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"Fathers & Families' highly-publicized lawsuit against the new Massachusetts child support guidelines was heard in a Boston court today. As of 2008 Massachusetts' child support guidelines were already among the highest in the country, and the new guidelines raised them right in the face of one of the worst recessions of the past 100 years."As anticipated, Judge MacDonald heard the arguments from representatives of the Massachusetts Chief Justice for Administration and Management Robert A. Mulligan and our attorney Gregory Hession, and took the case under advisement.
"Over 50 Fathers & Families supporters attended the hearing in support. Our lawsuit has been covered by the Associated Press, the New York Times, CBS, WRKO, the Boston Globe, NPR, Newsweek."
And yes, here is the link so you can view the entire article: http://glennsacks.com/blog/?p=3609
You will see a photo of one of the main activists in this affair. Her name is Cheryl Quiambao, and as you might have already guessed, she is female.
Now, the Fathers and Families organization is a kind of a grey-zone organism, given that it is not strictly and narrowly part of the so-called "men's movement", yet is politically right next door to it and even, in a manner of speaking, draws its water from the same well. Such are the complexities and ambiguities of the non-feminist sector. And I hope that my feminist readers are paying attention, and taking notes: they really need to get straight about this stuff!
The updated child-support guidelines in Massachusetts (mentioned in the article) are just another move in the game of perpetual revolution—the latest expansion of the femplex, the latest augmentation of the feminist power base in general, the latest way to suck more blood out of men and move the world closer to the projected goal of female supremacy.
But even if the word feminism never comes up at all, the fact remains that this latest activism campaign constitutes an attack upon feminism because it directly blocks the expansion of feminist innovation. Many of the people involved in the campaign might not think in those terms, but that is exactly what they are doing. They are blocking a plan which directly exploits men in order to empower women, and no matter what anybody says, such a plan is pure, undistilled feminism in its most nakedly elemental form.
It matters not what others call it, or fail to call it. The thing is what it is what it IS, and it needs a consistent name, and as a non-feminist, I say it is feminism! I say this because I hold as good a claim to define the objective forces that shape my world as anybody else does. I stake an additional claim because I know that the average feminist has a confessional interest in promoting her cult and is likely to suppress certain aspects of it.
Feminism is a vast, sprawling, organism—and so is non-feminism. It takes a big beast to vanquish another big beast, or then again maybe it takes a big horde of little beasties to gang up on that big beast and devour it like piranhas, but either way, it takes big to defeat big. And so just as feminism is many things presenting itself in many ways, so too non-feminism must be many things in many ways, in order to encompass and counteract with an adequate range of specialization the many things which are feminism.
It is possible that some of the people in the Fathers and Families group would loosely identify as "feminist", or express mild approval of feminism as they conceive it. On the other hand, it is quite probable that most of the people who oppose them would form a formidable phalanx of indoctrinated adherents to the feminist worldview. The difference between the two groups would be dramatic.
And too, is very likely that the Fathers and Families group would contain a great number of people who know perfectly well what is up with feminism, and would concur with the present writer on most points, even though their immediate political focus is not upon feminism per se, but rather upon the fruits of feminist innnovation. On the other hand, it is unlikely that the opposing gang would contain ANY people of this description.
So the possible presence of mildly feminist-leaning elements (with a naive understanding of feminism) in the Fathers and Families group—and similar groups everywhere—shows us that the border between the feminist and non-feminist sectors is not yet so clearly drawn as we might wish it. That any degree of positive evaluation still adheres to the word feminism (in the minds of people who are NOT profoundly feminist) shows that there is work to be done. The word feminism oughtn't have a halo of any kind—not even a faint one. So, with a developing pressure to get on one side or the other, this word would gain a decisively unsavory aroma, and anybody who is not radically feminist would fight shy of it.
Labels: non-feminist sector, perpetual revolution
posted by Fidelbogen at 5:22 PM
2 Comments:
I somewhat agree and disagree with your perception of the social movement feminism is supposed to be involved in.
I'll give an example of the pirates in Somalia. Their waters are dry of fish because big companies came in and caught the fish in their massive nets and left ... all in the name of investment profit. A company after all makes profit for it's investors not for the people of Somalia and the investors are all of shore so the profit goes off shore.
Now the men of Somalia have no means to feed their communities because fishing was their way of life for survival. Now the men risk their lives everyday to capture large ships and torment the crew even killing them on occasion to raise money by selling the ships back to the companies that own them. Just so you know, the companies don't pay the ransom ... the insurance does.
And so in response the American Navy sails the waters trying to stop the pirates.
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What a sad predicament all are in because the land of Africa is at war amongst itself using weapons gun runners sell to the bad people for profit for another set of investors.
And yet the land in Somalia is rich with Oil. There is no reason for Somalia to be so poor.
But what of this Oil? Will it be the same as the fish where big companies move in with money from rich overseas investors who will rape the land as they had the sea of it's resources and leave the Somalia people in an even worse situation?
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Feminism is a tool for women's power. A very clever tool that can bring to nations from the inside peace, water, food, education and much more. It has the power to hold the investors themselves to ransom making sure a fair hunk of the profit from overseas investors goes back to the communities they use.
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But .... and this is the serious bit, feminism is now destroying the very people in nations it is meant to be serving which in turn creates a platform for the investors and large companies to use for power to not share their profits with the communities.
Ordinary men are not the ones who feminists should be holding at ransom. They are not the ones who can afford to give the money as the big investors are. Ordinary men have no means to make the profits feminists are asking from them.
And in turn, they will meet up in prisons as they fill up with ordinary fathers. But what will all the fathers say to each other while in prison? What will all the fathers do when they realise they have nothing nothing to lose for they have nothing to gain.
And what then will come of the Nations? Will the torment of the tyrant companies and investors step in under their own terms to save the men and women who are not gaining after being ransacked and imprisoned in the developed countries where feminism has gone overboard?
It is a very sad turn of events? One step forward and 2 steps back is not progress.
"Feminism is a tool for women's power. A very clever tool that can bring to nations from the inside peace, water, food, education and much more. It has the power to hold the investors themselves to ransom making sure a fair hunk of the profit from overseas investors goes back to the communities they use."
This made me want to puke. This woman is advocating Socialism,class warfare, and wealth redistribution and calling it "a clever tool".
Lady, your "clever tool" is going to bite you on the ass one of these days, probably sooner rather than later.
Bet on it.
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