I know there are some people in here who are better at feminist theory than I am.

[leahbobet]

This is a thought only partially brought on by this video, which is beautiful and strange and still sitting on the edge of a really toxic meme that has been bugging and bugging me more lately. I don't say this to slam said video. I say this because it made me think of the rest and I'm going to lift its symbolic architecture in a flagrant and shocking way to get my point across without a big, ranty, oversharing kind of explanation that you don't actually care about.

I wish there wasn't still this...expected dichotomy between dresses and horses.

I want both the dress and the horse.

I like them both. Simultaneously, even! And more seriously? One of those things alone won't be enough to close the little cartoon hole in me. It isn't enough. It's a choice between kinds of incompleteness, and that's a stupid kind of choice to give someone, and I don't personally want to make it because there's no reason to accept half-rations just because that's what's on offer.

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So. There a theoretical home for that line of thought?

Comments

[txanne.livejournal.com]

IMO your icon sums it up. But I've been out of the formal theory world for a long time now.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

I dunno -- patriarchy's more about them. This is more about me. Even though yes, those things are tangled, etc. etc.