Corm
New Member
"Be excellent to each other"
-Bill S. Preston, Esq. and Ted "Theodore" Logan.
-Bill S. Preston, Esq. and Ted "Theodore" Logan.
Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
That clip's been aournd a good while though..posted 2 years ago
p.s.
“Hey! Instead of growing a moustache..how's about i just paint one on?”
[SIZE=-1]
Groucho Marx
[/SIZE]
"Be excellent to each other"
-Bill S. Preston, Esq. and Ted "Theodore" Logan.
Yeah and? FOC have been around longer than that.
oooh ! mr attitude
are you in looooove with Flight of the Conords? Are they your boyfrieeeend?
No, I'm definitely not joking about women being selfish in regard to orgasm. I've had many experiences of women being desperately mercenary about attaining orgasm and wrecking the experience by using me as little more than a sex toy, when with a little time & patience we both could have come really hard. But I didn't realise it until I'd been with a lot of people and experienced the differences.
I don't think anyone is badgering RAG to allow them into the group. I feel that people are voicing their opinion on the hypocrisy of an exclusive group claiming to be 'for everyone'.
think of the newspaper selling opportunities! oh boy.chairing meetings where the whole population discuss issues pertaining to our autonomy, probably in Phoenix Park at the Pope's cross on a big platform with the biggest fucking megaphone and placard you've ever seen.
I totally agree, but RAG isn't for everybody and doesn't pretend to be.
I don't think anyone is badgering RAG to allow them into the group. I feel that people are voicing their opinion on the hypocrisy of an exclusive group claiming to be 'for everyone'.
'Inclusion' is a general goal but always gets snagged by the very marginal nature of the group or organisation.
the strange guy said:Changing the subject ever so slightly, I think that armchair psychologists need to stop talking out their holes when it comes to 'gender identity being a socially constructed phenomenon' (Stephen Doyle, I'm looking at you) and start reading up some Neuropsychology, Neuroscience and Neurophysiology so they can get a better grasp of how brain gender affects behaviour and thought.
One thing that gets my goat with some anarchist rhetoric is the phrases like: "Come the revolution...", as if society is going to become suddenly static and we're all just going to get along with each other once we've established a more egalitarian society.
hippy scumi've always considered anarchist groups and groups such as RAG as scum.
YES, i hear you say. but I don't mean any kind of scum.
think of slime mould.
as a creature, slime mould manages to find its way through a maze to fing the food it's after. the thing is, slime mould throughout most of its life is defined single celled units moving whatever way it wants by itself. Only when the conditions are right will it come together as a single entity which can act co-operatively to find more food. building into a creature, a storm, a swarm, a movement.
see what I'm saying?
links, synergy, conditions, unrelated activities, feedback loops, social contexts, love, gabber, sex.
Ah jaysus!
I guess there's no point repeating myself but...
What about a magazine about homelessness that only homeless people were allowed to write for? Or a magazine about immigrants written by immigrants? Or about disabled people written by disabled people? Or about the experiences of nigerians in Ireland written by Nigerians?
It just makes sense. Who better to do the writing?
No publication can be about absolutely everyone's point of veiw on absolutely everything.
The language you guys are using is really leading. We didn't set up thinking, 'hey, lets exclude men', we set up thinking, 'lets write about some stuff from a women's prespective'.
No one would even notice if an anarchist group were all men, it might not be official but there's more subtle ways being exclusive.
And saying we're hypocritical for saying we're 'for everyone'!! Where do we say that? Anyone can read it maybe but we never pretended to be anything but an all-female anarchist feminist colletive!! I would say it couldn't be clearer that it's not for everyone!!
Also, I reckon if RAG published articles by people who weren't in the collective we would publish articles written my men. Not everything about RAG is set in stone but for now we dont. The reason is that the magazine is more about the process. We have discussions (many of which are open to anyone) and ideas are developed, the articles begin.
Seriously dudes, some unnecessarily bitchy and some totally made up stuff being thrown around here.
all true
but remember
rule #106,461 of thumped: "oly is probably winding you up."
No publication can be about absolutely everyone's point of veiw on absolutely everything.
it was already mentioned by shine that rag was always intended to be for women who were anarchists, to the exclusion of those who aren't those things. i don't personally know what all the fuss is about with them being women-only. they don't run the country. they are a group of anarchist women who put out a magazine about anarcha-feminist issues.
The RAG is a magazine produced by a diverse group of anarcha-feminist women in Dublin. We are all feminists, united in our recognition that women's subordination exists. Our struggle needs to be fought alongside the struggle against other forms of oppression, not treated as an afterthought or as a distraction. We are all anarchists, united in our belief for the need to create alternatives to this capitalistic, patriarchal society wherein all are dominated and exploited.
Would anything be achieved if men were allowed to write for RAG?
Upgrade your account now to disable all ads...
Upgrade nowWe use essential cookies to make this site work, and optional cookies to enhance your experience.