Hi everyone!
I’m Bethany Nelson, and I’m a junior here at
Fredonia. I’m studying Public Relations
with a minor in English. I’m originally
from Jamestown, NY. My hometown is
really special to me and I really love how going home is just a 40 minute drive
down the road! I’ve been swimming
competitively since I was 11, and after taking a year off of swimming my
freshman year here, decided to join the swim team here for my sophomore year,
and absolutely loved every second of it! Most people don’t understand why I
love swimming so much, and for the most part neither do I, but I just go with
it! I swim distance freestyle events, so
my races are the super long ones that no one ever wants to watch…or swim. Besides swimming I really love my
family. I have a huge family; I
have 6 members of my immediate family and a total of 40 cousins on both of my family. My family are some of my favorite people in the world, and I dont know what I would do without them. I really love reading, basically anything,
but I’m a sucker for love stories. I’m
obsessed with Pinterest, quotes from Pinterest, and trying to make my life look
like it belongs on their website. I’m a
self diagnosed coffee addict, but I have no intention of trying to change
that... :)
I was interested in taking this class not only
because it fits a requirement for my minor, but also because the idea of taking
a class solely on women writers sounded fascinating. I’ve always found classes that are focused on
a specific topic to be a really cool way to learn about that topic. Instead of rushing through women writers as a
section in another class, I thought it would be exciting to spend a whole
semester studying them. This class will
also be entirely different than any class I’ve ever taken before, and I’m
excited to study just women writers this semester!
As Miller said on page 2 “Because women have not had
the same historical relation of identity to origin, institution, production
that men have had, they have not, I think (collectively) felt burdened by too
much Self, Ego, Cognito, etc.” I think
that this is a very interesting opinion of a woman during this time period to
have. If I were to have read it and not
known who had written it, I would have assumed it was a man. I wouldn’t consider myself an active
feminist, but that doesn’t mean that hearing about people say that we make a
big deal about nothing doesn’t hit a nerve.
Honestly, reading it made me a little upset. It isn’t an opinion that is typically had by
women. To me it says that women don’t have
as much to complain about as men do, and are blowing their struggles for
equality out of proportion. In my
opinion, women have struggled just as much, if not more than men when it comes
to identity. Throughout history white
men have had it made for them. They
never had to fight to have the rights they were born with the way that women
did. Thinking about women throughout
history not having equal rights, not being able to attend school, not having a
say in who they were marrying, or not being able to put their own name on their
work contradicts this quote. If we ever
want to be considered truly equal to men, in areas other than just in
literature, having women express opinions like this aren’t doing us any good in
terms of gaining ground.
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