Article here. Excerpt:

'The ladies of “The Talk,” CBS’s answer to “The View,” have come under fire for laughing during a segment about Catherine Kieu, the California woman accused of cutting of her husband’s private part and disposing of it in a particularly gruesome way after he asked for a divorce.

“I don’t know the circumstances,” host Sharon Osbourne said. “However, I do think it’s quite fabulous.” What sounded like the entire audience began to laugh.

The other panelists — Leah Remini, Julie Chen, Holly Robinson Peete and Sara Gilbert — didn’t revel in the story quite as much. But all of the hosts let out at least a small chuckle during the conversation.

Gilbert pointed out that the conversation could be perceived as sexist. “Not to be a total buzz kill,” Gilbert began, “but it is a little bit sexist. If somebody cut a woman’s breast off, nobody would be sitting laughing.”

“It’s different,” Osbourne said, before comparing the two parts of the anatomy.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Fathers and Families’ Election 2012 Campaign activists attended New Hampshire GOP events this week and asked former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, a 2008 and potential 2012 presidential candidate, about family court reform. Giuliani told F & F activist Shawn Gliklich, MD “family courts absolutely need reform,” and expressed interest in meeting with F & F.

Giuliani told Dr. Gliklich that he sees family law as a state matter, rather than a federal one. Giuliani is for the most part correct, however, there are many things the federal government could do to promote shared custody and undermine the current sole custody to mom norm.

Article here.

“Fathers and Families has no position on same-sex marriage. But we do have a position on same-sex ‘divorce.’

Once a child has bonded with two adults as her parents, she is deeply and often permanently hurt by the sudden, court-ordered absence of one of her parents, regardless of the parents’ sexual orientation…”

Fathers and Families Board Chairman Ned Holstein, MD, MS criticizes the new Ohio Supreme Court’s lesbian partner/child custody decision in his new column Kids with two parents need both, even in breakup (Columbus Dispatch, 7/18/11).

We suggest you write a Letter to the Editor of the Columbus Dispatch, a 200,000 circulation newspaper in Ohio’s capital, by writing to letters-at-dispatch.com.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Odds are that if there were more women in these discussions, the crisis would have been resolved by now.
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Women use both sides of their brain more effectively and thus are naturally hardwired to be better communicators, more creative problem solvers and in moments of stress, less likely to walk out of meetings -- debt-ceiling variety and others -- than men.

Furthermore, testosterone not only prompts a fight-or-flight response to stress, it suppresses oxytocin, the hormone that encourages bonding and positive social behavior.
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Nearly 85% of the people in Congress are men. So if you ever wonder why these debt ceiling negotiations appear to have an inordinate amount of chest-pounding and tree spraying, that number -- more than the $14 trillion we owe -- seems like the best place to start.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'An indictment was unsealed Tuesday charging Melinda Brady with first-degree robbery in connection with the pharmacy massacre that claimed four lives and stunned Long Island last month, prosecutors said.

She will not face murder charges in the quadruple killings on Father's Day.

Police say Brady, a known pain pill addict and the wife of accused killer David Laffer, was the getaway driver in the shootings. Prosecutors say the pair hatched a plan to rob a Medford, N.Y. pharmacy of painkillers; Laffer is also accused of gunning down four people inside.

Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota said Tuesday that Brady could not be charged with murder because she was not aware her husband had a gun when he went into the pharmacy.'

And girls are doing so poorly in math and science? Article here. Note how one of the judges says gender was not a factor but that he was 'secretly very pleased' that all the winners were girls. Gender, not a factor? Excerpt:

'Girls swept all three age categories in the competition, a contrast to generations past when women were largely excluded* from the science world.

“Personally I think that’s amazing, because throughout my entire life, I’ve heard science is a field where men go into,” Ms. Bose said. “It just starts to show you that women are stepping up in science, and I’m excited that I was able to represent maybe just a little bit of that.” She will start her senior year of high school in the fall.

Via email:

Dr. Phillip McGraw, aka "Dr. Phil," was the lead witness at last Wednesday's Senate VAWA hearing. His testimony featured this forehead-slapper: "Domestic violence is now the most common cause of injury to women ages 15 to 44."

But the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey says the leading cause of injuries to women is motor vehicle accidents. Domestic violence is ninth on the list, accounting for a grand total of 2.2% of all injuries to women. (You can see the complete listing here: http://www.responsibleopposing.com/facts/leadcaus.html )

Unfortunately, such wild distortions are commonplace. According to the SAVE report, "Most DV Educational Programs Lack Accuracy, Balance, and Truthfulness," 90% of DV educational and training programs fold, spindle, or otherwise mutilate the truth: http://www.saveservices.org/downloads/SAVE-DV-Educational-Programs

Article here. Excerpt:

'Is there anything good to be said about male sexuality? That might seem a daft question. Apparently it brings a lot of pleasure and excitement to the lives of men and women alike, it's inspired some of the greatest art, music and literature through the ages and has played a fairly substantial role in sustaining our species and populating the planet. Nonetheless you'll need to search very, very hard to find any positive appraisal of male heterosexuality.

Since the era of the permissive society and the mainstreaming of modern feminism, western society has gone a long way towards liberating women's sexuality. Younger women have, to an unprecedented extent, been encouraged to believe they can be as sexual as they like and to experience and express their desires as they wish. Even the age-old proscriptions on female promiscuity have been largely broken down, exemplified by the glorious flowering of the SlutWalk movement.

A friend of mine sent me this. Excerpt:

Dated May 19, 2011, we missed this one. Look at the cover of the issue, here. Could it be any more offensive? Hardly a peep of objection that I can see. Heck, no one even seems to have noticed. Excerpt:

'But in any event, the arrest of Strauss-Kahn in New York City for allegedly trying to rape a hotel maid has ignited a fierce debate over sex, law, power and privilege. And it is only just beginning. The night of Strauss-Kahn's arraignment, former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger admitted that the reason his wife Maria Shriver walked out earlier this year was the discovery that he had fathered a child more than a decade ago with a former member of the household staff. The two cases are far apart: only one man was hauled off to jail. But both suggest an abuse of power and a betrayal of trust. And both involve men whose long-standing reputations for behaving badly toward women did not derail their rise to power. Which raises the question: How can it be, in this ostensibly enlightened age, when men and women live and work as peers and are schooled regularly in what conduct is acceptable and what is actionable, that anyone with so little judgment, so little honor, could rise to such heights?
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Article here. Excerpt:

'Listen up, sisters! Deficit hawks will eat your lunch, your kids, your jobs and your retirement. An economy without a deficit is like a fish without water. Reducing the U.S. federal deficit will make unemployment and poverty worse–way worse. And that means that women’s economic condition will deteriorate even further. Today’s deficit hawks (and way too many Democrats are flying with this flock), fundamentally and deliberately misinform by insisting on a fictional symmetry between private sector (household and corporate) bookkeeping and the U.S. federal debt.
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The mantra that “the budget must be balanced” is a throwback to the 19th century, originating from the same outmoded economic thinking that justifies women’s lower wages.

Article here. Excerpt:

'If I was asked to assemble a team of American athletes to compete against similarly composed teams from the rest of the world in any sport, the most important decision would be the easiest.

I would take a team of women.

I would take our women not only because Title IX has empowered them into a huge advantage over the rest of the world, but also because they consistently win in ways that our men sometimes neglect or ignore.
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Go ahead, pull my man card. This is as plain as the grit in Abby Wambach's stare, and anyone who watches both men's and women's sports knows it.
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Men often complain about misfortune, women often figure out a way around it. Men sometimes take shortcuts, women make the extra pass.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'A federal judge issued a ruling Monday dismissing former Penn State University and Parkland High School running back Austin Scott's civil lawsuit against police, prosecutors and his accuser in a 2007 rape case.

The lawsuit claimed that Scott was the victim of conspiracy and malicious prosecution when he was charged with rape in October 2007. The lawsuit, which sought $150 million in damages, also claimed that authorities knew about Desiree Minder's questionable credibility and withheld that information.

While the federal claims were dismissed, Scott's lawyer, Benjamin Lichtman, said he might bring the case to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. There are also several state claims, such as false arrest and malicious prosecution, that U.S. District Judge William W. Caldwell refused to address and dismissed without prejudice.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'HE HAS the bulging biceps and the glistening bronze tan.

But Hampshire bodybuilder Andrew Blohm got a shock when he tried to indulge himself in a bit more of the personal beauty treatment.

The 5ft 6in bodybuilder wanted to look his best for the Solent City Bodybuilding Competition but claims he is the victim of sexism when a beauty salon refused to serve him.

He said: “I just wanted a facial and to stick my feet in a bowl of fish. They gave me all the details about the treatment but I was then told I could not have them done because I was a man.”'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Experts confirm that Turkey is seeing a rise in the number of violent attacks against women by men, and women's rights groups suggest that one measure in the prevention of such violence could be the electronic monitoring of known abusers.

Although new laws and public awareness campaigns against domestic violence are being extensively employed, Turkey has so far failed to effectively address this seemingly growing problem.