Puzzletime, folks! Point out the things wrong in the quote highlighted below….
NOW Demands Access to Program Geared to Fathers - washingtonpost.com
It’s called the Promoting Responsible Fatherhood Initiative, and the Bush administration doles out up to $50 million annually to fund its programs to build job skills and help fathers connect better with their children. But the National Organization for Women says the effort is illegal because it’s only about men.
Answer: Ms. Gandy, since we are all about equal access, why have an organization that is ostensibly serving only women, as in the National Organization for Women? Why not National Organization for Organisms? NOO?
I think any group that pretends to care about women needs to be jumping up and down with joy when there is an initiative to help men become better fathers. It only benefits the mothers in the lower-income groups who most of the time are burdened with the care of their children as single moms when fathers don’t take any responsibility. Of course, if NOW had it’s way all those babies would have ended up aborted anyways, so what is the need for fathers…my bad!
Would NOW also oppose this program till the day men are able to give birth? There is a reason why women of my generation would rather not be called “feminists”.
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This is my first reply to any of the posts from Shanti.
Sorry if I sound weird but when we have books (highlighting issues like the sitting position of men and women in the toilet room is also a kind of discrimination against women) and as far as we have people reading those books and taking them seriously, I don’t see any surprise from the comments from NOW.
My apologies if this hurts anyone.
Posted by: Abhi at March 29, 2007 10:14 PM
Hi, I only care that I have my mother proud of me. Because I know that my father hates me so I really don’t care if he is proud of me or not. I have tryed to walk the strait and narrow path and faltered afew time. But, at the end of the day I would like to know that my Mother was proud I was her son
I am sorry if it to you not interestingly.
Posted by: Tomas Wong at August 16, 2007 5:16 AM