I’m reading the broken teapot and realizing that my very tentative understanding of anarchy does not have good answers for women’s issues.
First quote:
I did not want an accountability process and all the exposure and tendrils that came with it. I wanted to be left alone. I would not identify myself as a victim because I was not solely ‘a victim’. Is anyone? In their saner moments neither was my ex solely ‘a perp’,
I guess this is probably a basic concept but it sounds like that thinking would make anarchy equally or more permissive of sex crime than the current model of government?
Second point:
There is no space we can create in a world as damaged as the one we live in which is absent from violence. That we even think it is possible says more about our privilege than anything else. Our only autonomy lies in how we negotiate and use power and violence ourselves.
This might not be an anarchist issue, but for others who have arrived at this conclusion already is there a subsequent evolution in thought that follows it?
The lesson here is: there is no anarchists cookbook; we all could learn from each other, but not copy algorithms and protocols. Know-how should be DIY, too.
Once someone refuses to think for themselves and adopts a method developed elsewhere without critical thinking, they are not free anymore. Once people start reusing old protocols instead of treating social stuff personally and on individual basis - they submit their power to a dumb machine that could and would be gamed in no time. This has nothing to do with gender or any particular form of violence.