Is this another victory for the feminist movement?

Question

Father's day cards have been banned in Scottish schools. Is this Politically Correct Feminism gone mad?

Answer 1

Its ridiculous, but i don't see how that relates to feminism.

Answer 2

Well, this is one way to never be elected to a political office again. This is a crazy decision.

Answer 3

It depends whether they're going to ban Mother's Day cards as well. If it only applies to Father's Day, then it does seem sexist; there are single dads and g*y couples raising children too.

Answer 4

I just got an email about that story. Isn't just disgusting? When will they ban Mother's day cards? I'm guessing, they won't.

The feminists won't stop until they achieve total destruction.

Answer 5

Yes, politically-correct feminism has indeed gone mad but that's nothing new. What do you expect when we vote politically-correct dingdongs into power?

Answer 6

That's absurd. If they do away with Father's Day, they need to do away with Mother's Day. I personally know far more g*y male couples raising children together than g*y women.

Answer 7

Feminism is the reason most men can't stand women. This is just another example of why.

Answer 8

Modern feminism desires to re-make man in their image, and then instruct us on how beneficial it will be for us.

Answer 9

Well, if there weren't so many dead beat Dads that take off and leave their family obligation behind, there wouldn't be so many single mothers.

Answer 10

i'm sure it started out as just a few people trying to get their children out of it and than it snowballed into a whole other thing.

Answer 11

Feminists had nothing to do with this, and you d**n well know it.

Answer 12

Strange. Can't the kids with L*****n mums make cards on Mother's Day?

Answer 13

Well, it doesn't break my heart they did that.

Why?   I grew up without a father (and this was BEFORE feminism) and I was always glad that Father's Day was held when school was let out.   I really hated it when there was various Father/Daughter functions because I always felt left out because I had no father or even other male who could serve as a father figure...

and of course, someone would always have to make some snide remarks about my sisters and I not having a father in the house ... as if we were 2d class citizens or it was somehow our fault!  If I cried in front of them because of their taunts, I was made fun of all the more.

If I asked my mother about my father, or complained because there was no father, I could expect to get a whipping or told I was an "ungrateful" child and then get a tirade about how "your father doesn't care. I'M THE ONE who is doing everything for you etc"  I remember I was told a gazillion times that it "didn't matter" that there was no father...and after awhile and several beatings you learned not to discuss it....even if you had to write an essay about "Why My Father is Special" for a father that didn't even exist or would be acknowledged!!!

Check it out: even as an adult I still had to deal with all the father absence stuff.  When I was 22 and in the Marines, I found out I was being checked for a security clearance. How? My mother called me..and she was absolutely enraged because strangers came to her home asking about my father!  She demanded "tell them to stop asking me about your father."  I told her, "Mom, they don't care that you didn't marry my father, they only care whether he was a communist or not!"  She snapped, "NO, he's not a communist..and tell them to stop asking me about him!"  I can laugh now, but at the time it was anything but funny...

Sadly, my own marriage ended in divorce...and as a child my daughter got the same kind of treatment in school.  She was lucky, though, she got to see her father during visitations and develop a relationship with him...but still we caught flack cuz he was not living with us.  Anyways, when she was in high school, I'd get phone calls from other parents attempting to blame my kid for allegedly "corrupting" their children...they'd always claim "we're trying to raise our child in a CHRISTIAN HOME with values"  (and apparently, they didn't think I was) and then they'd have the utter NERVE to say stuff like "oh, we know you're doing the best you can, but there's no FATHER in the house..." as if somehow no matter how hard I tried, my family was still not good enough in their eyes. They have no idea how much that hurt me to hear them say that stuff...simply because they thought because they had husbands or live-in partners, they were better parents than I.

So, I for one wouldn't shed any tears from seeing banned in schools anyplace in the world either father's day or mothers days cards or any other cards or festivities that make kids feel bad as if their families are somehow "bad" or unacceptable because they don't conform to what some consider the norm (and with only 7% of parents in two parent homes is that really the norm anymore?)

Call me bitter if you wish...but it's MY opinion and I still have a right to it!

*putting up umbrella in preparation of the rain of thumbs downs*

Answer 14

I'm with Unassailed and Maria on this one.  I don't think this has anything to do with feminism.  I think it has more to do with the fact that a lot of kids don't have fathers in their lives, and they don't want those kids to feel left out.

I DO NOT agree with this at all, but I can sorta kinda get why they did it.  I don't agree with this because I had a great dad who went above and beyond what society expects of fathers.  So, if I was a kid, I'd be offended that I couldn't honor my father on Father's Day.

To the original poster, you're ASSuming that A: Feminists hate men (what a lame, tired, stereotype), B: All feminists are women (again, not true) and C: Anything against  men is because of feminism.  Stop blaming us for everything.

Answer 15

"Thousands of primary pupils were prevented from making Father's Day cards at school for fear of embarrassing classmates who live with single mothers and lesbians. "

Political correctness, fine. but where did the need to be politically correct go when it was mothers day? Arent there enough single dads to warrant a ban on mothers day cards?

It has gone too far.

Answer 16

I live in Scotland, and this is the first I've heard of it.  It's absurd, and has nothing whatsoever to do with feminism.

I could understand banning graded Father's Day projects, but not doing away with them altogether.

Answer 17

Yeah, it's feminism at work again. They're the the ones that keep saying fathers aren't necessary.

Answer 18

Wait until a feminist says something other than "This is a crock of s__t," then get back to us.

Answer 19

thats ridiculous. if they're doing that they have to do it for mother's day. children could make a card for another family member anyway if they lived with just a mother or two mothers.

if they banned mothers day cards aswell this would be fair. a lot of children can be mean about these things but they havent thought about single fathers or two g*y fathers.

Answer 20

This has nothing to do with feminism, but it does have to do with men knocking up women and leaving them.

There either should be no card preparation for father or mothers, or a generalized family member card for each day.

Trying to get a kid to make a father's or mother's day card for a parent they don't have is cruel. That kid did nothing to deserve it. The reason it is father's day cards coming up first is because there are so many more families without dad's than there are families without moms. Then there are the kids who live with grandparents or other family members who have to go through this for both of the days.

Although it is nice to get a parent's day card your kid made in school, it has to be balanced with the pain of a kid having to do this when that parent is not in their lives. The parent is an adult, can understand the situation and deal. That is what being an adult is about. Kids should come first. If you are a mom or dad, would you want that kid to go through that if you died?

I still think generalized family member's cards would be best.

Really it sounds like the teachers in the classrooms where the kids would be adversely affected didn't do this. Gee, they actually know their students. Sounds like a nice school.

Of all the single parent families I know of, only 3 are father headed. One is my cousin. He rocks.

How many feminist bashers are father headed single parent families?