Pittsfield Fathers Becoming Active

When a mayoral candidate in Pittsfield requested the Fatherhood Coalition not to take out an ad in the local newspaper indicating their endorsement of him, this was discouraging to a new worker, Atty. Rinaldo Del Gallo III. However, it gave an old-hand in the movement, Mark Charalambous, an opportunity to give solace with the following:

I sympathize with your frustration and hope that you will persevere. More importantly, I want to thank you for providing a fresh example of the true position of fathers’ rights in the social/political body that we all inhabit.

The fact that a local politician specifically requests that we not offer any public support speaks volumes.

Yes, we are indeed pariahs. Thus has it ever been (for the past thirty years or so). So, what to do about it? How do we respond?

This conundrum has haunted the fathers’ rights movement for at least as long as I have been in it. What I initially (1992 or so) observed was that the “intelligentsia” in the movement felt stymied by their non-acceptance. They wracked their brains trying to figure out how to make themselves and their messages acceptable.

They’ve tried the don’t-mention-father method: “Children’s rights.” They’ve tried fronting with second wives. “Ah ha! That’ll get ‘em. We know they’ll listen to women.”

Some even tried working with N.O.W. (the defunct Fathers Group that is responsible for the records law prohibiting fathers with a 209A from getting their kids’ report cards).

Knee-Jerk Reaction

The knee-jerk reaction to what this candidate for mayor told you is that, “He must have seen Joe Blow go off half-cocked at the hearing....” or some such. “Damn, we have just got to get those radicals under control. I know, I’ll meet with Mr. Politician and explain to him how our organization is not like that other organization. We are just good fathers who want to see our kids and want to see the bias towards maternal sole-custody reversed. We’re not batterers. Surely, he’ll see that I’m rational, and then change his mind. ...If I can just get Joe Blow and Dick Sixpack to stop ...”

Well, this kind of reaction is what has plagued the FR movement, and ensured its impotency. Wringing our hands, constantly metaphorically checking the mirror to make sure we look presentable, discouraging the more radical elements from their hare-brained protest schemes, etc.

I had hoped that the Fatherhood Coalition would become the organization that would discard this nervous-Nelly self-mutilation and recognize and accept that we are an enemy of the status quo – indeed, an enemy of the State – and act like one.

We are not going to change things if we remain in denial about why fathers – and indeed, males in general – are treated the way they are by the courts, the legislature,

and the media. The reason why this politician wants nothing more than for us to endorse him (except possibly endorsing his opponent) has nothing to do with corrupt lawyers and judges and money trails.

Result of the Feminist Movement

It is a direct result of the feminist movement that is actively and openly changing the structure of society from a patriarchy to a matriarchy. In this philosophy, the patriarchy is the evil entity that is responsible for all the misery and tragedy in human history. The enslavement/ownership of women and children by men is the fundamental root of all evil. Even more fundamental than capitalism.

Their agenda is to destroy the nuclear family with the male patriarch. They have largely succeeded. It is really very simple: Female good, male evil. This, in a nutshell, is what it amounts to. Its expression is not just in the domestic abuse laws, “child-support” awards, and divorce court judgments, it is in the transformation of boys by the behavioral scientists through education, cultural negative-stereotyping, medication, and eventual incarceration.

Yes, we are their enemy. Are you going to spin your wheels and be the next generation of “good” father’s rights advocates who will find the Holy Grail of acceptance with the legislators and powers-that-be in the judicial system?

In my mind, the historical place of the Fatherhood Coalition is that of the organization that started the true resistance movement, in the belly of beast, Massachusetts; acknowledging and responding to the War on Fatherhood being waged by the feminists and their sycophants like Joe Biden, Paul Wellstone and William Weld and Paul Cellucci and Tom Reilly and Scott Harshbarger, and Eli Newberger, Lundy Bancroft, etc, etc, ad infinitum.

Does this mean that it is a waste of time to have events like the DV law enforcement policies forum in Pittsfield? Of course not. Every little bit helps. But if we are going to be successful – and it is impossible to overstate the importance of our eventual success or failure – we must create a true resistance movement. We belong outside the courts with protest signs and bull horns, not inside the walls having conferences with jellyfish judges. We must provide a force from the outside to force them to change. A back-pressure. We must enunciate non-negotiable demands: the purge of all feminist, anti-male elements within our courts of law. The purge of all feminist, anti-male elements in all government and public-funded agencies that impact in any way the life of normal families.

We let it be known by our actions outside the courthouses across the state that this is our position, and they can either continue to try to ignore us or accept the fact that there will no longer be any business as usual for the people participating in the War on Fatherhood. Or they can change.

There can be no accommodation with an enemy that has been poisoned by feminist thought for the past thirty years. They have to go. It is our civic duty and social responsibility to take back Massachusetts.