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Mercy – Merci

Question:

I wish to share a thought with my emancipated sisters wherever they may be. I may have missed the point about what the goals of feminism were or what political correctness set out to accomplish. In the glorious days of the sixties and seventies when the feminist movement came into it’s element, the aims which were set-out to be accomplished were lost along the way and turned into a power trip for too many women. At the same time as these wonderful days were in the making perhaps my attention was distracted. It was my privilege to be the "Cosh" my mother used against my father to do her bit for feminism, whilst stripping him of everything of meaning in his life as well as every penny he would have earned for quite some years. How exciting and exhilarating that must have been for her. My father wasn’t much of a man, but he was the only father I had. I never had the privilege to know him or to enjoy a father/daughter relationship which was my right. In 1967 at the age of sixteen, I found my father in a shack, on a sweltering summer’s day. The place was unfit for animal habitation. It was the first time I had contact with him without fearing reprisals for wanting to see him. On that special day I felt ashamed for the things I had been made to say and do, to comply with my mother’s wishes against him. That was the day when it became clear she had been successful in burning my bridges to him, my grandparents, my uncles etc. That day I also lost my mother and brother too. This is a short summary of quite a common divorce scenario: * Her marriage to the man she left my father for soon ended in divorce. * My father remarried, lead an ordinary family life and at seventy-four   he died in his sleep a year an a half ago. * My brother had a failed marriage and two sons. He died in a so-called   accident some ten years earlier, almost killing his favourite son for   good measure. His sons will have nothing to do with their grandmother.   After destroying someone else

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