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Ain't I A Woman? newspapers, June 1970-July 1971
1970-09-11 "Ain't I a Woman?" Page 4
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Things for men to do: Discover what your privileges are as part of a privileged caste. Discover why you can't give someone else your privileges. Think about what you feel when you look a woman up and down. kiss a brother Try to be emotional about something close to your heart. Think about the difference between a relationship of two women and one of a man and a women. Think twice before you tell a woman how to run her movement. Buy three guns. Give one to your mother, one to your wife, and one to your sister. Hold your legs together every time you sit down for a whole day. Stare into the eyes of a salesman. What future plans do you have for your son? ... Your daughter? Remember all the times you felt like crying when your dad played with you too roughly. Cry Discover what its like to be called irrational when you are just expressing strong feelings on an issue that's important to you. How did your parents treat you differently from your sister. How many times have you said "my wife"? "my children"? What did you feel like when you were little and you saw your father with another woman? Do you feel differently about divorce now that you are a man? And let's put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are oppressed, too, by sexism--the lie that there can be such a thing as "men's liberation groups." Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a "threatening" characteristic shared by the latter group -- skin color or sex or age, etc. The oppressors are indeed fucked up by being masters (racism hurts whites, sexual stereotypes are harmful to men) but those masters are not oppressed. Any master has the alternative of divesting himself of sexism or racism--the oppressed have no alternative--for they have no power--but to fight. In the long run, Women's Liberation will of course free men--but in the short run it's going to cost men a lot of privilege, which no one gives up willingly or easily. Sexism is not the fault of women--kill your fathers, not your mothers. -- Robin Morgan This space is for men who want to write in our paper --sharpen your crayons 4 Vol. 1, No. 5 AIN'T I
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Things for men to do: Discover what your privileges are as part of a privileged caste. Discover why you can't give someone else your privileges. Think about what you feel when you look a woman up and down. kiss a brother Try to be emotional about something close to your heart. Think about the difference between a relationship of two women and one of a man and a women. Think twice before you tell a woman how to run her movement. Buy three guns. Give one to your mother, one to your wife, and one to your sister. Hold your legs together every time you sit down for a whole day. Stare into the eyes of a salesman. What future plans do you have for your son? ... Your daughter? Remember all the times you felt like crying when your dad played with you too roughly. Cry Discover what its like to be called irrational when you are just expressing strong feelings on an issue that's important to you. How did your parents treat you differently from your sister. How many times have you said "my wife"? "my children"? What did you feel like when you were little and you saw your father with another woman? Do you feel differently about divorce now that you are a man? And let's put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are oppressed, too, by sexism--the lie that there can be such a thing as "men's liberation groups." Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a "threatening" characteristic shared by the latter group -- skin color or sex or age, etc. The oppressors are indeed fucked up by being masters (racism hurts whites, sexual stereotypes are harmful to men) but those masters are not oppressed. Any master has the alternative of divesting himself of sexism or racism--the oppressed have no alternative--for they have no power--but to fight. In the long run, Women's Liberation will of course free men--but in the short run it's going to cost men a lot of privilege, which no one gives up willingly or easily. Sexism is not the fault of women--kill your fathers, not your mothers. -- Robin Morgan This space is for men who want to write in our paper --sharpen your crayons 4 Vol. 1, No. 5 AIN'T I
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