Okay let's test this.David Quinn wrote:Women are unconscious in the same way that children are unconscious. Yes, there is a degree of consciousness happening. There is awareness of the emotions, of desires, of particular kinds of social realities, of the self to a certain extent. But there is little or no awareness of anything larger than this. No awareness of the bigger picture.
Elizabeth, let's suppose that you are a woman.
If someone is stopping you from getting a sandwich, you are aware that you are mad (emotion), you are aware that you want a sandwich (desire), you are aware that someone is preventing you from getting this sandwich (social reality), and that it's you that wants this sandwich (self). David does not doubt this much. He agrees that female consciousness extends this far, and even grants that there might be a little bit of awareness of something larger than this.
However, he says that there is no awareness of the bigger picture. If this is the case, then you, as the sandwich-deprived woman in this story, should not be able to answer this question: what is the bigger picture?
So, Elizabeth, what is the bigger picture? :)