To define slipping, I think there are two factors that matters most: correctness and intentionality.

The first one, correctness, which is about the basic definition of slipping: whether or not it is a misspeaking. If a person says something perfectly correct, politely, with no offend to others, it’s just a successful process of expressing his or her idea, definitely not a slippage. Some subtle mistakes that do not challenge the whole idea of one’s word are not count as incorrect here.

Most kids have a favorite stuffed bear or doll; I, on the other hand, had a favorite stuffed gingerbread man. His name was (is? He's still around) Ginger. Ginger and I did everything together, from being forced to wear tights on Easter to sitting in the shopping cart while Mom got groceries. Needless to say, Ginger and I were tight. Since I am an only child, Ginger acted as my little brother. I would pile up books on a kitchen chair so he could eat dinner with us. I would bring him for show-and-tell at school. He would come to friends' houses to have playdates with other stuffed animals (his best friend was my friend Christie's Piglet). Sometimes I would sneak him in my backpack so he could come to school with me. My favorite thing to do, however, was read to Ginger.

Are slippery supposed to be forgiven, as it is a form of unconscious misacting?  As my freshmen seminar professor says in her passage, “slipping is inevitable, but often unnoticed.” (Dalke p.255) She also gives the effect about it, saying that it is “a form of ‘ecological’ thinking and acting: diverse, unruly, and fertile; conditional, uncertain and incomplete- an unending process, very much dependent on the unexpected.” (Dalke p.254) The effect she is talking about is the positive effect on the oneself, but missing other people who are also involved passively. What if someone get influenced from the slippery one made? What if the so-called “slippery” was intentional but the person who have done it consider it as a slippery?

     I have two sisters that are around the same age as me and all we would play together was house. Our parents had bought us one of the plastic life size play houses and we would just play for hours. We would first assign eachother roles, although we were usually still sisters but just older. Then we would get our dolls and treat those as our children. This play house also had a kitchen so we would pretend cook and have family dinners together. Luckliy we had a big backyard so we would so make zoos or muesems throughout our backyard and take our children to them. Since our house was so small when we would go to sleep we had pack in there like sardines. Even when it would rain we would still play and put tarp on the roof so that the water would not get inside.

Slipping through the Lens of Bloodchild

              Butler’s Bloodchild created a story depicting the relationship between two vastly different species, the Terrans and Tlic. After years of conflict and tensions, these two species had finally reached a method of co-existence. The Tlic allowed Terrans to live protected in preserves as long as the Terrans allowed themselves to be hosts for the Tlic’s eggs. However, despite their co-existance, tension and mistrust continued to exist between the two species. These tensions stemmed from a clash of different values, which inevitably influence the thoughts and beliefs of the individuals of both species.

Slipping is a form of “ecological thinking and acting: diverse, inevitable, unruly and fertile; conditional, uncertain and incomplete- an unending process, very much dependent on the unexpected. (254) After a deep review of Grace Pusey and Emma Kioko’s history of Bryn Mawr, I cannot deny the fact that there is a grave allowance of slippage. Slippage in the form of the inevitable ghastly issue of racism. Albeit Pusey and Mercado’s history of Bryn Mawr explores and clearly depicts the racist acts during the development of the college in the medieval ages, the racial status quo between the black and the white still remains apparent almost everywhere in the world today and persists to bar the proliferation of humans.