A Room of One's Own, Section 5-6 Continued Discussion

Someone in class today mentioned the quote about the women writing as a women, but forgetting that she was a women and then the discussion focused more on the fact that Virginia Woolf's idea was that the best writer had a little bit of both male and female in them. We then discussed that then and still today it still seems that if a man writes a little more femininely, they appear weak, but if a women writes in a masculine way, they appear strong.

I think this ties in well with one of the quotes I had chosen for today. On page 63, it says: "Clearly the mind is always altering focus, and bringing the world into different perspectives. But some of these states of mind seem, even if adopted spontaneously, to be less comfortable than others. In order to keep oneself continuing in them one is unconsciously holding something back, and gradually the repression becomes an effort. But there may be some state of mind in which one could continue without effort because nothing is required to be held back."

It seems that here Woolf is saying that everyone has a part of their brain that thinks like a male and everyone has a part of their brain that thinks like a female. The two ways of thinking have to be united so that that person can have full happiness and success as a writer. So, a women would think mostly like a women, but would be influenced  by the man and the male would think mostly like a man, but be influenced by the women. This way they write with their sexuality in mind, but they also keep in mind the male perspective. So is this why it seems society today thinks that it is wrong for women to write in more of a masculine than feminine way and vice versa for men? Is it because they are not writing what is expected of their sex? Can't
they have different perspectives and ideas that they feel relate more to the opposite sex?

-Jessica Mitchell