Postcockism

What is the difference between being pro-male and pro-men’s rights?   Where is the line between “love of the cock” (in Janet Halley’s phrase) and making cocks the standard against which all are measured?   If we take a post-modern, ironic stance a  la Kathleen Hanna and Bikini Kill  in which critical perspectives and and identities are always fluid, then the differences are tremendous.   One can adopt one position/viewpoint without adopting the other.

But life is lived not only (if ever?) in its interstitial, wink-wink, all-knowing, fluid, postmodern mode.   Most of the time, life means getting up, going to work, making dinner, packing lunches, being a mother, wife, sister, girlfriend, lover, friend, teacher, confidante, student, whatever.   In that life, sometimes there is a fine line between being pro-male and pro-men’s rights.   Sometimes love of the cock leaves women vulnerable to the way men choose to use that cock.   Sometimes post-modernism only exists on paper.

Or maybe not, depending on your perspective.

-Bridget Crawford