Listen, I’m not a huge fan of Ariana Grande, but you’re so mistaken if you thought I wasn’t going to use this song in a blog post about feminism and gender studies. Like, really? I have to.
This is the first essay since the Close Reading assignment that I’ve felt completely lost. After finally completing the first draft, I think this could be my best paper yet or my worst paper yet. So there’s that.
Even though I felt totally lost, it wasn’t as stressful as the Close Reading essay because I knew what I was doing, but I just had so much information to sift through. I’m worried that Pennington’s comments will be that I’m using too many quotes from sources and not enough of my own analysis. But the sources I have are just so good and so quotable that it’s hard not to use them a lot.
Me while writing this essay:
I think my argument is solid? I think my analysis of the story is done well? I think my thesis is strong enough? But also maybe not? I really have no idea, but I guess that’s the fun of being in this class, right?
I will say this, though: I really enjoyed writing this essay. And yes, I enjoy writing most essays because I’m weird and like writing essays, but getting the option to do a gender studies paper using queer/LGBTQ theory was great. It was an easy choice to write my essay on this topic, and I had a lot of fun researching and coming up with my argument.
After analyzing Edna and Mademoiselle Reisz, two women from the Victorian era, a time teeming with heteronormativity, I was reminded of this gif:
And I’ll leave it at that.
