Feminists have long been boldly and selflessly fighting for women's rights. This fight happens every day. In some parts of the world, we have won the right to vote, the right to have an abortion, to study, to work, not to get married, not to be pregnant with 10 children in a lifetime, to run a marathon, to participate in Formula One, but this is not enough. Men have appropriated many things: our religions, lives, science, medicine, arts, power, money, resources, our bodies. We need to return the loot and the main thing is that we can do it. In addition, without physical clashes and a tough fight, this is impossible.
Let us recall a couple of historical examples of the return of female power. The Red Maidens of the Powers built their own castle, built their own state to protect themselves from men, and entered into bloody fights with them. For a long time, the valiant warrioresses managed to hold their positions. There were no men in the women's state, there were no rapes, there was no marriage. Women lived in freedom from the enemy. This lasted until the superior forces of the enemy destroyed the female state, and the warrioresses did not die the death of heroines. Suffragettes, in order to gain the right to vote, fought with the police, stormed the government, blew up and smashed buildings. They managed to secure the right to vote for women only thanks to their fearlessness and confidence.
It is impossible to reform a patriarchal society, it must be completely changed. This is the only chance for women to live a life safe from male violence. It must be understood that women's power is not the same as men's. Male power is to humiliate rape, dominate and steal, while female power is creative.
The evolution of a patriarchal society into an "equal society," whatever that word means, is impossible. Reforms can only change the forms of patriarchy. When feminists close one door to the enemy, he opens another with the resources he still has. As soon as women began to gain economic power and independence from men, pornography arose. This is a completely new institution of violence against women in its scope and manifestations. As soon as women in Russia won the right to abortion, a tsunami of pro-life and religious organizations appeared on the horizon.
It is not enough to introduce the Scandinavian model of the fight against prostitution, you need to get rid of the buyers of women's bodies for rape. To introduce punishment for male domestic violence is not enough, it is necessary to get rid of husbands who cause physical or psychological harm to women. Putting people in jail for stalking is an insignificant measure, you need to get rid of stalkers. Forbidding men to produce and watch pornography is like trying to stop a landslide with a twig. Just branding men who forbid women from schools, medicine, work, covering women's bodies with black rags as terrorists is ridiculous.
When a farmeress destroys an anthill, she not only floods the top with poison, but soaks each tunnel meters underground, otherwise everything is useless. If it is necessary to remove the poplar, they burn or uproot the stump with roots, and do not cut off only the trunk and crown, because poplars are tenacious. We do not need compromises.
An arm that has grown together incorrectly is not treated with painkillers or ointments; it is broken and allowed to grow back together so that it functions as a full-fledged part of the body. The same thing happens with humanity. It “has grown together incorrectly” and needs to be broken. For this, we need a revolution.
Author: Shveia Krovavaia
Translator: f.sumasbrodskiy
