More senseless violence: Paris, Colorado Springs, San Bernardino. I live in Tucson and know victims of “our” mass shooting. I respond to incidents of violence personally and viscerally.
What’s a woman to do?
Plenty.
Women can collectively and actively change everything.
The Women’s Legacy Project is not a political site. But women’s very essence is political in that politics at the highest level is simply one of the ways society organizes itself. I’m not going to discuss stratification and power as if those concepts are real things. They are processes and subject to constant change.
Governance of populations and places happens. Politics is one of the ways in which it happens.
Women may not be well represented in current political systems because those systems were developed and maintained by men. Women and men do things differently. But as humans reorganize ourselves into a single interactive society with global instantaneous communication systems we can expect turbulence as all our various systems mix, blend, and recombine in new ways.
Ultimately this site is intended to present information about women’s information systems, about how we do things over the short and long haul.
The official editorial stand on cultural violence is that violence is equivalent to a tantrum by an out of control child. It would be terribly ignorant to allow a child to harm him or her self or others.
I wonder what might happen if all the women in the world decided to respond to violence and ideologies that employ violence from this maternal perspective?