Sir, - In her recent letter, Cynthia Carroll concludes that "on the liberal scale" I am "somewhere to the right of Genghis Khan" because I used the term "female supremacists" in a recent letter.
First, let me point out that I did not use the term "female supremacists"; the term I used was "feminist supremacists", which is entirely different. Not all females are feminists and not all feminists are females.
I have met many caring and intelligent "female" persons who are as concerned as I am about the damage being done to children and society in general by the peripheralisation of fathers and fatherhood. There are other "females" of course, who resent the fact that these issues are being raised by John Waters and others. Raising the issue of discrimination against men and fathers is seen by these other "females" as an encroachment on women's monopoly on victimisation.
"Victim power" is, of course, the power base of the feminist supremacists and they do not easily tolerate any challenge to their power base. As I pointed out in my earlier letter, the power of the feminist supremacists is most clearly evident in the anti-man, anti-father family law system which they have devised.
Recognition of the fact that feminism has moved beyond equality to supremacism does not in any way indicate my place on the "liberal scale" or indeed on any other scale. - Yours, etc.,
Michael Stephens
Pineview Grove, Aylesbury, Tallaght, Dublin 24.