This is not a joke. Well, actually it is, but it's not intended to be. Some background reading: http://www.scribd.com/doc/187505014/Representing-Reason-Femin

This is not a joke. Well, actually it is, but it's not intended to be. Some background reading: http://www.scribd.com/doc/187505014/Representing-Reason-Feminist-Theory-and-Formal-Logic http://www.scribd.com/doc/187505014/Representing-Reason-Femi... "Many of the analyses reviewed earlier expose the symbolic association be-tween rationality and masculinity. However, since human development is shaped by society and culture, those symbols have repercussions for real, concrete human beings. We are constituted as knowing agents by symbolic representations, social practices, cultural discourses, and our structural positioning. Consequently, the ideal of detachment and the separation of reason from emotion that the rationalist world view promotes have been instrumental in constructing gendered aspects of the social order, in particular the subjectivities of Western privileged white men."