actress, recently confessed to a worry. She expressed the concern that all her mates will be frightened if she tells them that she is a feminist.
Such a view shows she has bought the view of feminism put about in many television programmes that says that it is to do with being uptight, the inability to relax and have fun and the ability to bash men. Wake up Geena! What is she doing swallowing this tripe?
Feminism
Feminism, socialist feminism in particular, has nothing to do with any of this. It takes as its central premise the fact that women in our society have always been oppressed.
Despite the misguided Г So, what do we do about it? We call for women to unite around campaigns against these and other issues as they arise. Self-organisation By organising ourselves in this way, we are fighting back against oppression which will win whilst women are battling on alone. Autonomous 0ganisation gives women the opportunity to take control of their lives that they are not enjoying elsewhee. This does not mean that men are not involved in these struggles for women's liberation. Socialist feminism, as the name gives away, is an integral part of the overall view that we now live in struggle for a new way of enlightened times, you will have heard many a organising society. person saying that a Solidarity It would only be in the woman ouent to de re sponsible for sorting out interests of the bosses partner, house and kids for working people to sit rather than doing any- in antagonistic gender thing else. You will also, camps, ignoring the fact no doubt, have felt the that all the different tremors of outrage when forms of oppression in soa woman asks to take ciety are linked, be they control of her body by hav- on the basis of class, ing an abortion. race, or gender, because In the workplace, they can only be overwomen suffer in terms of come by united action. discrepancy. in pay and in So, women call for the the kind of jobs they are support of men in camlikely to get. They are also paigns all the time, just often the butt of "jokes" as women stand alongwhich can escalate in to side men in a huge variety sexual harassment from of occasions not directly their colleagues. linked to women's liberaMothers tion. Young women are workNursery places are a "needle in a haystack" ing for women's liberation in their colleges and in job whilst government lackeys probe and poke their unions. So, ignore about in to the personal the weak response of relationships of single Geena Davis and use your mothers in the guise of voice to drown out all this media burble. the Child Support Agency.
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