Wednesday, August 6, 2008

How to make men strong enough to beat the fear of 'gay'

I had another revelation today...

It seems with changed circumstances, with heavy heterosexualisation of the society, knowledge is not enough to empower men to liberate. Perhaps, just knowledge is never enough to liberate... though about seven years ago, things were a lot different... when men's spaces were strong, mere knowledge would be very liberating, since the men's spaces provided the space and the opportunity to implement that knowledge.

But today, the heterosexualised spaces have created such extreme fear around 'gay', and any kind of association with men is seen as 'gay', so much so that, you may give men all the information, but they don't want to come near anything which may be considered 'gay', they will disassociate themselves from it.

In such cirumstances, it becomes extremely difficult to even get this knowledge to them, since the mainstream community doesn't allow such knowledge to reach them (I got its taste when I raised this issue at several Western net forums -- they were very open to all kinds of information, however negative -- they even allowed a terrorist who kept threatening everyone with murder, to be there. But they asked me to leave, because they didn't want me to use that space to spread pro-men information).

And, the heterosexual society has created extreme mental blocks iin men from accessing information on other networks, which might be thought of as 'gay'.

It s an enormous challenge then to break this vicious circle and get this information to men. But then, this is not enough, so what more could be done.

I think men must feel safer only then will they join such a movement. We have to tread very cautiously. We have to find a way of avoiding the 'gay' tag while at the same time creating a strong men's spaces. I am sure the Forces that are with RamHanuman will show me the way.

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