France, Alternative Libertaire AL #248 - Collective equal to
equal: Who's afraid of the big bad kind? (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation]
For four years, the group of "equal to equal" includes political organizations,
associations and trade unions, engaged in the fight against gender inequality, sexism and
homophobia. Yearly meetings open to all and all are organized this year with the theme
"gender and popular culture." ---- Because sexism and gender inequality are still present
in our society, their ideological base often is a gendered vision. Because society and the
school have recently suffered from some traditionalist movements attacks ever seen: ABCD
critique of equality, "anti-gender" events, boycott films, withdrawal of children from
school, attacks against works of art and exhibitions ... These heinous and retrograde
manifestations hostile to equality and the empowerment of all people, have continued to
shake the specter of an imaginary "gender theory "or" gender ", which would jeopardize the
family, school, sex differences, civilization. But who, if not reactionary forces, is
afraid of the big bad "kind"?
Why so much hate?
Talking about gender, it's about the differences and hierarchies between men and women
that the company constructed arbitrarily, and have no natural basis. This probably upset
some superstitions, and also some aspects of the patriarchal order ... But the genre is
not a "theory" that is a fact. Like it or not, the type is everywhere in society, in
politics, in the media, but also in popular culture. So talk about gender differences and
deconstruct and falsely natural hierarchies, is not this just a way to understand and act
in favor of equality and emancipation?
"Peer-to-equal", 4th Edition
After discussing the history and present of feminism, prostitution, the world of work, the
group addressed this year the gender issue, particularly in popular culture and the media,
internet, social networks, video games, movies , popular song, among others, convey in
fact, a mass scale, gender stereotypes and, sometimes, their deconstruction. Three guests
allowed us to approach these topics: Anne-Charlotte Husson, a doctoral student who writes
and runs the blog "genre! "Mar_Lard, gamer, feminist, producer of video games, has written
articles on gender, sexism and video games, and finally Marguerin The Louvier, cinephile
trend Queer and Bad Taste, feminist blogger. Unable to transcribe all the debates and
interventions as they were rich and edifying [ 1 ] ... We can retain the need to review
Billy Elliot, which focuses almost everything intersects the kind of critical concept.
Billy wants to be a ballet dancer, but "lads play football" ("boys play football") ...
That we must also rediscover the concept of "CAMP" meaning, in short, the ability to
overcome the gender codes , playing with, as illustrated some uses in some
cross-dressing-cultural movements against gays. Finally, there is a long way to go to
overcome the middle and the imagination of violent video games-sexism that characterizes
and to overcome the evidence of the "male gaze" (the vision of women through the eyes of
male).
At the end of this fourth edition, which met this year, a real popular success in Angers,
the conclusion is that moviegoers, bloggers, gameuses, feminists of all countries, unite!
Collective AL Angers
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[ 1 ] The interventions of the videos are available on the Youtube channel of equal to equal.
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Collectif-d-egal-a-egales-Qui-a
