Which, one of my fave male feminist bloggers, Hugo Schwyzer, linked as part of his thinking about how he doesn't deconstruct and rectifiy his white priviledge nearly enough:
I’m tired of being one of those people whose sensitivity is so carefully tuned to some and not to others.
So I’m not giving up blogging. But something has got to change. I’ve got to get better, much better, not to increase my readership but because my future children and my current students desperately need me to be the kind of man I am not yet, in words or actions, choosing to be.
As a link he includes to Feministe shows, it's possible that breaking down one's own cultural baggage doesn't happen enough because, well, read this.
If there’s one thing I know, it’s that recovery from bad behavior happens. And if there’s another thing I know, with nearly ten years clean and sober, it’s that it happens in community. Preferably with a sponsor. So I need an anti-racism sponsor, and my project is to find one. I’ve got some ideas of where to look on campus. If I can have a boxing coach and a Pilates instructor to make my body hard, if I can have a spiritual director to teach me how to deepen my relationship with God, I sure as hell can have someone who will help open my eyes and kick my ass until I surrender forever the privileges to which I so viciously and viscerally cling.
Also, this whole blog sent to me by Shane: TheGSpot, feminism, inequality, smartness.
And then, just because the outrage channel in my brain has been worn completely and totally out, I'll let Bitch PhD tell you about how the Reps are not interested in OUR democracy, or any, really, to tell truth.
I suppose I'm tagging this a culture of life post because on the whole, these are good observations in that direction many of which I should continue to undertake myself.
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