Article here. Not quite a win-- the prevailing idea is that the sexism is directed against women when it is in fact directed against both sexes while making men out to be buffoons and helpless dolts. Excerpt:

'California milk producers have yanked a widely criticized ad campaign that poked fun at premenstrual syndrome and the way men supposedly suffer from the monthly cycles of their wives and girlfriends.

"Over the past couple of weeks, regrettably, some people found our campaign about milk and PMS to be outrageous and misguided — and we apologize to those we offended," the California Milk Processor Board says on its website. "Others thought it funny and educational. It has opened up a topic that affects women, of course, but also relationships."

Instead of abandoning the campaign completely, the milk producers are extending it by seeking to capitalize on the controversy surrounding it. They’ve put up a new website titled "got discussion?" featuring pro and con views and inviting people to join the discussion.

Article here. A federal office dedicated to men's health is long overdue. Excerpt:

'Public health researchers from Vanderbilt University studied death patterns among prisoners and found that Black men in prison die at much lower rates than Black men who are not in prison.

In the American Journal of Epidemiology, the authors wrote:

"Based on the relatively poor health of incarcerated populations and the high mortality rates seen after release, one might predict that inmates would also suffer from high mortality while incarcerated. A recent Bureau of Justice Statistics report, however, showed that while incarcerated, inmates aged 15–64 years experience 19 percent lower mortality than comparably aged controls in the general population; among Blacks, mortality for prisoners is 43 percent lower than age-adjusted mortality for the general Black population."

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This news just hit the street...Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX) has just called for making the Violence Against Women Act gender neutral.

According to a Washington Times article, Congressman Poe "says he would now support re-writing the legislation as gender neutral....I'm open to changing the name. Domestic Violence Act. I like that phrase."

The article goes on to note, "Mr. Poe also supports replacing the word 'woman' in the legislation to a non-gender specific term like 'person' or 'men and women' or 'men or women.'"

We urge each person reading this Elert to contact Rep. Poe's office right away at 202-225-6565 and express your support for making VAWA gender-inclusive.

SAVE's Partner Violence Reducation Act calls for all provisions of VAWA, including its name, to be made sex-neutral. Rep. Poe is the first national lawmaker to speak out publicly in support of such a change.

Article here. Excerpt:

'A 61-year-old woman who was been arrested for groping a female Transportation Security Administration agent's breast will not face felony charges.

An Arizona district attorney has decided to turn the case of Yukari Miyamae - who allegedly violently groped a TSA agent's breast in a Phoenix airport - over to city prosecutors.

Ms Miyamae was at Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix flying home to Colorado when she allegedly grabbed the agent's 'left breast through her clothing, squeezing and twisting it with both hands without the victim's permission,' according to police.'

Commentary here.                                           

Article here. Excerpt:

'I’m getting tired of TV depicting men as small-minded, beer-drinking, softball-playing, girl-ogling, knuckle-dragging oafs who can’t do anything for themselves.

More and more, ad agencies, the companies that hire them and the networks are depicting men and dads who can’t function in society without help. And while we need help from the women in our lives from time to time, there are plenty of high functioning guys in real life who hold down jobs, who make excellent decisions and who don’t waste their days playing video games and sitting on their couch eating salami sandwiches.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'While feminism today spans the political spectrum, its most radical proponents were spawned by the same cultural Marxism covered here previously. Feminism ostensibly focused on promoting women, but in practice attacked the traditional family through the sexual revolution, abortion on demand and no-fault divorce. None of which elevates women.

Article here

'Sharon Osbourne is controversial, there’s no doubt about it. So when a new story surfaced, telling of how Catherine Becker lopped off her man’s penis and tossed it in a garbage disposal, she had to have her say.

And like any other normal person on the planet, Sharon doesn’t think it’s a good idea to sever your guy’s goody parts. Good. I mean, who does that?!??

Firstly, on the show, Sharon had a laugh at the man’s expense, saying that she thinks “it’s quite fabulous”, after admitting that she doesn’t know the circumstances or why he filed for divorce. She also referred to it as “hysterical”.
...
Now, she has issued an apology, saying, “I do not condone genital mutilation and I didn’t mean any harm by laughing about it and I’m sorry that I offended people cause that’s not my intention or the intention of the show – it’s not what we are about.”'

The madness spreads. Link here. Excerpt:

'Teenage eating habits are poor, with teenage girls worse, risking long-term effects on their health according to new Department of Health data published today.

The National Diet and Nutrition Survey, which was led by the National Centre for Social Research and MRC Human Nutrition Research, found that teenage girls are only eating half their recommended portions of fruit and veg. And just 56 per cent of teenage girls are getting enough iron in their diet.

While both teenage boys and girls are failing to get their recommended 5-a-day of fruit and veg, girls eat on average half a portion less each day than boys. The findings build on previous surveys and highlight that poor eating habits risk storing up a number of potential problems for later life, such as heart disease and some cancers.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'There are many who deny we live in an age where maleness, where masculinity has been so devalued as to be commonly regarded as Subhuman. Where male sexuality is treated with such revulsion and contempt, that major television personalities feel completely free to make light...no, to outright revel in glee at a man being poisoned, tied up, and having his penis cut off, then ground to a pulp, by his wife, because he wanted a Divorce.

These same major television personalities that ROUTINELY cry about 'Battered Women' are making light of the poisoning, kidnapping, and torture of a man for wanting a Divorce. In an age of No Fault Divorce, which was instituted at Feminist behest. They do not hide their glee at all, in fact Sharon Osbourne (the wife of Ozzy) even makes mixing motions with her hands, simulating a garbage disposal, and calls the whole thing 'delightful'.

The appalling hatred of men is not only not hidden, but outright FLAUNTED.'

Google these words (without quotes): "the talk cbs penis sexism" and see the results. There are several Facebook Group pages set up in an effort to get an appropriate level of apology from CBS (one is here). Another Facebook Group has specific instructions on how to complain to the FCC (Kris, this one's for you!) about the episode here. Let's keep the momentum going!

My own take is that heads need to roll over this issue. Apologies don't strike me as good enough. Osbourne needs to go, possibly others. As for the audience that day-- well, they need male-issues sensitivity training, but I doubt they'll get it any time soon.

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Key policy makers from around the world are convening THIS WEEK in Rome for the International AIDS Society's annual conference. Thanks to the generosity of Intact America’s supporters, we are there, calling upon the governing bodies of the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNAIDS to acknowledge the truth: circumcision does not prevent AIDS.

It’s critical that UNAIDS and the WHO stop supporting mass circumcisions, and accept the fact that there are other, better ways to fight the HIV epidemic. We’ve created a petition to help them get that message.

Will you make your voice heard, and sign our petition today?

We know that safe sexual practices and abstinence—not circumcision—prevent HIV. But the practice of mass circumcision persists. That’s why we’ll be on the ground in Rome, talking with health professionals and community activists, and telling them the truth about circumcision:

Article here. Excerpt:

'If I had a nickel for every time my wife threatened to knock me out, cut off my penis and throw it in the garbage disposal...

I heard the news yesterday. Well actually I overheard it. Some gals around the office were chortling about the husband in Garden Grove whose wife doped his victuals, strapped him to the bed, hacked off his willy with a carving knife and chucked the severed member in the disposal because "he deserved it." I didn't learn the details of the story until I got home last night and it seemed to me such a grizzly thing oughtn't to provoke workplace giggles, but ought or not, there's a good dose of funny about it.'

Video here.

'Wendy Williams, the American television personality, chatting with reporters outside Boa's Steakhouse in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles. Williams, wearing an elegant purple dress, was quizzed on the recent story about a Californian woman drugging her husband and chopping off his penis before dumping it in the garbage disposal.

Williams sympathized with the woman, saying, "When you cross a woman.all is fair". She later joked, "It was more efficient then throwing it in a field, where they could pick it up. Dispose of it the right way". Los Angeles, California - 15.07.2011'

Wendy William's web site: http://www.wendyshow.com/
Contact info: here.

Article here. I'm assuming men will not be covered for domestic violence counseling. Last I checked, men also get HIV and would certainly benefit from an annual wellness exam. Excerpt:

'Virtually all health insurance plans could soon be required to offer female patients free coverage of prescription birth control, breast-pump rentals, counseling for domestic violence, and annual wellness exams and HIV tests as a result of recommendations released Tuesday by an independent advisory panel of health experts.

The health-care law adopted last year directed the Obama administration to draw up a list of preventive services for women that all new health plans must cover without deductibles or co-payments. While the guidelines suggested Tuesday by a committee of the National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine are not binding, the panel conducted its year-long review at the request of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.'