----- Original Message ----- From: wrobert at uci.edu
I'm skeptical of this division of the 'genuinely felt' and the 'learned.' Anne Fausto-Sterling does a good job showing the way that this assumed division constructs gendered and sexed assumptions. More significantly, I'm not sure why you need reference to some sort of 'nature' in order to challenge structures of exploitation and domination.
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If a man feels exploited and dominated, it must be because he is not buying the prevailing social mythmaking that would have him accept this as natural. So, what I'm saying, is that if we are all trained to accept the status quo and if all values are relative , in reference to what do we feel exploited and dominated?
Joanna