Sacks and McCormick: Shared Parenting Initiative Helps Women, Too

Well, you have to think of it in terms of the feminists. They don't want equality. To convince any feminist of anything that is actually equal, you'll have to twist it in a way that will let them think they are getting all the cookies in the jar. This article is good because it supports something that is equal and beneficial to the child, while talking in the feminist language of "only us girls should benefit in equal rights." That way, more feminists will be tricked into actually supporting equality. Heaven forbid they actually want equality.

Well, you have to think of it in terms of the feminists. They don't want equality. To convince any feminist of anything that is actually equal, you'll have to twist it in a way that will let them think they are getting all the cookies in the jar. This article is good because it supports something that is equal and beneficial to the child, while talking in the feminist language of "only us girls should benefit in equal rights." That way, more feminists will be tricked into actually supporting equality. Heaven forbid they actually want equality.

The problem is that that this approach depends upon deceiving women into pursuing actual justice. Being unjust has its disadvantages...

Why is it so difficult to be a single mother? Because the father was unjustly forced out of the children's life. You got the sperm and the wallet but you threw away the backup childcare.

Why aren't there any decent men out there? Because so many women systematically mistreat men that we become less and less willing to date. That and the expectations are so unrealistically high without reciprocity that again, men are less willing to date.

Why won't men commit? Because we get ass-reamed in divorce court -- all because she (typically) decided to end the marriage for trivial purposes. Again a problem of justice.

Why don't men want to have children? Because we get reamed again in family court.

It all boils down to justice. Women have rammed injustice upon injustice down the throats of men. Men have responded by quietly dealing with these injustices to the detriment of women. Women in general have become so female-centered that they can't see men except to blame them for problems of their own making.

If women want things easier, they'll have to embrace true justice and stop denying it to men.

Female truth --

The fundamental defect of the female character is a lack of a sense of justice. This originates first and foremost in their want of rationality and capacity for reflexion but it is strengthened by the fact that, as the weaker sex, they are driven to rely not on force but on cunning: hence their instinctive subtlety and their ineradicable tendency to tell lies: for, as nature has equipped the lion with claws and teeth, the elephant with tusks, the wild boar with fangs, the bull with horns and the cuttlefish with ink, so it has equipped woman with the power of dissimulation as her means of attack and defence, and has transformed into this gift all the strength it has bestowed on man in the form of physical strength and the power of reasoning. Dissimulation is thus inborn in her and consequently to be found in the stupid woman almost as often as in the clever one. To make use of it at every opportunity is as natural to her as it is for an animal to employ its means of defence whenever it is attacked, and when she does so she feels that to some extent she is only exercising her rights. A completely truthful woman who does not practice dissimulation is perhaps an impossibility, which is why women see through the dissimulation of others so easily it is inadvisable to attempt it with them. – But this fundamental defect which I have said they possess, together with all that is associated with it, gives rise to falsity, unfaithfulness, treachery, ingratitude, etc. Women are guilty of perjury far more often than men. It is questionable whether they ought to be allowed to take an oath at all.

(Arthur Schopenhauer 1788-1860)

http://www.heretical.com/miscella/onwomen.html

If women want things easier, they'll have to embrace true justice and stop denying it to men.

That's the problem. They can't see past that first step. They think they are being powerful by screwing over men every chance they get. However they don't look too far in advance, as many of your great examples point out. The only way to get through to them is to cater to their self-interests in unusual extremes, kind of like children. "Now Timmy, if you want a cookie, do your homework." That works much more often then "Now Timmy, do your homework so you'll get accepted into a college and get a good job." I agree with what you are saying, just trying to clarify my statement.