Week 9 video challenge: #alcmuseummemory

Week 9 Video Challenge 

Twitter: #alcmuseummemory

 

This week's video challenge is admittedly a bit grim... The dreaming story of the Seven Sisters is essentially about a group of women desperately trying to escape a rapist. It's not pretty and it's not romantic, but it does shine a light on how long men have been equated with sexual assault, and the even more disgusting fact that this fundamental evil still has not been excised from human society.

Come on, men. We can do better than this. We must do better than this. There is so much about being a man that is friggen awesome, and we can contribute massively to the good in this world if we empower ourselves to be strong and fearless, and overcome our base desires and instincts.

However, there are several monolithic obstacles that stand in the way of educating men and boys towards a better co-existence with the rest of the world. It is these obstacles that perpetuate the same old narrative that men are better than women, and that women (and children, animals, the environment, and "weak" men) have been placed on earth to serve our every whim.

On this topic:

Our fathers, and their fathers, and so on, were WRONG.

Christianity is WRONG.

Islam is WRONG.

Judaism is WRONG.

Trump is WRONG.

...and to be honest, most traditional cultures worldwide are WRONG.

Any social/religious/legal dictum that advocates, accepts, or openly encourages the subjugation and objectification of women (or any person for that matter) is WRONG.

As men, we need to work from a new brief. One that encourages our strengths to shine, and our shortcomings to be quashed. We have proven over the millennia that when we work together we can achieve amazing things to the benefit of all humankind. Let's stop tarnishing our achievements with rape and sexual assault and general fuckwittery.

The bottom line here is that simply being genuine, kind, respectful, and strong but peaceful WILL GET YOU LAID...a lot! Try it out sometime, dudes.

We can, and must, change the narrative here and now.

#alcmuseummemory