What’s your most controversial opinion? **Read OP** **Mod Note in Post #3372**

1) Men should be allowed under Irish law to have children of their own via paying surrogate mothers without any woman having a legal right to that child in Irish law. The cost of the surrogate - €25,000 or so - would be significantly cheaper than the cost of a divorce and the years of renting a bedsit because a woman who was his partner had the child with him, and thus is granted superior rights in Irish courts to that child, and to destroy that man's financial independence and quality of life until the child is 23 years old when she wants to end the relationship. That power bestowed on somebody because of their gender, and nobody is modern Ireland says anything. Sound familiar? 1950s Ireland and industrial schools/Magdalene laundries/abuse?

Irish family law, and the judges in its breathtakingly secretive courts and their years-long delays, are a testimony to a central truth of the so-called equality agenda for women: women are more than happy to use the gender card to continue getting superior rights to children and family homes when marital breakdown happens. Like industrial schools, Magdalene laundries and all the rest in former years, Irish people don't want to know about the discrimination against a whole section of Irish society: middle- and working-class men who are facing marital breakdown when they share joint legal custody of a child with a woman. These men face a state which treats women as vulnerable children and bestows incredible rights and privileges upon them at the expense of other Irish citizens because the latter are male. And nobody in supposedly progressive Ireland in 2023 says anything at all this gender-based destruction in the event of divorce because the victims are men. Utterly immoral what's happening - and it doesn't just happen "other men". It could be your son, your brother, your Dad.

I don't think men should be removed from the comparatively large family home which they at least equally own (and frequently paid for in its entirety), and shoved into renting a substandard bedsit for 20 or so years (until the youngest child is 23). On top of that, they then have their access to their own children regulated by women getting superior rights from the judiciary, and they must pay maintenance to keep their children in a home they has been thrown out of against their wishes. At every stage of the process, female adult citizens of this State are granted more rights to children and the home than male adult citizens of this State.

The obvious alternative is the family home should be sold, equity equally divided (even though the man has usually paid for most of it) and that both parents have equal rights to raise the children 50% of the time each.

However, when men seek to do this, as regular as clockwork the woman makes false allegations against him to remove him from the family home because, if he gets 50:50 parenting, she will lose control of the family home. There's great evil sanctioned by the gender-based violence implemented against men under the guise of protecting the "best interests of the children". It's all about control of the home, and the victimhood from women during a divorce process when kids are involved is utterly galling when the reality is that the family law system is stacked to the high heavens against all men.

This is breathtakingly naïve. The courts reflect a prejudice which believes women have superior rights to the children and family home - despite being in a world where the vast majority of both parents (especially where property prices are high) work outside the home. In that context of equal parenting and equal working outside the home, how many times do they throw the mother rather than the father out of the family home?

It doesn't happen because the so-called "equality" agenda for women doesn't apply in places where they benefit enormously from their gender, namely in the secretive family law courts of modern Ireland. The kids are pawns.

A lot of “free thinkers” are actually morons who are below average intelligence. That whole COVID was a hoax, Joe Rogan podcast fan, Ireland is hopelessly corrupt, climate change is a way of socially engineering us etc etc appeals to a hugely limited and easily influenced sort of person. Thick cünts tbh.