Several real parents, in Europe and the US, have also decided to raise their children without revealing their gender.
Is this going to be a standard norm in the future? Are we going to be required to do so? How about finding as many gender neutral names? Or maybe even neutralizing the gender of a name so that all names can still be used.
titanesses lying under the mountains
living under a rock
Castration?
Castration is taking away from power- looking like the lesser. Because when a man is castrated he looses the most signifying aspect of his manhood and therefore is diminished. What is good about him anymore? What is valuable about him anymore without his phallus?
Though masculine sexu- ality gravitates around the penis, engendering that centralized body (in political anatomy) under the dictatorship of its parts, woman does not bring about the same regionalization which serves the couple head/genitals and which is inscribed only within boundaries.
Diego cannot remain faithful to Frida.. his central focus is through his penis.
so few women have as yet won back their body
When Frida see's Diego sleeping with her sister she goes to Paris and spends intimate time with several different people- both men and women. Here she is showing that she is winning her body back and enjoying her physical being selfishly instead of shutting herself away from experience for Diego.
ardor
enthusiasm or passion
riveted
held
We have no womanly reason to pledge allegiance to the negative.
We don't need to feed into the masculine ideal- when the discourse of the feminine is a completely different subject/language/concept.. it is separate from the masculine
no way obliged to deposit our lives in their banks of lack
we the feminine do not need to feed into this concept of the masculine power.
refutable
falsifiable
that part of you that leaves a space between yourself and urges you to inscribe in language your woman's style.
definition of the other
first at two levels that cannot be separated.
two levels of the feminine revolution in writing
e are black and we are beau- tiful.
connecting to the dark and dangerous in the previous paragraph. the unknown
f she is a whole, it's a whole composed of parts that are wholes
because women are givers and robbers... just like when in the traffic of women it talked about how women are the ones that develop culture because they teach things from their culture for generations
subversive
undermine the power and authority of
overflow at the lips she will cover the foam
this almost makes me think that she's saying that a feminine language needs to be analyzed as another from the male language.. the feminine discourse presents different meaning than that of the male discourse
Other
is this the unconscious that Lacan also talks about?