Men’s lib. no joke
(JV.Z Press .Associationi WHANGAREI As flames symbolically devoured a pair of their president’s underpants in the garden outside, the inaugural meeting of the National Organisation of Men (N.0.1M.) was held in a private house at Whangarei — in deadly earnest. The male counterpart to ; National Organisation of Women, the N.O.M. gather ing was attended by 18 local men in their thirties and forties, most of them solo pa rents. Speakers said that they had had enough of being “second-class citizens’’ in the eyes of their fellow men. New Zealand laws on marriage and divorce discriminated against them, they said, and they wanted equal rights for men. The founder-president (Mr B. Cresswell) — the owner of the house and the flaming underpants — said he was convinced that men had received a raw deal. He intended to try for as big a membership as possible “to make N.O.M. a household word throughout the country.”
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Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34044, 7 January 1976, Page 8
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154Men’s lib. no joke Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34044, 7 January 1976, Page 8
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