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Let me speak for the guys who visit here who are happily married and live with their wives and children. Please do no consider this as a citicism but rather a suggestion.
I attach myself to this community because there are many issues that concern me regardless of the state of my marriage: education, health, sexual harassment, etc. While I hold my views overtly in my home, I don't want to drag my family into my activism. I make no bones about asserting what I believe are principles of gender equality, but again, I don't expect my family to join me in every demonstration.
On Father's Day, we try to do something with the family that's fun for all of us, but it's typically something of my choosing. Dragging the family off to Washington DC to be part of a demonstration is 1) cumbersome because of the travel involved (though it's only about a 3 1/2 hour drive) and 2) impinging on my the rest of the family's personal politics. Though I've had few major objections, it's still not something I'm comfortable doing. I do not apologize to anyone here this position.
However, I WOULD collect my son and head off to Washington DC for an event, either a celebration or a demonstration on Saturday, the day before Father's Day, and I suspect that there are more than a few men who feel the same way. (Although this year, for the second year running, my own organization is holding an event, a car show the proceeds which go to benefit prostate cancer research.)
It's not my intent to be critical of anyone's effort, and I think Jen's idea of putting up a booth is great. I only offer this suggestion to try to draw more married men into the movement. It seems critical to me that the two groups that we need to recruit heavily are happily married men with children and male college students (feminisms next most likely victims).
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No criticism taken, Frank. I did not pick the date, it was posted by Mike Regan on the F4JInt list, with permission to cross post. As the wife of DaveK and a mother of two sons, I can understand how you value the time with your children and wife. I cannot make the choice for you, it is not mine to make.
For us, there is no greater way I can show my support for my husband, the father of my children, than to protest the treatment he and other fathers around the world are getting. I think that it is vital to my boys they see my husband and I protest the treatment they, as boys, are and will get throughout their lives.
As I said, we each make our decisions, and I can fully understand and support your choice. I don't know if changing the date would bring in more people, or lessen the effect, but it is not my choice to make.
Thanks for your suggestion, i will pass it on. The Biscuit Queen
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