by Chickpea
C.U.N.T., Volume 3, Summer 1996
Why don't we need any dicks? Aren't women and men equally affect-ed by our car-dominated streets and lives’?
Because back in 1963 at the May student uprising in Paris, women who walked around handing out leaflets to other women were followed by a hostile crowd, ‘movement’ men shouting insults at the them: Lesbians," Strip, "What you need is a good fuck ..
Because a Women's group at the University of North Carolina was urinated on by male hecklers at a demonstration.
Because the first woman to lead a major labour organisation was called "fat ass and commie" by her union brothers.
Because so-called progressive men at the anti-inaugural demonstrations against President Nixon in Washington in 1969 went crazy when a woman addressed the crowd, yelling: Take it off! Take her off the stage and fuck her!
Because at a public meeting of the Women’s Liberation Front in the U.K., Mr. Manchandra sweetly referred to by comrades as ‘Man' for short got up and announced himself as a leading member of the W'ornen's Liberation Front.
Because while grassroots groups everywhere in the world are primarily run by women, virtualiy all of the large international and major national environrnental organisations are run, and have always been run, by men.
Because our transportation coalitions think all they really have to do is get it together in the back rooms to make change not create a movement with thousands of people involved.
Because as soon as a transportation project has money, men take more of an interest in it.
Because our auto-free movement fails to acknowledge and crit icize its own attachment to male power and privilege.
Because not one single progressive movement can offer any thing to contradict this experience.
That's why chicks are united for non-noxious transportation.
I'll tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than any one thing in the world. I rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel. It gives her a feeling of self-reliance and independence the moment she takes her seat; and away she goes, the picture of untrammelled womanhood.
- Susan B. Anthony 1896
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