Was just reminded of a discussion I had with an instructor (and second-wave feminist) for a gender studies class who was baffled by women who chose to wear corsets. When I told her that if they are choosing to wear them, what’s the difference.
She refused to accept that women might choose to wear clothes that were or still are imposed by a male dominated society, and that they were oppressing themselves by doing this.
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It was a colossally bad take and even three years later I still think about it.
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This same woman told me I was wrong about something that I was in fact right about, but I never got the chance to prove it (this was for an Arthurian lit class).
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For those interested, I said that Perceval sat at the Siege Perilous and she said that never happened in any Arthurian lit, it was always Galahad.
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Fun fact: the earlier tradition has Perceval, and I was right. But I was ill the next class and I never got the chance it bring it up again.
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Because we had a different instructor for the rest of the module.
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That still pisses me off btw. A quick google would have sufficed too but instead of asking for more info on where I read it (an article on the Lia Fail and the Siege Perilous) she just told me I was wrong and I felt super embarrassed.
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