Today is the one-year anniversary of the murder of dear friend and fellow men's issues advocate Marc Angelucci. He was a charismatic man, a mover shaker who did more than just complain, he got things done. He had a gift for expressing men's issues in a manner that rarely triggered those listening. In remembrance and honor, here's the fact sheet Marc assembled. Please share it far and wide. - Tim Goldich
By Marc Angelucci
FATHERS
Fathers have historically been denied equal parenting rights with mothers. The 19th Century “tender years” doctrine gave mothers presumed custody for children age 13 and younger. Even after being replaced by the “best interests of the child” doctrine, the “tender years” doctrine still thrived. As late as 1971, the Minnesota State Bar Association's handbook advised lawyers and judges that "except in very rare cases, the father should not have custody of the minor children. He is usually unqualified psychologically and emotionally.” Time Magazine, 11/11/03, "Father Makes Two,"
www.time.com/.../0,9171,1101011119-183968,00.html
Today, fathers usually ask for 50% custody while mothers ask for - and usually get - 80% custody, while fathers are relegated to visitors and must pay high child support with hardly any enforcement of their parenting time. The myth that fathers get custody when they ask for it 70% of the time has been repeatedly debunked. "Cynthia McNeeley, "Lagging Behind the Times, Parenthood, Custody and Gender Bias in the Family Court,"
www.law.fsu.edu/.../lawr.../downloads/254/mcneely.pdf. See also, Sanford Braver, Ph.D., "Divorced Dads; Shattering the Myths."
An Urban Institute study entitled "What About the Dads?" found that CPS case workers attempted to contact fathers of children at risk in their mothers care only a little over half the time. That was true even though they knew the father's identity in 86% of cases.
aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/06/cw-involve-dads/rs.htmFathers are also frequently subjected to false accusations in order to gain an advantage in divorce. The California State Bar has expressed deep concern about the rising abuse of restraining orders in divorce.
www.cafcusa.org/.../family-law-news_TRO_RO_Pages...
MEN'S HEALTH
The American Journal of Public Health (5/03) has declared that men are in a “silent health crisis.”
www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/9475.php Almost every chronic illness affects men more often than women. Men die younger and more often than women for the ten leading causes of death.
www.menshealthnetwork.org/.../TopCausesDeath2000.pdf Men account for 80-90% of homeless adults, job deaths and suicide deaths. Men more often have mental disabilities but are less often treated. They are the majority of special education students and are more likely to skip a grade or drop out of high school.
Men’s health has nonetheless been seriously neglected. There are 7 federal offices of women’s health and similar offices at every level of government but no offices of men’s health except one in Georgia. Breast cancer gets by far the most funding of all cancers, and has been known as a “horde” of existing cancer funds. In fact, for decades the National Cancer Institute spent about four times more on breast cancer research than on prostate cancer research.
www3.cancer.gov/public/factbk97/varican.htm.
Men’s Health Magazine did an entire story on how all other sources, including the Department of Defense, have funded breast cancer at far higher and disproportionate rates compared to prostate cancer.
It is frequently claimed that women were excluded from medical testing. This exaggeration has been refuted by Dr. Sally Satel of Yale University and others. Historically, women participated in 95% of NIH clinical trials going back to the early 1970s. Men have historically been underrepresented in research on cancer, reproductive health, and sex hormones. In the past, gender representation in medical research was approximately equal. Now, men represent only 37% of participants in NIH funded research, and gender-specific budgets favor women by more than a 2:1 margin. See this report by Men’s Health America.
www.backlash.com/.../2000/12dec00/acfc1200.html See also, Young, C., Satel, S., M.D., “The Myth of Gender Bias in Medicine”; Satel, S.: PC, M.D., “How Political Correctness is Corrupting Medicine.”
CRIMINAL SENTENCING
The most recent research on criminal sentencing shows that men still get higher penalties than women. Seattle Times, “State courts unfair to men, minorities, UW study suggests,”
seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/PrintStory.pl...
This confirms what previous studies have found, which is that men get higher sentences than women for the same crime even when all other factors are equal (age, race, priors, family situation, etc.), and that "gender differences, favoring women, are more often found than race differences, favoring whites.” (Crime and Delinquency, 1989, v 35, pp 136-168.)
A study published in Justice Quarterly in 1986 found that, for the same felony, being male increased the chance of incarceration by 165% (being black increased the chance 19%).
The gender of the victim matters as well. A drunk driver will receive an average of a 3-year higher sentence for killing a female than for killing a male (compared to a 2-year higher sentence for killing a white instead of a black). (“Unconventional Wisdom,” Washington Post, Sept. 7, 2000.) Researchers Edward Glaeser (Harvard) and Bruce Sacerdote (Dartmouth) examined 2,800 homicide cases randomly drawn from 33 urban counties by the Bureau of Justice Statistics and found killing a female instead of a male increased sentences by 40.6% (compared to 26.8% for killing a white instead of a black).
FORCED LABOR
For years, the Forced Labour Convention of 1930 exempted "able-bodied males" between ages 18 and 45 from the ban on slavery and forced labor. See Article 11 at
www.ilo.org/ilolex/cgi-lex/convde.pl?C029 Male slaves are frequently ignored by human rights laws and policies.
nationmultimedia.com/.../headlines_30034148.php Male slaves in China have trouble getting their slavemasters prosecuted because only women are protected from slavery.
www.chinadaily.com.cn/.../15/content_895414.htm DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
Male victims of domestic violence are systematically neglected, stigmatized, and denied outreach and services. But they are not rare at all. They're less likely to report it, which makes crime data unreliable. Virtually all sociological survey data consistently shows women initiate domestic violence at least as often as men and that men suffer one-third of injuries.
www.csulb.edu/~mfiebert/assault.htmHarvard Medical School and the American Psychiatric Association both recently announced a study showing half of heterosexual domestic violence is reciprocal and women initiate most of the reciprocal violence and commit about 70% of the non-reciprocal violence.
www.patienteducationcenter.org/.../HealthETopic...
pn.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/42/15/31-aA recent 32-nation study by the University of New Hampshire found women are as violent and as controlling as men in dating relationships worldwide, in both rich and poor nations.
www.unh.edu/news/cj_nr/2006/may/em_060519male.cfm...
Government- funded domestic violence programs, however, still discriminate against male victims of domestic violence. Some governments have revoked funding from domestic violence shelters for refusing to help male victims.
express-advocate-wyong.whereilive.com.au/.../supp.../# This is happening in the U.K. as well.
www.guardian.co.uk/.../domestic-violence-charity... Other governments, like the Netherlands, have set aside specific funds for battered men’s shelters.
www.amsterdamnews.net/story/464390. But in many countries, battered men’s shelters remain without any public funds.
www.dailymail.co.uk/.../First-refuges-battered...
The National Coalition For Men recently won a landmark appellate victory in California that held it is unconstitutional to exclude male victims of domestic violence from the statutory funding provisions or from services in state-funded programs. Woods v. Horton (2008) 167 Cal.App.4th 658.
www.metnews.com/articles/2008/wood101508.htm The federal Violence Against Women Act, though mostly gender-neutral, has provisions that expressly discriminate against men, such as the entire Native American section that excludes American Indian men. And the title itself stigmatizes and downplays the seriousness of male victims. We don't have a "Men's Occupational Safety and Health Act" just because 92% of occupational deaths happen to men.
www.bls.gov/news.release/cfoi.t04.htm And the Act has been implemented in a completely discriminatory way, as the funds get routed to state coalitions that limit the funds to women.
www.ncfm.org/chapters/la/gelles.htmlMALE RAPE VICTIMS
Historically, many anti-rape laws have expressly excluded male victims of rape from the same protections women receive. In England, funding for sex abuse victims is often denied for male victims.
lfpress.ca/.../Cityand.../2007/06/25/4287949-sun.html A study in South African found 2/5 of South African boys say they have been raped, “most often by adult women.”
www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html... A major study in Canada found high rates of homeless kids being molested, with 3/4 of the molestations of boys being by adult women, but there were still no programs for the boys, only for girls.
www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html...
Male victims are frequently raped in prison and the military, but sometimes are raped elsewhere as well, and not just by men. A student survey showed 43% of teacher sex abuse comes from female teachers but over 90% of prosecutions are of male teachers.
www.newsobserver.com/672/story/501955.html Many African men in Namibia are being raped and battered by women
allafrica.com/stories/200708210872.html Men are also frequently victims of “sexual coercion” by women as well as by other men. (Sexuality and Culture, Summer 2000.) According to a May 2008 study by the University of New Hampshire, 28% of college women and 11% of college men experienced unwanted sexual contact and the perpetrator was a member of the opposite sex 98% of the time for girls and 91% of the time for boys. See Table 1 at
www.unh.edu/.../2006unwantedsexualexperiences.pdf FALSE ACCUSATIONS OF RAPE
Almost every month we read of another man let free by DNA after years of incarceration due to a false rape accusation. False accusations are hard to measure. But studies show between 9% and 60% of rape accusations are false.
glennsacks.com/blog/?page_id=1334 A new study in India found 18% of rape accusations are false and are often "coached."
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/.../articl.../3910217.cms (These are not just rapes that were dismissed in criminal actions, but that were found in empirical research to be false.) The U.S. Air Force study found 60% of rape accusations were false and the most common reasons for false rape accusations were: (1) spite or revenge; (2) feelings of guilt or shame; or, (3) to cover up an affair. Mental illness also played a role. McDowell, Charles P., Ph.D. “False Allegations.” Forensic Science Digest, (publication of the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations), Vol. 11, No. 4 (December 1985), p. 64.
According to a nine-year study conducted by former Purdue sociologist Eugene J. Kanin, in over 40 percent of the cases reviewed, the complainants eventually admitted that no rape had occurred. (Archives of Sexual Behavior, Vol. 23, No. 1, 1994.) Kanin also studied rape allegations in two large Midwestern universities and found that 50 percent of the allegations were recanted by the accuser. Kanin found that most of the false accusers were motivated by a need for an alibi or a desire for revenge. Kanin was once well known and lauded by the feminist movement for his groundbreaking research on male sexual aggression. His studies on false rape accusations, however, received very little attention.
False accusations of rape are a form of psychological rape that are not included in the traditional definition of “rape.” And false accusations are not studied enough because it's politically incorrect to talk about. Meanwhile the names of the accusers are often protected while the names of the accused are not. For more information, visit
falserapesociety.blogspot.com/ MILITARY CONSCRIPTION
No gender oppression is comparable in magnitude to the deaths of males in war, which includes forced conscription. Over 20 million male soldiers died in WWII alone, about 500,000 of them U.S. soldiers.
www.hitler.org/ww2-deaths.html In the U.S. males must still register for the draft by age 18, including “only sons” and even disabled men if they can move about. Historically, a large percentage of men were drafted before they were old enough to even vote. The Vietnam Memorial has 58,000 male names and 8 female names. Males throughout the world are still forced to fight wars, even at ages as young as 6 in some countries.
People who say “men make war” are the same ones who find it sexist to say men make science, medicine, etc., as women were restricted from participating and still did contribute in many ways. The same is true of war. Women leaders supported and declared war, and women in the general population have supported wars at almost the same rate men have. E.g., 76% of women and 86% of men supported the U.S. military attack in Kuwait and Iraq during the Gulf War.
In his report, “War and Gender,” University of Massachusetts political scientist Joshua Goldstein
documents how women have actively encouraged military adventurism, both in modern and indigenous societies, and that in the face of imminent conflict, women goad their men into combat. In the Revolutionary War, women were known to withhold sexual favors from reluctant fighters. During the Civil War, Southern belles refused to accept suitors who did not take up arms. In World War I, British women organized the White Feather campaign in which they gave a white feather to men who refused to fight, as a sign of their unmanliness. Among the Bedouin, frenzied Rwala women bare their breasts and urge their men to war. Before the 1973 coup in Chile, women threw corn at soldiers to taunt them as "chickens." During the era of the Soviet Gulag, female interrogators were just as ruthless as their male counterparts in extracting confessions. In the Rwanda genocide, Hutu women played a major role in killing Tutsi men.
“Women of every social category took part in the killings. ... Some women killed with their own hands. ... Women and girls in their teens joined the crowds that surrounded churches, hospitals and other places of refuge. Wielding machetes and nail-studded clubs, they excelled as "cheerleaders" of the genocide, ululating the killers into action.”
African Rights report, Rwanda - Not So Innocent: When Women Become Killers, August 1995.)
www.gendercide.org/case_rwanda.htmlTHE "PAY GAP"
The "pay gap" is probably the most cited example of modern day discrimination and disadvantages for women. But the pay gap is totally misleading, as it is based entirely on raw numbers without any explanation as to the reason behind them. It is essentially a snapshot of average yearly incomes among full-time workers, but it does not account for overtime (about 90% male), the type of work done, or other important factors that, when accounted for, make the gap disappear. See Prof. June O'Neill, Ph.D. (former director of Congressional Budget Office), "The Gender Gap in Wages, circa 2000," American Economic Review, 5/03. Recently the Department of Labor funded a major study that confirmed the pay gap is almost entirely about choices, not discrimination. The study, with a forward from the Department of Labor, is at
www.consad.com/.../Gender%20Wage%20Gap%20Final...
In “Why Men Earn More, Warren Farrell, Ph.D. shows that there are 25 career/life choices men and women make (hours, commute times) that lead to men earning more and women having more balanced lives, and that men in surveys prioritize money while women prioritize flexibility, shorter hours, shorter commutes, less physical risk and other factors conducive to their choice to be primary parents, an option men still largely don't have. That's why never-married childless women outearn their male counterparts, and female corporate directors now outearn their male counterparts.
www.reuters.com/.../domes.../idUSN0752118220071107... Warren Farrell lists dozens of careers, including science fields, where women outearn men.
Women have more options than men to be primary parents, and many of them exercise that option rather than work long, stressful hours. For example, 57% of female graduates of Stanford and Harvard left the workforce within 15 years of entry into the workforce.
edition.cnn.com/.../BUSINESS/03/15/optout.revolution/ This is an option few men have (try being a single male and telling women on the first date that you want to stay home).
Blaming men for the disparity is misplaced. Research shows most men have no problem with their wives outearning them.
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23413243 One study found most working dads would quit or take a pay cut to spend more time with kids if their spouses could support the family.
www.cnn.com/.../US/Careers/06/13/dads.work/index.html Research also shows that parents share workloads more when mothers allow men to be primary parents.
www.usatoday.com/.../2009-05-04-equal-parenting_N.htm See also:
ABC News: "Is the Wage Gap Women's Choice? Research Suggests Career Decisions, Not Sex Bias, Are at Root of Pay Disparity"
abcnews.go.com/2020/GiveMeABreak/story?id=797045...
money.cnn.com/.../muphy_payact.fortune/index.htm www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23413243 THE "HOUSEWORK" MYTH
A recent 25-nation study by economists from Berlin, Brussels and Texas, which included rich and poor nations, found men do as much work as women when all types of work are combined.
www.slate.com/id/2164268/ A University of Maryland study found the total workloads of married mothers and fathers is roughly equal when paid work is added to child care and housework, at 65 hours a week for mothers and 64 hours for fathers.
www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article...
A University of Michigan study found women work an average of 11 hours more housework per week more than men while men an average of 14 hours per week more than women outside the home.
GENITAL INTACMENT
The male foreskin is a highly-functioning sexual organ. In a new study published in the British Journal of Urology International, scientists used fine-touch medical instruments on the male penis found that male circumcision removes the most sensitive part of the penis. (Morris L. Sorrells, James L. Snyder, Mark D. Reiss, Christopher Eden, Marilyn F. Milos, Norma Wilcox, Robert S. Van Howe, "Fine-touch pressure thresholds in the adult penis," British Journal of Urology International, v. 99, issue 4, p. 864, April 2007.)
www.sciencedaily.com/rele.../1999/03/990302063210.htm The full study is posted at
www.nocirc.org/touch-test/bju_6685.pdf Prior studies on this issue – which had mixed results – were unreliable because they were based upon self-reports of men who were either circumcised as adults for medical purposes or were circumcised as children and could not compare the difference. One of the study's authors, Dr. Robert Van Howe, explains that the male foreskin is concentrated with high-sensory nerve endings that are only found in our eyelids, lips and fingertips.
The male foreskin is also gynecologically equivalent to the removal of the clitoral hood, one of three forms of female circumcision that is banned by international and human rights laws. See Darby, R. and Svoboda, J. S., 'A rose by any other name?; rethinking the similarities and differences between male and female genital cutting,' Medical Anthropology Quarterly (2007), Vol. 21, Issue 3, pp. 301-323.
Yet infant male circumcision is still routinely practiced even though the American Board of Pediatrics has said there is no medical purpose for routine infant circumcision.
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