The day after tomorrow I’m leaving for the Texas conference. The topic of the conference is borders. Everybody will be all, “Borders are bad, let’s bring them down.” And I’ll be all, “Borders are not all bad, and fluidity is cruel and unforgiving.”
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I wonder how much the “borders” discussion will be shaped by the outcome of the election…
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It’s a feminist conference, so I’m sure there will be a lot of boozing it up to celebrate Hillary’s triumph.
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Is it a Hispanicist feminist or general feminist conference?
My own idea is that if you want to see what fluidity will be devestating for women in general (those with access to enough capital will be able to protect themselves from it) .
Just as water seeks its own level and any place that you have different cultural norms mixing – the result tends to be a least common denominator and the number of cultures where women are treated as property outnumber those where they’re not.
Just as you don’t see Orthodox Jewish or Muslims settling on eating pork occasionaly in cafeterias, I don’t see those (or many other cultures) settling for seeing women as autonomous human beings….
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It’s Hispanic Studies. And the whole “let’s bring down all borders and happiness will ensue” is such an outdated, hippyish approach that I’d think we should be over it by now.
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