BBC Lefties 3of3 Angry Wimmin xvid mp3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaYUBeVdnbU
'The Rage'
'RAGE IS ABSOLUTELY FUNDAMENTAL, NOT ANGER, THAT'S NOT STRONG ENOUGH, IT HAS TO BE RAGE'
- this movement encourages mad anger as a positive force.
Socialist feminism is about 'women and' tackling issues from a women's perspective. In this time there were some feminists who found it very important to make men the enemy - look and what men were doing and the power the have.
'1978 at the Birmingham Plenary where we stepped up to the microphone and said 'men are the enemy''.
Women were very angry with men because of the experiences they had had and looking at who was in control in the world, particularly in terms of violence against women and the way that meant can use threat to controll women. women were considered a class - representing the working class and men were the upper class.
1979 the revolutionary feminists in Leeds wrote a manifesto. It argued that women would only be free once they stopped having sex with men. Revolutionary feminists advocated what is referred to as 'Political Lesbianism' - becoming a lesbian for political reasons whether or not you fancied women.
Linda Bellos is a revolutionary feminist who understand that being a lesbian isn't essential to being a good feminist.
Feminists tried to introduce new words into their vocabulary, such as wimmin, wombyn, herstory, and 'oh goddess!'. Even some women changed their names because they didnt want to be property of male family - husband or farther. Lisa Power want born 'Power', she wanted to name herself after something women needed and didn't want to pick money.
Very separatist - didn't want to be chatted to by men - challenged being called 'love', threw out books in the house that were written by men.
'AS FAR AS I WAS CONSERNED, IT SEEMED IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND OUT WHO WE REALLY WERE AS WOMEN WHILE MENS THOUGHTS WERE STILL AROUND...'
Some feminists were separatist just because they feel like they didn't need men. Men would be horrible to women in separatist houses, even in one case a man put a picture of himself naked through the letter box. The police had no interest in stopping the antisocial behavior.
Some separatists used to spend a lot of time thinking about utopias and ideal states of living, even ideas about thing which were clearly not going to happy. One theory involved having a wall along the equator and having men on one side and women on the other.
One problem that arose in a separatist society was what to do with the boy children. Some women didn't want to have boy children and some women didn't want to raise sons because they would eventually have to relinquish control and see their sons becoming men in this society.
A lot of radical feminists were recommending giving up sons.
Linda Bellos left her children to go live in a separatist house. She says if she'd been able to take her son she would have taken both her son and daughter but as it stood she thought it more important to keep the children together and let the father take care of them.
Women were under huge threat from men at the time and were even being put in the hospital because of things men had directly done to them.
One proposition summed up the red-fems analysis, it was that any man could be a rapist. All women have to be at least a little cautious of all men.
'Its force and threat of force which keeps men in power'
