{"id":2,"date":"2012-06-21T19:49:39","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T19:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eng470\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2012-06-27T18:00:46","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T01:00:46","slug":"morality-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eng470\/morality-page\/","title":{"rendered":"MORALITY"},"content":{"rendered":"

Removing Morality as the Impetus<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe paint in the public areas is still fresh \u2013 always has been\u201d <\/strong><\/em>(Maynard 71).<\/p>\n

– morality seen through historical development: a veneer, ultimately surface level, yet most visible<\/p>\n

– Foucault exploring Catholic \u2018confessional discourse\u2019<\/p>\n

move towards somewhat more secular \u201cpurity\u201d reform movement<\/p>\n

– moral coding of language in early distinctions of \u201cthe mental, moral and physical expression of sex\u201d(StM 31)<\/p>\n

– the idea of a life in excess<\/p>\n

– surface level morality structure of prevailing notions characterizing men as sexually lustful\/aggressive versus the apparent sexual passivity of females<\/p>\n

– true happiness of women defined by the state to coincide w\/ state happiness<\/p>\n

– \u201cRace Suicide\u201d: declared \u201cphysical and moral rottenness\u201d of the poor (who might be lucky enough to be reformable but most seen on the surface level as beyond redemption) as compared to the most moral citizens who have the \u201cmost comfortable homes, the largest dwellings, and abodes of the most affluent and respectable in any city \u2026 best credit \u2026 most influential in business \u2026 men who direct and control the commerce of the world<\/strong>\u201d (Bliss 45)<\/p>\n

– The so-called \u201cboring old white males who dominated the traditional history\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>– Immorality assumed to be a natural consequence of gender mingling in workplace structure<\/p>\n

– \u201cCanadianization\u201d of immigrants (connected w\/ race suicide), establishing rule over non-English elements, called \u201cmoral regulation reformation\u201d<\/p>\n

– Symbolic emphasis on whiteness, cleanliness and purity, \u201cvigour of the race\u201d, \u201closs of semen is the loss of blood\u201d<\/p>\n

– Sexual relations among students as \u201cevidence\u201d of people in authority\u2019s racist beliefs about the \u201csexual primitiveness\u201d of Native peoples (and non-Anglo-Saxon people in general)<\/p>\n

– Tendency in sex-scientific literature to blame \u201cforeign\u201d cultures for perversion<\/p>\n

– Non-heterosexual relationships considered \u201ca weakening of moral fibre, a waste of mawkish sentimentality\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNon-sensitive positions\u201d \u2192 not a moral position but rather a cohesion\/se(curity issue<\/p>\n