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[labellementeuse]

1. I just friended bakebakebake. Boy, was that a dumb idea.

2. So so SO behind on comments, and I'm very sorry, but I'm just reaching that stage in a big project where like - it's due monday, and on thursday you realise you really should knuckle down to it, but you get home late and someone just leant you Farscape s4 and Peacekeeper Wars so you watch some of that and crash, and then Friday you have work in the middle of the day so you don't do anything in the morning and of course you're tired when you get home so you decide it can wait til Saturday, and on Saturday you watch just one episode of Farscape that turns into the whole season (and you also knit a whole mitten and bake a big ole batch of peanut butter chocolate chip cookies) and then it's Sunday morning and holy shit, it's due tomorrow! It's amazing how you can procrastinate by doing *nothing.*

3. Was there ever a Greek hero whose tragic flaw was procrastination? If not why not?

4. So anyway I'm trying to do SCREEDS of reading for this damn essay - which is 3,500 words which is long for a first-year class and he's all "You must show serious scholarship" blah blah crap blah, anyway we got to pick our topic and I picked Rousseau and feminism for shits and giggles. And my god there's this one critic who is just an asshole! I don't like him! At all! Joel Schwartz, The Sexual Politics of Jean-Jacques Rousseau or something - anyway, what a jerk. I'm so het up about what a jerk I think he is I'm not sure I'm going to be able to write on him while maintaining a standard of decency/ without generating into "This critic's a jerk! A jerk I say! And by the way, loser, when feminists say women should try to be independent it's not because they're evil man-haters who want to do away with men [EVEN THOUGH ROUSSEAU TOTALLY WANTED TO DO AWAY WITH WOMEN, which is funny considering how fond he was of knocking them up, the big slutty hypocrite] anyway, it's because feminists think women and men shouldn't have to relate in a way where men have all the e.g. strength power and money and women provide the e.g. breasts, housework and uteri."

Jerkoff. Also, heterosexist jerkoff. Parenting is not restricted to man/woman, wanker. (NB: he doesn't say it should be, but it's a fundamental relationship he uses to examine JJR's sexual politics.) And I can't get all angry because I only have time to read the introduction and conclusion and what if I miss a stunning treatise on women's rights and LGBTQ rights and single parent rights in the middle? (I don't think so though, because I skimmed the notes and the index and there's a lot of stuff about how women are bad at math and shouldn't be in the army.)

Comments

[eavanmoore.livejournal.com]

What I wonder is why anyone would procrastinate by doing something they don't actually like, or that bores them. I do that. It's baffling. Procrastination in general baffles me.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

I do that, too, and if I hadn't had a whole season of Farscape to chew through my kitchen would probably be very tidy right now. But well, I did, and it's not. :P I did do a bunch of dishes, though!

[bad-mushroom.livejournal.com]

Ah Rousseau. What a fun guy. < / sarcasm >

Seriously though. He was a fucking genius in a lot of ways...his political theories are, if not necessarily applicable, fascinating. I mean he basically invented socialism, if I recall correctly. But then there's the women thing. And the fact that he was a complete crazy.

Your critic sounds like a charmer too XD My best essays have been written when I was pissed about the topic, if it helps.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

oh, he is he is, I just love him.

He didn't really invent socialism - I mean, AFAI can tell it's related but much of what Rousseau wanted isn't really comparable to any kind of current political philosophy because he just doesn't believe in things like representative politics, or party politics, and a bunch of other things - I mean he thinks all government should be done in person ffs. I can see the relationship though because he also thinks that in a social contract we're subject to a general will, the only good things are things for the public good, etc. And then OTOH the "cult of person-hood" and emphasis on individualism comes if not straight from him then very significantly from him. But yeah, basically he was a complete crazy and I really regret deciding to write on him.

He is, he is! I really want to find some scathing rebuttal of him but google scholar has nothing so far.

[bad-mushroom.livejournal.com]

I guess I didn't really mean invent...inspired? But yeah, that's the other crazy thing about him, the fact that he's so related to socialism but also has that individualistic bent to him. Gah, I need to take another class that covers this, it's been too long.

[eavanmoore.livejournal.com]

It's a paradox that's still at work in western liberal societies, I think -- the apparently contradictory idea that individualism can be realized in collectives, for the collective good. We live the paradox every day. :-(

[roadtomanderlay.livejournal.com]

I understand completely; I'm trying to do the plan for one essay, on the phenomenological approach to anthropology. As you can imagine, I'm procrastinating madly; the main text in wonderful but so complex that trying to get useful points out of it is rather painful. And it was due back two days ago, and other people need it. GAH.

[senri.livejournal.com]

My history essay prompt is huge and terrible, and I have a chemistry final on Monday and a genetics final on Tuesday, before it's due. :C Can we hold each other and cry?

[eavanmoore.livejournal.com]

Can we hold each other and cry?
Can I join the party?

[senri.livejournal.com]

I, for one, welcome our new finals-tormented cuddle-puddle participant. C'mon in.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

I, for two! <3

[eavanmoore.livejournal.com]

Thank you!
(sniff)

[kitsunerei88]

I hate it when people say women are bad at math. A computer used to be a factory of women doing math (to find pi and e and so on to long decimals) because women were cheaper to hire. Or so says my Data Analysis prof, anyway.

However, I fully believe that once you study math, you are totally on the bottom of the university scale of loser majors. Once you study math, you can go no lower. I say that lovingly because I am also a maths student . . .

[cr1stin84.livejournal.com]

So be it

[duskshadows.livejournal.com]

i love the fact you used the word "uteri". XD
also, MITTENS!