Yifei H. 2106.03.31 Bad Girls
Self-Reflections
“As soon as I walked out my comfort zone and renewed everything in the States, I noticed that I was totally influenced by outside comments.” I wrote in one of my work ‘A Letter to my Daughter’ for this class, Bad Girls. It led me to rediscover the changes that happened silently. Not only for this one, every single reading and writing brought me different perspectives on gender and race. By linking the western culture to my experience in Asia, more and more sparks spitted out of my mind, and they consummated my own opinions of the world culture. By comparing our materials that we have read, and making connection of them, it turns out that women throughout the history had abundant opinions on …show more content…
However, they still have not gotten the same attention and respect as men have from the public. The world needs development, and it cannot happen more quickly without women’s involvement in the STEM field!
Helen Cixious: Yes, I agree with you! I would STRONGLY support women to write! Writing is such an amazing thing, that can attract people simply by putting words together and create some decent thoughts. People can say the STEM is more for men than for women, which contains large gender discrimination, but writing is for everyone! By expressing more about yourself, you can show your power to every reader that you, as an individual, can establish your own argument, and have the deeper part beneath the appearance.
L: -- which is not going to be the best solution! The problem for women in STEM do not get enough respect is because people in 21th century care more and more about women’s body image. On social media, those attractive women are so popular that it effects our daily life more than the women scientists who always sit in the labs, like… the Kardashians! They have the power to expand information in a high speed. It is time for them to use their body to make a difference in the world. Women should refuse more on building a perfect body by unnatural and painful …show more content…
However, Helen Cixious’s point is that women should express them, rather than refrain and refuse, which is Lysistrata’s strategy on making changes. In the book, Lysistrata thinks women are influential to the societies and the countries, by refusing the commands made by men. She finds that women are always following the rules, so the best way to attract men’s attention is to refrain. But for Helen Cixious, she defines the importance of writing in ‘The Laugh of the Medusa’. Connecting her form of writing to Chinese notion on prose ‘shape dispersing but spirit concentrating’, it is obvious that her point is want to emphasize that the inner part is more significant than the appearance. She also encourages people to be open-minded, which is to be more intelligent on their own, but not breaking the rules. In the dialogue, they both aim on the current situation for women in the STEM field, but their methods of dealing with it are inverse. One is trying to change the rest of the society first, in order to refine the situation for women. The other one is aiming for women’s own problems on their own. Expressing more of their intelligence acknowledges people the stereotype they had for a long period of
Self-Reflections
“As soon as I walked out my comfort zone and renewed everything in the States, I noticed that I was totally influenced by outside comments.” I wrote in one of my work ‘A Letter to my Daughter’ for this class, Bad Girls. It led me to rediscover the changes that happened silently. Not only for this one, every single reading and writing brought me different perspectives on gender and race. By linking the western culture to my experience in Asia, more and more sparks spitted out of my mind, and they consummated my own opinions of the world culture. By comparing our materials that we have read, and making connection of them, it turns out that women throughout the history had abundant opinions on …show more content…
However, they still have not gotten the same attention and respect as men have from the public. The world needs development, and it cannot happen more quickly without women’s involvement in the STEM field!
Helen Cixious: Yes, I agree with you! I would STRONGLY support women to write! Writing is such an amazing thing, that can attract people simply by putting words together and create some decent thoughts. People can say the STEM is more for men than for women, which contains large gender discrimination, but writing is for everyone! By expressing more about yourself, you can show your power to every reader that you, as an individual, can establish your own argument, and have the deeper part beneath the appearance.
L: -- which is not going to be the best solution! The problem for women in STEM do not get enough respect is because people in 21th century care more and more about women’s body image. On social media, those attractive women are so popular that it effects our daily life more than the women scientists who always sit in the labs, like… the Kardashians! They have the power to expand information in a high speed. It is time for them to use their body to make a difference in the world. Women should refuse more on building a perfect body by unnatural and painful …show more content…
However, Helen Cixious’s point is that women should express them, rather than refrain and refuse, which is Lysistrata’s strategy on making changes. In the book, Lysistrata thinks women are influential to the societies and the countries, by refusing the commands made by men. She finds that women are always following the rules, so the best way to attract men’s attention is to refrain. But for Helen Cixious, she defines the importance of writing in ‘The Laugh of the Medusa’. Connecting her form of writing to Chinese notion on prose ‘shape dispersing but spirit concentrating’, it is obvious that her point is want to emphasize that the inner part is more significant than the appearance. She also encourages people to be open-minded, which is to be more intelligent on their own, but not breaking the rules. In the dialogue, they both aim on the current situation for women in the STEM field, but their methods of dealing with it are inverse. One is trying to change the rest of the society first, in order to refine the situation for women. The other one is aiming for women’s own problems on their own. Expressing more of their intelligence acknowledges people the stereotype they had for a long period of