The Rectal-Cranially Conjuncted Feminist Gaze

Here is something I have snarfed up from the web. It is a syllabus for a women's studies course called 'Images of Women'. As you will note, female narcissism (under the tutelage of feminism) knows no bounds when you inject it with growth hormones. And how very fitting it is, that women should have their own post-secondary coursework which permits them to reflect upon images of themselves:

"Course goals: This course will examine visual images of women across historical time and multiple cultures, including our own, to explore what representations can tell us about the changing perceptions of the place of woman in society. You will become familiar with theoretical perspectives in multiple disciplines including Sociology, Psychology, Art History, Film and Cultural Studies through examination of recurring themes and vast differences in representations of the feminine. While no historical survey of images could ever be complete, our sample will span from current media and print images of “tough women” heroes and entertainers to images of female deities in ancient to contemporary times. We will discover how assumptions regarding woman as nature and nature as woman have influenced science and explore real and fictional female cyborgs. Throughout the course, you will have the opportunity to bring in images of women from many sources for class discussion and analysis as we test out an array of theories to understand how visual images of women are constructed and read in order to create gendered identity, space, and expectations in society. You will leave the course with a critical eye and the ability to analyze visual information well beyond representations of the feminine."

Feminism encourages women to become "infinitely interested in themselves". Unfolding microcosms within microcosms, petals within petals, rorschachs within rorschachs, gestalts within gestalts, labia minora enfolding labia even more minora, all the way down the spiralling ladder of cognitive involution approaching zero as a limit!

What women are being taught is to interpret things through a particular set of goggles. That "critical eye" is nothing better than a critical attitude -- and anybody can have a critical attitude! For example, any MRA worth his salt has a critical attitude. And so does any rebellious adolescent. A critical attitude does not bestow any form of higher wisdom. Granted, it equips you with a very useful toolkit -- but "wisdom" arrives in a separate package altogether!

Such studies also supply women with a discourse and a specialized jargon that sounds very intimidating to uninitiated outsiders who don't know the lingo, and hence don't know for certain WHAT they know (or don't know) -- which stupifies them, as a deer frozen by the headlights, into acquiescent self-doubt.

However, what I find especially concerning is that students will leave the course with "the ability to analyze visual information well beyond representations of the feminine." Yikes! Evidently they want more than just "womanspace". They want all the space there is!

The complete four-page PDF file may be downloaded here:

sociweb.tamu.edu/faculty/henderson/documents/imagw_syl07.pdf