Off the Cuff / My Other Journal

Batman, Robin and Captain America

The morning news can be so entertaining. Today, they showed a demonstration for improving fathers’ rights. Dressed as Batman, Robin and Captain America, three men were on a ledge on a stone building in London. Since this is the USA and not UK, the news was only that much, but it was enough to make me grin.

I am all for equal rights for responsible parents, men or women alike in any part of the world; however, if this demonstration is a male manifesto of some kind, it might give the opposite idea than the one intended.

How can one take a father who dresses in a cartoon figure outfit and stands on a ledge seriously? I certainly wouldn’t want my children to be around such men. This, by the way, makes me feel even more thankful for the serious man who is my children’s father. The only time I remember him coming close to that was inside our house at our younger son’s birthday party.

I should watch the morning news more often.