Father's Day: Celebrating 'Good Enough' Fathers Is a Waste of Time

Submitted by Mastodon on Sat, 2013-06-15 19:06

Article here. Excerpt:

'Father's Day is the annual celebration of men's fertility. It is not a celebration of "good fathers" but, rather, any man who contributes sperm to create a child. We have arrived at a point in our culture where violent men are considered "good enough" fathers. We are in the midst of a crisis in masculinity where male violence is excused and normalised. The media writes stories of men, like Andrew Parsons, who brutally murder their partners but who are still classed as "good fathers". The losers in our culture are women and their children.
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This Father's Day, we should examine the realities faced by women and children in our capitalist-patriarchal culture. Why do so many men assume that they should face no consequences for fathering a child? And, why does the government support the right of these men to fuck women with impunity whilst "slut-shaming" those women for having sex? Why are women the only ones who have to take responsibility for the consequences of having sex? Why does the government think it should punish some women for withholding contact from abusive men without punishing those same men for the abuse or their failure to pay maintenance? Why do men get to do whatever they want whenever they want with no legal or moral requirement for them to act like an adult?'

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Father's Day appears instead to have become a day merely to intensify attacking fathers/men more than anything else. It's like it was invented specifically to discourage men from fathering kids. Well, as I've sometimes said, I suspect that perhaps that is in fact the not-so-secret reason behind gov't policies that appear quite deliberately to encourage women and men alike to avoid reproducing. On the one hand, they raise the alarm abt needing more taxpayers (i.e., more new humans produced by the current adult population) to fund things like Medicare/Medicaid and Social Security, but on the other, persecute fathers relentlessly at the drop of a hat.

The right and left hands aren't just out of touch w/ ea. other, they're downright schizo.

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Submitted by Matt on Sat, 2013-06-15 21:13

Seriously, f*ck you.

That is all.

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Submitted by sirprince on Sun, 2013-06-16 00:34