Thanks Viviane, yes once you start seeing Foucault in this you see the applications everywhere. I originally talked about the civil rights legislation as a key disciplining tool but as you can imagine the word length was getting out of hand and I wanted to bring in the key examples. I even left out the tweet that made me think if the clinical gage wich was oger actually calling gender dysphoria a disease caused by transphobia. Of course application of the pathologising of homosexuality from the medical to the cultural sphere again into a semi-religious framework is the perfect demonstration of the operation of power in the way Foucault examined it, but as a Christian and a heterosexual I am careful walking into that space. The world is awash with landmines, and talking about downs kids is another one. Especially for Christians like me who will get accused of being under the patriarchal power of Christianity. All that stuff is so boring to me but it's effective I guess because I do avoid topics. Thanks for the encouragement and for taking the time to read and making interesting comment. cheers, Edie
Well this is another issue for me because I have a genetic disease in my family and one of the way's they deal with it is by testing the fetus because the gene has been mapped and you can tell 100% if the person will have the disease. I think if my parents had done this I would have lived, alone almost without my beautiful cousins and sister who died young but who's lives mattered to me and mattered materially. We have the principle of the sanctity of life that has been removed from law now but still remains for me absolute. I wrote quite a long blog addressing some of this stuff about my midlife breakdown and the doctrine of suffering and sanctity of life. These are moral questions that we are again told to revert to the new post-secular governmental dictated morality and ethical systems that serve capital and government. That is why they want to silence Christians. Gay marriage was useful for this but I must say it is a nice surprise to be standing shoulder to shoulder with gay men and women to assert our rights to live in the tension. To agree and disagree as humans do while giving full humanity and respect to one another.
Thanks Viviane, yes once you start seeing Foucault in this you see the applications everywhere. I originally talked about the civil rights legislation as a key disciplining tool but as you can imagine the word length was getting out of hand and I wanted to bring in the key examples. I even left out the tweet that made me think if the clinical gage wich was oger actually calling gender dysphoria a disease caused by transphobia. Of course application of the pathologising of homosexuality from the medical to the cultural sphere again into a semi-religious framework is the perfect demonstration of the operation of power in the way Foucault examined it, but as a Christian and a heterosexual I am careful walking into that space. The world is awash with landmines, and talking about downs kids is another one. Especially for Christians like me who will get accused of being under the patriarchal power of Christianity. All that stuff is so boring to me but it's effective I guess because I do avoid topics. Thanks for the encouragement and for taking the time to read and making interesting comment. cheers, Edie
Well this is another issue for me because I have a genetic disease in my family and one of the way's they deal with it is by testing the fetus because the gene has been mapped and you can tell 100% if the person will have the disease. I think if my parents had done this I would have lived, alone almost without my beautiful cousins and sister who died young but who's lives mattered to me and mattered materially. We have the principle of the sanctity of life that has been removed from law now but still remains for me absolute. I wrote quite a long blog addressing some of this stuff about my midlife breakdown and the doctrine of suffering and sanctity of life. These are moral questions that we are again told to revert to the new post-secular governmental dictated morality and ethical systems that serve capital and government. That is why they want to silence Christians. Gay marriage was useful for this but I must say it is a nice surprise to be standing shoulder to shoulder with gay men and women to assert our rights to live in the tension. To agree and disagree as humans do while giving full humanity and respect to one another.