tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33813337.post5255326902493069161..comments2023-09-12T06:18:38.552-04:00Comments on The World in the Satin Bag: A Disturbing Vision of WomanhoodAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13571452656553970472noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33813337.post-78349845164371749132011-04-15T16:01:24.856-04:002011-04-15T16:01:24.856-04:00Oh, sure. But we have to get over that, somehow. ...Oh, sure. But we have to get over that, somehow. We have to realize that the world is ever a sea of changing power relations...apathy or ignorance is really no longer an excuse for letting bad things go on in the world. I'm not saying we have to lay down everything we're doing to solve all the problems, because then we'd never get anything done, but we should at least acknowledge that doing nothing about at least one or two problems is simply letting things stand. We become complicit. That's a problem.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13571452656553970472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33813337.post-65296166882159171122011-04-14T22:52:13.784-04:002011-04-14T22:52:13.784-04:00The most frustrating thing about people's dism...The most frustrating thing about people's dismissal of issues like this, is that the two arguments used are completely at odds with each other. On the one hand, the world "isn't like that anymore" (i.e., it's gotten better) so therefore it shouldn't be a concern. On the other hand, when pointed out that there's still a long way to go, the feeling that nothing can be changed/they can't personally effect anything/things should be accepted as they are is used. But the latter argument completely dismisses the first argument - that's things have already changed and gotten better. Why, then, this sense of ineffectualness? If things can and have gotten better, why can't people comprehend that that's exactly why they should keep trying, and why it's important for each successive generation to keep trying, because that's precisely how things DO get better?<br /><br />I personally think it's an immaturity - 17 and 18 year olds obviously have this, and adults that do simply never mature beyond a certain level of self-absorbtion. When young, we want to believe all the hardships came before us, and now we're luckily (non-senically) somehow living in the near-perfect point in history. Which of course is never true. But oh, how hard it is to drop that illusion.Dave B.http://www.killingthegrizzly.comnoreply@blogger.com