"Glenn Sacks jumped on the divorced mother out of all proportion to what she said and without any corroboration of his views."  

The purpose of The Feminist Dissident is to give feminists a chance to speak directly to my audience, and my audience to debate the issues with them in a civil manner. To read previous entries, click here.

The Feminist Dissident column below is penned by Traverse Davies, a writer based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. His blog is at http://logic11.wordpress.com.

If you are a feminist and are interested in submitting a blog post, please email me at glenn@glennsacks.com.

In his post, Davies criticizes my recent blog post 'Being Single Sucks and So Do Men'. I don't agree with his criticisms, but I'll keep my mouth shut and let him say his piece. It is a companion piece to Davies' recent post MRAs Are Unwilling to Acknowledge that Feminism Has Some Valid Points.

Glenn Sacks Demonized Divorced Mother in Recent Post
By Traverse Davies

The Men's Rights Movement's unwillingness to acknowledge that feminism has some valid points tends to lead to stuff like this. When you read this, keep in mind that the original post is on www.exrants.com, where women are vilified almost constantly, both in the comments on their own rants and in the men's rants.

It seems that there is far more animosity towards women on www.exrants.com than there is towards men. In the case of the linked rant, the woman uses a slightly nasty (but very slightly) sort of humor about her ex, and then drops even that to talk about being lonely. Glenn Sacks jumped on her out of all proportion to what she said and without any corroboration of his views.

Basically Glenn (and he seems to be by far kinder than those who left comments on his page) comes up with a few scenarios that he thinks would explain why the woman is single now. All of them are mean-spirited. He lists four possible reasons why her marriage didn't work out, but here are a few other possibilities:

5) He cheated on her.

6) She cheated on him.

7) They grew apart over a period of several years and one day decided that it just wasn't working anymore.

8) He hit her.

9) She hit him.

There are a whole lot of other options. See, her post really doesn't reveal that information, making this a classic case of demonizing women out of all proportion to the evidence.

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