Sins Only a Feminist Can Commit
What I've learned from this week of blogging is that the largest obstacle to any sort of healing or unity is the inability to get past self-interest. I'm not talking about the obvious kind of self-interest when you're glossing over your own bum in the passing window, but the self-interest when inventory is done only for your vault; measuring your net losses or gains. It's not that simple.
...Insights and possibilities for social transformation are often trapped by ego-related attitudes and claims regarding the ownership of truth... -Leela Fernandes, Transforming Feminist Practice
Translation: Believing your view of the room is the only legitimate one.
Vanity. No wonder it's one of the 7 deadly sins.
Feminist Vanity? Now we're REALLY talking destruction.
sole ownership of truth? Sounds like patriarchy and hierarchy all over again to me. great thoughts and lovely photo- I want to be in this room from every view.
ReplyDeleteI agree entirely. Simply from a theoretical point of view, claiming a metanarrative is traditinally a very masculine approach to theory. Then, with the metanarrative comes a dogma - you're either with us or against us, which absolutely breeds infighting. There will always be disagreement, but discourse is surely the way forward, not sniping.
ReplyDelete(And I've a wonder at my nerve to say that - I've had spats in my time. It's important to pack it in though, and I recognise defending my 'feminism' was partly defending 'myself', which is in keeping with what you say about feminist vanity.)
mhmmm yes
ReplyDeleteSudy, thanks for these recent posts. Sanity-inducing.
ReplyDeleteAnd yeah, that's a seriously lovely room. I would like to be there now please.
Also much agreed. This is the thought I've kept coming back to and finally ended up writing about. Except I was way more unnecessarily wordy about it.
ReplyDeleteIsn't that room divine? I spent more time photographing it than actually *sitting* in it! I loved it. It belonged to a friend's friend's friend and was generous enough to allow an acquaintence to stay there for a much needed rest in Florida.
ReplyDeleteAnd, Lina, aren't we all guilty of feminist vanity? Ugh...I'm not excluding myself from that confession!
yup.
ReplyDeleteand yeah, love those photos.