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Originally Posted by flashytart
uncle rindy will you be attending the womens centre?  |
No. Good luck to them and all that, but by being aimed soley at one sex, that by it's very nature is divisive in my opinion. I'm against anything that separates people on lines of gender, creed, or culture etc.
I believe in integration in the general community, not separatism.
The days when empowerment, and visiblity was helped by separatism, for instance women's and gay liberation, as well as black power etc., are long over, now there is equality in law. The community and society should encompass everyone, not isolate them by targeting individual groups within it.
In the middle of an art history lecteur I once had a very heated debate with a hardline feminist historian, who thought all men were oppressors. I argued back that by it's very nature, because it separated people on gender lines, feminism was sexist. I won.
That said, this is purely my opinion, and as stated good luck, but I'm happy living in the wider community, rather than in a ghetto.
This isn't a dig at Gayle or anyone involved with this event locally, it's just my thoughts in general on things like this. I've said very similar things when it was suggested to having a Accrington Gay Pride.