bell hooks Pt 3 cultural criticism and transformation

[SubliminalMinded2011]

interesting critique of "Hoop Dreams".

She says the things that I've thought about, but shrugged off.

[Qum2Najaf]

This woman put the u into Understanding..

[Qrstnce]

In her book 'Yearning..." bell hooks has suggested that the work of Edward Said is racist and mysogynist. Can someone tell where she elaborates on this? She just says that his work is part of a post-colonial cannon that goes unquestioned by post-colonial feminists. Can someone tell me what is it about Said that she sees as racist and mysogynist? Thanks.

[anonypossum]

i think she's a genyouse

[anonypossum]

the guy who spelled the word "woman" as "womyn" says that reading is good. how interesting.

[theantidoter]

@anonypossum womyn is a real word. the idea is that "men" shouldnt be a part of the word that identifies womyn

[yeahwotevaman]

@theantidoter It's only a word used by gender seperatists, so it is more jargon than common vernaular.

[purpleness64]

Thanks for posting this video! I love bell hooks!

[areyouserial]

These chicks always end up talking like a bunch of communists and my eyes glaze over as I tune out. I feel sorry for the girls who are indoctrinated with these ideas and end up living lives as man-haters carrying forward an agenda of old, dried-up, bitter women.

[apexpark]

it seems like your ears glazed over too, because no one ever said anything about hating men. Maybe you should try opening yours eyes and ears and engage critically in the world around you rather than just dismissing any idea that asks you to transform yourself.

[mereanataki]

I loved an interview some years back btwn bell hooks and Pema Chodron. Interesting and insightful debate as Pema delves into intentionality and the mirror through relationships while hooks explores primarily exteriority often in the absence of the appraisal that the mirror of Soul in relationship often refelcts back. Complicity and ambivalence, contingency and incompleteness as explored by Trinh T. Minh Ha. She is a trailblazer, but neither the first, nor last or only word on 'Ain't I a Woma'?

[jjkjustin]

"This is a hamburger." - Alex Faciane

[carpeteria]

Thanks for posting these - I own this video and use it in my College Composition courses as a source for students to write about pop culture and society. It really gets people thinking every semester.

[weiserhouse]

mass-based literacy!

[benoypj]

interesting and insightful about the politics of domination. i was trying to translate her 'outlaw culture' to malayalam and this comes as a really moving peice.

benoypj

[flamkflamkflamk]

Thanks so much for posting these.

[looker768]

bell hooks just said that we see our literary self and pleasure seeking self as separate. I never really did. If I read something or see a film that don't like-I drop it. Yet there are many books I've enjoyed more than movies or TV. Did I miss her meaning?

[CarolX2]

I think she's talking about on a mass scale that's what we're told to think. I always find it interesting that some womyn will buy Cosmopolitan every month and read it from cover to cover yet those same individuals rarely read books. When we live in a society that doesn't value books as much as tv and etc, you instantly end up with people that only care about materialism and ideas that perpetuate male/white supremacy.

[CarolX2]

Being an exception to the rule doesn't make the rule any less existent.

[miyandere]

@CarolX2 "you instantly end up with people that only care about materialism and ideas that perpetuate male/white supremacy." This one short sentence says so much.

[ClaudiaBanks1]

@CarolX2

I strongly agree and i i think she is trying the explain how the reality that we know is socially constructed by the mass media therefore we or the majority of us as the media audience take the information as fact and as a reflection of our own reality.

[nelaloco]

thank you for posting all of THIS...PEACE...