It has been brought to my attention that it is hard to grasp what a feminist analysis is. That it is unclear what one is supposed to do. That there is no immediately available starting point, and that one has to work through layers of layers of academia to get anything done.
Fun fact: it's a lot easier than it looks.
Let's, for instance, look at a workplace. Let's look at how people behave in the break room. Let's look at how the men are gathered around the pinball machine that HR brought in to boost morale and creativity. Let's look at how the women are gathered in the kitchen, busily planning the next office party.
BOOM! Feminist analysis complete. Achievement unlocked.
It's that easy.
You can, of course, make things harder on yourself and add any numbers of extra bells and whistles to your analysis. You don't really need to, but you can. If you really want to.
It would be nice if it was a hard thing to do a feminist analysis. If you had to dig through layers and layers of obscure and complicated theories in order to get anywhere. That would mean that patriarchy is just about gone, and that you'd have to work your genderbending arse in to shape in order to find the last vestiges of it. But, alas, you more often than not just have to look at a given situation to note how things are structured around gendered lines.
Feminist analysis is easy. Punching patriarchy where it hurts is not as easy. But worth it nevertheless.
What if the break room was in space?
ReplyDeleteThat raises some interesting questions about the production of space (pun intended). But, should the spacemen be gathered around the pinball machine and the spacewomen gathered in the kitchen, we'd have the same analysis as we've already got.
DeleteThe more things change, the more they stay the same.