Glenn sacks is at it again. This time he takes GREAT UMBRAGE with women that expect the father of their young children to make with some gifts for Mother's Day. In one case, a divorced woman with a 4 year old daughter sent her ex-husband an email from the daughter.
“‘Hi Daddy,’ I typed, as my daughter was fast asleep. ‘Mommy has been talking about Mother’s Day. I only have 143 pennies in my piggy bank. She’s the best mommy ever. She’s been pretty exhausted. I’d like to get her something nice. Can you help? Love you.'“It was a slightly pathetic, but possibly cute, way of reminding my daughter’s father about Mother’s Day."
What does Mr. Sacks think about this: "I love that–mom is so entitled to even more of dad’s money that she brags in the national media about using her four-year-old’s identity to deceive her ex. She feels the need to “remind my daughter’s father about Mother’s Day,” as if it’s his problem."
I get that this dude is all about protecting father's rights. It's a cause that I have always supported. BUT...this is just ridiculous and frankly makes him seem like an obtuse kook! To suggest that this woman DECEIVED her ex-husband is unbelievable. IS he suggesting that the father is so fucking stupid, so dangerously naive that he believed a 4 year old child could have penned such an email. Using good grammar, spelling, caps and punctuation? If so, then that is a father that needs adult supervision and regular instructions on how to inhale and exhale, so he doesn't pass out from lack of air every few minutes. This isn't about being entitled to HIS MONEY, it's about recognition of all a mother does.
I'd bet my last dollar that she wouldn't need a reminder to take her daughter to the store to purchase a trinket for her daddy. Clearly, they are on good terms or she wouldn't have sent the email and he wouldn't have sent her to a spa!
There are many injustices in this world, Mr. Sacks. This isn't one of them. This just makes you look like a bitter and angry woman-hater. A Masculinist? Whatever. Keep fighting the good fight and all that but you keep crying over innocuous bullshit like this and people will start thinking you and even your cause are nothing more than big jokes.
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You mean like eight posts about Jeremiah Wright - in the last month?
It's the Republican stock in trade.
He apparently believes, ultimately futitely, that by beating the GOP, he'll conquer those dark places in his own soul. But alas, those dark instincts won't go away with an external victory and will inevitably get projected onto something else.
Perhaps some integrative therapy would help so he could get in touch with those splintered off pieces of himself that cause him so much distress, and reintegrate them into his core personality, rendering them much less harmful.
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Meanwhile, one thing about identity politics is that even after you're against it for so long, you sometimes can get swept up in it. "Masculinist" is one of those temptations, but does end up playing the identity politics game.
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Here's a little therapy for you: try concentrating on the idea, instead of attacking the messenger. (project much?)
Tell me why the Republican Party isn't a party led by draft-dodging, morally corrupt, hypocritical chicken-hawks who get elected by cynically marketing themselves as the exact opposite of what they really are and by hyping-up nonsensical "character issues" slung at their Democratic opponents because they haven't clue how to govern and their policy approaches are overwhelmingly rejected by the majority of Americans. Exactly.
Bill, don't quit your day job and start branching out.
At the very least, you sound like you need a cookie and a hug from a large-chested, conservative blonde lady. But where would you find the latter in these parts?
In your opinion. Still seems to be all you got.
Loved the prescription but I've actually got all I need right here (in the liberal, brunette variety), thanks just the same.