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		<title>Abolish Power Over Women</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2014 19:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erick Vasconcelos]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After gathering in Derby Square, in downtown Recife, SlutWalk went on to take Conde da Boa Vista Avenue, one of the most important streets in the Pernambuco state capital. The Union of the Socialist Youth (União da Juventude Socialista, UJS) were there and took posters, slogans and pamphlets with them. I was able to overhear...]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">After gathering in Derby Square, in downtown Recife, SlutWalk went on to take Conde da Boa Vista Avenue, one of the most important streets in the Pernambuco state capital. The Union of the Socialist Youth (União da Juventude Socialista, UJS) were there and took posters, slogans and pamphlets with them. I was able to overhear someone, behind me, asking, perplexed, &#8220;What is UJS doing here?&#8221;</span></p>
<p>It was appropriate. UJS, linked to the Communist Party of Brazil (PCdoB) — basically a branch of the dominant party in the country, the Workers&#8217; Party (PT) — hasn&#8217;t been the most consistent organization when it comes to the defense of the rights and freedoms of women. That&#8217;s understandable when we take into account that <a href="http://ujs.org.br/copa/">sometimes</a> their need of defending the government and the status quo come before any other considerations.</p>
<p>Nonetheless, they did show up and they exchanged pamphlets with us. Our libertarian group, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/294093017422776/">Coletivo Nabuco</a>, distributed pamphlets with the essay &#8220;<a href="http://aesquerdalibertaria.blogspot.com.br/2014/05/seduzidas-e-desonradas.html#.U5EM8fldWSo">Seduzidas e desonradas</a>&#8221; (&#8220;Seduced and dishonored&#8221;), by Brazilian anarchist individualist and feminist Maria Lacerda de Moura. UJS&#8217;s had an article against the World Cup and ended with an appeal, probably to appease the feminist crowd present, &#8220;For more women in spaces of power!&#8221;</p>
<p>They printed the same slogan on their largest banner. When we went to talk to the people who were in the walk, we immediately inverted it: &#8220;For less spaces of power to oppress women!&#8221;</p>
<p>UJS&#8217;s slogan betrays a misconception about what characterizes the fight for female emancipation. According to it, women&#8217;s issues are little more than representation problems, which can be alleviated with the presence of a higher percentage of women in the state and its decision-making instances. It&#8217;s as if we should allot quotas to each group in society: if women are 50% of the population, they should make up 50% of government.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s also an idea that keeps intact all the power structures in society that guarantee that women continue to be oppressed. Not only by the iron fist of the state, but also by the dominant patriarchal culture — which dictates which behaviors, clothes, jobs, studies, hobbies, gestures, and sexual activities are appropriate to women.</p>
<p>Representation in government is not a proxy for real and significant political authority. An analogy with racism can make this problem clearer. <a href="http://noticias.uol.com.br/cotidiano/ultimas-noticias/2012/06/29/em-dez-anos-populacao-que-se-autodeclara-negra-sobe-e-numero-de-brancos-cai-diz-ibge.htm">Around 7.6%</a> of the Brazilian population is black. If government destined 7.6% of its offices to black people, what would change in their political situation? Little. The very number of people who describe themselves as blacks in demographic surveys is artificially low because of the racist culture in which we&#8217;re inserted. Proportional representation in the state, thus, doesn&#8217;t solve the bigger problem — racism (as well as sexism) feeds back into the power structure the state is a part of.</p>
<p>For the same reasons, reserving of placement quotas for black students in public universities means very little, for public universities themselves are excluding spaces that are unable to respond to the needs of the black population. They can only ever serve the needs of a small (and generally already privileged) minority, so a &#8220;progressive&#8221; ethnic composition of students doesn&#8217;t break the system of privilege. It&#8217;s just makeup.</p>
<p>Thus, we don&#8217;t need representation in spaces of power, because power is inexorably force and oppression. The power structure we have nowadays is sustained by the intersectional oppression of several minorities (affecting them differently in kind, if not in intensity), combined with the systematic oppression, though less manifested, of the people as a whole.</p>
<p>Women in power should be seen not as forces of change, but as results of change. Social and cultural changes open the doors of previously closed off spaces to women, but their representation in power shouldn&#8217;t be conflated with empowerment.</p>
<p>We don&#8217;t need more diversity in power, we need less power.</p>
<p>Oppression is the <i>raison d&#8217;être</i> of power. It doesn&#8217;t matter what its gender composition is.</p>
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		<title>Por menos espaços de poder para oprimir as mulheres!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2014 00:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erick Vasconcelos]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Depois da concentração, na Praça do Derby, no centro do Recife, a Marcha das Vadias avançou em direção à Avenida Conde da Boa Vista, uma das mais importantes vias da capital pernambucana. A União da Juventude Socialista (UJS) estava lá, levou cartazes, palavras de ordem, panfletos. Consegui ouvir de quem vinha atrás uma pergunta perplexa:...]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Depois da concentração, na Praça do Derby, no centro do Recife, a Marcha das Vadias avançou em direção à Avenida Conde da Boa Vista, uma das mais importantes vias da capital pernambucana. A União da Juventude Socialista (UJS) estava lá, levou cartazes, palavras de ordem, panfletos. Consegui ouvir de quem vinha atrás uma pergunta perplexa: &#8220;O que a UJS está fazendo aqui?&#8221;</p>
<p>Era pertinente. Afinal, a UJS, ligada ao PCdoB — que, por sua vez, é basicamente uma filial do PT —, não tem sido, historicamente, a mais consistente das organizações em defesa dos direitos e das liberdades femininas. Pudera, <a href="http://ujs.org.br/copa/">às vezes as necessidades de defesa do status quo e do governo passam por cima com frequência de quaisquer outras considerações</a>.</p>
<p>Porém, compareceram à Marcha e trocaram panfletos conosco. Os panfletos de nosso grupo libertário, o <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/294093017422776/">Coletivo Nabuco</a>, vinham com o texto &#8220;<a href="http://aesquerdalibertaria.blogspot.com.br/2014/05/seduzidas-e-desonradas.html#.U5EM8fldWSo">Seduzidas e desonradas</a>&#8220;, da anarco-individualista e feminista brasileira Maria Lacerda de Moura. O panfleto da UJS, por sua vez, vinha com um texto contra a Copa do Mundo e terminava com um apelo, provavelmente para aplacar o público feminista presente: &#8220;Por mais mulheres nos espaços de poder!&#8221;</p>
<p>Era o mesmo slogan que o grupo levava em sua maior faixa durante a manifestação. Ao conversar com os presentes, imediatamente invertemos o slogan: &#8220;Por menos espaços de poder para oprimir as mulheres!&#8221;</p>
<p>O slogan da UJS transbordava uma falsa compreensão do que caracteriza a luta pela emancipação feminina. De acordo com ele, os problemas femininos não passam de problemas de representação, que podem ser aliviados com a presença de uma porcentagem de mulheres dentro do estado e de suas instâncias decisórias. É um entendimento cotista da sociedade: se as mulheres compõem 50% da população, elas devem compor, ao menos, 50% do governo.</p>
<p>É também uma compreensão que mantém intacta toda a estrutura de poder que garante que as mulheres continuem a ser oprimidas não apenas pela mão de ferro do estado, mas também pela cultura patriarcal dominante, que pretende ditar qual o comportamento, as roupas, os trabalhos, os estudos, os hobbies, os trejeitos e as atividades sexuais adequadas a mulheres.</p>
<p>Representação dentro do governo não é procuração para autoridade política real e significativa. Uma analogia com o racismo pode deixar o problema com essa visão mais óbvio. <a href="http://noticias.uol.com.br/cotidiano/ultimas-noticias/2012/06/29/em-dez-anos-populacao-que-se-autodeclara-negra-sobe-e-numero-de-brancos-cai-diz-ibge.htm">Cerca de 7,6% da população brasileira</a> é composta por negros. Se destinarmos 7,6% dos postos do governo aos negros, o que muda em sua situação política? Quase nada. O próprio número de indivíduos que se intitulam como negros em pesquisas demográficas é artificialmente baixo por conta da cultura racista em que estamos inseridos. A entrada proporcional de um grupo na estrutura do estado, portanto, não resolve o problema mais amplo — a cultura racista (ou sexista) realimenta a estrutura de poder de que o estado faz parte.</p>
<p>Da mesma forma, significa muito pouco o fato de que são reservadas cotas em universidades públicas para negros, uma vez que as universidades públicas, em si, são espaços necessariamente excludentes e que jamais atenderão às necessidades amplas da população negra, mas somente às de uma pequena minoria (geralmente já privilegiada), não importando sua composição étnica. É uma maquiagem do sistema.</p>
<p>Assim, o que precisamos não é de representação dentro do poder, porque o poder significa inexoravelmente força e opressão. A estrutura de poder atual é sustentada pela opressão interseccional de diversas minorias (que afeta de forma qualitativamente diferente cada uma delas), combinada com a opressão sistemática, porém menos manifesta, à população como um todo.</p>
<p>A participação de mulheres em espaços de poder deve ser vista não como força precipitadora das mudanças, mas como causada pelas mudanças. São as mudanças culturais e sociais que abrem as portas para as mulheres, mas sua participação nos espaços de poder garante poucas conquistas palpáveis para as mulheres.</p>
<p>Por isso, não precisamos de diversidade no poder, mas de menos poder.</p>
<p>A opressão é a <em>raison d&#8217;être</em> do poder. Não importa a sua composição de gênero.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As a libertarian feminist, I am glad to see that discussion of rape culture is coming up in libertarian circles. Shawndell Hoyt and Tiffany Thorne, two of my fellow organizers with <a href="https://www.facebook.com/SlutwalkSLC?ref=ts&amp;fref=ts">SlutWalk SLC</a>, recently talked with libertarian Jake Shannon on his show <a href="http://radiorecast.com/ktalk/archive/Jake_Shannon/2013%2002-06%20SLUTWalk%20and%20AntiFragile%20Investments.mp3">Mental Self Defense Radio</a>. Trigger warning for discussion of sexual violence, as well as tons of misogynistic male callers who apparently think bringing up rape is &#8220;man hating.&#8221;  Such allegations are a common response to any discussion of gender violence, and have been pervasive in comments on previous <a href="http://c4ss.org/content/14752">blog</a> <a href="http://c4ss.org/content/14731">posts</a> and <a href="http://c4ss.org/content/16069">articles</a> I&#8217;ve published here at C4SS.</p>
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