Article here. Excerpt:

'In the nearly four decades since Title IX of the federal Civil Rights Act barred sex discrimination in education, educators and policymakers have encouraged more girls to study and enter traditionally “male” careers, from science and technology to architecture and law.

With male-dominated fields like construction now stagnant, however, experts argue that the situation may be reversed: American schools don’t do enough to encourage boys to explore careers in traditionally female-dominated fields, such as health care and education.

Experts at a forum hosted Tuesday by the Washington-based Boys Initiative called for the creation of a White House Council on Boys to Men, similar to the existing White House Council on Women and Girls, to organize policies and support.'

Title IX has provided many athletic opportunities for women, often at the expense of mens' sports programs. The personal stories of the male athletes affected by these cuts are often marginalized.

I recently wrote a book about the plight of the 1999 Providence College baseball team. It was the last year the sport was played at the school. The program was eliminated due to Title IX concerns. The team had been having great success throughout 90's, and in their final season the team rallied to show the school that they were making a mistake. They won the Big East championship but lost the sport anyway.

STRIKE IX is the title of the book, and it tells the individual stories of the players who were affected by the Title IX decision at Providence College.

It's available in paperback, but is also available also electronically on Nook and Kindle.

Bullying. When it happens to girls, it makes the news. Boys? This story speaks for itself. Perhaps the only reason it made the news is because it was a sub who was there that day. Excerpt:

'A 12-year-old Dallas student was bound to a chair with duct tape and beaten by four classmates as a substitute teacher stood and ignored the attack, according to the victim's mom.

The Dallas school district is investigating the charges made by Keneshia Richardson, who claims the attackers wrapped tape around her son's mouth to keep him from shouting.

"It was uncalled for," Richardson told The Dallas Morning News, adding her son had trouble breathing.

The woman said his hands were taped to the chair, he was wrapped with a telephone cord, and the attackers knocked him to the ground. The boy's shirt was torn as well, she claimed.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Rape is rape is rape – and a very serious crime. Let's get that over with. Most people also have a very clear idea of what constitutes rape – and if they don't, and they find themselves sitting on a jury in a rape trial, they will be put right pretty quickly by the judge and the prosecuting lawyers. The difficulty in recent years has been less and less judicial practice than the propagation of a hardcore feminist view intent on broadening the definition of rape and presuming guilt rather than innocence. The lines between rape, sexual assault and personal "mistakes" risk as a result becoming blurred.'

Link to article here. The quotation marks in the title are from the original headline and appear to an editorial device to separate women from their actions. Excerpt:

'A US mother has been arrested after she deliberately ran down her daughter in a supermarket carpark, police allege.

Ohio woman Michelle Touma, 41, allegedly swerved her van to hit her daughter Emily, 19, running over her foot, the Sandusky Register reports.

Touma had been arguing with her daughter as she drove her to her job at a nearby Taco Bell outlet.

Her daughter began shouting and hitting the bonnet of the car when Touma tried to drop her off early.

Police said Touma then swerved the van so she could strike her daughter in the head.

"The mum said that she was going to drive by with the window down and smack her daughter in the back of the head," a police spokesman said.'

From a SAVE email:

SAVE will be sponsoring a False Allegations Summit on June 2 in Washington, DC. The Summit will kick off False Allegations Awarenesss Month. All victims of false abuse allegations are invited to attend this historic event.

The Summit will be held at the Fairfax Hotel on Embassy Row, 2100 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC. from 1pm to 4pm.

The Summit will feature:

• Release of a national survey of false allegations
• Statements by stakeholder organizations
• Accounts by victims of false allegations
• Release of Model Language to Stop False Allegations

Pre-registration is necessary. Please send your name and organization, if appropriate, to tstoddard-at-saveservices.org

In addition, if you are interested in making a victim statement, please indicate that fact in your registration. We will be limiting the number of victim statements to 10, so register soon!

Article here. Excerpt:

Article here. Excerpt:

'Women in 21st century America live five years longer than men; face an unemployment rate that is over a full percentage point lower; are awarded a substantially larger share of high school diplomas, BAs, MAs, and Ph.D.s; and show lower rates of incarceration, alcoholism and drug abuse.

Contrary to what feminist lobbyists would have Congress believe, girls and women are doing well.

With these data before us, reasonable individuals should be holding conferences on how to help men. Policymakers should require that government contractors hire men to bring down their unemployment rate. Health reform bills should feature Offices of Men's Health to assist men in living to the same age as women.

Unfortunately, the reverse is occurring. Congress and President Obama continue to advocate policies that favor women over men. The financial regulation bill has mandated 29 offices to help the advancement of women.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Carmen Callil, one of three judges, claimed Roth did not deserve to make the shortlist let alone win the £60,000 prize.

Miss Callil, an author and founder of the feminist publishing house Virago, complained: “He goes on and on and on about the same subject in almost every single book. It's as though he's sitting on your face and you can't breathe”.

She was overruled by fellow judges Justin Cartwright, the South African novelist, and Rick Gekoski, a rare book dealer and writer.

Miss Callil complained: “I don't rate him as a writer at all. I made it clear that I wouldn't have put him on the longlist, so I was amazed when he stayed there. He was the only one I didn't admire – all the others were fine.
...
Roth’s career spans 50 years and includes a Pulitzer Prize awarded in 1998. However, his style has alienated feminists who have objected to his focus on explicit male sexuality.

Blog entry here.

Article here. Excerpt:

'We don't recognize feminism in our thinking or our behavior, yet we are constantly bombarded by its ideals through entertainment media, books, movies, in the workplace and, most importantly, the public school system.

In "Save the Male," Kathleen Parker wrote, "Boys learn early that they belong to the 'bad' sex and their female counterparts to the 'good.'"

Despite obvious differences between males and females, feminism aimed to teach girls to aspire to be masculine and boys to be feminine. Public schools have become the focus of increasing girl-centered education and decreasing the natural inclinations of boys.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'San Francisco voters will decide whether to ban male circumcision in the November 8 municipal election.

Activists gathered enough signatures to put a proposal on the ballot, the city's election board confirmed Wednesday.

The measure aims to prohibit all male circumcisions in San Francisco. Led by Lloyd Schofield who is part of a Bay Area “inactivist” group, the advocates want to eliminate the surgery and liken it to "male genital mutilation."

Schofield and the "inactivists" seek to make it "unlawful to circumcise, excise, cut, or mutilate the whole or any part of the foreskin, testicles, or penis" of anyone 17 or younger in San Francisco. Under the proposal, a person who violates the proposed ban could be jailed (not more than one year) or fined (not more than $1,000). Exemptions for religious reasons would not be allowed.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'The mother of a young boy found dead on the side of a desolate road near the Maine-New Hampshire border reportedly has confessed to killing the boy, MyFoxBoston.com reported.

The woman, who the TV station identified as Julianne McCrery, reportedly told a Massachusetts state trooper that she killed her son and was contemplating killing herself, MyFoxBoston.com reported Wednesday evening , citing unnamed sources. FoxNews.com could not independently confirm the report with police.

Earlier Wednesday, without identifying the woman, a Massachusetts State Police spokesman confirmed that a woman was being questioned by police, and she was moved late in the afternoon from the Concord Barracks to a nearby hospital for a mental evaluation.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'NEW YORK — Prosecutors say a New York City woman admitted setting fire to her young daughter during a voodoo ritual by pouring flammable liquid on the girl's head and igniting it, scarring her body.

Marie Lauradin (lah-hahr-DAHN') pleaded guilty Wednesday to first-degree assault by pouring the liquid on her then-6-year-old daughter at their Queens home in 2009.

Prosecutors say Lauradin poured the accelerant on her daughter's head and in a circle on the floor as part of a voodoo practice involving a loa, or spirit.'

How Obama’s Gender Policies Undermine America

How Obama’s Gender Policies Undermine America. By Diana Furchtgott-Roth. New York: Encounter Books, 2010. www.encounterbooks.com. 47 pp. $5.99. Review by J. Steven Svoboda.

How Obama’s Gender Policies Undermine America by Diana Furchtgott-Roth is the sixteenth in a series of small chapbooks Encounter Books is offering in a fascinating new publishing program. In this increasingly screen-oriented age, the concept of promoting paper books by putting out small, inexpensive, pocket-sized pamphlets on topics of political interest is a fascinating endeavor that should be supported.

Furchtgott-Roth is the author of two excellent books, Women’s Figures: An Illustrated Guide to the Economics of Women in America and the more recent The Feminist Dilemma: When Success is Not Enough.

In fewer than fifty small-sized pages, writing accessibly so that the entire chapbook can probably be read in fifteen to thirty minutes by most readers, the author makes her case that the federal government is hurting our economic strength by attempting to ensure equality of outcome for women in the marketplace and not just equality of opportunity. “Equal outcomes is a pernicious goal for government policy, one that smacks of central planning and heavy official intrusion into private decision making, such as what to study and what vocation to pursue.”