Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Sexual Difference by Luce Irigaray talks about a few interesting things in her writing. She talks about philosophy, god or gods, and the relationship these things have to men and women. The most interesting thing she talks about however is wonder, the irrevocability of roles, and how new things can make us wonder or astonish us. Man and woman, woman and man are therefore always meeting as though for the first time since they cannot stand in for one another. I shall never take the place of a man, never will a man take mine. Whatever identifications are possible, one will never exactly fill the place of the other – the on is irreducible to the other.” She then proceeds to talk about new things which may astonish us. I think Some Bodies takes this further. Some Bodies talks about new sexual roles in our society. Now more than ever before you have more homosexuals being public about their lifestyle. I think that at some level it does make you wonder, but as is says in Some Bodies, these new roles seem to intimidate the normal genders. I think this is important because it is different but it is automatically judged, and most would alienate anyone who tries to change their gender. The quote on 248 shows this, “… because the homophobic terror over performing homosexual acts, where it exists, is often also a terror over losing proper gender, it seems crucial to retain a theoretical apparatus that will account for how sexuality is regulated through the policing and the shaming of gender.”

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