Erin Pizzey tells her own story.

[mintogrubb.livejournal.com]

http://rebukingfeminism.blogspot.com/2009/01/erin-pizzey-one-womans-story.html

Ok, that is the link.
Me? I reckon she did the right thing.
I am not sure what benefit I might have gained from blowing up Biba, a store in london - but if her refuges had been there for my mother, it certainly would have helped.
I am suprised that some feminists still attack her - and no, I don't subscribe to Harriet Harman's view that men cannot contribute anything to the family.

But what's your take on Erin Pizzey, I wonder?

Comments

[blue-mangos.livejournal.com]

I see gender roles as more of a social construct than anything to do with the patriarchal system.

[blue-mangos.livejournal.com]

My definition is a system where males are the authoritarian figures, to the detriment of women. I've honestly never heard of including gender roles, which are much more of a social construct than a product of any authority, in this definition. Even if the patriarchal system was dismantled, beliefs about gender roles would still stay in place.

[mintogrubb.livejournal.com]

But who defines these roles and Qiue bono? "Who benefits?"

Society plays to the rich, the white, the straight. You have to be it and ~look~ it to get on.

The Elite gets the lesser classes to police its perimeter for them. It sets men up to be what they are not in order to 'stay in' with the Elite. A man who goes out wearing a dress or doing anything that is insufficiently macho gets attacked by underclass males for being ' unmanly', a woman who behaves in a way that does not conform to social mores risks criticism and isolation from women in her peer group.

gender constructs are ways that The Rich stay on top and in charge - our roles do not benifit you and me, they get imposed on us from on high . the only reason they put in the effort is that it keeps Them on top. Have a think about that.