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.
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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Super bad take. If I'd ever been told "choose: feminism or corsetry"....lemme get back to you on that????
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Yeah it was weird. I think there was something about a woman who could lace her waist very small that she saw on TV and was shocked and upset at a woman altering her body like that. I made the point that body modification is practiced in various ways and isn’t inherently bad.
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