NOMAS Leader Michael Kimmel
Criticizes Men's Movement
Sponsors of the
2005 Men's Equality Conference,
to be held July 15 and 16 in
Washington D.C., believe that
males are often disadvantaged,
and that feminism is part of the
problem. Among the grievances
cited by the conference are
unfairness or inequity in Family
Courts, Education, Health,
Domestic Violence policies,
Paternity Fraud, Criminal Law,
and in Reproductive Rights.
Author and
sociologist
Michael Kimmel, National
Spokesperson for the
pro-feminist men's group the
National Organization for Men
Against Sexism (NOMAS),
disagrees, to put it mildly. In
his book
Manhood in America
Kimmel, America's leading male
feminist, calls the men's
movement "whiners." According to
Kimmel:
"Fathers' rights
groups use a language of
equality to take their revenge
against women to court, to
demand mandatory joint custody
without demonstration of
father's prior involvement. Most
advocates of men's and fathers'
rights are disgruntled and
divorced dads who blame their
wives and their wives'
lawyers..."
Kimmel says the
men's movement analysis of
gender issues is "so misguided,
its inversions so transparent,
its anger is displaced onto
those who have traditionally
been excluded, that it can
hardly offer any man of reason a
convincing picture of men's
situation." To Kimmel, those who
assert that the tables have been
turned against men in the gender
wars are looking at the world
"through a funhouse mirror."
Kimmel will joined
Glenn on
His Side with Glenn Sacks
on June 26, 2005.
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