By: Wayne Cook

Wayne Cook — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 21:48:30 +0000

My name is Wayne Cook (referred to as “wingnut”) in this post.
I have read the comments by “Silverside”.
Too bad, this person never contacted me directly, with their concerns regarding Meetup .
Dialouge is important!
But, to associate me with domestic violence is offensive, if not libelous.

By: silverside

silverside — Thu, 13 Jan 2005 21:43:25 +0000

I have had a lot of problems with meetup. I wanted to organize a local group for non-custodial mothers, but they told me there was “insufficient” interest. Of course, this becomes a vicious circle. I can’t demonstrate sufficient interest when I’m not allowed to try, can I? So I had various other people email them asking for a group — no effect. I settled for expanding an existing “parents rights” group, while insisting in my description that while it was open to all parents, fathers rights extremists and men with histories of domestic violence were not welcome. So things are kind of slow for a while. And then I get some guy named Wayne Cook who comes along — a well-know Fathers Rights wingnut out of Canada who joins every meetup group there is related to fathers, mothers, children, etc. Including mine. Including gay dads in Beijing (boy, must be expensive getting to those meetings). Meetup has told me thus far that I can’t get rid of him, although I fear his presence will preclude a lot of battered women who are being threatened with custody problems from contacting the group (our local family court judge is famous for favoring batterers. She delivers for them — and why not? The Fathers Rights people financed and managed her campaign). Anyway, I’m ready to just dissolve all efforts to go through meetup. What good is it, when you can’t control your membership? How can you, say, organize a local anti-racist group, if Klan people from anywhere in the nation can join and you can’t do anything about it?

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