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National Coalition of Free Men, Greater New York The National Coalition of Free Men ("NCFM") is a nationwide non-profit organization which seeks to promote awareness of men's rights and how the male role limits men and boys economically, emotionally, psychologically, spiritually, physically, sexually, legally, and otherwise.

Trudy Schuett's Desert Light Journal
Who is the woman of the men's rights movement? Trudy Schuett is an oddity in a movement that most people think--if they think about it all--would presume was nothing but a bunch of angry men. Stranger still is the fact she's neither the mother or sister of a divorced or abused man, but an interested bystander determined to help. She's one of a growing number of women troubled by changes in society that seem to be leaving men, and often their families, with the leftovers.

The Backlash Gender Issues page
Read Rod Van Mechelen's great page highlighting the latest in gender issues in America. Don't stop here--read the rest of Rod's fact-packed site.

Silent Majority
Silent Majority is dedicated to positive reform of New York State Child & Family Policy and Domestic Relations Laws. Follow this link to read some important quotes from judges, lawyers and men of old.

"The Truth Page" by Selwyn Duke
We're offering excerpts from two of Selwyn's articles here on our site. Click the link to be taken to his site for the entire article.

• Federally Imposed Discrimination
       Imagine that you're a young girl who attends dance school and aspires to perform in the Bolshoi. Since yours is a typical dance school, the majority of your fellow students are also young ladies. Now, let's say that a light bulb went off in the heads of a bunch of radical-egalitarian social-engineers in the federal government, and they decided that the dearth of boys in dance schools was indicative of discrimination. And let's say that they decided that the only way to rectify this problem was to mandate that the schools achieve student bodies that are proportional in terms of sex to the population at large. In other words, since roughly 51% of children are male, these institutions would have to ensure that 51% of their student bodies were also. So, in an effort to comply the schools gear their advertising toward boys - to no avail. Then, the schools entertain the possibility of offering scholarships to boys, but this presents them with two problems: firstly, it's like trying to sell mice to elephants - most boys are partial to more macho pursuits. Secondly, the schools realize that they simply can't afford to fund enough boys' participation to conform to the proportionality model. Thus, so that they can avoid incurring the wrath of their heavy-handed bureaucrat tormentors, the schools do the only thing they can do: they eliminate girls from their programs until proportionality is realized. And you are one of the lasses who receive the boot. What's worse is that you can't find another dance school that will let you enroll - you are out in the cold. You're a ship without a port - your dreams have been shattered.
       The above story is of course fiction. But there's another tale with a similar storyline playing itself out all across America - and it quite sadly, is real. What I'm referring to is that in colleges and universities from sea to shining sea boys are being consistently denied access to sporting opportunities for no other reason than the fact that they're male. Read more
   

• Why Women Earn Less
       We have all heard about that intractable wage gap between the sexes - at the time of this writing women make 74 cents on every dollar earned by men. This is one of those statistics that people who think government is their own personal erector set salivate over. After all, it makes for a great sound-bite - it's concise, it tends to evoke emotional reactions and it sends the message that the only way women will get their piece of the pie is through "corrective" government action. Is the statistic true? In essence it is, but there is a more important question here: is this situation the result of unjust discrimination? The answer to that question is a resounding no. Now, let's examine logically why this is so.
       If we pondered the fact that 25 year olds don't earn as much on average as 50 year olds, I don't think it would take us very long to realize that the disparity is not indicative of unjust discrimination. We all know that those two groups are in very different places in life's journey. Now, I've specified "unjust discrimination" for good reason, and it's because we all discriminate - discrimination simply means to choose one or some from among many. When you select the more qualified over the less, the more experienced over the less, those who devote more time over those who devote less, or differentiate between people on any other basis under the sun you are discriminating. But would you call this wrong? Read more