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Has the standard for discrimination claims truly changed for NYC employers and employees?
In 2005, New York City passed the Civil Rights Restoration Act amendments to the New York City Human Rights Law (NYCHRL). Given the language and legislative history of these amendments, many courts have since recognized that the burden on an employee to establish discrimination under the NYCHRL is significantly more lenient than under both federal and state law. In Williams v. New York City Housing Authority, for example, the NYCHRL was interpreted to require an independent and broader construction than its federal and state counterparts, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the New York State Human Rights Law (NYSHRL).
The First Department went on to hold that in harassment cases, as in other terms and conditions cases, the burden on an employee is to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that she has been treated less well than other employees because of her protected status. The court then recognized an affirmative defense that the "conduct complained of consists of nothing more than what a reasonable victim of discrimination would consider 'petty slights and trivial inconveniences.'" The Williams court granted the defendant summary judgment because it determined that the complained-of harassment—which consisted of a supervisor's remark to the plaintiff when she requested shower facilities that "you can take a shower at my house," coupled with a second incident in which the plaintiff witnessed sex-based remarks directed at another employee—were petty slights or trivial inconveniences.
It is now well-settled law that the NYCHRL is intended to give greater protections to employees than both federal and state anti-discrimination statutes, and that these statutes must be read separately. The traditional federal common law standard for establishing a Title VII claim of a hostile work environment required that the workplace be permeated with discriminatory intimidation, ridicule and insult that was sufficiently severe or pervasive so as to alter the condition of the plaintiff's employment. The 2nd Circuit has described claims under the State Human Rights Law and Title VII as analytically identical. Williams stressed that it was not mandating a general civility code for employers and then went on to fashion the petty slights and trivial inconvenience affirmative defense. At the same time, of course, the federal "severe and pervasive" standard continued to protect an employer from liability from isolated remarks or occasional episodes of harassment in the workplace.
An interesting development in this area is the possible melding of these standards in actual practice. A trend has apparently developed where conduct that under Title VII analysis would not be considered sufficiently severe and pervasive to survive summary judgment has more often than not also failed to pass muster under the NYCHRL petty slights or trivial inconvenience standard. Perhaps this is because it has been determined, as seen in Petrosino v. Bell Atlantic, that in order to pass the Title VII threshold there must be more than "simple teasing, offhand comments, or isolated incidents of offensive conduct" which, unless they are serious, will not support a claim of discriminatory harassment.
In Mikhalik v. Credit Agricole Cheuvreux N.A., the district court determined that the NYCHRL would not apply where the chief executive officer showed the plaintiff pornographic images, made objectifying comments (including questioning whether she enjoyed a particular sexual position) and initiated sexual overtures. The district court determined these acts as non-actionable trivial inconveniences and then stated that courts have generally granted summary judgment for defendants when alleged incidents are sporadic insensitive comments.
Similarly in Short v. Deutsche Bank Sec., Inc., the First Department recently held that various complaints about a manager's conduct, which included allegations that he took customers to strip clubs, could not
survive summary judgment under the NYCHRL in a case in which the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission found reasonable cause to believe that the defendant had discriminated against the plaintiff and a class of similarly situated females.
Thus, there appears to be a definite trend towards granting employers summary judgment in suits asserting discrimination under the traditional national Title VII standards and the supposedly more liberal and expansive New York City standard. Has the NYCHRL truly changed the legal landscape since its 2005 amendments?


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Lisle, Illinois ~ Benedictine University's Police Department is the first private University law enforcement agency in Illinois to receive accreditation through the Illinois Law Enforcement Accreditation Program (ILEAP).
A team of ILEAP inspectors and evaluators, the Illinois Association of Chiefs of Police and leading law enforcement and criminal justice administrators granted the award in June after a thorough review of the department's policies and procedures, management, operations and support services.
The accreditation status means Benedictine's police force meets professional law enforcement standards and provides the most effective and efficient services possible, University Police Chief Mike Salatino said.
"I am very proud of the hard work and commitment made by all members of the department who helped us reach this status," Salatino said. "Our accreditation award now sets us on a continued road of providing the best services to our campus community."
The accreditation award is not the only accolade the Benedictine University Police Department has received. The most recent report by StateUniversity.com ranked Benedictine University as the safest four-year school in Illinois. In 2012, the department was awarded first place in the College/Campus Police category of the Illinois Traffic Safety Challenge, a program that examines policies, procedures, officer training, safety recognition programs, public information and education efforts, and enforcement and crash data effectiveness information.
Benedictine University is an independent Roman Catholic institution located in Lisle, Illinois just 25 miles west of Chicago, and has branch campuses in Springfield, Illinois and Mesa, Arizona. Founded in 1887, Benedictine provides 55 undergraduate majors and 15 graduate and four doctoral programs. Benedictine University is ranked No. 1 among the country's fastest-growing campuses between 2000-2010 in The Chronicle of Higher Education's list of private nonprofit research institutions, and Forbes magazine named Benedictine among "America's Top Colleges" for the second consecutive year in 2012. Benedictine University's Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) program is listed by Crain's Chicago Business as the fifth largest in the Chicago area in 2012.
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William B. Dunavant says cotton farmers probably won't see a lot of merchants "beating down their doors" to buy their cotton over the next three months.
But once November rolls around and the cotton market begins to learn more about the status of China's cotton stocks and whether it intends to conform to WTO rules, things could get quite interesting, he says.
Dunavant told farmers attending a cotton quality and marketing seminar in Memphis that he believes December futures could trade in a range of 44 to 52 cents per pound over the next several months.
What could push futures to 52 cents, a price not experienced by the nearby contract since early in 2001? "If China really becomes aggressive in issuing import licenses late this year or early next year, we could see prices move up significantly," he said. "So much depends on what happens in China."
Production and stocks figures for China have always been a mystery, but this year's numbers are proving to be even more puzzling than usual, said Dunavant, the chairman and CEO of Memphis-based Dunavant Enterprises.
"USDA recently raised its estimate of Chinese stocks 3 million bales to 13.1 million, an estimate that is angrily disputed by our people in China," he said at the seminar sponsored by Bayer CropScience and the Ag Market Network.
"They put the carryover in August 2003 at 9 million bales. Our people say it will be much closer to 6 million bales. Now we're not trading that number yet — we're not sure we believe it. But, if it is only 6 million or 6.5 million or 7 million bales, China will be forced to import more cotton."
The other side of the equation is whether China begins to conform to World Trade Organization or WTO rules as it promised to do as a condition of its joining the world trade body. That agreement includes the establishment of tariff rate quotas that will open the Chinese market to more imports beginning in January.
"It will take intense pressure from the U.S. government, the WTO and other countries to get China to conform to the WTO rules," said Dunavant. "They have been very good at circumventing those regulations."
But the key may be the potentially lower stocks numbers. "USDA is forecasting that China will consume 26.1 million bales of cotton or more than three times what the U.S. textile mills will consume," he said. "If China's stocks drop to 6 million bales, they cannot sustain those operations."
In recent weeks, Dunavant Enterprises has sold 40,000 bales to China for August-December delivery. "That's the first time they've been that aggressive in buying cotton in some time."
In another possible reflection of a shortfall in cotton supplies, prices at China's weekly cotton auction have risen from the equivalent of 51 cents per pound for base staple and quality to 58 cents per pound, he said.
China's stock reductions are occurring because of increased spinning and flooding in some growing areas. But other U.S. competitors are also experiencing problems.
Australian growers are suffering through a drought. "They just harvested 3.25 million bales," he said. "Our people say that unless they begin to receive rains over the next few months, next year's production could drop to 2.2 million bales."
India and Pakistan are expected to produce 1 million bales less than last year because of problems with the monsoon rains but could consume 300,000 bales more than the previous year. The Central Asian countries (Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, etc.) are also experiencing production difficulties.
"World stocks are getting tighter, tighter, tighter," said Dunavant. "But stocks in the United States are not. Based on USDA's estimates of an 18.4-million-bale crop for 2002 and a slight increase in domestic consumption, carryover is expected to decline from last year's 7.6 million to 7.1 million bales. That's still a lot of cotton."
That's also why December cotton futures have not risen to significantly higher levels given the world cotton situation. Although 52 cents is much higher than the prices of recent months, it would still only take producers back to the U.S. loan rate.
It's also why merchants won't be beating down growers' doors in the near future. "Merchants have purchased a lot of equities in old crop cotton that they have to work through, and that's why you won't see much interest in new crop until late November or early December," he noted.
Another potential detour on the right to higher prices could come from the commodity funds, who are currently 37 percent long in New York futures. "If the commodity funds blow out of their positions, the market will drop," he said. "The low end of my range (44 cents) could even be tested tomorrow given the close below 45 cents in December today."
Dunavant said he intends for his company to be long if the market goes below 44 cents.
"I think the market will go higher eventually, and the situation in China could impact how soon that happens."
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Monday, December 18, 2006
Project management: the missing discipline
Tom Mochal, writing for Tech Republic, has a good piece on why organizations fail at project management. His top reason? Organization don't know how to implement culture change. He writes:Most organizations don't know how to manage culture change in general and project management in particular. You can't just train people and turn them loose. You can't just buy MS Project and turn people loose. You have to have a long-term, multi-faceted approach to managing culture change. It takes hard work and resources. Most organizations aren't committed to focus on the culture change long-term, and they don't want to spend any resources to do it. Is it any wonder then, that six months later, project management deployment ends up in the trash pile of culture change initiatives that have all failed in the past?I would state Tom's reason more generally: project management and change management are not well-developed disciplines in many organizations. Through many years of experience, most managers are good at managing day-to-day operations. The most successful are good at budgeting, hiring, motivating subordinates, maintaining relationships, organizing the work, and managing performance--in other words, all the things it takes to keep a functional group operating effectively.
But what happens when an organization is undergoing change? The skills that are needed to manage ongoing operations are not the same as those needed to change those operations. For example, managers who only work with day-to-day operations probably do not have basic project management skills such as defining objectives, breaking down the project into discrete tasks and activities, planning and estimating costs and schedules, identifying the critical path, analyzing risks, and developing contingency plans.
Why ERP initiatives fail
This explains why many enterprise system projects such as ERP fail. Although selecting the wrong system is a sure fire path to disaster, ERP projects generally do not fail because of software problems. ERP initiatives fail because organizations think that ERP is a computer project. But ERP's use of computers does not make ERP a computer project. It is an organizational change initiative. If successful, it will change how many groups and individuals do their jobs.
After hearing war stories from other companies with ERP, executives may understand that ERP projects are difficult to manage. But many do not understand that project management, as Mochal points out, is more than just a set of tools such as MS Project. It is about dealing with the human and cultural issues surrounding change and getting people to accept and implement change. It also takes special skills in change management such as recognizing cultural and political impediments to change, identifying organizational incentives that encourage wrong behavior, team building, negotiating, and resolving conflicts--skills that many otherwise good managers do not have, because they do not have to lead the effort for change very often.
How can an organization be successful in project management? First, by recognizing that project management is not a core skill of most managers and appreciating the change management aspects of project management, as I've pointed out. Second, by treating project management as a formal discipline within the organization.
The project management office
Many companies elevate project management as a discipline by establishing a project management office (PMO). The PMO can function as a center-of-excellence: training, advising, and coaching line-of-business managers in project management. Or, it can function as a home for the project managers themselves, assigning project managers to projects in the business units as needed. Or, it can be a combination of the two.
Regardless of how the PMO is organized, the main point is that project management, including the cultural elements of change management, must be recognized and developed as a key discipline in the organization.
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Thursday, December 14, 2006
Has spam volume doubled, or does it just seem so?
A quick check of my spam folder over the past two or three months reveals a whole lot more spam than I was getting earlier this year. Promotion of penny stocks seems to be a recurring them, sometimes with ten or more spam messages promoting the same pump-and-dump scheme.
We've known that botnets (highjacking of thousands of individual PCs into a network of drones) has been growing as a channel for spam distribution. Now, it appears that a new trojan, dubbed "SpamThru," has commandeered over 70,000 PCs into another botnet, under direction of Russian hackers.
But whether the volume of spam has increased, or merely the percentage that evade spam filters, is an open question. Ferris Research, quoted in a Datamation article, believes that spam volume only increased 20% in the fourth quarter of 2006 to date, while the percentage reaching the inbox doubled. Techniques being used by the more sophisticated botnets include use of images instead of text and more compliant response to recipient mail server requests for greylisting.
Unfortunately, spam volume is unlikely to decrease as long as the economic incentives are there. Spam costs very little to send, and even if only a tiny percentage of recipients respond, a penny stock scam can still pay off to the spammer.
The soon-to-be-results of a Computer Economics survey on IT security threats shows that of all categories of threats, IT security personnel consider spam as one of the most serious.
Like the war on terror, it may never be possible to declare total victory in the war on spam. But it is possible to minimize its impact. A recent Computer Economics study surveys the relative effectiveness of four types of spam-blocking solutions.by Frank Scavo, 12/14/2006 11:20:00 AM | permalink | e-mail this!
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Monday, December 11, 2006
Rumor mill: Oracle looking at JDA/Manugistics?
Take this one with a grain of salt. A Spectator reader tells me that he has heard from two unrelated sources that Oracle may be looking to acquire retail industry software vendor JDA.
If you've been following M&A market you know that about eight months ago JDA acquired Manugistics, one of the leaders in the supply chain management space. My source also tells says that he has first-hand knowledge of dissatisfaction among ex-Manugistics sales reps.
Would such a deal make sense? In its battle agains SAP, yes. A JDA deal would give Oracle one of the leaders in the retail industry, complementing its Retek acquisition and countering SAP's nascent development in this industry. It would also give Oracle one of the strongest players in the supply chain management space, countering SAP's gains with its APO system.
If you've got any confirmation of this rumor, or a contrary thought, leave a comment or drop me an email.
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Wednesday, December 06, 2006
Comparing Oracle's on-demand business with Salesforce.com's
Salesforce.com is the vendor most often identified with the trend toward software-as-a-service (SaaS), otherwise known as software on-demand. But in terms of size, it would appear that Oracle has surpassed Salesforce.com in the on-demand segment. This is a recent development that has only come about through Oracle's acquisition of Siebel, and its on-demand offerings, which complement Oracle's own work in the on-demand segment and its offering of its other products through the on-demand deployment offering.
Let's look at the numbers. Earlier this month, Oracle claimed over 2,200 customers with 1.7 million users of its various on-demand offerings. In the most recent quarter, this segment of Oracle's business generated $125 million, nearly 50% higher than the same quarter last year.
Last month, at Oracle's OpenWorld conference, CEO Larry Ellison claimed that Oracle's on-demand business is the same size as that of Salesforce.com. Actually, Larry was being conservative. If Oracle's quarterly revenue from its on-demand business was $125 last quarter, that would put it ahead of Salesforce.com, which has trailing 12 month revenues of $444 million, or $111 million per quarter. Furthermore, Oracle does not count license fees in its on-demand revenue numbers, whereas Salesforce.com's revenues are "all-in" numbers.
Part of the reason that Oracle is not recognized as much as an on-demand leader is that it gets there through a number of on-demand offerings, whereas Salesforce.com basically does it with a single offering. Oracle's offerings include:
Computerworld has an edited transcript of an interview with Juergen Rottler, head of Oracle's on-demand operations that gives more insight into what Oracle is doing with software-as-a-service.
- Oracle's traditional E-Business Suite, which it offers as a single-tenant hosted offering in its own data center in Austin, TX
- Oracle On Demand for Siebel CRM, which is a hosted deployment of Siebel's traditional CRM system
- Siebel CRM On Demand, which is its multi-tenant offering, similar to Salesforce.com's
- PeopleSoft Enterprise On Demand, a hosted version of PeopleSoft's Enterprise system
- A set of retail on-demand offerings, including hosted versions of Retek, ProfitLogic, and G-Log logistics
An interesting point from the Rottler interview: Oracle claims that large Fortune 100 companies showing more of an interest recently in Oracle's on-demand offerings, which are often thought of as having greatest appeal for small companies. If large companies are increasing their adoption rate, it shows that large firms must feel there is a strong business case for SaaS.
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Tuesday, December 05, 2006
Payback begins from SAP's Netweaver strategy
SAP is beginning to reap the benefits of its service-oriented architecture (SOA), dubbed Netweaver. This week, SAP released the first group of enhancements to its mySAP 2005 system. The enhancements include new upgrades to SAP's human capital management (HCM) and financial modules, along with new functionality for the retail and manufacturing industries. The benefit to customers? The new enhancements can be applied piecemeal.
Previously, SAP rolled out major new functionality only once every 12-18 months as part of an across-the-board version upgrade. The problem with this approach, which is fairly standard among ERP vendors, is that it requires a major implementation effort on the customer's side. If the customer is only interested in a single enhancement--too bad. The new version must be implemented in its entirety, "all or nothing."
The new approach, which lets customers pick and choose which enhancements to apply, is made possible by SAP's Netweaver platform. A service-oriented architecture reorganizes system functionality into "services" which interact with one another by means of messages built on open industry standards.
SAP isn't the first to market with this approach. IFS has been building its IFS Applications products on a service-oriented architecture since the late 1990s, although it referred to it as a component-based architecture until recently. Nevertheless, SAPs market share is many times larger than SAP's and its practical application of SOA raises the bar for other major vendors. Oracle is also rearchitecting its applications for SOA, using its Fusion middleware, but I don't believe it is yet able to release new versions incrementally as SAP has done this week.
Computerworld has more on SAP's enhancements released this week.
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Friday, December 01, 2006
New federal rules for discovery of electronically stored information (ESI)
Amendments to the Federal Rules for Civil Procedure (FRCP) take effect today that include major changes regarding how companies must produce electronic information during discovery proceedings of civil litigation.
The new rules now explicitly identify "electronically stored information" (ESI) as a distinct category of discoverable information, separate from "documents." The rules dictate what the parties do during discovery to identify and produce ESI.
Nossaman Litigation has an excellent bulletin summarizing the changes from a legal perspective. I would also recommend this summary from Morgan Lewis Resources, on the impact of the changes. Morgan Lewis's document categorizes the new rules as follows:The eDiscovery amendments cover five areas:I see very little in the technology press about these amendments. John Soat at Information Week has been following the issue, but most others have not.
- Parties [to the litigation] must meet and confer early to address issues relating to eDiscovery, including the form and preservation of electronically stored information, the problems of reviewing the electronically stored information, and assertion of privilege.
- Electronically stored information that is not "reasonably accessible" does not have to be produced, unless the requesting party can show good cause.
- In limited circumstances, a claim of privilege may be asserted if a party inadvertently produces electronically stored information that is potentially privileged. The producing party may require the return, sequestration, or destruction of the information pending resolution of the privilege claim.
- Any review of business records conducted in response to interrogatories must now include searches of electronically stored information. "Electronically stored information" is specifically distinguished from "documents" or "things."
- A safe harbor from sanctions is available when "despite reasonable steps to preserve discoverable information" electronically stored information is lost as a result of routine computer operations.
I believe that the new rules will have a major impact on IT organizations. Many CIOs are not yet aware of these new regulations. The definition of ESI includes all kinds of information--unstructured data such as voicemail messages, email, and images, as well as structured information such as database records. There are major implications for how companies manage backup media and disaster recovery storage. The rules do seem to cut some slack in cases where electronic information is too difficult to product--but I don't see anything in the rules that lets small companies off the hook.
And all this is taking place at a time when storage management disciplines in companies are actually declining.
One thing is for certain: this spells big business for storage vendors and vendors of information management solutions. And lawyers.by Frank Scavo, 12/01/2006 07:09:00 AM | permalink | e-mail this!
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Why is solar doing so well in Germany? Q-Cells is a sample beneficiary of public support for renewable energy that is far better in Germany than what we have in the United States. One part of our lagging support is direct R&D investment. During my presentation yesterday I showed a chart from a paper of one of our partners, David Mowery, showing the literally invisible chunk of US federal R&D spending devoted to energy - about $3 billion a year in 2006, for all energy research, including under $70 million for carbon capture and sequestration. Less than one-tenth of the already small amount of $3 billion goes to all forms of renewable energy in the US.
But another piece of the story is procurement.
At the heart of the debate is the Renewable Energy Sources Act. It requires power companies to buy all the alternative energy produced by these systems, at a fixed above-market price, for 20 years.
This mechanism, known as a feed-in tariff, gives entrepreneurs a powerful incentive to install solar panels. With a locked-in customer base for their electricity, they can earn a reliable return on their investment. It has worked: homeowners rushed to clamp solar panels on their roofs and farmers planted them in fields where sheep once grazed.
The amount of electricity generated by these installations rose 60 percent in 2007 compared with 2006, faster than any other renewable energy (solar still generates just 0.6 percent of Germany's total electricity, compared with 6.4 percent for wind).
Solar has been hurt for 25 years by "market failure" - the failure of markets to provide financial returns that support socially-desirable investment. Germany has overcome solar market failure as well as anyone. Even as the Merkel government proposes undoing this, the US should implement its own versions of feed-in tariffs that will support consumer switching.


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Fame allowed Coronation Street star William Roache to carry out sex attacks on young girls and silence his victims for decades, a court has heard.
Roache, as an actor playing Ken Barlow in the ITV soap watched by millions of TV fans, had the opportunity to prey on his victims and his stardom was one reason none of his young victims spoke of the abuse, it was alleged.
Roache, 81, denies five counts of indecent assault and two counts of rape involving five girls aged between 11 or 12 and 16. The offences are said to have occurred between 1965 and 1971.
He sat in the dock listening intently as his trial began at Preston Crown Court.
Anne Whyte QC, opening the case for the prosecution, told the jury of eight women and four men they were "bound to know" the defendant is a household name.
"It would be artificial to suggest that this fact should be divorced from this case because it cannot be," she said.
"You may well conclude by the end of this trial that William Roache's fame and popularity provided not only the opportunity for his offending but that it is one of the predominant reasons for his victims' decades of silence.
"But just as you must not judge or dismiss the complaints because they took so long to complain, so you must not favour or condemn the defendant simply because you have heard of him or because he is over 80.
"Favour or condemn him on the evidence, not because he plays Ken Barlow.
"Do not be diverted from the integrity of your task and oath just because he is William Roache."
Miss Whyte said: "William Roache is, as you all know, an actor. He has spent much of his adult life playing a part.
"It is very important that you remember at all times that you are here to judge the man and not the part.
"Mr Roache presents a fictional image of himself for a living – it is part and parcel of his work and fame.
"But in this room, with you, he is William Roache, not Ken Barlow. He is the defendant and you are the jury."
She continued: "He faces seven separate criminal charges. The allegations are made by five different women – each of them says that he sexually abused them during the 1960s.
"He denies that this is the case and your task will be to decide whether these women are telling the truth."
The barrister said the case concerned events which happened a long time ago but that did not mean the allegations were less important. The prosecutor said the first complainant in the case contacted the police last March.
She said: "In the context of discussing other sex scandals involving the late Cyril Smith and Jimmy Savile, her son had expressed disbelief about how long it had taken for victims of sexual offences to come forward.
"His mother tried to explain and in this case she knows. She eventually told her son about what had happened many years before with the defendant."
Her son told her to contact the police which she eventually did, said Miss Whyte.
Roache was arrested on May 1 and, after being interviewed, he was charged with two offences of rape.
The publicity that followed led to the other complainants coming forward.
Apart from two of the alleged victims who were sisters, there was nothing else to link any of the complainants, the court heard.
Miss Whyte said the Crown argues that this should be a "powerful factor" in the jury's assessment of the evidence.
Women who do not know each other are complaining about his behaviour from the same broad period of time, she said.
The jury then heard about another alleged victim of Roache's, now aged 63, who was just 14 in 1965 when the actor is said to have indecently assaulted her.
That summer she visited Granada Studios in central Manchester with a friend to take part in a talent show and afterwards she saw Roache in the building and recognised him, Miss Whyte said.
"She was naturally impressed," the prosecutor said.
"She and her friend ended up in a dressing room with the defendant and other actors.
"She recounts, perhaps unsurprisingly, about how she felt flattered by the attention."
Both left the room and he led her by the arm to the men's toilet, where he allegedly made her commit a sex act on him.
Afterwards, Roache sent her a letter and signed photograph of himself, which will be shown to the jury.
But this was not a "benign personal touch" by a "well-known young male actor", the court heard.
Instead it was a deliberate act, Miss Whyte said, "designed to impress a young schoolgirl and to secure her unquestioning loyalty as a fan for a sexual purpose. A sort of grooming, as we would nowadays call it".
The victim reported the matter to police last May after reading in the papers that Roache had been charged with rape.
Another of the alleged victims was sexually abused in a ladies' toilets, the court heard.
The court then heard about the two most serious offences of rape.
The victim, aged 15 and a virgin at the time of the alleged offences in 1967, told police that she was at a house in Lancashire and "without any preliminaries" was led to a double bedroom.
Afterwards it was as if nothing had happened, the court heard.
The second time, at the same house, Roache is alleged to have pushed her against a wall and raped her once more.
"When it was over, she ran out," Miss Whyte said.
Another woman, now in her late 50s, and her sister were both young victims of Roache, the jury was told.
The sisters, then aged 14 to 16, would go to Granada Studios in the school holidays, hoping to catch a glimpse of stars.
The sisters "caught the eye" of Roache, who gave them a lift home in his Rolls-Royce and promised to get them passes to the studios.
Miss Whyte said that when arrested and cautioned on May 1 the defendant commented he was "absolutely surprised and amazed". He also appeared visibly shocked, she said.
When confronted with the rape allegations he denied them.
The prosecutor said: "He told the police that he did not recognise her name or recall her in any way.
"He denied that he would ever do anything like that, referring to himself as a peaceful and gentle person.
"He categorically denied raping (the alleged victim) and ascribed her allegation to the modern climate of accusing celebrities."
On June 6 he was re-arrested in the wake of the further allegations of indecent assault, the jury heard.
Miss Whyte said: "Before the interview he provided the police with a prepared statement.
"He denied the allegations and again asserted they did not reflect his nature which was sensitive and caring.
"He explained over the years women had expressed sexual interest in him and that he had taken the opportunity to sleep with many women but that this had always been with their consent and that he had never sought out girls under the age of 16 because such young girls did not interest him sexually."
The trial, scheduled to last up to four weeks, continues tomorrow (January 15) when the jury will begin to hear evidence from the complainants.


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Friday, 18 January 2008
Dylan Moran; women have no feelings
60 comments:
- Dan said...
Thanks for linking to this. I've never watched him before, but the guy's a genius and hilarious on top of it all.
- 19 January 2008 at 00:40
'Career women' empty nation's sperm banks
"The demand is incredible and continually rising," said John Braine, from Fertility East in Bondi Junction.
The most surprising trend has been a 40 per cent rise in the number of single women seeking sperm donors.
"These are women, aged from 35 to 40, who are single, attractive career women, who cannot find a man to have a baby with," he said.
Hilarious isn't it?
But the worse is yet to come:
With demand for sperm growing rapidly - particularly from single Sydney women - clinics are importing vials from the US on a monthly basis.
Poor child: he will definitely never know his father.
This insanity has to stop. Child welfare is at stake.
But as we know, fathers are considered dispensable in Australia.
- 19 January 2008 at 07:49
Sydney women? Heck, I live in Sydney too.
Good women are hard to find, that's true. But when you find one, nothing beats that feeling.
- 19 January 2008 at 18:17
Moran cleverly turns one of society's lies on its head, namely that men are the 'realists' while women are oh-so-romantic. Quite the contrary!
When it comes to affairs of the heart, women all too often demonstrate that they have no heart, that ice water rather than blood runs in their veins. Witness a woman's propensity for cold, callous behavior during divorce proceedings, for instance. She thinks nothing of divesting the man of a great part of his wealth, as well as the opportunity to see his children (assuming that he is the one who sired them) on a regular basis.
He is the one who is driven to despair while she ruthlessly plots his demise; he is the one who is reduced to poverty while she spends whatever money he can send on herself, on top of whatever funds she is able to leech from either the state or her new boyfriend; he is the one whose lifespan is cut horribly short, while she moves far less than gracefully into middle age and beyond, knowing that, no matter what ails her, real or perceived, there will always be those who stand ready to assist, and always at someone else's expense.
Stay single. Stay free.
- 19 January 2008 at 19:21
ntm1972 hits the nail in the head.
It took me two broken hearts and a major depression to realize this truth which has been concealed carefully from us (to make us bit the bait of marriage). The truth that men are romantic and women are not. That when you say "I love you", you are full of romantic feelings about her. When they say "I love you", they are full of romantic feelings about the future lifestyle they dream of (house, children, economical status, etc) not about you. Men love women and women love their lifestyle and their children.
In fact, since men provide for women, women are more physically dependent of men that the other way around. So nature has levelled the field making men more emotionally dependent of women. If it is not were this way, women would have not survived and human race would have been extincted.
The relationship between men and women mirrors the relationship between women and children. Women really LOVE children (the same way men love women). Children love their mothers (the same way women love men) but this love is much smaller than the other way around. Since children are physically dependent of mothers, nature has made women emotionally dependent of children. Otherwise, children would have not survived. So we can say that children are parasites of their mothers.
The same way, women are parasites of their men and a man cannot expect that a woman would love him the same way he loves her, the way he wants to be loved. This is a truth which is hard to accept because men are full of romantic feelings toward women.
Don't be fool. Don't give up your freedom, peace of mind and financial status for a delusion. Stay single. Stay free.
- 20 January 2008 at 03:58
Yes, women can easily use the "abuse" lie in court about a man and his children, but I could never imagine a man telling such a lie in court about his wife.
Problem with bitches is they forget that the lies they tell come back to haunt them when their kids are old enough to know the truth.
As for the bitches that go to sperm banks, again this is just their selfishness and evil. They again forget that when their children grow up THEY might want to know who their father is.
Sperm banks should be closed down and any man that contributes really is a "wanker"
- 20 January 2008 at 05:24
I say let's exacerbate the shortage by actively discouraging sperm donation.
If we can cut the number of donors down enough to drive the clinics to start paying them exorbitant fees, this will then foster an image of sperm donation as a greed-driven and hence less-respectable activity.
The idea works on a principle discovered by blood donation campaigns, namely that altruism is a more powerful motivator for donorship than money. Thus, the key method of dropping donation numbers is to disassociate philanthropy from sperm donation.
If we can argue against sperm donation on the basis of it creating a number of social ills and cases of emotional turmoil, then we have a viable platform for creating this disassociation.
I'm not completely sure of the demographics of sperm donors, but I would assume that they are mostly liberal males of graduate level education who have been deluded into thinking that they are performing some kind of social service. If we can show them the disconnect between their intentions and the reality of their actions, we will have created a powerful social idea that will put reproductive control back into the hands of men.
Coupled with the impending advent of male birth control, this meme will have a devastating effect on the status, legitimacy, and power of the single motherhood lobby.
- 20 January 2008 at 13:21
Agreed. Lack of reproductive rights for men is probably #1 on my own list. The male pill will change EVERYTHING.
No more being stitched up for life by one stupid indiscretion at a party. No more being lied to by women who want to get pregnant so that they can quit the game for good.
Best of all would be the legal right to on-demand paternity testing so that there'd be no fun and games with cuckolding, but this is probably just a dream. (As a side note about this, every proud mother I've seen for the last year is at pains to point out the child's resemblence to its father - and they've been right. The kids DO look like the guy who they're married to or living with).
As a further side note I saw a woman just yesterday who was FUCKING GORGEOUS and who I tried getting some eye contact going with. Then I saw the pram, the kids, and the husband!! Oops. I stopped right there. Good luck to the both of them.
There's hope for our women yet, guys.
- 20 January 2008 at 22:49
Tonight's TV fare: Runaway Bride about a totally annoying, heartless bitch who dumps her bumbling men at the altar until Richard Gere sweeps her off her feet. One scene had her showing off her many engagement rings to Richard Gere where she recollects only a name with the ring and how that schmuck proposed to her. Actually I could only take a total of about 30 minutes of that shit. Switch the channel to the Princess Diaries which wasn't even worth trying to figure out. Women love this crap and actually believe it will happen to them. Some Richard Gere will come along and romance them and send them to heaven, in other words to a huge house in a swanky part of town. Any movie with the word Princess should be banned.
- 21 January 2008 at 00:38
The world has become absolutely crazy. In the good old days one married a young virgin, had many children with her, fed and protected her knowing very well that she was unable and unwilling to do it herself.
This way everyone was happy.
- 21 January 2008 at 06:17
Right before that he had a particularly insightful commentary on the "Vagina Monologues". A ridiculously stupid idea. If a vagina could talk, it'd sound like Enya
- 21 January 2008 at 10:43
Abort Shock in Giant Divorcee
Check out this post regarding Amani Toomer of the NY Giants recent divorce from his wife, he alleges that she had up to four abortions that he opposed and refused to bear his children. This despite him giving her a lavish lifestyle and paying for her education.
- 21 January 2008 at 22:14
Interesting that you all want to put an end to sperm donations...but what are you all doing to make marriage more desirable to both men and women?
--woman with a question
- 21 January 2008 at 22:17
I may be the last person to know about this in the US. New England Patriot superstar quarterback Tom Brady broke up with movie actress Bridget Moynahan last year and then later found out she was 3 months pregnant by him. The bitch knew he was leaving her pulled a fast one on him. And everybody thinks she looked fabulous pregnant. She's a dirty slut. Tom Brady should have known better, though.
- 21 January 2008 at 23:44
This is a transcript of text messages between a married couple, the husband is a wealthy hedge fund manager who died mysteriously, maybe the wife killed him. The wife is threatening, extremely violent, the husband (Sneffer) is calm as men are usually.
This is why men should not marry, you cannot expect decency anymore even if you are a hedgefund manager and your wife has the best life.
Because it got published on a site for hedgefunds, hopefully more rich people will wake up.
Ash emerged with the allegation Filomena murdered Seth, claiming she drugged Tobias then led him into the swimming pool of his Florida mansion, where he drowned. The testimony of Ash surfaced amid a pending legal battle between the Tobias family and Filomena over the $25 million estate of Circle T founder Seth Tobias. The transcript has been proffered in support of the contention that Filomena killed Seth.
So far, no ruling has been made in the death of Tobias. He died in September at 44.
Below is an edited version of the transcript with the time of each individual text message removed to make for easier reading:
Ftobias8: I KNOW FOR A FACT THAT U HAD SEX WITH HER!!!!!! STOP LYING TO ME YOU ARE ONLY FOOLING YOURSELF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! U STILL LIED, YOU STILL DECEIVED ME AND YOU DESTROYED OUR MARRIAGE!!!!!! YOU ARE A LYER, AND YOU DECIEVED ME!! YOU ARE AN ADDICT, AND SICK, SICK, SICK I HOPE YOU DROP DIED
Ftobias8: YOU ARE A SICK FUCK, A REALLY SICK FUCK I HATE YOU FOR WHAT YOU HAVE DONE TO ME…………YOU WILL PAY FOR IT, THIS IS MY DEATH WISH TO THE END………………………………………………………
Ftobias8: YOU WILL PAY. I PROMISE YOU THAT…………I WILL NOT HAVE PEACE TILL YOU PAY FOR WHAT YOU HAVE DONE TO MY HEART…YOU ARE EVIL
Ftobias8: THE DEVIL IN DISGUISE THAT'S YOU…YOU KNOW IN YOUR HEART YOU DID THIS. YOU ARE SICK AND I PITTY ME FOR BELIEVING YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ftobias8: I HOPE ONE DAY WHEN YOU ARE DRINKING AND BLOWING COKE UP YOUR NOSE THAT YOU DIE
Ftobias8: U PATHETIC, SICK, FUCK
Ftobias8: HOW CAN YOU LOOK AT YOURSELF IN THE MIRROR………YOU ARE SOOOOO EVIL AND SICKKKKK
Ftobias8: YOU HURT ME AND MY INNOCENT BOYS ROGER AND JACOB BECAUSE OF YOUR SICK, SELFISH PATHITIC AND EVIL SELF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sneffer: please stop
Ftobias8: DID YOU STOP LYING AND TELLING ME I WAS CRAZY WHILE YOU WERE DECIEVING ME???????????????????????? DID YOU> WHILE YOU DESTROYED ME AND MY BOYS FUTURE AND LIVES
Ftobias8: YOU SICK PATHETIC FUCK, YOU ARE AN ADDICT AND SICK AND I AM GOING TO MAKE YOU STOP ONCE AND FOR ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ftobias8: I REGRET GIVING YOU MY HEART AMD SOUL……YOU DID NOT DESERVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!! U WERE THE DEVIL IN DISGUISE……YOU ARE EVIL AND SICK, SICK, SICK I HATE YOU FOR DESTROYING MY SPIRIT
Sneffer: calm down
Ftobias8: MY CHILDRE DID NOT DESRVE IT EITHER!!!!!!!!!!!!! MOST OF JACOB'S ISSUES ARE BECAUSE OF YOU!!!!!!!!!!
Sneffer: he had issues prior to me
Sneffer: you can't blame me for all of this
Sneffer: we are both at fault
Ftobias8: YOU ADDED TO IT……MY THERAPIST WILL TESTIFY THAT ……YOU'LL SEE WHAT YOUR IN FOR
Ftobias8: THE WAR JUST STARTED AND YOU STARTED IT……………I AM WARNING YOU………………
Sneffer: stop being angry and take a breath
Sneffer: are u threatening me?
Ftobias8: YOU MADETHE FIRST MOVE AND I WAS ONLY TRYING TO TAKE CARE OF MY MIND AND MY CHILDREN
Sneffer: no u went nuclear a while ago
Ftobias8: I AHVE MANY MANY MANY PEOPLE TO TESTIFY
Ftobias8: U MADE TOO MUCH DAMAGE
Sneffer: i'm sure you do…but why get nasty?
Sneffer: it will only harm both of us
Ftobias8: BECAYSE YOU DESERVE IT FOR WHAT YOU DID TO US
Ftobias8: WHAT YOU MADE ME FEEL LIKE AND THE DAMAGE TO MY CHILDREN, MY REPUTATION AND MY DREAMS
Sneffer: the kids do not need that…i don't…and you don't
Sneffer: all i wanted was to move forward
Ftobias8: YOU DID IT, THE NEGLECT AND THE ABSENCE AND THE EMPTY PROMISES TO ME AND THEM
Sneffer: you kept going backwards
Sneffer: i am seeing my therapist tues
Ftobias8: YOU DID U SICK FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!HOW CAN U MOVE FORWARD WHEN YOU STILL HAD THE PAST IN OUR LIVES AND IN OUR BED
Sneffer: that is a lie
Sneffer: lie
Sneffer: lie
Ftobias8: YOU ARE A LIE
Ftobias8: SICK LIER
Ftobias8: EVERYTHING YOU DO AND SAY IS A LIE
Sneffer: all i wanted to do was be happy with us
Sneffer: i told you I would work on us
Ftobias8: YOU WERE NOT CAPABLE YOU ARE NOT HONEST YOU ARE EVIL AND SICK
Sneffer: amazing when u think back to one year ago
Sneffer: i am sad about this
Ftobias8: YOU WERE NOT CAPABLE OF BEING HONEST, OR A GOOD HUSBAND, OR A GOOD STEP FATHER
Sneffer: I wish we worked out
Ftobias8: YOU ARE NOT CAPABLE OF STOPPING TO DRINK, OR DOING YOUR COKE OR BEING HONEST
Ftobias8: ALL I WANTED WAS FOR YOU TO BE HONEST AND NOT DECIEVE ME
Sneffer: it's never too late
Ftobias8: ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS LOVE ME
Ftobias8: BE HONEST AND STOP
Ftobias8: YOU KEPT TELLING ME I WAS SICK IWAS NUTS……………………YES YOU MADE ME NUTS
Ftobias8: BUT YOU ARE SICK
Ftobias8: YOU'RE A SICK MANIPULATING LIER
Ftobias8: YOU ARE AN ADDICT, NEVER TRUST AN ADDICT……………
Ftobias8: YOU ARE SICK
Ftobias8: I HOPE YOU ROT IN HELL YOU SICK FUCK
Ftobias8: AFTER THIS LAST HURRAH ENJOY YOUR SICK PATHETIC LIFE……IN YOR RAT HOLE HOUSE WITH YOUR DRUGS AND ALCOHOL…I HOPE YOU GET AIDS WITH ALL THE WHORES YOU FUK TOO
At that point, the exchange is ended, only to resume later that day.
Sneffer: Please understand that i do love you
Sneffer: and i am sorry
Ftobias8: YOU ARE A SICK LIAR, AN ADDICT AND A SELFISH SCUMBAG!!! A CHEATER AND ABUSER……YOU OPENED THE BOX, NOW WATCH ME DESTROY YOU!!!!!!! YOU FUCKED WITH YOUR MATCH
Ftobias8: I HATE YOU FOR WHAT YOU DID TO DESTROY EVERYTHING……YOU ARE EVIL AND SICK YOU ARE SICK YOU ARE SICK AND A SELFISH PRICK
Ftobias8: I HATE YOU!!!!!!!!
Sneffer: no you do not
Ftobias8: DROP DEAD AND ROTT IN HELL…I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO SAVE YOU AND US BUT YOU DESTROYED THAT TOO……ROTT IN HELL SETH
Sneffer: take a breather
Ftobias8: I BELIEVE YOU WHEN YOU CAME BACK TO MARRY ME…ALL YOU HAVE DNE SINCE THEN IS LIE, LIE LIE YOU DECIEVED ME IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE……
Ftobias8: NOW IT'S WAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sneffer: we did this to ourselves
- 22 January 2008 at 00:08
The sperm donor shortage will accelerate research into cloning. The next generation of career women will not only have handbags that match their shoes, they will soon have designer babies to match themselves.
- 22 January 2008 at 05:43
Infidelity: 'Being unfaithful keeps me happy'
- 22 January 2008 at 05:55
This comic looks to me as though he is modeling himself on the late Dave Allen. Mannerism, even down to the stool are just like Allen's.
- 22 January 2008 at 06:33
Continuing her investigation into Britain's adultery epidemic, Angela Levin talks to professional women who have affairs to bolster their marriages - and revitalise flagging sex lives.
"There's no reason why a multitasking woman can't handle extra-marital relationships in a similar way to a man. I multitask to an astonishing degree in my business life, and all I am doing is taking that ability into my personal life. It isn't a big deal.
Women are crazy: they now define infidelity as multitasking.
- 22 January 2008 at 09:07
- Male Samizdat said...
Dear "woman with a question":
Who cares? You broads have screwed up marriage beyond recognition. Women demand everything from men, but give nothing in return.
Maybe wives should try being agreeable, pleasant, sexually available, and supportive, and then teach their daughters to be that kind of wife. More men might then be inclined to marry.
- 22 January 2008 at 11:11
One of the men I admire most was my sergeant in the first Gulf war. Thanks to him, I'm still alive to sit here with a beer beside me. We're still in touch, the sarge and me, and I visit him at least once a year. He's not in a nursing home, he lives alone and gets about on two sticks because of a back injury.
His back isn't the worst of his problems, though. When we returned from the Gulf, he couldn't wait to get home to his wife. His wife gave him a surprise present when he got home. She gave him the clap. When he finally realised what he had and reported sick, he was sent to the genito-urinary clinic. That's where they told him she had also given him genital warts.
The clap cleared up with antibiotics treatment but the warts keep coming back. He gets them in the urethra, that's the tube leading down from the bladder through your dick. The pain when he pisses is excruciating. He says it makes him cry some days. Believe me, that must be some fucking pain if it makes him cry.
He's been reamed out three times and the hospital say they won't do it anymore. Next time he gets completely blocked up, they're going to put a tap in his belly so that he can piss through that into a jug. Meanwhile, he forces a catheter into his dick and up to his bladder every day to try to keep the piss flowing.
When the divorce came through, she got the kids and the house. The kids don't speak to him anymore. Under the new law here in Britain, she can claim half his pension.
He'll be 60 soon. He isn't looking forward to his old age.
Stay away from women! DO NOT HAVE SEX WITH THEM! THEY ARE WHORES!
- 22 January 2008 at 14:38
Human trash:
The couple, who live on benefits in a council house and plan to start a family, have been friends for years.
Obviously they live on benefits. Hail to the bus driver.
- 22 January 2008 at 16:59
Screwheads. The only reason they are using the word "multitasking" is because Bill Gates popularisied it with Microsoft Windows. They would not be using that word otherwise.
- 22 January 2008 at 20:04
Interesting that you all want to put an end to sperm donations...but what are you all doing to make marriage more desirable to both men and women?
Go back to Patriarchal society. It is quite simply the only way marriage can be made more attractive to men and women.
- 22 January 2008 at 20:32
Anon 22.17 -
"What are you going to do to make marriage more desireable to men and women?"
Nothing. NOT ONE MORE DAMN THING.
Christ, haven't we tried hard enough already?
- 22 January 2008 at 20:49
Interesting that you all want to put an end to sperm donations...but what are you all doing to make marriage more desirable to both men and women?
Translation from women-talk to English: If ending sperm donations prevents some women from having kids, what are you all doing to make these women able to have kids in other way (i.e., marriage)?
Nothing. The fact that some women want to have kids and cannot, IT IS NOT OUR PROBLEM. It's these women's problem.
Women are so used to give men the responsibility to solve their problems that this broad asks all us to solve women's problems. All this after three decades of labelling men as oppressors and women as victims.
Sorry, it's not going to happen. When women do something to end the legal rape which is divorce and allow divorced dads to keep their assets and their children, we men will do something about spinsterhood.
Until then, you can buy some cats.
- 23 January 2008 at 12:22
- Duncan Idaho said...
"What are you going to do to make marriage more desireable to men and women?"
Personally speaking; nothing. I don't give a shit anymore.
I've grown nothing but increasingly cynical in the last few years and, to be honest, I'm more and more motivated in staying single not so much by the hope of avoiding the horrors of divorce, but rather by the laughs I get from watching previously empowered men-hating fembot women watch the world from a dusty shelf, brushing the cobwebs from their twats and mourning for the time when men looked at them, rather than just looked through them.
- 23 January 2008 at 12:27
I'm more and more motivated in staying single not so much by the hope of avoiding the horrors of divorce, but rather by the laughs I get from watching previously empowered men-hating fembot women watch the world from a dusty shelf, brushing the cobwebs from their twats and mourning for the time when men looked at them, rather than just looked through them.
Duncan, you are a genius.
@woman with a question
Interesting that you all want to put an end to sperm donations...but what are you all doing to make marriage more desirable to both men and women?
We are doing nothing, we are fleeing. The women changed marriage.
- 23 January 2008 at 13:10
Anon 14:38-
I've been preaching about STI's for over twenty years.
There are countless ways a woman WILL screw up your life, but one of the most horrifying to me is the FACT that the vast majority of western women have HPV, and usually they have multiple strains- both cancer and wart varieties.
You can NOT safely have sex with or without a condom these days. As my mother used to say:
"If a woman will go to bed with you without the benefit of marriage, you aren't the first and you won't be the last."
Men are so easily flattered by attractive women who are willing to go have sex with them. This is foolish. Virtually ALL women in their twenties and thirties have at the very least HPV, and probably genital Herpes, as well. Pretty much all of these beautiful women that men lust after are infected. It's a rare exception that isn't. Even worse, most women will knowingly infect you anyway.
They're just that mean.
A woman's vagina is a cesspool of filth and disease. Only a fool will stick his Willy into such a sewer.
Christopher in Oregon
- 23 January 2008 at 13:41
just the fact that 30% of all paternity tests show that the father who thought he was the father is not the father, plus the abortion statistics prove to me beyond ANY and ALL arguments that the vast majority of women in the western world are absolutely positively evil whores that are worse than animals and not even worth gutter trash. I cannot believe that no matter where you turn today, the message in society is that women are princesses and men are disgusting pigs that don't deserve anything. When pig evil women meet the grim reaper in hell and they realize their soul will spend the rest of eternity there, I hope they think of me laughing my ass off.
- 23 January 2008 at 17:37
I think women have feelings, however I don't think they have a brain that can do anything thoughtful or constructive with those feelings.
- 23 January 2008 at 22:07
Typical, the one woman who responds dares to ask, "What are you men going to do about this?"
Absolutely no soul searching of her own. Not even a hint of acknowledgement that maybe, perhaps, women might be at fault.
Nope, just, "What are you men going to do?"
- 24 January 2008 at 02:08
Woman who does not like work, who wants to save her?
she wants to do graphik design, I hope she will get married before her looks fade. She seems so depressed, how depressed will she be, when she is old?
- 24 January 2008 at 13:30
ester Villar and Erin Pizzey were both women who received death threats from feminists while being feminists themselves.
According to many webpages, Pizzey has said, or has been quoted as saying[2]: "Men are gentle, honest and straightforward. Women are convoluted, deceptive and dangerous." Contrary to what it may seem from that popular quote, she has not promoted a stance that most women are violent or that women are more violent than men. Her view is opposed by those who placed the blame solely upon "prevailing patriarchal attitudes." She lamented that the movement she started had moved from the personal to the political.
In her book Prone to Violence (full text available online) she propounded the theory that many of the women who took refuge had a personality such that they sought abusive relationships. The book contains numerous stories of disturbed families alongside a discussion of the reasons why the modern state care-taking agencies are largely ineffective (one extreme situation was when a woman in the refuge bit off a top of another woman's finger).
Some internet sources make the claim that Prone to Violence was suppressed by feminists (a search of all libraries in the world that could be accessed from the US Library of Congress through the Inter-Library Network in 1996 revealed a total of only thirteen listings in the worldwide).
After death threats made by feminist activists against her, her children, her grandchildren, and the killing of her dog,[3],[4] Pizzey left England for North America. She returned to London in the 1990s where her insights were sought by politicians and family pressure groups.
- 25 January 2008 at 02:34
Only marry virgins, read the reason here:
Carrie Jones hasn't had sex with her husband Hal, a City banker, for the past four years. Nor does she want to. Sex is something she can no longer summon the effort to endure - with the man she married, at least.
She admits she stays in her sexless relationship for the sake of her children, aged nine and 11, and will remain celibate until the day they are grown up and she feels able to leave. At which point, she confesses, she will probably abandon her husband and begin a sexual odyssey to find the satisfaction that eludes her.
"I'd flipped from wife to mother, and it gave me excuses - often genuine - to cold-shoulder my husband's sexual advances. He knew I was tired from the children and was always very understanding. He's an unusually kind and tolerant man."
Unbelievably, her poor, unsuspecting husband is not only unaware of her plans to leave him.
So what of her sexual history? It seems that Carrie wasn't always this uninterested in sex. She admits to having 23 lovers before she married.
"Ten were proper boyfriends," she recalls. "I regretted having sex with six of them, loved three of them but only one of the 23 ever gave me an orgasm.
"Only an affair with a married man called John bucked the trend. But that was doomed by its very nature."
Five years ago, Carrie almost cheated on her husband after regaining contact with an old flame on the website Friends Reunited.
"I nearly lost my virginity to Mark when we were 17, but my mother arrived home as we enjoyed a fumble in my bedroom," she recalls.
"He was gorgeous, looked like a man even back then in his school uniform, and remained in my consciousness for all those years.
"When I looked on Friends Reunited, it was an enormous thrill just to find Mark's name. I e-mailed him immediately. He replied with an update on his life and said he was single - I was intoxicated.
It will lead to disaster.
Only marry virgins.
- 25 January 2008 at 02:46
Spanish for your AW's nanny.
- 25 January 2008 at 02:50
The woman tries to attract men with her body and her youth. To do so, she tries to show a lot of skin, wears high heels, wears make-up and jewellery.
Women need and want to attract men.
Transsexual women have a serious disorder and the amazing thing is that they behave like men.
Women's behaviour is genetically determined and not by society.
- 25 January 2008 at 03:11
Dating female inmates.
- 25 January 2008 at 03:52
Never believe that women want a career, they want prestige and money but they certainly do not want the stress and risk that is associated to a career.
Karoshi is called the death that goes with too much work in japan.
- 25 January 2008 at 04:00
Women in Canada 2005
A guide to understanding the changing roles of women and men in Canada
i thought it was about women?
Canada is very bad for marriage. 100 years ago canadian women were great but now it is a real mess.
- 25 January 2008 at 08:14
Feminism is a great danger for civilization:
"The first males were mutants... the male sex represents a degeneration and deformity of the female. MAN: ... an obsolete life form... an ordinary creature who needs to be watched ... TESTOSTERONE POISONING: ... Until now it has been though that the level of testosterone in men is normal simply because they have it. But if you consider how abnormal their behavior is, then you are led to the hypothesis that almost all men are suffering from "testosterone poisoning".[1]
"NOW is the time to drop a boot heel in the groin of patriarchy. NOW IS THE TIME TO FIGHT BACK. NO GOD. NO MASTER. NO LAWS" [2]
"Who cares how men feel or what they do or whether they suffer? They have had over 2000 years to dominate and made a complete hash of it. Now it is our turn. My only comment to men is, if you don't like it, bad luck - and if you get in my way I'll run you down". [3]
For instance, Martha Burk who is the president of the Center for Advancement of Public Policy in Washington DC, and editor of the Washington Feminist Faxnet has proposed that men's fertility be controlled. How? By mandatory contraception beginning at puberty: men would be forced to have contraceptive implants along with compulsory DNA fingerprinting. Doctors would have to report a man who refused the implants or sought medical attention after trying to remove them himself. [5] This is not sci-fi; this is now.
- 25 January 2008 at 10:58
- Outcast Superstar said...
Hey Duncan
Here are a few news articles you may want to check out and many of us would be very entertained if you at least do a rant on one of them.
"Sorry But Marriage and Sex Don't Go Together"
'Being Unfaithful Keeps Me Happy'
59 per cent of wives would leave their husbands (if they could afford it)
- 25 January 2008 at 17:03
Interesting that you all want to put an end to sperm donations...but what are you all doing to make marriage more desirable to both men and women?
--woman with a question
Absolutely nothing. Women blew it. You can marry each other for all I care. The solution for men is to simply never marry. The poor and stupid will carry on the race just fine without able men committing themselves to servitude to appease the whims of a woman who simply wants more. Men don't dream of houses and families, women do....we dream of adventure and loyalty...2 things women are unable to provide.
- 29 January 2008 at 01:35
Sorry, it's not going to happen. When women do something to end the legal rape which is divorce and allow divorced dads to keep their assets and their children, we men will do something about spinsterhood.
Until then, you can buy some cats."
LOL, that was funny. But don't need a cat or a puppy as I have a way to get the real thing. Guess it kills you that there are guys out there willing to "give it." Funny there are plenty of men and women who are quite happy in relationships. Then there are men like those who frequent this bored that do nothing but complain. If you've had too many bad experiences with women, time to look in the mirror. I say the same to women who do nothing but complain as well.
take the old saying to heart:
Fool me once, shame on you...Fool me twice, shame on me...
--A woman
- 29 January 2008 at 05:19
But don't need a cat or a puppy as I have a way to get the real thing. Guess it kills you that there are guys out there willing to "give it."
Maybe you are able to get the real thing (one never knows because we don't know you personally). There are always men fool enough to give up their freedom, assets, happiness and peace of mind to support a nagging fatty. But we won't be caught in this trap. Each men free from the charade of marriage is another women having to bear spinsterhood.
With 20% of American men who are not wanting to marry anymore (and the number is raising every day), there are other women that cannot say that. And their number is increasing every day (not only in America but in the rest of world also). This is why women don't stop complaining "Where are all the good men gone?"
I live in a small city in Europe. There is two female friends of mine whose biological clock is ticking and they are desperate for me to ask them out and be their boyfriend. One of them is desperate enough to have made her mother tell my mother that "she will be delighted to be my girlfriend" (literally). Of course, I have a Ph. D. and an amazing job. Bad luck. You can keep studing your university (she is in the early thirties) and support yourself.
Funny there are plenty of men and women who are quite happy in relationships.
I know hundreds of married men and their happiness status goes from "Complete desperation", and "I would divorce but I don't want to hurt my kids" to "I wouldn't do it again but where am I going to do?"
Of course, most married men hide their unhappiness from their wives. And women love deluding themselves thinking their husband is so happy.
Then there are men like those who frequent this bored that do nothing but complain.
I'm sorry you don't want us to complain. Get used to it. After three decades of women complaining while men stayed silent, it is our turn to complain.
Of course, women don't want us to complain because a good slave suffers in silence ("takes it like a man") and only listen to the complaining and nagging of WIMMIN.
If you've had too many bad experiences with women, time to look in the mirror.
Typical shaming language. You don't know us and you don't know whether our experiences had been good or bad.
Even if our experiences had been bad (as in my case), this wouldn't invalidate any of our arguments. Since women can disprove our arguments, recur to "ad hominem" attacks.
Fool me once, shame on you...Fool me twice, shame on me...
You are right. This is why I avoid women except for sport-fucking. I won't be fooled again.
Women are sweet and kind in the beginning of the relationship and they end up being harpies.
- 29 January 2008 at 23:26
I am the writer of the comment which ended with the sentence:
Until then, you can buy some cats
I get this reply from "a woman"
LOL, that was funny. But don't need a cat or a puppy as I have a way to get the real thing.
Well, dear, I was not specifically referring to you. I guess you know the word "you" is singular and plural in the English language. I was talking about "you women who use sperm banks and who can have inconveniences because of these banks's closing". I assumed that this was obvious from the context of my message and the discussion about sperm banks. But maybe I wasn't clear enough. So I am glad to make this thing clear.
Furthermore, I want to comment your words:
LOL, that was funny. But don't need a cat or a puppy as I have a way to get the real thing... there are guys out there willing to "give it".
Well, perhaps you are right. But, as Clark Gable said in "Lost with the wind", "Dear, I don't give a damn". I don't care about your personal life. I am speaking about women in general.
The evidence of the fact that many women have not a way to get the real thing and that many men are not willing to "give it" is the following piece of news.
'Career women' empty nation's sperm banks
"The demand is incredible and continually rising," said John Braine, from Fertility East in Bondi Junction.
The most surprising trend has been a 40 per cent rise in the number of single women seeking sperm donors.
"These are women, aged from 35 to 40, who are single, attractive career women, who cannot find a man to have a baby with," he said.
So there are a lot of women who can't find a man willing to "give it". But they always can buy a cat. A cat is a loving companion and it never complains.
This is why I plan to invest in companies who produce cat's food. Demand is raising and shares are a good investment.
- 30 January 2008 at 00:16
As a woman, you've probably never sat on the other end of the calculating BS that women will dispense to get attention, fed, children, decorative objects, or, basically whatever they think they are entitiled to in order to funish the little Barbie playhouse that some fo them live in, all on their terms.
It ain't a contest, gals.
You think there's some motherf*cker with a white suit and a sepia parchment at the gates of the marble orchard who says "You took more than you gave! You win!"
Nobody is entitled to be told that their shit doesn't stink.
Certainly not on the basis of gender, race, or creed.
That's the equality your fellow women have been screaming for.
Cake on the plate or cake in the belly, ladies.
No free refills.
- 30 January 2008 at 02:55
"With 20% of American men who are not wanting to marry anymore (and the number is raising every day), there are other women that cannot say that. And their number is increasing every day (not only in America but in the rest of world also)."
According to the 2006 U.S. Census, about 1/3 of American men will never marry. The U.S. figure now equals the Australian figure which is surprising giving America's greater religiosity and more conservative culture.
- 30 January 2008 at 17:02
What you all are not realizing is that there are men who want to do this. They are not interested in marriage or commitment to a woman, but still want to be fathers. So if you think you can stop this, you are chasing a wild goose. Also, it isn't just college kids donating sperm (to sperm banks). Some donors are men (30ish) do it because they want to reproduce and like the idea (as conceited as it is) of spreading their seed. To each his/her own.
As for complaining, it is really getting tired. I don't like people complaining when all they need to do is make neccessay changes within themselves. If you were jaded by a number of women, then STOP CHOOSING THE WRONG ONES. It's that simple, LOL.
- 31 January 2008 at 14:09
To Woman with a Question,
Men will soon not need women at all to reproduce! It is now possible to merely hire a surrogate to carry a man's offspring and fertility technology can nearly guarantee that the child will be male.
Artificial eggs and wombs are not far in the future (a few decades at the most).
- 31 January 2008 at 18:20
What you all are not realizing is that there are men who want to do this.
We fully realize that. When we are talking about 30% of men not wanting to be marry, we are fully aware that they are 70% who still want to marry, as foolish as this is with the current marriage laws. This is why you will find here people who are talking constantly to awaken the men and things like that.
But, it is not an all-or-nothing question. If there are 30% of people who don't marry, this causes 30% of spinters. And this causes 30% of men being free of an ever-nagging woman. And this causes that the remaining 70% of women see their choices reduced (Like my cousin, who being a professional career woman and wanting to marry a rich man, had to accept a man who has not a career nor a job because she was in her mid-thirties - while professional male friends of her remain single).
So if you think you can stop this, you are chasing a wild goose.
Well, not really. Christendom started being 13 people (12 apostles plus Jesus) and they are billions today. Communism started being an only man (Karl Marx) and they end up being billions. Feminism started being a handful of women (Betty Friedan and people like them).
50 years ago, the percentage of straight men wanting not to marry and have kids was probably below 1%. 10 years ago, the percentage was maybe 5%. Now, they are probably 30% and they increase every year. Do you see a tendency?
This is because marriage has not the incentives it used to have for a man and men are slowly awakening to that. Of course, cultural tendencies like that are slow to change but we are not in a hurry. While the tendency remain clear, we only have to wait.
And by the way, if you think our efforts are useless and we are chasing a wild goose, what do you bother? Why are you so dissatisfied with what is said here if we are doomed to failure?
As for complaining, it is really getting tired.
Well, if you are tired, you can leave this group. Nobody called you. You are entitled to express your points of view and the same applies to everybody else. You are not entitled to make all shut up only because you are tired.
I don't like people complaining
You are entitled to your likes. We have the right of complaining whether you like it or not.
This is a free country and we have freedom of expression. Get used to the fact that men have their own opinions and don't have to do whatever you want them to do.
If you don't like us to complain, you can leave. Men have been silent for decades, unable to express their problems and their grievances (while women complained and complained everywhere). Even today, most men cannot express their dissatisfaction with women, because this can have serious consequences in their works or their personal lives. This is one of the places when we can be ourselves with total freedom. Do you want us to shut up? Sorry, it is not going to happen. Get used to that.
when all they need to do is make neccessay changes within themselves. If you were jaded by a number of women, then STOP CHOOSING THE WRONG ONES. It's that simple, LOL.
A lot of things. I do not know where to start.
1. What makes you think we have chosen "the wrong ones"? You do not know us. In fact, most men try to choose "the right one". We were not chasing bimbos. We were looking for a "good woman". It's another business that the so-called "good woman" degenerates into a harpy when she has not everything their way (like you, that when we do not agree with you, tell us "gay" and "woman haters" - in the other thread).
2. You are supremely arrogant. What makes you think you know what is best for men better than men do? Women tell over and over again how men have to do but they do not accept the other way around. How makes you think you have a clue what is to be a man?
3. What makes you think that you can control our behaviour? Are you our mother? Do you think we are your husband and you can nag us and tell us what we should/must/have to do, as women say every time? You are in the wrong forum. Try in manginas.com.
This is why I have avoided women for a longtime. The only way to be at peace with a woman it is doing whatever they wanted us to do (and, even that, they are always complaining because we don't do it the exact way they want us to do). I prefer not to be a slave.
- 1 February 2008 at 00:55
"Yeah! It's all your fault! We're gonna do what we want! Men are conceited and want to speread their seed!"
No market, no product.
Wouldn't have anything to do with conceited btiches who want to pump out a baby like it was some sort of pinnacle of achievement without getting her hair mussed up, would it?
The wrong ones?
I've heard the shit women talk about each other. The only woman that women think AREN'T the wrong one is in her mirror. Which one are you, sugar pie? : )
Piss smells funny, huh?
- 1 February 2008 at 02:14
- bonobo said...
I had the misfortune of finally scoring with this hot looking 24 year old chick i had been after (after i said the right things about where i saw myself in five years lol). Well to make a short story short her fucked-out pussy couldn't have been filled by an elephant cock, and it was obvious though she denied it that she had at one time given birth. I still have nightmarish visions of that destroyed cunt with huge flappy lips, and OOOOOH THE SMELL or should i say REEK rather lol. Anyway when i left her place i just felt pity and disgust and didn't look back; when she called me 3 weeks later it took me almost 2minutes to recognize who i was talking to even after she had told me her name lol, i chatted with her for about 10 seconds and told her i would call her later that evening.......YA RIGHT i would have stabbed myself in both eyes first lol Gerald Montreal
- 2 February 2008 at 01:17
but what are you all doing to make marriage more desirable to both men and women?
You women made the mess. You women can fix it.
Until then...drop dead.
A Man
- 2 February 2008 at 14:20
LOL, that was funny. But don't need a cat or a puppy as I have a way to get the real thing. Guess it kills you that there are guys out there willing to "give it." Funny there are plenty of men and women who are quite happy in relationships. Then there are men like those who frequent this bored that do nothing but complain. If you've had too many bad experiences with women, time to look in the mirror. I say the same to women who do nothing but complain as well.
LOL, that was funny. If any of that was true online dating sites would not be swarmed with all the desperate women. There wouldn't be news articles about where all the men have gone.
Dingbat, the marriage rate is going down. NOT up.
- 2 February 2008 at 14:25
- bonobo said...
for real fuck u girls and whatever u do waste your OWN money ! good riddance
- 2 February 2008 at 14:38
I think that women getting knockked up with imported semen is not all bad.
1-No man has to pay money to raise the children.
2-We don't care about the future of those children: they are not ours, therefore no problem.
3-Those children will grow up and pay income tax... so we can still retire and live off their hard work.(neat, that)
4-We can still use women for our "fleshly" appetite.
5-We are free to do whatever we want.
6-We can spend our money on ourselves. In fact, we can have it all... free.
- 9 February 2008 at 10:20
Woman with a questionable intellect wrote:
"So if you think you can stop
this, you are chasing a wild goose.
Also, it isn't just college kids
donating sperm (to sperm banks).
Some donors are men (30ish) do it
because they want to reproduce and
like the idea (as conceited as it
is) of spreading their seed."
What is it with women that they always confuse their wishful thinking with reality?
Since the Blair (spit) government abolished anonymity the sperm banks have dried up:
Worry over sperm donor shortage
Anonymity law change blamed for chronic sperm donor shortage
Sperm shortage affects whole of UK
This trend will continue around the world because of the importance of genetics when it comes to health matters. The child will have a right to know his or her genetic heritage and that will scare off men like it has in Britain.
Now throw in a few stories like these:
Sperm Donor 'Dad' Must Pay Child Support
Sperm donor to lesbian couple forced to pay child support
Get real woman.
- 10 February 2008 at 03:20
Women repair anything ?
Yeah like that's going to happen. Modern Women are crap
- 14 April 2008 at 00:02
Men! Wise up...you are beginning to sound pathetic. What we have now isn't a world of Men vs Women, but one of the Wise vs the Foolish, and we better all start finding ways of judging who we bring into our lives, way before we start indulging the little hair trigger in our hearts. Whoever said 'men don't dream of houses and families, women do....we dream of adventure and loyalty' must be a deeply unfulfilled person. I have plenty of adventure and loyalty AND I want be part of a loving home for my children. It is to your detriment to start finger pointing towards womankind. Extreme feminism found it's biggest enemy in liberal feminism, not the extreme men's rights lobby. Conduct yourself with honesty, integrity and grace, not anger, name-calling and tit-for-tat reprisals.
Dylan Moran is a genius and it feels good to laugh along with a man saying 'women have no feelings' but taking this as a launchpad for serious resentments against women in general is unbalanced at best.
- 11 August 2008 at 05:28


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Ever since Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi got pregnant, we've slowly warmed to the notion that she's not just a sloppy drunk party girl, but rather a pretty darn good mother. We watched in awe through her pregnancy as she made mature and healthy choices to move out of the Jersey Shore house and to settle in for her new role as wife and mother.
And all of that is great -- for her and for baby Lorenzo -- but I think it may also be leaving Snooki feeling a little worried about becoming boring. So today she headed to the salon and did something racy -- she dyed her hair fire-engine red and sent out a big old reminder to the world with a tweet and a picture that read, "sexual."
It's really ... red. I actually think she looks prettier with her hair dark and her makeup more natural, or even nonexistent, but I don't totally hate it. And I do understand the reason I suspect she did it.
Motherhood changes a lot, and suddenly your sense of self is challenged at best, and sadly lost in many cases. It can be frightening to see who you were slip away even if it is for the most lovable, adorable reason, like Lorenzo. So while the slew of make-up free shots and darlings pics of her and Lorenzo are great, they're far from the Snooki we first grew to love/watch in horror.
Snooki made her name on being outrageous, sexually adventurous, and shocking; and I'm sure she wonders if she can hold the public's attention without all of the antics. So even if her hair is just hair, I think it's a reminder if not to us, then to herself, that a baby may change things but it doesn't have to change everything. She's still Snooki, and she's still the crazy girl she was ... just not quite so crazy.
Struggling to find yourself again after becoming a mother is difficult for anyone, but I imagine it's especially difficult when you've built such an extreme persona in the public eye. So if it takes racy red hair for her to feel like a bit of a meatball again, then I say rock it. And Christmas is coming.
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