Okay. I KNEW they were out there but I guess I didn't know they were so organized:
http://www.ncfm.org/about-ncfm.php "National Coalition of Free Men" (?)
Read some of the crap they have on this page about women (and how much of the truth they leave OUT of their "facts"):
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American men have been raised to feel sorry for American women. It is wrapped in the old expression, "A Woman's Work is never done". The charge made by American feminists that all men had "oppressed" women was an easy charge to get past the guilt that American men were raised to feel.
The result of all of this has been a women's movement that has sought special privilege and which has gone unopposed in the pursuit of special privilege. In a nut shell, women have been given choices while holding men responsible for those choices. To wit:
* Men have no reproductive rights.
* Men can whimsically be denied access to their children after divorce.
* Men are at a disadvantage in the work place because of female hiring quotas. Those who want to fuel the racial issue in the U.S. concentrate their focus on black hiring quotas (which often benefits black women) and articulate the problem as a "white man's" issue. But black men have been victimized by it too (by being passed over for promotion and denied jobs, the same as white men).
* Women have three choices: stay home and raise a family, work full time or work part time. Men have three choices: Work full time, work full time or work full time.
* Women can choose whether or not to go into the military and once there whether to go into combat. There is no requirement for them to register for the military. In the U.S. all males must register. It is presumed that if the U.S. reinstates the military draft that only men will be required to go. In the past, that was certainly the case.
Let's go back and reply to the earlier charges made against men:
1- Men have all the power.
Feminists claim that the "men's movement" is the legislature. But in America the legislature caters to the needs of well funded special interests groups. No one knows how much money has been spent on women's causes, but the amount is in the BILLIONS. Almost every state, major municipality, county and the federal government has "offices", "commissions" and "task forces" to represent women's needs. There is not a single one for men. Moreover, legislatures, primarily made up of men have always been cognizant of passing legislation that they felt was in the best interests of women, because of their role as protector.
2- Only wives are abused by husbands.
Every study that has used the random sampling technique to look at the issue of spouse abuse has concluded that men are at least 50% (or higher) of the battered spouses in America. Since 1975 there have been more than 30 such studies. Three of them have been national in scope.
3- All men are in a conscious conspiracy to keep all women in fear of rape.
Try and figure this one out. It can be explained, but it would take paragraphs to do it. The reasoning is perverse. It has to do with the way "feminists" define sexual power and it relates to the way they have sought to disempower men and empower themselves through the threat of false accusation (which is the covert counterpart to an overt threat). The charge was first made by Susan Brownmiller in her 1979 work, Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape (page 14 of the hard cover edition).
4- Women are a special "oppressed" class in need of special compensation because of past discrimination.
This charge surfaces to justify why so much money has been spent by government and private foundations on women's needs and nothing has been spent on men's needs. It also surfaces as a justification for Affirmative Action in the work place for women. The charge is that women were forced into a restricted role in the home where they were made into servants for men. Every concession to women's organizations rests on this premise.
Because the charge that men "oppressed" women has been so powerful, it is worth exploring for a minute.
What escapes people who make this charge is that men had no choices either in their role as provider and protector. Men were expected (forced) into the work place where they often risked life and limb to provide for women. In the U.S. around 90% of all work related deaths are by men. Men also have had no choice (except to leave the country) when confronted with a military draft. American women have never been forced to serve in any capacity for the good of their own nation.
Finally, feminists (radical feminists in particular) have misrepresented history and the role women have played in it by claiming that women have been "oppressed" by men throughout time. In contradiction, Page Smith, (Daughters Of The Promised Land: Women In American History, Little Brown and Co., NY, 1970) for one, notes that women were well represented among the professions during colonial America. Alexis DeTocqueville (Democracy In America) raves about the freedom and education enjoyed by American women in the 1830's. In her 1963 book, The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan explores the changing roles and freedom of American women in the 1920's and questions why things became so restrictive during and after the 1930's.
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