Word: rossler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mustaches were twirled, the virtually all-male audience had little trouble picking out the villains or figuring out that poor Adam, like most of the men in the room, was doomed to lose custody. "I've seen some men sobbing away, so overcome by the system," said John Rossler, a shop owner and fathers' rights activist from North Syracuse, N.Y. "The system is so stacked against men that they don't fight...
...Rossler and some 60 other aggrieved males were gathered at a motel in Portland, Ore., for the fifth annual meeting of the National Convention for Men, an umbrella group for some 36 organizations representing more than 6,000 people who want to change divorce and custody law. The air was thick with smoke and anger as conventioners huddled in the halls and motel bar, denouncing "father bashing" and "female chauvinism," muttering about the hidden agenda of man-hating and lesbian social workers, and comparing the law's treatment of divorcing men to the Holocaust and Salem witch-hunts...
Despite all the bitterness, few were inclined to launch a crusade against women or feminism. Said Rossler: "It's important that the men's movement not be portrayed as antiwoman. Sexism has affected us as detrimentally as it has affected women." In fact, the women's movement seems to be as much model as bugbear to the wounded males. Like feminists, conventioners complained about sexist ads, including two showing a female pulling a male toward her with his tie. "The tie represents a sexist noose or perhaps a leash," said Fredric Hayward of Sacramento. The men celebrated small victories...
Also, like some feminists, the men effortlessly repaired to the role of victim. Coates told the convention, "You have to persecute men because men are the ones who dominated women, and now we're fair game." The problem, said the dejected Rossler, is that "men always come off on the short end of sympathy...