I think we should market those samplers. It really does, though (drive me nuts). It, like the war machine, is so massive and pervasive that half the time it's invisible because you're standing in it ("you're soaking in it!"). And when you stand at an angle that does get a clear view, it either makes you furious or queasy. Or both. Shee-yit!
Anyway. I've mostly been thinking about the parental caretaking stuff because of doing it, but I didn't actually make my tie-in to your actual topic, which is that it all - the entire structure of how care is (and isn't) taken of individual people - is very informed (or even defined) by the structure of gender, and its correlate marriage.
Which, tangentially, is part of why it also drives me nuts that gay marriage is the defining issue of public political discourse about gayness. Not that I don't get it about health insurance and taxes and social recognition and stuff, but I also get that there are political reasons underlying why it's so often the institution of marriage that is the doorway to these things.
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Date: 2007-06-28 02:55 pm (UTC)I think we should market those samplers. It really does, though (drive me nuts). It, like the war machine, is so massive and pervasive that half the time it's invisible because you're standing in it ("you're soaking in it!"). And when you stand at an angle that does get a clear view, it either makes you furious or queasy. Or both. Shee-yit!
Anyway. I've mostly been thinking about the parental caretaking stuff because of doing it, but I didn't actually make my tie-in to your actual topic, which is that it all - the entire structure of how care is (and isn't) taken of individual people - is very informed (or even defined) by the structure of gender, and its correlate marriage.
Which, tangentially, is part of why it also drives me nuts that gay marriage is the defining issue of public political discourse about gayness. Not that I don't get it about health insurance and taxes and social recognition and stuff, but I also get that there are political reasons underlying why it's so often the institution of marriage that is the doorway to these things.