A Serious organizational question
Taken from: reddit.com
A quota for ciswomen?
A Serious organizational question
Brayden Scott
Dominic Brown
Representative democracy is mostly liberal hokum. Quotas only make sense within this framework. Ideally, horizontalism within your organizational structure can make this a moot point, and where leadership positions exist they should be volunteeristic and based on the division of labor rather than real authority. The downside to volunteerism is, of course, that the more privileged members have more time and capital to volunteer and end up overrepresented, but this can and should be accounted for and ameliorated by direct democracy within the organization greatly overpowering any single member or small cadre of members in the day-to-day direction and governance of the organization.
Less abstract and more directly to the point, it does sound like some outreach needs to be done within your organization to attract cis women in particular. I'm not sure if quotas are going to be effective in doing this, but even if you decide to implement them they should be part of a broader effort rather than ending in tokenism (as quotas often do).
Luke Harris
That seems reasonable enough. Actually the same method used in Rojava at all levels of government although I think the number is at least 40% women which gives a little leeway – you're probably not going to get that 50/50 split every time in every situation. Anyways, it's easier to do there because the whole population is mobilized anyways
Justin Campbell
w*Sternoids get the bullet too
John Hernandez
Why do you go there?
Grayson Allen
Absolute sexist idpol trash. Why give one group of population unfair advantage to get position of power than other group based on what is in their pants? Are women incapable in competing with men on equal terms? Of course not.
Michael Turner
Quotas are fuckin stupid. Why should sex matter if you're good at what you do?
I always saw this as a way to sabotage your own org by accepting people based on something other than their ability to be a professional revolutionary.
If you don't base org recruitment on ability you're a tard.
Meritocracy ftw.
Daniel Cox
Quotas are fucking retarded and guarantee nothing of what they allegedly promise. If you need to address a certain issue and require certain "relevant" people to discuss it, create a committee in which those people hash it out and bring their solutions or analyses regarding the issue to the leadership and the organization. But don't sacrifice critical leadership positions for the possibility of maybe obtaining a different and well articulated viewpoint when that could be acquired in better and less assumptive manner.
Ethan Wright
The YPG does this and they're the most effective ground fighting force in their neck of the woods. Results seem to speak for themselves.
Easton Mitchell
Women "hold up half the sky" as some weird Chinese guy said. Why not mandate that all socialist orgs strive for 50/50 male-female representation at all levels of governance? Only sensible. Trying to split off some other trans area seems to be overthinking it though IMO