Book review here. Excerpt:

'It’s been about four decades since the Women’s Liberation Movement began, yet recent statistics from the National Bureau of Economic Research claim women are more unhappy today than before the movement began.

Is the Feminist Movement to blame?

A new book by Suzanne Venker and Phyllis Schlafly “The Flipside of Feminism” explores this issue.

On their website, the overview section begins:

“What if everything you’ve been told about women in America is wrong? What if what your college professors taught you – along with television, movies, books, magazine articles, and even news reports – have all been lies or distortions?”

“…after all, they [men] are just brutal oppressing knuckle draggers so we need a whole new movement for that…”'

Link to article here. Excerpt:

'A female UK drama teacher groomed a 13-year-old girl for sex then started a relationship with another student months after their affair ended.

Caroline French, 38, has been jailed for three years at the Preston Crown Court in Lancashire, after being found guilty of three indecent assaults and one count of indecency with a child, the BBC reports.

The court heard the Blackpool resident exchanged rings with the first teenager, a Lancashire student, and asked her to call her "Danny," to keep their affair secret.

Their affair became sexual when the student was 15 and continued for three months from January to April 2004.

A few months after the relationship ended French became intimate with another girl she taught at a different school, the court heard.'

Link to article here. Excerpt:

'Jurors in an American woman's third trial have found her guilty of burning her baby daughter to death in a microwave oven.

China Arnold, 31, was convicted of aggravated murder in the death of 28-day-old Paris Talley in August 2005. Arnold could receive the death penalty. The sentencing phase will begin on Monday next week.

Arnold's first trial ended in a mistrial.

She was found guilty in the second trial, but that conviction was reversed last year. An appeals court found there was misconduct by prosecutors and the trial court made an error by not allowing a material witness to testify in Arnold's defence.

Prosecutors have said Arnold intentionally put the baby in the microwave after a fight with her boyfriend. The defence had argued someone else was responsible.'

From an email from ACFC:

'The Facebook Campaign to confront Child Support Agencies and their inhumane practices toward child support payers is off to a rousing start. Over 300 people ‘liked’ thesavetheturnips page in the first 24 hours. But there’s more…One basis of this campaign is disgust over how child support officials identify child support payers as ‘turnips.’ We provided a link to a National Child Support Enforcement Association (NCSEA) training program titled: “Getting Blood from a Turnip: New Farming Techniques for Increasing Your Yield.”

Apparently folks at NCSEA got the message, sort of. Within hours of the start of the ‘Save the Turnips’ campaign NCSEA programmers had changed the website and pulled the reference to obligors as ‘Turnips.’ Of course, we thought you would like to see those ‘before and after’ alterations. The NCSEA is apparently still farming, just not specifically ‘turnips.’

In his new book warning young men about the dangers of marrying unwisely, Dr. Burleson examines the biology of love and mating, helping the reader to understand why some unions are bound to fail before they even start. The book shows by example how every action can result in unintended consequences and elucidates the tell tale red flags which can signal a divorce in the future.

The book sets out some basic principles for choosing a mate with emphasis on vetting her thoroughly before taking the plunge into marriage. A checklist that every man should go through carefully prior to marriage is provided.

The middle chapters contain advice on keeping the marriage healthy by avoiding the common pitfalls, which may lead to divorce. Finally the author gives examples of how not to make the same mistakes so many other men have when dealing with a marriage on the rocks from infidelity, mental illness, or other common problems. Included in this section are suggestions as to how information can be collected objectively because dealing with these problems without the appropriate intelligence can be disastrous.

Article here. Notice the incident cited for the implementation of this new policy. The female student initiated the conflict. Absolutely no mention of any accountability on her part. Excerpt:

'The eight presidents of Dartmouth’s Panhellenic sororities unanimously decided that their houses will boycott all social events held in conjunction with a fraternity in which a member has assaulted a female student if internal adjudication is not taken against the individual in a timely manner, Sigma Delta sorority president Danielle Levin ’12 said in an interview with The Dartmouth. The boycott, which will continue until the fraternity in question internally tries the perpetrator of the assault, was enacted following a violent incident at a fraternity’s physical plant on Saturday, according to Levin.
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Article here. Excerpt:

'VIENNA - A Vienna man would rather sit in jail than pay alimony to his ex-wife, hoping it forces a change in state paternity laws.

Monday, Sean Keefe, 37, was sentenced to six months in the North Central Regional Jail for refusing to pay his ex-wife $1,800-a-month court-ordered alimony.

"I didn't kill anybody. I didn't assault anybody. And I didn't steal from anybody and I am going to jail. I am in jail," Keefe said in a YouTube video posted Saturday.

Keefe alleges two years after he divorced his ex-wife, he discovered he was not the father of the couple's youngest son.

"Just before our divorce was finalized I was told I should have a DNA test performed. I was told there was zero-percent chance I was his biological father," he stated on the video. Caroline Keefe, Sean's wife, provided The News and Sentinel copies of the test results.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – DNA testing has released hundreds of wrongfully convicted prisoners. It could also exonerate another group – men who’ve been paying child support for children they do not believe are theirs.
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Senate Bill 785 would end the relationship, releasing him from child support payments through DNA testing.
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Both the House and the Senate passed this bill unanimously. If the govenor signs the bill, it would go into effect immediately.'

A new study shows that circumcised men are almost five times more likely to suffer from premature ejaculation. (Tang WS, Khoo EM. Prevalence and correlates of premature ejaculation, J Sex Med 2011)

Article here. Excerpt:

'...This is not the first time, if there is on thread that runs through this organization’s ads it’s an effort, sometimes subtle, often overt, to disparage men and boys and cast women as superior, physically, mentally and even emotionally.

The Ad Council is known for creating the ads we see on T.V. or hear on the radio known as Public Service Announcements, (PSA’s) that stations run perhaps for free or at a reduced rate, usually to support some social cause that usually would not have the money for an ad campaign on the scale arranged for by the Ad Council. They usually have some ad agency do the creative work based upon their direction or guidance. I’m not sure exactly how much public funds, if any, are involved, either directly or indirectly.
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Alert here. Excerpt:

'Fathers and Families’ Shared Parenting bill (H02684) will have its public hearing by the Joint Committee on the Judiciary on Wednesday, May 18 at the State House in Boston. We want your help for this critical hearing. We need you to:

1) Call the members of the Judiciary Committee (as well as your local legislators) and let them know that you support H02684.

The contact info. for all Committee Members is here. To find your own state senator or representative, click here. Tell us how your interactions went by writing to us at FathersandFamilies@FathersandFamilies.org.'

Article here. No, you are not dreaming. This is an IRL nightmare. Excerpt from translation:

'Environmental degradation, financial crisis, the unilateral accumulation of wealth: all the consequences of modern patriarchy - the destruction of a male-dominated society. At least, it seems the German Heide Goettner-Abendroth, one of the central figures of the matriarchy movement, which has been investigating the 1980 female-dominated societies and propagated.

I'm not sure how this has not made it on your list! I believe this video was made in poor taste. Any similar depiction of a loving wife being portrayed as an incompetent clown would cause an uproar and most likely end up on "the view." I have sent a letter to the company. Let me know what you guys think. Thanks!

Link to press release here.

'It has been bought to our attention that a circumcision event in the Philippines last Saturday has supposedly been approved by Guinness World Records.

Guinness World Records would like to clarify that it does not, under any circumstances, monitor, endorse or recognise this kind of 'record attempt'. The organisers of the event have no approval from Guinness World Records to use its trademarks in connection with this event and any claim to officially recognise this event will be rejected.'

This is something that happened recently in my city (Christchurch); a new club opened up called Club 22 (a lot of bars/clubs have been opening since the massive earthquake here) - founded by a 20 year old girl. This particular club decided it would charge $5 entry fee for women and for men a ridiculous $22 to get in - with the claimed intention of apparently "to stop the drunk, stupid boys from ruining other people's enjoyment" and essentially creating a continuous ladies' night out bar.

Here was the original article, noticeably the media doesn't seem to have a problem with this kind of discrimination.