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To: jurisdog
"See, in case you didn't get the memo, mother's give birth to children. Fathers don't. Likewise, mothers breastfeed children, fathers don't. Starting there, and continuing, mothers continue to play a specific role in their children's lives ~ a role that is different than that of the father."

Are you sure you're an aduld with a juris doctor degree? That kind of simpleminded argument wouldn't do justice to a middle school forensics team. I can imagine everyone reading your words saying to themselves... "After breastfeeding, then what?" That "then what" happens to be state subsidized daycare for a majority of kids. By your own logic, that should cancel out all of your "maternal superiority" argument citing "scientific studies" with no names, no scientists, hell, no studies.

You chose to sink deeper into the ad hominem, to continue to refer to your opinion as "scientific" without one lick of empirical data, and to ignore the bounds of civil discourse by insisting that we answer your every nonsensical point while you ignored direct questions. Accusing Nick Danger of being some kind of "woman hater" was so blatantly amateurish and shrill sounding that not even the radical feminists use that tactic anymore. Your arguments are irrational in the face of facts. Any man or woman on this thread could have met your challenge for "case by case" arguments with tales of women being awarded child custody not on the merit of what you refer to as biological superiority, but by using the tried and true method of demonizing the father until he is seen as a threat to his own kids by the court.

Nick Danger was right, I was being extremely kind by offering up the possibility that your prejudice toward mothers might be "sweeping generalizations." Your arguments for women are so weak, so poorly thought out, and so lacking in scientific citation that one can only imagine that you are just as clumsy and inarticulate in a court of law. The only conclusion I can draw from this is that your specialty is not as an advocate for mothers, but as a legal assassin of fathers. I used to consider your profession the chosen weapon of radical feminism's deconstruction of the family. By my recent debates on FR with divorce lawyers, male and female, I now understand that radical feminism is simply a tool of your hateful, destructive profession which appears to be orchestrating a genocide on the nuclear family - the elemental building block of civilization - for profit.

59 posted on 04/15/2002 11:40:08 PM PDT by Harrison Bergeron
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To: Harrison Bergeron
I've never seen so much hatred and ignorance in a FR thread before.
60 posted on 04/16/2002 1:16:14 AM PDT by jurisdog
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