Boys Will Be Boys? They’d Better Not Be!

Remember the middle-school boys who are facing trial? Well, Greg Crosby adds his two cents on the matter:

Boys Will Be Boys? They’d Better Not Be!

By Greg Crosby

As a man I can appreciate what gives women pleasure. Wait. Let me rephrase that. As a man I can understand the little pleasures of life that bring enjoyment to many women. A long soak in a tub, buying a new pair of shoes, going to a spa, having high tea at a fancy hotel, getting your hair done, having a make-up session with the girls are some of life’s little delights that many women take pleasure in. Even though these activities mean nothing to me, I can still recognize the value of these things for many gals. So why can’t women understand what gives men a bit of pleasure?

Smoking a good cigar, relaxing in a comfortable chair, having a stiff drink with a few other guys, and playing cards are some of the traditional small pleasures that men have enjoyed throughout the years, but many women either don’t understand them, or resent them to the point of attempting to put a stop to these activities altogether. It ain’t fair, girls, it really isn’t.

More and more the girls are taking over. There are fewer places to do man stuff these days, and even when there is a place, there are many more woman than there are men. I mean, I like the ladies, but sometimes a guy just wants to be without them for awhile, y’know? And it’s getting harder to just be a guy than it was for my father’s generation.

Little boys are put on tranquillizers at an early age to keep them from acting like little boys. Men are told to alter their natural aggressive tendencies, to act softer, to get in touch with their feelings. Girls are encouraged to participate in sports to the point that many schools can’t afford to do both girl’s and boy’s sports any longer, so they drop the boy’s sports. Dark, wood-paneled masculine bars have been replaced by light and airy open spaces that are much more attuned to women’s tastes. Men’s gyms are gone, now there are “health clubs” which cater to both sexes but with a significant soft edge for the gals.

But boys are supposed to be tough guys, not just larger versions of girls. Males want to act tough, swear, smoke, drink, raise a little hell, and be competitive. Not to say that guys should be loud, obnoxious, knuckle-dragging, drooling slobs, but they shouldn’t be the sugarplum fairy, either. Remember the old school rhyme, “What are little girls made of? Sugar and spice and everything nice – that’s what little girls are made of. What are little boys made of? Snips and snails, and puppy dog tails – that’s what little boys are made of.”

But thanks to feminism just being a boy today is considered a criminal offense. Think I’m exaggerating? Consider the following news item as reported by The Oregonian as an example: It started when two 13-year-old boys ran down the hall at Patton Middle School and swatted the bottoms of girls as they passed. It was part of what students call “slap butt day” and what some kids said was a common form of greeting.

However, bottom-slapping is against school policy in McMinnville Public Schools. So a teacher’s aide sent the seventh-graders to the office, where the vice principal and a police officer stationed at the school interrogated them. After hours of interviews with students the day of the February incident, the police officer read the boys their Miranda rights and hauled them off in handcuffs to juvenile jail, where they spent the next five days. Did you get that? FIVE DAYS IN THE SLAMMER!

And now Cory Mashburn and Ryan Cornelison, both 13, face the prospect of 10 years in juvenile detention and a lifetime on the sex offender registry.

Since the incident first occurred, confidential police reports and juvenile court records have shed new light on the context of the boys’ actions. The records show that other students, both boys AND girls, were slapping one another’s bottoms. Two of the girls identified as victims have since recanted their statements against the two boys, saying they felt pressured and gave false statements to interrogators. But that doesn’t seem to matter to the politically correct authorities who are bent on throwing the book at the boys.

A second round of interrogation took place when the boys were in detention, then finally after five days, the kids were released. But the judge ordered them out of school, required constant parental supervision and barred them from contacting friends. Any deviation, he said, would result in more time in juvenile jail.

The boys’ families couldn’t believe the nightmarish situation. Neither boy had ever been in trouble. Now, they faced multiple felony counts. Their parents had to figure out how to calm two boys who were traumatized by their time in the Yamhill County Juvenile Detention Center.

Initially the boys were charged with FELONY sex abuse but later the charges were reduced to 10 misdemeanors – five sex abuse counts, five harassment counts. The boys will go on trial August 20th. A leading expert called the case a “travesty of justice” that is part of a growing trend in which children as young as 8 are being labeled sexual predators in juvenile court, where documents and proceedings are often secret.

And don’t think that this is just one isolated incident – this kind of crap goes on all over the country. You can thank women’s lib for this nonsense. Stories like this one prove time and again that the feminist movement isn’t about being “pro-woman” – it’s really about being anti-men. As the saying goes, “boys will be boys” but if they are, they just might get thrown in the pokey. Because in today’s world, boys really don’t stand a chance.

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Equal Parenting Bike Trek

Just a reminder that August 11th is coming up. Good luck to Robert and Rob.

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Feeling the heat

According to this article, the prosecutor in the boys’ bottom-slapping case is feeling some public pressure. Good.

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A brief scripture quote.

The wise woman builds her house, but with her own hands the foolish one tears hers down (Proverbs 14:1).

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Rarer than rabies: the legacy of Michael Nifong

The great Carey Roberts authored this incredible work entitled “Rarer Than Rabies: The Legacy of Michael Nifong.” You go read it now.

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re: Respect

What is it with all this complaining and carping by women about “respect?” “You don’t respect women,” they say. When I hear this kind of B.S., I know that they’re talking out the wrong orifice.

Listen, people: respect is earned. It is not just given or demanded.

With me, everyone starts out at a certain baseline level of respect. From there, you can go down, if you act like a shitbird, or up if you act in ways that I admire. That’s the way it works.

You wimmen DON’T get to demand that I respect you because, by some accident of birth, you have a vagina. The fact that you’re a female and not a male was not accomplished by your own decision and hard work. It was an accident that happened in your daddy’s gonads. So, my respect for him should probably go down because he produced an idiot like you, but up because he put up with you.

If you think I should respect you because you’re a woman, you’ve got another think coming. If you feel I don’t respect you personally, ask yourself what you’ve done to earn that respect. Did you do something especially difficult? Did you save someone’s life? Did you help someone else even though it cost you? Did you put up with great adversity? What have you done?

By the way, the more you demand that I respect you, the more I lose respect for you, because that’s what shitbirds do.

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Middle-School Boys Face Sex Trial

ABC News is reporting this story about two boys who engaged in perfectly normal pre-adolescent rambunctiousness and, as a result, spent time in a juvenile detention hall, and will most likely face trial and, if convicted, have to spend time in juvenile jail and register as a sex offender. I blame the parents. Apparently, they failed to warn their sons that because they were guilty of the biggest sin of all – being male – they would therefore be criminalized for anything and everything.

Here’s the story:

Boys Face Sex Trial for Slapping Girls’ Posteriors

Do the Two Middle-Schoolers Deserve Jail and a Sex Crime Record for What They Call an Exuberant Greeting?

By SCOTT MICHELS
July 24, 2007

Two middle-school students in Oregon are facing possible time in a juvenile jail and could have to register as sex offenders for smacking girls on the rear end at school.

Cory Mashburn and Ryan Cornelison, both 13, were arrested in February after they were caught in the halls of Patton Middle School, in McMinnville, Ore., slapping girls on the rear end. Mashburn told ABC News in a phone interview that this was a common way of saying hello practiced by lots of kids at the school, akin to a secret handshake.

The boys spent five days in a juvenile detention facility and were charged with several counts of felony sex abuse for what they and their parents said was merely inappropriate but not criminal behavior.

The local district attorney has since backed off — the felony charges have been dropped and the district attorney said probation would be an appropriate punishment. The Mashburns’ lawyer said prosecutors offered Cory a plea bargain that would not require him to register as a sex offender, which the family plans to reject.

But the boys, if convicted at an Aug. 20 trial, still face the possibility of some jail time or registering for life as sex offenders.

The boys’ families and lawyers said even sentencing them to probation would turn admittedly inappropriate but not uncommon juvenile rowdiness into a crime. If they are convicted of any of the misdemeanor charges against them, they would have to register as sex offenders.

“It’s devastating,” said Mark Lawrence, Cory Mashburn’s lawyer. “To be a registered sex offender is to be designated as the most loathed in our society. These are young boys with bright futures, and the brightness of those futures would be over.”

‘Lots of Kids Do It’

Cory Mashburn said he and Ryan Cornelison slapped each others’ and other kids’ bottoms every Friday. “Lots of kids at school do that,” he said.

Cory and Ryan were brought to the principal’s office Feb. 22, where they were questioned by school officials and a police officer. They were arrested that day and taken in handcuffs to a juvenile detention facility.

Court papers said the boys touched the buttocks of several girls, some of whom said this made them uncomfortable. The papers also said Cory touched a girl’s breasts. But police reports filed with the court said other students, both boys and girls, slapped each other on the bottom.

“It’s like a handshake we do,” one girl said, according to the police report.

The boys were initially charged with five counts of felony sexual abuse. At a court hearing, two of the girls recanted, saying they never felt threatened or inappropriately touched by the boys. The judge released the boys but barred them from returning to school and required that they be under constant adult supervision.

District Attorney Bradley Berry has since dismissed the felony counts. The boys face 10 misdemeanor charges of harassment and sexual abuse. They face a maximum of up to one year in a juvenile jail on each count, though Berry said there was no way the boys would ever serve that much time.

“An appropriate sentence would be probation,” he said. “These are minor misdemeanor charges that reflect repeated contact against multiple victims. We never intended for them to get a long time in detention.”

“We’re not seeking major penalties,” he said. “We’re seeking change in conduct.”

‘We Just Want This to Be Over’

Tracie Mashburn, Cory’s mother, said they will not accept plea and plan to fight the charges.

The arrests, critics said, reflect a trend toward criminalizing adolescent sexual behavior. Between 1998 and 2002, juvenile arrests for sex offenses other than rape or prostitution rose 9 percent — the only kind of juvenile arrests that rose during that time, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics.

“More and more, they are criminalizing normal adolescent or preadolescent behavior,” said Chuck Aron, co-chairman of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers juvenile justice committee.

Even probation, the Mashburns and their attorney said, would be too severe a punishment.

Julie McFarlane, a supervising attorney at the Juvenile Rights Project in Portland, Ore., said, “Probation for a sex offense is very difficult thing, and there’s a pretty high failure rate.” Failing to meet the terms of probation could mean the boys would be sent to jail.

Depending on the terms of probation, it’s likely that the boys would not be allowed to have sexual contact with anyone or any contact with younger children, McFarlane said. For Cory Mashburn, that would mean he couldn’t be left alone with his younger siblings.

“It’s been awful,” said Cory’s mother. “We just want this to all be over. But it will never go away. We’ll always remember it.”

Berry, the district attorney, said the victims — the girls who were touched — were being overlooked. “What’s been lost in this whole thing are the victims, who have been pressured enormously by these boys’ friends,” he said.

Cory, who said he now realizes what he did was inappropriate, spends his days playing video games and basketball. He said he’s scared. “I could go to jail. I could be registered as a sex offender,” he said. “I think it’s all crazy.”

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Disappearing blogs

There’s been a rash of disappearing men’s rights blogs recently. Eternal Bachelor, Fred X, Captain Zarmband, Yet Another Anti-Feminist Blog – all have gone the way of the Dodo. There’s lots of conspiracy theories abounding about what happened. I certainly don’t have any idea.

But I have no plans on letting mine disappear.

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Duke rape accuser should be punished for lives she damaged

I stumbled across this article, and thought I’d repost it, because it raises many good points. As I’m keenly interested in justice, I’m reposting it here.

Duke rape accuser should be punished for lives she damaged

By Michael Smerconish

There will never be justice in the Duke University lacrosse case until somebody slaps cuffs on the accuser, Crystal Gail Mangum.

In April, North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper issued a report accompanying dismissal of the charges against each of the three lacrosse players accused – Dave Evans, Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann. Cooper didn’t pull any punches. His findings went beyond the conventional “not guilty” to proclaim the men “innocent.” Duke reached a private settlement with the men to ward off litigation. Too bad it reportedly protected 88 Duke faculty members who signed an ill-conceived petition last spring that all but explicitly sided with the accuser. Duke also settled with an uncharged lacrosse player; he complained he received a bad grade because of his association with the team.

And of course, Mike Nifong – former district attorney for Durham County, and the man who so publicly prosecuted the case – has now surrendered his job, his license to practice law, and the keys to his office. A disciplinary panel concluded he should be disbarred for his handling of the case, and then Durham’s sheriff literally drove to his house and took his keys to the county courthouse. Before it’s all over, Nifong could end up in jail.

All good, so far. But someone is missing: Mangum. She needs to return to the Durham County courthouse in handcuffs – as perpetrator, not accuser. The idea of “closure” remains a joke until she gets a taste of what Evans, Finnerty and Seligmann went through, and what Nifong is now suffering.

She needs to be punished for the damage she has done to our judicial system and the potential harm she has caused real rape victims. It’s often said rape victims are assaulted twice – once by the perpetrator, and again by the judicial process. Fear of this process, which can become a referendum on the lifestyle of the “victim,” leads some to choose not to prosecute. The Duke case, initiated by false charges, became particularly ugly, and one has to worry that it exacerbated an already hostile climate for victims. Might a real victim look at the legitimate lambasting of Mangum and find even more reasons not to enter that arena? I think so.

The report by the North Carolina Attorney General’s Office illustrates not only Nifong’s naivete, but also Mangum’s deceit:

“The reinvestigation led to the conclusion that there was no credible evidence to support the allegation that the crimes occurred. . . . Her proposed testimony about critical events changed whenever it was demonstrated that what she was saying could not be accurate. . . . While witnesses often have inconsistencies in details when recounting events over time, the volume of inconsistent statements and the fact that many of these were substantial and were in regard to significant events rendered the truthfulness of the accusing witness in serious doubt.”

In non-legalspeak, she lied! But she walks free.

George Parry, a former federal and state prosecutor now in private practice in Philadelphia, told me that North Carolina law stipulates that Mangum can be charged with false reports to law enforcement agencies, a Class 2 misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in prison.

And he added: “Even though Crystal Gail Mangum set this train wreck in motion, it appears that she has ‘Tawana Brawley immunity’ from prosecution. Thanks to racial politics, she belongs to a protected class of false declarants whom law enforcement will not dare to touch.”

Let’s hope it’s a fear law enforcement will soon overcome. Until it does, the tracks through Durham remain uncleared.

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Men don’t have gender issues?

This was a good analogy:

“Men don’t have gender issues,” some feminists might insist, “because If they did, they would be speaking up.” When you realize that men’s effort to get the media to address their gender issues has fallen on deaf ears, this is somewhat akin to saying, “Let me see a show of hands from those in the audience who are missing both arms,” and when you see no hands go up, you proclaim proudly, “See? That proves there is no one here who’s missing both arms.”

- From Male Matters.

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