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		<title>I&#8217;M NOT &#8220;OTHER&#8221;&#8230; &#8211; BEN ÖTEKİ DEĞİLİM&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 08:51:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Posted in <a href="http://www.meltemarikan.com/category/uncategorized/" title="Uncategorized">Uncategorized</a></p>There is no difference between the bodies of women and men living in developing countries and the bodies of women and men living in&#8230;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is no difference between the bodies of women and men living in developing countries and the bodies of women and men living in so-called developed countries. As a result ,basic problems are approximately the same.</p>
<p>If men and women living in developed countries really existed in the sense I mean, then the world in which we live would be different.  Living in the so-called developed countries, people who persistently don’t want to understand the difference between assuming something and realizing it, should purify their prejudices, especially about sexuality.</p>
<p>If the women of developed countries existed, in the way I see it, today women politicians in those countries would not be more manly than men.</p>
<p>If the women of developed countries existed, in the way I see it, then the sales of anti-depressant medicines, alcohol and drugs would be reduced.</p>
<p>If the women of developed countries laid claim to their bodies, then bulimia and obesity problems would not be on the top of their agenda.</p>
<p>If the women of developed countries laid claim to their bodies, then the violence used against women would not be one of their most important problems, as in our country.</p>
<p>If the women of developed countries laid claim to their bodies, then they would not use their bodies like paper tissues. To cover one’s body under veils in the name of freedom and to consume a body in the name of freedom are basically the same. All over the world, it is not possible for men to be men without women being women. For this reason the same problems and pains are continuously being experienced.</p>
<p>Societies in developed countries regard us as “others” with excuses like cultural differences. Those who come from Turkey or similar countries and are accepted in the Western societies are the ones who accept themselves as “others” also.  I neither accept that I am “other” nor say what Western people want to hear from me.</p>
<p><span style="color: #888888;">Gelişmiş diye adlandırılan ülkelerdeki kadın ve erkek bedenleri ile gelişmekte olan ülkelerdeki kadın ve erkek bedenleri arasında hiçbir fark yoktur. Ve zaten temelde yaşanan sorunlar da üç aşağı beş yukarı aynıdır.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #888888;">Eğer gelişmiş ülkelerdeki kadınlar ve erkekler gerçekten varolabilselerdi şu anda yaşadığımız dünya zaten bu durumda olmazdı. Bir şeyi sanmakla gerçekleştirmek arasındaki farkı ısrarla anlamak istemeyen gelişmiş diye adlandırılan ülkelerde yaşayanlar önce bazı durumlardaki, özellikle cinsellikle ilgili önyargılarından arınmalıdırlar.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #888888;">Gelişmiş ülkelerdeki kadınlar – benim tabirimle- varolabilselerdi eğer, bugün o ülkelerdeki kadın siyasetçiler erkeklerden daha erkeksi olmazdı.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #888888;">Gelişmiş ülkelerdeki kadınlar – benim tabirimle- varolabilselerdi eğer, bugün o ülkelerdeki depresyon ilaçları, alkol ve uyuşturucu satış oranları bu kadar yüksek olmazdı.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #888888;">Gelişmiş ülkelerde kadınlar bedenlerine sahip olsalardı eğer bulimia veya obesite sorunları gündemin baş sırasında yer almazdı.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #888888;">Gelişmiş ülkelerde kadınlar bedenlerine sahip olsalardı, kadına uygulanan şiddet bugün tıpkı bizdeki gibi onların da ilk sorunlardan biri olmazdı.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #888888;">Gelişmiş ülkelerdeki kadınlar bedenlerine sahip olsalardı, cinsel özgürlük adı altında bedenlerini kağıt mendil gibi kullanmazlardı. Özgürlük adına bedenini örtülerin altına sokmakla yine özgürlük adına bir bedeni tüketmek arasında temelde hiçbir fark yoktur. Ve kadınlar kadın olmadığı sürece dünyanın hiçbir yerinde erkeklerin erkek olabilmesi mümkün değildir. Bu nedenle de hep aynı sorunlar, hep aynı acılar yaşanmaya devam etmektedir.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #888888;">Gelişmiş ülkelerin toplumları kültürel farklılıkları bahane ederek bizlere öteki olarak bakmaktadır. Türkiye veya benzeri ulkeleden gelişmiş ülkerde kabul görenlerse bulundukları toplumların öteki olduğunu kabul edenlerdir. Ben öteki olmayı da, Batının benden duymak istediklerini de söylemeyi kabul etmiyorum.</span></p>
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		<title>I&#8217;M NOT TO BLAME&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 08:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>EVERY WOMAN&#8217;S SONG &#8211; ANGELA AKİ</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 06:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>YOU MUST KNOW!..</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2012 21:29:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meltem Arikan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Posted in <a href="http://www.meltemarikan.com/tumblog/articles/">Articles</a></p>Freedom is problematic  all around the world; east, west, south, north; because we are all united and we are all entering to the digital&#8230;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Freedom is problematic  all around the world; east, west, south, north; because we are all united and we are all entering to the digital world. People in the West are living under the same specifications and institutions belonging to analogue world as people in the East. The only difference is that West says yes to the transition to digital world in technological perspective, but says no to its sociological and psychological systems. Today all around the world, those who struggle for freedom, support each other and the pioneers of this movement, all the occupations on streets by 99%, Wikileaks, Anonymous and Anonymiss are trying to provide the transition to the digital world. You must know that nothing can change, if you do not take any responsibility and just keep watching  your television…</p>
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		<title>ARE YOU FREE?..</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2012 21:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>FREEDOM OF CHOICE</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2012 21:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>BE A ‘WOMAN’. NEVER BE AS IF A WOMAN… &#8211; KADIN OL. ASLA KADINMIŞ GİBİ YAPMA&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:12:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Posted in <a href="http://www.meltemarikan.com/category/uncategorized/" title="Uncategorized">Uncategorized</a></p>“I’d have loved to start with my dear daddy but my hand’s unwilling to write this now. I don’t know if there’ll come a&#8230;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>“I’d have loved to start with <em>my dear daddy </em> but my hand’s unwilling to write this now. I don’t know if there’ll come a day when I’ll say <em>my dear daddy</em>. Actually, I don’t even know if I want that day to come. One day, to become a father and a daughter…</p>
<p>Dad, why didn’t you ever tell me life how hard life is?</p>
<p>You didn’t say “<em>you should protect yourself even from me, my daughter”</em>.</p>
<p>Now I know I cannot ask you “<em>why me” </em>but still the question is there.</p>
<p>Didn’t you ever think of me? Didn’t you ever feel sorry for leaving me without a father?</p>
<p>Tell me dad, how did you love me? I would have loved to call you daddy, but it is so hard now.</p>
<p>Dad, why didn’t you tell me “<em>you could be happy simply by being yourself?”</em></p>
<p>You put me under a bell jar full of needles. You stopped me from understanding what was good and what was evil. You never said “<em>know what is true so you can climb the stairs safely.,”</em></p>
<p>And what about you, my darling? Instead of loving me more as I became myself, why were you so scared of me? Why did you decide that our relationship should not continue?</p>
<p>Maybe you never felt as romantic as you claimed. There’s still no reason for it to be over. “<em>We consumed it.” </em>Well, what was it we consumed? The years spent with a <em>me </em>that wasn’t me? My love, don’t think of me as that <em>not-me</em> anymore. Talk to me. I can carry your fears as well.</p>
<p>What is your trauma, I wonder, my darling? Why do you prefer to love me, not as a woman, but as a little girl?<br />
I am leaving you all too soon and I am feeling good for the first time. Am I deceiving myself? Could I really start to smile at everything now? Could I have grown up this much? Why will I devote myself to my job now and what will it prove? Nothing? Or that I am free?</p>
<p>Be sure of the way and start to walk, little girl. Calm and tender. Be a ‘woman’. <em>Never be as if a woman… </em></p>
<p>Let your eyes smile. Define love within your own reality. Do everything for yourself. Live for yourself. Touch for yourself. Take pleasure for yourself. For yourself. Yourself…”</p>
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<p><span style="color: #808080;">“Ba­ba­cı­ğım, di­ye baş­la­ma­yı çok is­ter­dim, ama elim git­mi­yor şu an­da. Ba­ba­cı­ğım di­ye­ce­ğim bir gün ge­le­cek mi bil­mi­yo­rum, as­lın­da gel­me­si­ni is­ti­yor mu­yum onu bi­le bi­le­mi­yo­rum. Bir gün ba­ba-kız ol­mak&#8230;</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #808080;">Ba­ba, ne­den ba­na ya­şa­mın bu ka­dar zor ol­du­ğu­nu hiç söy­le­me­din?</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #808080;">“Ken­di­ni ben­den bi­le ko­ru­ma­sı­nı bil kı­zım,” de­me­din.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #808080;">“Ne­den ben,” di­ye so­ra­ma­ya­ca­ğı­nı ar­tık bi­li­yo­rum, ama yi­ne de sor­ma­dan ede­mi­yo­rum.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #808080;">Hiç mi be­ni dü­şün­me­din? Be­ni ba­ba­sız bı­ra­kır­ken, hiç mi üzül­me­din? An­lat­sa­na ba­ba, sen be­ni na­sıl sev­din? Sa­na ba­ba­cı­ğım de­me­yi çok is­ter­dim, ama öy­le­si­ne zor ki ar­tık.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #808080;">Ba­ba ne­den ba­na “Sen, sen ola­bil­di­ğin sü­re­ce mut­lu ola­bi­lir­sin,” de­me­din? Be­ni bir fa­nu­sa koy­dun, içi iğ­ne­ler­le do­luy­du. İyi­le­ri-kö­tü­le­ri an­la­ma­ma en­gel ol­dun. “Ger­çek­le­ri bil ki, mer­di­ven­le­ri da­ha sağ­lam çı­ka­sın,” de­me­din.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #808080;">Ya sen sev­gi­lim? Ben ken­dim ol­duk­ça be­ni da­ha çok se­ve­ce­ğin yer­de, ne­den kork­tun ki ben­den, be­nim­le iliş­ki­nin yü­rü­me­ye­ce­ği­ne na­sıl ka­rar ver­din?</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #808080;">Bel­ki de, as­lın­da hiç­bir za­man söy­le­di­ğin gi­bi ro­man­tik de­ğil­din. Öy­le­si­ne “Bit­ti,” di­yor­sun. “Tü­ket­tik,” pe­ki ne­yi? Ol­ma­yan ben­le ge­çen yıl­la­rı mı? Sev­gi­lim ar­tık be­ni dü­şün­me ve be­nim­le ko­nuş­ma­ma­ya de­vam et. Ben se­nin kor­ku­la­rı­nı da ta­şı­ya­bi­li­rim.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #808080;">Se­nin trav­man ne aca­ba sev­gi­lim?.. Be­ni, ka­dın ola­rak de­ğil de kü­çük bir kız ola­rak sev­me­yi ni­ye ter­cih edi­yor­sun?</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #808080;">En kı­sa za­man­da siz­le­ri terk edi­yo­rum ve ilk de­fa ken­di­mi iyi his­se­di­yo­rum. Aca­ba ken­di­mi kan­dı­rı­yor mu­yum? Da­ha şim­di­den her şe­ye gü­lüm­se­ye­bi­lir mi­yim? Bu ka­dar bü­yü­müş ola­bi­lir mi­yim? Şim­di ken­di­mi işi­me ver­mem, ne­yi ka­nıt­la­mak için ola­cak pe­ki? Hiç­bir şe­yi ? Öz­gür­leş­mek için mi?</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #808080;">Ha­re­ket ede­bi­le­ce­ğin alan­la­rı be­lir­le­yip, yü­rü­me­ye baş­la kü­çük kız. Sa­kin ve yu­mu­şak. “Ka­dın” ol. As­la ka­dın­mış gi­bi yap­ma&#8230;</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #808080;">Göz­le­ri­nin gü­lüm­se­me­si­ne izin ver. Sev­me­yi ken­di ger­çek­li­ğin için­de ta­rif­le. Her şe­yi ken­din için yap. Ken­din için ya­şa. Ken­din için do­kun. Ken­din için zevk al. Ken­din için. Ken­din&#8230;</span></p>
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		<title>SAD WOMAN&#8230; &#8211; ÜZGÜN KADIN&#8230;</title>
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		<title>FATHER I HATE YOU&#8230;</title>
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		<title>YOUR SWEARWORDS&#8230; KÜFÜRLERİNİZ&#8230;</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Did you ever think that sexual organs might be getting a raw deal, due to wrong conditionings, general misperceptions and pressures? For example the swearwords that you all, women and men, keep hurling about, without giving a single thought or realize what it might cost… Your swearwords that you put your sexual organs carelessly in use…</p>
<p>Primarily, it is inevitable to understand the formation of swearwords, in order to understand the formation of the language of sexuality. If I were to ask my male readers, “Is making love a good action,” the answer  would naturally be “Yes, of course.” Then, how come the words and organs that you use in this good action, could come out of your mouth- without even considering- when you hate someone or when you get furious? You might well say, “Those are not the same,” but you do realize that you use the same words when you’re swearing as well as when you’re in bed, and it is not only the other party, but also you hear these words in both situations. This is quite contradictory, don’t you think?</p>
<p>For thousands of years, the male dominant culture has placed restraints upon women in order to maintain his own rulership. When it wasn’t enough, they’ve penalized women. When it wasn’t enough, they’ve burnt women with accusations of witchcraft, and have stoned them with accusations of immorality. And today, they’ve imposed swearwords to everyday language, which is inevitably connected to sexuality, as means of violence and armament. Sadly, women haven’t only accepted this armament that has been inserted in between their bodies and sexuality, but they’ve also got used to it.</p>
<p>Whilst swearwords designate the hegemony of the men on the street, the intensity of the swearwords designates the degree of the violence of this hegemony. When a man wants to have domination over another man, he uses the another man&#8217;s body of his mother or sister as the material of his swearwords. Whenever a man swears at a woman, he actually defiles her body and sexuality. And when a woman swears at a man, this time she actually alienates herself from her body by imitating the male dominant hegemony. Be sure that how much a man swears shows the degree of his problems of being a man and how much a woman swears shows how much she hates her womanhood.</p>
<p>In order sex to be experienced in a natural way, change within the language is inevitable. For this reason, especially the women must make all the swearwords natural within the woman language, which have been used as armaments. This is a vital step in order to prevent women from being alienated from their sexuality and their bodies.</p>
<p><span style="color: #808080;">Sizce, yanlış şartlanmaların, algılamaların ve baskıların sonucunda cinsel organlar haksızlığa uğruyor olabilir mi? Örneğin kadın-erkek, neye mal olduğunun farkına varmadan, hiç düşünmeden savurduğunuz küfürler… Cinsel organlarınızı pervasızca malzeme ettiğiniz küfürleriniz…</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #808080;">Cinselliğin dilinin oluşumunu anlamak için öncelikle küfrün oluşumunu anlamak kaçınılmazdır. Erkek okurlarıma, “Sevişmek sizler için güzel bir eylem mi?” diye sorsam gelecek yanıt doğal olarak, “Evet, tabii” olacaktır. Peki, o zaman bu güzel eylemde kullanılan organlar ve sözcükler, birinden nefret edildiğinde, öfkelenildiği zaman hiç düşünmeden nasıl ağızlardan çıkabiliyor? “İkisi aynı şey değil ki!” diyebilirsiniz ancak bu sözleri hem cinselliğinizi yaşarken hem de küfür ederken söylediğinizin farkındasınız ve söylerken de yalnızca karşı taraf değil, sizler de duymaktasınız. Peki, sizce bu çelişki yaratmıyor mu?</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #808080;">Erkek egemen kültür binlerce yıldır iktidarını elde tutmak için kadınlara yasaklar koymuştur. Yetmeyince kadınları cezalandırmıştır. Yetmeyince cadı diyerek yakmış, namussuz diye taşlamıştır. Günümüzde ise cinselliğin oluşumundan bağımsız meydana gelemeyen dile, şiddeti ve silahı küfür olarak koymuşlardır. Ne yazık ki kadınlar da bedenleriyle cinsellikleri arasına sokulan bu silahı zorla kabullenir olmuş, hatta kanıksamışlardır.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #808080;">Küfür aslında erkeklerin sokaktaki egemenliğini belirlerken, küfrün şiddeti de egemenliğin şiddetini belirler. Bir erkek başka bir erkek üzerinde egemenlik kurmak istediğinde, onun anasının veya kardeşinin bedenini küfür malzemesi olarak kullanır. Bir erkek, bir kadına küfrettiği zaman aslında o kadının bedenini ve cinselliğini kirletir. Bir kadın bir erkeğe küfrettiği zaman aslında erkek egemenliğine özenerek bedenine yabancılaşır. Bir erkek ne kadar çok küfür ediyorsa bilin ki o kadar çok erkeklik sorunu vardır, bir kadın ne kadar çok küfür ediyorsa bilin ki kadınlığından o kadar çok nefret ediyordur.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #808080;">Cinselliğin doğal olarak yaşanabilmesi için dilin değişimi kaçınılmazdır. Bu nedenle de özellikle kadınlar küfürlerde silah olarak kullanılan sözcükleri kadın dili içinde doğallaştırmak zorundadır. Kadınların cinselliklerine ve bedenlerine yabancılaşmasını engellemek adına bu çok önemli bir adımdır.</span></p>
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