>>8536>I can quite imagine that even without the State and capitalism, some people will still discriminate or hurt others based on race/sex etc…This is what I feel that anarcho-feminists try to address, and I think that this indeed can be a hypothetical problem as well.
When one has subtracted the state and capitalism, we are still left with the social and inter-personal sphere wherein males and females have a genetic difference of 1.5%. (Female-female and male-male genetic difference across ethnicities are only at a 0.01% genetic variation, by comparison). The male hormonal make-up was developed for protecting the children and life-giver, the female from environmental extinction. This has granted males (of many species, not at all exclusive to humans) a predisposition to aggressiveness, ideally in relation to protection, in comparison to women.
>To clarify: Culture shapes the societal expression of male testosterone. Back in the day it was needed for tribal survival in an environment where every single creek could house a potentially lethal predator, whether it be venomous spiders and snakes or big cats and hyenas. The males need to present an equal or greater amount of force against the aggressors for the survival of the tribe. In today's society, stripped of such dangers; capitalism, religions and corporations pander to graphic violence, subservience and competition. Christian doctrines, for example, which have had a great decrease in the past hundreds of years in general western culture, is still remarkably remnant in even the most 'irreligious' of western nations. It resides in the collective unconscious through ethics, culture, holidays, morals and individual upbringing.
If one takes an empirical approach to societal history, leading up to the present society, one finds that male-to-female aggression has had a pretty messy track record. To avoid the discussion of liberal and legal inequalities I will head straight into the area of the social sphere, where an anarchist society would reside.
I will not make the assumption of a commune entirely made up of clinically clean anarchists who have had 0 real-life exposure to religious dogma or morality, as that would not only seem highly unrealistic, but also would be a rather useless and unproductive subject of discussion. Instead, in this scenario we have a stateless anarchist commune who is left tackling the highly complex societal environment of pure philosophical reasoning of the individuals constituting it.
In what starts as a peaceful commune of free individuals - some folk who still remembering/idealizing the pre-revolutionary culture and a religious minority, who had freely constructed a holy place of worship early-on in the establishment of the open commune are starting to make more and more repressive requests. In this case, they have started to argue in favor of the selective veilance of the female body - even during summer-time. Some find it hard to argue any further than "it just not being right", while others citing theological doctrine for their reasoning. (Religious belief resides in the sphere of free- thought and -expression). Well at first one could simply oppose their will by being of majority anarchist presence in the commune. So wouldn't it then be in the rational self-interest for the people of faith to invite more people that share their belief in attempt to gain a larger presence? (To hinder the influx of free peoples would be to oppose the freedom of movement in a stateless region). Now they have majority presence to democratically enforce their repressive theological ethics on the free women of the commune and the freedom in the commune is now in free-fall.
How would an anarchist society avoid a subtle, but highly likely threat like this, without becoming overtly authoritarian?
The demonization of femininity is alive and well within our present, scientific and supposedly modern society.
To avoid it in a stateless society - one needs to understand how.
I have never witnessed a discussion on a *chan board come close to addressing this issue.
Let's try it out.