Article here. Excerpt:

'That's repugnant, and something else that's repugnant is certain ideologically inane women's groups telling us we shouldn't even be discussing the maid's credibility. These ultra-feminists are forever arguing that women accusers are always truly victims, are always right, and that the male defendants are always guilty, are always wrong. How far a distance is that from someone saying he is an Aryan and you are a Jew and therefore he is a real human and you are not?

I do not deny generations of mistreating women, but swinging from one extreme to another is multiplying error, not erasing it. If members of these groups fall short of Nazi ambitions, they're still in the camp that would happily ruin lives on the basis of infantile generalities. Right now, the Obama administration is insisting that universities work even harder on the goal. To find out more, listen to Peter Berkowitz.

Article here. Excerpt:

'The domestic-violence incident involving former New York City deputy mayor Stephen Goldsmith illustrates what Harvard Law professor Jeannie Suk has written about. Domestic violence has become an area where the government takes control away from the individual woman.

After Mrs. Goldsmith said to her husband, “I should have put a bullet into you years ago,” Mr. Goldsmith shoved her into a counter, smashed a phone, and held her for some moments. She called the police. When they got there, she didn’t want her husband arrested, but it didn’t matter. Arrest is mandatory once the woman has made the call, and her husband spent two days in jail before the charges were dismissed when she declared her wish that he not be prosecuted. (And the Goldsmiths were fortunate there. According to Suk, many disputes result in mandatory prosecution and sentencing, over the objections of the woman.)

Article here. Such an arrogant comment by the American Association Of University Women. Taking away a man's rights is looked upon as some kind of victory. In a way they're right. The new sheriff is man-hater Joe Biden, the same man behind the unconstitutional VAWA and an advocate for reducing men's sports teams (Title IX). Excerpt:

'"In many ways, there is a new sheriff in town," says Lisa Maatz, director of public policy at the American Association of University Women in Washington.

But some academic-freedom advocates say the sheriff has gone too far. In particular, they're concerned that the standard of proof the Obama administration is urging will wrongly take down some of the accused.

Article here. Excerpt:

'The 51-year-old man was fined under article 215 of France’s civil code, which states married couples must agree to a “shared communal life”.

A judge has now ruled that this law implies that “sexual relations must form part of a marriage”.

The rare legal decision came after the wife filed for divorce two years ago, blaming the break-up on her husband’s lack of activity in the bedroom.

A judge in Nice, southern France, then granted the divorce and ruled the husband named only as Jean-Louis B. was solely responsible for the split.'

Article here. The title is from the original article; the now 56 year-old former serviceman is actually seeking a very modest pension, for severe depression resulting from his treatment whilst in the defence force. Being seen to be after "compo" (financial compensation) is frowned on here in Australia, and the female journalist is attempting to portray this former serviceman's situation in this light. Excerpt:

'A FORMER sailor who was circumcised by a ship's doctor and allegedly suffered ridicule from his shipmates is seeking compensation almost 40 years after the operation.

He woke during the operation and had to be physically restrained while it was completed, according to evidence to a tribunal.

The attendant holding him down then joked his foreskin would make good fish bait, it was claimed.

Today's Jewish Movement to Question Circumcision

(Submitted by a MANN Reader)

Over the last hundred years, a Jewish and Israeli movement to stop circumcision has emerged. This is due to modern notions of an individual’s right to their own body, new historical information about the origin of circumcisions in Egypt and Africa, scientific discoveries about the damage caused by circumcision, and a desire by individuals to live a higher level of spiritual ethics. This movement includes Jewish Rabbis, scholars, parents, intellectuals, Israelis, and educators.

Jewish Groups for Genital Integrity
Jews Against Circumcision
Jews for the Rights of the Child
Bris Shalom Officiants by Mark D. Reiss, M.D.
Questioning Circumcision: A Jewish Perspective by Ron Goldman, Ph.D.
Beyond the Bris: Jewish Parenting Blog

Article here. Excerpt:

Lucy Valantine was approaching her fortieth birthday when she made the seemingly bizarre decision to leave her husband of five years. “On the surface, life was perfect,” she says. “We had a gorgeous Victorian house in the Home Counties, I had a great job with a blue-chip company, and my husband was a lovely chap. He was kind and gentle and my friends all loved him. There was nothing wrong with him, but it wasn’t enough. I wanted to change my life.
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Relationship counsellor Andrew G Marshall, author of I Love You, I’m Just Not In Love With You, says he has noted a trend towards such splits. “In the past 10 years, I’ve seen a huge increase in couples who don’t actually hate each other, they just don’t love each other enough to stick at it. Ninety per cent of these marriages would be perfectly serviceable if the people involved would just put in more effort.”

Story here.

'A Rochester woman is facing charges after leaving her children alone in her car.

The Ontario County Sheriff's Office says 33-year-old Shanita Polk left her three children, ages 5, 7 and 9, unattended in the Eastview Mall parking lot for an extended period of time.

She also provided police with a false name to avoid an active warrant for her arrest out of Rochester. Polk was charged with endangering the welfare of a child and criminal impersonation.

She was arraigned in Farmington Court and taken to the Ontario County. The children were picked up my family members. Polk will answer to the charges in Victor Town Court.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'New research is revealing more about men’s lives in the transition to fatherhood. Psychologist and PhD candidate Jeanette Lightfoot says that, despite a growing interest in fathers, much of the research is either comparative – contrasting them with mothers – or misses them altogether.

Little is known about men’s abilities to form close relationships and strong bonds with their infants, and only limited research has sought to better identify vulnerabilities and risk factors during the transition to fatherhood,” she says.

“While new fatherhood is an uplifting, rewarding and wonderful time for most men it is important to be able to identify those men who may be at risk of a poorer adaptation, and to develop appropriate supports and interventions to assist these men, their partners and their children.”'

Link here. Excerpt:

'CHICAGO (Reuters) - Male firefighters who were exposed to toxic dust and smoke from the 9/11 attacks on New York's World Trade Center have a 19 percent higher risk of getting cancer of all kinds than colleagues who were not exposed, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.

The study is the first to look at cancer rates among the all of the exposed firefighters, and the findings may help pave the way for federal health benefits for rescue workers now suffering from cancer nearly a decade after the attacks.

"This study clearly shows World Trade Center exposure in these firefighters led to an increase in cancer," said Dr. David Prezant of the Fire Department of the City of New York, whose study was published in The Lancet medical journal.
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Prior studies have shown increased rates of post traumatic stress disorder, asthma and other respiratory illnesses among rescue workers. To date, only a handful of smaller studies have shown increased rates of cancer, which can take five to 20 years to develop.

Article here. Excerpt:

'A Timaru girl says she was forced to wash off her blue face paint as it was supporting a male cause – and her school, being a girls' school, could only support female causes.

However her principal has told the Timaru Herald the school has "no policy around any gender-related fundraisers".

Kristie Bennet, 15, turned up to Timaru Girls' High School yesterday with half her face painted blue to support Blue Friday, a nationwide campaign to raise awareness of prostate cancer.

She said she wanted to take part as her grandfather died from the disease last year.

She hoped her fellow students would spread the cancer message to the men in their lives.

"When I went to form class I was told straight away to take [the paint] off. I went to the deputy principal [to ask if I could keep it on] and she said we were only allowed to support female causes.

"She watched me take [the paint] off."'

Article here. Excerpt:

“The mother’s partner reported to the police in Polička that there was a child lying unconscious in a pool of blood. Upon arrival at the scene medics discovered four dead children and the mother who was attempting to hang herself and who also had cut wounds,” head of the Pardubice region emergency services, Pavel Svoboda, told the news server idnes.cz.
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The server novinky.cz reported Friday afternoon that so far police susoect [sic] the mother of murdering all four of her children - two boys and two girls said to be aged 10, 8, 7 and the youngest just two months old. According to the server’s information, in addition to knife wounds, marks were found on all the children suggesting they had all been strangled."

News submitted by

Ulf Andersson
PappaRättsGruppen
http://www.dads-r-us.se/

Story here. Excerpt:

'In 2006, David Tune’s ‘world fell apart’, as he puts it, when his ex-wife Vicky publicly accused him of sexually abusing their daughter.

For five years he has been dragged through the Family Courts, accused of the most heinous acts. Yet every single investigation has ended with the authorities concluding that he has no case to answer.

Not only has the entire system — police, social workers and judiciary — believed his word against his ex-wife’s, but they have believed in him so much that they have taken the child from her, and she now lives with her father.

This week, the most senior family court judge in the country took the highly unusual step of naming all the adults involved in this complex case, claiming that David had the right to tell the world he was not a paedophile.

Chapter 8 (Conclusion) of The Masculinity Conspiracy is now online.

This final chapter revisits some of the main ways that the conspiracy manifests, but more importantly examines how and why it happens, as well as revealing what ultimately lies behind the conspiracy.

If you don’t like reading online, print and Kindle editions of the book are also now available.

Article here. If the student population were only 34% female, would the president of this college be talking about what a problem that was? Excerpt:

'Destler said that Kevin McDonald, who was the chief diversity officer at RIT, has been elevated to the position of vice president for diversity and inclusion.

"Nevertheless, despite strong efforts by many of you, progress in building the diversity of our student, faculty and staff populations has been spotty." Destler said.

RIT, Destler added, has found that, while there has been progress in engineering and some other technical fields, overall female undergraduate enrollment has stagnated at about 34 percent. He has asked his Commission on Women to determine what needs to be done to reach a goal of 40 percent for female undergraduate enrollment.'