RE: Why so many "anti-feminists" in the atheist community?
January 4, 2015 at 3:18 pm
(This post was last modified: January 4, 2015 at 3:21 pm by Dystopia.)
Quote:I want to address this a little further. As a single, joint-custodial father, regular child support is in my interest because it is in my son's best interest to have a stable home whether he's at her house or mine that night. Child support is not enough for a woman with a child to live "scott free".The whole point was that godslayer was wrongly saying feminists want all the benefits including alimony and child custody, and he refuses to acknowledge, even after I've told him (and I've been in contact with feminists, read enough articles, studies, blogs and so on) that feminists are against privilege for women, if a feminist wants women to be recognized as equals, why would she support a legal measure that is based on the assumption that she is supposed to be a child caregiver and bearer more than men? Not to mention gay couples who raise kids perfectly (gay men I mean) and disprove the idea that women are more fit to do it. Godslayer also made a somewhat inopportune reference to women who are benefited living with men's money, perpetuating the assumption that they are gold diggers - And yes, child custody and paychecks are not enough to live your life most times, for example my dad gave to my mom after they got divorced approximately 300€, which was enough for feeding and so on but she had to work hard to pay the rent and all other expenses, so saying child support is a tremendous benefit is not correct, it's mostly not enough for someone to live a high quality life (if the person receiving doesn't work)
Raising a child is goddamned expensive, and it's only right that the noncustodial parent pay support. I don't begrudge my support (our ruling gives me 42% custody, her 58%, and I pay support to cover the difference) because I know it's put to good use. If I thought it was being put to bad use, I would have every right to reopen the custody case with new evidence, and adjust the settlement accordingly -- just like any other noncustodial parent.
As for alimony, in many states that isn't paid man-to-woman, but higher earner-to-lower earner.
And finally, even though raising my son is hard work, there's no way I'd say it sucks, and I doubt I'm rare amongst parents in feeling that way.
I respect and support your right to have child custody, as long as you prove in court to have better conditions for it, and I think that should be most significant criteria, independently of gender. And I think that even after our slight debate, you would be better off acknowledging many feminists support that right of yours and understand feminazis are shouldn't be an excuse for one to be anti-feminist.
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