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Letters, We Get Letters...(edited)
Date: February 24, 1996
From: Bill Dare
I am writing to comment on the newsletter. I've always liked reading
it appreciating the effort in writing as well as design. I haven't done
anything to contribute to it. As you anticipated in the first paragraph,
it was jarring to see it become essentially a document of reprints and e-mail
chats. I feel the newsletter has taken a slide but realize the broader direction
of the MNC may well be reflected.
Date: February 26, 1996
From: Ray Jones
The newsletter was chock full of good stuff. I was very pleased to see Joseph
and Terry's speech in print.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
From the Editors (kf & md) p. 1
CONFERENCES
1996 MNC National Conference and AGM by Paul Lafleur p.1
Love, Justice, Sex and Money (Part II)
by Terry Boyd and Joseph Dunlop-Addley p.2
REGIONAL REPORTS
Challenging Sexist Roles in Parkdale by Tony Rapoport p.6
Issues in Pornography by Erik Malmsten p.6
Netalk: Edited Excerpts from the e-mail p.7
NOTICES
Wanted p.11
Regional Contacts p.12
THE WAY WE WERE
Macho is Sicko, Genlteness is Strength by Ray Jones p.12
FROM THE EDITORS
First of all we wish to acknowledge the the following communicators with
MNC News this past quarter: Harvey Schachter, Ray Jones, Blye Frank, Michael
Kaufman, Michael Sperber, Craig Jones, Terry Boyd, Bill Dare, David Rice-Lampert,
Wes Darou, Bob Thompson, Bill Usher, Erik Malmsten, Ian Russell, David Nobbs,
Andrew Safer, Forrest Smith, Jean Bernard, Susan Scruton, and others who
will be named in Netalk.
The 'exciting news' this past quarter has been the absolutely spectacular
job done on our home page by Michael Deloughery. It has received about 250
visits since the end of February. Our guess is that represents about 80
to 100 different callers. They come from Texas, Australia, Brazil, Halifax,
California, Thunder Bay, Fredericton et al.
Our question now is how will this support or contribute to pro-feminist
activism? How do we not only sustain a core of activity but grow.
Is there a way to use the net site to reach out to the colleges and universities?
Please send us your news.
CONFERENCES
LOVERS IN A DANGEROUS TIME
Challenging Social and Spiritual Cutbacks
1996 MNC CONFERENCE
Thursday July 18 to Sunday July 21 Ottawa
Paul Lafleur
The planning for the upcoming MNC Annual Conference is well under way. To
date we have received $250 in registration fees. We hope to have between
25 and 30 attendees and have beds for up to 60, 30 of which are at or next
door to Wanaki-on-the-Ottawa.
Again the conference will be held over three days beginning Thursday evening.
Friday will be a day of workshops and focus groups.
Some suggested workshops are:
· Understanding masculinity
· Connections between patriarchal masculinity and domination and violence
· Delivering educational programmes in institutions that challenge
men's violence
· Exploring your inner clown
Some suggested focus groups are:
· National communication strategy- What next?
· Engaging younger men in the MNC
· A vision of pro-feminism for the millennium-
implications for group/community engagement
On Saturday we intend to have a panel discussion between a women, a gay
man and a person of colour to help give us a perspective on the current
social environment and how we might challenge social and spiritual cutbacks.
On Saturday afternoon (at the suggestion of Bert Young) we propose to revisit
the themes of the 1991 Ottawa Conference through a reflection on the past
and articulating our intentions for the future. The themes are:
1. It begins with me. (The personal is political)
2. Toward emotional literacy and non-violent learning.
3. Create a secure world for women and children.
4. Zero tolerance for violence.
5. Men's challenge and renewal.
If you are interested in doing a workshop or want to have a particular discussion
or activity, contact me. We hope that you will make photocopies of the
enclosed brochure and distribute them locally.
Lastly the Conference Planning Group is meeting in Ottawa Saturday May 11
combined with the Bill Usher's Hanging Out concert.
Bob Neufeld has arranged for Bill Usher to give a public concert in Ottawa
on Saturday May 11 It is also our intention to use this as an opportunity
to have an information table and to recruit younger men. We want to piggy-back
the core group meeting with the concert.
c/o Paul Lafleur 17 O'Meara Street - Apt. 2 Ottawa ON K1Y 2S7
tel. (613) 722-2730 e-mail md@magi.com
LOVE, JUSTICE, SEX AND MONEY
Part II
Keynote Address by Terry Boyd and Joseph Dunlop-Addley
Kingston Men's Conference
October 20-22, 1995
Now we come to the topic of sex. Here we weren't quite sure where
to start, so we decided to start where most men start, with masturbation.
When I, Terry, was twelve, my cousin Keith showed me how to masturbate.
He was fifteen and a worldly young man who lived in the big city. I was
a country bumpkin who had just turned twelve. Keith was fully developed.
I was just entering the first stages of puberty. Keith told me that masturbation
made you develop faster and BIGGER. Since he was very well developed, I
figured I was on to a good thing. For days after that first time, I masturbated
furiously and eagerly checked several times a day to see if I was developing.
I can remember times when I masturbated so often I had a very sore penis.
Of course, eventually my penis did develop. Not to the extent, however,
that I had hoped for. You know, Freud had it all wrong: it is men who suffer
from penis envy--not women. Like many men, Freud, was projecting. Nonetheless,
my masturbatory experiences taught me a lot about my body. Today, I can
say without blushing that I celebrate my human sexuality, and masturbation
is an important part of that celebration. Joseph, what is it that Woody
Allen says? "Don't put down masturbation . . . it's sex with somebody
I love." He also said the reason he was such a great lover was because
he practised when he was on his own.
Many of you know, I, Joseph, am a self-disclosed RC--Recovering Catholic.
It follows, therefore, that I have no masturbation stories. I left them
all behind me in the confessional, and if you believe that... From a very
early age, I was indoctrinated to believe that it was only tactile things
that should be touched--like, school pencils, or one's catechism. But certainly
never one's own "private parts." Going out on dates, I was jokingly
warned by my big sister, "keep it in your pants, and you won't have
any problems." Touching was an emotional quagmire of confused feelings,
desires, and fears.
A number of years ago Robyn Harvey and I, Terry, did a workshop on Touching.
In preparing for the workshop, Robyn pointed out to me that the word "touch"
has more entries in the OED than any other word--21 columns on seven pages.
And one of the curious things about touching is that it has conflicting,
even contradictory, meanings: there is the nurturing touch of the mother,
the abusive touch of the batterer, the sensual touch of a lover, the perverse
touch of a child molester, and so on. Yet, at the core (or should we now
say the "heart"?) of our existence is a craving to be touched,
because through touching we are recognized and validated.
The second year Joseph and I attended the Grindstone men's conference, I
remember sitting in a workshop on homophobia in which a young man said,
"I have nothing against gays--but I think it is disgusting that these
guys go about groping each other is city parks." He raved on about
the guys who had recently been arrested in the parks in Winnipeg (I think
it was). After he finished there was a long silence. Then Andrew Butler,
some of you may remember Andrew, said that the young man just didn't get
it. These men go to parks to meet other men because they, just like you,
crave to touch and be touched by another, but, because that other is a man,
our society denies them that touching, considers it perverse touching and
forces them to go underground into parks and washrooms.
The point is our "bodies are our first, closest, and most powerful
connection to both ourselves and all else. The loving touch of flesh upon
flesh is the first reassurance that one is a self in a world of caring selves"
(Brock). As Gloria Steinem says in Revolution From Within, "Being
touched and held is our earliest source of self-discovery--and a continuing
need."
For us, the defining feature of loving and safe touch, of erotic love, is
reciprocity. Reciprocity has been named by others as the golden rule (do
onto others as you would have them do unto you), and love your neighbour
as yourself. But regardless of the construct, we believe reciprocity defines
co-creative relationships which are erotic in Brock's best sense of the
word.
Of course, some people like to think that sex has nothing to do with economics
or politics. We don't agree. The sexual is economic; the sexual is political.
In reciprocal relationships one does not own one's lover/partner/spouse.
Sexual partners are not property. It is not my house, my car, my wife, etc.
Another way of expressing this concept of reciprocity is by analogy: love
is not a pie--love is not something which can be cut up and consumed a slice
at a time. Reciprocal love--what Brock calls erotic love--is unconditional
love: each participant, therefore, respects and embraces the choices of
the other participant(s) openly and freely. I have no right to claim ownership
over wife/lover/friend. They are free agents not my possessions.
Everything in our culture works against this concept of love. There, love
is grounded in sentimentality, ownership, and the ideology of romanticism.
If you believe that you have found Mr. or Mrs. Right, then you have your
hands on a commodity that you don't want to lose, and you expect your investment
in the relationship to be interest bearing, with a big pay off not unlike
mortgaging a house--or should we say a love boat?
Some ten years ago I, Joseph, wrote a poem which addresses sexual politics
and the importance of reciprocity. It's entitled "bodies politic":
come love
let's be one another's antithetical selves
first infra then superstructures
one another's polarities sotospeak
revolutionary abandonment yes
but there's no being without sexual politics
even a bed's an ideological construct
butterflied stomachs
and uneaten scrambled eggs on our plates
and you don't think desire's political?
people starve for all kinds of things
don't know if our minds are in our stomachs
or vice versa--
as always we're dialectical
romantic utopians to our very extremities
come love
let's be one another's liberation theologies
let's dare imagine a finer collective world
ourselves included
and always always come back to good hard praxis
One day in September on our way back from Marion's mom's burial, Terry and
I saw an electronic billboard visible from the Gardiner Expressway: "We've
committed the golden rule to memory; now we need to commit it to life."
What immediately came to mind is how hypocritical in Harris Ontario. But
the Power of Naming is not just in the hands of those with electronic billboards.
Elizabeth Renzetti's recent article in the Globe and Mail, "k.d.lang:Let's
get it on," is a good spring board for this section on the power of
naming when she writes, "Reclamation of words and beliefs is a subject
much on [k.d.'s] mind." Naming is an essential tool for k.d. to fight
the bigots who want to marginalize her. Keanu Reeves, another star much
in the news, also understands the importance of naming; when questioned
in Vanity Fair (August 1995) about his own sexual orientation, Reeves makes
an important point: "Well, I mean, there's nothing wrong with being
gay, so to deny it is to make a judgment. And why make a big deal of it?"
In Politics and the English Language, George Orwell cautions against
the debasement of language, e.g., calling anyone whose politics you disagree
with a "fascist." The misused/debased term loses the power to
name real fascism when it is present in our lives.
The New Right's strategy is clear: take the language of progressive people,
our language, and distort its original meaning. Then use it as weapon against
us. In the video Backlash to Change, Michael Kaufman states, "political
correctness was first termed by progressive people and feminists as a joke...
it was meant to correct excess," our own "excess." Now the
term is thrown in our faces by those who define themselves as guardians
of freedom. As Lorraine Greaves makes clear in the same video, not all criticism
is backlash. In keeping with Lorraine's observation, we who are working
for progressive social change must remain open to legitimate criticism of
our work if we are truly to make a difference. However, we must deny the
new right the power of naming; we must take control of the naming process.
We have to find creative ways to undermine the new right's monopoly of the
mass media.
The Oct. 7th "Insight" section of Sunday Star reported, "The
Right on Target: Hundreds of programs disappear as Tories move toward redefining
the nature of government." The previous day, the Star reported, "ministry
of community and social services soon will redefine the meaning of disability,
disqualifying thousands of people now eligible for higher benefits than
those which go to people considered able to work." Minister David Tsubouchi
is quoted as saying, "You have to define [he means "redefine"]
disabilities. . . We've clearly gone to a medical definition of disability
and unfortunately, that's what the catchment is going to be." The Globe
reported the "Alberta government has become the first in Canada to
say it will not pay for abortion on demand" and that "the province's
medical community will be asked to draw up guidelines to describe [read
"redefine"!] what is medically necessary." The Alberta Government
only backed down because the doctors, mostly privileged white males, refused
to write new guidelines. There is, however, a lesson for all of us: refuse
to let the New Right define the terminology and reality of what is being
orchestrated.
Michael Kimmel, the editor of Men Confront Pornography, was kind
enough to send us a copy of a speech he gave a couple of years ago in Toronto
and which he has now published as an essay "Masculinity as Homophobia."
In this piece, Michael speaks of the patriarchal system of government known
to political scientists as hegemony. From this Michael derives the hegemonic
definition of manhood as "a man IN power, a man WITH power, and a man
OF power... " Michael goes on to say the following. (As we read his
words, think about how they fit what is currently happening in Harris' Ontario
or Preston Manning's vision of Canada)
"Our culture's definition of masculinity is thus several stories at
once. It is about the individual man's quest to accumulate those cultural
symbols they denote manhood, signs that he has in fact achieved it. It is
about those standards being used against women to prevent their inclusion
in public life and their consignment to a devalued private sphere. It is
about the differential access that different types of men have to those
cultural resources that confer manhood and about how each of these groups
then develop its own modifications to preserve and claim its manhood. It
is about the power of these definitions themselves to serve to maintain
the real-life power that men have over women and some men have over other
men."
In Beyond Power, Marilyn French shows the great costs, historically
and presently, to all of us when a power over model is embraced rather than
the model she proposes--power with!
In the book, Tommy Douglas: The Road to Jerusalem, Thomas and Ian
McLeod note that Douglas spoke of "the social gospel, 'practical Christianity'
[as] 'the application of the gospel to social conditions' [in] response
to the stark miseries of the industrial age." Establishing democratic
socialism in the mainstream of Canadian politics, Douglas stood in the tradition
of "populist" movements of his time. Today, "populist"
is debased for, in truth, it is a code word for "taxpayer," for
the middle and upper middle class--for the establishment (not the people).
In an insightful article in the Star, "Three Populist Feelings that
Put Harris in Power," Thomas Walkom argues that the first "populist"
feeling is "resentment" and that "With his attacks on welfare
recipients, Harris has unlocked these grudges and brought them tumbling
out." Walkom argues that the second "populist" feeling is
"the urge for freedom, the desire of people to control their own futures."
But really, it's an illusion of individual freedom of little or any consequence:
we can decide if we want to wear a bicycle helmet, but "the 'reality'
of the global economy prevents nation-states from exercising any effective
role.... As a result, popular anger focuses not on great injustices but
on small irritations." The third "populist" feeling is "the
desire for democracy [which] the Tories have successfully appropriated":
they "define their critics as 'special interests' and make that a [negative]
phrase"; then they premise their definition of democracy so that "if
government is responsible to taxpayers rather than the public as a whole,
it stands to reason those who pay more [taxes] should have a greater say."
As we read Walkom article, we thought rather than "Rep by Pop,"
it sounds like "Rep by Buck": the higher your tax bracket, the
higher your power in naming, and therefore controlling, the political agenda.
A current case in point (and one that leads nicely into our next section
on money) is in our own backyard at Camp Ipperwash, where first nations
people are occupying land which they claim as their own. Under the heading
of "Natives," the London Free Press reports, "Land claims
unite residents." It tells of the formation of a group called "ON
FIRE--Ontario Federation of Individual Rights and Equality," who are
angry at the "separation of our country into hunks and chunks, including
a separate justice system for natives." The organizers of ON FIRE in
their own words "hope to prevent racism in the group by requiring that
members agree to several principles, including one calling for equal rights."
What's behind their supposedly anti-racist strategy? Let's redefine "equal
rights." Let's all buy into equal rights for ALL and thereby defocus
from the legality of land claims by first nations people--and save the property
values of OUR cottages.
John Myles, Director of the Pepper Institute on Aging and Public Policy
at Florida State Univ., declared at a recent breakfast sponsored by the
Social Science Federation of Canada (as quoted by MacQueen, Southam News)
it is not the cost of our social programs that has created the deficit,
it is 'the God of the Free Market'--beloved engine of the alleged economic
recovery. By driving down wages, paying less for more work and longer hours,
forcing those under 35 into underpaid service jobs, maintaining an unemployment
rate at 10% of the work force, the new economy has in truth created a growing
underclass; in fact, for many years, our social programs have actually masked
this process of the rich becoming richer at the expense of the poor. The
ideology that the poor are causing our deficits because they are a drain
on our economy is a myth by which the rich and powerful (read patriarchy)
can justify the redistribution of wealth from the poor and marginalized
to their own back pockets. In "To Have and Have Not: Notes on the Progress
of the American Class War" (Harper's Magazine, June 1995), Michael
Lind reinforces the reality of the rich and powerful by (re)naming them
for what they truly are--the overclass!
There is a second myth involved in the deficit/debt cutting process: That
cutting costs is the single and sole agenda of governments. We need only
take a careful look at things being cut in Ontario to prove the myth false:
How did cutting photo radar save money? How did cutting halfway houses save
money when the cost of keeping a person in prison is twice that of a halfway
house? How did cutting youth programs save money when the government will
turn around and hire more police to handle street crime? Let's be clear,
deficit cutting has become a convenient tool for the rich and powerful to
reassert their patriarchal agenda on our society. And boy, do they know
how to "name" it. Andrew Coyne in the Globe writes, "After
30 years of deficit spending, however, balancing the budget is a little
like popping the pimple on the surface of a much larger boil. What matters
now is the debt, the ghost of deficits past...." Charles Dickens could
take lessons from Coyne about writing purple prose.
Consider a recent headline in the London Free Press: "Women's shelter
head says government like an abusive man in treatment agencies" Karen
Hunter, Executive Director of Women's Interval House in Sarnia, says the
provincial government is treating women's shelters and other social service
agencies the way an abusive man treats his spouse. Just look at some of
the parallels she draws: an abusive spouse believes he knows what's best
for his partner--just as the Harris government believes it has the medicine
which will make us all well, whether we like it or not. An abusive spouse
seeks to isolate his partner from the support of others--just as the Harris
government is trying to isolate social service agencies in order to minimize
opposition to its cuts. An abusive spouse controls the purse strings, determines
where the money will be spent and does not consult his partner--once again,
the parallels to the Harris government are obvious. In making these observations,
we want to make clear that it is not our intention to demonize Harris. We
know from experience that demonizing the abuser does not change his behaviour.
He needs to be educated to take responsibility for his abusive behaviour.
In way of summing up, what is it which we as profeminist men (working in
partnership with feminists and others) need to do? We need to insist that
social change must always be progressive--grounded in love, not fiscal policies
that victimize some people to the benefit (monetary and otherwise) of other
people. We need to acknowledge that ours is truly a broken-hearted society
and reaffirm our profeminist commitment to work to heal it. We need to work
to redefine family in a non-patriarchal way, to replace the patriarchal
family with the celebratory diversity of co-creative families. We need to
demand heartfelt justice that is not punitive but rehabilitative, and which
does not marginalize anyone. We need to masturbate! As well, we need to
embrace co-creative interactions in all our relationships. We need to be
creative in denying the new right the power of naming and thereby (mis)representing
reality. We need to embrace a vision which surmounts the darkness and which
is rooted in love Eugene Smith was an American photographer, and a true
mentor. He photographed the deplorable "living" conditions of
Japanese POW's in American W.W. II concentration camps and thereby changed
those conditions; he was the first American photojournalist to do a photo
story foregrounding and celebrating the bravery of a black person, a nurse,
and thereby challenge racism; he photographed the effects of mercury poisoning
on the people in a poor fishing village in Minamata, Japan. Smith was a
keen observer of the human condition--he called himself a "compassionate
cynic." Smith suffered serious war injuries when he was documenting
W.W.II and thought that he might never make another photograph. Fortunately
for us, he did. Here is what he said about that the making of that photograph:
"Finally, I decided to try, but it was very difficult. My face was
still pouring pus and it was draining into the camera and my nerves were
. . . I was not only about to go through the ceiling but through the sky.
I decided to try, anyway. I got the whole family out of the house, except
my two children. Then, I took them for a walk. I wanted it to be a good
picture, to contradict and contrast with my war pictures, the last photographs
that I had taken. So I followed the children, and I saw them stepping into
this space as they went along the path. I stopped and clumsily tried to
focus, and as they stepped into the space, I made the photograph. I felt
that it was fairly good.
[I entitled the photograph] 'The Walk to Paradise Garden.' Most people think
it has a religious connotation, but it's as much a tribute to music as anything.
There is an opera by Delius called A Village Romeo and Juliet, and one piece
of the music is called 'The Walk to Paradise Garden.' I've left it with
an ambiguous title so that anyone can take from it what they wish. But it's
basically my tribute to music and to humanity, because I think it shows
hope."
In keeping with our own cynical optimism, we wish to end our presentation
on Smith's image of hope. Out of darkness, into the light we will walk hand-in-hand
(boys and girls, men and women) towards a future in which money is the basis
for sharing power with others rather than power over others, a future in
which human sexuality is celebrated in all of its richness and diversity,
a future in which families are co-creative, a future in which justice is
transparent and equitable for all, a future in which human existence is
rooted in love--in erotic love!
(Joseph Dunlop-Addley is a profeminist/socialist theorist and college professor
with special focus on fine arts, film, photography and other mass media.
His most recent project has been as one executive producer of the video,
Backlash to Change: Moving Beyond Resistance. Terry Boyd is a Christian
existentialist, whose doctorate is in social and political thought, and
a college administrator. Joseph is an accomplished cook and Terry a computer
whiz. Both are activists in the anti-violence & AIDS movements. They
live together in London with Marion Boyd, Tina Boyd--when she's not away
at university--their Sheltie Tiff and cat Cleo.)
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N.Y.: Crossroad, 1988.
Bronski, Michael. "I'll Cry Tomorrow: Susan Hayward, Summer Nights,
and the Scent of Memory." Friends and Lovers: Gay Men Write About the
Families They Create. Ed. John Preston and Michael Lowenthal. N.Y.: Dutton,
1995. This is a wonderful new anthology which also includes Andrew Holleran's
"Friends," a beautifully written essay about all kinds of friendships,
gay and non-gay.
Browning, Frank. The Culture of Desire: Paradox and Perversity in Gay Lives
Today. N.Y.: Crown, 1993.
Barlow, Maude, and Heather-Jane Robertson. Class Warfare: The Assault on
Canada's Schools. Toronto: Key Porter, 1994.
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Coyne, Andrew. "Envisioning a Sustainable Debt." Globe and Mail
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432-41. Smith's photograph "The Walk to Paradise Garden" is often
reprinted. It appears as a final image in Edward Steichen's The Family of
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Lind, Michael. "To Have and to Have Not: Notes on the Progress of the
American Class War." Harper's Magazine 290:1741 (June 1995): 35-47.
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Mitchell, Alanna. "Alberta to Restrict Abortion Access." As well,
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REGIONAL REPORTS
Challenging Sexist Roles in Parkdale
by Tony Rapoport
(from the MMAV Newsletter Issue #16 Feb./Mar.
I had a chance to try a new technique in an anti-violence workshop recently.
On December 6th, Steve Rosenberg and I led a workshop for young men at Parkdale
Collegiate. It was Steve's first workshop since joining the Public Education
Committee, and we decided to spend part of the time on a role-playing exercise
that he had designed. When we met on the evening before to plan our session,
I was a bit daunted by Steve's idea, which seemed rather ambitious to me.
He had developed a scenario about a woman suing her former boss for workplace
harassment, with roles for the two principals in the case, a judge and three
jury members. An added wrinkle was that she was not accusing the boss of
harassing her directly, but of allowing the harassment to take place. In
a further complexity, the woman had at times tried to deal with the harassment
by responding in kind. I tried to imagine getting teenage men to improvise
the parts in this adult drama, especially as the plaintiff, and found my
imagination challenged, but we went with it. The result was amazing.
The role play began with a simple but brilliant gesture by the student playing
the judge, who insisted that everyone in the room rise as he took his seat.
The whole group was immediately involved in the scenario, instead of just
watching it. We expected the role of the female plaintiff to be the most
challenging part for a young man to play, but the student who took it on
had a sure touch. He began with a slight campiness to get past the discomfort
of the cross-gendered casting, then played the part with utter seriousness,
articulating the character's grievance and her feelings with complete conviction.
The student playing the defendant brought a quality efforts to solve his
employees' problems fairly, but insisting that he couldn't be expected to
alter the whole culture of his workplace because of one worker who couldn't
fit in.
I was in suspense as the jury considered the case, because the three students
playing jury members had not spoken yet, so I couldn't guess their sympathies.
But they returned a decision of the maximum penalty against the employer,
citing his responsibility to provide a harassment-free environment for his
workers.
The sophistication of the role-playing, and the acceptance of the justice
of the anti-sexist law-suit, were impressive by any standards. The experience
was especially interesting because almost all of the students involved had
learned English as a second or third language. On the anniversary of the
Montreal massacre, it was an inspiring reason to hope we might be getting
somewhere in our efforts to change our sexist male culture.
Issues in Pornography
by Erik Malmsten
(from the MMAV Newsletter Issue #17 Apr./May
If we are going to discuss at the April 3 MMAV meeting, we need to be aware
of the complexity of the issue.
1) We need to listen to women's experiences of how pornography has damaged
them in their lives, and believe them.
· Men have learned twisted sexual values such as "no" means
"yes," that women enjoy forced sex and vulgar language, genital
contact is all there is to sex, or lesbians just have foreplay and they
really want a man.
· Men have learned sexual acts from pornography and forced women to
do sexual acts that they didn't want to do, have criticized women's body
shapes as not being attractive like the women they see in pornography.
· Men have exposed women to pornography to limit the participation
of women in the workplace, and to threaten women with rape. Men have been
taught by pornography that all women are possible sexual partners worth
persuading if you find their appearance arousing.
· Some women have been forced by gunpoint or economics to sell their
bodies.
2) We need to set pornography within the scope of society.
· A patriarchal society which is sexist, ageist, racist, and discriminates
by ablism, and body size. A society where most women are afraid of men because
some men are raping, battering and killing women. Does pornography reflect
social values or create new sexual attitudes? If there were no pornography
would rape stop? Or be reduced? Would women have economic equality?
· Who profits from pornography? Are women making money, empowering
themselves?
· Why are teenagers the major users of pornography? Are male users
increasing their self-esteem, feeling good about their sexuality? Why do
pornography users have to keep buying new magazines and videos? Would their
needs, which are met by pornography, go away if we took it away from them?
· What are the other media that exploit sexuality: advertising, movies,
popular music, and romance novels? Other businesses such as beauty, diet
and fitness products? How do they impact on behaviour? How much of men's
time is spent with pornography versus other media?
· Our society has a widespread acceptance of hierarchical oppression
of other people, animals and nature. The media has been used to glorify
war and the power of mankind to destroy.
3) We need to separate from pornography the feelings that arise from related
issues.
· (state) censorship. The historic use of laws to crack down on gay
and lesbian sexuality, and an erect penis is obscene whereas soft-core rape
isn't.
· child pornography, which has always been illegal.
· Religious control of sexuality. Messages such as nudity and masturbation
are bad.
· Personal revulsion at seeing sexual acts that you wouldn't do. Do
we have the right to criticize what other consenting adults enjoy?
· Personal guilt or shame over one's past or present sexual activity,
objectification of women.
4) We need to consider how people would behave sexually in our ideal society
and how do we move to that state. Looking at sex education alternates to
learning from pornography. Is it possible to have sex without the visual
objectification of your sex partner, or can you objectify your partner sexually
and still accept their self determination and equality? Should sex be limited
to monogamous couples; then, what does everyone else do with their sexual
feelings?
Netalk Winter/Spring '96 (Edited)
e-mail: mensnet@magi.com
Web site: http://infoweb.magi.com/~mensnet/
Contact for Web site comments or suggestions: Michael Deloughery
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 16:22:16 -0500 (EST)
From: Harvey Schachter <5hs@qsilver.queensu.ca>
Subject: Re: April Meeting
I too hope you'll have people at the conference. But I should warn that
enthusiasm in general seems down from last year and I expect most Kingston
people will be umbrella committee for our own conference this year. Still,
Ottawa is awfully close ....
Later, Harvey added..
Three of us met this week to start planning for the next Kingston Conference.
We were looking at April 13th or April 20th for an one-day meeting of an
umbrella group here in Kingston to develop themes, structure and title for
the conference. (the 20th is the day)
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 18:21:54 -0400
From: Roger Davies <ac760@ccn.cs.dal.ca>
Utne Lens has some material this issue that might be of interest:
* Special Section: The Virtuous Male
+ [7]Editor's Note Masses of Men
+ [8]The Virtuous Male by Keith Thompson
+ [9]Joy And Doubt On The Mall The Million Man March and me
+ [10]Queen For A Day One woman among the million men
+ [11]Among The Promise Keepers An inside look at the evangelical
men's movement.
and, a book review: Listen Up: Voices From the Next Feminist Generation
edited by Barbara Findlen (Seal Press, $12.95) The emerging generation of
women has been accused of being squeamish about the term feminist.. The
media have portrayed this as a failing of young women, but Barbara Findlen,
editor of Listen Up: Voices From the Next Feminist Generation, sees
it as a sign of strength: "What may appear to be a splintering in this
generation often comes from an honest assessment of our differences as each
of us defines her place and role in feminism."
Utne Lens can be found at: Linkname: THE UTNE LENS -- February 1996
URL: http://www.utne.com/
regards to all, Roger Davies Halifax
Date: 02 Mar 96 15:22:10 EST
From: Liam Breen <100031.3662@compuserve.com>
To: Jean Bernard <jcbern@execulink.com>
Subject: Re: Censorship in the offing?
Dear Jean,
I am also interested in making contacts with groups nearer home (Dublin)
with a view to linking up and discussing domestic violence and mens groups
in particular. So any info would be gratefully received. Sincerely, Liam
Breen
From: Jean Bernard <jcbern@execulink.com>
Executive Director
Changing Ways (London) Inc.
Hello friends.
I have replied in part to Liam's request. I also said I would forward his
message to a couple of sources which could provide additional suggestions.
I didn't identify you to him.
from Michael Kaufman
Michael Kimmel may have some Irish contacts. mkimmel@ccvm.sunysb.edu
from Roger Davies
A posting to the listserv Mailmen, which is moderated from the UK might
bring some responses. I don't have the sign-up address for that list handy,
but could probably locate it on the net if there are difficulties getting
it.
from Michael Deloughery
I got the two following responses to a request for contacts for Liam: If
I get any more I'll pass them on.
From: Thanks for your efforts, Michael. Jean Bernard, Executive Director,
Changing Ways (London) Inc.
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 10:11:14 -0500
From: mensnet@magi.com (Mens Network for Change)
Subject: Contacts in Ireland
A man is interested in making contacts with groups in Ireland with a view
to linking up and discussing domestic violence and mens groups in particular.
Any leads to pass on? Michael For the MNC MensNet
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 11:32:00 -0500
From: Terry Boyd BoydT@www.FanshaweC.on.ca
Subject: Centre for Research
Michael,
Please add the following location to your list of URLS on the mensnet:
http://www.fanshawec.on.ca/PandP/Violence/Index.htm
Can I also put in a plug for our new company: COMMplus consultants:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com:80/homepages/Terry_Boyd/commplus.htm
You are doing a great job. Terry
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 1996 16:05:44 -0500
From: mensnet@magi.com (Mens Network for Change)
Subject: Announcing the MensNet Marketplace
We are adding a new page to the web site. Its called the Market Place and
it will list any goods or services that members to the MNC would like to
inform other members about. So if you have something to sell, trade or barter
please let us know. If you have something you are happy to give away that
would be great also. We're considering this a "kind-of want-ads".
We are also interested if you have any comments about this service.
To: mensnet@magi.com
From: Ian Russell <irussell@inforamp.net>
Subject: help request
Metro Men Against Violence received a letter recently from the Annapolis
County Women's Coalition asking for information on similar groups in their
part of the country. Can anyone help? The organization's address is Box
118, Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia B0S 1M0.
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 12:05:14 -0500 (EST)
From: istudio@magi.com (Michel Levac)
Subject: Re: Announcing the MensNet Marketplace
I am opposed to any kind of marketing on the mensnet web site, I think it
trivializes the site. Thanks, Michel
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 00:30:12 -0400
From: Peter Davison PDavison@ccn.cs.dal.ca
Ian, Men For Change in Halifax will contact these folks since we are only
a 2.5 hour drive away. Curious how they mailed to Ontario. Funny how information
is gathered.
To all others on this mail list the home page address for our counterparts
in the USA is <http://www.spacestar.com/users/abtnomas/">
The National Organization for Men Against Sexism (NOMAS)
Peter Davison Men For Change Box 33005 Quinpool P.O. B3L 4T6 Halifax (902)492-4104
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single minute before starting
to improve the world." -Ann Frank
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 00:05:03 -0500
From: jerik@maple.net (Erik Malmsten)
Hi, I'm working hard on the MMAV Training Manual. We will be looking for
peer reviewers before publishing. Please update my address, I've
been bumped to jerik@map.hookup.net. Thanks, Erik
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 96 08:48:19
From: "Wes Darou" <wes_darou@acdi-cida.gc.ca>
Hi guys, In the last newsletter, you mentioned the book Uprooting Racism.
I tried to call the 1-800 number, but it is one that only works in the U.S.A.
Do you have more ordering information I can use, for example the city of
the publisher?
Thanks, Wes Darou, Counselling Services, CIDA
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 96 20:18:11
From: Ken Fisher kfisher@magi.com
Uprooting Racism by Paul Kivel New Society Publishers 4527 Springfield Avenue
Philadelphia PA USA 19143 His office number in Oakland is 510-654-3015 658
Vernon Street South East Oakland CA USA 94610
Other books of his are...
·Men's Work: To Stop Men's Violence Oakland Men's Project
·Helping Teens Stop Violence: A practical Guide for Counsellors, Educators
and Parents. There are many good exercises in this book.
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 96 16:07:14
From: Michael Sperber <msperber@ccigate.acdi-cida.gc.ca>
Subject: Lovers in a Dangerous Time
I have been copied on a number of your e-mails to one of my colleagues
- Wes Darou. I have been involved in a men's group in the Outaouais for
about one year. One of about eight groups in the region affiliated with
Réseau Hommes Québec. I am interested in some of the work
you are doing but unfortunately am out-of-town this weekend. Our group has
been working very successfully (6 men who have grown very supportive and
close). We tend to work more on a personal growth and individual experience
level rather than deal at this point with global political questions.
Could you please copy me on any of your information and i will distribute
it within my group (I don't imagine that there is much that has been done
in french). Hopefully at some point we will be able to touch base. Thanks
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 08:39:06 -0500 (EST)
From: Harvey Schachter <5hs@qsilver.queensu.ca>
.....By the way, I like the marketplace on the MNC home page. We should
know what one another do for a living and if there's choice help each other.
I suspect as there are more names on it, the thing will look less commercial
(for those who hate commercial) and more like a yellow pages of friends.
>Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 00:57:25 -0500
From: jerik@maple.net (Erik Malmsten)
Subject: Re: Uprooting Racism
The training book, which is highly recommended by Metro Men Against Violence
in Toronto, is Helping Teens Stop Violence: A Practical Guide for Educators,
counsellors, and parents by Allan Creighton with Paul Kivel; Hunter House
1992
Another recommended book on racism is Killing Rage: Ending Racism by bell
hooks; New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1995.
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 09:33:40 -0800 (PST)
From: Paul Kivel <pkivel@netcom.com>
Subject: Uprooting Racism
Hi all, To order Uprooting Racism within Canada there are two numbers, 800-387-0141
for Ont. and Que. and 800-387-1072 for the other provinces.
Hi Michael, good to hear from you. No, I don't have a homepage, I'm not
even on the web yet, but I would like to be on your emailing list. Please
encourage anyone who wants to chat to send me a message. Best, Paul
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 19:02:51 -0500
From: mensnet@magi.com (Mens Network for Change)
Subject: Publications on the Web Site
If you have an article, talk, etc. that would be relevant to the MNC and
you are willing to offer it to a wider audience, we are willing to put it
up on the Web page.
Send electronic copies of your pieces to this address as an attachment.
If you have a number of pieces, you can send as a Zipped file (PC) or compressed
with Stuffit or Compact Pro (Mac). Please have it titled and credited and
acknowledge sources.
Also, anyone who has articles or whole editions of previous MNC newsletters
in electronic form, we would love to add them to the archives on the Web
site. Thanks in advance, Michael for MensNet
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 16:58:12 -0500
From: Karen Beaton <kbeaton@gale.lakeheadu.ca>
Subject: Cornell Update
Just a note: In your last newsletter, you published an email which listed
the Top 75 Reasons Why Women Should Not Have the Freedom of Speech. I located
this update in the CASHHE's March Newsletter: Cornell Charges Four Students
in E-mail Prank A vulgar email message listing the "Top 75 reasons
why women (bitches) should not have freedom of speech' is creating an electronic
furore as it zips around the Internet. For not only does the list include
reasons like, '38 If she can't speak, she can't cry rape', it also includes
the names of the four Cornell University freshmen who wrote it. The four
men have apologized publicly and electronically. They face university sanctions
- at least one charge of sexual harassment has been referred to Cornell's
judicial board. However, the sexual harassment complaint might be difficult
to pursue because it was not made by any of the 20 original recipients of
the e-mail. The university's sexual harassment guidelines require that for
a violation to be found, one of the original recipients must file the charge.
None of the 20 has filed a complaint.
Source: Webb Report Premiere Publishing, Ltd. 145 North West 85th, Suite
201 Seattle, Washington 98117 Permission to quote up to 300 words
Thought that may interest you, Karen Beaton, Lakehead University Student
Union,Gender Issues Centre Director
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 19:01:48 -0500
From: bamboom@interlog.com (Bill Usher)
Subject: Showcase video available
Hi everybody, I just wanted to let everyone on the list know that we video
taped a concert that I gave on Int. Women's Day at Bloor Street United here
in Toronto. The concert was with three other players: Michael Calladine,
my step-son (he of "Baby Boomers Go Boom") on back-up vocals and
percussion; Neil Chapman on guitars and Eric Terreau on keyboards. We taped
the whole evening with two cameras (broadcast quality) and then I worked
with a director friend, Luc Iogna of Mixed Company to edit a collection
of excerpts together to make a 28 minute showcase of my work.
I had just come back from over three weeks of school and community concerts
up in the Yukon and BC and the feedback that I got was that my CD demo (with
the full band recording) didn't accurately reflect the warmth and humour
of my concerts. It seemed that it was best to invest the money from the
tour into something that could save me a few thousand words of description
every time someone asks.
Luc and I are shaping the evening into a show called 'heartBEAT' - which
'explores the emotionally rocky terrain of growing up - from teenager to
middleager, from childhood to parenthood...' The idea of the video is to
spread the word and to dig up some opportunities for concerts. To that end,
if any of you out there would like to have a look at it, send me a note
and I can loan a copy out to you. Thanks.
Bill Usher 100 Bain Ave. 19 The Aberdeens Toronto M4K 1E8 (416) 465-1335
bamboom@interlog.com
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 09:35:27 -0500
Here is information regarding Changing Ways new Manual. They are
already receiving head-swelling accolades from practitioners as far flung
as Vancouver and points south in the USA. Michael D.
Challenging Men Toward Safety and Responsibility in Their Primary Relationships
Changing Ways has just published a very comprehensive counsellor's manual
based on our studies of numerous men's programs and based on the evolution
of our own program.
The highlights of the manual are that it presents:
· Nine program components covering essential intervention topics, including
among others, safety, responsibility, empathy, power and control, communication,
parenting
· Detailed user-friendly exercises and handouts
· A chapter on accountable delivery of men`s programs including standards
and templates for future program developments
· Practical policies for implementing safety and accountability
· A comprehensive chapter on the structure and process of group counselling
abusive men, including practical guidelines for challenging
· A list of resources,239 pages, bound. The cost is $49.95 CDN + $8.00
shipping and handling.
We will accept a purchase order on your Agency's letterhead. Individuals
please prepay with shipping instructions. Send orders to the following address:
Jean Bernard Executive Director Changing Ways (London) Inc. 205 Horton Street
Suite 202 London ON N6B 1K7 CANADA voice: (519) 438-9869 fax: 438-9780 e-mail:
jcbern@execulink.com
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 09:38:45 -0500
From: Lance Willard <mars@ccsi.com>
Subject:Organizational info on Men Against Racism & Sexism
>Men Against Racism & Sexism Purpose and Position Statement
Men Against Racism & Sexism is a pro-feminist, anti-prejudice organization
whose multi-purpose goals are as follows:
1. To work with organizations to reduce prejudice and teach diversity programs
and self-run inter-organizational support groups. Work with company management
and organizational leaders to lower potential liability lawsuits and improve
ALL internal relationships.
2. To teach prejudice reduction and diversity/oppression awareness classes
to the general public. To teach peer-listening techniques with equal amount
of time for EVERYONE.
3. To organize young boys, teen-age and young adult men through various
means such as books, literature, music concerts and meetings/gather-ins.
4. To work with ALL organizations working to end oppression in all of it's
forms world wide. This means participation in their activities and full
invitation to ours.
We actively and visibly take the stance that:
1. Violence against women and men must be firmly eliminated in all forms.
2. White people are responsible for ending racism in all forms.
3. All men are responsible for ending sexism in all forms.
4. All men and women are completely good and worthwhile. Even when actions
are contradictory they are still completely good. This is vital to remember
as we rescue our violent brothers from their patterned actions.
5. All men are trained, coerced and forced by society into being sexist
as young people. However all men are completely capable of breaking free
of external and internal sexist pulls.
6. All white people are trained, coerced and forced by society into being
racist as young people. However all white people are completely capable
of breaking free of external and internal racist pulls.
7. More men of ALL backgrounds, classes, races, and religions must get
involved in order to truly eliminate all forms of oppression. These include:
Racism, Sexism, Homophobia, Gay Oppression, Anti-Semitism, Classism and
Male Oppression (not the same as Sexism).
For more information regarding any of these projects or positions please
contact us at:
Men Against Racism & Sexism 517 Sacramento Drive Austin, Texas USA 78704
Phone/FAX: 512-326-9686 E-MAIL: mars@ccsi.com Thank you, Lance Willard,
Founder of M.A.R.S.
From: Lance Willard <mars@ccsi.com>
Subject: membership
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 06:34:18 -0500
Dear Friend, I have been doing pro-feminist men's work for several years
but have just recently left my full time job to pursue doing this work full
time now. Things are somewhat financially "in swing" though there
is definitely light at the end of this tunnel.But I cannot see M.A.R.S.
being able to pay $30.00 this year for dues. If a $10.00 entry fee is acceptable
for our situation please tell me where to mail the check to and it is as
good as there.
Although Canada and Texas are separate geographically I think it is imperative
that we stay in contact to exchange ideas and info and events.
MARS does have LOCAL membership dues but not inter-country like mensnet
(yet). I will however consider you a proud member of MARS and that would
mean:
1.Promote your web page everywhere we do our work.
2.Put a direct link to your web page when ours is set-up (soon)
3.Exchange ideas on feminist theory, organizational techniques etc.
4.Advertise and promote all events happening in your part of the world when
we are asked by inquiries that aren't aware of you.
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 18:46:16 -0300
From: Peter Davison <PDavison@ccn.cs.dal.ca>
Subject: Brazilian Men Forwarded
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 18:22:46 -0400
From: CARAMBOL@TURING.UNICAMP.BR
Subject: men's studies
Hi, my name is Marko Monteiro and I am an undergraduate student here in
Brazil, at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP). I am currently doing
research on masculinity and gender and am looking
for references on the subject via the e-mail. If there is any information
that I could get from you, I would appreciate it very much. My e-mail is
carambol@turing.unicamp.br. Thanks!
From: CARAMBOL@TURING.UNICAMP.BR
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 14:31:22 -0300
Subject: men's studies
Thanks, Ken, for getting in touch with me. I would love to get the pile
o' stuff that you talked about. My university, although it is one of the
best in Brazil, has a very incipient nucleus for gender studies and nothing
on masculinity. Whatever you give me will be a great contribution to the
university as well.
My address is: Marko Monteiro Rua Joseph Cooper Reinhardt 233
Vila Marieta, Campinas - SP CEP:13042-200, BRAZIL
Thanks again, keep in touch!
From: JayBRoller@aol.com
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 03:00:25 -0400
Subject: Men &Masculinity Conference (NOMAS)
I received an E-mail from Bill Usher. I want to let you and your colleagues
know about the 21st ANNUAL MEN & MASCULINITY CONFERENCE happening
in Portland, Oregon July 25-28. If you can help spread the word,
I would appreciate it. Further information at
http://www.spacestar/users/abtnomas or contact me directly.
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 12:53:05 -0400
From: mensnet@magi.com (Mens Network for Change)
Subject: Library on MNC
The web site now has a new page called the Library. Its function is to
offer in text (and hopefully soon, PDF) format, articles, talks, etc from
various individuals.
It is a small offering at present, as only two people have supplied us with
material. If you have material in electronic form, (or you have some from
an author you like and have permission to re-print) we would be happy to
add it to the Library.
Michael for MensNet
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write us."
The International Anti-sexist Anthem
Trash, trash all the nations
We are the new feminist generation
We destroy sexist nations
We pick up new bases
We're gonna start an insurrection
We're gonna find a new direction
Together in a wide union
Women and men need emancipation
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