Sydney Ladies Artists Club

A social and support organisation for invited female artists based in Sydney.

Friday, January 13, 2006

SLAC Q&A (I): Why a ‘Ladies’ Club?

This is probably a contentious area to speak about, and one that’s certainly open to debate, but – sometimes it’s just easier to keep the sexes apart, isn’t it? Segregation of men and women used to happen all the time in past eras (and still does in certain cultures) – ladies retiring to the drawing room leaving men to smoke their after-dinner cigars and drink whiskey; ‘Ladies Only’ sections in pubs. As post-feminists, we haven’t experienced this sense of formalised segregation in day to day life, so perhaps it’s time to experiment with it?

It can seem as though men and women are very different creatures at times – who hasn’t looked at their partner/friend/associate of the opposite sex and wondered just what it is that goes on in their head when they make the bed that way/say those kinds of things/behave like that in public?

Men should be more like women, and women should be more like men - but sometimes it’s just so much easier to stick with our own kind, so we can relax, be ourselves, understand each other, feel that we’re coming from the same place, even for just a short while.

(All that being said, the Ladies Club is open to the involvement of men in various events and contexts, this being at the discretion of the organiser of a SLAC event).

3 Comments:

Blogger E Pulie said...

I don't like being made to feel like I have to go to work, either. But there must be schools of feminist thought that don't emphasise the need for women to behave like men in their day-to-day activities? I haven't done any feminist studies at all, so I wouldn't know, but - maybe there's a branch of feminism that values a woman's decision to stay home and do non-commercial activities?

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Blogger E Pulie said...

write it all again, AP.

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Blogger la said...

After attending Slide Night 2, I agreewith you Liz - sometimes it's easier to keep the sexes apart. Sometimes it's just easier to keep the sexes apart. I would like to suggest we stick with our kind just for these events. After all it is a Ladies Club. I much rather prefer comments, such as at the Slide Night, from the Ladies. I think the discussion can really then grow. I see this as a meeting with some people rather than a public showing.I love Regina's rules: 4 slides only and n the other hand, found all the images presented that night fascinating...mini icebergs for exploration. More! and with the audience we have chosen , so we can fart and complain as much as we want ( metaphorically)

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