Seeing your reflextion in the river Styxx
academia does not exist, it is merely work which thinks it doesn’t exist.
[why woman is a symptom of man: women are unbearable but without them life would be worse. “So, if woman does not exist, man is perhaps simple a woman who thinks that she doesn’t exist.” - Zizek]
So what if as a man I’m attracted to other man the way Lacan is attracted to women?
and.
What if my graduate work is on something I would nerd out on in my own time? Is it graduate work because I bring in theories after accomplishing the feat of abstract recitation?
Doing human ecology means being brave enough to make the connections others aren’t seeing. It’s not enough to recognize them, they must be acted on. It’s an endless task in which we become strong thinkers, lean after grazing on thin protein and exercise. The men want us and the men want to be us (too bad there aren’t any men around).
