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fsboy -> A gentle Female Supremacy Manifesto (6/29/2006 9:05:45 PM)
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This is a manifesto; a manifesto about Female Supremacy. I'm posting it here to see if I'm on the right track -- if Women think it makes sense.
As far as manifesto's go, it's a little silly, as I'm phallically unqualified to chart the future of the Female Supremacy movement. So I'm afraid that this manifesto has no audience – those who find Female Supremacy absurd won't enjoy it, and those who believe would probably prefer feminine leadership.
But here it is anyway.
Before I get started with my proper argument, I'd like to say a few words about terminology. We say that we believe in Female Supremacy and that men should be slaves to Women. And that's unfortunate, because it tends to remind people of some terrible evils -- of White Supremacy and of American race slavery.
Female Supremacy, at least as I will define and explain it here, is not at all similar to White Supremacy, and the consensual slavery of a man to a Woman is nothing at all like race based slavery. There are many, many ways in which they are different, but the most important is that there is absolutely no coercion in Female Supremacy. Everything is consensual.
With that out of the way, I can begin. Here we go:
There are, in our amazingly diverse and complex world, men and Women who want to live in situations in which Women are in charge. The forms this desire can take vary quite a bit – some people hunger for something that is very much out of a BDSM fantasy, other people prefer situations structured around values derived from the feminist movement, and there is probably someone staking out almost every point in between.
Exactly what these people want, or why they want it, isn't the point. And whether they are right to want it isn't really the point either. And believe me, I have no interest in trying to persuade you that you should want it too. In the vision of the Female Supremacist movement presented in this manifesto, there is no evangelism.
The point is that these people exist; they are real, they are tangible, they live and breathe. Or, I should say: We are real, we are tangible, and we live and breathe. We are few in number, compared to the rest of society, a very small minority at best. But we exist!
So let's make a simple definition: A Female Supremacist is a person who wants to live, for real, in a situation in which Women are in charge.
What I'm calling the Female Supremacy Movement is what I'd like to see grow and flourish – a movement of Female Supremacists, for Female Supremacists. A movement to make life easier and more manageable for all of us. A movement that helps us figure out how to meet one another, how to recognize kindred spirits, and most importantly, how best to live in a world that is at best puzzled by us, and at worst hostile to us.
This is not, I should point out, the same thing as wanting a world in which Women run everything. And again, I have to point out that it is consensual. I am not suggesting that even one single man who is unwilling should be under the rule of a Woman. All I'm saying is that it should be easier for those of us who do want to live this way to make it work. And I am suggesting that if we come together, we can make it easier.
I have specifically laid down my definitions here in ways that leave out lots of things that are often attributed to Female Supremacists, by both friends and foes.
Foes accuse us of being essentially like White Supremacists, with Women replacing whites as a master class. This is, of course, another way of saying that we are evil. But under my definitions, there is no compulsion; we are completely self selecting as a group. No one is here who doesn't want to be,
Friends often point to an ancient golden age in which women ruled, and peace was the norm rather than an exception. We need to return to that time, if we can, in the same way we need to return to nature. That's not the sort of argument I'm making here. I don't know if such a golden age existed, or how we could return to it if it did. I can't imagine that in today's world, anything coming close to such a return is even remotely possible.
Other friends point out characteristic differences between masculine and feminine personalities, and suggest that these differences show that we'd all be better off with women in charge. I'm not unsympathetic to this argument; I think there's more than a little truth to it. But even so, I'm not making that argument as part of my manfiesto. It's important for me to explain why.
I'm trying to kick off a discussion among "us", and about us. I'm not trying to tell "them" what they should do, or why they should do it. I'm asking us to think about what we should do, and why we should do it, to talk about these things.
So I'm not trying to defend Female Supremacy to the rest of the world, and I'm not trying to convert anyone to Female Supremacy. I'm not trying to put together arguments to show that Female Supremacy is a better way to live. Those are things you'd say to people on the outside, to them; we already know.
Part of this is because I believe that Female Supremacy is something that's deeper than arguments can reach. For me personally, it's just something that's always been there in one form or another. I don't think that anyone will be persuaded to be a Female Supremacist. You either feel it, or you don't. It either fits, or it doesn't.
So what I am trying to suggest is that we should talk to one another, figure out what our values and interests are, share tips on how to live in the real world that exists today. We should build networks and communities, and try to fight isolation. We should look for ways we can be open to discovery by Female Supremacists who are alone, and disconnected from a larger community. We should think about how to carve out our own psychic spaces in this world, how to protect them, how to decorate them.
This is what my manfiesto calls for.
Thanks to all for reading.
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