So much work still to do
I'm on the tram on my way back from Slutwalk. It was fine until right up to the end, when a guy from Socialist Alternative approached me.
Him: Come to our pro-choice rally!
Me: Can I have a look at the flyer?
While I'm reading it, him: You should also have a look at our women's rights charter.
Me: Look, I have a really poor opinion of Socialist Alternative, so why don't we leave it there?
Him: Why? I don't come from Melbourne, so...
Me: I don't want to go into it.
Him, sulking: Awwwww.
Me: I asked you to drop it, and you didn't, at THIS rally?
And I walked away.
For what it's worth, my opinion of Socialist Alternative is that they're an actual cult, and coopt every lefty cause they can to raise money for themselves, at the expense of the minorities they claim to be working for. Today, for instance, there were more people collecting for Socialist Alternative (who did not organise Slutwalk) than there were collecting for the actual event. And the woman collecting for Slutwalk told me that any money left over from the organising costs would go to the Coalition Against Sexual Assault, which struck me as a sharp contrast to Socialist Alternative, whom I've never heard say anything at all about where the money they collect goes.
Him: Come to our pro-choice rally!
Me: Can I have a look at the flyer?
While I'm reading it, him: You should also have a look at our women's rights charter.
Me: Look, I have a really poor opinion of Socialist Alternative, so why don't we leave it there?
Him: Why? I don't come from Melbourne, so...
Me: I don't want to go into it.
Him, sulking: Awwwww.
Me: I asked you to drop it, and you didn't, at THIS rally?
And I walked away.
For what it's worth, my opinion of Socialist Alternative is that they're an actual cult, and coopt every lefty cause they can to raise money for themselves, at the expense of the minorities they claim to be working for. Today, for instance, there were more people collecting for Socialist Alternative (who did not organise Slutwalk) than there were collecting for the actual event. And the woman collecting for Slutwalk told me that any money left over from the organising costs would go to the Coalition Against Sexual Assault, which struck me as a sharp contrast to Socialist Alternative, whom I've never heard say anything at all about where the money they collect goes.
Cults?
(Anonymous) 2012-09-01 06:57 am (UTC)(link)Feminism is not?
Re: Cults?
splodgenoodles 2012-09-01 08:08 am (UTC)(link)Although I'll have to check when I next go to the feminist meeting that we all go to to receive instructions for the next month's feminist activities.
Would you like to come along? We'd love to have you there.
Re: Cults?
lilacsigil 2012-09-01 08:43 am (UTC)(link)no subject
chalcopyrite 2012-09-01 07:24 am (UTC)(link)That does sum up a certain.... something. ::ickface::
'Cause the revolution business is still run by men
vass 2012-09-01 10:02 am (UTC)(link)Ani DiFranco said it best about a lot of hairy, earnest men at rallies:
They all want to lead the fight
And they know what they know all right
But there's still so much
They don't understand, I mean,
What about the other sex?
What about the other hand?
no subject
lilacsigil 2012-09-01 07:43 am (UTC)(link)no subject
vass 2012-09-01 10:04 am (UTC)(link)no subject
trouble 2012-09-01 11:17 am (UTC)(link)