Quotation:
“He does not like women who make no effort to be attractive. It is a resistance he has had to Lucy’s friends before. Nothing to be proud of: a prejudice that has settled in his mind, settled down. His mind has become a refuge for old thoughts, idle, indigent, with nowhere else to go. He ought to chase them out, sweep the premises clean. But he does not care to do so, or he does not care enough.” pg 70
Comment: Context: This was from page 70. Lucy and David are at the market because it’s market day. Lucy introduces him to Bev, the lady who runs the animal refuge. David describes Bev as, “a dumpy, bustling little woman with black freckles, close-cropped, wiry hair, and no neck.” Then he goes on to say the quote I chose. I chose this quote because it really pissed me off. David is so shallow. Not liking women for being hard-working and not caring about what they look like is so stupid and childish. David really pisses me off. You learn it a million times in books, songs, stories, movies, etc… DON’T JUDGE A BOOK BY IT’S COVER!!! Women simply should not HAVE to dress to impress males, we have bigger and more important things to worry about than what we are wearing or what we look like or what a man will think about that. Men like David are literally the reason that feminists exist, because he is shallow and has little-to-no respect for women. I am confused on the part about Lucy’s friends. Is he saying that he had resistance to seduce Lucy’s friends because of the way that they looked? I am glad that he does at least acknowledge his prejudices, but he does NOTHING about them. He just lets them sit in his mind and continues to practice these prejudices because he doesn’t care enough to get rid of them, even though now would be the perfect time to do so.
Question: Why is David so stubborn about going to counselling? Recognizing your prejudice is one thing, but isn’t doing something about it, like going to counselling, supposed to help you “chase them out”? Is counselling a reliable source of help?
Post Class Reflection:
My spoken contributions today (bullets, fragments, keywords) | Helping Hands Today (up to 3) – Name & Briefly Describe Contribution to Class (bullets, fragments, keywords) |
~quote from pg 70 ~women shouldn’t have to dress to impress men ~connections between Lucy’s friends and David ? ~he recognizes his prejudices and second guesses himself when he is doing something wrong, but he does NOTHING about it/them | ~Maddy: recognizing that you’ve done something wrong but not doing anything about counteracts each other, this does not change what happens to the victim ~Cripps: gender & race ~Anna: actions speak louder than words |
Today’s class discussion altered my thoughts about today’s text(s) in the following ways (link to your QCQ and/or to other ideas):
Today’s class discussion strengthened my thoughts about the reading for today. I discovered through this class discussion that my classmates had similar thoughts as I did. Haley was discussing her quote when she tied in another quote from the story which was the quote that I had used for my QCQ. I shared the quote and explained how aggravated I am with David. He pisses me off. He is very shallow and expects women to share themselves with him if they are beautiful, but only if they put in effort to be attractive. It angers me so much. Women are not obligated to share their beauty with anyone that they don’t want to. We also don’t have to dress any certain way to impress anyone, we can dress however we please and we shouldn’t have to worry about people like David who put us down for being who we are instead of getting all dolled up, just so men can observe us and fawn over us. David also really aggravates me because he specifically recognizes that what he is doing is wrong and he clarifies his own prejudices, but then refuses to act on it and do anything about it. He is not going to grow or make anything better if he continues to know that what he is doing is wrong but refusing to do anything about it and just continuing to do what he is doing. Like Anna said, actions speak louder than words. He can say a million times that he knows what he has done was wrong, but it’s a completely different thing if he actually stops doing it. He is a hypocrite and a creep and I really don’t like him. *mic drop* |
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