Hopefully my english is readable since I'm esl, but I really wanted to contribute something to the thread even if it's potentially worded poorly kek. Have any of you nonitas actually tried to start female only micro/pseudo societies? Last year we more or less started discussing the topic in the group I do irl activism with, and at first it seemed like everyone loved the idea, but it started to fall apart very fast. One of the first problems I found is that most women I know don't want any sort of formal structure in our female society. They tend to reject EVERYTHING male-made, to an honestly ridiculous extreme. I personally believe in observing what works in our current system, analyzing why it works, and maybe modifying some things if neccesary to adapt it for us. I think I'm the only one in my group who thinks this way, kek.
Another problem I encountered is that a lot of women have this idea of moving to the middle of nowhere and start living there, and while I understand the appeal of nature and all that, I think it's suicidal to just move far away from everything (specially hospitals) and leave everything behind. I wish it was possible, but just completely cutting ourselves off from the system doesn't seem like the best idea to me. I think we have to find a way to have our own thing while being aware that we are still inserted in a world with an already defined system and way of operating, and we can learn to take advantage of that instead of pulling a Christopher McCandless.
Anyway, here are a couple of ideas I have for a micro-society, that I think could potentially work. Basically what I wish I could convince my group of trying. I have more ideas, but I don't want to make this post even longer.
>Have shared savings. Ofc you can have your own money, but it is highly encouraged to donate (potentially mandatory? kind of like a tax, but ofc the ammount would depend on how much each member earns). These funds are used for covering different necesities (for example, in my activist group we use our shared savings to pay for public transportation or buying things we use for our workshops/open activities). The idea would be to also use the money to eventually buy land/houses. Like I mentioned, my irl group already has something similar going, but I feel like most don't want to donate or just can't because (and this is another problem I see a lot) most have shit jobs and refuse to pursue something better o g
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