Trish Wilson’s blog has a brand new look and some hard-hitting questions for Wendy McElroy who in this column appearing on ifeminists, a FOX feature, informs readers about alarming actions taken by ‘fathers’ rights activists’ in the UK.
In the last two weeks, more than 60 family court offices in Britain received hoax bombs that were apparently sent by fathers’ rights extremists: perhaps by one individual.
At this point I’m wondering, among other things, why McElroy referenced The Black Panthers in her column. Wouldn’t a more relevant analogy have been made between these angry white men and say, The Weathermen, who in fact took it the next step and manufactured real bombs?
This mini-psyche profile is a tighter fit as well:
Driven by simplistic politics (which Gitlin adroitly describes as being of the “kindergarten” level) and full of their own egos, the Weathermen believed that their radical actions would help drive the country into revolutionary chaos…
…But, protected by the privilege of their skin color and background (several of them are now safely-ensconced career academics) in a way that groups like the Panthers never were, the Weathermen survived as the left collapsed around them.
With reference to Father’s Right’s and bomb hoaxes.
I think it is worth stopping for a moment and considering the extent that the womans movement had to go to in order to achieve the vote and equal rights, during their 70 year suffrage struggle from 1850 to 1920
They petrol bombed premise, smashed up windows went on hunger strikes, threw themselves under racehorses.
They undoubtedley had a just cause – 95% of men today would support that cause.
Their is growing civil rights disobedience around the western world due to the culture of creating disenfranchised fathers and the demolition of the paternal family line.
Do we want to see an escalation from bomb hoaxes to the kind of activities that women felt the need to undertake to get their cause recognised?
Do we have to wait for 70 years for justice to prevail and give children the right that each and every one of them deserve – that of having both parents in their life?
It is time for women to wake up and support the cause of injusitice to both fathers and the paternal line of the family which unfolds in Family Law courts across the globe. After all women too are affected by the legal malaise, especially if they happen to be grandmothers via being mothers of sons.
This is afterall not a man v woman/ father v mother issue – it is viz a viz like the suffrage of a 100 years back – a simple issue of human rights.
Hi terence,
I’ve never been one to sign on to violent causes for any reason, or agree to points that rest on generalisations.
Whether laws in general need to addressed is another matter but I’m fairly certain bomb hoaxes are not the best way to win custodial rights and influence judges.
Peace