Female Politics

Female politics - have they been properly defined yet? Are they part of feminism or is feminism part of female politics? Most of my experience with mainstream feminism both in the past and the present has led me to believe that our concerns have been primarily femocentric: our focal points have involved the well-being of human females and the way we relate to a society run by males. Male politics are concerned with the organisation, upholding, readjusting and manipulation of the patriarchy and with making the system work without questioning the validity of a society based on the domination of one sex by the other; one race by another race; of all species by one species.

Politics, as now defined, assume that humans are the most important creatures on earth and that anything done on behalf of us is worth doing. Such politics are unable to care for the earth, and therefore, for human beings. They are incapable of really addressing such issues as the population explosion, worldwide pollution and the destruction of natural resources. They are incapable of really addressing the need for an entire restructuring of industrial and monetary systems. And so on and so on.

The dominance of the world by patriarchy has brought the earth to the brink of ecological collapse. Female politics will address these wider concerns. They will extend our caring and sharing strengths (so often spoken of in patronising terms) into the sphere of caring for and sharing with the earth and its total population of flora, fauna, mineral life and elements. Female politics will not be femocentric or malephobic. They will challenge the validity of the entire system along with its internalized hierarchies, prejudice, exploitation, oppression, aggression and homocentricity.

Big words to make songs out of! Huge ideas to express in words set to music! Perhaps the above view seems simplistic but the goal can be simply stated: the world, our home, is being destroyed. Human beings, under the leadership of men, are destroying it. Human beings are the only creatures who can put a halt to it. The other half (or, to be exact, 52%) of the human race has got to get moving.