This is a space for the less privileged voices. I like to discuss and dissect social issues, social disadvantage, social exclusion and social inequality. Analysis is always informed by social theory, empirical data and critical Social Work practice wisdom. The author is ideologically opposed to patriarchy and institutions, discourses and practices which support it such as marriage, capitalism, liberalism, accumulation of wealth, unlimited acquisition of private property, education, trans ‘activism’, pornography, popular culture and anything else which maintains the existing social order. This is a radical blog.
If you wish to comment keep in mind the following:
Lesbophobic comments will not be published.
Unexamined privilege will be noticed. This particularly refers to male, white, class & heterosexual privilege.
Support of the existing social order will be noticed.
MRAs are not allowed.
For het-partnered women, please avoid any Nigel (male) apologism and please avoid beginning a statement with “We…” or “My partner/husband/boyfriend…”
Men have a read only status here. Genuine feminist allies already respect this and self-regulate. They don’t need to be told.
The policy regarding men includes men who would aspire to be women. Dudes, in a better world you could be free to practice femininity and still be men. Similarly, women could be free to not practice it and not be persecuted to the point where they flee from womanhood. Let’s keep a bigger picture in mind and drop all the conservative, neo-liberal me me me shit. Copping a hard time out there? Welcome to the world of women.
Comments that are hateful toward patriarchy’s most oppressed class, children, will not be tolerated. We can hate on patriarchy’s demands that we pump out it’s future citizens, workers and cannon fodder, and the social disapproval/punishment we cop when we resist that demand. We can actively fight against that. But we can’t take it out on babies and children who are the involuntary result of this demand. I do not believe we should shun the joy of life-giving simply because patriarchy has fucked it up for us. And we should definitely not make the results of these demands our scapegoats. To deny the joy of life-giving is to contribute to the erasure of women and I am inflexible on this issue. Personally, I dream of a post-patriarchy future where women can enjoy their children without necessarily having to maintain intimate attachments to men. A future where social parenthood and a collective approach to child-raising is the norm. It really does take a village.
No linking to feminist blog carnivals without asking first, please.
