Philosopher, Irigaray

Irigaray reverses the direction of the speculum. Instead of facing "the other [that is] woman" it is directed at the patriarchal ideologues who gestate ideas within a womb, from which they project their (literally) preconceived fantasies about the world. I like it that Richard Dawkins seemingly cannot understand her as it proves the point. A very limited perspective does not see more of life as it actually is outside the cave, but remains there, looking at shadows. SPECULUM OF THE OTHER WOMAN is a profoundly ironic supplementation to patriarchal logic. It provides what the bits that are otherwise missing from various discourses propounding philosophical idealism of one sort or another. One encounters through Irigaray's texts, the unconscious, or indeed bad conscience behind various strains of the abstract idealists' mentalisations.