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Some populist genres serve a point in giving you a kind of general identity in an age of dissolution of identities. It’s a kind of narcissistic buffering. It’s illusion, but still insulation— and up to that point, defense.
Reality is really very different. It’s not in the capitalist genre at all. Things go on and one has to deal with them.
I am currently reading a book, for review, set in the early nineties, and it reminds me to some degree of the structure of gender relations back then. Actually, I caught up with them by the late nineties, and things were sordid. Science and reality itself were held to be the realm of males, whereas women were considered to distort reality, not unlike how they are considered today.
To point to an aspect of reality and say, “this needs to be fixed,” meant we were overstepping our bounds and taking on a masculine role, which wasn’t permitted.
Now. Think about it. My father was suicidal and I wasn’t allowed to point this out. Whenever I tried to do so — and the occasions on which I tried were numerous — I was told I had emotions and awareness. These qualities were inadvisable, wrong and evil, or at times simply pathological. One shouldn’t have emotions or awareness.
In our society, that is akin to practicing witchcraft.
Some populist genres serve a point in giving you a kind of general identity in an age of dissolution of identities. It’s a kind of narcissistic buffering. It’s illusion, but still insulation— and up to that point, defense.
Reality is really very different. It’s not in the capitalist genre at all. Things go on and one has to deal with them.
I am currently reading a book, for review, set in the early nineties, and it reminds me to some degree of the structure of gender relations back then. Actually, I caught up with them by the late nineties, and things were sordid. Science and reality itself were held to be the realm of males, whereas women were considered to distort reality, not unlike how they are considered today.
To point to an aspect of reality and say, “this needs to be fixed,” meant we were overstepping our bounds and taking on a masculine role, which wasn’t permitted.
Now. Think about it. My father was suicidal and I wasn’t allowed to point this out. Whenever I tried to do so — and the occasions on which I tried were numerous — I was told I had emotions and awareness. These qualities were inadvisable, wrong and evil, or at times simply pathological. One shouldn’t have emotions or awareness.
In our society, that is akin to practicing witchcraft.
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