FYI, IMPORTANT request below my signature block. Please help by contacting NPR…

Harry Crouch

California Men’s Centers

National Coalition For Men

IMPORTANT: The National Coalition For Men (NCFM - www.ncfm.org ) is qualified to accept donations from United States government and military personnel worldwide through the “International” Combined Federal Campaign (http://www.opm.gov/cfc/). If you are a U.S. Federal employee please consider donating to NCFM. Our CFC# is 17785, please pass it on. If you are not a federal employee please encourage your federal employee friends and acquaintances to donate to NCFM through the CFC.

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Please contact NPR’s Morning Edition, per the alert below, if you have the time.  Thanks.

RADAR ALERT:NPR Gives Raped Males The Unworthy Victim Treatment

Last week, June 23, Attorney General Eric Holder missed the deadline for issuing standards to prevent prison rape.¹

Men being raped in prison is so accepted by mainstream America that Saturday Night Live’s writers saw nothing wrong with doing 4-1/2 minutes of ass-rape jokes in a sketch called “Scared Straight” that ended with Betty White saying emphatically, “Wizard of Ass”!² Blogger Scott Starnes states the attitude explicitly. Under a graphic stating “Ass-Rape: It’s Always Funny,” Starnes asks: “Who honestly cares about criminals being ass-raped in prison?”³

Ignorant callousness is an obvious problem for reformers trying to eliminate prison rape. But an even more insidious problem is the media’s treatment of male victims as unworthy of concern, as NPR’s Morning Edition recently did.⁴. NPR chose to ignore the fact that 90% of incarcerated individuals are male, and instead focused their story solely on a female-prisoner’s experience of prison-rape. This form of bias is so subtle that most listeners won’t even notice it. But it is a classic example of the very media bias described by Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman in their book Manufacturing Consent⁵, in which they write:

“Our hypothesis is that worthy victims will be featured prominently and dramatically, that they will be humanized, and that their victimization will receive the detail and context in story construction that will generate reader interest and sympathetic emotion. In contrast, unworthy victims will merit only slight detail, minimal humanization, and little context that will excite and enrage.”

NPR’s decision to focus solely on a female victim’s experience demonstrates that they view female rape victims as “worthy” and male victims as “unworthy.” And their mischaracterizing the issue will inevitably lead to stronger protections for female inmates and weaker or non-existent protections for the vast majority of inmates – the male inmates.

Society’s indifference to male victimization helps explain why the Department of Justice can’t get its act together to come up with standards that are already pretty well known. Columnist Robert Franklin summarizes the DoJ’s cynical attitude about missing the deadline as, “Why bother? It’s mostly men who are abused, right?”⁶

Cultural assumptions play an important role in the creation of public policy. And a subtly biased story coming from a mainstream media outlet like NPR is far more effective in propagating and perpetuating bias than anything an obviously biased blogger like Scott Starnes could come out with. Therefore, efforts at exposing subtle bias and trying to correct it are essential to RADAR’s mission to reform the nation’s domestic violence laws.

Kindly contact Morning Edition

http://help.npr.org/npr/includes/customer/npr/custforms/contactus.aspx?sid=1

and ask them to do a follow-up story on the DoJ’s failure to issue standards for the prevention of prison rape. Let them know that their listeners want them to treat male victims as equally worthy of sympathy as female victims. In Chomsky and Herman’s words, the suffering of male victims should be featured prominently and dramatically, the male victims should be humanized just as NPR’s stories have done for female victims, and stories on male victims should give sufficient detail and context to generate reader interest and sympathetic emotion.

When you contact NPR, please be polite.

1 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lovisa-stannow/attorney-general-misses-h_b_622777.html

2 http://www.hulu.com/watch/147971/saturday-night-live-scared-straight

3 http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/2010/06/14/doj-lead-by-ag-eric-holder-is-worried-about-ass-rape-in-prison-system

4 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127376570

5 http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Herman%20/Manufac_Consent_Prop_Model.html

6 http://glennsacks.com/blog/?p=4841

Date of RADAR Release: June 29, 2010

R.A.D.A.R. – Respecting Accuracy in Domestic Abuse Reporting – is a non-profit, non-partisan organization of men and women working to improve the effectiveness of our nation’s approach to solving domestic violence. http://www.mediaradar.org

On Monday, June 28, 2010 the flyer “So what about men: America’s single most important voting block” will be distributed to Congress, though you can get a sneak preview by clicking on the link above. Feel free to print and distribute as many as you like too!

 Harry Crouch

President

National Coalition For Men

 Another long time advocate and friend sent me the following quote for Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrug”. It occurred to me that it is perhaps, inadvertantly, the best description of radical feminism ever written. I thought I’d share that perception with you. Not only that, I’ve created an 11″x 8″ rendering of the saying suitable for framing and hangingin your bathroom or office (the latter takes courage and is not recommended if you work for anyone other than yourself and have no employees). To print out a copy click here: the best description of radical feminism ever written

“Did you really think we want those laws observed?” said Dr. Ferris. “We want them to be broken. You’d better get it straight that it’s not a bunch of boy scouts you’re up against… We’re after power and we mean it… There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted - and you create a nation of law-breakers - and then you cash in on guilt. Now that’s the system, Mr. Reardon, that’s the game, and once you understand it, you’ll be
much easier to deal with.” (’Atlas Shrugged’ 1957) {WMail Issue #23}

Enjoy… particularly if you agree and do nothing to change it.

Harry

The Combined Federal Campaign is the program through which approved non-profit organizations may solicit donations from United States (federal) employees including all branches of the military.

There are four levels of participation: (1) local (2) state (3) national and (4) international. If approved at the international level an organization automatically is included in the other three campaigns. NCFM has been  approved at the international level!

Being approved at the international level also means that NCFM will have its name and a brief description of our mission included in the booklette of approved organizations. The booklettes are distributed to locations throughout the world where federal employees work.

This is a huge opportunity to broaden our fundraising efforts and have the federal government spread our message across the globe. Other benefits include NCFM members being able to make presentations to federal employees.

Much thanks goes to Greg Andresen, NCFM liaison Australia, for all his work ”Down-Under” and his assistance in preparing our application. Much thanks also goes to our liaisons in chapters throughout the United States for their continuing efforts and assistance with the applications. Without the active participation of our national andinternational members this opportunity would have never been possible.

 To our knowledge NCFM is the first organization of its type to be so approved!

You can read the approval letter by clicking on this blue text. More about this later when the CFC kicks off their fundraising campaign later in the year. For now however, you can find our CFC number in the letter. If you are a federal employee or know federal employees they can use that number to make donations to NCFM!

 Take Care,

 Harry Crouch

President

June 7, 2010

You can read about it in the letter the National Coalition For Men sent members of the New Hampshire Legislature. Just click on this link. You might consider sending a polite letter of support too if you have not already done so.

Harry Crouch

Telling it like it is, the revealing of another propaganda piece of the “men are bad” industry. Thank you Steven for this amazing article. An excerpt of Steven’s article is below. You can read the rest on Men’s News Daily . The article reminded me of something I wrote, “Men are also victims of cruel domestic violence“. I wrote, “Eight-year-old Johnny goes home after school awareness training about “women and children” of abuse to an alcoholic mother who beats him. What inappropriate behaviors will he carry as weapons into the future? Will there be an “abuse excuse” for him… or will we jail Johnny when he’s older while his mother sips martinis by the pool.” The article was published April 23, 1998.  Tens of thousands of Johnny’s live behind cold-steel bars… I’d like to see women walk a mile in their shoes…

Walk a Mile in Her Shoes Campaign Couldn’t Walk Three Feet in His

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

By steven deluca

Each April we expose another generation to the “light hearted” spectacle of grown men in high heels, leading a parade to help break the silence about how “1 in 6 women” are violently sexually assaulted by men.  Men should “walk in women’s shoes” is the theme of April as  “Sexual Assault Awareness Month” an event calling attention to how women are hobbled by both fashion and by the evil  patriarchy.

The false 1 in 6 statistic can be traced to Mary Koss in a study for MS magazine where she found that 1 in 4 college women had been raped.  It didn’t matter to Koss that the women didn’t think they had been raped. By her definition they had been despite some of these women continuing to date their “rapist.”

The Independent Women’s Forum calls this the number one myth of feminist claims.

According to Linda Fairstein of the New York County District Attorney’s Sex Crimes Unit, “there are about 4,000 reports of rape each year in Manhattan. Of these, about half simply did not happen.” Source: Fairstein,’s book, Sexual Violence: Our War Against Rape.

On my bulletin board is a photo from a past “walk in women’s shoes” event.  Three grim looking young males are seated at a table staring at high heels.  Behind them, arms folded, are three smug looking women.  These women are encouraging the men to march in high heels at the head of a parade. What little girls and boys learn from this is that millions of women are being sexually violated, and that many of the men watching the dancing bears perform must be rapists.

There is not even a hint that women ever commit serious acts of violence including the sexual abuse of children.  It’s just a Politically Correct event hammering home the point that girls and women suffer because men are evil.   It’s not a parade, it’s a charade. And it crosses the line into hate as surely as if the marchers were wearing sheets and pointed white hoods.  Never in all the years of asking men to walk in women’s shoes have we  asked women to walk in men’s shoes.  That too would be politically incorrect.

Several months ago Canadian men’s rights activist Earl Silverman drafted a letter encouraging the leaders of various countries to reconsider their goverments’ policies on domestic violence. After several months of revisions and working with numerous activists from around the world Earl’s vision took shape under the banner of the National Coalition For Men (NCFM). Six letters to six world leaders were sent, all six signed by the six activists from their respective countries. All of us are waiting responses, as applicable. You can view the letter by clicking on this link.  A warm- hearted thank you goes to Robert Franklin, Esq. for his article ”MRAs Ask Heads of Six Countries, ‘What About the Science of DV?” And, thank you Mr. Silverman for inviting me and NCFM to participate in this worthy endeavor. It was a pleasure working with you and our four other workgroup members: Mary Cleary (Ireland), Jim Bailey (New Zealand), Barry Williams (Australia), and Robert Whiston (England).

Harry Crouch

President NCFM

According to the ACN Newswire All Nippon Airlines (ANA) announced February 23, 2010 that beginning Monday, March 1st, ANA will begin introducing women-only lavatories on some international routes.

The National Coalition for men (NCFM) sent ANA a letter protesting the unequal treatment which may be a violation of California law for flights originating or ending in California.

The following is the introduction in a two page presentation folder cover, front and back. The folder contains brochures and articles and was used as a handout at the 2008 International Violence, Abuse, and Trauma conference in San Diego. NCFM-SD produced 500 of the folders and handed out most of them at the conference. I came across what few copies are left in a file drawer. It occurred to me that you and others might like to read it. Then it occurred to me that some could print it out and actually use it as a two page handout, especially if you are an NCFM member! It starts off…

“You should feel uncomfortable when reading this. While some would have us believe that making one feel “uncomfortable” is criminal, others believe in free speech, the exchange of ideas, and that the questioning of opposing views inherently involves becoming uncomfortable. You have the right to read or not read. No one is forcing you to read this. If you choose to read further and feel conflicted because of closely held beliefs, then you may wittingly or unwittingly be contributing to the politically correct disenfranchisement and premature death of males, one or more of whom you may love, perhaps even your son. If your beliefs are rigid and immune from critical thinking perhaps you should stop reading: or, for that matter perhaps you already have. If you feel superior, applaud, laugh, or cheer at the end of your read please don’t breed. What follows is only a beginning…”

In the original version the prisoner in ball and chain was more visible. I lightened him up so the text was easier to read.

Harry Crouch

National Coalition for Men: President Obama Speech Spreads More Myths About Gender Pay Gap

Obama Ignores Department of Labor Study that Proves the Gender Pay Gap A Woman’s Option

For Immediate Release

LOS ANGELES/EWORLDWIRE/Jan. 29, 2010 — National Coalition for Men (NCFM) Spokesman Marc Angelucci affirms that during President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address on Wednesday evening, the President ignored “overwhelming evidence showing the pay gap is the result of choices made by men and women, including how many hours they work, the type of work, flexibility, commute distances, physical risk, and other factors.”

In his presentation, President Obama said: “We’re going to crack down on violations of equal pay laws - so that women get equal pay for an equal day’s work.” In stating this, says Angelucci, “President Obama helped spread the myth that the gender pay gap is due to sex discrimination.”

Angelucci points to the Department of Labor (DOL) which recently funded a major study on on the causes of the pay gap. The results showed what earlier studies also found - the pay gap reflects women’s privilege of having more options than men - to stay home full-time, or to work part-time or full-time. (’http://www.consad.com/content/reports/Gender%20Wage%20Gap%‘).

The DOL result was further supported in the book, Why Men Earn More,” by Warren Farrell, Ph.D. Farrell examined 25 career/life choices men and women make - hours and commute times, among others - that lead to men earning more and women having more balanced lives. Data showed how men in surveys prioritize money while women prioritize flexibility, shorter hours, shorter commutes, and other factors conducive to being primary parents - an option still mostly denied to men. The book proposes that is why never-married childless women generally outearn their male counterparts.

As Farrell explained, there are many careers, including science fields, where women outearn men. Today, female U.S. corporate directors outearn men. (’http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN0752118220071107?feed...‘).

Women between ages 21 and 30 working full-time earned 117% of men’s wages. (’http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/03/nyregion/03women.html?_r=1&oref=slog…‘).

“Women simply have more options than men to be primary parents, and many of them exercise that option rather than work long, stressful hours,” reported Angelucci. “That is why 57 percent of female graduates of Stanford and Harvard left the workforce within 15 years of entry into the workforce.” (’http://edition.cnn.com/2005/BUSINESS/03/15/optout.revolution/‘).

“This is an option few men have. Try being a single male and telling women on the first date that you want to stay home instead of going to work.”

“Worse,” said Angelucci, “Obama ignores gender disparities impacting men in virtually all aspects of our society including homelessness, work-related deaths and injuries, excessive work hours, unemployment, child custody, criminal sentencing, mortality rates, mental illness, suicide deaths, dropouts, delinquency, education, military deaths, and more.

NCFM calls on Obama to be truthful about the gender pay gap consistent with his March 2009 memo insisting on scientific integrity, and also calls on Obama to stop ignoring issues affecting men and boys. “Our elected officials should help all of us, not just women,” said Angelucci. “There are still many of us who love our sons as well as our daughters.”

More mainstream articles refuting the pay gap:

‘http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/29/business/global/29iht-riedgenper.htm…‘
‘http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-05-04-equal-parenting_N.htm‘
‘http://abcnews.go.com/2020/GiveMeABreak/story?id=797045&page=1&CMP=OTC…‘
‘http://money.cnn.com/2007/06/04/magazines/fortune/muphy_payact.fortune...‘

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PHONE. 626-319-3081

Harry Crouch, President

National Coalition for Men: President Obama Speech Spreads More Myths About Gender Pay Gap

Obama Ignores Department of Labor Study that Proves the Gender Pay Gap A Woman’s Option

For Immediate Release

LOS ANGELES/EWORLDWIRE/Jan. 29, 2010 — National Coalition for Men (NCFM) Spokesman Marc Angelucci affirms that during President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address on Wednesday evening, the President ignored “overwhelming evidence showing the pay gap is the result of choices made by men and women, including how many hours they work, the type of work, flexibility, commute distances, physical risk, and other factors.”

In his presentation, President Obama said: “We’re going to crack down on violations of equal pay laws - so that women get equal pay for an equal day’s work.” In stating this, says Angelucci, “President Obama helped spread the myth that the gender pay gap is due to sex discrimination.”

Angelucci points to the Department of Labor (DOL) which recently funded a major study on on the causes of the pay gap. The results showed what earlier studies also found - the pay gap reflects women’s privilege of having more options than men - to stay home full-time, or to work part-time or full-time. (’http://www.consad.com/content/reports/Gender%20Wage%20Gap%‘).

The DOL result was further supported in the book, Why Men Earn More,” by Warren Farrell, Ph.D. Farrell examined 25 career/life choices men and women make - hours and commute times, among others - that lead to men earning more and women having more balanced lives. Data showed how men in surveys prioritize money while women prioritize flexibility, shorter hours, shorter commutes, and other factors conducive to being primary parents - an option still mostly denied to men. The book proposes that is why never-married childless women generally outearn their male counterparts.

As Farrell explained, there are many careers, including science fields, where women outearn men. Today, female U.S. corporate directors outearn men. (’http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN0752118220071107?feed...‘).

Women between ages 21 and 30 working full-time earned 117% of men’s wages. (’http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/03/nyregion/03women.html?_r=1&oref=slog…‘).

“Women simply have more options than men to be primary parents, and many of them exercise that option rather than work long, stressful hours,” reported Angelucci. “That is why 57 percent of female graduates of Stanford and Harvard left the workforce within 15 years of entry into the workforce.” (’http://edition.cnn.com/2005/BUSINESS/03/15/optout.revolution/‘).

“This is an option few men have. Try being a single male and telling women on the first date that you want to stay home instead of going to work.”

“Worse,” said Angelucci, “Obama ignores gender disparities impacting men in virtually all aspects of our society including homelessness, work-related deaths and injuries, excessive work hours, unemployment, child custody, criminal sentencing, mortality rates, mental illness, suicide deaths, dropouts, delinquency, education, military deaths, and more.

NCFM calls on Obama to be truthful about the gender pay gap consistent with his March 2009 memo insisting on scientific integrity, and also calls on Obama to stop ignoring issues affecting men and boys. “Our elected officials should help all of us, not just women,” said Angelucci. “There are still many of us who love our sons as well as our daughters.”

More mainstream articles refuting the pay gap:

‘http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/29/business/global/29iht-riedgenper.htm…‘
‘http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-05-04-equal-parenting_N.htm‘
‘http://abcnews.go.com/2020/GiveMeABreak/story?id=797045&page=1&CMP=OTC…‘
‘http://money.cnn.com/2007/06/04/magazines/fortune/muphy_payact.fortune...‘

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Harry Crouch, President

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