Article here. Excerpt:

"I wrote yesterday about International Women’s Day, saying that despite the improvements of recent decades, women are still not treated as the social, legal or economic equals of men. It’s particularly the case in many parts of the developing world, but, I said, a problem in Britain as well, as the gender pay gap shows.

Unsurprisingly some of you disagreed. One of the ones who did so intelligently (and calmly, which was a rare treat) was Elly, author of the Quiet Riot Girl blog and holder of a PhD in gender equality studies. I offered her the chance to respond, which she’s done. I’ll reprint an extract here – you can read the rest of it on her blog.

Story here. Excerpt:

'A mother-of-four has appeared in court accused of biting off her boyfriend's testicles in a drunken attack.

Martin Douglas, 45, underwent emergency surgery to reattach his genitals after the alleged attack by Maria Topp.

Mr Douglas, a DJ, called 999 in excruciating pain and operators struggled to understand what he was saying.

Paramedics who attended his flat in Newcastle called police and Topp was arrested.

She has since appeared in court charged with GBH over the February 18 incident in which Mr Douglas was also injured in the arm, the Daily Mirror reported.

The victim was forced to spend several days in hospital recovering from his injuries.'

File this under 'male disposability', and once again notice the fact that they are all men. While this article actually refers to these men as men, I have seen others that have referred to them just as 'workers'-- invisible behind their occupations and prescribed gender roles as all-around disposable "heroes". Such "nameless" bravery deserves better, don't you think? Excerpt:

'They are the nameless brave men who are working as the last line of defense at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plants. They stayed behind while everyone else was sent nearly 15 miles away and radiation soars to menacing levels.

There are 200 of them and they work in shifts of 50, earning the inaccurate nickname the Fukushima 50.

At one point, even these men were pulled back 500 yards from the deteriorating nuke plants, but this morning it appears the crisis team was heading back in.

A 27-year-old woman whose Twitter name is @NamicoAoto tweeted earlier this week that her father had volunteered for Fukushima duty.'

Each year the federal government spends $84 million for DV education and training programs that smear men as abusers and batterers.

It’s time to pull the funding for this nonsense, until these programs get accredited. This flyer was passed out to all the Senators and Representatives on Capitol Hill today.

Help spread the word.

The SAVE Team

Story here. A woman threw a party, gave alcohol to minors, and then raped a 14 year old boy while she was at it. What did our society do to send a message to its taxpayers? The judge gave her 30 days in jail. I would like to see the history of the judges cases whereby men were faced with the same crime, and a comparison of the judges sentences. I would bet that there would be enough evidence to prove sexual bias in the sentences. Any sharp lawyers out there? Would this be possible? Excerpt:

'ASTORIA, Ore. (AP) — An Astoria woman has been sentenced to 30 days in jail for raping a 14-year-old boy at a party.

The Daily Astorian reports that 35-year-old Julie Diane Green pleaded no contest last Friday to rape and endangering the welfare of a minor.

Prosecutors said Green held a party for her children and their friends last August, allowed several minors to drink alcohol and then had sex with one of the visiting 14-year-olds.'

Article here. Media Reference here. The Feminists deny that there really are female pedophiles, and very often claim that all men are rapists, women beaters and pedophiles. Excerpt:

'A MOTHER-of-four has been jailed for 20 years for molesting her two-year-old daughter under instructions from a teenage Walsall pervert.

Julie Carr, aged 33, filmed the horrific abuse live on a webcam from her home in Mars Hill, Maine, North East America, for Nicholas Wilde.

“What you have done is violate the most basic bond of society — the bond between a mother and her child, the bond between a mother and her daughter,” US Judge John Woodcock told Carr before sentencing her.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Boy culture is out of sync with school culture. There are several reasons for this, including zero tolerance policies that are too often taken to extremes, the lack of male teachers (the statistics are shocking, having dropped from 14 percent to 7 percent in the elementary classroom in the past decade), and the compression of the curriculum.

Even more, boy culture is not socially accepted more generally and, consequently, boys quickly come to feel that they aren’t good at school, where the friction tends to be the most obvious.

The results are startling — globally in the most recent set of tests, boys scored lower than girls in early literacy skills in every country tested. Several authors have done a wonderful job of explaining these problems and discussing them in clear terms, including Peg Tyre (“The Trouble with Boys”), Ralph Fletcher (“Boy Writers: Reclaiming Their Voices”) and Richard Whitmire with his work on “Why Boys Fail”: http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/whyboysfail.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Happiness doesn't feature in the more radical agendas either, such as the New York Radical Feminists manifesto, which prescribed that women construct "healthy, independent, assertive" alternative selves, and lives. Robin Morgan saw liberation as an "oppressed people raising their consciousness toward something that is the other side of anger, something bright and smooth and cool." But not happy, per se.

Happiness isn't just a rare word. It wasn't feminism's backbeat or its implied manifesto, either.

Betty Friedan wrote in "The Feminine Mystique," Surely there are many women in America who are happy at the moment as housewives. But happiness is not the same thing as the aliveness of being fully used."'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Prague, March 15 (CTK) - The Czech military has sent two special flights with a total capacity of 130 people to Tokyo to bring back Czechs from the earthquake and tsunami-hit Japan, with women and children having priority, Prime Minister Petr Necas and three ministers decided Tuesday.

Necas and the defence, foreign and culture ministers, Alexandr Vondra, Karel Schwarzenberg and Jiri Besser, respectively, decided that the Czech embassy in Japan will say who will board the planes, military staff spokeswoman Jana Ruzickova told CTK.'

F&F alert here. Excerpt:

'Short Version: Veterans’ groups have contacted Fathers and Families and asked us to do a rapid campaign in support of Oklahoma’s SB 528 and SB 917–bills to protect 2.5 million active and reserve military servicemembers from spousal support abuses.

We want you to email and fax a letter in support of the bill by clicking here. You only need to enter your name, email address, phone #, and city & state to participate, and we will send an email and a fax to all relevant legislators.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'The editors at the Good Men Project Magazine asked if I could write a piece on the top 10 issues for men’s rights activists (MRAs). As I am only one man, I felt I could not speak for the rest of the community on how we prioritize issues. So I came up with 17 things we consider problems men face and set up a poll. (I would like to thank everyone who voted, especially from Men’s Rights Reddit.)

It is important to note that the poll is far from perfect. It has a small sample size, and the ability to pick a single issue did not go over well with many MRAs—in their mind, the goals of the movement aren’t so easily prioritized—they’re all important and interconnected. That said, while this poll isn’t perfect, it does, to some degree, reflect the distribution of priorities among those MRAs who participated.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'This gap is being interpreted as sex discrimination by men’s rights activists. It does, in fact, have legal consequences: in 2008, a California court of appeal ruled 3-0 that domestic violence programs that offer services to only women and their children, but not to men, violate the state constitution. “These men … are similarly situated to women as to the need for domestic violence services,” wrote Justice Fred K. Morrison. The court acknowledged that women are affected by domestic violence more than men, so programs do not need to provide equal kinds of services, but must help anyone who comes to their doorstep.

Article here. Excerpt:

'It may come as a surprise to those who feel they’ve hit the glass ceiling or heard one too many blonde jokes.

Most women do not believe that Britain is a sexist place, a poll has revealed.

Fewer than four in ten say they have experienced derogatory remarks or behaviour because of their gender.

And the majority of men and women think both sexes are equally capable of handling challenging and traditionally male tasks, such as making a safe emergency landing in an aeroplane.

The results of the survey, carried out for a group of charities and pressure groups, suggest that most women are far more concerned with solving day-to-day practical problems in their lives than fighting a battle for equality.'

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Relatedly, Sexism as a 'war' among women.

Article here. Excerpt:

'KINGS MOUNTAIN — Allan Nichols describes himself as a well-read, self-motivated native Cheesehead. He has a law degree, spent time with a chamber of commerce, was a corporate lobbyist and spends his nights teaching himself astronomy.

But, since July 2006, that hasn’t been enough to get Nichols, 58, a job.
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And he’s not alone. Nationwide unemployment in 2001 among people 55 and older seeking full-time work stood at 442,000. In 2009, that number quadrupled to 1,624,000. And it continues to rise, with 2010 at 1,816,000.

But the story within the story is who’s out of work. Year after year, roughly 50 percent of the annual average is attributed to the white male demographic.

Nichols refers to it as a ‘manpression,’ as older, white male, experienced middle management workers can’t find footing in today’s economy.

“We were the breadwinners,” he said. “Now, we're begging for scraps.”'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Few politicians attract as much vitriol as Harman, 60. From commentator Rod Liddle's column asking "So – Harriet Harman, then. Would you? I mean after a few beers obviously," to the Daily Mail mocking her as Harriet Harperson for her perceived political correctness, the verbal attacks can, at times, look like a warning to women not to enter politics.