52 MEN 52 WEEKS/ 51 EMRE SENAN
A ‘Manly Man’ Gives Up
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Can generalizations be made by pondering some questions even if their answers are approached with skepticism? Sometimes yes; in fact, they should be made. At least I do.
The questions can be listed as follows:
- What does man (erkek in Turkish) mean? Power (erk in Turkish) with an appendix (ek in Turkish)? Is it possible that this gender named itself?
- Is not man the source of almost all true/false information which has been spread about men and women?
- Did not men write the history of civilization, especially that of art, in a manly manner by putting on the glasses that are, again, produced by men?
- Is not Manese or Manish the only language which is more widely spoken than Chinese, English and Spanish?
- Historically speaking, why is power always violent? Is it a structural weakness?
- Is a patriarchal past the fate of a patriarchal future?
- Even if it is, is historical continuity necessary?
- Is there a violence which is non-male?
- Getting rid of man to get rid of violence, how would it be as a start?
You can easily guess the answers I gave to these questions and the generalizations I nonchalantly made.
With my mind at peace, I have come to the following conclusion:
If history had chosen a matriarchal path, we would be living in a totally different world.
But it did not. Well, can it happen henceforth? Maybe.
It depends largely on what the global women's movement will do.
There are things that conscientious men can do as well.
For my part, I cannot resign from being a man but can give up and resign from manhood. (ES/ŞA/APA/VK/SD/IG)