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to take an example closer to home, the woman who “picks up the gun” to protect herself or her children against rape or other violence.
The answer is not submission to a patriarchal god, as Mr. Holley tells; it is struggle.
This struggle takes many forms. It is all those working for peace, human rights and the protection of the environment. It is the brave lesbian mother raising her child, the workers and residents at battered-women shelters; it is the woman who runs for office on feminist credentials, who plays rugby or bluegrass music or worls as a carpenter, who shoots the man who would rape her, or divorces her creepy husband or who puts an ERA sticker on her car.
And it is the man who supports these women in what they try to do. He may be straight or gay, and he is not afraid to say so if he is the latter. He cries when he is miserably unhappy. He prefers Gerry Fararro to Jerry Falwell, not to mention Ronald Reagan, and subscribes to Ms. instead of Playboy. We male witches, or faeries, as we sometimes call ourselves, are constantly working through this. Those of us who are white and Southern have the additional burden of rejecting racism as well as male privilege.
No, we do not expect the patriarchy to turn around and become benevolent, stop raping and battering Mother Earth, stop casting dissenters and skeptics into firy pits forever.
Therefore, we must strive to end the patriarchy. Each of us can choose how we do this. The important thing is to do it.
Like poet-revolutionary Joe Hille wrote, “pie in the sky” simply won’t do. Our Mother has plenty of goodies right here. All we have to do is restore Her to Her rightful place, choose love and justice over greed and hate.
We have to do it; no one can do it for us.
Pat Bruce
Charlottesville
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