[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
- Where are the men’s and father’s rights groups in Flores-Villar vs US?
- [Alas, a blog - Ampersand]
In my prior post [link] on a law that discriminates against fathers, which is about to be heard by the Supreme Court … I quoted from a feminist-authored brief against the law. That brief was signed by almost every major feminist group in the US: [list redacted].
There were many other groups I found that either submitted their own briefs, or signed on to the feminist brief: [list redacted].
So why can’t I find a single Father’s Rights or Men’s Right’s organization that either signed one of the briefs, or submitted one of their own? … why can’t even one MRA organization manage to stand up to fight against this anti-male law?
Only one fatherhood-based organization signed on, the National Latino Fatherhood and Family Institute, which cosigned the feminist-written brief… but they don’t seem to be a Father’s Rights or MRA group.
- My Week In Review: How To Be A Feminist Activist From Mount Olympus
- [ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES - echidne]
1. Thought you might like to know that I sent learned letters of complaints to most of the UK and US websites which so lazily used the Netmums study without having a look at it. That's ten letters.
…the BBC in fact did react to my letter and made one small adjustment in their report on the non-scientific Netmums survey. Can you spot the adjustment? [link] It's still wrong… But at least it's a small step in the right direction.
2. … I also wrote to the authors of the study directly, because I naively thought that they would wish to correct the flawed summary of the study. Instead, they removed the detailed study results from the Internet and then told me that the results I had used were not the most recent ones. When I asked for the link to the most recent ones I was told that they were not written up yet. But somehow, despite the results not being written up yet, the summary has been around for over a week.
- Utah’s Real Family Values: State Cuts Vital Support for Adopted and Foster Children; Number of Homeless Children Skyrockets
- [RHRealityCheck.org - Jodi Jacobson]
- Black Death bacteria identified
- [ABlogAboutHistory.com - Sevaan Franks]
Anthropologists have confirmed that a germ called Yersinia pestis cause[d] the [plague] that wiped out a third of Europe during the Middle Ages.
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
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