Comments by "Shalanaya" (@Shalanaya) on "Europe 1" channel.

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  5. The irony is that it is erasing the ways through which women can be treated, exploited and attacked as objects, but instead as subjects. The irony is that it is the existence of trans women that is liberating ALL women from patriarchal systems, including the predatory impulse that has been harming them, because it is expanding and diversifying the expression of womanhood, therefore it erases gender binary (domination vs submission power dynamic that has been harming women), it dissolves that dynamic as a result of people's altered psyche about what is a woman and man by entering the reality of biological sex being a wide diverse spectrum with higher end peaks on both sides that differ between each other. Both victims and perpetrators of the patriarchy joined together in their resistance against actual women (trans women) that embody womanhood differently, both driven by the same impulses and fears only directed in the oppositional ways, the need for control and safety within the master vs slave dynamic. It is as tragic as watching women in abusive relationships never leaving but sticking around, because separating is much more scary than staying. This is what we are witnessing on a collective scale. Gynocide and geocide, the fundamental intent of global patriarchy: planned, institutionalized spiritual and bodily destruction of women…calculated to bring about the destruction of women as a political and cultural force…the master model of genocide, paradigm for the systematic destruction of any racial, political, or cultural groups merely reflected by the protection from trans women, which perpetuates a systemic colonization of bodies. The foundational possession/commodification of women has already provided the model for something at the core of environmental degradation—the commodification of land, turning it from something numinous, a manifestation of the world soul, even something divine, into some 'thing', an object to be surveyed and owned. Property (bodies and land) continues to provide the basis of wealth and, of course, excess. This is how the body has been continuously weaponized against the spirit. And this is where it is reflected back to us the way non-binary and trans humans have been treated and eliminated within indigenous cultures by colonizers. We have a moral sense of suicide, homicide, and genocide, but no moral sense of biocide or geocide, the killing of the life systems themselves and even the killing of the Earth itself. Even today, this mythic moment of Goddess murder is replayed in a sculpture in front of the United Nations building in New York City, showing a knight slaying a dragon. The sculpture is titled, ‘Good Defeats Evil’. Within this myth we still can discern two key patriarchal scripts: holy war against a demonized other; and the reduction of others (land, elements, and all things, animate and inanimate, natural, and man-made) to just ‘stuff’, something to acquire, possess, control, and, finally, disrespectfully discard. This mythic moment of destruction of the feminine is not confined to the ancient past, but also is reenacted every day in the processes of (patriarchal) gender development, in a context where men and women are defined as opposites. To attain masculinity, male infants need to separate from the mother and prevent any regression to the former state of unity by maintaining rigid ego boundaries and developing a profound sense of discontinuous, non-relational being. This pattern (which may characterize only a particular patriarchal consciousness) suggests that the ‘dragon’ being slain is all of the ‘feminine’ traits that patriarchal men experience but must deny, disown, and project onto others in order to be and remain ‘men’. As such, the prescribed work of patriarchally identified men’s lives is a perpetual separation from, controlling and even destruction of what is characterized as feminine. This process targets not only women but also what is understood as Nature. In this way, gynocide becomes the master model for not only the ‘systematic destruction of other racial, political, or cultural groups’, but also for the systematic destruction of the environment. In other words, we could see that homogenization through the binary views of life is ultimately bringing the world into a state of dissolution and non-existence, and the environment around us has begun to reflect it back. To avert this destruction of mother nature life must be first and foremost recognized and experienced as a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects. This would be impossible if the culture would remain one that defines women as sexual and reproductive others/objects, a form of collectibles. Those committed to furthering their own and others’ sense of, and resistance to biocide and genocide, must simultaneously commit themselves to a sense of, and resistance to, gynocide. In so doing, participate in an ongoing redefinition of both power and sex, and (re)establishing the erotic value of equality, sustainability, and peace.
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