Week Three
This week we looked at a text by Plumwood about dualism. Plumwood makes it very clear that there is a large difference between dualism and difference. She concludes that difference means looking at two things and saying that they are different. This is can be easily looked at in a political lens. For example, democracy is very different from communism. They have different government and create a different society. But dualism, says that democracy is different, and those facts that make it different make democracy better. Dualism has five main themes. They are: backgrounding radicalexclusion, incorporation, instrumentalization, and homagenization. These themes explain how an inferior can be effected through power by the presence of a superior. Plumwood's case seems readily backed because it not only, accepts the existence of a superior and inferior but explains why there is one. It seems as if a chain of this is why we have a power struggle and why we can't break it, even accepting a negative difference creates an inferior and boots the superior. This happens all over the place in everyday life and the history of the humankind. In gender, we see this all over. Men are better than women, because (list any number of differences here)...Hetersexuals are better suited for the job/task because...by Plumwood's standards it is as if differences are put on a pedestal and become dualism, one is better because it is not the same as the other, making the latter the inferior.