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Main / Not his body, his choice
Feb 27, 2011, 11:29 AM
http://blogs.babble.com/home-work/2011/02/12/husband-want-a-vasectomy-hell-have-to-get-your-permission/

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"What if every time American women went into pharmacies to get our prescriptions for birth control pills refilled, pharmacists required us to reveal our marital status, and then further required all married, female patients to bring our husbands into the store to sign a consent form before the prescribed contraceptives would be handed over?"



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But would it surprise you to learn that apparently, many doctors in this country REALLY DO  require men who come to them seeking vasectomies to 'fess up to marital status, and to then get their wives' written consent before the physician will perform the procedure? In some cases, doctors require a face to face meeting with a man's wife - in addition to the signed consent from her - before a vasectomy will be performed.

How did I discover this? Well, without getting all up in my husband's business by offering too many details, suffice it to say that he and I can now credibly report that this inexplicably retro violation of men's rights to privacy and medical autonomy actually does take place.


Amusing reading for sure with some of the comments.


Goodmen's project take on it:

http://goodmenproject.com/newsroom/are-men-legally-required-to-ask-their-spouses-permission-for-a-vasectomy/
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Main / Pets and dating
Feb 26, 2011, 11:14 PM
An answer to Kay Hymowitz's latest book perhaps?


"Pets as Bedmates"

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/17/garden/17pets.html?_r=1

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"EVERY night for the last year, Kathy Ruttenberg has been taking a bath, putting on pajamas, turning on CNN and getting into bed with a little pig named Trixie.
Randy Harris for The New York Times

Kathy Ruttenberg with her potbellied pig, Trixie.

"She's a great cuddler if you lie still," said Ms. Ruttenberg, a 53-year-old artist who lives near Woodstock, N.Y. "But if you're restless, she gets annoyed, and her hooves are very sharp." "


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"Most gentlemen callers don't even make it to the bedroom. One bolted when Ms. Ruttenberg, who has a total of 160 animals on her sprawling mountainside property, let a baby goat into the living room after Trixie, the pig, had already joined the visit.

"I thought he would find a little goat charming," she said. "But after the pig, it was too much for him. Especially as the goat, Iris, was leaving droppings on the floor."

Another date fled, after some wine and a soak in the hot tub under the stars, when Oola, one of the resident pigs (black, 150 pounds) charged and tried to bite him.

"And then, the last guy I had in the bed was freaked out by the rabbit," Ms. Ruttenberg said. "He's huge, and he got territorial seeing this guy in the room, so he started thumping and picking up his dish in his mouth and tossing it in our direction." "


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SUPER HEROES ARE REAL!

http://arvadapd.org/join-our-team/

Those cops did the right thing! Stop denying it you crazy wackos! We have to all protect society from angry punk kids drawing pictures!


:angel4:
/sarcasm

Only good thing is, this boy and his parents hopefully learn that the state is not your friend. At least I've seen this story posted on 4 blogs I read today.

In case the cops scrub the picture from their website:

http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/2193/screenhunter01feb231201.jpg
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Main / Re: "Running of the Brides."
Feb 19, 2011, 10:02 AM
Some great video on youtube of past years festivities...  :laughing6:

New York Minute: The Running of the Brides


Also, the title should be, "running of the bride-zillas".
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Main / Fatherhood by conscription
Feb 15, 2011, 02:09 PM
Interesting abstract just published:

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1761333

Click on the "one-click download" for the pdf of the paper.

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"Nathaniel, was a California teenager who became a father in 1995. The mother of Nathaniel's child was named Ricci, and at the time of conception, she was thirty-four years old. Nathaniel, however, was merely fifteen. Although Nathaniel admitted to having sex with Ricci voluntarily about five times, the fact that he was under sixteen years of age at the time made it legally impossible for him to consent to sexual intercourse. In other words, under California law, Nathaniel was not only a new father, but was also a victim of statutory rape. Nonetheless, in a subsequent action for child support, the court held that Nathaniel was liable for the support of the child who was born as a result of his rape. According to the court, "Victims have rights. Here, the victim also has responsibilities.""
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Main / Re: Birth Rape
Feb 11, 2011, 08:25 PM
Clearly its a conspiracy. The doctor and baby should be charged.
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Main / Re: Glenn Sacks on Joy Beher
Feb 07, 2011, 10:57 PM
I'll give Glenn credit for getting out there and discussing the issue I just don't think Behar and her ilk will ever truly take a non-biased stance on custody issues or gender ones.
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From Adam on the Men's health blog post about the F word:

"JenK,

You got any references for any of those claims? Honestly, it's obvious you've never spent any time actually reading popular feminist blogs and/or literature.

It took me awhile to come around to this feminism stuff myself, but I actually took a women's/gender studies class in college (originally because I thought it would be easy credits) but I actually ended up learning a lot. Probably the most important thing I learned was that everything I thought about feminists before was wrong. I know it takes some balls to open yourself up to the possibility that the generalizations that you're making about an entire movement may be misguided, or even wrong, but you'll surely be able to contribute more intelligent discourse to those oh-so-important internet discussions about men's and women's rights."

:laughing6:
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Main / Re: Nice review of Human Target
Feb 02, 2011, 01:25 PM
It definately was better in the first season but I'm still enjoying it. The chick cliches are in there but they do get "chastized" at times. Its one of the few shows I still try to watch each week its on.
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Theoretical rhetoric versus practical reality.


You mean:

Real reality rhetoric truthiness versus wrong hateful mean evil facist rhetoric
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I as a man have the upper hand only in the fact that, women still want to get married and I'm a 30 year old man that in many ways meets their requirements that in general has a desire to have a family. Except that I really don't buy into those values anymore because the law (legal and social-peer pressure) no longer serve my interests at all, let alone some notion of equality but those interests of women.

So yes, I prefer "self-love" than getting my act in gear to romance a woman. Whats the point? Odds are I'll end up divorced, my kids lives and futures uncertain (speaking from experience here as a child of divorce), a wage slave even more than now to the state and my ex/kids. All for a country that is increasingly becoming a police state.
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Galt, reading material to break any respect you might have left for cops:

http://www.theagitator.com/


To some conservatives I now sound like a raging hippie anarchist for not hero worshipping cops.
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"Director of the American Institute for Cognitive Therapy Door-mats R' Us"

Physician heal thyself.  :laughing6:
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So lately, the media has made a big deal about a bunch of police being shot at or killed. People are questioning authority or something....


I wonder why? Guy is arrested by cops and charged with assault and resisting, despite a big gash on his head. Audio has been released that should exonerate him...

http://detnews.com/article/20110130/METRO/101300309