Comments on: Represent http://velorucion.wordpress.com/2007/03/30/represent/ Can I get a Witness? Thu, 02 Apr 2009 02:04:16 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Peg http://velorucion.wordpress.com/2007/03/30/represent/#comment-1014 Peg Sun, 02 Sep 2007 22:51:30 +0000 http://velorucion.wordpress.com/2007/03/30/represent/#comment-1014 Hi again! Congratulations!! You are one of the winners in the <a href="http://peggys-musings.blogspot.com/2007/09/and-winners-are.html" rel="nofollow">competition</a>! Come by for details on claiming your prize. Thanks again for entering! Hi again!

Congratulations!! You are one of the winners in the competition!

Come by for details on claiming your prize.

Thanks again for entering!

]]> By: velorucion http://velorucion.wordpress.com/2007/03/30/represent/#comment-1007 velorucion Tue, 07 Aug 2007 23:53:52 +0000 http://velorucion.wordpress.com/2007/03/30/represent/#comment-1007 Thank you for the kind words, Peg and Jennifer! Thank you for the kind words, Peg and Jennifer!

]]> By: Jennfer http://velorucion.wordpress.com/2007/03/30/represent/#comment-1006 Jennfer Tue, 07 Aug 2007 21:50:28 +0000 http://velorucion.wordpress.com/2007/03/30/represent/#comment-1006 Your students have much to benefit from your perspectives and philosophies. In my experience, the men with whom I work shy away from feminist beliefs for fear of being perceived as "weak." This is a shame considering we teach in a high school. Thanks for your riveting article about this issue. Your students have much to benefit from your perspectives and philosophies. In my experience, the men with whom I work shy away from feminist beliefs for fear of being perceived as “weak.” This is a shame considering we teach in a high school. Thanks for your riveting article about this issue.

]]> By: Peg http://velorucion.wordpress.com/2007/03/30/represent/#comment-1005 Peg Tue, 07 Aug 2007 11:18:25 +0000 http://velorucion.wordpress.com/2007/03/30/represent/#comment-1005 Excellent!! So glad you came by my site and submitted this essay to the contest. As a woman married to a man who self-identifies as a feminist, I can tell you that we both marvel at the fact that being a male and being a feminist seems a very rare condition today. And yet, he and I interact with intelligent adults on a regular basis who don't see any need for 'feminism'--it simply boggles the mind. Kudos to you, for sharing with the youth with whom you work, a new framework...the <i>lens</i> you note, through which to view our society, and the oppressions currently inherent in that society, as a whole. Best, Peg Excellent!! So glad you came by my site and submitted this essay to the contest.

As a woman married to a man who self-identifies as a feminist, I can tell you that we both marvel at the fact that being a male and being a feminist seems a very rare condition today. And yet, he and I interact with intelligent adults on a regular basis who don’t see any need for ‘feminism’–it simply boggles the mind.

Kudos to you, for sharing with the youth with whom you work, a new framework…the lens you note, through which to view our society, and the oppressions currently inherent in that society, as a whole.

Best,
Peg

]]> By: velorucion http://velorucion.wordpress.com/2007/03/30/represent/#comment-27 velorucion Sat, 31 Mar 2007 07:23:42 +0000 http://velorucion.wordpress.com/2007/03/30/represent/#comment-27 Thank you for commenting. I missed that description of the panel selection, but I'm not doubting that the panel was open to anyone that was appropriate for the conversation, as you describe above, which may have included men. What I'm worried about is that not even 20% of the field is comprised of men. It's as worrying to me as a math department that is less than 20% women, because 1) to the casual observer it spells anything but solidarity with women on the part of men and 2) to the feminist observer it spells a shunning of feminism as a serious academic enterprise such that men and women, alike, may make it a life's work. That's why the question is part of the larger question of how to show feminism's relevance to everyone, including men. Thank you for commenting.

I missed that description of the panel selection, but I’m not doubting that the panel was open to anyone that was appropriate for the conversation, as you describe above, which may have included men.

What I’m worried about is that not even 20% of the field is comprised of men. It’s as worrying to me as a math department that is less than 20% women, because 1) to the casual observer it spells anything but solidarity with women on the part of men and 2) to the feminist observer it spells a shunning of feminism as a serious academic enterprise such that men and women, alike, may make it a life’s work.

That’s why the question is part of the larger question of how to show feminism’s relevance to everyone, including men.

]]> By: Amelia Jones http://velorucion.wordpress.com/2007/03/30/represent/#comment-26 Amelia Jones Sat, 31 Mar 2007 03:39:13 +0000 http://velorucion.wordpress.com/2007/03/30/represent/#comment-26 Jennifer Doyle mentioned the premise of the inclusion of panelists -- people who have devoted much of their professional lives to exploring and promoting feminism as an intersectional and multifaceted and evershifting politics in relation to visual culture. Men were not excluded from the panel. They simply represent a proportionally tiny fragment of the writers and artists who have labored to produce a feminist visual arts dialogue over the past 40 years. I think your comments and your own activism represent the best way of enacting a feminism that continues to be viable, crucial, and pasisonately political in the present. Jennifer Doyle mentioned the premise of the inclusion of panelists — people who have devoted much of their professional lives to exploring and promoting feminism as an intersectional and multifaceted and evershifting politics in relation to visual culture. Men were not excluded from the panel. They simply represent a proportionally tiny fragment of the writers and artists who have labored to produce a feminist visual arts dialogue over the past 40 years.
I think your comments and your own activism represent the best way of enacting a feminism that continues to be viable, crucial, and pasisonately political in the present.

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