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Even if we don't wear our politics on our sleeves, can we help ourselves from becoming political? When first reading the Brooks poem, I was thinking to myself, "well is she pro-choice? or anti-choice? For some reason i just couldn't wrap my head around the fact that I was reading a poem. Then my moved into Spivak-land and thought, well maybe this makes me a good feminist, I am already starting to reflect on my personal feminist notions and let them guide me as to whether or not I would enjoy the poem. No, scrap that...when we went through the list in class of the different lenses one could use to interpret a poem, why is it that my lenses were so emotionally and politically consumed?

Next on topic: so the discussion today in class left me frustrated. I really wanted to be able to enjoy the poem because it brings emotion to life so well. Maybe that's what it was, emotion. Johnston expresses in the reading how Brooks brings her "sweets" to life, but maybe it wasn't the sweets, maybe it was the emotion, that whether or not the reader experienced what it was to abort a potential "sweet" one can identify. However, this idea that Brooks is creating a life which is no more, can be really dangerous to a liberal leftist femininist in his/her/heer argument to discredit those wishing to ban this right. I really liked the poem until I became frustrated on a political level? Maybe it's sad that politics can take pleasure away from someone elses artwork.

I also thought this idea of the intersection between politics and law was interesting. I don't necessarilly believe that all politics tries to do is to come up with a law as some sort of resolution. Maybe that's because I would like to believe that politics creates discussion. Maybe that's just not the ideal Tocquvillian world we live in. Habermas would probably say, I'm crazy because no one interacts anymore. In fact, Habermas would hate these online forums because he would think they stunt discussion and discourse all together...

Sorry, tangent...I guess what I mean is that, I think laws are made to try to resolve problems but I do not think that the discourse of politics is only to come to a law.