themaskedmedea - Profile (original) (raw)
on 7 August 2003 (#1238061)
half the wit, all the fun!
Miami, Florida, United States
To be a feminist, one has to first become one. For many feminists, this involves the experience of a profound personal transformation, an experience which goes far beyond the sphere of human activity we regard ordinarily as 'political.' ~Sandra Bartky, "Phenomenology of Feminist Consciousness."
Philosophia est ars vitae. ~Cicero
Florida State University
Vires Artes Mores
Femina Perfecta
B.A. December 2004
M.A. December 2006
"The problem that we are now seeing is that the self, dismembered by living amongst others and presently in search of union with itself, is still split, still fragmented. It both longs, wants to be with others, and wants to be apart from others. Call it a divided self, call it what you will, it is not one self." -R. Washell
a certain this, academic hazing, algorhythmic minds, analytic nit-picking, anti-anti-(but really pro)-feminism, armchair scientific research, buying-all-the-lush, disjoining form and matter, emotional abstinence, epistemic disabilities, epistemological & ontological promiscuity, ex utero what?!, foot-induced face-lifts, hardhat-neological-construction, improbable possible worlds, innovations-in-visual-perception, karpov's machine!, lets-get-emprical...yow!, living room mythology, materialistic (non)ambivalence, metaphysics-a-la-carte, misogynistic philosopher-men, mixing-politics-with -aristotle, my v bag, native linguistic informants, our puny monkey brains, pants-wearin', philological martyrdom, potential perfect non-existence, quibbling scholasticism, quitting smoking by accident, religion without god, repeatedly stepping in rivers, retail therapy, retrodicting the future, some serious exercise, static presentism, sweatin' in the sauna, the bosom of logic, the idea of heroin, the p-ness of q, tic-tac-toe philosophy, tri-color mental paint, trophy friends, vacuous terms, your-local-ontological-travel-agency, ~soi-disant philosopher, ~working