I keep running across a not-quite-trope -- an argument -- that I find immensely problematic. I'm going to talk about it now, through my own feminism, which may not be yours. Consider yourself warned for that, along with discussions of violence and sexual assault.

( A defense of double standards )

I feel like a bad feminist for saying it, but I hate being a woman. Not even for the social ramifications of it. I just hate it.

( negativity re: femaleness, probably TMI, Elizabeth Has Issues, binarism (?) )

So, I'm working feverishly (...ish) on my asexuality presentation, and had a meeting with my (former!) prof about it. After a segue into my future career (no, you can be a psychologist without great math skillz, really!), he waxed eloquent on my paper, and how it needed to be shared with the world, for science -- maybe I could write an article ( Read more... )

I've been re-reading The Myth of Mars and Venus, which I convinced my mother to give me for Christmas.  It's hard not to read straight through; I love the author's style, as well as agreeing completely with her point, and I have to admit I giggle (and cheer) every time she mentions evolutionary psychology:

-- Arguing that some apparently modern ( Read more... )

Finals are next week. Literature classes don't have finals, they have essays. The week before finals. Which is this week.

I didn't quite make it to class, but I just turned in the first - entitled (yes, seriously) "The Betty-Veronica Dichotomy in Pride and Prejudice, The Awakening, Wuthering Heights, 'The Americanization of Pau Tsu' and 'A New ( Read more... )

First of all, sorry everybody about the radio silence.  I've been stuck with moving and midterms - yes, both, at the same time - but now I'm settled at St Helens (some of you may remember a bit of an explosion some twenty-nine years ago that darkened the sky, killed forests, sent ash around the whole globe and still had some left by the time it got ( Read more... )

Although my favourite characters are almost always men, except Aravis in "The Chronicles of Narnia" and Mary Lennox is "The Secret Garden," it tends to be more a matter of identification than admiration.  I feel like I'm supposed to identify with heroines rather than heroes, because we're both girls and presumably socialised similarly, but usually ( Read more... )

So, I've been thinking.  Again.

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