[Politbeisl] Input & Discussion: Warm Beer Cold Women – An Anti-romantic Manifesto @ekh

Do 12.09.2024 | 20 Uhr

Warm Beer Cold Women – An Anti-romantic Manifesto

Input and Discussion – will be in english, german whisper translation possible if needed

There will be a short input and presentation of the topics and ideas behind the text so you can also join if you did not read the whole text!

On this occasion we will discuss the text Warm Beer Cold Women – Anti-romantic Manifesto by the queer-anarchist group Good Night Macho Pride from Zagreb. The group was founded for the purpose of building accountability in punk circles around the issue of gender based violence. The text was published on the occasion of a punk event celebrating Valentine’s Day and it deals with the connection of the modern ideology of romantic love with violence against woman and queer people.

While workers working in the public sphere are disciplined by bosses, the police, unions and various institutions, workers in the private sphere are firstly disciplined by the husband / partner, and only secondly by the state. The reality of romantic relationships is the expectation of a certain kind of labor, the labor of care – emotional, sexual and housework. If people coded as feminine fail at this tasks, they can expect all kinds of emotional manipulations, threats and ultimately violence.  The ideology of romantic love serves to reinforce heteronormative gender and bodily expectations, and as such does not only affect heterosexual couples, but also queer, trans and intersex people. We will discuss possibilities of different kinds of relations – ones that are based on friendship and comradery, that are not defined by the laws of the market, the rhythm of labour, imposed feelings of guilt and duty, psychological and physical violence, that are not commensurable and calculated. Relations that are the only thing that is authentically ours in a world colonized by the market and the spectacle.

Link to the Text: https://good-night-macho-pride.netlify.app/media/warm-beer-cold-women_final.pdf