tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-153118752024-03-07T23:14:07.072-05:00MIsForMalevolentAren't men inherently evil? Shouldn't they be treated differently than women? Aren't they lowbrows, to be coralled, to be penned in with restrictive laws, forced to work without pause until they drop dead? Aren't, in fact, men the new 'Second Sex'?<p>
<p><p ALIGN=RIGHT><small><I><A href="http://misformalevolent.blogspot.com/2005/08/more-about-this-blog.html"><B>Disclaimer and Advice to Posters</B></A></I></small>MisAnDropehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04002635532122273531noreply@blogger.comBlogger156125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15311875.post-72377185238674829052013-12-30T21:41:00.000-05:002013-12-30T22:15:47.393-05:00P is for Peonage<br />
I regularly check <a href="http://mensrightsblogs.com/feeds/">http://mensrightsblogs.com/feeds/</a> to see what's going on in the MRA/MGTOW blogosphere...and today I found a VERY interesting post from the anti-misandry forum by one member who goes by the moniker, Luke Skywalker:<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">I've found a website that might be the answer to a lot of our troubles. I wish I had found it sooner, because it is so, so true what it says on this website. <a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.antipeonage.0catch.com">www.antipeonage.0catch.com</a><br />It turns out that in the USA there is an old 1867 law from the post-Civil-War era which outlaws peonage {see for yourself: <a href="http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/1581.html">§ 1581. Peonage; obstructing enforcement</a> - HL} <span style="font-weight: bold;">(and therefore outlaws child support!)</span> This law is still on the books, and a man named Robert Knight has been attempting to use this law to fight having to pay child support for a number of years now. It is called the 1867 Antipeonage Act, and it declares all conditions of peonage, whether done by the government or anyone else, to be null and void, and holding another in a state of peonage to be a crime.<br /><br />Peonage is where a debtor is bound to servitude until the debt is paid off. Which is exactly what child support is. It is where the debtor (non-custodial parent) has to work to make a certain amount of money and give it custodial parent, and if he doesn't do that, he will be thrown in jail and held there indefinately. That is the textbook definition of peonage.</span></blockquote>
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We often refer to unfair child support laws as the malicious reduction of the role of Fatherhood to nothing more than becoming a wage slave. This is peonage, plain and simple... and surprise, surprise, it is ALREADY illegal!<br />
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Looking further into Robert Knight's website, he states that when he has raised the issue of Peonage with the Child Support agency he is waging his battle on,this is their justification:<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">They tell you that they are operating under a "federal mandate". That would be Title IV-D of the Social Security Act, <a href="http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/42/ch7.html">42 U.S.C. §§ 651-669b</a>. It is not and Constitutionally cannot be a mandate. What it is, is a program where Congress purchases sovereignty over issues of family law and public assistance policy from the States for a bag of federal money. Now where does the federal government gets its money? From the same place the States get their tax money, <b>YOU!!!!</b> <br /><br />But the <a href="http://www.supremecourtus.gov/">Supreme Court</a> found, in </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/95-1441.ZS.html">Blessing v. Freestone</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/95-1441.ZS.html">, (1997) 520 U.S. 329, 343-344, 137 L. Ed. 2d. 569, 117 S. Ct. 1353</a>, that the States merely contract with the federal government to impose and enforce child support laws in a certain way to qualify for federal funds. <b>Any State may choose not to participate, and not accept the federal funds, it's NOT a mandate!</b> That is found in <a href="http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/95-1478.ZS.html">Printz v. United States</a><a href="http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/95-1478.ZS.html">, (1997) 521 U.S. 898, 138 L. Ed. 2d. 914, 117 S. Ct. 2365</a>.<br /></span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">It is like when you are offered a job. If you turn it down, you won't get paid. But you have the Constitutional right, <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.amendmentxiii.html">13th Amendment</a>, to turn it down. Which is precisely what I'm fighting for.<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Because the States all sell their sovereignty for the federal funds, even <b>SOUTHERN</b> States, former Confederate States, they practice the institution that the Confederacy fought to preserve, slavery. The duty to support the children is the excuse, but slavery it is.</span></div>
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Luke Skywalker offers the following tactical advice to spread the word about this...<br />
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Every single dad who has to pay child support in the US should do what this guy says to do and not pay it, and then when they take you to jail, then sue them under <span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/42/1994.html" target="_blank">42 U.S.C. §1994</a></span>, which is the law which says that peonage is abolished.<br />
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If every dad in the USA who is paying child support sues under the antipeonage law, <span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/42/1994.html" target="_blank">42 U.S.C. §1994</a></span>, which they have every right to do, this madness will stop. Because sooner or later there's going to be a judge and a jury out there that will listen, and when they do, it's going to make headlines.</blockquote>
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While such a tactic may possibly work if a majority of non-custodial Fathers were to do so, I think the result would compel the feminist lobbyists simply appeal to their stooges int he government to repeal the anti-peonage law under the guise of "it's for the children."<br />
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Nevertheless, it would be quite interesting to see this issue attain mainstream awareness. My pessimism is merely the cynicism I've developed after observing the injustices of the United States of Matriarchal America.<br />
Keoni Galthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00842553742723239151noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15311875.post-20084576721189300412010-11-27T14:30:00.005-05:002010-11-27T14:48:39.862-05:00P is for Proportion<div><br /></div><a href="http://hereticalsex.blogspot.com/">Heretical Sex</a> (hereinafter <i>HS</i>) draws our attention to a judge who <a href="http://hereticalsex.blogspot.com/2010/11/some-common-sense-at-last.html">"says mothers should have children taken away if they don't let fathers see them"</a>. Ok, this is a <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1333549/Top-judge-says-mothers-children-taken-away-dont-let-fathers-them.html">Daily Mail article</a> from the UK, but still, the joyful bit of the article is that the justice in question 'Mr Justice Coleridge' advocates something like a '3 violations of visitation and then jail' policy. <div><br /></div><div>Now that's all very nice, and better than the toothlessness that the current law seems to operate on with respect to how they treat women, but come on! Men can get tossed in the slammer after a couple months of not paying their peonage, and women? You've got to take them to court 3 times, and they've got to violate 3 orders. That's probably $100,000 in legal fees and two to three years just to get to see your children that the state kidnapped by gifting them (and your income) to your ex, and making you an unwelcome and infrequent visitor in their lives. </div><div><br /></div><div>Is this common sense? Or is this taking one cup of milk, and passing it in through the bars of the concentration camp to where we keep our men? </div><div><br /></div><div>The justice in question is clearly terrified of this being a hard and fast rule, terrified of the backlash against him in case the law might ever apply to women. He's afraid he's gone too far already, you can see, but it isn't enough. </div><div><br /></div><div>-We're dying in here.</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; color: rgb(41, 48, 59); "><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.6em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><a href="http://misformalevolent.blogspot.com/2008/01/m-is-for-mbtyiys.html" style="color: rgb(71, 54, 36); text-decoration: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">My Best To You In Your Struggles</span></a></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">-M</span></span></div><div><div><div><i><br /></i></div></div></div><div><i>p.s. - All the old posts should be restored. Sorry if it came in a rush. </i></div>MisAnDropehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04002635532122273531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15311875.post-50681148754847141382010-10-22T12:49:00.003-04:002010-10-22T12:55:46.221-04:00T is for Threats to the System<p class="MsoNormal">Recently, I was forced by circumstances to seek employment in another field.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal">The world has changed, and I have not been able to find employ in my prior field for some time.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>There were jobs in the new field, and few takers.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>All I had to do was take some training, and jump some educational and testing hurdles.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Being paranoid, I searched the internet for any evidence that my status as a ‘deadbeat dad’ would be held against me.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Nothing.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>All systems go.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>So, I set to it.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I would be able to earn real money again, make a difference in my children’s lives and my life in a financial way, rather than being a load on the system.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"></span>This was great.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal">I won scholarships and grants to help with my retooling, and just as I was about to start the educational part of my program, a letter from the state licensing board arrived – it was a long bureaucratic checklist letter, and way at the bottom was written in an additional item, which had a check next to it:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>words to the effect that ‘men with arrears are not eligible for licensing in this field’.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"></span>So I called and wrote and spoke to these folks.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Sure, the law gives them the right to withhold my license, I said; but I am trying to work – this will enable me to pay!<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Unless someone is complaining, why would they withhold this license?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"></span>True, they said, they need a complainant.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>But how that works (they candidly told me) was if they found that someone was in arrears, they would send a letter to the local employer, and ask that they initiate a complaint.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"></span>Got that?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>They would solicit, would GENERATE the complaint.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Think any employer is going to ignore a request like that from the state licensing board that holds all their licenses in their hands?</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoPageNumber">You would think it sounds insane, but you would be forgetting two things – one, that there are a lot of folks who earn money pursuing deadbeat dads – seizing their accounts, garnishing their wages, serving as their ‘collections/probation officer’, suing them, serving as judges in the slave courts, - and there is a lot of incentive in terms of grants and matching funds from the federal government for doing all this.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>It’s a whole industry.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoPageNumber"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"></span>And the men involved, well, they are the disposable pawns, the workers, the slaves in the system that make all of this possible.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoPageNumber"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"></span>If one were to find a way out, others would follow.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoPageNumber"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"></span>To quote words that E.W. Jackson Sr. wrote in a recent and unrelated article:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>“</span>When a slave escaped from the plantation, it wasn't merely a case of one slave being a problem. That slave became a threat to the institution of slavery and to the master's way of life.”<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"></span>It is necessary to keep us in, to keep the empire running.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Not one slave must be allowed to escape.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Let this be a warning to men everywhere.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The entrée to this empire of slavery is marriage.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The exit is death.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"></span>This is why almost 15,000 men kill themselves each year to escape it.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"></span>This is why if a man commits suicide, the odds are he is a divorced man.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Because for the oppressed slaves in a slave state, the only escape <i>allowed </i>is death.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://misformalevolent.blogspot.com/2008/01/m-is-for-mbtyiys.html">My Best To You In Your Struggles</a></p><br />-MMisAnDropehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04002635532122273531noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15311875.post-92008345432489956572010-09-07T15:34:00.003-04:002010-09-07T15:48:35.750-04:00R is for Return...or maybe 'republish'. <div><br /></div><div>I'm going to restore my posts, which were moved back into 'draft' status because I was worried that they would show up in court. I won't do them all at once (there's a bunch), but I have done a bunch today, and will do more on subsequent days.</div><div><br /></div><div>What's going on with me? Probably I shouldn't say, because folks are already guessing who the author of this website is. Suffice it to say things are worse than they ever were. </div><div><br /></div><div>I am a non-citizen, really. </div><div>Property rights? What's that? </div><div><br /></div><div>The biggest riot is that back when I was earning, my ex complained that sometimes she 'had' to shop at a department store she felt was below her (and we aren't talking Value Village here), and that got her an increase which I had to pay, along with the legal fees. </div><div><br /></div><div>Today, I can't afford hot-dogs, let alone health insurance, housing, hair-gel, and other things that start with 'H'. </div><div><br /></div><div>But adjustments aren't for me, no, no, no. </div><div><br /></div><div>See, there's something different about me. </div><div><br /></div><div>I'm not the woman.</div><br /><a href="http://misformalevolent.blogspot.com/2008/01/m-is-for-mbtyiys.html">My Best To You In Your Struggles</a><br /><br />-MMisAnDropehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04002635532122273531noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15311875.post-49238048635882888822010-09-07T15:20:00.002-04:002010-09-07T15:26:51.059-04:00F is for FingerAnother video to amuse.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Yh8cse0P8bY&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xd0d0d0&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Yh8cse0P8bY&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xd0d0d0&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>MisAnDropehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04002635532122273531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15311875.post-45519690050193407052010-01-18T18:53:00.003-05:002010-01-18T19:27:40.585-05:00T is for This requires comment...One thing that is true about humans is that they do something, and then make up the reasons for it later.<br /><br />In this case we have what I am sure is a lovely woman (Hannah Seligson), <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-01-17/why-were-not-getting-married/full/">explaining why she isn't getting married</a>.<br /><br />Apparently there are 'un-travelled continents and four more career paths to explore'.<br /><br />And there are. Career paths and continents, which can't be explored if:<br /><br />1) no one has a very high-paying career to pay for them, and<br />2) no one has been roped into a divorce settlement to pay for them.<br /><br />Now I do think Hannah is probably a decent partner, as she tracks her purchases with an eye to dividing it up based on who paid for what, and tries to avoid the messy divorces of the previous generation, but I wonder...<br /><br />I wonder if she really would, after a 12-year non-married relationship, walk away with just the things she personally bought - or if she would walk across the street to the lawyers office, and discover that palimony is just as good as marriage, and take her ex 'partner' for everything she could get. I can hear her muttering about how 'that bastard took the best years of my life', and feeling all justified as she turns him into a slave for the rest of his.<br /><br />Unfair? Unrealistic? Not if you look at the statistics. No, unfortunately, financially enslaving your ex is big business, and if Hannah resists the temptation, she is the exception, not the rule.<br /><br />The delay in marriage might have something to do with unexplored contients and careers, but it is, in my opinion, mostly about men avoiding slavery. <br /><br />Why did this particular essay tweak me enough to post? Because it reeked so strongly of sour grapes. Rare is the man who doesn't want to find a good woman, and raise children with her. Even more rare is the PERSON (no sexism in this post) who can resist enslaving their ex and ensuring their future casual explorations of careers an continents when the state hands it to them on a silver platter, courtesy of the partner whom they now dislike. <br /><br />-And the tightness of the marriage market is all about this. With a judiciary/legal system that thinks that men were built to support women, no matter WHAT they do (no fault, remember?) marriage is going to become more and more rare. <br /><br />It's not about 'adulthood', or the length of 'careers' - marriages and kids were more common when we were mostly working on farms and in sweatshops, and when 'success' was something that never happened. And it isn't about exploration, although the exploration is in there, but mostly by the women, and at the man's expense.<br /><br /><a href="http://misformalevolent.blogspot.com/2008/01/m-is-for-mbtyiys.html">My Best To You In Your Struggles</a><br /><br />-MMisAnDropehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04002635532122273531noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15311875.post-42024170914412606292009-10-22T10:07:00.001-04:002009-10-22T10:11:08.647-04:00M is for Man SongIn case you haven't seen it before: <br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/2cgvBxI-XfE&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/2cgvBxI-XfE&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />You can laugh, or you can cry. <br /><br />-MMisAnDropehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04002635532122273531noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15311875.post-86163553660204848182009-10-12T20:36:00.005-04:002009-10-12T20:53:17.453-04:00F is for Fair WarningWell, the court system seems to be calling me, and I suspect strongly, with some evidence that my very evil ex has figured out that this blog exists.<br /><br />And so therefore, I am going to go into hiding, until such time as the court has done abusing me. Perhaps I will throw out links to other sites, but the posts on this site needs must disappear for a while.<br /><br />I won't delete them, I will just hide them. If it happens that you need me to dig a link, or some data from a post up, please email me at <a href="mailto:b3u8ebs02@sneakemail.com">b3u8ebs02 at sneakemail.com</a>.<br /><br />I apologize for being a wimp, but my private emails have been introduced to the court before, and have previously helped the court to decide that I was being 'truculent' about my enslavement. I suspect that my blogging here would be even more evidence of my lack of good faith. (insert eye roll here)<br /><br />So, I must go into hiding. I pray for the day that what I must conceal can be said in the open, but obviously, it is also our right to free speech that is under attack by the Gynocracy.<br /><br />This is a 'fair warning' post, and it itself will shortly dissappear, to be replaced by some generic message.<br /><br /><a href="http://misformalevolent.blogspot.com/2008/01/m-is-for-mbtyiys.html">My Best To You In Your Struggles</a><br /><br />-M<br /><br /><em>Your comments and thoughts are always welcome, - and do please hit the ‘Donate’ button, if you can.</em><br /><p></p>MisAnDropehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04002635532122273531noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15311875.post-775043079915940552009-10-10T10:15:00.003-04:002010-09-07T15:28:32.458-04:00G is for Getting Married?<span style="font-size:180%;">Getting Married?</span><br /><br /><em><strong>Thinking </strong></em>about it?<br /><br />If so, you should take a moment to read this post.<br /><br />Did you know that better than 60% of marriages end in divorce?<br /><br />Did you know that women file the vast majority of those divorces?<br /><br />Did you know that in the vast majority of divorces, women get your children, and you get to visit them on occasion if you are lucky - and women get better than half the assets, and women usually get the house to live in until things get divided, and women generally get support of some sort?<br /><br />Ok, with that in mind.... ...look at the picture below.<br /><br />This is an UNEMPLOYMENT PAYMENT CONFIRMATION. This one is for a top earner, who is getting the maximum unemployment possible. He's been out of work for almost 2 years. Take a moment to review it. I'll wait....<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgblg2nZDQWNkNvYl7KEUhsZuNs4YHlUDrjMLtCSPWpG5d7RyUJ-8NbeqP9wnWlabSkkVusyy8FJphlRpV6UbpqNBsMV0iBSTJlqZkK4N4ZVLI0dbwyz1rrnhfVoUoKYrzLG3AiQ/s1600-h/garnish.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390791375566268194" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgblg2nZDQWNkNvYl7KEUhsZuNs4YHlUDrjMLtCSPWpG5d7RyUJ-8NbeqP9wnWlabSkkVusyy8FJphlRpV6UbpqNBsMV0iBSTJlqZkK4N4ZVLI0dbwyz1rrnhfVoUoKYrzLG3AiQ/s320/garnish.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><p><br /><br /><br />Ok, notice anything funny about it? </p><p>-Like how the gross is over %1,000 for two weeks, but the actual amount of the check is $280? </p><p>Where the heck did all that money go? </p><p>Well, see - right there - most of it went to 'Garnishment'. This man, who has his kids, who is out of work for years, loses 65% of his unemployment to his ex-wife.<br /><br />Want to know what her gross income is? </p><p>Would it suprise you to know that she brings home over $100,000?<br /><br />You may say: <em>Oh, he just needs to go back to court to get that thing adjusted. </em><br /><br />Yeah.<br /><br />Would it suprise you to learn that he had been back to court?<br /><br />That in fact, his ex-wife SUED him for a 'violation' of her rights - because he wasn't paying the full amount of her 'support'?<br /><br />Would it suprise you that not only did the court not reduce his payments, but that it <strong>increased</strong> them?<br /><br />Well, if any of this suprises you, you just plain don't know how the game is played here in good sweet ol' New Jersey.<br /><br />So, I ask again...<br /><br /><strong><em>Are You SURE You're Getting Married?</em></strong><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://misformalevolent.blogspot.com/2008/01/m-is-for-mbtyiys.html">My Best To You In Your Struggles</a><br /><br />-M<br /><br /><em>Your comments and thoughts are always welcome, - and do please hit the ‘Donate’ button, if you can.</em></p>MisAnDropehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04002635532122273531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15311875.post-31940628329194969762009-10-09T13:21:00.006-04:002010-09-07T15:29:36.442-04:00D is for Die (Like a Man)Today’s statistical foray is into the field of 'Survivorship'. One key way that we measure the relative treatment and condition of the different races is by their relative survivorship over time – how quickly they die off as opposed to the average, and as compared to other races. Black men, for instance, are about 1/3rd less likely to make it to age 80 than white men, and that indicates to us that black men are doing about 33% less well in our society than white men.<br /><br />And the same logic reasonably applies to the differential in survival rates between men and women – a black male is 50% less likely than a white woman to make it to age 80, and about 35% less likely than a black woman to achieve that age.<br /><br />And it isn’t about race as much as it is about sex. Life expectancy at birth for black women has uniformly exceeded that of both white men and black men since at least the 1970s. More than your race, your sex determines when you will die.<br /><br />And the problem doesn’t start at the end of life, or even at age 80. Somehow disparities in being able to care for and raise males start in the very beginning of life. Already at age one, per the survival tables, we have 240 less males per 100,000 than we do white women. Apparently there is something it about white girl babies that their odds of living are just higher. Like, maybe we take care of them better. Oh you may say “That’s just boy babies – they die more.” But if they do, shouldn’t we do something about it? And can you imagine saying something like that about girl babies? 240 out of 100,000 may not seem like a lot, but extrapolate that out to our current population of about 300,000,000, and you find that almost 400,000 of today’s potential males are missing because they died in their first year – males that perhaps could have still been around if we could take care of them as good as we do white girl-babies.<br /><br />And by the time we get to the 20 year-olds, that number has almost doubled – with about 720,000 missing young men, men who might be around if we socialized and cared for our males the way we do women. But there’s more. Now we are getting into the work, marriage and divorce years. Men are getting married and then divorced, most often not by choice, and find themselves destitute, emasculated, enslaved and financially destroyed, and are also taking jobs that put their lives and health at risk - and the numbers start shooting up. By the time US men hit 45, more than 2.7 milion of them are missing. Dead. 2.7 million men in their mid 40s are dead who would be alive today if we could just do as good a job keeping them alive as we do women.<br /><br />And it keeps on going up. Without going into detailed age distributions, it can be estimated that over 10 million men have died who might still be around today at age 80 – if only we could have taken as good care of them as we do women.<br /><br />But instead we hear about ‘breast cancer’ and ‘ovarian cancer’ and ‘women’s heart disease’ and all manner of women’s ailments, and even more tellingly, our media is full of stories about women feeling ‘unfulfilled’ and ‘unhappy’ with their roles in life, and taking weeks and months off to renew themselves.<br /><br />Few and far between are the organizations raising awareness for men’s concerns – suicide, men’s heart disease, prostate cancer, testicular cancer, penile cancer, male breast cancer, workplace hazards and the like. Where are the stories in the media about men taking months off to renew themselves after half a life of wage slavery? There aren’t many, and you won’t find Oprah, Oxygen or HGTV financing a men’s month off to get rejuvenated either. You gotta earn the money and go do it yourself.<br /><br />So in case you haven’t figured it out yet, it’s a woman’s world.<br /><br />Welcome to the Gynocracy<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://misformalevolent.blogspot.com/2008/01/m-is-for-mbtyiys.html">My Best To You In Your Struggles</a><br /><br />-M<br /><br /><em>Your comments and thoughts are always welcome, - and do please hit the ‘Donate’ button, if you can.</em><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">(Data used for calculations in this article is from the </span><a href="http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr56/nvsr56_09.pdf"><span style="font-size:85%;">CDC’s December 2007 National Vital Statistics Report, Vol 56, No 5 United States Life Tables, 2004 by Elizabeth Arias, PHD</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;">, and also from the </span><a href="http://www.census.gov/prod/www/abs/statab1951-1994.htm"><span style="font-size:85%;">historical statistical abstracts of census data</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"> maintained by the US Census Bureau)<br /></span>MisAnDropehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04002635532122273531noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15311875.post-44022370262142455992009-10-02T18:44:00.004-04:002010-09-07T15:28:59.598-04:00M is for Moms - Reprise with some links...A reprise of a <a href="http://misformalevolent.blogspot.com/2008/01/m-is-for-moms.html">poem from Jan 2008</a> with some, but not all, by far, links added.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.news9.com/Global/story.asp?S=11098588">They</a> can <a href="http://antimisandry.com/abuse-dv/dayton-baby-might-have-been-microwaved-3155.html">cook kids</a> <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,413528,00.html">in ovens</a><br /><a href="http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/10/28/BRANDYBERRY.ART_ART_10-28-08_B3_DRBNMVH.html?">They</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Smith">can</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Yates">drown</a> <a href="http://www.chieftain.com/articles/2009/03/10/news/local/doc49b5fc97113ec491618082.txt">them</a> <a href="http://www.imperfectparent.com/topics/2008/04/13/mother-drowns-her-2-young-daughters-in-murdersuicide/">in</a> <a href="http://www.buzzle.com/articles/mother-who-drowned-her-sons-declared-criminally-insane.html">lakes</a><br /><a href="http://educate-yourself.org/cn/cpssantamariafosterchildmurdered29aug08.shtml">They</a> <a href="http://cbs2.com/local/san.antonio.woman.2.1103438.html">can</a> <a href="http://www.inclusiondaily.com/news/crime/mineanener.htm">chop</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_Gunness#Suspicions_of_murder">off</a> <a href="http://www.theweeklyvice.com/2009/04/mother-jailed-on-attempted-murder.html">their</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dena_Schlosser">limbs</a><br /><a href="http://www.smh.com.au/world/grandmother-guilty-of-starving-fouryearold-20090930-gbes.html">They</a> <a href="http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P2-763699.html">can</a> <a href="http://www.nbtalk.com/2008/02/09/mother-who-dismembered-babys-corpse-gets-two-months-under-house-arrest/">burn</a> <a href="http://bogbuster2.blogspot.com/2008/12/murderer-debora-farrar-green.html">them</a> <a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_13275378">at</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theresa_Knorr">stakes</a><br /><br /><a href="http://karisable.com/tinning.htm">They</a> <a href="http://karisable.com/noe.htm">can</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicole_Diar">smother</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Folbigg">them</a><br /><a href="http://www.schizophrenia.com/family/viol.html#suicide">Bleed</a> <a href="http://www.thestar.com/article/93846">them</a><br /><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cambridgeshire/8268632.stm">Dismember</a> <a href="http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/144836">them</a> <a href="http://www.open.salon.com/blog/lesh/2009/09/25/the_canley_heights_killings">all </a><br /><a href="http://www.citizen-times.com/news/02782173.shtml">They</a> <a href="http://www.datehookup.com/Thread-267430.htm">stash</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_Drexler">their</a> <a href="http://karisable.com/drexler.htm">sad</a> <a href="http://www.caller2.com/autoconv/newstexmex99/newstexmex319.html">bodies</a><br /><a href="http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-10594348.html">In</a> <a href="http://www.seattlepi.com/national/baby09.shtml">closets</a>, <a href="http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/rss/s_488308.html">behind</a> <a href="http://jezebel.com/5282201/woman-charged-with-murder-after-new-mothers-body-found-in-crawl-space">walls</a>...<br /><br />...<a href="http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=6160992">In</a> <a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/crime/Md_-mother-accused-of-murder-pleads-guilty-to-child-abuse-8227870-59066467.html">suitcases</a> <a href="http://savannahnow.com/stories/070502/LOCeoeMotherConvicted.shtml">grim</a>, <a href="http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS343&q=Caylee+Anthony&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=9SDESq7fN87j8Qb2j5VD&sa=X&oi=news_group&ct=title&resnum=1">beneath</a> <a href="http://www.navajotimes.com/news/2009/0509/052209momcharged.php">flower</a> <a href="http://thesop.org/usa/2009/05/21/mother-murdered-child-found-buried-in-playground">beds</a>;<br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waneta_Hoyt">They</a> <a href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n3_v48/ai_18020718/">begged</a> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/jan/28/ukcrime.childprotection">for</a> <a href="http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040718/news_1n18marie.html">their</a> <a href="http://www.nospank.net/n-q39r.htm">lives</a>;<br /><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1460074/Mother-confesses-to-third-child-murder.html">And</a> <a href="http://mensnewsdaily.com/sexandmetro/2009/08/18/and-another-single-mother-child-murder/">now</a> <a href="http://www.ifeminists.com/introduction/editorials/2002/0205a.html">they</a> <a href="http://badbreeders.net/2007/06/04/mother-charged-with-attempted-murder-and-first-degree-child-abuse-after-abandoning-baby-in-plastic-bag/">are</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Downs">dead</a><br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janie_Lou_Gibbs">Their</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesche_Gottfried">killers</a>? -<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_McCarron">Their</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Rendell">mothers</a>;<br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois_Jurgens">Who</a> <a href="http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0404/05/lkl.00.html">beat</a>, <a href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/sep/08091207.html">drown</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romina_Tejerina">and</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darlie_Routier">hack</a>;<br /><a href="http://catherinemacivor.com/2009/05/25/mother-murders-son-attempts-to-murder-daughter/">When</a> <a href="http://www.wyff4.com/news/14515260/detail.html">it</a> <a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=950DEEDF1F30EE34BC4D52DFB066838F679FDE">comes</a> to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deanna_Laney_murders">child-murder</a>;<br /><a href="http://www.lvrj.com/news/43688132.html">The</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marybeth_Tinning">mom</a> <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/1991-01-06/news/mn-10615_1_death-certificate">is</a> <a href="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/95468/one_year_old_child_murdered_by_mother_for_not_saying_">no</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reetika_Vazirani">slack</a>.<br /><br />But when it comes to the <a href="http://scaredmonkeys.com/2007/01/10/mother-throws-children-off-pier-to-send-to-heaven-aquittted-of-murder-charges/">court</a><br />And the newsreel we find<br />That <a href="http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/132716/Woman-teacher-s-17-years-of-sex-attacks-on-pupils-">men are the villains</a>;<br /><a href="http://misformalevolent.blogspot.com/2009/09/s-is-for-statistics.html">They think all moms are kind</a><br /><br />They little consider<br />The <a href="http://misformalevolent.blogspot.com/2008/10/t-is-for-truth.html">statistics which tell</a><br />That <a href="http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/pubs/cm06/chapter3.htm#perp">families</a>-<a href="http://faq.acf.hhs.gov/cgi-bin/acfrightnow.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?%20p_faqid=70&p_created=1001611491">sans-fathers </a><br />Are our children's worst <a href="http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/newshome/6089613/mum-not-dad-more-likely-to-neglect-kids/">hell </a><br /><br />So pray for our children<br />And pray for the State<br />Which finds women all saintly<br />And men, reprobate.<br /><br />Perhaps some day soon<br />We'll treat women like men<br />And not <a href="http://misformalevolent.blogspot.com/2009/09/s-is-for-statistics.html">coddle</a> those<br />Who kill most<br />Who cause Woe to Men.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://misformalevolent.blogspot.com/2008/01/m-is-for-mbtyiys.html">My Best To You In Your Struggles</a><br /><br />-M<br /><br /><em>Your comments and thoughts are always welcome, - and do please hit the ‘Donate’ button, if you can.<br /><br /></em>MisAnDropehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04002635532122273531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15311875.post-40572218599092831782009-10-01T17:59:00.003-04:002010-09-07T15:31:00.400-04:00E is for The Economic LullI can't imagine why divorce would <a href="http://www.thestar.com/living/article/577605">drop off</a> in bad times.<br /><br />I mean, if the problem is the evil, cheating man, then the solution is divorce, no? Bearing in mind that the majority (about 70%) of divorces are filed by women, then certainly, if the problems are violence, masculine stubbornness, male ignorance, and the like, and given a divorce system that makes men pay their partner's legal fees, divorce rates should stay the same.<br /><br />Unless, of course, it isn't about anything but <a href="http://www.thestar.com/living/article/577605">the freaking money</a>.<br /><br />I've said it before - <a href="http://misformalevolent.blogspot.com/2005/10/s-is-for-storm-warning.html">it's a storm of the spirit</a> - a moral storm, and unfortunately it appears that the majority of women lack a moral compass, and so therefore their partners, the men, are at great risk.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://misformalevolent.blogspot.com/2008/01/m-is-for-mbtyiys.html">My Best To You In Your Struggles</a><br /><br />-M<br /><br /><em>Your comments and thoughts are always welcome, - and do please hit the ‘Donate’ button, if you can.<br /><br /><br /></em><em></em>MisAnDropehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04002635532122273531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15311875.post-18628039347549437332009-09-30T17:34:00.003-04:002009-10-12T20:58:21.652-04:00M is for Men Are Good<a href="http://menaregood.com/links.html">This</a> shouldn't be a shocking message.<br />This shouldn't be a new message.<br />This shouldn't be a radical message that must be suppressed.<br /><br />But it is the name of a website that I just discovered, via 'Angry Harry', that details that exactly this message is being actively supressed.<br /><br />Go, start <a href="http://menaregood.com/discrim.html">Here</a> and read, and remember, <a href="http://menaregood.com/links.html">Men ARE Good</a>.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://misformalevolent.blogspot.com/2008/01/m-is-for-mbtyiys.html">My Best To You In Your Struggles</a><br /><br />-M<br /><br /><em>Your comments and thoughts are always welcome, - and do please hit the ‘Donate’ button, if you can.<br /><br /></em>MisAnDropehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04002635532122273531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15311875.post-21925606213038589082009-09-26T07:00:00.003-04:002010-09-07T15:32:04.829-04:00P is for Protect YourselfAnother problem that presents itself to men in divorce and separation is what happens when you lose you job.<br /><br />You can find yourself building up arrears while your ex collects 65% of your unemployment, and sues you, claiming you aren't searching hard enough for the next job. When you get the next job, she may sue you claiming that this job pays lower than it should have because you didn't do an adequate search. And the odds of being sued in these ways are high, because traditionally, the man (whups, the 'presumed higher wage earner') pays for the lawyers fees. So she's got nothing at stake.<br /><br />To protect yourself you need to keep a record of who you sent your resumes to, who you spoke to, and what kind of networking and investigations you did in hunting for your job. You also need to track salary information for these jobs (if available), locations you looked in, job titles and the like.<br /><br />And this isn't a joke - the burden of proof in one of these cases does not fall upon the accuser - the woman - it falls upon the support-payer; the man.<br /><br />It is up to you to prove that you are doing or did do an adequate search to the court, and show where you searched and how.<br /><br />I have been there, and I know.<br /><br />They want to see how many folks you contacted, if you followed up, and where the jobs were located, and are liable to parse this data closely. It's a big deal. And if you fail to prove that your job hunt was sufficient, then you get the joy of 'imputed income', which is where the court pretends, for its calculations that you are making your old income. (i.e. when the facts don't allow you to come up with your insane support numbers, just plug in the pretend facts that will help. Nice.)<br /><br />BLATANT PLUG:<br /><br />So to deal with this documentation/job search issue I use a job networking tool that has good job-hunt reporting, called <a href="http://anonymousdevelopments.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20Job%20Networking%20Assistant">'The Job Networking Assistant'</a>, from <a href="http://anonymousdevelopments.blogspot.com/">Anonymous Developments</a>, <a href="http://anonymousdevelopments.blogspot.com/2009/09/job-networking-assistant-v20090925.html">who have just rolled out their latest version</a>. The software costs a big $20, and automates your job search and networking efforts in a way few tools can. It autodials, generates professional-looking customizable emails, pulls up maps of job locations, tracks referrals, and a lot more. Upgrades are free, and revisions generally roll out every couple months. If you are a divorced person hunting for a job, this may be the best $20 you ever spent.<br /><br />The standard version of the software is available for download as a free trial - <a href="http://anonymousdevelopments.blogspot.com/2009/01/latest-versions-of-anonymous.html">just follow the link here</a>.<br /><br />Oh, and I get a big piece of the action, so do buy it and use it - it's good for networking, even if you haven't lost your job or aren't divorced or separated!<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://misformalevolent.blogspot.com/2008/01/m-is-for-mbtyiys.html">My Best To You In Your Struggles</a><br /><br />-M<br /><br /><em>Your comments and thoughts are always welcome, - and do please hit the ‘Donate’ button, if you can.<br /><br /></em><em></em>MisAnDropehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04002635532122273531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15311875.post-16551935284928658952009-09-25T07:00:00.003-04:002009-09-25T07:00:02.923-04:00R is for Reading ListAs new voices emerge, it is good to remember where we started from.<br /><br />Below find Youtube links for an interview based upon Warren Farrell's 'The Myth of Male Power'. Warren comes from a different generation than I, a generation that lived with more of the <em>positive</em> aspects of women's liberation.<br /><br />I live in a world where those aspects have been digested, legalized and are assumed. If a woman wants a job, wants to join the team, wants equal pay for equal work - she gets it, and has a legal basis for it, and legal recourse if she doesn't get it. But negative aspects of feminism have balooned, and at the expense of men, and few of the old inequities have been redressed.<br /><br />So it is very worthwhile listening to Warren - and remembering that since this interview, things have gotten much, much worse for men. Warren saw a brave new recasting of the gender roles that liberated both sexes emerging. Instead we have a brave new world of male servitude, second-class citizenry, and slavery, with women having all the options and men having all the state-enforced obligations.<br /><br /><a title="The Myth of Male Power - Warren Farrell - 1/19" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFtGwBsKgKs&feature=channel" rel="nofollow">The Myth of Male Power - Warren Farrell - 1/19</a><br /><a title="The Myth of Male Power - Warren Farrell - 2/19" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsKUzSIZ4P8&feature=channel" rel="nofollow">The Myth of Male Power - Warren Farrell - 2/19</a><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMUNiH1TMHw&feature=channel">The Myth of Male Power - Warren Farrell - 3/19</a><br /><a title="The Myth of Male Power - Warren Farrell - 4/19" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiE00oKo2wo&feature=channel" rel="nofollow">The Myth of Male Power - Warren Farrell - 4/19</a><br /><a title="The Myth of Male Power - Warren Farrell - 5/19" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi0GICUuves&feature=channel" rel="nofollow">The Myth of Male Power - Warren Farrell - 5/19</a><br /><a title="The Myth of Male Power - Warren Farrell - 6/19" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wir8dli6ZO4&feature=channel" rel="nofollow">The Myth of Male Power - Warren Farrell - 6/19</a><br /><a title="The Myth of Male Power - Warren Farrell - 7/19" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmmrN91eNWU&feature=channel" rel="nofollow">The Myth of Male Power - Warren Farrell - 7/19</a><br /><a title="The Myth of Male Power - Warren Farrell - 8/19" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G55DaiddZgg&feature=channel_page" rel="nofollow">The Myth of Male Power - Warren Farrell - 8/19</a><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngttw5uTDfU&feature=channel_page">The Myth of Male Power - Warren Farrell - 9/19</a><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wfPBdEcnIw&feature=channel_page">The Myth of Male Power - Warren Farrell - 10/19</a><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkg7jWq59A8&feature=channel_page">The Myth of Male Power - Warren Farrell - 11/19</a><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxxZk4YmeGg&feature=channel_page">The Myth of Male Power - Warren Farrell - 12/19</a><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4-lBpIho48&feature=channel_page">The Myth of Male Power - Warren Farrell - 13/19</a><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRXVOh-XZRE&feature=channel_page">The Myth of Male Power - Warren Farrell - 14/19</a><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJg3wfFEnek&feature=channel_page">The Myth of Male Power - Warren Farrell - 15/19</a><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5TPyeD0BHg&feature=channel_page">The Myth of Male Power - Warren Farrell - 16/19</a><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCSy8oVytrA&feature=channel_page">The Myth of Male Power - Warren Farrell - 17/19</a><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7Xeq-0pwNk&feature=channel_page">The Myth of Male Power - Warren Farrell - 18/19</a><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9EO0BNXbrU&feature=channel_page">The Myth of Male Power - Warren Farrell - 19/19</a><br /><br /><a href="http://misformalevolent.blogspot.com/2008/01/m-is-for-mbtyiys.html">My Best To You In Your Struggles</a><br /><br />-M<br /><br /><em>Your comments and thoughts are always welcome, - and do please hit the ‘Donate’ button, if you can.<br /></em>MisAnDropehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04002635532122273531noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15311875.post-9740830594305369632009-09-24T07:00:00.005-04:002010-09-07T15:33:40.255-04:00Y is for YawningDon't say I'm cheap. Even if I am. :)<br /><br />If you don't read anything else today, go read <a href="http://www.avoiceformen.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=83:yawning&catid=1:oarticles&Itemid=19">Yawning at Hofstra</a> at <a href="http://www.avoiceformen.com/">A Voice for Men</a>.<br /><br />Brilliant Excerpt:<br /><br /><br /><blockquote><em>Even with their neck planted squarely on the guillotine, if a woman’s hand is on the lever, the last words of men will likely as not be, “I’m sorry if I get your blade bloody.”<br /><br />Men are, it seems, the greatest masochists of all time. Whatever you do, don’t get between a man and an opportunity to excuse a woman for whatever harm she causes to others.<br /><br />You’ll be road kill in a nanosecond.<br /><br />And that is precisely what men are becoming. They are like dumb animals that wander onto the super highway of gender politics, unable to grasp the concept of speed and Mac Trucks. After getting hit, the ones who don’t get squashed flat simply limp off to the shoulder, covering their pain with a smile and saying, “Please, ma’am, may I have another?"</em></blockquote><p>Hey, look Hot Air is onto the Hofstra misandry too, with a must read article entitled: <a href="http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2009/09/23/making-children-of-women/">Making Children Of Women</a></p><p>Excerpt:</p><p></p><blockquote><em>We’ve come to this weird place in our history where women become babies instead of have them. It’s all about choices - but not about consequences. Rights, but not responsibilities. When a woman becomes pregnant, she can choose to kill the baby (or if you’re squeamish, terminate the pregnancy.) Repeatedly, </em><a href="http://www.stoptheaclu.com/2009/09/22/abortion-addict-racks-up-15-kills-and-counting/"><em>in one case.</em></a><em> Or she can choose to claim a goodly percentage of the man’s income for the next 18 years. Women have reproductive choices, men have obligations.</em></blockquote><p></p><p><a href="http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2009/09/23/making-children-of-women/">Read the Whole Thing</a></p><p></p><p>Related: Falsely accused Hofstra Senior: <a href="http://gothamist.com/2009/09/19/man_falsely_accused_of_rape_thank_g.php">“Thank God I Filmed It.”</a> Oh yeah, because clearly the testimony of one skank is worth much more than that of five men. Oh, Lookie! we have a name for the young (struggling for a new, appropriate adjective here) woman: <a href="http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS343&q=%22Danmell+Ndonye%22&aq=f&oq=&aqi=">Danmell Ndonye</a>.</p><p>Excerpt from The Gothamist:<br /></p><blockquote><em>The aunt of falsely accused Kevin Taveras told the Post that when Ndonye was split up from her boyfriend at an on-campus party, she and [Kevin] "started making out, and she said to him, 'Do you want to come back to my dorm?' He said, 'I have friends here with me,' and she said, 'Bring 'em along. It'll be hot.' It started from there. The point is she knew what she was doing... Stalin said to her, 'Are you sure about this?' She said, 'Yeah, sure, I want to.'" <a href="http://gothamist.com/2009/09/19/man_falsely_accused_of_rape_thank_g.php">(Link)</a></em></blockquote><p></p><p><br /><a href="http://misformalevolent.blogspot.com/2008/01/m-is-for-mbtyiys.html">My Best To You In Your Struggles</a><br /><br />-M<br /><br /><em>Your comments and thoughts are always welcome, - and do please hit the ‘Donate’ button, if you can.</em></p>MisAnDropehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04002635532122273531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15311875.post-38994360745315696852009-09-23T07:00:00.004-04:002010-09-07T15:34:41.954-04:00W is for Why D'Ja Spoze...There have been a number of articles on the much heavier impact of the current economic disaster on men than women. The <a href="http://therightsofman.typepad.co.uk/the_rights_of_man/2009/08/male-employment-continues-to-fall-exposing-harman-again.html">Rights of Man directs us</a> to a <a href="http://www.statistics.gov.uk/pdfdir/work0809.pdf">UK report</a> that shows the impact on married/cohabiting men is twice that of women.<br /><br />And <em>why</em> d'ja spoze that is? Why do you suppose that men are more than twice as likely to find themselves unemployed than women?<br /><br />Is there any chance that it is because many of the jobs women fill are entitlement jobs, government jobs, you-can't-be-fired-from-this-one jobs, and she-has-something-on-the-boss jobs? Make-work jobs and no-show jobs? Service jobs that require just a bit less, but must be done come heck-or-high-water? <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8Bo4Z6YJnhOPs7QjJBiiE6Wki40Fqs7y8uFGIw2kwo1dHt12Scy-dmiO3tfxjCpZeNdDnKhAbNNlroegx5_JrNdfEwpoAK9llYqCtqWLBqPIXYWMChnGh8pobgOhMlsjYhY5r_A/s1600-h/PayChanges.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5384266741861713682" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8Bo4Z6YJnhOPs7QjJBiiE6Wki40Fqs7y8uFGIw2kwo1dHt12Scy-dmiO3tfxjCpZeNdDnKhAbNNlroegx5_JrNdfEwpoAK9llYqCtqWLBqPIXYWMChnGh8pobgOhMlsjYhY5r_A/s320/PayChanges.jpg" /></a><br /><br />D'Ja Spoze?<br /><br />But as we contemplate <a href="http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpswom2008.pdf">the reality of numbers like those in the graph here</a>, there are others who say things like:<br /><br />"<em>In the early '70s, breaking out of the domestic cocoon, leaving their mothers' circumscribed lives behind, young women felt exhilarated and bold. But the more women have achieved, the more they seem aggrieved.</em>" Maureen Dowd in the New York Times, Sept. 19, 2009.*<br /><br />and<br /><br />"<em>Many women are being charged more in health care coverage, but as we all know, women are earning less. We all know that women earn 78 cents on the dollar to every men -- to a man [sic].</em>" <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-First-Lady-on-What-Health-Insurance-Reform-Means-for-Women-and-Families/">Michelle Obama</a>, First Lady <span style="font-size:85%;"><em>(Hat tip for graph and quotes - </em></span><a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/09/graph_of_the_day_for_september_4.html"><span style="font-size:85%;"><em>American Thinker</em></span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><em>)</em></span><br /><br /><br />If it is so terrible to be a woman, than why d'ja spose the real numbers all seem to indicate something else? <a href="http://misformalevolent.blogspot.com/2005/11/s-is-for-suicide-revisited.html">Why is it that 2/3rds of all male suicides are divorced or separated</a>, and why is it that that number is almost exactly equal to the difference between the male and female suicide rate?<br /><br />Why D'Ja Spoze?<br /><br />The First Lady should know better, but perhaps in the echo chamber she lives in, she can't hear anything but the vaporings of NOW.<br /><br />On the other hand Dowd is truly tone-deaf. She works in the news industry and should know that men are dying in the streets - but here she is wringing her hands about her ennui. Disgusting.<br /><br /><strong>Update: </strong><a href="http://novaseeker.blogspot.com/">Novaseeker </a>dissects Dowd and her <em>ennui gap</em> <a href="http://novaseeker.blogspot.com/2009/09/happiness-gap.html">here</a>.<br /><br />Brilliant line from Novaseeker: <em>There are more widows, Maureen, in large part because men die younger than women do, and die much more often at work than women do. It's hardly a romantic advantage later in life if you are dead. </em><br /><br />From my comment on Novaseeker's post:<br /><br /><em>Dowd is blindingly awful. How disgusting that she blathers on about her lack of happiness, her ennui, when 3x the number of men are dying of suicide as women, when men are dying earlier and in larger numbers from poor health care, when men's deaths make up 90+ percent of hazardous job deaths. </em><br /><em>[...]</em><br /><em>When we see black people dying in this way we attribute it to racism. I say that when men die earlier and in greater numbers, it is a result of genderism that fails to care for their needs, that drives them into dangerous jobs, and kills them off early. All while women like Dowd whine about their ennui. (spit)</em><br /><em></em><br /><a href="http://misformalevolent.blogspot.com/2008/01/m-is-for-mbtyiys.html">My Best To You In Your Struggles</a><br /><br />-M<br /><br /><em>Your comments and thoughts are always welcome, - and do please hit the ‘Donate’ button, if you can. </em><br /><em></em><br /><em></em><br /><em>* I won't link the NYT or Dowd because they live in such a world of propaganda, and I don't want to send traffic their way. Probably I shouldn't link Whitehouse.Gov for the same reasons. But you can find the Dowd link at American Thinker <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/09/graph_of_the_day_for_september_4.html">here</a> if you want to go wallow in it. I think you have to register to read her swill. But <a href="http://novaseeker.blogspot.com/2009/09/happiness-gap.html">Novaseeker has a lot of it</a>.</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>p.s. Welcome <a href="http://novaseeker.blogspot.com/">Novaseeker</a> to the blogroll.</em>MisAnDropehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04002635532122273531noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15311875.post-9535326205004953212009-09-22T07:00:00.001-04:002010-10-03T23:50:14.523-04:00B is for Back in the Slammer<em>"She called me, and we're going back to court" </em>related the lawyer.<br /><br /><em>"We'll make a motion, and the judge will go for it and he'll be tossed back in the slammer."</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>"And he's not a bad guy, he isn't mean or abusive, or intentionally delinquent, he's just out of work. He's a business suit kind of guy. A manager, and he can't get anything." </em><br /><em></em><br /><em>"I try and tell her that you can't get blood out of a stone, and that she's wasting her money on me doing these motions, but she doesn't care. Every few months we do it again, like clockwork. </em><br /><em></em><br /><em>He gets out, more arrears build up, and she gets me to toss him back in." </em><br /><em></em><br /><em>"You'd think the judges might 'get it' but they don't. It's the system. I figure eventually she will see the argument of diminishing returns, and then it will stop."</em><br /><br />There you have it. More or less exact words from a lawyer, about to throw an honestly unemployed man back into jail, for not forking money he doesn't have over to a well-heeled woman who can afford to torment him and keep him in jail.<br /><br />Yet another case of legal gynocracy. Peonage. Debt servitude. Debtor's prison. Slavery. You name it.<br /><br />And in today's economy, doubly depressing. More and more men are in this position today. Probably more than ever before. But the law says that the man is guilty. Guilty under all circumstances. Guilty until proven innocent.<br /><br />Fall late on your payments, and you are guilty of violating the plaintiff's RIGHTS. She has a RIGHT to your money, even when you have none. And not paying is a jailable offense.<br /><br />Remember that this is what marriage can be, and for many, many men, what it is.<br /><br />Back in the slammer with you now...<br /><br />Welcome to the Gynocracy.<br /><br /><a href="http://misformalevolent.blogspot.com/2008/01/m-is-for-mbtyiys.html">My Best To You In Your Struggles</a><br /><br />-M<br /><br />Your comments and thoughts are always welcome, - and do please hit the ‘Donate’ button, if you can.MisAnDropehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04002635532122273531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15311875.post-77721338215256097362009-09-21T15:59:00.003-04:002010-10-03T23:50:28.565-04:00M is for Manifestos - unpub<div>In the Men's Right's world, there are a lot of proposed Manifestos or Bills of Rights, and I thought it would be interesting and useful to bring them together. </div>MisAnDropehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04002635532122273531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15311875.post-73240202579714668742009-09-21T13:20:00.010-04:002010-10-03T23:50:14.533-04:00H is for Help - as in SHE Needs Help +Update!If you haven't seen <a href="http://lifestyle.msn.com/your-life/bigger-picture/article.aspx?cp-documentid=20968901&page=0">this article by Glenn Sacks and Ned Holstein</a>, it's time to take your eyes for a walk over to MSN Lifestyle, where they relate the story of David Woods:<br /><br />Bleeding from the neck from a knife wound delivered by his violent wife, David, a partially disabled ex-Marine is cuffed, and treated like a violent offender.<br /><br />Only when his children come crying to his defense, and - out of his presence - are able to convince a female sheriff's deputy what <em>really</em> happened, is he uncuffed, and the police begin to treat him like someone other than the offender.<br /><br />So what happens next? Does his wife go to jail? Certainly assault with a deadly weapon is a felony?<br /><br />No, instead the officers say that, "She needs help", and direct David to call the emergency mental health line for her health insurance policy.<br /><br />Those Police, Always So Helpful!<br /><br /><em>Bye Guys! It's Been Nice! Stop By Anytime!</em><br /><br />David notes: "Now, isn't that strange? When she had a fat lip, it was a felony and I was going to jail. But when they finally realized that she tried to stab me in the neck, it stopped being a crime, and instead it was a mental health issue."<br /><br />-And they think SHE Needs Help.<br /><br />No, I think SHE is getting all the help she needs.<br /><br /><em>Enabling, Misandrist Help.</em><br /><br />Howabout giving David and his children a hand, and locking this woman up?<br /><br />It is interesting that the wife here actually makes a habit of accusing David of criminal and violent behavior against her. Accusing him of what she is actually guilty of. Something I think a few of us are familiar with...<br /><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">And in case someone wanders by, and claims that men ARE usually the perpetrator, hey, it's time for a trip to the CDC, which just released a study indicating when violence is one-sided, women are the perpetrator 70-freaking-percent of the time, and when violence was reciprocal, women were most likely to have struck first.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://lifestyle.msn.com/your-life/bigger-picture/article.aspx?cp-documentid=20968901&page=0">Do go read the rest of the article. </a><br /><br /><strong>Update:</strong><br /><br />And don't we hear an echo of this in the <a href="http://falserapesociety.blogspot.com/2009/09/hofstra-false-rape-case-thats-what-we.html">Hofstra False Rape case</a>? The men's reputations and families were dragged through the mud... but the young woman? "Authorities have not released the accuser's name, saying they are concerned over her safety." -And; "Her actions and her demeanor depict a very troubled young woman in need of much help."<br /><br />Want to get really enraged? <a href="http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/crime/2009/09/17/sot.hofstra.charges.dropped.cnn">Listen</a> to the harpie feminist DA who claims 'no crime occurred', and seems to think the important thing is that they 'got her to admit the truth', and she somehow thinks that this 'put an end to this injustice'. How about <a href="http://falserapesociety.blogspot.com/2009/09/hofstra-false-rape-case-news-report.html">THIS</a> injustice? It is true that her community 'has real victims of sexual assault'. FALSELY ACCUSED MEN. How about some charges for the criminal in this case? (Hat tip <a href="http://www.misandryreview.com/">Misandry Review</a>.)<br /><br /><em>More Misandrist, Enabling Help for the Offending Women. More Abuse for the Men.</em><br /><br /><strong>Update Update: </strong><a href="http://www.mercedsunstar.com/167/story/1068479.html">Yet another example</a>? Merced cops toss an unarmed, legless man out of his wheelchair, removing his pants in the process, snatch his 2-year-old daughter, and drag him off to jail, all on the claim of his wife that he punched her in the stomach 3 times. But lookie lookie, as you read through, you find the wife not quite so innocent: "Police took Phifer, Williams' wife, into custody during the incident on an outstanding $10,000 misdemeanor warrant for domestic violence." (on page 3) Hmmm, any bets as to who was the real violent offender? No word on how many times they tazed Phifer. "Recounting the experience, Williams broke into tears. "How much resisting am I going to do with no legs? No feet?" he wept. "It's ridiculous what they did to me. How far am I gonna run? Where am I gonna go?""<br /><br /><a href="http://misformalevolent.blogspot.com/2008/01/m-is-for-mbtyiys.html">My Best To You In Your Struggles</a><br /><br />-M<br /><br /><em>Your comments and thoughts are always welcome, - and do please hit the ‘Donate’ button, if you can. </em>MisAnDropehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04002635532122273531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15311875.post-92210030968968516702009-09-16T06:00:00.002-04:002010-10-03T23:50:14.546-04:00F is for Feminized Field-DayFor some reason was thinking about 'Field-Day' the other day.<br /><br />Now, I assume everyone knows what this is, and maybe they don't: 'Field Day' is a day of sports activity held at the end of the school year for school children - usually K-6, back in the days before they invented Middle School. (Why DID they do that anyway? Just so they could have more administrative slots?)<br /><br />Anyway at Field Day, you did all of the different sports you were interested in - anyone could compete, and there were 'first, second and third/blue, red and yellow' ribbons for the winners from each grade.<br /><br />There was a 100m dash, and longer runs, and relay races, and the broad jump, and the 'hop, skip and jump', and silly things like 3-legged races and wheelbarrow races. It was loads of fun.<br /><br />Anyway, I now have my own kids, and attend and sometimes volunteer at the modern 'Feminized' Field Day. It is unrecognizable. First of all, it isn't held at a field. Not that no fields are available, it just wasn't that sort of thing. See now, at least for where my kids went to school, 'Field Day' is about social education.<br /><br />It is about 'stop smoking', or 'drug avoidance' or 'save the earth' or 'gang awareness' or something. And there is some limited physical activity, but all just taking kids through the motions of avoiding the ciggies and dodging the pusher.<br /><br />But nothing competetive. No. You go through the motions, and then line up for the next activity. Not that the kids minded hugely, it was a break from the routine, and they got to be a little physical, and get some of their energy out playing silly games.<br /><br />The first time I helped at one of these things, I was like, 'OK, what do the winners get...' and I got stared at. EVERYONE is a winner. We don't give out prizes. OOHHHH.<br /><br />Because competition is bad. Winning is bad. No we should prepare our children to live in a non-competetive world where the few who work take care of the rest of us.<br /><br />OK, Let me know how that works out.<br /><br /><em>- Oh, wait. We're living it now, - with an economy destroyed by housing entitlements and government control of industry and banking - and soon, if we're lucky, healthcare. </em><br /><em>...I can hardly wait.</em><br /><br /><a href="http://misformalevolent.blogspot.com/2008/01/m-is-for-mbtyiys.html">My Best To You In Your Struggles</a><br /><br />-M<br /><br /><em>Your comments and thoughts are always welcome, - and do please hit the ‘Donate’ button, if you can.</em>MisAnDropehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04002635532122273531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15311875.post-50774875104177243622009-09-15T07:00:00.003-04:002010-10-03T23:50:14.552-04:00S is for StatisticsBack in 2006, I posted a review of sentencing of men vs women by our courts entitled <a href="http://misformalevolent.blogspot.com/2005/12/h-is-for-happy.html">H is for Happy</a> (it was the New Year). I like sentencing stats - they reflect the actual functioning of the courts, and hint to us at the injustices that might be happening in other parts of the process.<br /><br />My intent was to discover if the evidence of our eyes was true, and if women in general were getting a whole different kind of justice when they went to court.<br /><br />The numbers were shocking - across the board, women were recieving much shorter sentences - about 40% shorter than what was doled out to men. And it of course leads you to wonder what kind of biases are occuring in the arrest, trial and probation phases.<br /><br />Well, I thought it was time to re-visit this question, and I found a nifty and huge government database to work against:<br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><em>United States Department of Justice. Bureau of Justice Statistics. Federal Justice Statistics Program: Defendants Sentenced Under the Sentencing Reform Act, 2007 [United States] [Computer file]. ICPSR24232-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2009-02-23. doi:10.3886/ICPSR24232</em></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><br />Apparently they turn one of these out every year or did up to '07. You can download <a href="http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/NACJD/">your copy here</a>, (registration required) but the dataset is kind of large, and unless you have a recent copy of excel and/or are pretty good with databases, this isn't fun. Happily, I love this kind of thing and so:<br /><br />I took the data, which is at an individual level, and first determined the average sentence length by gender: The average woman was sentenced to a 59% shorter sentence than the average man, with the average sentence (across all offenses) for a man being 57 months, and the average sentence for a woman being 23 months.<br /><br />If men and women are really committing the same crimes, this already givs us significant evidence of bias, but let's compare apples with apples. The database gives us the primary offense, and we can break the data down by that:<br /><br />The following list outlines, per the data that you can download and work with yourself, the percentages less (or more) that women are sentenced for the exact same crime as men:<br /><br />51% 1 Murder<br />43% 2 Manslaughter<br />37% 3 Kidnapping/Hostage<br />68% 4 Sexual Abuse<br />34% 5 Assault<br />57% 6 Bank Robbery<br />24% 9 Arson<br />47% 10 Drugs: Trafficking<br />50% 11 Drugs: Communicatn facilities<br />81% 12 Drugs: Simple possession<br />54% 13 Firearms: Use & possess<br /><span style="color:#cc0000;">(21%) 15 Burg/Breaking & Entering<br /></span>14% 16 Auto Theft<br />57% 17 Larceny<br />45% 18 Fraud<br />46% 19 Embezzlement<br />49% 20 Forgery/Counterfeiting<br />40% 21 Bribery<br />14% 22 Tax offenses<br />40% 23 Money laundering<br />62% 24 Racktring (includes extortion)<br />100% 25 Gambling/Lottery<br />41% 26 Civil rights offenses<br />51% 27 Immigration<br />43% 28 Pornography/Prostitution<br />32% 29 Offenses in prisons<br />60% 30 Administration of justice<br />117% 31 Environmental offenses<br />34% 32 National defense offenses<br />100% 33 Antitrust violations<br /><span style="color:#cc0000;">(253%) 34 Food and drug offenses</span><br />63% 35 Traffic violations<br /><br />And now it is possible to calculate how much less, on average, by crime, a woman is sentenced to than a man: 40%. Note that there are only two (2) areas in which women's sentences exceed men's.<br /><br />Now perhaps the sentences being meted out to women are appropriate, and those given to men are out of line. With this nifty database to hand, I can calculate how many excess years are being doled out to men per primary offense, and the number is.... for 2007...<br /><br />(drum roll please)<br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">142,036.17 years.</span><br /><br />Think of that, 142,036.17 years of productive male effort flushed away in the US court system just in 2007, - because men are not viewed as being as worthy of mercy as women.<br /><br />Think what you could achieve with an army of 142,036 men working for you for a year! Even if these are difficult, or slothful men, a lot could be done! But it is necessary to lock them away, because, as you know,<br /><br />...they just aren't women....<br /><br />Your comments and thoughts are always welcome, - and do please hit the ‘Donate’ button, if you can.<br /><br /><a href="http://misformalevolent.blogspot.com/2008/01/m-is-for-mbtyiys.html">My Best To You In Your Struggles</a><br /><br />-M<br /><br /><br />p.s.<br /><br />While I was in the neighborhood, and with the <a href="http://misformalevolent.blogspot.com/2009/09/w-is-for-worried.html">HBD/VDare/BNP/Bio-Cons</a> and the like in the back of my mind, I wondered what the stats would say about Blacks as opposed to Whites in the courts.<br /><br />And those who are Black do suffer from bias in some big-ticket items - murder (your average White gets a 7.3 year sentence according to the data, but your average Black gets 23 years), Manslaugter (Whites get a 23% discount), Arson (51% discount), and Drug Posession (75%!).<br /><br />But the balance tips the other way for white-collar crimes, and the sentencing balances out around 4% in favor of the Black Man if you average across offenses. Whites are beaten up for Embezzelment -75%, Gambling -296%, Civil Rights Offenses -181%, and the like.<br /><br />I guess that judges and prosecutors get 'fed up' with certain crimes in certain communities and races and sentence those extra hard, thinking that that will make a difference. Or perhaps certain crimes occurr more predominately in different communities, and repeat offenders get whacked. The data is there to parse that out if anyone is interested.<br /><br />It's also fair to note that the things that blacks are being sentenced with carry much longer terms than what whites get sentenced with, but, you know, I am running a <em>Men's Rights</em> blog here, not a generic <em>Civil Rights</em> blog. If some Civil Rights guy wants to dig down on this data, and isn't technical enough to mince the data properly, I'd be glad to help.<br /><br />Heck, maybe a grant could be written. :)<br /><br />There might be grant money for studying how the court system screws BLACK men.<br />(Bitter? Me? Nooooooooooooooooo)<br /><br /><em>pps - had a brain spasm and typed 'years' instead of 'months' as the units for the average sentences in the </em><em>7th paragraph above. This has been fixed. In years (for those who can't divide by 12) it is 4.8 years for average male sentence, and 1.97 for average female sentence. The ratio remains the same, of course, with women getting a 59% discount on average. The other numbers (like the excess years men serve) did not suffer this problem. </em>MisAnDropehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04002635532122273531noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15311875.post-67246090614215954102009-09-14T06:31:00.005-04:002010-10-03T23:50:14.563-04:00B is for BloggingI've gone to a nifty blog-listing tool on the left that gives you the blogs I link to in order of their last update, and their most recent post's title. Very Exciting.<br /><br />Also scary again to me how bloggers in the MRA world turn over, fade out, et-cetera. Saddening to look at a good blog that has been un-updated for half a year... Did they go ghost? Are they just up to their necks? (Usually the case with me). Did they give up ranting about the system - or just give up? Did they kill themselves? One wonders.<br /><br />-MMisAnDropehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04002635532122273531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15311875.post-32694067226406091712009-09-14T03:51:00.006-04:002010-10-03T23:50:14.567-04:00W is for WorriedAnother couple interesting elements in the emergent Men's Interests world are the Bio-Cons and HBD aka 'Human BioDiversity'.<br /><br />If I understand the Men's Interests argument of the former (the Bio-Cons), it is that there was something biological or 'natural' about the old social constructs - they gave 'beta males' - that is, the average dudes out there (and that means all of us at one point or other, in my opinion) - a way to succeed. One woman was bound to one man, and needed that man to make her routine work.<br /><br />Overturning the basic social framework with easy divorce, sex-without-responsibilities, abortion on demand, government supports for single motherhood, and governmental divorce structures that leave men destroyed and women empowered disrupts our society. Suddenly the nuclear family is less common, and men are avoiding marriage as women are running for their marriage exit and alimony/support check.<br /><br />OK, all of that is from my/a Men's Rights worldview, but try this definition on for size: (<a href="http://www.experiencefestival.com/a/Bioconservatism/id/1932661">Source</a>)<br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Bioconservatism</strong> (a portmanteau word combining "</span><a style="POSITION: static; TEXT-DECORATION: underline !important" id="KonaLink1" oncontextmenu="return false;" class="kLink" onmouseover="adlinkMouseOver(event,this,1);" onmouseout="adlinkMouseOut(event,this,1);" onclick="adlinkMouseClick(event,this,1);" href="http://www.experiencefestival.com/a/Bioconservatism/id/1932661#" target="_top"><span style="font-size:85%;">biology</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;">" and "conservatism"), is a stance of hesitancy about biotechnological development especially if it is perceived to threaten a social order.<br />Strong bioconservative positions include opposition to the genetic, prosthetic and cognitive modification of human beings in particular. Whether arising from a conventionally right-leaning politics of religious and cultural conservatism or from a conventionally left-leaning politics of environmentalism, bioconservative positions oppose </span><a style="POSITION: static; TEXT-DECORATION: underline !important" id="KonaLink2" oncontextmenu="return false;" class="kLink" onmouseover="adlinkMouseOver(event,this,2);" onmouseout="adlinkMouseOut(event,this,2);" onclick="adlinkMouseClick(event,this,2);" href="http://www.experiencefestival.com/a/Bioconservatism/id/1932661#" target="_top"><span style="font-size:85%;">medical</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"> and other technological interventions into what are broadly perceived as current human and cultural limits in the name of a defense of "the natural" deployed as a moral category.<br />Bioconservative skepticism toward biomedical and other particular technological developments often is, but need not always be, part of a more general technophobic perspective or critique of technological society. Bioluddism represents a more radical and sweeping anti-biotechnological perspective.</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><br />So whichever of those you go with, or some cross-pollination of the two, fine. And see <a href="http://thebetarevolution.blogspot.com/2009/08/how-bio-cons-are-different.html">here</a> and <a href="http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/013980.html">here</a> for more on Bio-Conservatism.<br /><br />But what worries and scares me is the HBD movement - Human BioDiversity - which is <a href="http://thebetarevolution.blogspot.com/2009/08/hbd-and-its-christian-bedfellow-part-1.html">linked</a> with Bio-Conservatism and which claims that the major differences between folks are not so much individual differences, but racial or genetic differences between major groups and genders.<br /><br />And even if that was true, the formation of a movement around this idea worries me.<br /><br />Because I think that HBD may often be a cover-word for racism - in fact, when you drill down on the bloggers involved, like <a class="external text" title="http://isteve.blogspot.com" href="http://isteve.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">Steve Sailer</a> and <a class="external text" title="http://gfactor.blogspot.com/" href="http://gfactor.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">Chris Brand</a> you start seeing that they are participants in <a href="http://www.vdare.com/">VDare</a>, and the BNP and the like. (For more reading see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_biodiversity">here</a>, and <a href="http://www.halfsigma.com/2009/08/david-alexander-gets-it.html">this post</a>, (<a href="http://www.halfsigma.com/2009/08/the-game.html">hm, <- this blogger also reads Roissy</a> - and studies <a href="http://misformalevolent.blogspot.com/2009/09/g-is-for-game.html">game</a>))<br /><br />Now I love my race like I love my gender, but even if we have good evidence that different races and genders are practically different, I don't want them treated differently by our country, and I worry that this is where focusing on this will get us.<br /><br />Our founding fathers here in the states insisted that every citizen be treated equally, and that is because that is the only practical way to govern a democracy, and the only way to recognize and honor the spirit placed in us by our creator. It is also a capitalistic and legal principle that allows the truly talented to actually benefit from the work of their hands.<br /><br />I want to fight for elimination of bias of all sorts - favoritism by gender, race, faith - our government should have no part of bias, and a revolution that enshrines our differences and tips the tables in favor of those who are seen as 'better' would create a new slavery, a new oppressed class, and set the stage for yet more revolution, chaos and bloodshed.<br /><br />Anyway, I'm worried. I'm worried because our country, and our world is in a period of stress, and some of these new social movements that are popping up and being linked to the Men's movement on the web concern me.<br /><br />I think men need to stay focused on fighting for their personal and group rights - if that means going <a href="http://ghostnation.blogspot.com/">ghost</a>, fine - if that means going <a href="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/06/going-galt-everyones-doing-it/?ref=opinion">Galt</a>, great (interesting how alike they can be) - if that means working together to break the logjam of of abusive anti-male government legislation - wonderful.<br /><br />But let's not get distracted by the evil-ly tempting specter of racism and bias, and those who would look to slide them into our movement.<br /><br />Your comments and thoughts are always welcome, - and do please hit the ‘Donate’ button, if you can.<br /><br /><a href="http://misformalevolent.blogspot.com/2008/01/m-is-for-mbtyiys.html">My Best To You In Your Struggles</a><br /><br />-MMisAnDropehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04002635532122273531noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15311875.post-22952456807193117962009-09-13T07:00:00.001-04:002010-10-03T23:50:14.575-04:00G is for 'Girl' ?Apparently when it comes down to balls, <a href="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2631482/Runner-is-a-hermaphrodite.html">Caster Semenya</a> has them.<br /><br /><br /><br />If you haven't heard this story, in a nutshell, here we have a world-class 'female' athlete, who was challenged because 'she' for all practical purposes, appeared to be a man.<br /><br /><br /><br />But that wasn't as far as it went. No, in fact, when push came to shove, here we have a 'gal' who packs two testicles tucked away inside her body, and has essentially no practical girl-parts at all.<br /><br /><br /><br />Now, I'm all for male-ness, and I think it is great that Caster is a guy. But in fact, she chose to identify as a woman. And mostly I'm also fine with that, too - you want to call yourself 'Wendy' or 'Sheila' or whatever and wear dresses and makeup sometimes, go for it.<br /><br /><br /><br />But when you aren't honest about your true nature in places where it makes a difference - potential intimate partners or sports, for example, well, that's another matter.<br /><br /><br /><br />I mean, who wants to discover at the point of groping, or getting down, or shagging, or whatever, that the person you are with is of a totally different gender than you thought, and has a completely different reproductive package going on than what you had hoped for. I mean that's just not fair.<br /><br /><br /><br />And one would think that by the time one got to the world-class level in sports, one might have noticed, between all the physicals and such, that one wasn't really a girl.<br /><br /><br />Not that the 'shemale sports' angle is new. Back in the day Russia was famous for marketing things as 'women' in the Olympics whose bodies had seen more testosterone than most men could ever dream of their wee lumpkins producing.<br /><br /><br /><br />But when you think about it, in this unisex world we live in, where silly politicians insist that genders be funded equally and have equal opportunity - unless it hurts the man - here is a prime example of a gender difference.<br /><br /><br /><br />Why do we segregate the sexes in running, in swimming, in the various physical competitions?<br /><br /><br /><br />It's because women, quite simply don't measure up. Our species is sexually dimorphic. Or in English - boys are different than girls. And not just in what we carry about in our pants. We are taller, stronger, faster, and for whatever reason, a bit sharper about practical things like geometry and math, when not held back by feminized schools.<br /><br /><br /><br />And if women want to have any fun - if they want to win in competitive sports, men and things that are genetically male must be kept out.<br /><br /><br /><br />Oh there is the occasional woman who can compete with the boys, and being all Aristotelean and stuff, these extrordinary women are often allowed to compete as an exception - at least at the high-school level.<br /><br /><br /><br />But men aren't allowed to compete in women's events. That just wouldn't be fair to the poor ladies.<br /><br /><br /><br />Because we're different. Because we're better.<br /><br /><br /><br />And that's good to remember, while the state, the workplace and society tilt the tables again, and again, <em>and again</em> in favor of the woman - it's good to remember that there's a reason. It's because they can't compete in a fair fight.<br /><br /><br /><br />Not that it isn't unfair to put us in the position that men find themselves in today.<br />It is unfair. Very unfair.<br /><br /><br /><br />But it's good to be different. It's good to be male.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Now - back to finding a way out of the gynocentric rat-trap.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Your comments and thoughts are always welcome, <em>- and do please hit the ‘Donate’ button, if you can.</em><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://misformalevolent.blogspot.com/2008/01/m-is-for-mbtyiys.html">My Best To You In Your Struggles</a><br /><br /><br /><br />-MMisAnDropehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04002635532122273531noreply@blogger.com3