5/26 Questions - Haleh Mawson
1. Somewhat beside the point, but could someone explain what femmephobia is? Bani Amor (great name) mentions it in the seventh paragraph in the same breath as transphobia and anti-Black racism. I've heard whispers of it before, but never among people I know, and I've always wondered what it meant. My understanding of the word femme, by the way, is that it refers typically to a lesbian or bi woman who meets social expectations of what a woman looks like, in opposition to butch. Nowdays, it's been expanded to feminine gay boys and non-binary folks as well, who do not conform to gendered expectations for their appearance. I suppose part of my confusion is simply that I don't know what the word means, and part is that femmephobia implies butch privilege, and, speaking as a butch woman, I don't think there are a whole ton of advantages inherent in failing to look as a woman "should" look. Feel free to rip apart that statement if you think I'm wrong or misinformed, because I probably am.
2. In Dissidence and Communitarian Feminism, it says that the patriarchy, defined more broadly, evolves over time to use "ever more subtle, difficult to detect, and respond to" methods for exploitation and oppression. Could that also be called improvement? Is subtle exploitation better than overt?
3. Does education of any kind cause what Paredes calls "domestication" (124)? We usually think of education, particularly college education, as broadening the mind, but she says the opposite.
This is horribly pedantic, but the "first uprising organized against monarchy" was neither the French Revolution nor La Paz. The first one I can think of in the Western world is the Peasant's Revolt of the late 14th century CE, or the overthrow of the Roman monarchy in like 300 BCE or whenever. The first big modern one was the English Civil War (1640s). The first successful one in the Americas was the US Revolution (1776). The second successful one was after Tupac Amaru and the rest, but Haiti ended up being the cradle and guardian of revolution in South America, so it gets a mention here for being important and inspiring. Anyway, this is all irrelevant, but I like history, and I like it being cited correctly.
2. In Dissidence and Communitarian Feminism, it says that the patriarchy, defined more broadly, evolves over time to use "ever more subtle, difficult to detect, and respond to" methods for exploitation and oppression. Could that also be called improvement? Is subtle exploitation better than overt?
3. Does education of any kind cause what Paredes calls "domestication" (124)? We usually think of education, particularly college education, as broadening the mind, but she says the opposite.
This is horribly pedantic, but the "first uprising organized against monarchy" was neither the French Revolution nor La Paz. The first one I can think of in the Western world is the Peasant's Revolt of the late 14th century CE, or the overthrow of the Roman monarchy in like 300 BCE or whenever. The first big modern one was the English Civil War (1640s). The first successful one in the Americas was the US Revolution (1776). The second successful one was after Tupac Amaru and the rest, but Haiti ended up being the cradle and guardian of revolution in South America, so it gets a mention here for being important and inspiring. Anyway, this is all irrelevant, but I like history, and I like it being cited correctly.
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