe" by the media to defend himself, and was arrested on felony assault charges. Excerpt:

'A Brooklyn woman caught on tape getting beat up in a Greenwich Village McDonald's has been busted for harassing her cousin, court papers show.

Rachel Edwards, 24, was blamed for sparking the fast food fight after she and a friend cursed out a worker and leaped over the counter last month.

She was arrested for trespassing for that incident and busted a day later for allegedly displaying the same potty mouth in a series of calls and text messages sent to Allison Belmosa.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Travis Jones is determined to show the community that nice guys don't finish last.

Jones has been hired by the Hailey-based Advocates for Survivors of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault to lead a new project aimed at engaging men and boys in violence prevention efforts. The program is specifically designed to mobilize men and boys so they are inspired to take action against sexist violence and bullying.

According to statistics, more than 90 percent of violence against men and women is committed by men.

The Engaging Men and Boys project received startup funds from several local foundations and a grant from the U.S. Department of Justice's Violence Against Women Office. The grant is overseen by the Idaho Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'‘Are you violent or abusive?

Do you have problems managing your temper?

Do you frighten people you care about?’

These are the questions the Janus Project, Sheffield’s only programme which works with men to stop their abuse of women, asks of those who walk voluntarily through its doors wanting help.

But the most important one is this: ‘Do you want to change?’

“That desire is essential if we are to break the cycle of abuse,” says Senior Therapist and Intervention Programme Coordinator Jozef Sen.

Janus, which gets around 20 enquiries a month, gives long-term support. Men are urged to stay for at least a year and after one to one therapy using anger management techniques, are encouraged to meet in a weekly group to help each other to change their violent or abusive behaviour.'

Article here. Let us remember that she is innocent until proven guilty of course. It is interesting that the article includes the word 'statutory', though. Is the article implying that if the boy WAS raped, it could only have been on statutory grounds? Excerpt:

'A female New York City school teacher has been charged with raping a statutory rape [sic] of a male student and plying him with drugs and alcohol, police said Wednesday.
...
The victim is a sixth-grader at Middle School 35, the Stephen Decatur School, in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, where Tillery began teaching in 1996, officials said. The boy, now 14, had been having a sexual relationship with Tillery for two years but ended it and came forward Nov.22.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'The long-anticipated roll-back of children’s rights in Australia has happened. The Australian Parliament has passed the bill aimed at scuttling the 2006 amendments to the Family Law Act that promised children greater access to their fathers.

The Howard government’s modest attempt at making shared parenting the rule in Australia was met with a firestorm of protest from anti-father forces across the country. Lacking any comprehensive data for their claim, they nevertheless argued that the 2006 reforms endangered children. That of course was premised on the notion that fathers are uniquely harmful to children. The fact that, in Australia as in the United States, mothers commit more abuse and neglect of children than do fathers is a concept the anti-dad crowd preferred to ignore. They shouted to the skies their narrative of paternal violence, irrespective of known science.