Yes folks, we're movin' to Scarborough, which I sincerely hope will have at least one fine Chicken Land establishment. Even if they don't, though, I will be very excited. The plan is, a two-three bedroom with room to grow, as it were. We shall see. What with a conditional offer and then this other dude who's interested, it could be sooner rather than later that all this theorizing becomes practice. Eek.
I got a new notebook today - the benefits of counselling=free notebooks. I'm not far enough in to say it's changed my life yet, and I don't think I ever will, but it's a place to talk anyways. But it's a nice one, the same as my little leather one that I have and love now. Strange. Very strange. In any case, I'm looking forward to cracking its spine. There's something about the end of a notebook that makes you want to write more, larger, faster, and get it over with. A new notebook has so many thrills to it - no mistakes, no ripped-out pages and no weird ink blots. The page seeks your words. But it's also a lot of pressure. I hope these Moleskin things never go out of style, because I don't ever want to write in anything else. Ever. I remember thinking that to myself the other day, so when my counsellor mentioned she'd got me a notebook, I thought "oh no, another wasted chunk of paper that i'll never find a use for." But then, she surprised me. Twas loverly. Lovely indeed.
Anywhoo, that's it for tonight, folks, after a minor philosophical debate that follows.
The problem is, most of Western society works on the philosophical mistake that everything is a binary, setting percieved "presence" against some lack, or "absence". The presence/absence binary stretches into other common binaries, such as man/woman, culture/nature, light/dark, white/black, wealthy/poor, etc. It also leads to destructive thinking around sexual organs. Men have the presence of a penis. Therefore, they have the essence of their sexuality outside of themselves - it leads to thinking that demands sexual satisfaction for men, but not for women. As the prettiest girl discusses on her blog, this has meant that, until 2005, phys ed. classes did not label the clitoris in class diagrams of women's private parts. It also means that while there are upwards of 20,000 entries in the medical literature about the penis, there are still under 2,000 about the clitoris.
1 comment:
the odd thing, if you think in terms of focault... is that power in, regardless of the form of such power, actually increases the power regardless of the resistance. So to resist the power and essence of the complexity of the 'woman' is only increasing the power of 'woman' as subject. If, in terms of Lacan, we are all in possession of and fighting to keep the phallus, then the masculine dominance and medicalized focus on women is actually increasing the power, complexity and new discourse (minus the masculine foundation) that Iragary suggests apparent just not seen.
P.S. You are soooooo HOT!
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