soooo tired

[bluflamingo]

Seriously, when did I lose the ability to go for more than a couple of days on only 5 hours sleep? I know I used to pull all nighters doing my first degree, and that was only a few years ago. Ugh, is this what getting old is going to feel like?

Okay, yes, I'm totally procrastinating instead of reading for my seminar, but I swear, the words are starting to dance around the page, which, while kind of cool, doesn't help me with the understanding. Also, there is something truly depressing about reading sociological theorists from the 60s, one of whom is talking about people who lie about a 'major flaw', like being 'racially impure' or 'deflowered'. Leaving the first one alone, as I think we can all fill in how wrong that is for ourselves, and it really is sad to realise that this was okay to say less than 50 years ago, since when is being deflowered a flaw?! Well, 1959, apparently. Also, to the guy who talks about a hypothetical grouping of 'a man, a bisexual woman and a lesbian' - what, men are by default straight (which this one was, it became clear in the analogy) and lesbians don't have a gender? Also, since when do we spell lesbian with a capital L? It's hard to get behind someone's theory when you realise their view of society really doesn't bear a lot of resemblance to your own. And, guy who only talks about women as paranoid drivers, obsessed with the size of their feet (?!) and all nurses everywhere - I know you were writing at a time when feminism was a new thing, but do you really have to be so patronising? Can't you all just present your theories without making me want to write abusive notes to you in the margins of the book (not a good idea when it's a library copy)?

OKay, sociological rant over.

14valentines squee - nine down, five to go! Going to make it, going to make it!

Probably.

Comments

[army-rat.livejournal.com]

Good Morning Blu!

I hope you are getting some obviously well needed sleep. Hopefully you won't read this for a while because you are dozing, dozing, doozzzzziiiinnngggggg GONE! Out like a light.

Please let me know later if the subliminal message worked.

If you get the chance go to Slate Magazine on the web and read some of the entries under the XX Factor, which is a group of women blogging on politics. Some of their entries regarding the current state of feminism sound quite a lot like yours. It appears that too many 'feminist ideals' are outdated and need to be looked at in a different societal light, partially because of the success of feminism itself.

For the same reason that men do not gather around a single candidate because they have such differing viewpoints, women aren't gathering around Hillary just because she is a woman. Women have as many differing viewpoints as men and vote their opinions based on common goals with a candidate, the same as men.

You might go take a look at their comments about the New York chapter of NOW and the letter the organization wrote disparaging Ted Kennedy for supporting Barack Obama.

And good luck on your Valentines!

[bluflamingo.livejournal.com]

That sounds really interesting, thanks, I'll go and take a look.

For the same reason that men do not gather around a single candidate because they have such differing viewpoints, women aren't gathering around Hillary just because she is a woman. Women have as many differing viewpoints as men and vote their opinions based on common goals with a candidate, the same as men.

Definitely - that really annoys me when people talk about the women's vote or the black vote or whatever, like everyone in that group thinks the same, and idenitifies with that part of themselves most strongly. It's like they completely ignore the fact that a lot of people fall into more than one "special interest group", and that they might actually have other things that are more important to them than that one thing.

Please let me know later if the subliminal message worked.

I don't know if it worked, but I slept for 8 hours, which is longer than I have in ages, so I#m thinking it didn't hurt :)

[army-rat.livejournal.com]

I also get annoyed when the commentators talk about the women's vote, or the black vote. But now I'm not sure if I should be worried about the fact I have actually heard commentators on CNN, FOX and MSNBC *all* talking about 'the white male vote'. I feel so... so marginalized! ROFL!!!!