Aug 31 2009
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“ the guy at the garage doesn’t believe what I say, or doesn’t take seriously what I say about the car because I’m a woman, what does it matter? It’s entirely inconsequential. But even an insult like that that’s fairly inconsequential because it’s an insult to me as a knower, in my capacity as a knower, it goes deep, and that’s because our capacity for knowledge and for passing on our knowledge is so tightly knitted up with our very status as a rational being. So when I’m insulted in my capacity as a knower, I’m seen as lesser as a rational being. And that’s a way of being lesser as a human being.
