Botond173
18hr ago
I’ll raise the issue of paternity testing as potential culture war fuel.
As far as I know, the law in US federal states and Western European countries is usually that a husband may not have a paternity test done on the child or children unless the wife agrees to it in writing and the family court permits it (in case of a divorce). I’m not a lawyer and I don’t know the specifics. But anyway, the practical reality is that a husband having such a test done on the kids without consulting anyone else is illegal. Basically there is never any permission given to do such tests.
On one of the now-defunct Manosphere sites, namely Dalrock’s blog, a regular commenter who went under the online name Novaseeker made a prediction about 10 or more years ago: not only will there not be any new legislation making paternity tests easier, as usually demanded online by angry men’s rights activists, but the opposite will happen. Namely: a growing number of men, usually in case of facing an initiated divorce, will start tinkering with these laws, covertly getting paternity tests done, basically on the black market, and this in turn will result on corresponding legislation becoming even more punitive and restrictive. There’ll be heavy fines, maybe even prison sentences etc.
Again, this was written more than 10 years ago. I wonder if anything of this has materialized or not.
Botond173
19hr ago
A computer game featuring a nuclear family as characters, so a human adult woman as the wife and one or more human biological children (not androids), one where the player has to fulfill the role of the protector patriarch and husband, would obviously be much more effective ragebait to Blue Tribe online feminists, because in their view this is basically the full manifestation of the typical toxic male fantasy.
You’re right; in Pragmata there is no wife, and the child is an android and not a biological human. However, the player is still supposed to be the protector patriarch to this android, and is thus, according to the reasoning of Blue Tribers, designed to pander to the toxic fantasies of angry loser males who are otherwise mostly unfit to attract flesh-and-blood women and form families in the real world.
Botond173
19hr ago
In other words, they do fear backlash from their own employees, and that is part of it.
I'm certain it's the same in Germany.
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