Question
This essay criticizes Erwin Straus’ explanation of a central phenomenon in terms of a mysterious “feminine essence.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this phenomenological essay, which argues that women lack confidence in performing a certain action since they exhibit “an ambiguous transcendence, an inhibited intentionality, and a discontinuous unity.”
ANSWER: “Throwing Like a Girl: A Phenomenology of Feminine Body Comportment, Motility, and Spatiality”
[10e] Iris Marion Young’s “Throwing Like a Girl” builds on this philosopher’s observation that women are torn between transcendence and immanence. Her magnum opus claims that men have made women into the “Other.”
ANSWER: Simone de Beauvoir
[10m] Young argues that de Beauvoir’s theory is limited to this aspect of womanhood. This set of concrete circumstances that shape one’s experience titles the second part of “Lived Experience” and names an “International” led by Guy Debord.
ANSWER: situation [or the situation of women; accept Situationist International]
<JC, Philosophy (Contemporary)>
Data
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hawk the Herald Angels Tuah | Trielectic Materialists | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| The Book of Coming Forth by Gay | Hawk Tuahology | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| The Waterloo Queens | Quining Quem Quaeritis | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 RMP Fest Online Mirror | 05/31/25 | N | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 50% | 25% |
| 2025 RMP Fest Carleton Mirror | 07/13/25 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2025 RMP Fest CO Mirror | 08/10/25 | Y | 6 | 26.67 | 100% | 100% | 67% |