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I sent a professor an email asking for help with an SMP idea, and most of the professors I've talked to about whatever or sent emails have been really awesome and stuff, but this one was kind of curt and made me feel bad. I guess that's what I get for asking for unsolicited help.
Anyways, here's part of an email reply I sent her that got deleted because I felt like being curt back and not just writing out everything I think like I do with everyone else.
"A lot of books I've found dealing with the idea of gender ambiguity are Sci-Fi, which lead me to another idea. There are a large amount of authors--like Andre Norton and CJ Cherryh--who are female writers publishing under male pseudonyms. Many female writers, such as Anais Nin, use language described as "feminine" so I was thinking it could be interesting to analyze how writing as a man could affect how a woman writes."
Just another idea I had and which might be more interesting to me than what I'm thinking now.
Things I would have to do for this: provide examples of woman writing as man, man as man, and woman as woman. Define what makes language feminine or masculine. Analyze how well sci-fi author did it--if there are or un-masculine things, how that affects the work or tone or that kind of shit.
Conversely, I could just not do an SMP and not have that stress on me.
Anyways, here's part of an email reply I sent her that got deleted because I felt like being curt back and not just writing out everything I think like I do with everyone else.
"A lot of books I've found dealing with the idea of gender ambiguity are Sci-Fi, which lead me to another idea. There are a large amount of authors--like Andre Norton and CJ Cherryh--who are female writers publishing under male pseudonyms. Many female writers, such as Anais Nin, use language described as "feminine" so I was thinking it could be interesting to analyze how writing as a man could affect how a woman writes."
Just another idea I had and which might be more interesting to me than what I'm thinking now.
Things I would have to do for this: provide examples of woman writing as man, man as man, and woman as woman. Define what makes language feminine or masculine. Analyze how well sci-fi author did it--if there are or un-masculine things, how that affects the work or tone or that kind of shit.
Conversely, I could just not do an SMP and not have that stress on me.