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September 7, 2006
Feminist Carnival, Again
At the beginning of the summer I strayed from my commitment to blogging about feminism, but there at the end, when I started preparing for Sunstone, I got it back.... Anyway, the current carnival is up at Redemption Blues. I've perused some of the other very fine offerings--in particular I was struck by this post about the Stained Glass Ceiling: Rankism in Action on My Left Wing. The author, Breakingranks, neatly summarized my experience with Mormonism:
Lately, PR folk have been fond of the idea that markets are conversations. This implies a level playing field where people negotiate as equals and make fair exchanges. However, the spiritual authority hijacks the market. The spiritual authority stands on a platform and preaches to the masses. Spiritual authority is one (man's) vision imposed on all others, winning pre-eminence through guile, mass mobilization, and acts of verbal violence. The spiritual authority dictates reality, recording their vision on the world as if people were blank tapes. Perhaps spiritual authority does win in the marketplace of ideas and values, but perhaps we should ask ourselves why there should be a marketplace at all. And if there is a market, doesn't a diverse world imply niche markets of ideas instead of some beady-eyed guy shouting transcend, transcend, transcend!
Also wonderful: this post, Owning Beauty, on Basket of Eggs, about the significance of a beautiful blue dress she'd made.
Posted by holly at September 7, 2006 12:26 AM
The post was too long. Couldn't get into it. :-)
The breasts post is fantastic! Wow. You really hit a nerve. In those comments, it becomes apparent that we have violent need to separate physical attraction from other kinds of attraction. Breasts are a real battleground in the general war zone that is women's bodies. Great point about the way women themselves internalize the notion that some get to count as real "T's," while others do not, as if those sub-"T" breasts almost do not physically exist.
Thanks for visiting my blog. See you in the Carnivals.
P.S. I am a lapsed knitter in addition to being a lapsed sewer.
Dale, you are so hard to please! Margaret, glad to have met another PA academic who also knits and sews.