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Pre-post note:
One of the many perks of having a wonderful boyfriend, who identifies as a feminist, is that he writes bloody brilliant posts for me just like the one you are about to read. Thank you, Tom. Hopefully, this will be the first of many...
Post:
It is the Wednesday 28th August 1963, 300,000-strong
army of peaceful protesters descend on Washington like a pack of hungry wolves.
Marching for jobs, freedom and equality; as well as to hear the tranquil words
of the godfather of the Civil Rights movement in the United States, Martin
Luther King Jr; among the crowds of expectant people, waiting with baited
breath for the speech which would transform America forever. Not just black people
who had suffered racism (who still had their shirt stained by the blood of
oppression), African-American women and children who still had the scars to show
and the nightmares to tell, but white people, who had no experience of racism
but felt that it was right and moral to help the cause of black people
in America because they saw the injustice of what was going on and decided to
take a stand.
What I’m trying to get at is that when it comes to sexism -
which I know is very different to that of the civil rights movement in American
in the 1960s – feminists (in which I count myself as one despite being a bloke,
with a penis, who does stereotypically manly things like watch football and
drink Bovril) believe in equality of the sexes, and therefore I am totally
unashamed of calling myself a feminist and it does not make me any less a man.
Anyway…back to my original point which I seemed to have
deviated from somewhat… I think that in order to create a more equal society
for women, what feminist groups need are men. We need more male feminists who
firmly believe in the equality of the sexes and are very against the
objectification of women, like the white people who supported the black
struggle in 1963. I think that way, decision makers/dudes in power (who, because
of sexism, are guys) are more likely to listen to blokes compared to female
feminists, not because they are not any good but merely because of the sexist
culture which society encourages.
Obviously, I could be talking out of my backside (which is a
great possibility due to my big arse). I have never been part of a real,
organised feminist organisation and I have never been on the receiving end of
sexist abuse, if you exclude my father being a male nurse and some of the grief
that he got when he first ventured into the nursing possession in the 1980s.
I know as a bloke that due to ‘laddism’ and other ideas
which our internet-age culture clings to and watch expand into situations and
notions which are clearly sexist. Although it might be a hard and thankless task
trying to get testosterone-filled tykes to change their ways, I think it can be
done and It would only take a few for a change on how women are viewed in
British society.
In short, I’m calling to take the moral high ground and
stand up for feminist causes! Ladies, nag your boyfriends to help, otherwise
nothing can change…
I hope you have enjoyed reading this little and substandard
post compared to the rest of the posts on this fantastic blog.
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