Take *that* Johnson and Voltaire! I have beaten the twin evils of apathy and procrastination and finished my four page assignment with five pages.
They're kind of crappy, but maybe the professor won't notice because there are more of them?
Really they're only kind of crappy because the beginning has nothing to do with the middle or the ending. Whoops. At this point, however, I just want to print it out and turn it in. I've got bigger fish to fry. Like, oh say, finals.
So now, despite the fact that it is 1:30 in the am, I am going to go read some more of As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised As a Girl. The first reading I've done so far that has gotten an emotional rise out of me. I should clarify that with "in Philosophy" because Barefoot Gen kicked my ass *hard* in Lit Pix (omg still a horrible class name). People are just stupid and arrogant and frustrating and sexist.
It doesn't help that the description of John Money makes me go "OMG, it's Rodney McKay if McKay had gone into psychosexuality instead of astrophysics." Except so far I kind of dislike this guy. (We'll see how the rest of the reading goes.) But Dr. Donald Laub says in the book that "John was unusually brilliant. He may be the smartest person I've ever met. He was so smart that it was a problem--because he knew everybody else was dumb."
More on this after there has been class discussion on the issues addressed in the book probably. 'Cause I was reading it tonight at work and, wow, some of the assumptions just made me a little frustrated.
And, yes, I do have to connect everything back toMcKay that crazy sci-fi show I obsess over watch.
I'm so keeping these books from Philosophy just so I can carry them around central Washington and make the more repressed people do double-takes. Heh.
They're kind of crappy, but maybe the professor won't notice because there are more of them?
Really they're only kind of crappy because the beginning has nothing to do with the middle or the ending. Whoops. At this point, however, I just want to print it out and turn it in. I've got bigger fish to fry. Like, oh say, finals.
So now, despite the fact that it is 1:30 in the am, I am going to go read some more of As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised As a Girl. The first reading I've done so far that has gotten an emotional rise out of me. I should clarify that with "in Philosophy" because Barefoot Gen kicked my ass *hard* in Lit Pix (omg still a horrible class name). People are just stupid and arrogant and frustrating and sexist.
It doesn't help that the description of John Money makes me go "OMG, it's Rodney McKay if McKay had gone into psychosexuality instead of astrophysics." Except so far I kind of dislike this guy. (We'll see how the rest of the reading goes.) But Dr. Donald Laub says in the book that "John was unusually brilliant. He may be the smartest person I've ever met. He was so smart that it was a problem--because he knew everybody else was dumb."
More on this after there has been class discussion on the issues addressed in the book probably. 'Cause I was reading it tonight at work and, wow, some of the assumptions just made me a little frustrated.
And, yes, I do have to connect everything back to
I'm so keeping these books from Philosophy just so I can carry them around central Washington and make the more repressed people do double-takes. Heh.