Comments on: Hasty Genderalisations and Pet Dogmas http://www.deirdrakiai.com/2009/04/30/hasty-genderalisations-and-pet-dogmas/ videogame development from the margins Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:28:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: The Management http://www.deirdrakiai.com/2009/04/30/hasty-genderalisations-and-pet-dogmas/comment-page-1/#comment-24798 The Management Sun, 03 May 2009 19:01:18 +0000 http://www.deirdrakiai.com/?p=383#comment-24798 I read that thread on Shakesville. It was heartbreaking. I wish more people would share their personal stories in the form of games. I read that thread on Shakesville. It was heartbreaking. I wish more people would share their personal stories in the form of games.

]]> By: Eleniel http://www.deirdrakiai.com/2009/04/30/hasty-genderalisations-and-pet-dogmas/comment-page-1/#comment-24786 Eleniel Sun, 03 May 2009 14:00:35 +0000 http://www.deirdrakiai.com/?p=383#comment-24786 Honestly, I don't think *anyone* has the right to speak for all womanhood--everyone benefits from some privilege that makes them blind to some group's experience, as you talked about in your last post about this. So in that sense I think your approach of telling individual stories can be much more important and powerful than setting up a set of rules to make generalizations about oppression (which I found to be a useful thought exercise for myself and might help privileged men understand this particular aspect of rape culture a little more). I felt comfortable writing about the pervasive fear because I realized it does control my life to an extent (though certainly not to the extent of other women, especially survivors)--I am too afraid to walk around a city by myself, or move into my own place. But telling an individual's story, especially when there are a LOT of other stories being told as well, is so much more valuable, I think... I am thinking of Survivor Threads on feminist blogs where rape survivors are encouraged to tell their stories, if they are comfortable with it... the one on Shakesville reached 400 comments. All those deeply personal stories are so much more powerful than any impersonal abstraction ever could be. Honestly, I don’t think *anyone* has the right to speak for all womanhood–everyone benefits from some privilege that makes them blind to some group’s experience, as you talked about in your last post about this. So in that sense I think your approach of telling individual stories can be much more important and powerful than setting up a set of rules to make generalizations about oppression (which I found to be a useful thought exercise for myself and might help privileged men understand this particular aspect of rape culture a little more). I felt comfortable writing about the pervasive fear because I realized it does control my life to an extent (though certainly not to the extent of other women, especially survivors)–I am too afraid to walk around a city by myself, or move into my own place.

But telling an individual’s story, especially when there are a LOT of other stories being told as well, is so much more valuable, I think… I am thinking of Survivor Threads on feminist blogs where rape survivors are encouraged to tell their stories, if they are comfortable with it… the one on Shakesville reached 400 comments. All those deeply personal stories are so much more powerful than any impersonal abstraction ever could be.

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