Kailey Brennan
9/27/2014 03:34:45 am
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Rebecca Gagne
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Shannon Olenick
9/28/2014 04:42:29 am
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Sarah Machado
9/29/2014 12:11:41 am
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Nicole Doniger
9/29/2014 01:17:10 am
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Shannon Olenick
9/30/2014 09:27:44 am
“Shrinking Women” by Lily Myers and “Cultural Rhetorics of Women’s Corsets” by Wendy Dasler Johnson both made very interesting and profound statements about the rhetoric of women’s bodies. I genuinely enjoyed Myers’ poem. It is beautifully written and conveys so easily the struggle with food that many women have, along with the double standards between men and women.
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Rebecca Gagne
9/30/2014 10:32:04 am
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9/30/2014 01:00:02 pm
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9/30/2014 11:17:32 pm
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Nicole Doniger
10/1/2014 12:32:49 am
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10/1/2014 02:01:18 am
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Jessica St. George
10/1/2014 02:03:29 am
I really liked the poem “Shrinking Women.” I saw it last year in two other classes and liked it immediately. I feel like a lot of people can relate to that problem in different ways, either the aspect of picking up unwanted habits from our parents or feeling the need to be much smaller than we are. It reminds me of the way things used to be in the past actually. About how men were allowed to say whatever they want and go out and do whatever they want but women were expected to stay home and not really speak. Women were expected to basically handle the house and children without complaint while their husbands went off and did whatever. That is sort of what it sounds like here. Her mother feels as though she needs to stay at home and that she should avoid eating as much as possible. She avoids calories to the extreme. Lily Meyers says that she did not even think that her mother would have dinner if she were not there to suggest it. Meanwhile, her father has been going out and eating and drinking with his buddies all the time. He feels no restraints put upon him whatsoever. And neither does her brother. He freely speaks his mind and finds absolutely nothing wrong with that. He is not afraid to eat food and gain weight like his sister and mother are. It is almost like the mother was afraid that being any more than she is would get in the way of her husband. The way that Lily’s father swells and her mother shrinks seems to sort of suggest that he is sucking the life out of her and gaining it for himself. It’s like she leaves so much space that he felt the need to fill it. Even now with his new girlfriend it mentions that she used to be overweight, past tense, meaning that she has done something in order to lose that weight. It seems that women are often trying to lose weight to sort of prove something to themselves. They feel like they don’t deserve all of the same things as men and that they have to limit themselves when really that is not the case. Women have just as much a right to all of the things men do but we still have not reached that point yet.
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