i wrote this entire post about this feminist critical theory is presented a class discussion on with Sharon Tran and the DUMB website deleted the main portion when it “failed” to save my post! >:-(

to make matters worse, i didn’t even want to write about the theory but i felt i needed to put up an in-depth look at my academics, at Prof Faherty’s advice of course.

no deal.

Evidently, WordPress wants to keep all these ideas to itself!

this is like SkyNet in the Terminator. it all starts with a simple deleted blog entry and next thing you know, we have this…

a deleted blog entry = the possible destruction of humans PERIOD

so in an effort to recapture the essence of what i was writing about initially, here is an excerpt from my response paper from my poli sci seminar course…

“In Mari Matsuda’s keynote speech presented at Yale Law School, she claimed that feminists would assert that “the personal is the political”. This notion seems to ring true when viewing the works and careers of many minority women in academia (or other professional fields such as law). In accordance to the Matsuda reading, the presence of a disenfranchised group member such as an African American woman in Law School is a political statement in itself. This position transfigures the person into a being forced into “shifting consciousness”, which produces “sometimes madness, sometimes genius, sometimes both” (Matsuda 3). The woman isn’t allowed to exist as an African American woman when in the presence of a white woman professor when the topics of violence against women are discussed. Her racial affiliation has to take a back seat to her womanhood.  Her body becomes the political statement in her attempts to constantly shift her shape to fit the given situation while still holding on to the elements of herself that she is forced to submerge. She cannot afford the luxury of merely being herself. There is always a category she is forced to conform to.”

*thanks wordpress for ruining my post and mood. its bad enough im staying in on a friday night to do school work. last thing i need to an angry website.

i’m outta here.

peace