Comments on: The attack on men and fathers.

By: revivalandreformation

revivalandreformation — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:19:00 +0000

With the situation my wife and I are in, fighting the gov’t for the privilege to be our children’s parents, we have found that my manhood, fatherhood and masculinity have been constantly put down. Mommy gets all the pictures, gifts and adoration from the children and their temporary caregivers, I receive nothing. Mother’s day was celebrated with enthusiasm (and it should be), Father’s day was ignored. Throughout the web, Father’s are being neutered at an alarming rate, not literally but it might as well be. The real Father, the man, the Daddy who directs, disciplines and loves his children is an endangered species for sure. What the future holds for the male “species” is scary, and I don’t even want to think about it.

By: Lady D

Lady D — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:39:41 +0000

My daughter saw through the male bashing hype when she was 13, and stopped watching shows that glorified children being in control. She thinks those shows are stupid and do not represent men fairly. I’m a divorced mom (10 yrs), and will not allow male, parent or authority bashing in my home. If men treated women on tv like women are allowed to treat men, there would be an uproar in this country. Men, speak up – we need to hear your voice~

By: problémoto

problémoto — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:37:49 +0000

But note also in “Married with Children”, everyone is depicted equally foolish — are Peggy and Kelly any better than Al and Bud? Nope. They’re all the same funny losers and treated equally badly. It’s at least just.

But I mostly agree with the author of this post. The phenomenon is called feminism.

I guess there are some banal reasons why the gender roles have developed that way. Man are simply no longer the sole wage earners in the families and women much better educated and hence, economically independent. In earlier times this was just not the case. Women were mostly financially dependent on their husbands and without any social network in case of divorce or judicial separation. I think this development is really no wonder and a logical consequence of economic progress.

Note also that many a marriage celebrated in the 1950′s was on solely economic purposes and convenience marriages. They were not primarily motivated by emotions and personal claims to “get one’s money worth”as today. Society was hardly contemplating the man-vesus-women- role battles as today. That doesn’t mean that man and women were really “different” than today!

By: Matthew Johnston

Matthew Johnston — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:39:18 +0000

I am , God willing, going to be a father in a little over a month.

Now, a generation ago many, not all, fathers could be correclty labelled things lke, “Lazy and Uninvolved.”,
Let’s be honest here. The chauvinistic male abounded. Men were not actively involved. Today they are more so.

I agree about the media pushing their agenda. (I am talking from an Australian viewpoint, perhaps just a little different-not by much!). If you are watching these shows dont be surprised.

As for men losing their authority well. Well that blame lays square on the shoulders of the men. The feminists definately have played a part too.

By: fourpointer

fourpointer — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:25:13 +0000

And have you ever noticed that, if the couple is divorced, and the mother has custody, that the father has to do something heroic in order to just see his son?

If you want to see a movie where a father is portrayed in a positive light, I would recommend “The Pursuit of Happyness” with Will Smith. It is a (true) story about a man who had absolutely nothing, took an unpaid internship with Dean Witter, did not take a handout from the government, loved and cherished his son and did anything he had to in order to provide for him (while the mother was simply looking out for her own interests), and…well, I won’t give out any spoilers for those who haven’t seen it yet. But yeah, that’s about the only positive portrayal of a father I can think of offhand.

By: Manfred

Manfred — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:29:23 +0000

This is why I despised “Tool Time” and enjoyed the original Cosby show; it’s why I labored to disciple men for the last 14 years – so many have been deceived by the world and think the TV dads are their heroes. The Word of God is our guide – not the world.