Mittwoch, März 25, 2015

Debatte: Diskriminieren "Jazz hands" statt traumatisierendem Applaus schwule Schwarze?

Die Forderung, auf einer Frauenkonferenz statt zu klatschen lieber Handsignale zu geben, um Feministinnen, also Opfer, nicht zu re-traumatisieren, hat heute eine kontroverse Debatte ausgelöst. So äußerten vereinzelt Kritiker Bedenken, auch geöffnete oder geschlossene Hände könnten Überlebenden des Patriarchats bedrohlich erscheinen, weshalb es womöglich sinnvoller wäre, seinem Beifall durch wirklich schnelles Blinzeln Ausdruck zu verleihen. Tiefschürfender hat sich der Oxford-Student Sam Slater im Magazin "Spiked" mit der Problematik auseinandergesetzt, wobei auch der Besuch einer "feministischen Disco" nach der Konferenz eine Rolle spielt. Ein Auszug:

Embarrassed students had had enough, and struck back. The jazz-handing request was ridiculed and torn apart. How will blind students know when a motion is gaining approval? How will students without hands join in with the NUS sanctioned Newspeak applause? How exclusionary!

And what makes these jazz hands so ‘feminist’? Are feminist jazz hands replacing once-feminist applause? It’s certainly something to think about before the feminist disco, which is presumably right after feminist dinner, and the feminist cigarette, before delegates go home to their feminist beds, ready to get up the next morning for the feminist train journey home?

While Twitter giggled, Oxford’s student radical feminists descended deeper into the realms of self-parody. On one notable feminist Facebook group, a discussion began on whether the use of feminist jazz hands meant the NUS delegates were engaging in some sort of abhorrent ‘cultural appropriation’. In their attempt to create a space safe from oppressive clapping, it appeared to some that the conference may have just also offended ‘gay black men’, as jazz hands were ‘used as a signal among New Orleans LGBT community as a way of identifying themselves to one another’.


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