'Out Of Gas'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
I got five out of ten on that quiz, and that was mostly pure guessing.
I had a sort of mixed media feminist lit class with a professor I loved at Hunter. We watched Camille and one of the early Joan of Arc movies, and read Emma and Antony and Cleopatra. There was also a book of essays which is out of print now -- it's packed up somewhere.
I got 3 out of 10. I think I reverse-reverse psychologied myself out of a few correct answers, where something read as so thoroughly male that I figured the test-makers were trying to make us second-guess ourselves and think we were outsmarting them by choosing "female," only to have it turn out it actually was written by a male-type person. And then it turned out it actually was written by a woman.
Or something. Anyhow, I talked myself out of at least three correct answers based not on the texts but on what I thought the test-writers thought I would think of the texts.
I did that on the last question, JZ.
I also failed. And assumed VS Naipaul's paragraph was written by a woman.
I guessed blindly, didn't even try to think them through, as I recognized none of them. And because I have so frequently had my writing taken for male that I figured there was no point in trying to guess.
I got 50% and it told me that I need to read more books by men.
I got 50% and it told me that I need to read more books by men.
I got 60% and it said the same thing. I think this is just one big scam to get us to read more books by men.
I got 7 out of 10 and it did not tell me I need to read more books by men.
VS Naipaul, Nicholas Sparks and Salman Rushdie write like women. Neener, neener. Also, their mothers dress them funny.
I looked Naipaul up in Wiki and he seems like a real charmer, too.