[Noisebridge-discuss] Noisebridge-discuss Digest, Vol 69, Issue 30

Thomas tom7879 at gmail.com
Wed Jul 31 03:46:30 UTC 2013


To Romy,

Happy Feminist Night is a fantastic idea. Please go ahead and create it 
at Noisebridge! I'll help if I can.

Remember that Noisebridge is a do-ocracy, so you can just do it, or get 
friends to help you do it. You don't need anyone's permission. Of 
course, you might check the main page (noisebridge.net) and look at the 
weekly class/event offerings there. You could use it to choose the best 
time and NB place for it. I'd go for sure!

"Alien" is scarier than it is feminist, and might not bring a 
pro-feminist audience. Lots of Sci-Fi people, though.

A lot of very important feminist writers say men can be feminists, 
including bell hooks. The best definition I saw in the thread, said 
"feminism is about women's liberation." The key word here is 
"liberation," which all of us can aspire to.

Patriarchy injures everybody, including men. It brutalizes us and 
coerces us into machista roles that severely limit our choices. Men, of 
course, do receive /some/ benefits from patriarchy - but working men, 
men of color, and gay men are constantly victimized by it in ways most 
of them can't even see.

A socio-economic analysis reveals that most men are oppressed under 
capitalism. Patriarchy, racism, police brutality all contribute to that 
oppression, and none of them exclude men from the damage done by these 
phenomena. Women are indeed the special victims of patriarchy, but they 
are not the only ones.

This is not to give more weight to mens' victimization than to that of 
women. It is merely to state that which is: both men and women are 
oppressed. If men are willing and able to contribute to the feminist 
project of liberation than they should be free to do so.

I know several men who identify as feminists. I don't wish to contradict 
them or argue with their beliefs. Granted, they might identify as other 
things, too, like gender-questioning. But men have a stake in liberation 
as surely as women do. So for those men among us who choose to 
contribute to the feminist project, and who call ourselves feminists, 
let us remember that we are doing much more than merely "affirming 
patriarchy," when we strive to break the chains. We are actually helping 
everyone to advance to freedom.





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