by Chickpea
C.U.N.T., Volume 3, Summer 1996
Why don't we need any dicks? Aren't women and men equally affect-edby our car-dominated streets and lives’?
Because back in 1963 at the May student uprising in Paris, women whowalked around handing out leaflets to other women were followed by a hostilecrowd, ‘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 urinatedon 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 demonstrationsagainst President Nixon in Washington in 1969 went crazy when a woman addressedthe 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 upand announced himself as a leading member of the W'ornen's Liberation Front.
Because while grassroots groups everywhere in the world are primarilyrun by women, virtualiy all of the large international and major nationalenvironrnental organisations are run, and have always been run, by men.
Because our transportation coalitions think all they really have todo is get it together in the back rooms to make change not create a movementwith thousands of people involved.
Because as soon as a transportation project has money, men take moreof an interest in it.
Because our auto-free movement fails to acknowledge and crit icize itsown attachment to male power and privilege.
Because not one single progressive movement can offer any thing to contradictthis 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 toemancipate women than any one thing in the world. I rejoice every timeI see a woman ride by on a wheel. It gives her a feeling of self-relianceand independence the moment she takes her seat; and away she goes, thepicture of untrammelled womanhood.
- Susan B. Anthony 1896
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