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I am not a fan of Gertrude Stein’s writing style. I like punctuation, and knowing what the writer is saying. I did gain more appreciation for “Lifting Belly” from the class discussion, but while reading it alone it seemed too jumbled.

The idea of associating taste with feminism threw me off in the beginning.  I could see more of a tie between sensation and feminism because sensation in general could be more associated with sex. Although taste has associations with sex, I think first about food when I hear taste. Sex certainly has a place in feminism.  Under the “personal is political idea”, how people have sex plays into feminism. Sex is of course much more than personal. It’s in advertising, the news, etc.  Porn is also a large industry.

Back to the “personal is political”: as a feminist, does every action I take have to be feminist? Can you see and feel in a feminist way? I don’t really think so, not in the literal seeing things in front of you way.  While feminism is a state of mind, it is mostly a set of actions and you behave in the world.