Sunday, November 25, 2012

Cixous

Whiteness
Dictionary.com
the quality or state of being white.
3.
4.
a white  substance.

Urban Dictionary
 1. A white person who is highly respected in a circle of colored or mixed group of friends/people. 

Marginalized

Dictionary.com
to place in a position of marginal importance, influence, or power:

Urban Dictionary
To opress; to blackball; to malign, smear, defame, or discredit; to lower public or private opinion--or the status--of an individual or group through hateful, deceitful, or misguided speech or action.

Heterotypical

Dictionary.com
of or pertaining to the first or reductional division in meiosis.

Urban Dictionary
Derogatory term for attitudes and behaviors typical of straight people and straight culture. (Obviously a play on the world "stereotypical".) It can either refer to a gender-schematic view of the world or to conservative attitudes about sex and relationships.

Response
When looking up these terms, I found that for the most part I knew what they meant. I used both Dictionary.com and Urban Dictionary to define them. These are 2 very different websites so I got different results. When comparing my search results to my previous knowledge of the words, I found that my own definitions were similar to those of Urban Dictionary. I believe this is because Urban Dictionary is a less formal definition that relates the meaning to society. Dictionary.com often gives definitions that are very exact and formal and are not related to culture or society. 

Works Cited

"Find the Meanings and Definitions of Words." Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com, n.d. Web. 26 Nov. 2012. <http://dictionary.reference.com/>.
"Urban Dictionary Is the Dictionary You Wrote. Define Your World." Urban Dictionary. LLC, n.d. Web. 26 Nov. 2012. <http://www.urbandictionary.com/>.

Dialectical Notebook

Response
Quotation
I like this quote because it is powerful and has great meaning for feminism.
“The new history is coming; it’s not a dream, though it does extend beyond men’s imagination, and for good reason.” (pg. 252)
I like this quote because it shows the author’s oppinions.
“As a woman, I have been clouded over by the great shadow of the scepter and been told: idolize it, that which you cannot brandish.” (pg. 253)
I agree with this quote and like it’s meaning
“Let us not be trapped by an analysis still encumbered with the old automatisms.” (pg. 254)
This quote is important because it shows how women are stepping up in feminism.
“For once she blazes her trail in the symbolic, she cannot fail to make of it the chaosmos of the ‘personal’- in her pronouns, her nouns, and her clique of referents.” (pg. 255)
I like agree with this quote and like it’s meaning.
“Let nobody threaten you; in satisfying your desire, let not the fear of becoming the accomplice to a socially succeed the old-time fear of being ‘taken.’” (pg. 257)

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