{"id":7115,"date":"2020-03-06T15:06:36","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T19:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mencare.org\/?p=7115"},"modified":"2020-03-06T15:06:36","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T19:06:36","slug":"freeing-our-imaginations-can-men-help-take-down-patriarchy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mencare.org\/es\/freeing-our-imaginations-can-men-help-take-down-patriarchy\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberar nuestra imaginaci\u00f3n: \u00bfpueden los hombres ayudar a acabar con el patriarcado?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the continuing rise of right wing populism and authoritarian strongmen in positions of power in many countries, patriarchy seems more entrenched than ever. Nikki van der Gaag argues that it is more important than ever to engage men in the struggle for gender equality.<\/span><\/i><\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7117\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7117\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"fullwidth wp-image-7117 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mencare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/dragon-pan-_7l2FS4FicM-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mencare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/dragon-pan-_7l2FS4FicM-unsplash.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.mencare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/dragon-pan-_7l2FS4FicM-unsplash-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mencare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/dragon-pan-_7l2FS4FicM-unsplash-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mencare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/dragon-pan-_7l2FS4FicM-unsplash-1024x538.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7117\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Dragon Pan on Unsplash<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The most recent conference of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mencare.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MenCare<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a global campaign on engaged fatherhood, brought attendees in person and online from all over the world. There was a powerful session on \u2018Patriarchy, power and privilege\u2019, that inspired me to write this blog.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My feminist friends often ask me why I am doing this work: isn\u2019t men against patriarchy a contradiction in terms? Why would men take part in breaking down a system designed for them to win? And what might it look like if they did?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In ancient Greek, patriarchy meant \u2018rule of the father.\u2019 The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/patriarchy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cambridge dictionary<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> defines it<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">as:<\/span><b> \u2018<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/form\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">form<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">social<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/organization\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">organization<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in which <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/father\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">fathers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or other <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/male\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">males<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/control\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">control<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/family\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">family<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/clan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">clan<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/tribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tribe<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, or <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/large\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">larger<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">social<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/unit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">unit<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, or a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/society\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">society<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/organized\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">organized<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in this way\u2019; and \u2018the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/control\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">control<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by men, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/rather\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">rather<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> than women or both men and women, of most of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/power\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">power<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/authority\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">authority<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/society\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">society<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The concept of patriarchy allows us as feminists not only to name a system of oppression, but to link the Weinstein affair, the election of Trump, the plight of women garment workers in Asia, and the thousands of rapes of women in India, South Africa and in our own countries.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Men are those who are shoring up these troubling trends. But they can also be part of bringing them down.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For this to happen, an analysis of patriarchy needs to be rooted firmly in an understanding of men\u2019s power and privilege over women as well as what my colleague Michael Kaufman called men\u2019s own <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">contradictory experiences of power; <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the fact that though most men have more power than most women, some men have much more power than others.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While Australian masculinities and gender expert <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raewynconnell.net\/p\/masculinities_20.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Raewyn Connell<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> rightly notes that: \u2018anyone interested in power structures [can] see that the feminist challenge to patriarchy must mean changes in the lives of men\u201d, this is not\u00a0 just about individual men\u2019s attitudes and behaviors. It is about structures and institutions, governments and workplaces, civil society, communities and families; systems and practices that keep patriarchy in place. It is what feminist philosopher Kate Manne<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">calls\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/identities\/2017\/12\/5\/16705284\/metoo-weinstein-misogyny-trump-sexism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">historical patriarchy<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: \u201csocial systems or environments where<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">women face hostility and hatred because they\u2019re women in a man&#8217;s world.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7120\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7120\" style=\"width: 512px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7120 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mencare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/kc.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mencare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/kc.png 512w, https:\/\/www.mencare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/kc-300x162.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7120\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;The Urgency of Intersectionality&#8221; &#8211; Kimberl\u00e9 Crenshaw<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Women as well as men play into patriarchal norms, hardly surprising when it has become so entrenched over thousands of years. And in the same way, patriarchy is interwoven with what Kimberl\u00e9 Crenshaw named \u2018<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/kimberle_crenshaw_the_urgency_of_intersectionality?language=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">intersectionality<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019 \u2013 the interplay of race, gender class, geography, age, sexuality, ability and many others in a complex play of power and privilege.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Work with men for gender equality is contested in some feminist circles as taking attention and resources away from the vital work on women\u2019s rights. Others, like Indian feminist, scholar and activist <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/iwda.org.au\/srilatha-batliwala-what-makes-me-hopeful\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Srilatha Batliwala<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> believes that the number of groups and organizations all over the world who are working with men for gender equality is evidence: \u2018of the impact the women\u2019s movement has had in mobilizing men to recognize patriarchy and to recognize their power and privilege. We have men who are actually embracing the idea that dismantling patriarchy will also liberate them \u2013 they understand that masculinity is also a very oppressive construct.\u2019\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018Not to buy into patriarchy means renouncing some historical privileges, but they are privileges which don\u2019t give you peace, don\u2019t give you happiness. What gives people happiness is being connected. If we continue with this gender asymmetry we are all in trouble.\u2019 says Oswaldo Montoya Telleria, from the MenEngage Alliance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Patriarchy, and all that it entails, has particularly negative effects on women. But it also reduces men&#8217;s life expectancy, and cuts them off from recognizing the connections to themselves and others that enable them to be caring and empathetic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Connection has never been more important, as we face a rise in far right populism and religious fundamentalisms, which are explicitly patriarchal, anti-women and, in particular, anti-feminist, and are <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opendemocracy.net\/en\/5050\/revealed-trump-linked-us-christian-fundamentalists-pour-millions-of-dark-money-into-europe-boosting-the-far-right\/.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">often funded by the religious right<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2018\/aug\/17\/why-is-the-far-right-dominated-by-men\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cas Mudde<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a Dutch political scientist who focuses on political extremism and populism in Europe and the United States, notes: \u2018it is clear that gender, and specifically masculinity\u2026plays a role in terms of the propaganda and appeal of radical right parties and politicians.\u2019\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This means that to defeat this phenomenon, we need to look to new definitions of more caring masculinities, which include men sharing the unpaid care and domestic work in the home that is currently still the dominant preserve of women <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.unwomen.org\/-\/media\/hlp%20wee\/attachments\/other-materials\/case-studies\/un-women\/unpaid%20work%20and%20care-%20a%20policy%20brief.pdf?la=en&amp;vs=1611\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in every country in the world.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Challenging this pattern strikes at the heart of patriarchal systems where care is not valued, men have power over women and women only have power in the home.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Those who believe in gender equality need to unite to challenge these stereotypes, in the home as well as outside it, resist patriarchy, bringing together feminist movements with men and gender equality networks, Black Lives Matter with anti-poverty movements, LGBT and trans movements with climate justice movements, to name but a few.\u00a0 It also means majority groups, or those with power, being prepared to give it up to align with other movements.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7119\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7119\" style=\"width: 1198px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"fullwidth wp-image-7119 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mencare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/hello-i-m-nik-QXv1T5c359o-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1198\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mencare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/hello-i-m-nik-QXv1T5c359o-unsplash.jpg 1198w, https:\/\/www.mencare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/hello-i-m-nik-QXv1T5c359o-unsplash-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mencare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/hello-i-m-nik-QXv1T5c359o-unsplash-768x404.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mencare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/hello-i-m-nik-QXv1T5c359o-unsplash-1024x538.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1198px) 100vw, 1198px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7119\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Hello I&#8217;m Nik on Unsplash<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But they need to do this with care. When men step into the gender equality conversation in the wrong way, or ignore the unintended consequences, they end up reinforcing existing patriarchal power structures and undermining the work of women\u2019s organizations over decades.\u00a0 This is about men supporting women, not mansplaining. This is why networks and alliances of men for gender equality such as <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mencare.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MenCare<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and the global <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/menengage.org\/about-us\/our-core-principles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MenEngage Alliance<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">have gender equality and the wellbeing of women, as well as men, as core principles.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Naomi Klein, the Canadian activist and writer, said that, \u201cRevolution lies between the interplay of imagination <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2018\/03\/09\/naomi-klein-how-myriad-crises-can-catalyze-kind-revolutionary-leap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and organization<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u201d To name and understand patriarchy, and to sow the seeds of its destruction, we need both imagination and organization. Let\u2019s learn from the history of patriarchy while looking to a future where it no longer exists. Let\u2019s free our imaginations, question power and privilege, redefine what it means to be a man, and now more than ever, to continue to organize together to build a world beyond patriarchy, a world that is fairer, more gender just, and more sustainable. And let\u2019s acknowledge that men against patriarchy is not a contradiction in terms.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nikki van der Gaag is an independent consultant, author of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Feminism and Men<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, lead author of the 2019 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">State of the World\u2019s Fathers<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> report, and a Senior Fellow at Equimundo US.<\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Con el continuo ascenso del populismo de derecha y de hombres fuertes autoritarios en posiciones de poder en muchos pa\u00edses, el patriarcado parece m\u00e1s arraigado que nunca. <\/p>","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":7121,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[653],"tags":[838,586,508,837],"class_list":["post-7115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fatherhood-and-caregiving","tag-intersectionality","tag-mencare-global-meeting","tag-nikki-van-der-gaag","tag-patriarchy","countries-global"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Freeing our imaginations: can men help take down patriarchy? 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