On a day like today, March 8, two years ago, the streets of the main cities of the territory dominated by the Chilean State were filled with thousands of people who with colors, shouts, slogans, fire and barricades visibilized and/or attacked the macho scourge. Today, only a few bodies fill the streets. Many prefer to wait for the changes promised by the new government from the comfort of their homes, changes that promise to end heteropatriarchal machismo among the inhabitants of this territory.
Anticipation for the new public policies and reforms in “gender issues” has raised hopes among a portion of feminist groups and individuals, sexual dissidents and in practically all the flag-sucking social democratic sectors.
The hopes and expectations unfortunately remained just that, because the heteropatriarchy will not end with any legal reform or social welfare.
Unfortunately, heteropatriarchy is part of the economic, social and cultural system that dominates us. It is everywhere! We find it in the way we see ourselves and others. In the way we relate to each other, in the way we are subjugated, etc. There is no being that is not affected by patriarchy, but without a doubt the macho attacks are not the same for men as for women or transgender people, queers, gays, lesbians, without victimizing these last 5 are the most affected.
Today power is fashionably dressed, puts on the outfits of feminism and sexual dissidence, and why wouldn’t it? If everyone has a place in the democratic party, everyone can be represented in its institutions, everyone can have the same constitutional rights.
The powerful can take on these or other garb in order to perpetuate themselves in power, just as they can raise various initiatives to improve the living conditions of women and sexual dissidents, but the exercise of power and therefore state domination will not end.
Changes in the way in which the powerful “humanize” subjugation, or create a softer repressive apparatus, or proclaim more inclusive laws for different collectives, should not be part of the struggles of those who really want the radical destruction of all forms of oppression. For something to change radically, we all have to act without delegates, without intermediaries, without waiting.
Today those who do not wait for others to break their chains, those who here and now want to destroy patriarchy, are taking to the streets.
Direct action against the macho!
Let all institutions burn to the ground!
ANARCHIST PRISONER
via:https://anarquia.info/chile-la-lucha-contra-el-estado-es-parte-de-la-lucha-contra-el-patriarcado/ Translated by Act for freedom now!