So another new not - really that intellectual post goal (mostly just to get me in the habit of posting):
Monthly goals. I have them, I think putting them on the blog might help me actually do them so
Stop breaking my nails and grow them out enough to get a manicure by Valentines Day.

Otherwise - New semester, new stress, new job.

I *hate* psych. majors though. Psych. majors are by far the stupidest group of students I've met overall. In a class on the psychology of oppression (of which there is no such thing, but looking at the effects of oppression I guess.) However, I've heard a number of stupid things but what irks me most:
- a lack of understanding of Foucault and his model of power and how it works: integral to understanding and dealing with oppression I think. It works like this, power is an intangible idea/action/thing passed from one person or group to another person or group in varying degrees. No one is powerless in that they are without power, but people have varying degrees of power. For the most part in the United States white, heterosexual, males have the most power leaving the rest of the population with varying degrees of less power than them. Power works on the unconscious level along with bias that creates power inequities: so just because someone believes people are equally entitled to something does not mean they won't be biased towards the white male since that is the cultural bias. Now here's where it gets tricky: People have the Power to change society; this takes individual action *but* (and this is a big but kids...) one has to be able to understand how Power works and Oppression in the first place otherwise the changes will just change how the oppression is practiced and then it morphs into something new - like a chameleon. Power operates at the unconscious level by symbols throughout our world - symbols like words and ceremonies.

Second: women are NOT a Class. A group yes, but no - women don't qualify as a class. End of story.