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For what it’s worth, I don’t like Bitch Lab, I don’t read her, I don’t think she’s very bright, and I think the main thing she piggybacked on recently was a comment thread to a post she didn’t author. Nice appropriation, that.
So: Don’t like Bitch Lab? Join the club, and don’t read her. Read the women she rips off instead. They’re better.
So: Don’t like Bitch Lab? Join the club, and don’t read her. Read the women she rips off instead. They’re better.
05-29-2006
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v. cool.
You know, I’m rereading the original essay now and I’m thinking (because this is near and dear to my heart):
I wonder how prevalent that notion is, still, among political folk, that “therapy” implies “there’s something wrong with you” and must needs be opposed to “*you’re* okay; there’s something wrong with society.”
I mean, yes, in the interim we’ve had the whole self-help movement and this and that and the other; and yet, I am thinking that there’s not been much of an attempt to bridge the two notions (that one creates change from the inside out *and* the outside in).
The supervision group I’m currently in (peer counselor at an LBGT outfit in NY) is led by a Gestalt-trained therapist. The way he talks about both Gestalt and the early days of the organization, which was started as a collective and, as a place to help LGBT folk some thirty years ago, of necessity politically inspired, makes me realize that actually, there probably are good ways to combine the CR template with group therapy. other than certain peoples’ use of Playback Theatre (I think mostly outside the U.S.? that I’ve heard of, anyway. friend cited its use for conflict resolution in Northern Ireland, for one thing), though, I don’t see or hear of it being done.
hmm.
…oh, and Gestalt is pretty much about the idea that there isn’t something “wrong” with you, in fact; but rather that we (collectively *and* individually, I’d say) do everything for a reason, and it’s important to, without judgment (if possible) (this is my understanding thus far) find out what that reason is. only then (I extrapolate) can you achieve authentic change.
that and the whole notion of being present in the moment, in one’s body, in the room *with* the other person(s),
which is very much a core part of the sex-positive work I’ve been doing.
OMG! mad swoonage!
there seems to be an epidemic of authorities commenting about our humble contributions to the blogosphere. I am so starstruck.
will re-read and comment forthwith.
Strikes me, if you will, that something that separates Bitch Lab from most feminist enterprises, and what may need to be explored as distinct from the Hanisch enclave approach (”Fight on, Sisters!), is that here there are men in the room, men who are sympathetic with the position that the problems of women are not seperable from the problems of people. In my reading of the seminal (no pun intended) “I want a wife” I claim the the deliberate absence of gender identifiable pronouns allows the implied thesis to be rendered as “the concept of Women’s Work, allows marriage to exploit women as not just other than but less than men. It proposes (radically) that were the expectations of a “wife” presented as a job description no person would respond. Brady pitches her argument as much to men as to women. But Bitch would seem to recognize that people are the problem, people of both genders. And, inasmuch as this is the case (if you will acccept that it is) then it is people who need to work on it, regardless of and regardful of gender.
Onward,
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