Gary-Cixous

Wow....what's it been 12...13 weeks already? Now, on the last set of theorists to trouble our minds...out come the women!!! Where have all the feminists been the last couple of months? Why did we have to wait until he end to hear the female point of view on postmodernism? We have gone through man after man, old, middle-age and young, but never a female theorist until now. Finally I'm at peace with postmodernism...my equilibrium is balanced and the world is ok.

I'm only on page three of Helene Cixous and we have discussed bisexuality, casteration and now are wondering why does man fear being a woman?(159). I can easily and truthfully answer why I would fear being a woman. Besides the obvious...I would hate to be a woman in today's society because of the stranglehold the female gender has allowed itself to be subjected to. I would have been the leader of a revolution years ago. How could women remained so oppressed for so many years?

Many may wonder what I mean, but I see it everyday in the professional environment. Women have made great strides in the business world, but all of their decisions are eventually scrutinized by men. Female politicians speeches and viewpoints are not taken as seriously as their male counterparts (I.E. Clinton, Pelosi, Feinstein). Cixous asks "Why so few texts?...Women must write her body, must make up the unimpeded tongue that bursts partitions, classes, and rhetorics, orders and codes, must inundate, run through, go beyond the discourse with its last reserves, including the one of laughing off the word 'silence' that has to be said" (165).

Basically, women must still overcome the hurdles that male society has placed in front of them for hundreds of years. They have made many advances, but they still have a long fight ahead. Women are emerging as true leaders in our society today. They know that they are under the "panopticon" of the male dominated business world, and makes them excel even further. Now if they could only like football......