hyuumanatees ([info]hyuumanatees) wrote,
@ 2008-03-07 11:54:00
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Entry tags:class, feminism, hillary clinton, look mommy here's what i did today!, the threat of failure as perceived by wo, too much cute

Here's What I've Been Doing in Class Today!
Well, not in actual class time- that was full of really cool presentations on our final project.  I was sad because mine ran over so I couldn't say a few of the really neat facts I was saving for my conclusion and it wasn't until afterwards that the phrase "stories and statistics" occurred to me as a better way of describing the struggle and interaction among/between birth narratives and birth facts and figures.

This is actually what's been going on in the discussion board for my Feminist Perspectives class which the teacher utilizes as a way to continue discussions and probe even more in depth into issues then we do in class.  Also, in acknowledgement that some students are much better at writing than speaking or feel more comfortable expressing themselves non-verbally. 

This week's highlights:
Too much cute: one mother reacts against Always and its "HAVE A HAPPY PERIOD" slogan
"Hillary Clinton and the Women Abandoning Women Syndrome" written by a woman who has been much abandoned in her own life.  Hints at the dynamics of threat to women, status, popularity, etc, when one figure either does too well, makes one mistake, or incurs criticism that supporters can't bear to be linked with.  I.E. Why do your friends all ditch you when you something bad happens to you, even if it's not your fault?

That's all! 


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[info]yuri93
2008-03-07 10:26 pm UTC (link)
I disagree enormously with the sentiment presented in the article. I think I do so so forcefully because I had to put up with my mother for a month during winter break, where I was told that I was betraying my sex because I was planning to vote for Barack Obama in the Illinois primary.

We didn't fight, as women, for the vote just so we could be bound into, guilted into, obligated to vote for and support the female candidate. Hillary's just too centrist for me, and she has been from the start. It has nothing to do with her sex. I'm just too far left to vote for her. To pretend that women have to support Hillary Clinton, merely on account of her being a woman, is as silly as saying blacks have to support Barack Obama because he's black, and it binds us into the same societal expectations that we fight to break.

My mother's since retracted her support of Hillary, on account of the racist remarks she and her husband (particularly her husband) made in South Carolina. Not, in other words, on account of her "failing" like the author alleges. And to pretend as though those remarks were accidental, or that Bill just gets up there and she can't control him, is bullshit. Every moment in a campaign is choreographed. They knew what they were doing. Failure may be out of their control, but their subtle racism isn't.

I'm sad that the author of that article has been so put upon by her female friends that she can't trust women as a whole to be anything other than silly, flighty things: in other words, to be every stereotype of women.

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