In the comments to an earlier article, Lilli Marleen wondered whether there was a men's rights movement to help the many men who are ignored and even victimized by our family court system.
The answer is "yes," and about half of those involved in this movement are women, I'm incredibly happy to say. Dianna Thompson and Glenn Sacks detail this in Why Are There So Many Women In the Father's Movement? As they detail, such women are, of course, routinely derided as right-wingers, cranks, and "anti-woman." This is so typical of how many Gender Feminists play the game here in the United States: when your opponent cannot be out-argued, she must be bashed and ridiculed.
Glenn Sacks is quickly becoming my new personal hero, by the way. Sacks, for example, points to the growing crisis of boys in education. He also courageously takes on the myth--and it is a myth--that the vast majoritiy of domestic abusers are men. He also documents, repeatedly, the horrible abuse men take in our lopsided family court system.
Everyone should make a point of reading Glenn's columns on a regular basis.
Any real feminist--one who believed in equality and equity between the sexes--certainly would.
I despise misogyny for exactly the same reasons I despise misandry -- and those heroic women who support men's rights keep me from ever succumbing to that. The chivalry of men toward women. The chivalry of women toward men. Noble. Thank you!
Blogger Richard Bennett, http://www.bennett.com/blog/
is quite involved in these issues, and sometimes writes about them.
Greetings!
I stumbled across this site by accident -- I'm one of those "women of the men's movement."
And yes, I get my share of nonsense from feminists. Just had a real winner today -- one chick first accused me of some sort of vague criminal activity and next insisted I was not really a woman! Oh, well...
Anyway, you're definitely getting a link on my blog! Keep up the good work!
http://desertlightjournal.blog-city.com/
Dianna is an old buddy of mine. She got her start with fathers' rights in the Coalition of Parent Support (COPS), the California lobbying group that I used to lead. Another good article on women in the fathers' rights movement was written by Cathy Young, the Reason magazine editor, and it highlights some other COPS women plus Palo Alto attorney Anne Mitchell.