So far, we have been living blindly to the truth. In our comfortable lives, we have ignored the global holocaust occurring today—backed by the same motivations and underpinnings behind the first holocaust of the Nazis. In fact, it’s also Communist, of the Marx and Engels brand. It’s a global conspiracy.
It’s something that leads us to deny the worldwide eradication of humanity, also known as abortion. Yes, abortion. Did you know that abortionists drag babies—fully viable babies—and drown them in distilled water, crush their heads, and chop them up for parts to use in cosmetic surgery for women? This neo-Communist plot to destroy the world is known as radical feminism. This new world order is known as the Global Gynarchia. See the evil upon the unnaturally youthful faces of women, powered by baby guts.
Or at least that’s what FathersForLife.org would have us believe. Loading this website is like stepping into an alternate universe. Though obviously a pro-life website, it goes beyond simply talking about abortion (which is apparently thinning humanity and will eventually lead to our destruction, as the Communists wanted). It details a world where men are actually oppressed by the new elite, the feminist conspiracy. Children are beaten to death with impunity by their capricious overlord mothers.
And fathers are the last line of hope for humanity but the tendrils of the feminist movement are slowly leeching their vitality. In this world, it is a battle of good against evil—the patriarchy against the evil arachnid-like Gynarchia. Sadly, it is a battle we have already lost. Fathers For Life is meant as a time capsule for future generations. The Gynarchia has already won. Like a black widow spider, it has gobbled up good ‘ol patriarchy and fatherhood, with mayonnaise on the side.
Its absurdity makes this story told by Fathers For Life rather entertaining.
Uncharacteristically (though part of the narrative), the website also details the plight of the Jews and how the feminist and euthanasia movements are an extension of Nazism and Communism (putting aside, for a moment, that those philosophies aren’t on the best of terms with one another). Euthanasia and assisted suicide has, according to Fathers For Life, had a far more nefarious goal—to eradicate the Jews, since half of the 12 million individuals put down have been Jews. As much skepticism as these types of stories must instill in casual, mainstream readers, there is something that this website shares in common with many websites and books on any radical fringe, especially modern radical conservatism—a clever weave of truth and half-truth.
Within a strange mix of factually dubious article citations, we read the puzzling assertion that two-thirds of child abuse is committed by women. Men have an instinct to protect women and children, thus leaving the destructive abuse suffered by children to be committed by women. We also read that Margaret Sanger, one of the early champions of birth control, was actually a proponent of eugenics who drew the admiration of Hitler—damning, according to Fathers For Life, since her organization eventually became Planned Parenthood, which is perpetrating her legacy to this day.
Is Fathers For Life right? According to Medicine Net, a site referred by the National Institute of Health, women do commit 61% of child abuse. A quick historical check reveals that Margaret Sanger really was a proponent of eugenics!
Of course, the truth is always a bit more complicated than a short series of “gotchas.”
While 61% of recorded child abuse is in fact committed by women, the vast majority of that abuse is actually neglect (which is also technically classified under abuse). Most violent, physical abuse is still committed by men. And although neglect can easily be deadly in the case of children, it doesn’t quite paint the same picture of vindictive, violent mothers that Fathers for Life tries to convey.
Additionally, while Margaret Sanger was indeed a proponent of eugenics, there are more than a few differences between her and Hitler. Besides the fact that most Americans and Europeans at the time were actually in favor of eugenics to some extent, Sanger was quite vocal against violent extermination of individuals and was horrified by news of Nazi Germany’s actions—quite different from Sanger and Hitler supposedly becoming the best of friends and creating a strange lovechild of nazi-feminism. Sanger, despite having widely inappropriate views by today’s standards, actually had a somewhat compassionate vision in mind, considering that she saw birth control as helping poor women out of poverty—even if it was alongside a view that it might be able to prevent the mixing of the white race with inferior Asian and “other” races.
The truth behind Fathers For Life’s half-truths becomes quite apparent with the full context, but the danger is in an incomplete picture that incorporates a few germs of truth within a wider net of wild-eyed conspiracy. Although I doubt that more than a few would fully accept everything that the site proposes, I can see it as all-too-likely that some will. Upon realizing that these previously outlandish-sounding factoids are “true,” they will begin thinking about the validity of other assertions that the site also makes.
Maybe not the blip about feminists with baby guts as cosmetic injections, but perhaps some of the assertions that legal abortion is twenty-five times more dangerous than illegal abortion have some truth to them. Maybe there is something to the claim that abortion causes breast cancer. And maybe there is something to this view that we should stop abortions because they are morally reprehensible. But that slant shifts the issue away from the woman, even if the casual reader rejects the evil “redfem” picture the site paints.
Fathers For Life may not gain many converts anytime soon, but it does illustrate an increasing tendency of these sorts of websites and books to mix surprising true facts within their untruths, which may lead the uncritical observer to lend credence to a far wider body of twisted facts and straight up lies. And that ultimately is the danger, either with these extreme-fringe anti-feminist sites, or more commonly, the anti-evolution movement.
By seizing upon personal flaws of the founders of feminism, birth control, or evolution, these groups cast a sinister shadow on everything else these individuals touched. This includes a few cherrypicked shock factoids that may be construed as true, slowly breaking down readers’ skepticism and wedging a foot in the door for more radical sentiments.
Ultimately, these types of tactics have brought many of the myths about abortion (and again, the other popular target, evolution) from the minds of raving extremists into the mouths of the mainstream. And that, in the end, is what is terrifying about sites like Fathers For Life.
