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Men Behaving Badly - Why?

Many males in western societies seem to be behaving very badly these days.

They seem to be becoming more involved with crime. They seem to be growing more dishonest. They seem to be increasingly hostile and aggressive toward others. They seem less committed to their partners and to their families. They are clearly doing less well in terms of their education. And they seem to be more pre-occupied with their own narrow self-interests than they used to be.

Why is this so?

What can possibly account for this apparent deterioration in the behaviours of western men?

Have their genes suddenly taken a dive for the worse?

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Work, don’t whinge, ladies

Herald Sun (Melbourne)
9 May 2008

Andrew Bolt

PROFESSOR Mark Wooden this week learned how shocking it is to tell people the surest way to earn more is to work harder.

Actually, that’s not shocking at all, is it? Common sense, really. Refreshing.

But not if you’re a certain kind of professional complainer. Then you gasp at the crass rudeness of blockheads such as Wooden. Literally gasp.

To illustrate, here’s a report this week from news.com.au: “(The) pay equity gap between men and women in Australia will not close until women are prepared to work longer hours, an academic says.

“Social researcher for the University of Melbourne Mark Wooden said men were earning on average 15 per cent more than women because they put in more time at the workplace.”

Quite true, of course, but read on: “The only male taking part in a National Press Club panel discussion about the pay equity gap, Prof Wooden’s remarks drew gasps from the mostly female audience.”

Gasps? Here were professional women being told of a link between hours and pay, and gasping?

I refuse to believe all these women, including ones as successful and seemingly bright as Minister for the Status of Women Tanya Plibersek, are actually so dumb as to not know that Wooden is actually right….(Full Story and Comments)

Daughter fails math test, so dad thrown in jail

WorldNetDaily
2008 05 11

YOUR GOVERNMENT AT WORK

Daughter fails math test, so dad thrown in jail

Pop gets 6-month sentence for contributing to delinquency

A northern Kentucky man is in jail today – serving a 180-day sentence – because his 18-year-old daughter failed a math test and didn’t get her General Equivalency Diploma, or GED, as a previous court order required.

Brittany Gegner, the daughter, says if anyone should be jailed, it should be her.

“It’s like I should, if anybody should be punished for this,” Brittany told WCPO-TV in Cincinnati. “I would way rather me go to jail than my dad.”

Even Brian Gegner’s ex-wife agrees the judge’s decision is absurd….(Full Story)

Fire-bombs, mugging and gang warfare - just what has gone wrong with girls?

[U.K.] Daily Mail
2008 05 12

Fire-bombs, mugging and gang warfare - just what has gone wrong with girls?

Melanie Phillips

Was this really what feminism was all about?

According to Home Office statistics, to be published later this week, crimes committed by girls aged between ten and 17 have shot up by some 25 per cent over a three-year period….There has also been a string of murders committed by girls, often sickeningly sadistic….

The Government’s claim that overall crime is falling, as this week’s statistics also reportedly show, bears scant relation to everyday life.

Such figures - even in the supposedly authoritative British Crime Survey - are highly selective or manipulated….

The number of women arrested for being drunk and disorderly has leapt tenfold over the past five years….(Full Story)

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