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So I went to see the movie "Slippery Slope", which is about a pro-feminist/anti-pornography film maker who in order to get the money for her film to make it to a film festival directs a pornography video. On one while the title of the movie is meant to convey the slippery slope of what happens with the saying the "the ends justify the means". After viewing the film I found it to mean something else. For me the title alluded to the main character before in the beginning of the film. She, holding fast to her convictions about pornography, found it hard to believe that it could be another thing other than a tool for the perpetuating male dominance. In many ways this hindered her growth in other areas of her life. I think the title serves also as a warning to the audience that being caught in your own ideas about how the world should be becomes a "slipper slope" to close-mindedness, which hinders the ability of critical dialogue to happen. This is an important lesson, I think, for this course in particular as there are many disciplines being represented in one conversation. Moreover, this is important lesson when thinking about re-vamping the ivory tower. Often, caught in our own theories and discipline's language for figuring out the world, we do not think about how truly inter-connected it all is and neglect to have interdisciplinary conversations.