How Can Feminists Hate Men when I Find Them so Loveable?

Feminists Stripping Fathers of Their Rights

teri c stoddard
All this focus on women and empowerment breaks my heart. Hasn't anyone in the media or government been listening to fathers? I have. Their stories break my heart.

It starts with the mainstream media; you won't find a lot of respect for, or truth about men there. Also, today's feminist-driven domestic violence laws don't address the reality of female-perpetrated child abuse, violence, partner aggression or psychological abuse. Battered (even bruised and bleeding) fathers have been arrested after calling the police for help with an out-of-control partner. "Primary aggressor" and "no-drop" policies are part of the problem.

The main problem is that no one is stopping feminists from stripping fathers of their rights. Right now they're claiming Parental Alienation isn't real. PA Syndrome hasn't been declared or denied at this point. I can tell you; there are many fathers, and some mothers, who are victims of parental alienation. I've heard from them.

As I waited in line for the Haunted House at Disneyland this weekend, a woman right in front of me was committing parental alienation. She was talking with her children, degrading their father. Not just that, she was looking for agreement. She asked, "He lives near [theme park]; he never takes you there, does he?" Then adding, "He doesn't even pay for your swim lessons."

There's an epidemic of government and society-encouraged misandry going on. Many innocent fathers are being accused of domestic violence by ex-partners in the move to gain full custody of children. Lack of due process in family court means guilty with no chance to prove innocence. Some of these men can never see their kids, ever, others have to see them in jail-like settings, supervized.

These innocent fathers also have to take months, sometimes years of anger-management classes. They have to pay for everything, even the supervized visits. When they go broke they can't afford to see their own kids. All the while the children are left in the care of the abusive parent. Very few agencies even have classes for female perpetrators.

At the same time, feminist-driven child custody laws don't address the modern father's involvement and time in his child's life. Nor the time children spend in the care of a third party. I watched as feminists and domestic violence "professionals" slandered fathers under oath and stopped California's 2005 shared parenting bill. They believe men are monsters and are passing laws to restrict fathers from their chidren.

When the general public is asked if they support joint custody 85% say "yes." Many parents and children have equal and/or shared custody and enjoy it. When advocates from Fathers4Justice and the Children's Rights Initiative for Sharing Parents Equally (CRISPE) rally outside courthouses with signs promoting shared parenting, women are the most-likely to honk and give thumbs-up.

I used to think feminism stood for equality. I've seen for myself it does not. Someone with a "loud voice" needs to take a look at the facts, someone who doesn't benefit financially by the outcome. Then they need to use that loud voice to talk louder than the father-haters.

Published by teri c stoddard

Family rights and equal parenting advocate.  View profile

  • Today's domestic violence laws don't address the reality of female-perpetrated abuse.
  • When the general public is asked if they support joint custody 85% say "yes."
  • Current custody laws don't address the modern father's involvement in his child's life.
Fathers4Justice and CRISPE Rally, William Ridgeway Courthouse, Sacramento, CA, 8am, 6.12.07

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  • Arielle2/20/2011

    So all feminists are automatically "man-haters" yet all anti-feminist men are angels? Doesn't that sound hypocritical to you at all?

    Maybe instead of blaming feminism and/or women, you could look at the real culprit. Men controlled the government and court systems, so what the hell do women have to do with it? Sure, some lie, but you make divorced mothers sound horrible and divorced fathers sound like victims. You need to look at things on a case-by-case basis instead of using the "feminists-ruin-everything" card.

  • teri stoddard12/28/2010

    You, the feminists I wrote about are radical gender feminists....the ones in power. The average woman who calls herself a feminist has no idea what they are doing.

    Momma, you are mistaken. That 95% myth was made up by one of those gender feminists. She admitted to making it up. There are many myths about DV.

    SAVE is having an event in January, at the Heritage Foundation in DC, to address these myths.

    Here are some DV FACTS, not myths. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0v_XF4KuOs&feature=share

  • Momma12/28/2010

    I feel that this is a terribly irresponsible article. The fact is, most victims (over 95%) of domestic violence are women. The fact that mothers are forced to let an abusive father visit their children seems like more of a concern. Nice to hear you pandering to the small minded masses though...

  • you12/27/2010

    feminists do not 'hate men.' you've obviously no working understanding of feminism at all. feminism and feminists seek to intelligently and thoughtfully end opressive social and political constructs based on gender equalities. somehow, 'feminism' has come to stand for 'manhaters', and although there are manhaters out there, as there are everything else haters, it has nothing to do with feminism.

    If you were a man would you say that? would you look a man in the eye that you loved and say that? probaly not because no one likes a bigit

  • this sucks12/7/2010

    well femenazis are the ones who hate men not feminists get your story striaght stupid

  • Alki11/7/2010

    From my POV, all of your comments are extreme, unreasonable veiws. Fathers are not perfect, passive victims of female rage and career/work is NOT a viable excuse for withdrawing from your child. It's a double standard because that excuse would not apply to a mother, she should be criticised for neglect. On the other hand it is terrible that some women could ever use a false claim of abuse to win a custody case. That is incredibly damaging to actual victims, not to mention their ex-partner. It depends on each individual case who should have custody, but should also depend on the child's choice of parent. Feminists are not necessarily man haters, you are all terribly judgemental and unnecessarily aggressive in that regard. Considering early feminists are the reason all women on this forum can own property or have freedom of choice in partners and careers you should be more grateful.

  • feminismwhohoo11/8/2009

    (contined..) ive never seen broke housewives go to jail over childsupport as of yet.
    h) Some women use false accusations of rape domestic violence to smear the father and make him have a high chance of losing his kids. Often the man's house is searched more to see if he is a fit parent.

    list goes on and on its not as black and white and feminists want everyone to believe. Its got to the point where you either stay alone or hope to find a honest women. The options for men are extremely slim if you wanna have kids.

  • feminismwohooooyay!11/8/2009

    Jessica is clearly a parental alienator and Chiriko is a troll both of you are very anti-father indeed and look how you turned out.

    As for the childsupport nonsense since when do women ever get forced to pay childsupport ever? once the child is born its a choice for them i hardly see u 2 screaming at them?

    Alot of feminists do hate men.

    Many fathers can't see their kids because
    a) some mothers don't let them and there's nothing that stops them doing this.
    b) some mothers refuse to let the kid know who their father is.
    c) some mother give away their kid via legal abandonment or adoption again not letting the father know since they have no obligation.
    d) some mothers use P.A.S
    e) somes mothers use paternity fraud again masking the real father.
    f) some women use blackmail eg:threathen to harm the kids again nothing can be done about this.
    g) some women make men bankrupt through almimony and childsupport, even if u want to see your kids how can you do so in jail? ive never

  • Oystelerdensteliz10/1/2009

    Feminists DO hate men, well most of them at least. How it happened? I don't know, maybe with all the anger and hatred that feminists spew every now and then might be a factor. Feminism is no longer about gender equality, it's about gender apartheid and hate. And taking men's rights away. Stop living in the past, saying feminism is for equality is like saying an anti-white group like the black panthers is still ONLY against sending blacks into war, nope, not only, they're anti-white as hell, but them...I don't blame. Feminists, oh yeah!

  • Gokhan10/1/2009

    Jessica or Chiriko, shut up. Your comments sound very anti-father, it's no wonder you're so bitter, you don't have a dad. Typical American. Sometimes the father CAN'T see his kids because he maybe has too much work to do or because he's NOT ALLOWED! Take your feminist bullsh*t somewhere else Jessica or Chiriko, nobody likes you angry b*tches anymore.

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