Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 12:25:06 -0700 (PDT)
From: Terrance Anthony Mac Mullan <tmacmull-AT-darkwing.uoregon.edu>
Subject: Re: Masculinity




On Wed, 10 Jul 1996, Julian Samuel wrote:

> dear Raka Shome
> 
> who cares about  "masculinity/male positionalit and nation?"
> sounds like SUCH old-fashioned containable apolitical shit -- give up and
> ask the older -- even more old-fashioned classical questions -- is the class
> struggle on and what not -- who give a hoot about this middle sexual
> apolitcal trash?
> 
> Julian
> 

For Starters....

	As a white male commited to identifying and reversing cultural 
practices which reinscribe white supremacist capitalist patriarchy 
(please see _talking back_ by bell hooks) , I 
have found that much of the oppressive attitudes/practices are intimately 
linked to western notions of the powerful/dominating male. Therefore, 
while much of the foolishness that goes on under the title "masculine 
studies" is merely "containable apolitical (white-boy) shit," there are 
those who are making the larger conections between how men are 
conditioned to think/act/love and global political systems which deny 
marginalized communities subjecthood according to parallel conditioning 
(susan bordo's _Reading the Male Body_). 

	I would respectful suggest that you familiarize yourself with 
subject matter before you trash work which many other politicaly active 
people find useful and appropriate. 

Peace 

Terrance MacMullan
Department of Philosophy
University of Oregon

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