Comments on: On Sexual Harassment

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Seventh Carnival of Radical Feminists « Carnival of Radical Feminists — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:28:44 +0000

[...] posts on sexual harrassment: one from Professor Zero and one from Kitty [...]

By: ekittyglendower

ekittyglendower — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 18:55:16 +0000

I started to respond here, but the comment became too long so I decided to make it an entry since I tend to neglect my blog.

Thanks for the thoughts.

I agree with you. It is hard to see the harassment until after or until it has become uncontrollable.

By: profacero

profacero — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:45:50 +0000

And it’s a good response, too … theory-heads, visit sptc!

By: scratchy888

scratchy888 — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 05:08:55 +0000

I replied on the other site.

By: profacero

profacero — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 02:44:32 +0000

Ah, yes – another reason not to totally reject Lacan, of whom I believe in being careful, but still there are things he picks up on, and things in him worth considering. I’ll link to my Lacan post for future reference:
http://sptc.wordpress.com/2007/06/05/should-we-re-study-lacan/

By: scratchy888

scratchy888 — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 01:07:19 +0000

Well for some reason, which I do not understand, we don’t refer to mutilations as mutilations. But Lacan kind of picks up on it, at least in terms of his idea that the social constitution of ourselves as gendered beings is also the social constitution of a lack.

By: profacero

profacero — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:53:10 +0000

And yes – you have to mutilate workers in order to keep them in line. What I did not realize at all at the time was that Reeducation’s goal was to form mutilated women … and/or assumed that anyone’s goal would merely be to accommodate their mutilation better. Now I get it. I also get what it feels like to be in abusive relationship, i.e. I know the physical signs. I got them immediately upon entering Reeducation but did not know them for what they were.

By: scratchy888

scratchy888 — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 23:32:19 +0000

It is very harmful not to address reality, yes. But the ruling class see no harm in mutilated workers. Surely it does not limit their efficiency — as workers — at all.

By: profacero

profacero — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:56:01 +0000

Yes indeed. Related to this, too, is the disagreement I have with those forms of ‘therapy’ which say, just start acting right and then things will actually be all right. What if knowing how to act right is not the problem … ? … I think it is very harmful not to address reality.

By: charlie

charlie — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 19:33:21 +0000

(Socially derived) Idiosyncratic normative frameworks and thus, normative dissonance when an individual is transplanted literally or metaphorically, have much to answer for.