men

Recent research shows that just having women around, makes men healthier.

(These researchers could have saved themselves the trouble by just asking any woman, since most of us figure out their "finding" at an early age.)

A Harvard research team has found that men who reach sexual maturity in an environment with few available women are at risk of dying sooner. The Harvard study points out that its finding may have important public health implications in countries where sex ratios are skewed against women.

(Better send a copy to China and India, telling both emerging economies that the “stronger sex” can't do it alone.) 

The Economist tells the story of the Harvard research led by Nicholas Christakes in its August Issue:

The mere presence of women seems to bring health benefits to men.  

Partizane.  A blog owned and run by a guy who has the stated purpose of working for more women in government.  Specifically a Woman President.  Along with that little goal, I believe strongly in the continued effort to pass the ERA and I want to do everything I can to advance the human rights of women everywhere.

Partizane.  Enforcing civil discourse among those who disagree.

Partizane (fr) A weapon having a blade with lateral projections mounted on the end of a long shaft, used primarily in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Partisan (derivation) A fervent, sometimes militant supporter or proponent of a party, cause, faction, person or idea.

Partizane. era, a mother president, women's rights, primary reform.

Well, I've failed so I quit.

Yes, something is happening here and it ain't all exactly clear.   Damn

This place was intended to be a political blog and not a blog about blogging, ethics and how to treat your neighbor right.  Guess I was wrong but then maybe it was to be expected when I myself set the rule that all sides will be heard, none will be banned and gave folks an "ignore user" button.  Add to that my personal desire to elect women to positions of power, which I think has something to do with this place becoming me, ron and a bunch of caring women. 

I am not a woman.  Won't ever be.  Won't ever be a sister.  Won't ever feel how women react under pressure or pleasure.  All I can do for my chosen cause, is to provide a platform and some very often wrong male input.  I will never write a treatise on Women's rights but I damned sure will read everything Izarradar writes about women.  It is not my place to tell women how to be the women leaders we need.  Am I making sense?  Do you see the head games I go through with a blog somewhat for and about women?

So here we go again with a reset if you will.  I want eveybody to look at the header (those who haven't already left).  Ignore the cute hamster and the dancers and the puma you may not have even seen before.  What does the header say?

It's that easy in this country for the a sicko, raised to believe women are property.  It's that easy to show his manhood by popping down to the local gun show and then offing a few of those horrid women who didn't jump into bed on a finger snap.

I used the word I promised never to use again.  I had to in this case.

I'm writing this because I just read Bob Herbert's piece in yesterday's New York Times.  Herbert sees the misognyny that causes the shooting sprees and he links it with the insanely easy availability of guns in this country.  He also calls out all Americans for not being outraged, not screaming to stop the killing.

Back in the fall of 2006, a fiend invaded an Amish schoolhouse in rural Pennsylvania, separated the girls from the boys, and then shot 10 of the girls, killing five.

I wrote, at the time, that there would have been thunderous outrage if someone had separated potential victims by race or religion and then shot, say, only the blacks, or only the whites, or only the Jews. But if you shoot only the girls or only the women — not so much of an uproar.
 

I'm not so sure this is a hoax but it is an example of the "follow the leader" mentality discussed in another post.

University of Chicago student Steve Saltarelli is the president of an advocacy group on the University of Chicago campus called Men In Power. He believes the group will bring awareness to mens issues. (Chicago Tribune photo by Phil Velasquez / May 20, 2009)

 

 

 

 

Now that's using power wisely.  According to the BBC, activist women in Kenya are denying sex as a method of forcing men to get their act together.

Women's activist groups in Kenya have slapped their partners with a week-long sex ban in protest over the infighting plaguing the national unity government.

 

The Women's Development Organisation coalition said they would also pay prostitutes to join their strike.

 

The campaigners are asking the wives of the Kenyan president and the prime minister to join in the embargo.

 

Estelle was a fantastic person, as protective of men as she was adamant for the recognition of women's rights.  She approached the gender discussion with wit and science.  She died three years ago but stands as an example of someone who would have been a great choice for any Council leader.  Reading some of the comments on blogs, I found that she would be called a dinosaur - sadly many women have bought into the idea that any woman with experience, actions and intelligence is passe.

From the 70's on she influenced many women's lives - certainly mine as I was introduced to her while studying in medical school [not as a med student - not allowed in them there days]  taking courses to get a MS.  She was an endrocrinologist who told it like it is, I discovered, after I contacted her for some info on the thymus.

I intend to do a series of posts using her words and the words of others who knew her.  It seems that few women or men remember much of what the recent past was like and about the women that "were the change".  The following is from her obit - note how the attitudes of the DNC have not changed much.

Will men dominate Obama administration?

from Politico By LISA LERER | 11/15/08

Early indications that men might dominate the hierarchy of Obama administration have women’s groups worried, even as a growing chorus of advisers reportedly pushes Hillary Rodham Clinton for secretary of state.

 

“There’s definitely been a reaction to the few groups that have been named so far,” said Kim Gandy, president of the National Organization for Women. “I agree with those who are concerned that it would have been nice to see more women."