Literary Theory & Criticism class. I skimmed through them readings on Feminism. (I skim through everything, besides.:p Reminds me:

Row, row, row your boat
Gently down the stream.
Merrily, merrily, merrily,
Life is but a skim.

Har.XD Theory and criticism is such a drag. Boohooo.) I looked like shit, as usual. No sleep, little hangover, zombified with caffeine, mentally elsewhere, looking like a deserted basura dumped on a chair. Who gives a crap about feminism any more? I'm a post-post-feminist baby, what do I care? Same thing with other things:

I'm a post-marxist baby, what do I care?
I'm a post-holocaust baby, what do I care?
I'm a post-modernist baby, what do I care?
I'm a post-Martial Law baby, what do I care?
I'm a post-structuralist baby, what do I care?

Don't you just love the twenty-first century? You're free to say, "Goddamn, to hell them all, why should I care?" Teeeeeee.XD Then here comes feminism traipsing down the aisle and sweeping the floor with her skirt. Everybody, standing ovation.

What's the fuss all about? What's all these feminists griping about "inferior literature" and "feminist literature" and "women reading about women" and "women's self-empowerment" and whatnot?

I just don't get it.

99% of the books I've read were written by dead, white men. I've read female writers like Charlotte Bronte, Jean Rhys, Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, Erica Jong, Candace Bushnell (holy shit yes, among others XD), and found them all a complete rubbish. (Well, except for Jong, which goes to say I have bad taste. Uuukkk.XD) A huge cavernous chunk of my life is autopiloted by books. No person I know in real life has ever changed me. Not my father. Not my mother. Not my professors. It's just books, books, books. Everything you need to know is in books. Literature. High literature. Everybody else out there is an idiot telling you idiotic things to lead an idiotic life and die an idiot just like all the idiots did in the hall of famous idiots.

Does that exclude me from all them idiots? No. I am also an idiot, but so what.XD

So to say that I've read literature mostly written by men, that I've been conditioned to think, speak, and act like men, is there a problem with that? That women are balled up into an entire universe that bores me, is there a problem with that? That the company of men is more comforting, more natural, more adventurous, more fun, is there a problem with that? That books have stripped me of emotion and sentimentality and turned me into an aggressive, assertive, rational, logical, realistic, testosterone-driven misogynist, is there a problem with that? That I am alienated from my own gender and not quite fused into that opposite gender, is there a problem with that? That I am genderless, has no plans of marrying, having children, leading a domestic life, and has no sense of inferiority complex to other genders whatsoever, is there a problem with that?

Feminist theory points out that (1) I am a poor, lost woman with nothing but her breasts and vagina to define her femininity, and; (2) I've been doing everything wrong: reading the wrong books, thinking, speaking, acting the wrong way. Who's this Miss Feminist Theorist to say that I should assert my gender identity and transform myself into some other strange animal, a woman? How can the world be simply split into men and women right down the middle without rushing and nuking each other's brains off in the gray area?

I mean, so freaking what? Why should women read women to begin with? Feminist literature is crap and you know it. Why can't people just accept that?

Word Up

f
27.01.10 - 07:44

Women are equal to men nowadays - or, if not, they're treated better than men - so feminists should die. they are like muslim slash christian fundamentalists and i think for a feminist joke to be absolutely nice it has to be dirty like dirty dirty with lots of ellipsis

so there.

what have you been doing lately ? :D well besides rock climbing + school shit and all that shit.

Tobey
27.01.10 - 18:57

Same old delata. Nothing changed much except for having this superfunky pink shirt with "carnivore" written onnit. Did I mention it's pink?XD What's up?

f
30.01.10 - 10:58

i havnt seen you wear pink and im looking forward to that. Ok! now It's time to create the list of carnivore & other eschelon keywords. :D

kelan ka free

Mindtwist
31.01.10 - 07:04

wow pink! XD

tine
31.01.10 - 22:30

then maybe you should read more feminist theory to know that feminism isn't just about that.

radical feminism, for example, seeks to destroy the very binarism of gender, saying that there is no metaphysical difference between "men" and "women"

Tobey
01.02.10 - 20:13

I'm just getting into that.:p My idea of feminism is pretty embryonic.

Radical feminism, however, wants women to rule over men, methinks. Nay, Mia said so.

Hummm.

tine
05.02.10 - 23:00

the notion that feminists want to rule over men is a simplistic interpretation of feminism. sure, some feminists do maintain that women are inherently superior to men, but feminism as an ideology doesn't seek domination; it seeks equality, or its social recognition and reality.

having said that, mali pala yung sinabi ko about radfem. yun pala yung stage of feminism which extols femininity and rejects the male symbolic order in the name of difference. unlike liberal feminism which demands equal access to this order, often by adopting traditionally masculine values like badassery, radfem maintains that, biologically and culturally, differences exist between men and women, and that supposedly feminine characteristics, like being nurturing, are worthy (and even superior). stage three pala yung rejection of the dichotomies between men and women, maintaining that there are no metaphysical differences between both. ang mga stages na ito pala ay ayon kay kristeva.

helpful ang overview na itech, concise: http://academic.reed.edu/english/courses/English558/Week2.html#II

sorry naman at nobela na pala ang comment na itech, nag-lecture pa!

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