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 (DIR) Post #AA7W7wKsBFk0BOR86a by Sherri_Ingrey@spinster.xyz
       2021-08-08T16:03:00.195300Z
       
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       This goes for the fauxine/surveillance culture being formed as well The Other’s life is characterised by uncertainty over how to interpret each interaction, with a permanent, exhausting doubt about the meaning of what is happening right now…‘Othering also alters the dominant—no one is the same as they would be if domination did not exist—but in an inverse sense; it creates dominant personalities. The characteristics of the dominant are not seen as specific characteristics but as the way to be normal. Of course they are no more normal than the characteristics of the dominated. But the dominant demand that the dominated be like them…‘But how could the Others be like the Ones, when the Ones are only Ones because they oppress the Others?‘This fact is constantly being denied & contradicted. The ways of the dominant group are not presented for what they are—as ways that can only exist through domination—but as the norm. & since the Ones’ ability to have these ways is built on the oppression of the Others, it is meaningless to suggest that the Others could ever imitate them—not tomorrow, not in a thousand years… Something that results from the Ones’ othering & alteration of these people is interpreted as these Others’ own failing & in any case their responsibility. Meanwhile, the Ones’ privileges—won on the backs of the Others—instead appear as the proper recompense for their ability to live up to the norm.’‘The Ones are those who have the right to close their door to whomever they like, to stay among their own kind, but who demand the right to go wherever they like & to feel at ease everywhere. The Others are those who are always too many in number, who are welcome nowhere, except perhaps among themselves, in a space limited to their own home—& not even there, in women’s case.’Christine Delphy, Who’s Behind the “Others”?, 1999
       
 (DIR) Post #AA8EB5doR3PLtYbkA4 by hanafiyyah@spinster.xyz
       2021-08-08T16:30:37.798627Z
       
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       @Sherri_Ingrey As always, for anyone interested also in some internal, subject -centered work in these areas, I can't recommend anything better than "Politics of Piety" by Saba Mahmood. It is, I think, a complementary read to the book you posted on the left, which I also read some years back.