I would have expected to agree with you, but in thinking it through, I am proud of things I didn’t do, but not for myself, if that makes sense. I’m proud of my mom for getting through grad school with a small child (my sister, I wasn’t even born yet), and I’m proud of my dad for quitting drinking a decade before. Those are both very difficult things and I feel positive about them in a way that feels similar to how I feel when I understand a new aspect of my field and the same as how I feel when my niece learns a new thing. I would call it more of an indirect pride, I guess.
I can see extending that to more distant ancestors, especially if there’s been a consistent threat and various ancestors were instrumental or inspirational against that threat. It’s not a requirement to feel any sort of way about your forebears, but I don’t think it’s out of line to feel pride or shame. I also don’t think it really makes a difference if you’re blood related to the people or just culturally related (or anywhere in between), so I guess it would apply to a culture at large as well (generally geographically related).
I’m an all at once person and I also think that’s less clean. It’s easier for me to think about it like shaving: you’re more likely to have a grown out patch of hair if you do a big shave once a week vs a daily trim.
Buddy, friend, gamer. It’s march. Can you bring this out in six months? There is no reason to fill everyone’s feed up like this and sow political division on the left over seven months before it’s relevant.
Plus, the pressure looks like it’s working, so a vote for Biden might be a lot more palatable then. A lot of your work might get done automatically
I don’t think she’s opposed to them either, but that’s not what she’s suggested (though she may have come out in favor of abortion specifically since roe v wade was overruled, which is frankly a must for anyone at all associated with feminism). She suggests working within the system to find your own private fulfillment.
I don’t necessarily disagree with the concept, but it seems too stoic, in that it seems to be about coming to terms with your oppression instead of fighting it. As a model of feminist thought, I think it has a chilling effect on people trying to change the system.
You’ve got a very good insight on the effects of testosterone if you’ve undergone any hormone treatment, so I suspect you understand its effects on the body and mind than I do. I don’t see why physical size and pregnancy should directly correlate to stereotypes about mental capabilities, especially given that we have anthropological evidence of contradictory stereotypes from different cultures.
I agree that subverting gender can have positive ripple effects, but I don’t think Judith Butler effectively makes this claim. It’s cool that it works, but they haven’t done their academic duty with this, which I think also dampens the likelihood that it will be taken up.
I don’t consider that an accident, lol. A condom breaking or not functioning normally is an accident. Not using one because you don’t want to discuss it is a choice.
Cookout pasta salad. I like pasta, mayo, corn, tomatoes, cucumber, olives, onions, whatever else goes in normally, but pasta salad is just so disappointing.
I am the opposite about a Reuben- I’m not especially a fan of pastrami, sauerkraut, Swiss cheese, or thousand island dressing, but fuck if it’s not incredible together.
I think people naturally want to form hierarchies, but I also think people naturally want to steal. It’s normal, but that doesn’t mean it’s desirable, especially if the hierarchy is based on stereotypes instead of, say, the hierarchy that exists in a classroom.
Women on the whole tend to be smaller, and get stereotyped as more childlike, which seems natural, but we hold totally different stereotypes for other groups. Asian men tend to also be smaller, but they face stereotypes about being smart and sly, nothing at all childlike. These are huge generalizations, obviously, but the only thing in common about the stereotypes people hold about all groups is that these stereotypes serve the people already in power.
Yes, it’s not just fetishization, but honestly, suggesting playing with gender as a solution is more offensive to me. It feels very much like “it’s too bad you’re always going to be in the losing position, but here, you can be an X who Ys, isn’t that fun?” To be clear, I like playing with gender. My preferred hobby is about 10% dudes in skirts (not being transphobic, it’s folk dancing and skirts are spinny, so everyone loves them), but that doesn’t fix my problems.
And I do think the problems can be fixed (I’m willing to accept 99% fixed, if there’s some degree of inevitability to it, which there may be), because we’ve already made a huge dent in the problem in some places. Even since Judith Butler stopped thinking there was another way out.
I think it’s unreasonable to say that there will always be a hierarchy associated with gender, to the point that I’m very skeptical of Butler. It feels almost like they’re trying to discourage people from fighting for their rights, but regardless of how it feels, it does have a chilling effect on gender equality.
I’m not against fetishizing hierarchy, but I don’t think it’s the solution to our frustration with gender. I think fetishization (there’s just not a better word) can help people heal to a degree (a lot of people feel that they can take power back once they role play their rape, for example), but I don’t think it’s a societal solution to gender inequality at all.
I don’t know if I think gender is inevitable, but I don’t think gender inequality is, and I don’t think Judith Butler is working towards getting rid of it.
We didn’t build this system, we just live in it. We’re just trying to survive.
Obviously both need to happen, because you can’t change the system if you’re dead. I don’t live in a situation like the OP though, so we’re going to have different voting priorities.
It’s both better and worse than you’d expect: his house was redistricted out of district 10, so he intentionally rented a 5*5’ space in someone else’s house in the right district for $5 a month, then made a fake full lease to show as evidence he lived in district 10 . He voted in the election for 10, but then filed a tax exemption, using a different district as his home district.
Judith Butler argues (ish, they’re more one for implications) that gender exists to serve a hierarchy, from which it can never break free, and that it’s completely arbitrary. However, they also suggest that any rejection of gender will not work, as it will destroy our libidos and reform from nothing anew (though the genders could be completely different). Their proposal for dealing with it is to subvert gender from within it and fetishize it.
I say that’s harmfully pessimistic, bordering on FUD.
That’s part of my problem. I’m a moral absolutist about a lot of things, which is a luxury. I don’t currently have that luxury, but that knowledge doesn’t change my morals.
The other part is the game theory aspect, in that the further right a candidate you accept, the further right the next democrat will be. The OP in this is trying to survive, not to change the system.
Eleanor rigby when I was about 8. I then started liking last kiss(the Pearl Jam cover, though I do like the original as well) the next year, then under pressure from about 13-15, since then it’s been 500 miles by Peter, Paul, and Mary.
I mostly read them on here