MISC. NEWS & VIEWS ON GENDER (At Male Matters)

"There is mounting evidence that as men discover the terms of marriage and divorce today, they are engaging in a marriage boycott or marriage 'strike': refusing to marry or start families, knowing they can be criminalized if their wife walks out and how attractive the divorce industry has made it easy for her to do so. ….Sonja Hastings of Fathers-4-Equality says that 'no matter how decent, hardworking, and caring you may be as a father, that in the event of separation, you will more than likely not get custody of your child, you will lose up to 80% of all of your assets, you will have to pay up to five times the cost of raising a child, and most importantly you could never see your child again.' In Britain a fathers’ rights group tours university campuses warning young men not to start families. Even one attorney writes a book concluding that the only effective protection for men to avoid losing their children is not to start a family in the first place.” More...

Good news for ideological feminists: “Also alarming is the decline in male births around the world, a trend some scientists find troubling. In the United States, more boys are being born than girls, but the gap between the two has declined in the last 30 years.” More...

A woman who describes herself as a hard-core feminist is as traditional — and sexist — as they come: “But when push comes to shove, most [men] (in my experience) are dull and ambivalent and play it safe and lack that old-fashioned real-man stuff. I mean, they can build and destroy entire empires as long as those empires are digital and on the Xbox. When it comes to real-world skills like fixing cars and repairing the house, they're helpless.” More in Esquire...

What, do you suppose, this hard-core feminist would say to the man who dared utter in her presence: “When push comes to shove, most women (in my experience) are dull and ambivalent and play it safe and lack that old-fashioned real-woman stuff. I mean, they can clean and shine entire homes as long as those homes are digital and on the Xbox. When it comes to real-world skills like preparing meals and cleaning the house, they're helpless.”

Antimale bias can be found almost anywhere. “In 2007 the World Economic Forum produced a report called 'The Global Gender Gap Report 2006' (author: Zahidi, S). This is a great example of how the 'gender gap' has been defined so as to only examine areas in which women fare worse than men, and ignore areas in which men fare worse than women.” More...

The former radical Doris feminist Lessing “dismisses modern-day feminists as 'some of the smuggest, most unself-critical people the world has ever seen.' 'They are horrible,' she avers.” More... She probably should have said this only about modern-day ideological feminists.

When you are told that men have the power, take the opportunity to talk about women's power. For example, the courts almost always side with women when ruling on gender issues, as in this case: “A federal appeals court has upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit nicknamed 'Roe v. Wade for Men' filed by a men's rights group on behalf of a man who said he shouldn't have to pay child support for his ex-girlfriend's daughter.” More... As women continue to make huge strides in the world of work, men continue to be limited in the world of children.

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