i can cut the mustard well enough
so i feel a lot better about NFA than i did yesterday. i’m just gonna mostly work my ass off so that next year there is no question about whether this girl gets to go or not. whee. also, i told them i want to be a platformer and interper. because platforming is where its at right now and because interping means reading poetry and poetry is for fools and hippies and i am a member of the latter category. i also told them i’d kill them if they tried to split up brandon and i. brandon also echoed similar sentiment. this is good. because i want to debate with brandon more than almost anything else. and they don’t want to split up jotto and stevis nor tonya and sarah nor annaleigh and marcus nor joe and jackie nor ryan and colleague x. i think we should all start calling whoever ryan’s colleague becomes “colleague x” and never explain why. this person will just have to get an xanga like the rest of us.
women’s studies went well. it got me all psyched up about defeating the hetero-normative paradigm. consequently, this is my new favorite phrase and scapegoat of oppression. “Clitorectomies in Africa? Sounds like the hetero-normative paradigm to me.” Also, someone used the word whore house (bethanee) and someone got offended (jessica). this is mostly ridiculous. i like the word whore because it derives from high priestess. and the role these women would fulfill in our society is to show us unconditional love.
my night was pretty much insane in terms of drama and other violence that insued. by violence i mean word violence. like really angry instant messages.
i’ve been thinking about the neutrality theory espoused by my friend daniel. and i think perhaps its mostly right. the key is to not specify everything. rape is probably not neutral. but sex is. and rape is just violent sex or nonconsensual or you know non-neutral-in-the-bad-way sex. and i had a conversation with courtney last night about how i think that even though rape is a really ugly word it still tries to foucault us into thinking its something different than sex. and then society doesn’t understand all of the sexual issues that are later associated with rape victims because they are like “whoa rape isn’t sex.” i find myself unable to develop this argument. but i’ll work on it some more.