Trident's "The Fifth Dentist" ad is back

Maybe some lady running the news station in your area, did find out about the previous campaign, so got a hair up her a** and decided herself to re-air the old commercial (that they no doubt had on tape sitting around somehwere).
-ax

You guys are oversensitive about various bullshit. At least you can console yourself that this is only an ad, a product of somebody's sick imagination. And that in reality women have much bigger problems than men do in ads.

Self-harm on rise in teen girls

ACTS of self-harm including overdoses and slashing body parts is the most common reason teenage girls are being admitted to Australian hospitals.

A report compiled by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare shows the rate of self-harm among girls aged 13 to 19 has risen by one-third in the past eight years and is now more likely than any other condition to cause hospitalisation.

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24394792-24331,00.html

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Heart disease kills more women than men

The July 2007 Harvard Heart Letter says unequivocally, "Heart disease is not a man's disease. It never really was "» Today, about one in every three American women is living with heart disease, the same proportion as men, and more women than men die each year of heart disease and stroke. Many women and many of their doctors don't know this."

http://news.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081001/DAYTON/810010451/1042

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Risk of stroke rising in women of all ages

Set your watch for three minutes. Unfortunately, when the three minutes are up, a fellow American will have died of stroke and an average of four Americans will have suffered a new or recurrent stroke, something that takes the lives of more than 150,000 people per year. It's the No. 3 cause of death behind heart disease and cancer, and unfortunately for women, it's a health problem with growing numbers.

Of every five deaths from the disease, the American Stroke Association says three occur in women. And while there are misconceptions that stroke only affects older women, the association reminds that the condition isn't a "geriatric disease."

http://www.thedailytimes.com/article/20080907/WOMEN/309079987

Etc.... etc.... etc.....

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Everyone here already knows that nothing's a problem until it affects women. As implied from the information in the sources you cite, coming soon will be all improved and expanded efforts to find cures for various types of heart disease, at least some of which will coincidentally affect men too - so don't look a gift horse in the mouth (especially if you suffer from heart disease).

-ax

if you are a feminist, then it seems that this world is going to become hell for you soon.

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... that in mainstream culture, the damage of a man's genitalia is deemed as humorous, in particular when it is "make-believe". Under no conditions however is damage to a woman's genitalia viewed as a source of humor, even when we know it is only make-believe.

Citations regarding women's susceptibility to disease makes headlines, while men's health issues either don't make the press or are otherwise seen as "inevitable" (witness prostate cancer; I actually had a man tell me once he thought prostate cancer was inevitably part of growing older for men and thus it was no big deal and should just be accepted as part of life). When I go to stores, I see pink ribbon campaign stuff everywhere-- coffee shops, mall placards, all over the place. Nothing about any gender-specific ailments men suffer from.

You seem to think that life is getting rough for feminists-- read "women". The fact is that feminists have gotten what they wanted and are simply increasingly on the receiving end of the consequences of doing more and being expected to do more of the kind of stuff men have always done: work, manage money, be responsible, provide for themselves. So sure, things get a little rougher as compared to how it was from them in the past, ie when they were not expected to work for money or be responsible for themselves. Transitioning from childhood to adulthood is always a little rough and the same thing has happened for women in the past 30-40 years as happens to a child when going from kid to adult (at least when talking about male kids-- in the case of girls it used to be just about having to 'find a husband' and have kids, not actually have to support them and put up with the added responsibilities, as that was the burden of men).

When people with kids split up, who pretty much gets the kids and the child support/alimony and sympathy? You guessed it.

My heart fairly bleeds.

that this site unfortunately has degraded to posting almost exclusively about random everyday crimes, incidents, ball-busting commercials, etc., and serious news about major tendencies in society are very rarely published here. And the global picture in the gender aspect is significantly different from the impression that one can get reading this or other MRA sites. Just a couple of random links to illustrate:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/editorial/display.var.2440269.0.A_lowered_glass_ceiling.php
http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2008/09/15/focus2.html?b=1221451200%5E1699235
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2674131/Bosses-may-stop-employing-women-as-maternity-rights-increase.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2676343/Concrete-ceiling-What-will-it-take-to-unleash-the-female-talent.html
http://www.bellinghamherald.com/602/story/561072.html

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(I'm not sure if that's supposed to stand for NoBigDeal or what...)

Why is it you think helping women out and helping men out are two mutually exclusive goals?

Yes, many girls AND BOYS suffer from poor body self-images. How does our justified anger over sexual assault against men tie in with any of that, though? Have you ever seen a commercial in which a woman's groin is injured or attacked?

Men's Rights + Women's Rights = HUMAN Rights

Thanks for your simple-minded opinion and the links from all the feminized media-opolies NBD, but I don't need you to tell me how I feel about anything. If I want to be sensitive over an ad on tv, then I will. If I want to be SICK OF IT, I will. What's complete bullshit is all of your sad girl stories you've linked. As far as "if you are a feminist, then it seems that this world is going to become hell for you soon", that's bullshit as well...You'll be saying that five years from now. I said it five years ago.

"that this site unfortunately has degraded to posting almost exclusively about random everyday crimes, incidents, ball-busting commercials, etc., and serious news about major tendencies in society are very rarely published here" ....LOL so i guess u r angry at this site.. whaa whaa.. then just go away. You failed at hurting the sites feelings! I want a site that documents EVERY single example of man bashing it can find, like this one. I really want MORE sites that do this.

MANN is an MRA news and activism site - "news" means all manner of stuff, not always actionable, in the same way that not every story you read in the NY Times is something you ought to jump up and become part of. We post based on submissions from readers. We get many submissions that include news reports about violence done against men by women, etc. This is important news since it demonstrates tangibly the falseness of the feminists' assertions about interpersonal violence, which uniformly include the notion that violence done against men by women should not be taken nearly as seriously as vice versa, and in some cases, ought to be encouraged. We have Joe "VAWA Joe" Biden and his club in DC to help keep it that way, it seems.

If you feel MANN ought to be running more or various kinds of stories, feel free to start submitting a few. But bear in mind, MANN is a men's activist and rights web site. MRAs in general, I feel, do not deny that things can be tough on women in society in various ways as well as on men. However, MANN and a few other web sites are trying to provide some measure of "equal time" for issues that affect men. Of all the media exposure to gender-related issues, I think it's fair to say 95%+ of it is about women. MANN is one of the few places news events and activist opportunities regarding _men's_ issues can be read about. In that light, if you seek to discuss the many issues women/feminists have identified, feel free to do so elsewhere; there are many sites that support that line of discussion, and registration is free.

Actually, if some visitors of this site are interested in crime news, it would be much more effective for them just to go to news.google.com and read there tons of crime stories which are published in the Internet everyday. Such sort of stuff is very easy to find.

I just think that there is nothing really new in such news and that articles about tendencies, statistics, scientific studies, etc. are much more informative and useful from MRA POV. If no one submits such news, then maybe I will sometimes submit them.

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That sounds like a wonderful idea, I wish you good luck with that task. It may be easy to look for shock value and typical headlines, but then again most media in the U.S. tends to be based around this and most are regurgitated stories where the names and dates change only. Being aware of the subtle integration of certain concepts that are deemed so acceptable to be viewed as petty can prove to be a reminder or at least a stop and think example to stop and think about other events, etc.

It's really not a problem with the site itself so much as some of the commenters. I do find there are a significant number of "broader-issue" items posted, but what kind of worries me is how the more "trivial" stories get lots more comments. For example sometimes we get stuff "via Marc A." about an opportunity for activism and there will be only maybe one response. Whereas the "guyland" thing has what - 20 posts? There's nothing really "wrong" with this scenario, I would just be happier if more guys would comment on the more important topic posts, i.e. the ones that give news on the more far-reaching issues. Not that I haven't been guilty of it myself.

-ax

What you are leaving out is the ages of those who die as a result heart problems. You see, men die earlier in their lifespan from heart problems. Yes, if you total the number of deaths you may find that there are more women but look at the specifics and you will see that those ladies are dying when they are much older. It's one thing to die of heart disease when you are 90 and quite another to die when you are 40.

edited to add a link about this issue

Notice the deaths per 100,000 for males and females from heart disease. Keep in mind that there are more females in the population from age 35 onwards. The author points out that women start experiencing more death from heart disease around age 75 but by that point most men are dead!

--Age --- Male --- Female
35-44 --- 43.3 --- 17.6
45-54 --- 145.7 --- 51.9
55-64 --- 391.6 --- 167.5
65-74 --- 961.6 --- 503.2
75-84 -- 2,308.9 -- 1,562.5
85-plus - 6,313.3 - 5,913.8

It may have been Farrell, I'm not sure, but I read somewhere that more women are dying of heart disease is due to the fact that they are living longer..from not having died of other causes earlier as they had in the past - thanks mainly to male scientists and researchers, of course.

-ax

Yes Ax, the link in my post above attributes the following quote to Warren Farrell:

"Even as we are increasingly hearing that women die of heart disease as often as men, we are not hearing that when most women die of heart disease, men have been long dead." —Warren Farrell

That's strange. I made a post about this topic, but it's not here. Did Matt delete it? If so, why?

Evan AKA X-TRNL
Real Men Don't Take Abuse!

I was basically saying to nbspcl that these stories of crimes committed by women against males (and receiving miniscule sentences, if anything), and of misandric advertising are very relevant. They are evidence of double standards that we have to face.

Laughing at the suffering of anyone is inexcusable, whether it's real or not. Unfortunately, some people laugh at this type of thing even if it's happening for real. YouTube has tons of clips to indulge the truly immature, and they're all classified as "Comedy". The fact that people's base natures would tell them to laugh at stuff like that proves that they don't value men to be worth as much as women. They don't laugh at the same happening to women, after all.

That's why this is all relevent.

Evan AKA X-TRNL
Real Men Don't Take Abuse!