E 314J Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Donald Winnicott, Bear Family Records, Heteronormativity
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Page 3: words are good enough (for expressing feeling). Page 4:the narrator and their partner view words differently (the partner does not view them as highly) and this changes their future. Page 5: the narrator tries to be romantic by sending romantic texts to their partner but the partner does not find them to be so. Page 6: the partner was going to be romantic again by sending another text but changes their mind. Page 7: people need to adapt to more than just binaries. The narrator considers that words may not be good enough sometimes. Page 8: the meaning of words depend on the speaker. Someone questions the sexual history of the narrator"s partner. Page 9: experiences of desire should trump a categorical one (uses barnes-thelma and stein-alice). Page 10: narrator and harry move in together. Narrator plays with harry"s son saying they are healing him. Page 11:narrator mentions the prop 8 poster they have seen.
