Cixous Response

Terms & Definition:

whiteness: (noun) 1. the quality or state of being white 2. paleness 3. purity 4. a white substance
marginalized: (verb) To place in a position of marginal importance, influence, or power.
heterotypical: (adjective) of or pertaining to the first or reproductional division in melosis.
(Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/)
whiteness: a color like that of snow, milk, or bone.
marginalized: to treat someone or something as if they are not important.

(Cambridge Dictionary Online dictionary.cambridge.org)

heterotypical: different in kind, arrangement, or form. 

(Merriam-Webster www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary) 

Response:
These terms are misused and swept under the rug often when they are being used in an accusing manner. We try to pretend that people are not facing these issues in today's society, but they are still a problem. Individuals are marginalized based on their whiteness and if they are heterotypical. In Sociology, we have the wheel of institutions and it is broken up into different categories and based on nearly every aspect of your life you are judged, classified and defined by the institutions  It takes a long time for societies to change and learn to accept people as they are. However with institutions they change in a domino effect, one influences change in another and so on.

Dialectical Notebook:

Responses:	Quote:
This reminds me of Beger's article where he talks about how women are so aware of themselves, yet they are not verbally instructed how to become or how to do things differently.	But what strikes me is the infinite richness of their individual constitutions: you can't talk about a females sexuality, uniform, homogeneous, classifiable into codes- any more than you can talk about one unconscious resembling another. pg 247
Cixous sounds like she's giving a speech here, she makes valid points about repression and not being given a chance, but she also confuses the reader.	We the precocious, we the repressed of culture, our lovely mouths gagged with pollen, our wind knocked out of us, we the labyrinths, the ladders, the trampled spaces, the bevies- we are black and we are beautiful. pg 248
This makes me think of gender roles and how women have traits they must follow to be a norm in society.	She is reduced to being the servant of the militant male, his shadow. pg 250
This quote makes us realize that nothing can stop us or hold us back. We only think that we can not do something, when in reality we can do anything.	The Dark Continent is neither dark nor unexplorable.- It is still unexplored only because we've been made to believe that it was too dark to be explorable. 253
I liked this quote because it gives a very detailed example of how women are forced to go in after what they want and fight for a place in the world of writing.	If woman has always functioned "within" the discourse of man, a signifier that has always referred back to the opposite signifier diminishes   or stifles its very different sounds, it is time for her to dislocate this "within", to explode it, turn it around, and seize it; to make it hers, containing it, taking it in her own mouth, biting that tongue with her very own teeth to invent for herself a language to get inside of. pg 255