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[–]MarkTwainiac 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

That paper is too much heavy sledding for me. I've never been a big fan of "the academy" or the infighting within its ivy-covered walls.

But I read Foucault back in the 70s, and probably am one of the few - perhaps the only one? - in the online GC feminist community who actually met Foucault.

Not only did I meet him, but as a favor to my alma mater I spent an afternoon and evening with him circa 1979/80. During our lunch, I told him I was researching/writing about how female people in the West tend to construct our sense of self/self-concepts, and that I and others were of the view that there are marked differences between the ways males construct their sense of self and the ways females do. Foucault's shocked facial expression and sputtering response suggested he'd never thought of such a thing. Out of politeness, and due to the amount of wine poured and imbibed during our lunch, we went on to other topics and became unnaturally convivial. I got quite tipsy.

Later on in our time spent together after we'd gone for a long post-luncheon walk, Foucault showed me some of the scat porn he'd collected while in the US.

[–]BEB[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I hope you write a detailed herstory of your lunch w Foucault for posterity!

[–]MarkTwainiac 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It never seemed significant to me before. But now I've realized that women of your and my age and life histories need to recount and document our experiences for posterity. And to do so on paper. Coz so much of history and women's experience is now being erased from the internet.

[–]BEB[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It is so frightening - In my crusade against the Equality Act, I was on the phone with a US women's organization that I had donated to in the past, trying to explain to the not-too-young(but much younger than me) woman who had answered the phone that by supporting the Equality Act the organization was erasing almost everything its founders had fought for.

It was then that I realized that these younger women, working for feminist organizations, had no idea that women had actually had to fight for women's sports and women's spaces. This is because US feminist organizations have been taken over by sinister forces actively erasing US feminism's own history.

Feminist organizations not only have been Trojan Horsed by the Big Gender, but they are actively engaged in erasing feminist history!