In the same way - and this is truly fascinating - she argues that women, in pornography for example (and perhaps in life in general), go through this absent referent process as well. In an article she wrote in Hypathia, she writes: “Ontology recapitulates ideology. In other words, ideology creates what appears to be ontological: if women are ontologized as sexual beings (or rapeable, as some feminists argue), animals are ontologized as carriers of meat. In ontologizing women and animals as objects, our language simultaneously eliminates the fact that someone else is acting as a subject/agent/perpetrator of violence.”

Anyway enough scholar talk. I think we should read her together….and then you should make me some fabulous vegetable curry. Deal? Great post darling. XO