Mexican women urge men to boycott all-male forums

BDMR_lurker · 2016-12-01T16:50:22+00:00

"All-male is bad!" says an all-female group.

Maybe women should boycott all-male spaces. That'd teach 'em!

manifesto18 · 2016-12-01T16:41:15+00:00

Fuck em

lostapwbm · 2016-12-01T16:38:45+00:00

A group of young Mexican women has created a manifesto asking men not to take part in panels or conferences where there is not a single female speaker.

Con Nosotras, meaning With Us (women), was launched this week in the country's second-largest city, Guadalajara.

Their one-page declaration [in Spanish] also asks institutions and organisations to commit to making more women's voices heard at events, from public debates to round-table discussions.

Men should not be allowed to meet without a female overseer to ensure there is no subversive, anti-feminist speech.

"To take into account only a male viewpoint on issues that concern us all, abuses, discriminates and perpetuates inequality," concludes the pledge.

"This is not about setting quotas," said one of the 14 co-founders, Claudia Ramirez, adding it was more about tackling the shortage of voices in areas "that have always been culturally occupied by men".

"This is not about setting quotas" a feminist says while demanding quotas.

In other parts of the world, Finnish feminist group Hattu has been crowdsourcing examples of all-male panel events since March 2015 on allmalepanels.tumblr.com.

The site has received over 1,700 submissions to date, including one for a Canadian debate about wage inequality that failed to include any women.

"Congrats, you have an all-male panel," they write above each entry.

It is the Tumblr version of the White Feather Campaign

Gabriela De La Torre, Con Nosotras co-founder, said, "The least they [men] can do is use their privileged position to denounce and highlight occasions when they are part of an all-male panel."

That's right, men. Use your "privilege" to undermine other men so that cupcake, rather than building her own house, can come tell you what you should do in yours.

thrway_1000 · 2016-12-01T20:35:12+00:00

https://archive.is/6xBaL

Title	Mexican women urge men to boycott all-male forums
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Date	December 1, 2016 4:38 PM UTC (9 years ago)
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