Hi Gen, we briefly spoke at the festival, too, though not about this topic I think. It was great to meet you.
When you write about unbalanced male/female perspectives, do you mean at the festival? Or in the commons movement in general - or both perhaps?
What comes up for me? I am thinking of two questions: how much is the feminine valued (in both women and men)? And: how much are women speaking up and being heard?
As for the first one, the commons movement is already better at that than the world at large. Being about cooperation, caring, resilience and so on, it by its nature values the feminine. How well it does already embody those traits itself, is perhaps another question, as we still live in a capitalist world and are conditioned by it to varying degrees - men probably more than women, or perphaps rather, differently. It's an interesting question if more leadership by women could help this process. (And there are of course really powerful women in this movement already)
I find your observation interesting, about "getting it right" vs "fixing it as we go". So, you think there should be more of the latter?
