[LAF] [allgendergroup] Fuck For Forest at A-Kongress

[Joy Wood]

"Maybe the people screaming to us and threatening us because
> we were naked or part of a non-profit erotic website should think
> about what the word sexism means; Suppressing someone because of their
> sexuality or sexual orientation. And this was now happening to us"

Quote from [male] FFF member

 

Er no, actually, sexism is *not* suppressing someone because of their sexuality or sexual orientation (that's homophobia, etc, etc), sexism is treating someone in a certain way as if they were a member of a  "class" because of their assigned gender.  Under patriarchy this might mean, as a couple of examples

 

1.  not allowing girls or women into lucrative professions and/or keeping them in unpaid or underpaid occupations, and 

 

2.  conscripting men and boys but not women or girls as soldiers, training them to kill, and sending them to war to kill and be killed.

 

It doesn't seem likely that FFF were objected to because of their nakedness but it does seem from the report by Gabriel Kuhn, and by the report of the comrade who first alerted Volodya, that some member/s of FFF acted agressively and made sexist and homophobic remarks.  Before going into denial and accusing others of not only lying, but lying deliberately and maliciously moreover, to try to discredit FFF, an attempt could have been made to consider whether the behaviour of [a] certain member/s of FFF might have contributed/ignited the trouble by their insulting (not sexy*, but sexist) offensive (not 'publicy sexual' but plain boorish) behaviour.

 

Joy

 

*I agree some people confuse sex and sexism, FFF's statement shows signs of this.
 
> Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:51:02 +0100
> From: Volodya at WhenGendarmeSleeps.org
> To: allgendergroup at lists.riseup.net
> Subject: [allgendergroup] Fuck For Forest at A-Kongress
> 
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> For those of you who are close to anarchist politics (or are crazy enough to
> actually call yourselves anarchists) you might have heard about the incident of
> Anarchist Kongress in Germany shutting down with the Fuck For Forest members
> being accused of being the cause. I've actually done a little bit of
> investigation of that, asking those who have been at the Kongress and sending
> the e-mail to FFF themselves, they have kindly agreed to allow me to post the
> text of our exchange...
> 
> http://www.freedomporn.org/smut/Fuck_For_Forest_at_A-Kongress
> 
> - Volodya
> 
> 
> 
> - --
> http://freedom.libsyn.com/ Echo of Freedom, Radical Podcast
> http://eng.anarchopedia.org/ Anarchopedia, A Free Knowledge Portal
> http://www.freedomporn.org/ Freedom Porn, anarchist and activist smut
> 
> "None of us are free until all of us are free." ~ Mihail Bakunin
> 
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)
> Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
> 
> iEYEARECAAYFAknnfhYACgkQuWy2EFICg+2I/QCdEW+DbVxqtFN1ICZRvaDM42js
> wKQAnjqySSYNAl7F3Mb/IWz56gpXbcEc
> =OrfJ
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

_________________________________________________________________
Share your photos with Windows Live Photos – Free.
http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/134665338/direct/01/
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.aktivix.org/pipermail/laf/attachments/20090630/c2037140/attachment.htm>