THE RECLAMATION OF FATHER'S DAY FROM THE CLUTCHES OF THE ANTI-MALE FEMINISTS CONTINUES

Whether it is just me or that my eyes are slightly more open these days, but this year's Father's Day has continued the trend from last year and seen an upsurge in sentimentality and positivity about fathers and the role they play in our lives. And of course for any fathers out there, the role we play.

Certainly the media have moved a long way from publishing drivel from people like Gail Hornby (link) and the only nonsense I saw this weekend was unsurprisingly from Gaby Hinsliff in The Guardian.

It does not seem to have been covered in any meaningful way in the UK as Father's Day is meant to be 100 years old today, having been started in Washington by Sonora Dodd in 1910. There's no problem of course with this understatement as most father's and men in general would not want fuss. If it was a female-related anniversary there would be marches, bra-burning ceremonies and all sorts organised by the Fawcett Society!

Fathers have become acceptable again despite the anti-male propaganda peddled by Harman, McTaggart, Flint, the Fawcett Society,, the Commission of Equalities and Human Rights and other members of our laughable metropolitan elite.

There have been articles all this week in the media (see end) and the BBC are running a series this week on Fatherhood (a great blogpost from the controller of BBC is here). Also there just is more in the shops, more special gift sets and features, noticeably more people out with their families and just more positivity about it.

It has been at the end of a  significant week for the family when the new Coalition Government announced it was forming a Childhood and Families Taskforce to be chaired by the Prime Minister (see Nick Clegg's speech here).

In the hands of the man-haters of the last Government and organisations such as the Fawcett Society who view the role of a man in a family as an inconvenience, this would be worrying. However, the Coalition Government as set out in their coalition document have said they believe in shared parenting, that grandparents have a role and that they want a fundamental review of family law (Cafcass will be shaking in their boots).

With both Father's Day and the announcement made on family law, the reclamation of Father's Day and the role of fathers for families up and down our country has started to be happen. No longer is the word Father, a dirty word.

Skimmington

Media: BBC on the Church, Daily Star,  Daily Mirror, Telegraph 1, Telegraph 2, The Herald, Telegraph 3

Comments

[amfortas]

Not being in the UK, where one is lead to understand that a 'new consciousness' is rising with the change of gumnut, I do not see any trend to celebrate fatherhood.

The same old misandry; the same old marginalisation of fathers; the demeanment and outright villification, continues apace. An industry of feminist hatred has grown and blooms.

Yes, I too look forward to the day when feminism and its anti-father, anti-men, anti-marriage, anti-life philosophies disappears, but the legacy will still be wrecked and broken hearts and blighted lives.

Meanwhile you and I both will keep a weather eye open to watch for the clouds rolling away. You may be seeing a leading edge of a warm front.