Layman's Terms

In the digital age, everyone has some sort of internet presence whether they have a public Instagram account or not. What you search and sign up for follows you around. People can find out information about you without even meeting you. Before the internet, the most people could find out was maybe your phone number or address. Now, someone can know what sports you played in high school or infer your political views by what posts you like. I actually learned more than I wanted to about my roommate in the summer. Just by searching up his name, I learned of all his accomplishments in high school. It was a little intimidating to discover someone pursuing the same major was also president and valedictorian of his high school. The power is in your hands (kind of).                         Don’t panic! Unless you are a celebrity—or my roommate—people most l...

Okay, this is going to be the most serious blog on this page. I would be lying if I said I understood most of the general introduction chapter of Space, Place, and Gender . I could be alone in this, and perhaps I should have read over everything a fourth time, but I could not wrap my head around some of the sentences. For most of the beginning of the excerpt, I just stared blankly at my screen, wondering if one summer had really damaged my brain capacity this significantly. At first, I found the Massey’s sentences very choppy, often using repetitive phrases and unnecessary wording. It felt that she wrote it under certain guidelines, with no creativity in sentence structure. On page 7, she writes, Moreover, many feminists have argued against such ways of thinking, such definitions of identity. The argument is that we need to have the courage to abandon such defensive - yet designed for dominance – means of definition. Many feminists have argued for 'thin...