Thursday, February 23, 2006
Clearly We're All Just a Bunch of Sexists
With all due respect to Andy, my Contracts II book is taking the sexism cake this week. (Taking it from a feeble woman who shouldn't be allowed to have cake? Yes!!) So we read this case from 1928 where someone contracted to buy land, and his wife wanted to include a provision to remove this crappy building on the land, and the sellers orally agreed to remove it. They made the contract, then never removed the building. She took it to court and lost. Then a note after the case contemplates whether this was a sexist decision because maybe the judges thought the men made the contract and the woman's concern was just aesthetic. Then the note asks whether this note itself is sexist for assuming the woman wasn't a capable business woman. Then it asks whether the reader is sexist for having read the sexist case, and the subsequently sexist note. And then it asks whether the people that make this book are sexist, because the pages were printed on paper, which comes from trees, which may have been cut down from forests of countries which oppress women. And then it asks whether the women are sexist because perhaps these trees are actually women. And that's where I lose all faith in humanity, all over again.
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You cannot be serious, Ruby. Ok, at what point did that go from being real to you being funny? Seriously? Please tell me it was 75% joke.
The first two questions were straight out of the book. But when the authors start questioning whether what they themselves have written is sexist, the line in the sand was drawn, and I took it to its logical conclusion.
man, that's fucking crazy. I've been doing some thinking. I used to think that just being a strong proponent of the equal treatment of women on all fronts made me not a sexist. it turns out that i AM a sexist, but not because of that comment i made to that 1L. let me explain:
By advocating that women be treated equally, i am acknowledging that, currently, women are NOT treated equally, which constitutes an implicit approval of the unequal treatment of women. Clearly, i am a sexist. Further, you are a sexist because you're reading this on the internet. The internet, let's not forget, was invented by MEN so that they could communicate in the event of a catastrophe. . . caused by MEN. The ENTIRE internet is a monument to the phallic day-dreaming obsessions of MEN and, by implication, a condemnation of the Mother Spirit and womankind. Every email, every webpage, every hyperlink is a constant reminder of how women have been subjected to horrendous treatment by men at every turn.
There remains but one solution:
all-out nuclear war. Then, and only then, when the human race is no more, will the Man menace be eliminated.
That's about the most sexist thing I've ever heard you say, Andy. And coming from you, that means something. Suggesting that we should rain down phallic weapons of destruction upon the populace? For shame.
that's the most sexist thing i've ever heard YOU say. how DARE you suggest that all weapons of mass destruction are phallic? By implying that no WMDs could be concave, you are supporting the man-engineered myth that only the penis is powerful. Well, Cole, i hope that you have time to regret your sexist ways when you look up and see a giant vagina-shaped hydrogen bomb heading right for you.
Please. We all know that vagina-shaped hydrogen bombs are clearly inferior to their phallic counterparts, as their explosive capabilities are greatly diminished by the fact that vagina-shaped bombs tend to leak once a month.
Excellent discussion. But must we drop the V-Bomb?
ewww ewww ewww
You poeple are insane.
lol
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