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In reply to the discussion: Why the Men's Rights Movement Is Garbage [View all]Squinch
(59,534 posts)No one was denying this guy's right to have access to the child. They were simply upholding the right of the mother not to have someone who increased her pain and anxiety in the room to witness her working through the hardest and most dangerous moment of her life.
News flash: the birth process is not about the father. Deal with it.
The idea that the father must have the right to be in the room during labor, despite the fact that the mother doesn't want him there, can only be the result of one of two things:
Either it shows a rank ignorance of the process of labor,
OR it shows a need to exert male control over women's bodies and their processes in a way that perfectly displays hatred for women and a wish to subjugate them to male uses.
This example perfectly illustrates the MRA movement's petulant desire to regain male control over women's bodies.