RR #20 Flynn

Getting ready to read:
My experiences with gender differences in the classroom has always been the same. I have never had a female teacher that treated male students differently than female students; and vis versa. All of my teachers have treated everyone in my classroom the same.

Summary:
In her article "Composing as a Woman" , Elizabeth Flynn attempts to explain to her audience of her argument of the most of the writing from our society have been from the male perspective over the past couple years, and so she states that women;s perspective should be included too.

Synthesis:
This article reminds me of the article James Paul Gee wrote about the "identity kit". He defines it as “the appropriate costume and instructions on how to act, talk and often write, so as to take on a particular role that other recognize and how it shapes a writes identity." The articles both reflect how identity shapes a person's writing. The only difference is in this article it is based on woman and the other is on discourse communities.


Questions for Discussion and Journaling:
1. I think this means that our society is very stereotyped,that women have kind of been cheated because there perspectives have been pushed to the side, and not noticed as much as the mens perspective have been. The silencing of women's voices relate to the marginalization of other minorities because women were ignored, and that uniformity is valued more.