Thursday, July 24, 2008

Our real challenge: to make men stop fighting themselves and to fight their oppression instead

The challenge before us is to make men, especially young men, to divert their masculine energies from fighting and destroying their own inner selves (their inner essence, feelings, needs, desires and natural manhood) to fighting and destroying the psycho-social mechanisms that force and condition them into a fight with their ownselves.

It's a real challenge, because, as long as men are governed by these psycho-social mechanisms, which are instilled in them right from the childhood, by all the major and minor social institutions (including education, peer-pressure, entertainment, media, science, etc.), they are unlikely to even listen to something that talks about issues outside the purview of social manhood -- they're just taboo for them.

And, unless, you make men realise this, you can't organise them to be able to break the psycho-social mechanisms. The only way out is to organise some men, who are enlightened, who can carry on the fight for long enough for others to feel safe about it and be encouraged to at least listen to it... for when they listen they're bound to think and realise how they're being enslaved and oppressed.

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