Reading Response #20 (Flynn)

Getting Ready to Read:
I have had various experiences with gender in the classroom. For example, my freshman year I started taking a woodshop class but eventually dropped it because the teacher was very adamant that shop was a "guy thing." I also had male teachers who favored males, male teachers who favored females, and female teachers who favored males.

Summary:
In her article "Composing as a Woman," Elizabeth Flynn discusses the differences in writing between men and women. She points out that writing is mostly directed toward males, and written for males, and argues that it should be equal and favor females as well.

Synthesis:
This article does not really deal with discourse communities, more like identity, which I think could be applied to the Villanueva article as well.

QDJ
What this quote is saying is that women's perspectives have been pushed to the side, much like the perspectives of minorities, in an effort to "make everyone the same," and push aside the fact that women and minorities have had radically different experiences.

Thoughts:
I really enjoyed this article. The differences between men and women have always been fascinating to me and I thought this article showed the differences in writing styles in a very interesting way.