TyG - Cixous, Butler & hooks - E = WRITER

A literary critic walks into a bar in a major, first-world city, sits down at the counter, and orders a drink. The bartender ignores the customer, who, after a few minutes, repeats the request. The bartender looks up from cleaning glasses, stares at the patron for a long moment, then walks to the farthest end of the bar and begins slicing lemons. The visitor gets up from the barstool, scrawls something on the unused napkin, and departs: what was written on the paper?

According to Cixous:
Drink/Dry
Man/Bisexual
Phallus/Castrati
Closed/Open
Bartender
Customer
Violence
Bartender

According to Butler:
“The category of ‘women,’ the subject of feminism, is produced and restrained by the very structures of power through which emancipation is sought. (You bastard).”

And per bell hooks:
“When the dominant culture demands that the Other be offered as a sign that progressive political change is taking place, that the American Dream can indeed be inclusive of difference, it invites a resurgence of essentialist cultural nationalism. (You’da given me that drink if I was a White Man, you pig.)”

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Now ask yourself these questions; when you first read the lead-in:

Was the bartender a man or a woman? Black, White, or Other?
What about the visitor – man or woman? Black, White, or Other?

Your honest answers may tell you something about yourself and your gender/race leanings.

(and if you noticed immediately the lack of gender/race in the description, well, you’re just too smart for me – so feel free to apply the idea to some other critics through your Comments)
And please “vote” –
A = Totally Lame Blog
B = Good Idea, Not-So-Good Execution
C = Great Blog
D = Oh-mi-god, You are Such a Great Writer
E = WRITER