tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5753655419131163318.post8365866089464035135..comments2023-10-31T06:50:46.483-07:00Comments on Lost Womyn's Space: Why Women's Spaces are Critical to Feminist AutonomyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5753655419131163318.post-46654945708261706462011-09-20T01:12:32.529-07:002011-09-20T01:12:32.529-07:00Of course there have been many other examples that...Of course there have been many other examples that even if one man comes in the room, even an effeminate gay man, or MTF, it becomes all about them...the caretaking of women of anyone who is not bio female is almost immediate, and ALWAYS at our own expense, and those who experience the deepest brunt of discrimination, dykes, working class and poverty class womyn, dykes of color, butches, ect.MasterAmazonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08857662825176277576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5753655419131163318.post-62445302488334328192011-09-20T01:10:43.799-07:002011-09-20T01:10:43.799-07:00Wow is all I can say. NO WONDER I feel so strongly...Wow is all I can say. NO WONDER I feel so strongly about keeping our womyn only spaces, strictly for bio female womyn only! ALL bio female womyn, including us Dykes! No wonder I am absolutely Amazonian in the defense of our spaces, places, rituals(strictly Dianic/Amazon oriented), and organizations for womyn only. Only by having our Sacred Spaces can we hear our OWN Voices, spirits and minds again and expand in our powers as womyn, psychically, spiritually, emotionally, intellectually and sexually...on all these levels, without having them drowned out by the voices and cooptation of men, even the so called 'feminist' man. <br /><br />I felt that no stronger than when I went to a N.O.W. event on sexual harassment, having been sexually harassed and discriminated on the job in my field, to have a MALE lawyer tell us all about sexual harassment and our 'rights', while we discussed in a roomful of womyn what happened to us. I completely clammed up and felt completely unsafe to have to share this with a male, even if he was supposedly 'helping' us. I mean, there are LOTS of feminist and woman lawyers who could have given of their time on such a loaded and personal subject!<br /><br />I never went back or attended any N.O.W. meeting again!<br /> -In Sisterhood,<br /> -M.AmazonMasterAmazonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08857662825176277576noreply@blogger.com