We all know about sexism when it comes to women and probably most people have noticed it the other way around too but here a couple of snippets from the other side of the fence.
I just came back from my lunchtime swim. I was just getting changed when a fully clothed woman walked through the changing rooms. I’ve complained about this before but they don’t seem to take it seriously. They say the woman in question (who seems to hang out on a semi-permanent basis in the men’s changing rooms) is there to look after kids. But why can’t she take them to the ladies changing room? I pointed out that there weren’t any kids around today and I pointed out that if the same thing happened with roles reversed the chances are the police would be called. I don’t think it’ll make any difference. I think I’m more bothered by the injustice of it than the actual voyeurism per se.
I read that in the UK 9/10 divorces end with the kids allocated to the mother. I know kids don’t like to be separated and they generally prefer the mother, but this seems like it might be an unfair weighting.
In a Father’s Day television interview in 2002, Bob Geldof spoke out against laws that favored mothers in custody matters. The response was overwhelming: a flood of letters from anguished fathers, more mail than his advocacy on behalf of Africa had ever unleashed. “I just wanted to be with my kids 50% of the time,” he told TIME. “If a man and a woman live together and it fails, that’s tragic. But if you have children, whole universes close to you” if you’re prevented from seeing them.
“Our system is adversarial,” he said, “…The law says it’s gender neutral, but 93% of children go to the women