I read this before I went to work, and didn't have time to post a comment. It certainly takes some digesting, but yes, it does inspire me. Fighting talk, provided it is in the right cause, always inspires me. Now it needs to be transformed from talk into action.

There is much to be digested and to comment on, but stung by Sir Percy's challenge, I will toss in my immediate thoughts.

I have often wondered why every man who loses out in the family kangaroo courts simply because he is the wrong gender, does not become a full-blooded activist. F4J ought to have literally hundreds of thousands of members. Think what it could do then, even if only 5% were prepared to climb onto roofs and gantries. I have never personally been shafted by the family court system, but I have seen enough of it in action at second hand to know how it is shafting my brothers, and that is enough to get me mad.

So why don't those who are on the receiving end do more? I really think it is the old chivalry instinct that takes over. It is very hard for a man to come to terms with the fact that so many women, and "his" woman in particular, have declared him to be the enemy, and are the ones stabbing him to death - sometimes literally. Too many men in that position seem to veer more towards depressed acceptance than fighting retaliation.

I also agree with AH's comment. The war on Fathers Rights is just one aspect of the war on men and boys, or the war on masculinity itself. We are under attack on all fronts, and we need to fight back on all fronts. Misandry runs very deep and all its roots must be attacked, preferably with a chain saw.

It is not just that sweet-faced snake who lays a false rape allegation on an innocent man that is the enemy; it is also the police officers who fail to do their job properly and take the lazy and wrong route of assuming guilt first and looking for evidence later; it is the spiteful journalist who splashes the accused's name and picture in the local press without even bothering to refer to him as an "alleged" perpetrator; it is the people who read the press article, decide he is guilty and make his life hell; it is his employers who rush to suspend or sack him because they care more about their public image than such trivial matters as justice and the truth; it is the teachers, parents and mentors who fail dismally to teach these concepts in schools and in the home; it is the politicians who pledge to encourage and support all snakes without even entertaining the thought that they could be lying; and it is the unthinking fools who swallow the garbage they are fed and vote such politicians into power.

We have much work to do.