Sexual Harassment

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Lou Paulsen:
>
>  > For the record, Rob, your attitude is quite reprehensible, 
>although probably
>>  nothing can be done about it until some more intense time in the struggle
>  > when you are happily leering at female subordinates and then suddently find
>>  yourself completely surprised when the Women's Committee bursts in, drags
>>  you out into the street, ties you to a lamppost, strips you naked, smears
>>  you with dog dung, and threatens to cut your balls off.  Some men just
>  > require that kind of individualized intervention to make them pay 
>attention.
>
>Andrea Dworkin -- is that you?
>
>Oh, how Commisar Lou longs for the days of intense struggle, when he and his
>fascist pals get to make up the law as they go along, punishing those on
>their hit list with the zeal of their Chinese and pro-Pol Pot comrades. But
>Lou, you made one mistake: surely you meant "Womyn's Committee," or perhaps
>"Wimmin's Committee," yes? Another slip like that and it's off the
>re-education camp with you, ideological deviator.
>
>DP

Women's social positions went down after periods of revolutionary 
struggles (often in times of war) in the then socialist nations, in 
part because they couldn't maintain women's committees that were not 
controlled by the male party leadership.  That's not the only reason, 
to be sure, but I believe that, if any kind of revolution from the 
Left (be it socialist or anarchist or whatever) comes about in the 
future, women will do well to remember this lesson from history & do 
it differently the next time.
-- 
Yoshie

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