Re: [Fwd: Re: AUT: Re: Selma James Name Change]

[devries@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

>>which isn't just that men and women
>>are socialized to be and feel different, but that HE is superior. What
>>famous thinker said every binary opposition conceals a hierarchy? Light,
>>dark; good, bad; man, woman. That's the problem!
>
>Surely THIS is no explanation! The implication is that such a hierarchy is
>natural and inevitable. (Unless we can somehow abolish the  sexual division
>of humanity.)

But we can abolish that division.  This does not mean that certain members
of humanity will no longer have penises and others vaginas, but the I think
the point is not that there are no differences, but that the binary
opposition is unjustifiable, physically, socially, etc.  Men and women have
much more in common than they do different.  Just as we speak of race as an
artificial division of humanity, so can we talk of gender. Women may have a
few abilities that men do not, and vice versa, but a few traits do not
imply the radical difference in power between men and women.

love and struggle,

Joshua Freeze
Anarcho-Banjoist
ATU 1549 Recording Secretary
IWW Branch Secretary
Lucy Parsons GMB
P.O.Box 254
Austin Texas 78767




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