Monday, December 6, 2010
Response to 12/7 Readings
After beginning the Enloe 'Being Curious about our Lack of Feminist Curiousity,' I was immediately reminded of a thought I had a couple classes back. When we were talking about soldiers and how they can get away with multitudes of human rights violations, I realized how easy it had been for me and most of society to ignore these acts and violations. It is easier to pretend that these soldiers, ones who are supposed to protect you etc, are actually heroes and saviors. They would never commit evil or violate human rights. You don't want to know what they are actually doing because it creates a sense of fear, urgency, anger which you would overwise not have. You do not want to lose your sense of 'safety.' And it is a hell of a lot easier to not have to deal with those feelings. I think that is one of the main causes of this 'lack of feminist curiousity.' Its almost a laziness. We already have so much going on in our lives...so many feminist issues on the 'home front' that we don't want to extend our feelings and efforts to reach all other important issues. Yet, we cannot just ignore things because we want life to be easier.
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I really liked your post, Maria, because you really synthesized these different readings together. We don't want to think that the people who are protecting our country, who uphold the belief that everyone has a right to equal protection are violating this safety for their own female comrades. If the people we have been idolizing as heroes and having been putting them on pedestals as the best representations of freedom take that freedom away from women, that assault and rape women while they are out being "heroes," what are we supposed to think now? However, we don't think about this topic because it brings up uncomfortable feelings that we don't want to deal with; we want to believe that the world is as wonderful and perfect as we want it to be because it is easier mentally and emotionally. However, this emotional bubble of happiness (ignorance is bliss is apt to describe our view on these issues) keeps us complacent and keeps us from questioning, so nothing ever gets out in the open or acknowledged.
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