Subject: Re: gender: issues
From: A R (mrgoodlife1@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Oct 06 1999 - 17:53:07 CDT
I agree with what you're saying, Julienne. I know
that we probably talked about it at the beginning of
the course, but what is the purpose of the course? We
all keep expressing opinions, but at the end of the
day are we affecting each other in anyway or are we
just going back to our own worlds and our own ways of
thinking. don't get me wrong i really enjoy
discussing these issues. both sharing my thoughts and
listening to others'.
is the purpose to cause our own disruptions and not
bow down to the classification system that is the
society we live in?
i don't mean to sound like i'm bitching. it's just
that we've been discussing so many different things
and changing gears so much that i just need a common
thread thrown to me for my own understanding of the
course.
i mean, sometimes we don't even go back to discussing
previous topics/issues that are raised. like i would
have liked to discuss the anime film we saw.
freddie.
--- Julienne Sugarek <sugarek@mail.utexas.edu> wrote:
> Ok...I think I am getting brave here. I have one
> major issue with the class
> that has been bothering me since yesterday's
> discussion and I want to see what
> you guys think about it. I guess I feel like we are
> running around in circles
> with our discussions. Yesterday we spent a good
> deal of time defining cyborg.
> And I think we decided it was someone who did not
> fit solely in any other
> category, but rather a multitude of different
> categories, depending on the
> criteria. But since the first day of class we have
> been talking about people
> who don't fit into one category, and how we should
> not force them to be
> "pigeon-holed" into a catergory. (I am especially
> thinking of Sandy's
> observation of people on a street corner trying to
> categorize other people.) So
> aren't we just categorizing the people we decided
> should not be categorized?
> And we spend a class period discussing cyborg as a
> new term, when, by the
> definition I got, we have been talking about cyborgs
> all along.
>
>
>
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