Question for you out there

[adrienmundi]

Does the positionality of power enable malaise? More specifically, is it only the priveleged who have the capacity for malaise?

Contextually, this came up in conversation with She Who is Resistant, who maintains that the above is absolutely, undeniably true. Me, I'm not so sure.

Comments

[fairyhead.livejournal.com]

At the time, when I was feeling distinctly not-priveleged, was probably when I had the strongest and most recurring feelings of malaise. I think She Who is Resistant is making the assumption that people who aren't or don't feel priveleged are in too much pain/to oppressed to be able to feel malaise.

Then again, knowing that I fall into her dubious definition of unpriveleged, I feel kind of offended that she would presume to know what I may or may not feel. Damn! I've had a tough enough time learning that I'm not and don't have to be a victim, to have these supposed feminists trying to push me right back into being victimized. Bah, I think I'll go scrub off my evil patriarchal make up, take off my objectifying skirt and go bash men for being the cause of all things bad ...

[adrienmundi]

Hey, wait a minute... doesn't SWiR wear makeup, skirts, present a well-coiffed and -tailored image, and all that stuff? Now I'm confused...

Note to self: never let anti-authoritarian impulses calcify into dogma.

[fairyhead.livejournal.com]

I think that it's ok to be girly and all, as long as you don't *enjoy* it. Instead, you must always keep in mind that you're doing it to play The Game, in an effort to stop The Man from Keeping You Down.

Go check out the NOW web site, I'm sure they'll tell you all the rules ...