i just woke up

Soo much love to Keren. <3 thump thump.

And, now that it's 12:15 I've effectively fucked up enough to be able to say with no degree of pride that I've slept through both of my classes today. Shit.

unpacking gross politics

Okay, so have any of you actually read Sheila Jeffreys? She's driving me insane.

She prefer[s] to describe masculinity as 'male-dominant behavior' and femininity as 'female-subordinate behaviour.' No muliplicity of genders can emerge from this perspective [...] There can only be ways of expressing dominance and submission by other than the usual actors. The genders remain two [...] All those embraced within queer politics whose inclusion rests on the performance of male dominance and female submission by unusual actors, drag, butch/femme role-playing, transvestism or transsexualism are engaging in behaviours that are strictly time-limited. Their behaviours of choice, to which they give huge attention, financial investment, and parts of their bodies, are not imaginable in a world beyond male dominance. Rather than being somehow revolutionary, they are historical anachronisms.

Replace the words "beyond male dominance" in the second to last sentence with "living under the one Word of the one God." Seriously it sounds like fucking right-wing bullshit and it makes me sad that this is the thrust of her argument. She makes some decent points about how queer politics can be dominated by the interests of white men, sure, but when all this polemical poorly-written critique leads up to this I just can't even deal.

So I guess I'm asking how to deal with this, since I'm going to have to write a paper dealing with it. So far I'm just being emotive in my margin notes. None of her argument seems particularly well-constructed, but I'm having a hard time taking her on her own terms and deconstructing it at that. Suggestions?