"It's Not Easy, Being Mean"
An excerpt from some feedback from an old friend encountering Crowbar for the first time:
Hey sounds like you`ve become a pretty angry women
lot`s o negative talk, what happen to peace and love?
to much heavy metal music ??
yes i agree with lots of what you say
but you sure seem like your down on men
some of us actally do not vote for/fund fascist (spiritual or political)
and even talk to women who are pro life and tell them they have the right to be
pro life FOR THEMSELVES!!
sorry but i`m getting really sick of people who continue to
pit one gender/colour/religion against another (hitler did it quite well)
you just end up preaching to the converted cause everyone who disagrees with you
just shuts off (i know you probably know all this shit but hey i just saying
what i think. blah blah blah
Crowbar's not your thing, huh? Well, I guess she is a bit of an acquired taste.. Anger is an energy, my friend, to quote the great and questionable John Lydon. :-)
It's too bad that what you saw in it was being 'down on men'. My heroes are Malcolm X, Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos, Audre Lourde....I believe in speaking truth to power, no matter who holds it.
You know, years ago I saw a speech by a woman in which she said,
"When I say 'women get raped', people nod their heads, agree, and say how terrible it is,
When I say 'women get raped by men', people get upset, say I'm male-bashing, angry and divisive.
But it's the same statement - one just has slightly more detail than the other. We're allowed to speak about violence against women as long as we don't say out loud who commits it. But what people has ever overcome a problem of oppression without identifying who the oppressor is?"
It's not about being angry (well, Crowbar is, but that's her personality :-) - it's about naming, in which there is great power, and is the only thing that will bring about change. Men can also talk about the power wielded by other men over women (and there's a number who do), just as a white person can be an ally by acknowledging and working against the impact of white colonialism world over. Change comes about when those who have power use it in alliance with and support of those who are denied it.
Cultural Accountability
Gender Accountability
Class Accountability
...such good things.
As far as preaching to the converted goes, the cool thing about Crowbar is it's intended solely as an anonymous venting space for me. It's the place I can say whatever the hell I want without worrying about who will or won't hear the message, because it doesn't exist to deliver one. It's not a political platform, or a public education vehicle, or anything, really. I do all that stuff during the day, and there I craft the message a lot more carefully (as, you're right, no one will ever work to end oppression unless they can first learn to accept that they might participate in it). Crowbar doesn't care what people think, or whether they listen (that's Cult's job) - she just smashes stuff.
All Hail the Smashy Smashy!
Hey sounds like you`ve become a pretty angry women
lot`s o negative talk, what happen to peace and love?
to much heavy metal music ??
yes i agree with lots of what you say
but you sure seem like your down on men
some of us actally do not vote for/fund fascist (spiritual or political)
and even talk to women who are pro life and tell them they have the right to be
pro life FOR THEMSELVES!!
sorry but i`m getting really sick of people who continue to
pit one gender/colour/religion against another (hitler did it quite well)
you just end up preaching to the converted cause everyone who disagrees with you
just shuts off (i know you probably know all this shit but hey i just saying
what i think. blah blah blah
Crowbar's not your thing, huh? Well, I guess she is a bit of an acquired taste.. Anger is an energy, my friend, to quote the great and questionable John Lydon. :-)
It's too bad that what you saw in it was being 'down on men'. My heroes are Malcolm X, Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos, Audre Lourde....I believe in speaking truth to power, no matter who holds it.
You know, years ago I saw a speech by a woman in which she said,
"When I say 'women get raped', people nod their heads, agree, and say how terrible it is,
When I say 'women get raped by men', people get upset, say I'm male-bashing, angry and divisive.
But it's the same statement - one just has slightly more detail than the other. We're allowed to speak about violence against women as long as we don't say out loud who commits it. But what people has ever overcome a problem of oppression without identifying who the oppressor is?"
It's not about being angry (well, Crowbar is, but that's her personality :-) - it's about naming, in which there is great power, and is the only thing that will bring about change. Men can also talk about the power wielded by other men over women (and there's a number who do), just as a white person can be an ally by acknowledging and working against the impact of white colonialism world over. Change comes about when those who have power use it in alliance with and support of those who are denied it.
Cultural Accountability
Gender Accountability
Class Accountability
...such good things.
As far as preaching to the converted goes, the cool thing about Crowbar is it's intended solely as an anonymous venting space for me. It's the place I can say whatever the hell I want without worrying about who will or won't hear the message, because it doesn't exist to deliver one. It's not a political platform, or a public education vehicle, or anything, really. I do all that stuff during the day, and there I craft the message a lot more carefully (as, you're right, no one will ever work to end oppression unless they can first learn to accept that they might participate in it). Crowbar doesn't care what people think, or whether they listen (that's Cult's job) - she just smashes stuff.
All Hail the Smashy Smashy!
posted by Crowbar at 9:16 a.m.
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