MATERIALS
Optional: Read Dr. Anika Prather’s Understanding Friendship through the Eyes of Aristotle – Antigone (antigonejournal.com)
Optional: Dr. Cori Wong’s Feminist Friendship & watch Meet Cori Wong – TEDxCSU
Required: Mia Mingus, Access Intimacy, Interdependence and Disability Justice | Leaving Evidence (wordpress.com)
- Required: Our primary reading is María Lugones, Playfulness, “World”-Travelling, and Loving Perception (1987)
Optional, but helpful: Video Lecture: Lugones, “Playfulness, ‘World’-Travelling and Loving Perception” – YouTube
- Optional: Examples of ‘big ideas’: List of philosophical concepts – Wikipedia & the Lugones Lexicon
PROMPT
Part A. Using your own judgment, pull out 4-5 big ideas or key concepts from our materials for this week. Examples might include “access intimacy” or “arrogant perception” or “playfulness.”
- Part B. Then, focus on one of these big ideas and type out 2-3 quotes from the reading that explain this idea. These can just be in a list with no additional commentary. Make sure that this idea goes beyond common sense; make it something new to you that you might want to explain to a friend.
Part C. Explain this concept in a paragraph just using your own words and illustrating the big idea with an example of your own (from your life, Crip Camp, a favorite film, or a TV show).
POST
So this a post one of the students made.Part A: The Key Ideas from the ReadingsThe
main ideas from this week’s material include arrogant perception. More
specifically, in her article, María Lugones indicates that everyone is
affected by arrogant perception. She defines it as being systematically
organized to ensure that the spirit of most men and every woman is
broken. The second concept is playfulness where Lugones indicates that
people are likely to be highly social in worlds where they feel
comfortable and with people that they can relate. She supported the
notion by providing the example of being playful during world traveling.
More specifically, as a Latin-American, Lugones becomes more playful as
she interacts with those from the same background. The third concept is
of people having a double image. Lugones means that individuals tend to
act differently based on the world they live in. The last concept is
access intimacy Where Mia Mingus indicates that it is hard to describe
the feeling when another individual gets a person’s access need.Part B: Analysis of Quotes from the Reading
One of Lugones’ big ideas is that people are affected by arrogant
perceptions. The quotes from the reading that provide further
explanation of the concept include the following;“As a child, I was taught to perceive arrogantly. I have also been the object of arrogant perception.”
Through this quote, Lugones brings out the idea of arrogant perception
and her belief that women are taught this practice from an early age. As
a result, everyone is affected by arrogant perception, which eventually
breaks the spirit of most men and all women. Arrogant perception can
mainly be dealt with when individuals get the chance to travel and learn
about individuals’ differences. Understanding these differences will
ensure that people appreciate each other.“ It was clear to me
that both men and women were the victims of arrogant perception and that
arrogant perception was systematically organized to break the spirit of
all women and most men. ” From this quote, Lugones believes
that arrogant perception harms society because it is a concept aimed at
affecting most men and every woman. It encourages them to develop
perceptions about people from their physical appearance. It is why she
encourages readers to explore by leaving their worlds so that they can
attain new ways of thinking about those who are different from them.Part C: Analysis of the ConceptArrogant
perception means the tendency of those in power to force others to
serve their interests. A good illustration that I have seen in my life
is where one of my former neighbors whose husband expected her to obey
his decision without questions. He believed that women are there to
serve the man and bear children. Furthermore, he believed that women
should not question the man or be independent. As a result, she was
isolated from other people and lived as a slave in her own home.