Mark Lance
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first heard Dec 2010
last heard Dec 2010
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I mean, you can correct me and just tell me you're not Australian and I'll believe it and accept it and respond to you differently.
And very little probably hung on that in the first place.
If you just say you're a guy, not a guy, you know, and for people to whom this is important, this is a huge struggle.
Because to get other people to give uptake to that, right, for this structure to be one of mutual recognition, you have to both...
Call on me to recognize you differently, but then I have to give uptake to it because the idea is to get a social practice going in which we relate to each other differently.
And that's a very hard thing to do when it comes to something that's so much a part of all of our interactions as gender.
The other dimension of this is what I call the dispersal of power.
In all sorts of cases, the kind of structural relationships that we have are a function not just of the immediate way we're relating, but of a huge range of social interactions from all over space.
So an example that I've used in a recent paper is,
In the District of Columbia, there's a process for applying to go to any of the different public schools in the district.
And in one sort of superficial sense, it's completely equitable.
Anybody in the district can apply to go to any school, and eventually you fill out all the forms and you get put into a lottery.
But if you start looking at it in more detail, well, the better schools are all in richer neighborhoods because the people in the neighborhood contribute to the school in addition to the regular funding it gets.
First of all, you have to be able to get your kid to that neighborhood, which if you are living yourself in a poor neighborhood far across town, there is no busing.
You have to figure out how to get them there.
You may have a job that starts before school starts.
How do you get your elementary school kid across town?
Secondly, the bureaucratic process of applying for this is very complicated.
It's the kind of thing that for a philosophy graduate student or professor is nothing.
You're used to filling out forms.
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