| Great suggestion putting out windows. Anyway, if you're suggesting that men are not taking to the streets in protest against discrimination in divorce and custody law, for example you're wrong. They are. They're fighting tooth and nail against the legal discrimination they're facing, and against having their children ripped from them. We don't hear about it very much in the mainstream media, because they think like you do; you have to visit men's news sites to hear about it. Over the past year Glenn Sacks has spearheaded a campaign to protest David and Goliath T-Shirts, made for little girls, which carry violent and hateful messages towards little boys - but no such messages about girls. Stores all over the continent have pulled the shirts from their shelves, from Macy's to Bloomingdales. At Christmas a big group of divorced fathers in England donned Father Christmas suits and demonstrated in the public square against the unfair divorce and custody laws. Activists are trying to get the VAWA (the 5 billion dollar law to help only women who are victims of violence, despite the fact that men suffer far more violent crimes) to distribute the money more equally - to open shelters for abused men (who comprise about 40 percent of DV victims, by the way.)
And every time they talk about what they're doing, talk about the discrimination they are facing, share their stories or discuss the legal discrimination they are facing, they have people telling them they're a bunch of pansy crybabies who should shut up and take it like a man.
Well, nice work.
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest. Mohandas Gandhi |