Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
If youse don’t cough up the money, you’ll be sleepin’ wit’ da fishes, capiche?
Vanessa at Feministing rightly mocks this piece in “Men’s News Daily” (the e-zine for those who think WND is too “librul”) urging wealthy conservatives to pull an Olin Foundation and will all their money to “men’s rights” groups. (Yeah, I know. Typical right-wing martyrdom complex focused on the half of the human population with a Y chromosome.)
However, I felt it necessary to point out this little feature of the article that smacks of Mafia tactics:
Therefore, you real men who might die in the next 10 years (you could be hit by a truck) have an obligation to leave serious funds to men’s rights organizations that can do battle with the above-mentioned juggernaut. Please go change your last will and testament today (tomorrow if it is after 5PM when you read this).
You mooks best pay up on the protection money. Stuff can happen. Y’know what I’m sayin’?
Creepy.
That is funny. I am the original author of the article and I never thought of that when I said “you could be hit by a truck”. I was just saying that American men need to change their wills early and not procrastinate.
I don’t think the mafia would be getting involved with fighting rabid feminism.
By the way, the only reason why I got into men’s rights is not because of anything the MRA blogs had been previously talking about (father’s right to save money by raising a child himself instead of paying child support to the child + his mom).
I got into men’s rights because the other side went way too far. There is now a law called IMBRA that forces American men to have background checks in order to say hello to a foreign woman online. This is totally against the Right to Assembly and many feminists agree on this point.
It is not “feminism” that has suddenly declared itself my enemy, but a few arrogant radicals, primarily at a place called the Tahirih Justice Center and NOW, who think they can speak for foreign women and take away their right to meet men without time-consuming paperwork.
Signing written approval to have contact with an American involves an extensive, if not permanent, time delay for foreign women who do not check their email every day or who do not have email. They previously gave out their post office boxes and they still expect letters to arrive at these post office boxes, but IMBRA is making it so they never come.
Except via the 70% of dating sites that completely ignore the IMBRA law, which will be defeated in federal court with the help of women soon.
Comment by Jim Peterson — September 6, 2007 @ 2:27 am