Fathers4Justice advert banned: why?

Oh and Marks and Spencers funds Mumsnet. If you feel passionately about doing something about this abuse of fathers, boycott M&S.

I saw that advert on the families need fahers facebook page and its shocking. However, as a woman, I can say the dreadful way that women try to turn children against their own fathers after a split is disgusting and nothing short of abuse. It is worth remembering that a child is genetically half of two parents and by telling that child that their father is a XXXX, you are basically telling the child that he or she is a XXXX. That is nothing short of abuse. The family law system is heavily skewed towards mothers and it takes real skill to navigate the system and come out well if you are a non-resident father. Moreover, whilst many women qualify for legal aid, most men end up going in as litigants in person. Don't - get a Mckenzie friend to help you. Ministers forbidding this ad are admitting that they secretly condone the way fathers are treated. However, there is a right way to change this and, whilst well intentioned and motivated, F4J can go too far.

we all argue that why should adverts be banned, however the question should be WHY do men need to complain about the unreasonable judgments that are made, it does take two to make children, if we all want equal treatment, then Why does the courts discriminate against the male, some women might say its not me, however were is the mothers for justice site, does this not speak for itself. if any judges or MP,s read these sites, is it not about time you did something about it, or are you happy with the outcome, that one day might just come.

What do I think? I think that when the ASA uphold an advert that blatantly takes the mickey out of men being stupid after 673 complaints, but bands an advert tellig the truth about mumsnet after 10 complaints (wonder how many came from the same person?) tells you all you need to know. Institutional ant-male hatred and man bashing is now completely acceptable in the UK. If one cares to take a peek at the sordid filth that is posted on mumsnet even now it doesn not take long to work out their modus operandi. The threads discussing if it is acceptable to take the p**s out of disabled people says a a great deal. It's easy to moderate this type of stuff to a far greater level than they 'choose to' -they choose not to. Automated profanity filters and IP blocking are the standard tools of the trade, but MN choose not to employ them, to leave up the anti-male hatred and to only block and ban those that oppose them politely in their forums. It doesn't take a genius to work out what's going on here and the ASA are failing miserably by applying similar gender stereotyping - one rule for offence to women, another to men.

to be honest some women hate their ex partners with a passion and do their very best to pass this on to their children.

We men get a raw deal the law is on the womans side as usual, in the same way as criminals, and not the victims.
As for some of these JUDGES I often wonder what planet they are on with some of the stupid fines and sentences they give out.
50 shades of grey would make good reading for them LMAO

In the context of 'Mumsnet'
I really wish, as I am sure a lot of other people do, that the process of campaigning to redress an imbalance did not involve any form of vengful or prejudicial sentiments.
In other words, two wrong don't make a right. No amount of hatred ever created love, no amount of bias ever created fairness. Only the truth, the balanced, carefully sought after, and reasonable truth.
No matter how tempted, the strength of an argument can never be based on exaggerated claims of any kind. Any changes based on lies are unjust.
Sorry to sound preachy but I seriously implore people everywhere to look at what is true rather than just jump on a bandwaggon and get led along by it.
It is definitely about time that all the good men out there got a break.

I'm a divorced parent. The break up of my marriage was somewhat acrimonious at times with my ex wife denying me access to my children for 5-6 months at a time. That said, I cannot see any justification for 'advertising' campaigns such as this. It only serves to add vitriol to an already inflamed situation. Seperated/estranged/divorced parents should and must not use the children as weapons against the other partner, however strongly they feel. It is just not fair on the child. Allow them to grow up and form their own opinions. Or is that what you are afraid of?

Men’s Rights Activists regularly call women the c-word, the b-word, the w-word, and many more derogatory names in the comments on their websites. They call all women gold-diggers and claim any woman who calls for help for domestic violence is a "false accuser" and more. They also regularly lament that women have the right to vote, are allowed in the military, work in jobs they think should be for males only, and on and on. And on their Men's Rights sites, it's not only in the comments, but in many of the articles written by the people who run the websites. So it's interesting to see them complain about this when it's pretty much their standard method of operation.

Make the law the same as in the EU and round most of the civilised world EQUAL rights for fathers as much as women whom under current rules works 90% in the favour of women??? or as the courts would say in the best interests of the child thanks to Liberalised judges and PC social service arms