bell hooks Pt 3 cultural criticism and transformation

Thanks for posting this video! I love bell hooks!

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.

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.

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'?

"This is a hamburger." - Alex Faciane

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.

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.

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

mass-based literacy!