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Oct. 22nd, 2008 08:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
adiva_calandiaGooood morning, ladies and germs. Yesterday and Monday appear to have sucked for a lot of people (including me) (except for the first rehearsal of Mill on the Floss, which was awesome), so I wish you all a much more pleasant Wednesday.
To start your day off, have some art from our discussion of gender, sex roles, and the possibility of a genderless society in my Feminist Lit class yesterday.
Drawing pretty androgynes is totally the right way to deal with frustrating gender politics, right?
Yesterday was a fun class, anyway. Remember N? Out of the blue during the discussion, she got very impassioned and angry about -- I guess -- the inherency of women's subjugation, ranting about how in sex, "the woman is penetrated! And there's something inherently passive and submissive about that."
And the teacher, who's a pretty, curvy, very stylish woman in, I don't know, her thirties? says, "Well, I'd like to say first that that's all your socialization talking."
"I know, I know, but--"
"And anyway," she continues, with extraordinary gusto, complete with pouncing gesture on the operative words, "what's passive about engulfing something? About surrounding something?"
It was pretty awesome, not gonna lie.
To start your day off, have some art from our discussion of gender, sex roles, and the possibility of a genderless society in my Feminist Lit class yesterday.
Drawing pretty androgynes is totally the right way to deal with frustrating gender politics, right?
Yesterday was a fun class, anyway. Remember N? Out of the blue during the discussion, she got very impassioned and angry about -- I guess -- the inherency of women's subjugation, ranting about how in sex, "the woman is penetrated! And there's something inherently passive and submissive about that."
And the teacher, who's a pretty, curvy, very stylish woman in, I don't know, her thirties? says, "Well, I'd like to say first that that's all your socialization talking."
"I know, I know, but--"
"And anyway," she continues, with extraordinary gusto, complete with pouncing gesture on the operative words, "what's passive about engulfing something? About surrounding something?"
It was pretty awesome, not gonna lie.
