RR #23 Cixous

Summary:
In her article "VIEWPOINT The Laugh of the Medusa," Helene Cixous argues that "woman must put herself into the text-as into the world and into history by her own movement," meaning that women need to use there voice instead or others voices. Cixous expresses that writing will help discover women who they are, and to not let anyone hold you back, just write. She expresses that writing has been more reserved for men rather than women and women need to gain that right by finding out who they are and writing! Cixous expresses many views in her article but the one that is the most important is that men have made women hate women, and that is mainly her big argument.

Synthesis:
This articles relates to Flynn and Alexander. In Cixous's artlice she talks about gender and sexulaity and so does Alexander. Cixous talks about bisexuality and Alexander talks about how it is to compose a piece as a transgender person. In both Flynn and Cixous articles they are talking about gender, and mainly about male and female. Flynn talks about in both male and females composition styles and Cixous talks about how males are the blame for woman being less confident and not being able to find out who they are.

Personal Respose:
I personal thought this article was okay. It was long but I liked the topic. It made me want to keep reading after she says that men have made women hate women. That kind of shocked me on how much she hates men. She seems to hate them atleast. She blames them for just about everything. It was very long though but I thought it was interesting in the beginning.

Questions for Discussion and Journaling:
1. This piece did make me a little uncomfortable because she blamed everything on men, when women could of stepped up back in the 70's. Yes it might be different from today to back then but women could of stood up for themselves. It's not the male genders fault though. Yes, I think she tries to make her reader uncomfortable because she is a man hater and blames everything on the male gender because the male gender had more power.

2.Cixous says "write yourselves" as to a meaning that "writing is for you, you are for you; your body is yours, take it (248). She is saying write so you can discover who you are really are, and to give us some power in composition. She wants women to kind of escape and write about anything and know not to be scared and don't let any one hold o back just write.