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skdadl
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Babbler # 478
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posted 04 February 2005 01:58 PM
molly-tov, I am a very old gril compared to you (well, compared to most), but what you write rings familiar bells for me. It made me think of one of the first salvos from feminists of my cohort, addressed to our male counterparts in the New Left of the 1960s. It was called "Sisters, Brothers, Lovers, Listen" (1967?). I couldn't find a direct link to the text quickly (there must be one), but by happy coincidence, I found that an excerpt from a new book by rabble.ca's publisher, Judes (Judy Rebick), is up on the Web and mentions that essay in the context of observations very like yours: quote: It started in Canada with the Toronto Women’s Liberation Movement, founded in 1967, and mushroomed from there. The Feminine Action League was established at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, soon followed by the Women’s Caucus in Vancouver. By 1969 similar groups existed in Regina, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Ottawa, Kingston, Guelph, Hamilton, Halifax, Sudbury, Thunder Bay, Edmonton and Montreal. A mimeographed article entitled “Sisters, Brothers, Lovers, Listen …” was passed eagerly from hand to hand among women in the New Left. It denounced the “male chauvinism” of their comrades and ended with the declaration, “We are going to be typers of letters and distributors of leaflets no longer.”Men on the left did not watch this development passively, as Vancouver activist Jean Rands recalls: The student movement was dominated by articulate young men who were arrogant and full of themselves. Women were intimidated, and there was a lot of nasty, misogynist stuff that happened. When the student left organization at Simon Fraser University invited some left-wing activists from Germany to speak, the women’s caucus there decided to hold a meeting with the woman member. The male left was so outraged that we would have a woman-only meeting that they tried to drown us out. Everywhere that women stood up, men freaked out. Denise Kouri remembers what it was like for Saskatoon Women’s Liberation, one of the most active groups in the country:
Ten Thousand Roses: excerpt
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thiswoman
recent-rabble-rouser
Babbler # 8209
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posted 14 February 2005 05:09 AM
Voltarine Lives!!!Emma Goldman Lives!!! Every time we try to live we get backlash. Look at the consumerism adverts to know that they (the capitalists) push us back to "what men want" by selling skinny bods, "sexy and sleek" women draped over the hoods of fast cars and don't even get me started on the toys pushed to making "women" of our female sexed children, my first dishwasher be damned! To those who are not female in orientation, I realize that some of you understand that we have been pushed into some kind of standardized thinking; men make money, women spend it, but many men think that is the truth. In truth, we would far rather be ourselves (not model like, but healthy and fit through life activity, not starvation, denial and fitness gurus) with real life bodies that are, in reality not uniformly tall and lithe. We would far rather be appreciated for the fine minds that continue to create a world that is fair to all, women, men, all ethnicities, all backgrounds and all orientations. Without a yang, there is no ying.
From: Nanaimo, BC | Registered: Feb 2005
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