“Androgynous”
Androgynous is a song I never knew I needed to hear. The lyrics, in my opinion, speaks about how in the end the once uncommon will be common and no one is going to be “normal” in a once was normal society. For me in touches into the difference and similarities of the “pink and blue syndrome” that was talked about in the Prism of Gender which I will talk about in a few moments. And somewhat uses reverse psychology in how what it would look like if there were no gender norms.
Prism of Gender by Catherine G. Valentine.
I really enjoyed reading this short story about the different viewpoints of gender. In the story Vantine talks about the blue and pink syndrome, which I am fascinated by because it really hits where we never know how embedded it is in our everyday lives. A quote from the story says “…The “pink and blue syndrome” is so embedded with in our culture and, consequently, within individual patterns of thinking and feeling that most of us cannot remember when we learned gender stereotypes and expectations or came to think about sex, gender, and sexuality as natural, immutable, and fixed.” As I was telling a fellow classmate I had an incident where my sister wanted my niece (her daughter) to be more girly. I think that in today’s society, even though this is still a major issue we are dealing with, simple things like correcting a person when they are using the incorrect term or simply just not used to things outside of the “pink and blue syndrome” helps a lot. Well to reiterate not so much as correct the person or people but educate them. And this book would be an awesome educator.
Theorizing difference from Multiracial Feminism
I was really excited to blog about this story because being a black woman in this society I feel as though I see feminism differently than anyone else. I feel as though I have to work twice as hard to get people to treat me a certain way whether it be in the workplace, school, or even in a public setting period. Simply because I am Black, and I am a woman. “We recognize, of course, certain problems inherent in an uncritical use of the multiracial label. First, the perspective can be hampered by a biracial model in which only African Americans and whites are seen as racial categories and all other groups are viewed through the prism of cultural differences.” This statement speaks so much because this is another thing that is so engraved into our everyday society. But I also feel as though, African American women like me have to fight to be equal to other race women and then have to turn around and be equal to men as well.
