>> First, thank you for getting from what I was /trying/ to say (and missing) to what I was /thinking/ as I typed. <<
You're welcome.
>> I really, really need a cautionary light on my laptop. Gah, that was a badly, badly worded comment and I apologize. <<
It's okay. Both genteel phrasing and clarity take practice, and I've been at this for decades. Plus I have the advantage of some college classes that explored archetypes.
>> I think you got a very, very different Women's Studies approach than I did when I tried to take the class. <<
Some of my WS classes were brilliant. Some were misanthropic and made the testicles not attached to my body very unhappy. It helped that we often had one or two guys in the class, which meant that they and I could anchor discussions to prevent them from going off the deep end.
>> Two weeks of being the only person to call the instructor on her vast overgeneralizations, two weeks of hearing the /entire/ class male-bashing. When the instructor started a class to "prove" --and I quote: "all men are r*pists", I not only walked out of class for the only time ever, I dropped the class and complained to the admin that she was a misandrist. <<
Fortunately I never had a WS class that bad. I'm sorry to hear about yours.
Really, I made my minor Gender Studies before that was even a thing. I think I helped enlighten a lot of people to gender as a social construct as well as a personal identity, and the extreme diversity that's possible. If all you're doing is backlash, that's not really an improvement.
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dancing_serpent
Re: Archetypes
Date: 2014-05-15 06:57 pm (UTC)You're welcome.
>> I really, really need a cautionary light on my laptop. Gah, that was a badly, badly worded comment and I apologize. <<
It's okay. Both genteel phrasing and clarity take practice, and I've been at this for decades. Plus I have the advantage of some college classes that explored archetypes.
>> I think you got a very, very different Women's Studies approach than I did when I tried to take the class. <<
Some of my WS classes were brilliant. Some were misanthropic and made the testicles not attached to my body very unhappy. It helped that we often had one or two guys in the class, which meant that they and I could anchor discussions to prevent them from going off the deep end.
>> Two weeks of being the only person to call the instructor on her vast overgeneralizations, two weeks of hearing the /entire/ class male-bashing. When the instructor started a class to "prove" --and I quote: "all men are r*pists", I not only walked out of class for the only time ever, I dropped the class and complained to the admin that she was a misandrist. <<
Fortunately I never had a WS class that bad. I'm sorry to hear about yours.
Really, I made my minor Gender Studies before that was even a thing. I think I helped enlighten a lot of people to gender as a social construct as well as a personal identity, and the extreme diversity that's possible. If all you're doing is backlash, that's not really an improvement.