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As Hind Elhinnawy observes:
'If the world can tolerate the Taliban’s abuses, Iraq’s restrictive laws & the US restrictions on abortion access, it reveals the fragility of women’s & girls’ rights globally, and how easy it is to take them away'!
Feminism's work is never done & any idea that once rights have been won they don't need continually defending against (mostly) male political attack is very much mistaken.
Patriarchy never rests!
@ChrisMayLA6 This is very interesting and why I never can take swedish feminists seriously. They don't say anything about Aghanistan. Instead they just continue harping on how women in sweden are slaves and exploited, and thus become more and more ridiculous.
Also reminds me of the former socialist government in sweden when they went to iran and the prime minister forced all the women to dress is moslem fashion as not to offend.
Melania and Trump on the other hand, if memory serves,
@ChrisMayLA6 said that's never gonna happen, and iran was ok with it in the end.
yes, if feminism makes sense it has to make sense globally - certainly there are local battles to be fought but theses can only be *part* of a feminist politics - to be fair (and this may be to do with academic context in which I worked), most feminists I know, like the article's author do take that global perspective - Governments on the other hand, not so much
@ChrisMayLA6 patriarchy & capitalism we, all of the 99% need to end #patriarchalcapitalism and the system of representative democracy that promotes it. Democracy is about people talking about change not about professional politicians & lobbyists, mostly men and corporate representatives again mostly men.
protecting their interests/profits/survival.
I (we?) absolutely need partnership not domination.
@SortitionNow #dwe #Justice #Equity #equality #Education #Unity #Love
I agree, a different form of democracy (but democracy nonetheless) is needed if we are shift the dial on this
Is it the structure of representative democracy that's the problem or the money required?
If there were true public financing, would that make a substantive difference?
Also, so long as there are countries in the world run by autocrats and kleptocrats completely disdainful of national borders and the rights of the residents of any country, we're going to need a national defense capability.
Whatever governance we have must be able to manage that.
@joeinwynnewood @ChrisMayLA6 party politics continues to promote domination, we need a partnership system such as being developed by @RianeEisler and the https://centerforpartnership.org/resources/riane-eisler
Until we have something like this we can never achieve true justice and peace.
Thanks for the link. Apology in advance for not looking at any of the details anytime soon as I'm focused on things that can be accomplished in the next few years to improve the information environment as much as possible.
Doing so is critical path to avoiding a repeat of the 11/5 debacle.
States have always needed a national defence capability, and as you suggest will continue to do so... the bigger Q. is whether that should focus on defence or the additional projection of power into external territories/regions.
For me; the basic structures of representative democracy are fine, we just need stronger gender equality norms & practices - and that is a long term cultural change not a quick technical fix (i.e not just changing the funding of parties)
@ChrisMayLA6 @joeinwynnewood here is an informative organization working to transform representative democracy. As a starting point it seems to work and naturally is open to change which Sadly the UN is not. It also has checks and balances as well addressing global governance which seems to be the brunt of this conversation.
Either way this is long term work and one of generations probably.
https://earthconstitution.world/earth-federation-model
When my students wished to explore such solutions to the problems fo global politics, we'd usually end up posting the only way this would happen would be a viable external threat.... in a fantasy sense, the treat of alien invasion (modelled on state formation as a repose to the 'other'), but nowadays one might expect the treat of clinal catastrophe to prompt movement towards such models... the fact it hasn't tells you much about the power of vested interests
No argument from me on greatly scaling back from the role of the world's policeman. Arguably, Biden took important steps in this direction, withdrawing from Afghanistan and working to get Europe to work in better cooperation for joint defense and aiding Ukraine in it defending itself.
Also no argument on the need to get the entire country on board with not just gender equally, but also racial equality. And yes, all too long projects.
@Herefordrob
@ChrisMayLA6 Though it's mostly men, women like Phyllis Schlafly are real, and there's just enough of these self-loathing (mostly white) women to put misogyny over 50% at the ballot box (nulling out feminism-friendly dudes). My own mother said she doesn't think a woman should be president because they're "too emotional." She voted for Trump, a man more ruled by emotion than anyone on the planet. It kills me.
Yes, gender essentialism has been the undoing of many a political analysis over the years....
@ChrisMayLA6 Conservatism lives in the past, and the ideas therein will therefore never disappear; history will always be and can be filtered as you wish.
There is no hard won progress that cannot be taken away by conservative thought, because progress is what’s being fought against, using the corpses of past ideas.
Well & concisely formulated - thanks (and boosted)
@ChrisMayLA6
Women need their own country. No, on second thought, make that their own continent.