Apparently happening as recently as this week too.

Reports: Boko Haram village raids kill hundreds in Nigeria

http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/05/world/africa/boko-haram-village-raids/index.html

Sounds like hundreds were killed, but they did single out men and boys.

"The attackers, who posed as soldiers, told residents they had come to protect them from Boko Haram and asked them to assemble. They singled out men and boys and opened fire on them, Biye said.

A local leader in Attagara village, who fled to nearby Madagali town in neighboring Adamawa state, said the death toll was staggering.
"The death is unimaginable. We have lost between 400 and 500 people in the attacks in which men and male children were not spared," said the local leader, who asked not to be named for security reasons."

Eggs are expensive; sperm are cheap.

I immediately thought of the evolutionary angle on this, Snoopy, but it's really that women can be impregnated and pass on the line of the rapists. Men have no value on that level and, in fact, are a danger and potential foil to that goal.

It seems the story of the kidnapped girls has faded from the media's attention. Like so many other things. A 3-5 day news story at best. A shame.

The American media, maybe.

If any of the girls are RESCUED (as opposed to a few more escaping), I expect the American media will take note.

In the progressive, politically correct mind, whether or not such atrocities are worthy of attention depends not on the nature and magnitude of the atrocities themselves, but on who the victims and perpetrators are.

> A 3-5 day news story at best. A shame.

Well... Ok.

I know what you mean.

But who exactly did you want to go in there to solve this problem?

The flat, irrefutable truth is that there's precisely one nation on the planet with the logistical resources, contemporary decency, and violent powers to liberate those girls, or at least punish their enslaving miscreants. That nation is the United States.

Why should poor Hispanic kids from East L.A. always give their lives when the rest of the 'modern' world gets all pouty about typically primitive behavior in the Third World?

Wouldn't it just be amazeballs/faboo if the nations of Europe, individually or in concert, could actually reach into the darkness for just ONE of these stories to deliver a good outcome, without leadership or sacrifice by the United States? Wouldn't that be grand?

"It seems the story of the kidnapped girls has faded from the media's attention. "

This. It was just an excuse for hashtag activism by the glitterati. They've moved on.

"But who exactly did you want to go in there to solve this problem?"

To put the matter a bit more bluntly: There is one and only one solution to the immediate problem, and that's to send the U.S. Army over there to shoot the mofos. Who wants to go there? I thought not. And yes, I understand the reasons why not. Still, the comment stands.

meh, everyone stood aside when they slaughtered MILLIONS in Darfur, what's a couple hundred girls? Oh, yeah YET another elite rallying cry for all correct minded people to get together over drinks and hashtags.

After the CF that is Libya "or at least punish their enslaving miscreants." I doubt that they are even afraid, because they know that we'll be bogged down in niceties, and hamstrung by stupid ROE's

More to the point, the killing or enslavement of boys in africa has been going on long enough that there is prolly not much to be done. If there was a country to help get everything straightened out, it needs to be in africa, and none of them are capable.

Most of you are focusing on the pointlessness of even reporting the girls story. But the reality is the western world doesn't value men.

-Male educational achievement is down and dropping. But all you read about is women's educational problems.
-Men are less than 33% of collage students and dropping.
-Female labor participation is back where is was before the recession, but male labor participation continues to lag.
-Most suicide prevention is aimed at women. But men are 3-10 times more likely to die from suicide.

I half expect someone to call me a whiner for bringing things like this up. I'm just pointing out that none of this makes the news.

Another funny one feminist complain about is that for all ages men's median wealth is higher than women's. Slate and others have called for government to end this oppression by the patriarchy. But 5 year olds don't earn an income. So how are 5 year old males richer than 5 year old females? Men have a higher rate of death at all ages. And poor people also have a higher rate of death. So boys in wealthy families survive while boys in poor families dies. No patriarchy needed.