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From the beginning:
Infancy
The law forbids cutting a baby girl’s genitals, but. . .
- Doctors amputate nerve-filled tissue from a million baby boys’ genitals every year. 1
- They usually do not use an anesthetic.
- Scientific research shows that circumcision is extremely painful and traumatic. 2
- No conclusive research has ever shown a medical benefit of circumcision.
- The foreskin contains 10,000 nerve endings and 240 feet of nerves.
- Circumcision permanently reduces the amount of pleasure that a man can feel during sex, and can cause a variety of sexual dysfunctions in adulthood. 3
- Over 200 baby boys die from circumcision and related causes each year. 4
Childhood
- Infant boys are more likely than infant girls to be killed by abusers. 5
- Those who abuse boys are much less likely to be put in prison than those who abuse girls. 6
- When mothers hit their sons, they are more than twice as likely to cause injury as when they hit their daughters. 7
- Girls do slightly worse than boys in science and math. 8
- Much is being done to help girls in these subjects.
- Boys do much worse than girls in reading and writing. 9
- Little is being done to help boys in these subjects.
- Boys are constantly told that they must never hit a girl.
- A girl is permitted to hit a boy if she feels upset by something he said.
- Boys are less likely than girls to finish high school. 10
- A juvenile male who commits a sex offense is 46 times as likely to be arrested and charged with a crime as a juvenile female who commits the same offense. 11
- Teenage boys are four times as likely as teenage girls to commit suicide. 12
Early Adulthood
Higher Education
- Men are less likely than women to go to college. 13
- Men constitute 51% of the college-age population, but only 43% of university and college undergraduates are men. 14
- Many universities and colleges continue efforts to increase female enrollment.
- There are 65 women’s colleges and universities in the United States. 15
- There are 5 men’s colleges and universities. 16
Dating
A man is expected to…
- Risk rejection and ask for the date.
- Plan the date.
- Pick her up for the date.
- Pay for the date.
- Entertain her during the date.
- Determine what level of physical intimacy she wants on the date.
- Initiate that level of intimacy on the date.
- Take her home after the date.
- Call her after the date.
A woman is expected to…
- Show up for the date.
- If the man initiates physical intimacy too slowly for the woman, she is likely to consider him a wimp and reject him.
- If he initiates awkwardly, she is likely to consider him a jerk and reject him.
- If he initiates too quickly, she may charge him with date rape.
- She is very unlikely to initiate physical intimacy herself.
- Too slowly for one woman can be too quickly for another woman, and the man has to guess.
- When he guesses wrong, he can face rejection, or rejection plus a criminal charge.
Military Service Obligations
- All young men must register with Selective Service for a possible military draft. 17
- Even physically or mentally handicapped young men must register.
- Penalties for failing to register include five years imprisonment, a $250,000 fine, and permanent ineligibility for government benefits.
- In some states, a man cannot renew his driver license if he has not registered.
- 1.2 million American men have died in war.
- No law compels a woman to do anything solely because of her gender.
- Women are exempt from registration for a military draft.
- Even women who are Olympic athletes are exempt from registration, simply because they are women.
- Women who choose to serve in the military are exempt from combat.
- Women who choose to serve in combat may take only the safest combat roles.
- Women can attend U.S. military academies, and many become officers in command of men, but women still have no obligation to share with men the risk of being drafted in a future war.
Cancer
- Between the ages of 15 and 40, more men die from testicular cancer than women die from breast cancer. 18
Adulthood
Unequal Justice
- Men receive more severe sentences than women for the same crimes. 19
- Male felons lose their rights as parents.
- Female felons may go to special prisons and visit with their children overnight.
- Male-on-male prison rape is considered humorous. 20
Reproductive Rights and “Choice”
- 1.5 million American women legally walk away from parental responsibilities every year through adoption, abortion, or abandoning babies.
- The government goes to great lengths to protect women’s right to choice.
- Men cannot legally walk away from parental responsibilities (child support).
- The government goes to great lengths to hold men to those responsibilities.
- Many men who have proven that they did not father the children that they support are still forced to pay child support.
- How a woman got pregnant is irrelevant to the man’s child-support obligation. 21
- A married man is legally responsible for any child born to his wife, even if he is not the biological father. 22
- Some women who have had sex with underage boys and then gotten pregnant have been awarded child support but were not charged with statutory rape.
- These women have been rewarded for having sex with minors.
- Meanwhile, their victims are forced to pay the women who raped them. 23
Work and Financial Obligations
- A husband is expected to work unless his wife chooses to financially support him.
- A wife may choose to work or not; she is never expected to financially support her husband.
- Men work more hours than women. 24
- Husbands commute farther to work than wives. 25
- Mothers have more free time than fathers. 26
- The workplace rules over a working father.
- A stay-at-home mother rules over the home.
- All of the most dangerous occupations are predominantly male. 27
- All of the most physically demanding and violent occupations are predominantly male. 28
- Garbage men face a 70% risk of severe injury or death in a year’s time. 29
- 5,000 men die on the job each year, more than 95% of all occupational deaths. 30
- There are 6 times as many fish and wildlife inspectors as job safety inspectors. 31
- Laws and regulations protect women from merely overhearing dirty jokes at work.
Marriage, Divorce, and Family Life
- While the media claim that men are “afraid of commitment” and claim that many married men are abandoning their families, in fact women initiate two-thirds of divorces. 32
- Women initiate even more of the divorces among couples with children. 33
- The most common reason given by these women is “feeling unappreciated”. 34
- Men paying alimony have no right to receive anything in return — another name for this is indentured servitude.
- In disputes, courts grant child custody to women four times as often as to men. 35
- Women are more likely to abuse, neglect, or murder their children. 36
- The state enforces child-support obligations vigorously.
- The state does little or nothing to enforce visitation rights. 37
- Men paying child support have no right to receive anything in return — another name for this is indentured servitude. 38
- Women are equally likely or more likely than men to abuse their partners. 39
- Women are more likely to abuse their partners severely. 40
- Women’s use of weapons and surprise attacks makes up for their lesser strength and size. 41
- Services and awareness campaigns help female victims of domestic abuse.
- There are very few services and no awareness campaigns to help male victims of domestic abuse.
- Some states require arresting an allegedly abusive man, even if his partner objects. 42
- A woman abusing a man is considered humorous.
- A woman may legally murder her husband if she claims that she was battered. 43
- A proof of being battered is having placed a restraining order against him.
- The requirement for a restraining order is fear of a possible assault.
- For every 100 men who kill their wives, 75 women kill their husbands. 44
- Men are arrested for this crime 6 times as frequently as women.
- The average prison sentence for a husband killing his wife is 17.5 years.
- The average prison sentence for a wife killing her husband is 6.2 years. 45
- 58% of child abusers are women. 46
- 97% of those put in prison for crimes against children are men. 47
- The majority of child abusers reported to social service agencies are women. 48
- 73% of the abusers that these agencies choose to report to police are men.
- A man convicted of inappropriately fondling a child is 25 times more likely to be put in prison than a woman convicted of killing or maiming a child. 49
- A woman may legally murder her children if she is depressed. 50
- In some states, a woman can charge a man with rape simply because she was drunk when she had sex with him – she is not held responsible for her actions because she was drunk.But even if the man was also drunk at the time, he is still held responsible for his actions – and for hers.
- A woman may anonymously accuse a man of rape. 51
- The news media may freely report the man’s name and the charge against him, even if the charge is later proved false.
- In many states, jurors in rape trials are specifically instructed that a rape conviction can be based on the accuser’s testimony alone, without any evidence.
- Falsely accusing a man of rape, harassment, or paternity carries no punishment.
- A substantial number of rape accusations are false. 52
- A substantial number of harassment accusations are false.
- A substantial number of paternity claims are false. 53
- Men pay most of the income taxes. Women receive most of the benefits.
- Over their lifetimes, men pay twice what women pay into Social Security. 54
- Over their lifetimes, women receive 50% more than men in payments. 55
- 69% of homeless adults in the U.S. are men. 56
- There are more men without health insurance than women without it. 57
- There are several federal offices for women’s health.
- There is no federal office for men’s health.
- For every woman who is a victim of violent crime there are three men who are victims of violent crime.
Death
- 78% of murder victims in the U.S. are men. 58
- Men are 11 times more likely than women to be killed on the job. 59
- 14 men are killed on the job every day.
- Men have higher death rates than women for 12 of the leading 15 causes of death. 60
- 80% of suicide victims in the U.S. are men. 61
- Widowers are 10 times more likely than widows to commit suicide. 62
- Every 20 months, suicide and homicide kill as many men as the Vietnam War. 63
- Men are 20% more likely to die from prostate cancer than women from breast cancer. 64
- Federal funding for breast cancer research is 4 times the funding for prostate cancer research. 65
- Men die 5 years younger than women.
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