Sunday, February 16, 2014

Most of the Unpaid Child Support Owed is Owed by Poor Fathers


70% of the unpaid child support nationally is owed by fathers who are pretty much poor and it is largely a myth that men of all economic brackets are just deciding to not pay child support at the same rates. So in essence the Child Support Enforcement agencies often serve the creation of debtor's prisons for fathers:

"About 70 percent of the debt is owed by men who earn $10,000 a year or less, or have no recorded wage earnings at all, according to the Federal Office of Child Support Enforcement. Less than 4 percent is owed by men with incomes of more than $40,000.

And the poorer men are getting caught in a vicious circle. Their debts have become obstacles to getting licenses for jobs to help them produce wages to pay down the debts.

Recent research by the Urban Institute, a think tank in Washington, found that aggressive collection of debts played a crucial role in pushing low-income black men ages 25 to 34 out of lawful employment, the opposite effect policy makers might have desired."

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/19/nyregion/19support.html?pagewanted=print&position=&_r=0

Sunday, February 2, 2014

Married Men Spend More Than Double What Married Women Spend on Valentine's Day But Are Still Called "Less Generous"


Even though married men spend more than two times more than married women on Valentine's Day US NEWS & World Report makes a big issue about how married men spend less than single men. They also fail to mention that single men spend more than double the amount single women spend.

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/02/14/charts-the-economics-of-valentines-day
 

Men as Human ATM Machines on Valentine's Day


Men spend 75% more on women for Valentine's Day than women spend on them but we still aren't satisfying our partners. Why? Because we buy the wrong gifts! We just can't get anything right can we? Now to be fair the article and survey says that both genders say they don't get what they want for Valentine's Day but mysteriously they don't show which gender is the least satisfied with their gifts on average:

"A new US survey finds that on Valentine's Day, most men plan to shell out an average of $84.39 to romance their significant others. Women will spend an average of $48.13. That said, not many people get what they want when it comes to gifts.

According to a survey of more than 1,100 Americans from credit card comparison site CreditDonkey.com, 65 percent men and women will take their date out to dinner, 38 percent will buy chocolates, and 37 percent will give flowers. Problem is, the gifts don't align with what people want, the survey suggests."

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/valentine-day-men-spend-badly-article-1.1255572

http://www.creditdonkey.com/valentines-day-2013.html

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Feminist Keynote Speaker at Iowa University Says "Sure We Hate Men" 1974


University keynote speaker, feminist Robin Morgan says feminists hate men in 1974 and that the movement wasn't about equality but about women attaining power. The next time someone tells you the feminist movement had nothing to do with hating men you show them this.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/203132295/Keynote-Speaker-Feminist-Robin-Morgan-Says-Feminists-Hate-Men-1974

Before someone says she was just some isolated radical who had no influence over the movement please read her biography:

"Her 1970 anthology Sisterhood Is Powerful has been widely credited with helping to start the general women's movement in the US, and was cited by the New York Public Library as "One of the 100 most influential Books of the 20th Century," along with those of Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx.[1] She has written more than 20 books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, and is also known as the editor of Ms. Magazine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Morgan

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

The Man-Hating Club 1904

The Man-hating Club. A society for women-only in 1904 where men were excluded and the female members were forbidden from speaking to men or even acknowledging their existence because according to them all men were evil. Where was the evil patriarchy to break up this club back then?

The Man Hating Club by diligentpurpose