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The important thing on this site is supporting dumb fucks fucking dumb fucks This is fine if the goal is fucking but not if the goal is understanding. The question of Simone Weil's relevance to female philosophy is an interesting one. But as you have seen, even recommending her to a female college student is frowned upon. Female philosophy is now defined by a feminist image. Simone Weil stressed the importance of decreation or freedom from hiding behind an image. People like Simone are frowned on by dumb fucks fucking dumb fucks so best avoided since those like her interfere with the process. Leave the relationship of Simone to female philosophy to those not so concerned with being dumb fucks. Here is an example. Dumb fucks frown while some others don't
From The Red Virgin: A Poem of Simone Weil by Stephanie Strickland which won the Brittingham Prize in Poetry in 1993.
prose introduction to Simone Weil.
"Weil came to her philosophical and religious ideas by a path that included elite university training, factory work, potato digging, harvest in the vineyards, teaching philosophy to adolescent women, partisanship in trade unions, anarchistic Socialism, pacifism, rejection of pacifism, a conversion experience that did not lead her to joining ... a religion, exile in New York City, and employment by De Gaulle's government-in-exile in London.
Weil used her body as a tool as well as a weapon. She threw herself under the wheels of the same issues women are starving for answers to today: issues of hunger, violence, exclusion, betrayal of the the body, inability to be heard, and self-hate. ...
"Weil, our shrewdest political observer since Machiavelli, was never deceived by the glamor of power, and she committed herself to resisting force in whatever guise. More 'prophet' than 'saint,' more 'wise woman' than either, she bore a particular kind of bodily knowledge that the Western tradition cannot absorb. Simone Weil belongs to a world culture, still to be formed, where the voices of multiple classes, castes, races, genders, ethnicities, nationalities, and religions, can be respected. To achieve this culture is an impossible task, but, as Weil would remind us, not on that account to be forsaken.
Today we look to Weil for hope, for meditation, for the bridge a body makes. She knew that the truth had been 'taken captive,' and that we must 'seek at greater depth our own source,' because power destroys the past, the past with its treasures of alternative ideals that stand in judgment on the present."