Hey, I’ve been syndicated on infoshop and Anarchist News.

Apart from feeling very special, I’m really astounded by how much flak I’ve received on the infoshop page. I’m tempted to defend myself against every accusation, and refute every criticism. I don’t think I will though. I do need to write more clearly, and I do need to spend more time on my reasonings. I do need to research to support my claims (research is something I can be really good at, but when I don’t have time I tend to regard it as something mystical that other people do). I will answer my critics by improving my research and writing, YAH!

I am totally in awe of how few of the people who criticised me had taken the time to read my writing before criticising. No, actually I’m not surprised - I too have done that in the past. A case of the too-eager-beaver undermining good political thought.

There is one point that I need to make clearer when I next write about gender oppression, because I felt it was not widely understood. I don’t seek to guilt or shame men because of their share in privilege over me as a woman (and it does occur), but I do want the oppression of me to be recognised as such. Just as I recognise the privilege I have as a white woman with a straight job, as a hetero, as an English-speaker etc. This difference is the essence of class oppression because it is this difference that keeps us fighting among ourselves, and not against our common enemy: the middle and ruling classes.

Most happily, I find that my writing about anarcha-feminism has struck a chord with one or 2 readers. That the responses I’ve elicited from others have proved my point: women still have a long way to go to share equality as anarchists.