[LAF] UPDATE: Post action statement from no pretence
Ed McArthur
antines at yahoo.co.uk
Tue Jul 7 13:25:39 UTC 2009
There is a simple fact that has to be faced by those
who talk about "sexual freedom" and "free expression"
What is being defended is definitely commercial prostitution and commercial porn
If this was about sexual freedom why the need to pay for/sell it ?, I don't see that there is any difficulty in this day and age with the exercise of consenting non commercial sexual freedom,
The fact that women are coerced into prostitution demonstrates
that if there are women who freely become prostitutes then there are not enough
of them- to satisfy the demands of the sex industry and forced prostitution will continue. so the way to end it is to cut off the demand if you are part of the demand you are part of the problem further more if you are a woman sex worker who believes you have made a free choice you are also part of the problem
because you are also creating the industry that is exploiting other woman
and helping to ensure it continues
Non of this has anything to do with being anti-sex anti male or puritanical
Its to do with not wanting half the human race to be treated as sex objects
or to be judged according to a wholly subjective and socially conditioned
idea of what is sexually attractive(
(Outside the realm of the sex industry
this It gets really serious when young girls starve themselves to death because they think the are "too fat")
Men also suffer from this notion of beauty but not to the same extent and it does not produce the empathy one would expect
Commercial porn reflects a particular attitude by men to women
(yes I know there is Gay Porn also I don't think that's any better)
Again the demand side creates the problem,
From an early age Boys are taught
to view girls as sex objects no more, so if the don't conform to the images
in the porn mags( how many do and indeed how many men do)
The rules for
men and women are different how ever
Men who in terms of the stereo-type could be branded as
"fat /old ugly"
are just as dismissive of woman who do not conform to the stereo type of beauty
But if the stereo type holds why should woman not take the same attitude and dismiss any man who is "fat , old ugly ?
So porn does boil down to misogynistic attitudes by men
the question is why do so many anarchist men who have over come other conditioned attitudes, like support for war, imperialism , racism and capitalism
make no effort to see
the feminist point of view ? and to get away from sexual
stereo typing
Ed
Ed McArthur 07981 900 563
www.eventsandissues.bravehost.com
see also
www.freewebs.com/bookevents
Conway Hall Sunday Concerts
www.conwayhallsundayconcerts.org.uk
www.freewebs.com/secularcivilrights
--- On Mon, 7/6/09, Joy Wood <joy_helbin at hotmail.com> wrote:
From: Joy Wood <joy_helbin at hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: [LAF] UPDATE: Post action statement from no pretence
To: "Edmund McArthur" <antines at yahoo.co.uk>, "LAF EMAIL LIST" <laf at lists.aktivix.org>
Date: Monday, July 6, 2009, 11:40 PM
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Thanks for your remarks below, Ed
Just a quick note to say you're not the only person to be so outraged at anarchists who refuse to recognise misogyny within the anarchist movement. For example, I recently read a condemnation of the promotion of prostitution (amongst the comments to the article on the link below) which reminded me of your criticism of the porn industry below. It says - about anarchists who consider themselves 'sex-positive' because they favour prostitution for women - "anarchists for commercial rape are the reason I no longer do anarchist activism. They can tear down their own fucking prisons."
http://antipornfemi nists.wordpress. com/2009/ 01/18/what- are-we-reclaimin g-for/
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:28:32 -0700
From: antines at yahoo.co.uk
Subject: Re: [LAF] UPDATE: Post action statement from no pretence
To: laf at lists.aktivix.org; joy_helbin at hotmail.com
This only makes me more depressed about the anarchist
movement
if in fact there is such a thing or if there is is it
something I want to be part of
Misogymy has never escaped the anarchist movement,
or any other movement apart form feminism,
its there amoung the most supposedly progressive groups
iT MAY BE THE RESULT OF SOCIAL CONDITIONING
but the vast majority of anarchist men do not even
make the effort to throw it off beacause they
dont want to
People who defend porn on ground of "free Speeech"
or even" sexual freedom"
are just defending their own interests nothing
more noble than that, further more they are
defending one of the worst capitalists idustries
there is and they are promoting the abuse of women
All this being the case I can no longer define myself as
an anarchist
Ed
Ed McArthur 07981 900 563
www.eventsandissues.bravehost.com
see also
www.freewebs.com/bookevents
Conway Hall Sunday Concerts
www.conwayhallsundayconcerts.org.uk
www.freewebs.com/secularcivilrights
--- On Tue, 6/16/09, Joy Wood <joy_helbin at hotmail.com> wrote:
From: Joy Wood <joy_helbin at hotmail.com>
Subject: [LAF] UPDATE: Post action statement from no pretence
To: "LAF EMAIL LIST" <laf at lists.aktivix.org>
Date: Tuesday, June 16, 2009, 11:11 PM
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On Sunday, June 7th a group of anarcha-feminists took the stage at the
Anarchist Conference 09 to protest about sexist oppression within the anarchist movement. They projected a film and read out a statement.
Their actions went on to provoke a huge response - with comments ranging from undiluted misogyny to militant solidarity.
The misogyny provided more examples of the sexism we all battle with when we try and make our voices heard. Such attitudes make the prospect of fighting back more intimidating, but also increasingly urgent.
>From the audience:
"Are you going to do a sexy dance for us?".
And online:
"A wrote:
Bear, was there any hotties present
"B wrote:
a few. one of the radical feminists who disrupted it, and who I know
looked really cute in black hoodie."
These comments are undeniably sexist, but hierarchical social relations cannot be reduced to personal insults or behaviour. Sexism thrives upon subtle and intangible processes which make gender domination and exploitation endemic.
Those responses to the action which asked, 'why did you take the mic from a woman?', 'why did you not include the woman at Speakers' Corner?', 'why did you criticise a poster designed by a woman?' were missing the point. For any focus we put on the numerical dominance of men is only a detail within our broader perspective on the institutionalised power arrangements reproduced and upheld by patriarchy. These can continue to operate in situations where a woman is taking the lead.
So the attempts in our film and text to expose and delegitimate prescribed gender roles must be seen within our larger analysis of gender oppression.
We are not fighting a battle between men and women, but one against the divisive gender labels that people remain obstinately attached to.
Consequently, we reject the conception of a binary male-female
relationship, in which sexist relations are always characterised by a male oppressor acting upon a female victim. We call for a rejection of liberal feminism's simplistic attempts to define and reform the oppressive system we want destroyed.
The action wasn't intended to be an attack on particular groups, or on the conference itself - it was meant to be a wake-up call to the
movement as a whole, to bring sexism to light and to provoke debate and action around how gendered power is imposed.
Where particular groups are represented in the film this is because their visual material can be used to indicate wider sexism in the movement, not because they are more sexist than other groups.
The intervention was not carried out by pre-existing groups and should not be credited to particular individuals. Those who made it happen are strongly committed to responding to and facing its consequences, but are acting in the knowledge that it could have been carried out by so many others. By those who followed them as they left the conference, by those who responded from movements outside of the UK, by those who emailed to say that they had faced sexism in the movement for years and never had the confidence to express it. It is being carried out by all those who have shown solidarity.
NOT THE FINAL WORD
With those who want freedom from hierarchical systems, we should continue to meet, debate, fight, organise, write.
We call for critiques and improvements of our action. We call for a
queering of our text. We call for new texts.
Claim this action as your own. Change it, fuck with it, and keep fighting forward.
www.nopretence. wordpress. com
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