Prolescum
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I stumbled upon this blog A room of our own recently, so thought I'd share...
From May 14, 2010
It's quite an eye opener.
If you decide to comment there, bear in mind they have been known to edit comments they don't like to make fun out of dissenting opinion. Enjoy!
From May 14, 2010
A room of our own said:Women who, whether by choice or by force, deal with males are on the front line, not of an offensive strategy, but of the slaughter. While it may be true that women on the front line divert a certain amount of male attention away from other women, it is not an effective strategy, let alone reliably so. It is not guaranteed, after all, that males with willing or coerced rape-objects will always leave unwilling or uncoerced women alone. Not only that, the continued availability of willing and coerced rape-objects negatively affects all women, as it encourages males to view us all as potential targets.
Now, I understand that separatism isn't for everyone. But what I can't tolerate are attempts to justify the easy choice to remain with males (women who have no choice aside) as being somehow a means to a positive net gain for female human beings as a class. Inevitable though it may be that women will always choose to place themselves and their daughters in harm's way, separatists do not owe it to male-lovers to pretend as though the path of least resistance is anything other than what it is, capitulation.
I also find the constant appeals to "third world" women's inescapable captivity by way of making excuses for western white women's continued collaboration with males to be disrespectful, to say the least. No, separatism is not merely a privileged woman's choice, and no, choosing it does not mean a woman is out of touch with the circumstances of the female masses. When rural Kenyan women can set up their own female-only settlements and women in Papua New Guinea can choose not to mother sons specifically to end male violence, attempting to frame separatism as available only to women of privilege is blatantly inaccurate. And it's offensive.
In fact, privilege acts more as a hindrance to separatism than as the necessary condition collaborationist women would have you believe it is. Why would women who are privileged by their physical, social, and economic proximity to white males relinquish those privileges by cutting ties? It would certainly be nice if men's accomplices would simply admit that, instead of appealing to the desolation of poorer women's lives in order to frame their collusion as feminism.
It's quite an eye opener.
If you decide to comment there, bear in mind they have been known to edit comments they don't like to make fun out of dissenting opinion. Enjoy!