[lbo-talk] the other diversities

Matthias Wasser matthias.wasser at gmail.com
Wed Oct 14 06:02:52 PDT 2009


On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 8:40 AM, shag carpet bomb <shag at cleandraws.com>wrote:


> At 08:19 AM 10/14/2009, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> On Oct 14, 2009, at 7:46 AM, shag carpet bomb wrote:
>>
>> At 03:56 PM 10/13/2009, Doug Henwood wrote:
>>>
>>>> No one, least of all me, is arguing that x isn't lived
>>>> through y or vice versa,
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I can't parse this sentence. What does it mean?
>>>
>>
>> Race lived through gender, gender through class, etc. etc. It's hardly
>> an original formulation.
>>
>
>
> Ok. but I need an illustration because I don't understand what _you_ mean
> by it.

Well, think of how the expectation of domestic labor, childrearing, etc. confront a working-class and professional-class woman differently. Or how a black male is regarded as criminally suspect in a way that isn't merely the sum of how males are viewed and blacks are viewed.



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