#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #FRANCE #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) #France, #UCL #Lyon: The #FRAP* - Total solidarity with those taken to task during the demonstration on November 27 (ca, de, it, fr, pt)[machine translation]

 The *FRAP - UCL (anti-patriarchal commission of the group) signatory of this

text. ---- Small return on the demonstration of 27/11 against sexist and sexual
violence: NO we do not need men or antifa virilos to defend us. ---- Yes, the
extreme right in Lyon is a danger. ---- Yes, the extreme right in Lyon regularly
attacks our demonstrations, and anti-fascist, feminist and / or LGBTQI activists.
Yes, at each event we think about the best way to ensure our protection, in the
most collective way possible. ---- Yes, most of the organizations that are
members of the Collectif Droits des Femmes 69 are aware of this threat and are
committed to the fight against the extreme right.
What happened on Saturday November 27 is serious.
About twenty guys (and a few women) who did not belong to the various structures
of the Women's Rights Collective 69 organizing the march proclaimed themselves to
be a parallel security service. They marched either on the sides in front of the
demo or on the sides of the demo, adopting an attitude in order, they said, to
ensure safety, "our" safety. They also spoke of our inability to defend ourselves
in the event of an attack from the far right.
Despite our attempts to discuss with them and make them understand that their
virilist attitude was inappropriate and contravened the wishes of the
demonstrators, the organizers and the unitary service, the discussions with them
turned in circles and intimidation or comments inadmissible were heard such as:
"we hope that the fascists will attack, they will be less clever after".
This attitude is detestable and scandalous in several ways:
First, because it crushes the collective organization between different
structures and calls it into question. These individuals have thus refused to
recognize our own security service, despising the collective work that we are
carrying out within the CDF.
Then, and above all, because it perpetuates a macho and virilist attitude that we
fight and which was the object of this demonstration since sexism is the root of
the violence that we suffer.
In a feminist march, against sexist and sexual violence, a group overwhelmingly
made up of men arrogates to themselves the right to pose as "protectors" and
"experts" in the fight against the extreme right.
These individuals have refused to recognize that feminists have the capacity to
manage their own security on their own. So this is the anti-fascist struggle in
Lyon? Fingers of honor (which we will recall in passing the misogynistic and
homophobic character)? Individuals who do not recognize the collective
organization of this demonstration, who despise activists, who frighten some of
the demonstrators? Threatening individuals towards a unitary SO made up largely
of chicks and queer people?
We choose to organize SOs who do not have an authoritarian and virilist attitude,
who are mixed to protect us and protect the demonstrators It is abnormal that
activists, because they are part of an SO, be insulted and intimidated during
demonstrations.
We do not believe that the fight against the fascists passes through physical
force, machismo and aggressiveness towards feminists.
We believe that as feminists we can defend and organize ourselves without the
protection of men.
We denounce all virilist and sexist attitudes wherever they come from. We
consider to have been denigrated and denied in our autonomy and in what we defend.
We also denounce the systematic use of sexist and homophobic insults in our
processions. It is unbearable for us to hear insults such as "bitches", "big
bitch", "motherfuckers" or "fuck your mother" in our demonstrations. Why always
feminize insults against fascists or the police?
How should mothers, always mothers and never fathers, be made responsible? Why
use terms referring to a female sexuality that escapes male control such as
insults, whether it is a sexuality deemed unbridled ("slut")? Why consider the
practice of sodomy as worthy of insult? These insults participate in and maintain
the culture of rape and homophobia. The use of such sexist and homophobic slurs,
despite our attempts to discuss the subject, tramples our feminist and LGBTI
struggles.
By their attitude, they have deliberately created a feeling of insecurity and
threat within a feminist demonstration against violence which must precisely be a
place where we must be able to feel free to express ourselves, to claim, to be
surrounded. supportive comrades and not "comrades" who use a chauvinist attitude
and verbal violence to intimidate us.
This cannot go on any longer, these actions were not acceptable on November 27,
2021, nor will they be in the future. We demand that these virilist behaviors
cease in demonstrations and gatherings as well as in all militant events
organized in Lyon, whether they are feminist or not. We call on all associative,
political and trade union organizations to no longer tolerate this intimidation
and violence in demonstration on the part of so-called "comrades".
Even if we are angry, these facts will not succeed in denting our pride in having
been able to demonstrate against gender-based and sexual violence and to have
been able, once again, to affirm our will to end this violent patriarchal system
and unequal. We are proud to have opposed our demands and our collective strength
to the violence to which we are subjected.
It is therefore the very positive side of this event that we will remember: the
organization of a very beautiful event with very many and many participants,
great energy, determined and protesting processions!
We are proud, strong, feminist and angry! The struggle continues!

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