At subsequent planning meetings, we agreed to begin our outreach with a series of 10 Sunday afternoon discussion meetings, each centered around one of the 10 key values. As the meetings progressed, our excitement grew. Since that time I have used those discussions as a measuring stick for the various projects of my work, judging them by how they contribute to the integrated whole of the ten key values. A recent computer conference by U.S. Greens has been discouraging for me because it revealed how little one of those key values feminism is shared by many other Greens. Indeed, how poorly it is even understood.
Feminism is more than gender equality.
It is a specific lens one of several essential ones for analyzing patterns of domination within human society and in our relationship to the planet. I first picked up the discussion in a reference to the Nader campaign. The thrust of the comment was that the campaign is introducing the Green movement to many new people, providing an opportunity to place information into many new hands. The objections fell more or less into two camps. The second objection is that the term is hurtful to some men, who interpret it to mean that they themselves are oppressors of women, and personally to blame for the effects of male dominance in the world.