Sudy: Surveying the Damage, Part II , in which she says in very few words what I have tried to get to, requiring far too many:
…a feminism pitched to a buying audience is a feminism sold.
What she’s getting at was also well addressed by a commenter in one of those endless (insomnia abating) threads on Feministe, who noted that we talk all the time about “intersectionality” as the intersection of identity features (sex, race, and class being the big ones) rather than as the intersection of oppressions and oppressive forces of sexism, racism and capitalism. I emphasize that last one in particular because it is glossed over in these discussions constantly - in addition to the career-talk, there is also the unquestioned, barely even acknowledged, assumption that the goal of getting young women (or young men) to self-identify as feminists is a laudable one. Getting our numbers up is a goal, and if pressed, the argument would be that as...
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WisCon and Rachel MossFrom: purtek.wordpress.com
Post Date: 2008-05-30 07:31:23
The Angry Black Woman is rightfully angry about What Rachel Moss Did , and has a great post up covering the whole thing. I think the way she describes it there covers what this was about for Rachel Moss: making sure that the world is aware of the inherent superiority of Rachel Moss.
Rachel Moss understands the meaning of indigenous identity and can mystically/scientifically/intuitively assess whether someone has (deserves?) it or not. Rachel Moss is Totally Not Fat and therefore fu...
more More on Forgiveness: Silence and SunflowersFrom: purtek.wordpress.com
Post Date: 2008-05-29 07:24:41
I picked up a copy of The Sunflower at my local den of temptation (aka used bookstore) a couple of weeks ago, and have been slowly making my way through it since. It’s pretty much the go-to book for initiating theological discussions of forgiveness - first of all, the initial narrative is told exceptionally well, so it’s impossible for the problem to come off as a simple one lacking in personal emotional or moral resonance. Since the Amazon description kind of sucks, the...
more Talk Like A ManFrom: purtek.wordpress.com
Post Date: 2008-05-23 07:57:31
Caroline’s at Uncool has had a couple of posts recently that caught the attention of the linguist portion of my brain (which the blogosphere seems to be trying desperately to rouse from its dormancy).
First, Language of Feminists covers a lot of similar ground to a post I was going to write a while back based on the same comments (one of many posts that exist only in my mind, but that are brilliant and revolutionary, and if only I didn’t have to do my dishes, could...
more Letting GoFrom: purtek.wordpress.com
Post Date: 2008-05-21 06:49:31
This is pretty much all personal, no political, but so it goes.
For someone who thinks as much as I do about language, I’m amazed sometimes at how I can miss blatantly obvious elements in the meanings of common expressions.
I’ve been working a lot on “letting go” - by “working”, I’m referring mostly to meditation and stuff like that, but also to the kind of overthinking that characterizes the exact polar opposite of “letting things go”...
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