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Sunday, April 29, 2007
Kevin McCullough :: Townhall.com Columnist
Why Feminist Mommies are like Pimps
by Kevin McCullough
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Feminist "mothers" are more than willing to expose their daughters to indecent and even dangerous elements. They will do so for no more of a reason than to simply make a buck. And in doing so they create an interesting comparison for traditional parents who want more than anything to simply spend time with their children. This is the ultimate debate between progressive vs. traditional values, and the children are begging for parents to get it right.

This last week amidst the many infamous pieces of audio to emerge in the headlines, none was more reviled than the voice-mail leaked by Kim Basinger to the gossip website TMZ. On it Alec Baldwin, father of their daughter Ireland, is heard expressing his frustration with the "system" that only allows him to be in contact with his daughter twice every seven days, and for no more than 30 minutes at a time. Alec has admitted that in doing so he crossed an inappropriate boundary and spoke things to his daughter that he shouldn't have. Baldwin has also apologized to his daughter, as well as to the public via "The View" on the Friday broadcast.

Women callers on my radio show reacted to Baldwin's outburst with compassion. It is easy to ascertain by listening to the recording that Baldwin is a father who is being manipulated in not being allowed to have full and normal access that God designed a father and daughter to enjoy. Divorce lawyers are like a damnable curse on society and in the Baldwin case seem to have succeeded on driving a complete wedge between father and daughter. Any decent person understands that parents say things they don't always mean but they also understand that good and decent fathers, "would chew their way through a concrete wall" to spend time with their kids.

The liberated feminists in our society see this as the ultimate victory. Eliminating men from the lives of children in their book is a very good thing.

But is it?

Are feminists of any higher caliber when it comes to parenting and wanting what is best for their children? We are told they are, and the slimy divorce lawyer/judge system sees to it that the fix is in.

Another story hit the headlines this week but did not get the graphic portrayal of the Baldwin case on cable, radio, and gossip pages on the internet.

It was a small story about a split between actresses Lindsay Lohan and Keira Knightley. They had been working on a film together in London when Lohan, for unexplained reasons, quit the project. The film was to begin shooting in early May. It was also reported that Knightley's mother Sharman McDonald became furious at Lohan's exit. McDonald - Knightley's mother - had written the screenplay.

The hook that had been used to stir up interest in the project had been the fact that McDonald - Knightley's mother - had written into the script multiple love scenes, nude ones that involved Lohan and Knightley (her daughter.)

With Lohan exiting the scene the project would be delayed and thus it would cost more money to complete and the profit margins for those involved go down.

In the hundreds of media reports that carried the four paragraph story not a one of them drew attention to the idea that anything was out of the ordinary here.

Pardon me for not being so easily convinced.

In a week in which the majority of the world focused on a father's voice-mail, for no one to draw a conclusion concerning this story seemed at the very least completely hypocritical. Continued...

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Kevin McCullough is the nationally syndicated host of "'Xtreme' Radio and columnist based in New York. He blogs at www.muscleheadrevolution.com. His second book "The Kind Of MAN Every Man SHOULD Be" is in stores now.

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What the. . .
That last post was WAY to long and, really, what's with just copying out chunks of the DSM-IV? These posts are supposed to be your opinions and related to the article. How annoying.

War on Men/Fathers Must Stop
"Can't we have frank opinion anymore?"

Certainly. But that presupposes that you can listen to an opposing view without resorting to name-calling, hysterics, and therapeutic rantings.

"I don't care what the system [or his daughter] did to him, his tirade was un-called-for."

It was definitely uncalled for. I don't even like Alec Baldwin. He should have kept his promise and left America for good. Having said that, I am discussing a principle larger than Baldwin. The State has no damn right to separate fathers from their children on the word alone of the mother. I want due process. The on-going war of feminists, liberals, and the State on men and fathers must stop.

"By the way, I wish those of you with the urge would stop posting books in the comment section. I, for one, won't read them, citations or no."

Don't read them.I don't care. You intentionally want to be ignorant of the truth.Yet you want to engage in frank opinion. Right.I for one won't stop posting resources for truthseekers.
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