PetalswiththeWind hooks

As an ordained “Other” in more than one linear sense, as I was reading bell hook’s Eating the Other: Desire and Resistance, it was hard not to think about my own experience in my relationship with another, “Other”.
I told my man once…
“Babe, we’re the same! I just have more pigmentation in my skin than you, baby”.
Squinting through long clumplike strands of hair, curly deep dirty blonde hair, falling right in front of his face; he looked straight at me with his big lightest blue eyes, pursed his pink lips, peered right into mine, then, smiled from there to eternity. No parole contained in any langue could express his response as he did nonverbally. For him and me, it was a small victory for humanity! Recognizing first and foremost we are human beyond any of the identities condemned upon us by the ideologies of society. Gratifyingly enough, we’re in love and not looking for any mainstream transformations; but, circumstantially due to our appointed social roles; our personal is the political.
hooks recognizes, “Whether or not desire for contact with the Other, for connection rooted in the longing for pleasure, can act as a critical intervention challenging and subverting racist domination, inviting and enabling critical resistance, is an unrealized political possibility” (367). In other words, political opportunity to reverse generalized stereotypical, prejudiced ideology of the patriarchy.
The patriarchy admits that they are at fault for the present mundane condition of mainstream society, due to their inditement of sameness in Western culture. hooks reveals, “from the standpoint of white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, the hope is that desires for the “primitive” or fantasies about the Other can be continually exploited, and that such exploitation will occur in a manner that reinscribes the status quo”(367).
If the “white supremacist capitalist patriarchy” desires for their hegemonic system to remain intact by finding new ways of exploiting the Other, by proxy they are admitting due to the present patriarchal ideological structure in place “the mainstream white culture is so dull” (366). The over civilization of human beings in the throes of mainstream society has become monotonous, and this “revival” brings Caucasians closer to the parts of themselves that is the suppressed underside of tyrannical hegemony; which then brings them closer to their natural state of being, in whereas domestication leads astray. Therefore, by allowing the commodification of the “Other”, permits mainstream culture to break the monotony of the machine without interrupting the lavish lifestyles of the powerful patriarchy.

As Janet would say...
"That's the End?"
"NO!"