How terrible, to expect people`to adhere to norms. I mean, that's really bad. It's judgmental and you shouldn't do that. No no no.
Worse: the idea that some norms are better than others. Very elitist white male and Eurocentric racist and imperialist. Gasp. Bad.
And criticising peiople for contradicting themselves, thaty's judgmental, normative, white male and Eurocentric too. It was white Euriopean males who invented logic and imposed on everyobe as a tool of domination. Except they stole it from Black African Egyptians. But still, it's Bad. Like being judgmental. Except about imposing white male Eurocentric norms on people.
(Sheesh. Are we going into "I just got my brain wash=ed by Politically Correct Shampoo and I Can't Do A Thing With It" mode?)
--- joanna <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
> Eric wrote:
>
> > Isn't criticizing people for not writing "clear"
> prose really
> > criticizing them for not adhering to a norm? And
> isn't this norm
> > developed within a society that privileges the
> white, the male, the
> > heterosexual, and the European? Why are, eg,
> Spivak and Butler
> > supposed to write like Chomsky, Orwell, and
> Bertrand Russell?
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> Funny you should mention Spivak. Some twenty-five
> years ago, a friend
> and I attended a lecture by Spivak at UC Berkeley.
> While she spoke we
> sat rapt and dazzled. After the lecture, we were
> walking back to the car
> when, at the same time, we turned to eachother and
> said "she said nothing."
>
> Of course "the nothing" was something; it was an
> exposition of the
> language we would all have to learn to speak in
> order to get prestigious
> jobs. Otherwise, it was nothing. And not the
> pregnant eastern nothing
> either. Nothing, nothing. I don't deny that on other
> occasions she might
> have actually said something. I just wasn't there to
> witness it.
>
> Joanna
>
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