Forgive me. I have never ever had/read extensively/written on a blog before so I am about to string together two probably very random thoughts.
Firstly, I know that we're going to get into this some more this semester so I won't start another long digression here but I am very interested in the concept of "Gender Identity Disorder" and all of the implications that it encompasses. I wonder how far removed from our “normal” societies even a lesbian man would have to be removed in order to really be a part of the idea of a lesbian society. I just question if there could be a complete removal from current society when we have been socialized to be a member (despite the possibility of being a good or bad member; either way society will have an effect). This is probably getting a little bit jumbled because it is late and I am tired but I’m going to try to complete this thought anyways. I just think that perhaps Wittig’s idea about a lesbian society would not work very well at all. Perhaps it would be a grand possibility if there was not a removal process but rather society was just born that way, but I’m not entire sure there is a way for an entirely lesbian society to emerge out of a heterosexual society. Also, I know that my aunt considered herself to be heterosexual and was happily married for 20 years but is now divorced and living with her partner Patricia. What happens when an individual’s ideas about life change in this society? Are they completely ostracized? Or perhaps there is then the possibility for the person to bring down the society so to speak and draw it back to the ideals of dominant masculinity. Perhaps none of this is coherent and perhaps I am thinking way too much about this but I just wonder seriously about a lot of the ideas that we have been discussing in class. I know that the authors are putting forth ideals of how things should work but I am just questioning if they could, even ideally.
Secondly, this does not have much to do with the readings or class discussion but I did laugh at the title Hysteria. I know that this doesn't have to do much with the post but it just made me think of the "wandering uterus" disorder that the Egyptians believed in that was described by the ancient Greeks as hysteria. We mentioned it in my abnormal psychology class in a discussion on early ideas about mental illness and how to cure it they would make the females smell something strong to drive the uterus back to its proper place. I’ve had many days where I just think, “something is just not right,” and it makes me laugh to think perhaps this is the solution. Just to point something out though that is perchance a little closer in relevance, I just realized that in looking at the section on hysteria in my abnormal book, they are all about women and their aches and pains. Because it is, of course, only females who become hysterical and act “mad.” Right.
24 January 2009
Hysterical Lesbian Society
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