{"id":11412,"date":"2010-10-11T15:04:17","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T22:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=11412"},"modified":"2010-10-11T15:04:17","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T22:04:17","slug":"where-are-the-mens-and-fathers-rights-groups-in-flores-villar-vs-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=11412","title":{"rendered":"Where are the men's and father's rights groups in Flores-Villar vs US?"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Crossposted on Alas <\/a>and on TADA<\/a>. If you’re not someone I know as a feminist, and you want to write in defense of MRAs, please take it to TADA.)<\/em><\/p>\n

In my prior post<\/a> on a law that discriminates against fathers, which is about to be heard by the Supreme Court — so this is NOT an obscure or unimportant case — I quoted from a feminist-authored brief against the law. That brief was signed by almost every major feminist group in the US: The Women’s Law Project, NOW, Feminist Majority Foundation, the National Congress of Black Women, the National Council of Jewish Women, The National Council of Women’s Organizations, Legal Momentum, and a bunch of others.<\/p>\n

There were many other groups I found that either submitted their own briefs, or signed on to the feminist brief: immigration rights groups, Asian-American groups, the ACLU, a whole bunch of international feminist organizations, Human Rights Watch, People for the American Way, and so on.<\/p>\n

So why can’t I find a single <\/em>Father’s Rights or Men’s Right’s organization that either signed one of the briefs, or submitted one of their own? If bucket-loads of feminist orgs can do it, why can’t even one MRA organization manage to stand up to fight against this anti-male law?<\/p>\n

Only one fatherhood-based organization signed on, the National Latino Fatherhood and Family Institute<\/a>, which cosigned the feminist-written brief. NLFFI is an extremely cool group, judging from their website, but they don’t seem to be a Father’s Rights or MRA group. (For instance, you won’t find feminist-bashing on their site, nor any claims that father’s are victimized by having to pay child support.)<\/p>\n

I suspect a few things may be going on here:<\/p>\n

1) The base of the men’s rights activist movement is mostly right-wing, which may have reduced interest in a father’s rights case that’s also an immigration rights case.<\/p>\n

2) There’s no obvious way that this case can be used to further feminist-bashing, and feminist-bashing — not protecting men and fathers — is in practice the primary goal of most MRA and father’s rights groups.<\/p>\n

3) They’re just plain incompetent.<\/p>\n

As I’ve said before<\/a>, why, oh why, is the men’s rights movement so worthless?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Crossposted on Alas and on TADA. If you’re not someone I know as a feminist, and you want to write in defense of MRAs, please take it to TADA.) In my prior post on a law that discriminates against fathers, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,135],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-feminists-and-their-pals","category-crossposted-on-tada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}