Mostly, I need to go and chew on your thinky thoughts :) --I've been noticing in my self-ed reading how various scholars have positioned themselves.... In order to assert something and synthesize, one does need a certain visible confidence, I think, but as you suggest, that manner need not cover *everything*, nor extend as far as blind arrogance.
I am not really surprised by the fact that my tossing up an on-topic IBARW post yesterday yielded default-white comments. (Saddened a bit, since the commenters so far are friends or acquaintances, not strangers, but it's not a surprise.) All I did to offset the construction of a default-white space was to assert myself: this is my voice, and it is not default white. It's like litmus paper: if that kind of small act does suffice, one day, things will have changed a little.
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Fri, Jul. 31st, 2009 04:52 pm (UTC)Mostly, I need to go and chew on your thinky thoughts :) --I've been noticing in my self-ed reading how various scholars have positioned themselves.... In order to assert something and synthesize, one does need a certain visible confidence, I think, but as you suggest, that manner need not cover *everything*, nor extend as far as blind arrogance.
I am not really surprised by the fact that my tossing up an on-topic IBARW post yesterday yielded default-white comments. (Saddened a bit, since the commenters so far are friends or acquaintances, not strangers, but it's not a surprise.) All I did to offset the construction of a default-white space was to assert myself: this is my voice, and it is not default white. It's like litmus paper: if that kind of small act does suffice, one day, things will have changed a little.