Alexander Assignment

Greg Warman

11-18-12

Eng 1510

Jonathon Alexander Assignment

                First off, this article is extremely long and very, very boring. 

               

Now, for the actual assignment:

Male: more aggressive, rough, less sensitive, anger is more common, physical, male parts, dominant figure

Female: more emotional, not as aggressive, more gentile, smaller body, female parts, more submissive/passive

                From what I’ve interpreted from Alexander’s article, he (she?) dabbles in the idea that the feminist writing aims for the writer to gain consideration and appreciation with the ultimate goal of engaging a critical awareness of the relationship between gender and sociopolitical matrix, and promoting an agency that wishes to undertake such an analysis of writing styles.  After this explanation of feministic writing, Alexander makes a giant leap and veers off into sexuality in writing.  By doing this, he basically disregards everything he says about feministic writing, and talks about your sexuality instead of gender.  Mentioning things like homosexuality and being transgendered and how it molds one’s writing is where Alexander takes a turn in this article, which is why it’s so hard to follow and keep track of whether he’s talking about gender, feministic writing, or the writing of a “queer” as Alexander explains it as. 

Anyhow, I don't really believe in the writing of a person who bleeds for days at a time and still survives.... Totally kidding, totally kidding...