SWMS 210mgw Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Messiah Complex, Changing Table, Economic Justice
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Patriarchy hurts everyone, men can be beneficiaries from anti-violence work even if they are also privileged. Reducing savior complex, men should pitch in because it"s the right thing to do. Different patriarchal structures allow for different kinds of oppression. Military, religion, politics, economics, ethnicity, labor, etc. Policy: public education, enforcing equitable workplace laws. Gender equity in childcare through structural changes (baby changing table in men"s restrooms) Uniting different interest groups to provide a united, stronger platform to raise relevant issues to all constituents. Pro-choice, civil rights (women of color), disability rights groups. Pro-choice groups cannot use disability=pain rhetoric to campaign for genetic reproductive technologies. Why and how men should be involved in gender justice . Downstream and upstream work: victims and perpetrators. So real it hurts: notes on occupy wall street . South asians for justice: part of an activism group. Ground zero: symbol of capitalism, oppression, imperialism, torture.
