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Originally Posted by Coyotes  or maybe driving the wrong way up a one way street is wrong!!! she's doing a job that she's paid to do....... surely your complaint should be to who ever makes you drive around Dumaguete to get back where you want to go....Don't kill the messenger!
plus if she's doing a job that isn't appreciated by the public, she possibly gets a lot of abuse too
and for sum1 doing "feministic ideology" as one of your lessons in MA Class" your views are to say at least... antiquated!!! btw the glass ceilling is cracking and women have burnt there bras, well perhaps everywhere but here, if that's what there teaching you about "manly jobs"????? |
Don't get me wrong when I said feministic ideology...I wasn't particularly pertaining to jobs women can do. Surely Kate Millet on her sexual politics would get pissed as well. It's that using of "what women can do" I think generally what burning the bras mean. Women do not simply want to be called the other, as secondary identifications. So if these points were what you were looking for, then there you go. But doing what men can do is part and parcel of liberating women from the patriarchal shadow they were put into. Even Virginia Woolf admitted that being put as simply as the other is a pervasive ideology and yet she said, knowing the adversary (men) would yield an understanding of why men are generally angry. She further added that if they behave like men (especially angry men), they are really not liberating themselves but actually subjecting to pervasion. So when I mentioned manly jobs, I was speaking in a position where the views of feminism started as a pinhole. Surely, you'd agree with me that that's where it all started. Woolf was even banned from the lawn she intended to write her narratives just because women were simply not allowed. Woolf now then said this wasn't the underlying problem but she equated to the future inequalities women may face. Now this was beside my point on my previous blog. It was that I was only disturbed by the way this particular woman who behaved like an angry person when in fact, I had to put on a very friendly face only to be foiled by her finger pointing. Then if she has the right to be angry and so do I. In fact, everyone has the right. The cycle goes on and on and we forget--what are we suppose to be angry about? Isn't feminism a way of freeing women from the stigma of being secondary? Then is it also a way of liberating women by making them unlike their oppressors? Surely you would agree that women being men is not going to cut it. Besides, I was angry at this particular person not because she was a woman but because she was particularly pissing me off. Now I agree with Simone de Beauvoir about her 'The Second Sex' when she criticized women for being women and it's particularly true. (How many people reacted violently when I presented The Second Sex?) You can look her up if you want to, she's a woman too. I'm saying all of this to you because I just don't want to disappoint or bring a bad name to my University, when in fact, my Prof (a woman) is a great teacher. I wasn't particularly sure that a very adept person like you would reply to this post.
A point of thought though, she was just very personal--that's all. She might be just doing her job but that does not mean we become unable to comprehend or understand what the world really needs. We all strive hard to do what is right and sometimes we do it for all the wrong reasons. I mean, if you were in my place at that time you would see the logic. A few paces was all it takes versus the roundabout I had to take. And I guess she wasn't really all about the giving me instructions, she was just blowing it off because of the revenge that boiled in her blood. Again, I might be wrong though. I stress it once again, I wasn't angry because she was a woman. Then again, there are individuals(note: individuals not women, to avoid being pervasive) who react to this by saying I'm only shedding a green light in the issue. They would say I shouldn't have said it in the first place. It's like saying NO and then knowing what you said no to, making you remember the grip of the real issue. If you get my drift. How else am I going to write it?
Anyway, understandably as a forum poster, my online manuscripts are subject to criticism. It will have a life of its own. With that said, I would like to thank you for your point.