Last class we enjoyed the Holiday by kicking back and watching an episode of Black Mirror. Before the start of the episode Professor Gallegos spoke a bit about Epistemic injustice and Testimonial Injustice. <\/p>\n
In many ways these terms were applicable to concepts introduced in Down Girl and they will also be useful in today\u2019s conversation regarding Arman\u2019s intro to \u201cPromise of Happiness.\u201d Just to review Epistemic injustice is being harmed in your capacity as a knower. In order to be harmed in this way one must be seen as competent and trustworthy. <\/p>\n
Testimonial Injustice is when one is harmed in their capacity while recounting a story or memory. I believe we will be developing these how these qualities of competency and trustworthiness to relate to emotions. <\/p>\n
Dr. Gallegos then introduced us to the core idea in Armen\u2019s book which is \u201cwe need to fight for our right to be happy in deviant ways, because our currently concept of happiness is reinforcing social oppression. Professor Gallegos described this sort of cyclical way of happiness where we attempt to make other people happy while putting our own happiness on them. This pattern repeats itself and we encourage other people to fit the \u201chappiness norm.\u201d It\u2019s this pattern that contributes to the reinforcement of social oppression. <\/p>\n
Lastly we discussed affective economy by introducing the concept of credibilty economy which states one person\u2019s testimony can count more than another person\u2019s. In addition to this we learned how one person\u2019s sadness can matter more than another person\u2019s sadness. Here, I brought up and example of when my roommate called the police to report a party on my street. The police responded by saying they didn\u2019t know Wake kids were still living at Deacon station, they thought it was completely occupied by Winston State students. With this new knowledge they told her they would provide extra security and begin to pay extra attention to the apartment complex. I expressed my disgust with the class as I felt my emotional agency was stripped from me as the police officer placed my roommates and I under the label of privilege without our request. <\/p>\n
Once concluding our discussion we watched the episode. Having never seen this series before, I found the episode to be deeply disturbing because in a way many aspects felt too realistic to find funny. The themes in the episode reminded me of concepts we discussed during our reading of Down Girl. One scene I wanted to highlight was the one where the main character asks the bride to be if she should mention the recovery from her eating disorder in her bridesmaid speech. The friend responded by saying that would be \u201coversharing.\u201d This is a conversation that would easily take place in our own society as it encourages women to abide strictly by the rules of what language and behavior is seen as acceptable. <\/p>\n
The episode also emphasized the importance of surrounding yourself with \u201cpower.\u201d Without a high enough ranking to live in the neighborhood of her dreams, the main character seeks \u201cupvotes from quality people to get a boost.\u201d This ties into our several discussions on oppression vs. privilege.<\/p>\n
The last line I want to call to attention is the one the main character says in the truck to the woman driving her. She says \u201cI was mad, look where it got me.\u201d This quote highlights the punishment that followed the woman\u2019s expression of her TRUE voice, which we really only heard once. I felt thought this line related not only to our Down Girl chapters, but also today\u2019s reading on Epistemic Injustice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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