Despite being raised with the idea of privilege apparently it failed to sink in that co-ed spaces are actually male-oriented spaces. Thus men don't need to specifically create male-oriented spaces - they're not merely common but so normal that you fail to see them. Creating a women-oriented space is far more tricky because as soon as a man goes into a space it becomes male-oriented (women are no less subject to societal programing than anyone else) so the only way to pull it off is to make the space women-only.
I sincerely wish that wasn't the case, but it still is. I'd love to be able to say that everyone is all equal so we don't need to do such things anymore, but real life has this unfortunate habit of proving me wrong on that score repeatedly. So we have this nasty kludge of women-only spaces in order to practice living in a world where men are not privileged over women - men seem to object to this for some reason. . .
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Date: 2009-05-30 04:42 pm (UTC)I sincerely wish that wasn't the case, but it still is. I'd love to be able to say that everyone is all equal so we don't need to do such things anymore, but real life has this unfortunate habit of proving me wrong on that score repeatedly. So we have this nasty kludge of women-only spaces in order to practice living in a world where men are not privileged over women - men seem to object to this for some reason. . .