Comments on: Who has a right to talk? http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntucat/who-has-a-right-to-talk/ Random musings from the radical feminist Christian antiracist left - some having to do with Ubuntu Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:52:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: aspiringgeek http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntucat/who-has-a-right-to-talk/comment-page-1/#comment-1346 aspiringgeek Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:40:11 +0000 http://ubuntucat.wordpress.com/?p=283#comment-1346 I guess we are all ultimately visual creatures - we can't entirely let go of what our perceived notions. A man can never be taken seriously 100% in feminist discourse because all we can see is that you are a man. Likewise for racial discourses. It doesn't matter if what you say makes more sense than others 'native' to that particular discourse because if you visually don't belong, that line of attack to discredit your argument is always there. And thanks for your book recommendations! I guess we are all ultimately visual creatures – we can’t entirely let go of what our perceived notions. A man can never be taken seriously 100% in feminist discourse because all we can see is that you are a man. Likewise for racial discourses. It doesn’t matter if what you say makes more sense than others ‘native’ to that particular discourse because if you visually don’t belong, that line of attack to discredit your argument is always there.

And thanks for your book recommendations!

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