HOLLA! 12/6/09

Today’s class was actually very informative and entertaining. I like when we get to learn in a way that is not “normal”. The readings by Cixous and Butler were based around the feminist’s idea of “Herstory”. As we spoke about in class, the girls in this case were able to speak their minds whereas the boys had to keep quiet, they could only write. Dr. Casey said this was following the idea of Phallologocentrism and Heisenberg’s principle of uncertainty. Through our class today I realized that we are fights for equality over social structures, which have been set up by women and men. As females we want equality, we want to be like the boys, but yet how can we follow these social structures still if we are intending to do this. Like we’ve talked about with Althusser and ISA’s…only a few are the ones in power that rule over the masses with no power. Why don’t these masses over throw the small group of individuals in power? I feel this is the same question I raise with femininity and social structures. We say we want to be treated equal like men and respected and there are a few men in the world that agree with this, but why don’t we over throw the social structures that hold us in place? I feel we do not over throw or object to these ideologies or social structures in this case, which hold us in place, because they’ve become so normal. I would love to be treated equal, but I’m fine with how my life is now…I like being protected by my boyfriend etc…maybe the masses aren’t ready for a change, maybe these social structures will be in place until we die and on until our children have children, we do not know. All I know is times are changing, times have changed, and maybe one day women will be equal to men in all mental and emotional aspects of life. I think all we can do is live with it and do what we personally can to change things…maybe one day someone will rally everyone to over throw these social structures (even overthrow the ideologies that keep us in place) but until then we’ll never know.