You may have read my thread on Shared Parenting - Equal Rights for Fathers. You may have noticed that it has been locked, despite the good discussion we were having. Audra feels that she is the ultimate arbiter of feminist orthodoxy, and has warned me against being "anti-feminist" in the feminist forum for promoting shared parenting.

I've read your stuff, and you are a smart, eloquent person. If what I'm saying is so wrong then use those smarts and that eloquence and kick my ass from one end of this forum to the other. Or simply say nothing.

[ March 23, 2002: Message edited by: clockwork ]

Anyhow, I feel about as welcome as a bastard at a family picnic, so I'll be going.

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Anyhow, I feel about as welcome as a bastard at a family picnic, so I'll be going.

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Some are born to it, others, and I seriously suspect Paul might be one such, are self made.

Lets delete this thread, it contains an ad-hominem attack in the title, and as such constitutes justifiable threadacide.

Paul: The difference between "Audra, you are a petty, little bully" and "this thread is shameful and childish" is that Audra is a person, but a thread is a collection of ideas. Attacking an idea is legit; attacking a person is what's called a "personal attack" and is bad form.

It may seem like splitting hairs, since obviously criticism of the thread is an indirect criticism of the person who started it. But there is a difference in tone which can often prevent heated discussions from degenerating into meaningless insults.

This is not going to change overnight. Women are not to blame. Stop blaming and try to figure out a way of presenting your arguement that will help rectify the situation.

I was enjoying that thread even though I did not really approve of the title. But I have to get a life and start doing other things besides babbling all the time too. They say people babble for six months, their interest wanes and they get involved in other things and then their interest comes back.

You're the dopest.

Love,
Adam

ps. this thread is double-plus hilarious.

[ March 24, 2002: Message edited by: Adam ]

It was closed because this forum is pro feminist and the topic was decidedly anti women and has no place on any forum.

So get off Audra's back and don't bother climbing on mine. I don't give piggy backs to overgrown brats.

edited to add....I'm closing this too. We have a policy against threads which are started merely to attack other people on the board, I don't see why that same courtesty shouldn't be extented to Audra.

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