When the internet and the real world collide
This week in Literary Analysis, we're studying post-structuralism. I'm fighting and struggling, I read the chapter three times, then I Googled on top of that. I just did not understand it.
Until.
I found one site that explained how post-structuralism is the basis for the original feminism movement and challenging non-existent "transcendent truths" and assumptions about gender and sex, that everything we believe is a social construct that needs to be torn down and examined at a microscopic scale, and that viewing every situation through as many different perspectives as possible is an absolute requirement, but that even then, it's impossible for an unaffected person to understand any issue.
And then I got it.
And now I'm explaining it to my classmates, and I'm getting thanked by the professor for understanding it so well and making posts that make the concept easier for everyone to understand.
So I'm here to say, "Thank you, internet." Specifically, "thank you, sf-d and ffr." Thank you for explaining privilege to me. Thank you for teaching me to see things from so many different perspectives, and thank you for opening my eyes to the fact that I don't understand some issues, and I never will, but that giving up trying isn't an option. Thank you for rubbing my face in my own mistakes and letting me stick around long enough to figure out where I fucked up and how to try to stop doing it.
I'd never have gotten around to understanding post-structuralism without you, and I thank you for that. And now that I do understand it, I've got a much deeper appreciation for just what it is that social justice theory is trying to accomplish. So, yeah. Thank you. :)
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Until.
I found one site that explained how post-structuralism is the basis for the original feminism movement and challenging non-existent "transcendent truths" and assumptions about gender and sex, that everything we believe is a social construct that needs to be torn down and examined at a microscopic scale, and that viewing every situation through as many different perspectives as possible is an absolute requirement, but that even then, it's impossible for an unaffected person to understand any issue.
And then I got it.
And now I'm explaining it to my classmates, and I'm getting thanked by the professor for understanding it so well and making posts that make the concept easier for everyone to understand.
So I'm here to say, "Thank you, internet." Specifically, "thank you, sf-d and ffr." Thank you for explaining privilege to me. Thank you for teaching me to see things from so many different perspectives, and thank you for opening my eyes to the fact that I don't understand some issues, and I never will, but that giving up trying isn't an option. Thank you for rubbing my face in my own mistakes and letting me stick around long enough to figure out where I fucked up and how to try to stop doing it.
I'd never have gotten around to understanding post-structuralism without you, and I thank you for that. And now that I do understand it, I've got a much deeper appreciation for just what it is that social justice theory is trying to accomplish. So, yeah. Thank you. :)
This entry was originally posted at http://brihana25.dreamwidth.org/196891.html. Please comment there using OpenID.