unmotivated to post January 18, 2007
It’s not like I have a lacking of fodder: My recent viewing of “Jesus Camp”, my newly opened improv show, Dina’s week long illness. Maybe it’s just the finals week blues, but I just don’t feel like saying anything (except that I wore my Citizens to school for the first time today and got “mad compliments” from all the teenage girls. One students shook her head, smiled affectionately, and said “You would, Klein…” Not sure about that one…)
That’s it! Someone start a thread of comments on something interesting (and by “someone” I mean “Matt” and by “something interesting” I mean “George Simmel”.)
That just disappoints me, Matthew.
i’ll have to start checking in more regularly if i’m gonna get called out… geez
i’m wondering what people make of the ‘accidental’ attributed to this feminist. (1) is she ‘accidental’ in that she wishes she weren’t one, but keeps on messing up and being one? (2) is ‘accidental’ meant in contrast to ‘essential,’ [accidental feminist vs. essential feminist] in that the perspectives do not begin with or assume feminism, but from the ‘essentials’ of her thinking result feminist directives as ‘accidental’ [i.e. non-essential] features? if so, how does this work? (3) was she an accident? (4) is it something else all together?
i patiently await your suggestions. -MM
oh wow… all this time i though this site was the occidental feminist. silly me.
I had assumed, upon beginning this site, that it was #2. Abba (my granfather, for all two of you who read this and are not related to me) once introduced me to someone by saying, “This is my granddaughter; she used to be a feminist.” (This was in my more conservative phase). So I answered, “I was never a feminist”, in that I don’t percieve myself as such, persay. I’ve always said that I’m far too open-minded to have strong convictions, a quip that I’ve wondered about recently; as in, do I have the luxury not to have convictions. Similar to the question, “can you teach high school English without teaching ethics?” And if the answer to either is no, then it’s probably also true that I do have a default ideology that pervades my thought, speech, and behavior, but, in a way, it is “accidental”, as in, despite my efforts not to choose it, it is a part of me.
Tear apart my vague use of sociological and philosophical terms please; we are nothing if we are not precise (or, as Socrates said, and I am reminded of Matt every time I pass the plaque with this quote on it at school: “The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms”.)
the site will thus be renamed: “Accidental [in the Aristotelian sense] Feminist”
everyone good with that?