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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 11:51:36 EST
- Sender: "Fathers' Rights and Equality Exchange" <FREE-L@INDYCMS.BITNET>
- From: Mark Charalambous <vicorp!mc@UUNET.UU.NET>
- Subject: Re: Sexual Discrimination
- Lines: 44
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- Rama sez:
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- >Unless fathers, collectively, are willing to fight back, nothing is going to
- >change. Once in a while, only in extreme circumstances, we will get a used bon
- e
- >thrown at us. Fathers do get custody sometimes, but do they get support like
- >mothers do?
-
- >I know we are all busy and do not have any money. That is why is more importan
- t
- >to work collectively and may be file one such case of discrimination and a very
- >strong one. I think it should be filed in a Fedral court against one of the
- >states. You need just one such precedent setting case to start with.
-
- >I remember in one of the Supreme Court cases it was determined that in such
- >situations one only has to show the discrimination by its effect not by its
- >inention.
-
- >Any ideas along the same lines?
- >Which state?
- >Which attorneys?
- >Funding plans?
- >Filing plans?
- >Procedures?
-
- I agree that it is more feasible to mount one attack. And speaking purely
- selfishly, I would love to see it in the state that I am currently suffering
- in: Massachussetts.
- As arguments for Mass, I can say that it is considered one of the most
- progressive states with regard to women's issues. The governor is a feminist
- who believes, like our new President, in draconian measured to prosecute
- "deadbeat dads". The feminist tradition runs deep here, particularly in
- western Mass, the home of Smith College, birthplace of Emily Dickinson,
- and the place where "Lesbianville, USA" (Northampton) if located.
- The veritable "belly of the beast", as it were...
-
- BTW, I apologize if this seems to be a bit of woman-bashing rhetoric.
- Like most of the men I know, I believe in fairness and equality for both
- sexes. I have nothing against feminism per se, except for where it violates
- my rights as a man. Then it becomes sexual discrimination.
-
- Let's do it.
-
- --Mark
-