Deadbeat Dad Hypocrite

	posted by Hombre on 12:56 PM August 21st, 2004
	Dittohd writes "This American guy who lives in Mexico and married a Mexican woman has written articles criticizing "thousands of Mexican men (who) use emigration to abandon their wives and children," calling them "deadbeat dads", yet he repeatedly reenlists in the U.S. National Guard after marrying and having children, knowingly setting himself and his family up for exactly what just happened to him/them. Now he's been Called to Fight in Iraq (duh!) and is complaining about not having U.S. law to protect his job while he's gone so that he can come back to that same job when (and if) he makes it back. Plus he complains that his family has now lost the health insurance his previous employer provided. Isn't this guy every bit a "deadbeat dad" as all the other men he criticizes or what? Was he putting his family and children first and foremost each time he reenlisted in the National Guard or wasn't he selfishly putting his family at risk in return for the few extra dollars he received from the U.S. Government for staying in and repeatedly reenlisting in the Guard? What a loser!"

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Warren Farrell on the "migrant worker draft" (Score:0) by Anonymous User on 04:54 PM August 21st, 2004 EST (#1) What about all the Mexican men who cross the border, work like dogs, damage their health, and then graciously send money to their wives and kids in Mexico? Are they "deadbeats" too? This is the disposable sex as usual. Warren Farrell, The Myth of Male Power, pp. 110-11: "Being rejected all day didn't mean returning to a warm home at night; it meant sleeping in the cold hills. In San Diego, these men are everywhere. The field labor leaves the men permanently stooped over (after seven to ten years' work) and rips up their hands. The pesticides sprayed on the fields two or three times daily gradually soak into the men's skin, especially through open cuts on their hands. The poisons eventually deplete the men's brains or cause cancers. Those who make it back into the United States year after year to work in the fields thus face brain damage or early death (typically by age 40). Most of these men are sending their wages back to their wives and children in Mexico, whom they see only once or twice a year before once again risking imprisonment by illegally crossing the U.S. border. This might be though of as the migrant worker draft. Another all-male draft. This 'sacrifice-to-feed' is the male form of nutruance. In every class, men with families provide their own womb, the family's financial womb. They provide their bodies. But the psychology of disposability leaves them without placards reading My Body, My Choice. No movement calls these men oppressed for providing money for women from whom they are receiving neither cooking nor cleaning; for providing their wives with homes while they sleep on the ground. When a field worker is radicalized, he is taught to see the classism but remains blind to the sexism. Yet we call Mexican men patriarchs - as if the rules of their society served them at the expense of women." This was written over a decade ago. Warren Farrell deserves "prophet" status. He is way ahead of his time. Marc

For the 'modern woman'... (Score:1) by mcc99 on 12:55 PM August 22nd, 2004 EST (#2) (User #907 Info) ...there's just not enough love in the world.

Worldnet Daily (Score:0) by Anonymous User on 05:24 PM August 22nd, 2004 EST (#3) Loons the lot. Problem is sometimes they support male issues. However, being lumped in with these people doesn't do anyone any favours.

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