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"When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment."
-Warren Farrell

"Why does the dad only become unfit for his parenting role after separation?"
-Jayne Woodman

"Part of the reason that men seem so much less loving than women is that men's behavior is measured with a feminine ruler. "
- Francesca M. Cancian


"Women fight just as dirty as men in the workplace and bedroom, they just don't want to admit it. ... The fundamental lie of sisterhood, that women co-operate but men compete, creates a separate and unequal moral standard for women's professional conduct that is self-defeating."
-Kate Fillion

"It is absolutely outrageous that I am permitted to know these men's names and not the names of the women who accused them of such a serious offence. This unjust law seems to be based on a strange alliance between old-fashioned chivalry and modern, politically correct feminism. Kind-hearted but infuriatingly patronising male traditionalists view women as sweet, weak, dim, infantile and needy of protection under all circumstances. Meanwhile the more extremist members of the sisterhood regard every single man in the universe as a potential rapist, and every woman alive as essentially honourable and incapable of evil. Hence this legislation that shields women from embarrassing publicity and implies that men deserve humiliating exposure because they are guilty of rape until proved innocent. ... I'm a feminist. But I'm also the mother of a nice son, the daughter of a compassionate man, the sister of pleasant brothers, the wife of a gentle husband and the cousin, friend and niece of many jolly decent blokes. And I cannot endorse a law that regards male feelings and reputations as irrelevant. Some women may be fragrantly fragile little lotus blossoms. But a fair number are vicious poison ivies."
-Donu Kogbara


. . Feminism has, for the first time in history, turned women from shaming individual men who are judged dishonorable, to shaming men in general and masculinity as an institution. And the very real danger in this is that if men come to perceive that there is no way for them to achieve honor, to be recognized publicly and privately as 'good' men, then they may sense that they have little to lose by taking what they want, since they have little to gain by restraining themselves. I very much fear that if we do not turn aside from our still-growing, wholesale shaming of men and the Patriarchy and all things male, that our future may contain civil violence of a degree we have never seen before."
-Everyman.org



"Today fathers in England, America and most of the Western world stand upon a foundation of sand, knowing that our loved ones can be ripped away from us and there is often little we can do about it. We invest our lives in the children we love and tell them that we will always be there for them. But in the back of our minds we can't help but think of a question which Spiderman no doubt considered before he began his ascent up that crane hanging over Tower Bridge: will we be allowed to?"
-Glenn Sacks

" ... we are surrounded by a Salem-like frenzy concerning sexual matters, orchestrated all over the Western world by coalitions of feminists, socialists, ecology-freaks, greens and so forth, intent on creating a statist matriarchy. They are pretty damn successful. ... I simply don't know how men can function in this matriarchal nightmare."
-Barbara Amiel



The feminist resistance to any discussion of fatherhood has been defensive, and sometimes downright offensive when it shades into virgin-birth fantasies about the total redundancy of men."
-Ros Coward


"The key to the garden gate is the belief that men have ruined everything, but women, through their special attributes, can solve the world's problems. Ironically, this belief extols the ideals of femininity that earlier feminists fought so hard to escape."
-Rene Denfeld

"In America, the divorced parent who gets the kids, gets the house, gets the money. You don't own your house. Your kids do. So that's why the women go after the kids. That's how the monster works."
-Rich Zubaty



"The Best Interest of the Child for every child in America is that the constitutional rights of both parents be protected against the good intentions, pretensions, intrusions, and ignorance of the State.

"Do not cry that it is our duty to serve you. We do not recognize such duty. Do not cry that you need us. We do not consider need a claim. Do not cry that you own us. You don't. Do not cry that we owe you. We do not recognize unearned guilt. Do not beg us to return. We are on strike, we, the men of the mind."
-Ayn Rand

"When a parent intentionally or recklessly injures a child, we call it abuse. We punish those people. We put them in jail. When a man or woman intentionally or recklessly injures a spouse, we call it abuse. We punish those people. We put them in jail. When the government intentionally or recklessly injures a parent, we call it family law. We pay its agents. We give them judicial immunity."
-Mike Newdow

"'Equality' is meaningless. Is a bee equal to a sparrow? The term is meaningless. And anyway, feminism was never honestly about Equality. Feminism was about MORE STUFF FOR WOMEN. Women don't want to mine coal or get drafted into war. That's too much Equality for them."
-Rich Zubaty

"... someday, the distortion of truth by the radical feminists of our time will be seen to have been the greatest intellectual crime of the second half of the twentieth century. At the present time, however, we still live under the aegis of that crime, and calling attention to it is an act of great moral courage."
-Howard Schwartz

"DNA Tests don't lie. Mothers do."
- Rich

"Feminism cannot survive an open debate."
-John Jones

"If there is such a thing as a wage gap ... if it is, in fact true that women make only 3/4 the wages of men ... why do corporations continue to hire men? Why not just hire women and save the 25%?"
-Unknown

"A country which allows this situation to grow year by year is on a collision course for disaster. A society which finds any criticism of the situation hard to take is being hypocritical and irresponsible.... generations of children are roaming run-down council estates like packs of wild dogs. .... Single mothers are not necessarily defenceless creatures. Often they are tough, ruthless, greedy and exploitive and they’ll carry on being like that until they’re stopped."
-Lynda Lee-Potter

"Men are not the oppressors of women. The simple proof of that is that Women are not oppressed. Women are not now, and never have been "oppressed". Women have the right to vote with NO concomitant obligation to be drafted in time of war to protect their right to vote. Personally, I don't see how they got the one without being forced to assume the other. They have the power without the responsibility. The only way Democracy got reborn in the modern world was because men fought and died battling the power of kings and their corporations to seize this right. But women gained it by fighting what? A "courageous" ideological struggle? It's Twinkies. Philosophical Oatmeal."
-Rich Zubaty

"The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation."
-Adolph Hitler

Ok, so my ex is taking me back to court ... for what, you ask? Mo' money, of course.

But, that's not actually what I'm writing about ... So I'm talking to my lawyer ... well wait, a little background info first. My daughter is 13 and my son is 17. In georgia, a child gets to choose where they live when they turn 14, and child support pretty much ends when the child turns 18.

Ok, having said that ... my lawyer asks me if, when my daughter turns 14, would she choose to live with me?

I say yes I think she will ... but ... with my son being 18, and his child support ending, if my daughter chooses to live with me, then my child support to my ex will come to a grinding halt. In addition to losing all that money, the ex is going to have a tough time paying me child support. In fact, she will probably fight like hell before she starts paying support money. I'm fearful that mom will drag the kids into the fight, and I really don't want to put my sweet lil' daughter through that.

And my lawyer says - I am NOT making this up:

"Well, you won't get child support."

I laughed.

And then the silence fell.

And in the silence, she deadpans: "I'm not joking."

She was entirely serious. I can sue for child support, but she says the courts won't award it, and it'd be a waste of money to try.

I splutter: "##### ME?"

She says she knows it's not fair, but that's how it works. Mothers don't pay child support. They just don't.

She continues on: "In fact, it's possible you'll continue paying child support if your daughter comes to live with you."

I ask (in no pleasant terms) why that would be?

She says: "Well, we want to be sure that the children don't go visit their mother's house, and they're eating rancid peanut butter for breakfast."

But apparently it's ok if they're eating rancid peanut butter at Dad's house, where they live.

So I'm reeling a bit, thinking that this has to be some kind of a joke. I decide a little more blunt language may be in order, shake things up a bit. I try a different tack: "So you're telling me because I have a penis I have to pay for my kids, but because she's born with a vagina, she doesn't have to support her kids? No matter which of us they live with?"

She says: "That about sums it up."

I'm ... I'm ... I'm ... I have no words.

You know ... misandry in this world is more often than not subtle and hidden in ways to make it more palatable. This type of in-your-face sexism is, in my opinion, rare. When I do see it though, I am reminded that there are hordes of men who've faced it and survived without offing themselves, or have restrained themselves enough to keep from literally murdering the vampires we too-kindly call 'mothers'.

I'm perpetually amazed at how strong - REALLY strong men are to resist that temptation.

which females in your life are you pissed at?

There must be a point to your posts.

If so, point it out without all these references from someone else's bitch list

And for a bit of information, the women's section here is titled"Women and the martial arts", not "place for men to whine about how they are mistreated".

I am reminded that there are hordes of men who've faced it and survived without offing themselves, or have restrained themselves enough to keep from literally murdering the vampires we too-kindly call 'mothers'.

Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation and destroy the male sex.

The male is completely egocentric, trapped inside himself, incapable of empathizing or identifying with others, or love, friendship, affection of tenderness. He is a completely isolated unit, incapable of rapport with anyone. His responses are entirely visceral, not cerebral; his intelligence is a mere tool in the services of his drives and needs; he is incapable of mental passion, mental interaction; he can't relate to anything other than his own physical sensations. He is a half-dead, unresponsive lump, incapable of giving or receiving pleasure or happiness; consequently, he is at best an utter bore, an inoffensive blob, since only those capable of absorption in others can be charming. He is trapped in a twilight zone halfway between humans and apes, and is far worse off than the apes because, unlike the apes, he is capable of a large array of negative feelings -- hate, jealousy, contempt, disgust, guilt, shame, doubt -- and moreover, he is aware of what he is and what he isn't.

This is just not the right forum for this discussion. Please take it over to Panther's "Tough Issues" forum.

And once again you have done what I've asked you not to do. Simply posted a gigantic abstract from an article without framing your point, your questions, or your goal in the discussion.

Was I somehow unclear previously? Simply boldfacing sections of an article doesn't frame a debate.

Dana

(as an example--If a women wishs to be able to have an abortion, then I should be able to legally abrogate my responsibilties as a parent as well.)