Reading Response No. 20

Getting Ready to Read:
In high school, I did have a female teacher who favored male students over female students. Usually she would end up flirting with her favorite male students, and all the girls would blame our bad grades on the fact that we were "competition." While I doubt that our grades were the result of her jealousy, it was obvious which sex she favored in her classroom.

Summary:
In her article "Composing as a Woman," Elizabeth Flynn attempts to show her audience that most writing today is geared toward a male point of view and then tries to persuade them that this fact needs to be changed so that females have an equal point of view. She does this by including texts by both males and females, proving her point of how writing is geared toward a male point of view.

Synthesis:
One could compare this article to the article we read by Wardle. Both articles are written about idenity and how writing and discourse define us.

Questions for Discussion and Journaling
1. The quote is saying that writings by women are held to little value, due to the opression of women in (and probably outside of) the writing world. the author compares this group to minority groups, who also have little influence in writing due to oppression.

Personal Response:
I thought that this article was alright. Feminisn really isn't quite my thing, but it was interesting to hear about how women's writing really does have less influence than writings by men. It was also interesting to read about the lack of influence that minority groups have in writing.