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- From: radzy@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU (T. O. Radzykewycz)
- Subject: Re: Women and Men Witches
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- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 17:35:23 GMT
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- ag055@yfn.ysu.edu (Ward Chanley) writes:
- > Re: Focus on valuing men and women equally...
- >
- > But WHAT in men are you going to value?
-
- This is a good example of why I think we should *not* be
- pushing for anything called a matriarchy/matrifocal/matri-whatever.
-
- The argument *for* it goes something like:
- Well, we have to convince people that the values we associate
- women with are good values, and that women are valuable people.
- So we have to hit men over the head with this stuff, to get them
- out of the current mold.
-
- The problem is this: when we try to push "women's values", then
- we're *MAINTAINING* this dichotomy between men and women! So,
- WHAT in men is this "matriarchy" going to value? How can we get
- to the point where those values are associated with both women
- and men, instead of being associated with just women? Or with
- just men, for that matter?
-
- Beating people over the head with the differences between men
- and women won't make people stop believing in those differences!
-
- Our society has really really serious problems! Some of these
- problems are based on the current bias towards men, which is
- based on the (false!) premise that women are inferior. Will
- replacing one false premise (that women are inferior) with a
- different false premise (that men are inferior) really change
- anything?
-
- > When men have a matriarchal
- > conciousness, then, and only then will
- > we have a culture that won't revert
- > back to the patriarchy the men were
- > raised with.
-
- Wrong wrong wrong wrong! We need to have men with a patriarchal
- *and* matriarchal conciousness. We need to have women with
- a matriarchal *and* patriarchal conciousness. Until we have
- all qualities in all people, we'll continue to be fucked!
-
- > You can value men and women equally,
- > and I want the culture to do that.
- > But we need to radically change the
- > head-space that men are put in before
- > we can do that successfully.
-
- Right. And we need to radically change the head-space that
- women are put in before we can do it, too.
-
- Blessings!
-
- -- radzy
-