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Wednesday, 12 April 06 :: in need of xena night.

i got here to our office away from the office and my first thought was.. god damn white male patriarchs, get out of my way. um. yeah. i think i need a xena night. um yeah. :P and a cup of coffee. *sigh* but seriously. or not so. rather, not so. but i tell ya, sometimes the way the men carry themselves. so many of them don't even know the privilage they carry. just makes a girl want to smack the back of those balding heads of theirs. privilage?!? this is what it'll get ya! a smack on the head!

*sigh* but then my head would have to be smacked. what with me being a white woman full of lots of privilage because of race, class and education.

i'll make you a deal. you < my dear few readers > can smack me anytime i assert my privilage in a way that is oppressive, if i can do the same thing to all the white men i see walking around. and in oregon, thats a lot of white men. btw, i hear its even more in utah! twice the smacking i dare say?!?

posted by brooke at April 12, 2006 09:42 AM

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i'm brooke, born in '73. i am currently a phd student in instructional technology. this is the blog where i capture all the neurotic, and the few non-neurotic, moments that seem to come with being a phd student (if you want to read less neuroses and more professionalism go to: oer's, dl's, reuse and culture: it's about a phd student researching digital resources in a multicultural world). i have been from eugene, oregon for a long time.. 8 years specifically (its my home now, but i grew up in southwestern virginia), but now i'm here in logan, utah at utah state university. after finding my roots in eugene i never could have expected that i would leave that liberal oasis and head to utah. but i did and there are days when its a blessing and days when i'm tempted to go back to oregon and beg the folks at lost valley educational center to let me move in. but i won't leave because there are days when this process is better than any kind of high i could ever imagine. what else? i collect things, i have 2 cats, 2 kayaks, 2 laptops (i'm a geek - one mac, one pc). i can be emailed at brookesblog@rivervision.com.