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[labellementeuse]

I hate feminism.

Also Arthur Ransome, Enid Blyton, Margaret Mahy, and Diana Wynne Jones.

I don't like girls. Or adventure fiction. Or motherly roles.

Actually, I really just never want to think about the 10000 words I've written ever, ever again.

Unfortunately, they need editing. And referencing. And also, hey! An introduction and conclusion.

Hey, why doesn't one of y'all just shoot me?

I seriously SERIOUSLY am so over this. I have only written ONE essay this year that wasn't in some way about the portrayal of women in young adult fiction and while, OK, I love women and young adult fiction CAN I PLEASE JUST WRITE ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE NOW KTHXBYE. I never ever thought I would say this but THANK FUCKING GOD for Barthes.

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[hazel]

I understand and sympathise with your university woes. Is this the last one?

[labellementeuse]

LOLOL I wish. I have four more to go, plus exams. But they're much shorter and I think three of them are going to be NOT about women at all (One kind of has to be. AND it's on Mahy to boot. But I'll get through it.)

[hazel]

Working for a living is SO MUCH EASIER, I swear.

[gillo]

I give you permission to feel grumpy about Blyton but not to hate DWJ who is lovely. You can hate over-focus on one aspect of books with many other valuable aspects if you wish. Or bleeding stupid structure of academia.

{{{hugs}}}

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

<3333333333 I actually still have a happy feeling when I think about Enchanted Glass, so there is hope for me yet! But Enid Blyton is dead to me (and everyone else, heh heh heh.)

I guess it's Margaret Mahy who I'm really grumpy with because she wasn't supposed to be in my damn paper but my supervisor decided I had to have her and it's too late to get rid of her now. :-/

[gillo]

Blyton frankly deserves to be dead to you. Mahy leaves me feeling rather "meh" - I've never been able to get up enthusiasm for her as I can for, say, Susan Cooper or Peter Dickinson, let alone lovely, lovely DWJ.

[intertext.livejournal.com]

Oh, The Changeover is, for me, up there with my all-time faves. And I love The Tricksters, Catalogue of the Universe, and The Haunting, which is very DWJ-ish.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Same! Mahy is a tremendous part of my childhood literature landscape. But I took a class on her this term which involved reading her entire YA oeuvre over about 6 weeks and distressingly, she really suffered for it. Or I did.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Oh, well, I have a lot of residual affection for Blyton, I always knew she was pretty dreadful but I enjoyed her anyway. And some of them are not all bad - Sea of Adventure et. seq., for example. I really do love Mahy because she's one of the people who protected me from a childhood spent, as that paper demonstrated, only in fantasy Britain. And she has other stuff going for her as well. :P

[intertext.livejournal.com]

Just think - you could be writing about Conrad. Or Beckett. Or having to read Kant.

but, sympathies ;-)

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow. Perspective. *boggles a little bit* Alright. Yes. Enid is much better than Immanuel.

[shoeless-girl.livejournal.com]

Many, many sympathies. I hated plant evolution with avengence at the end of my thesis, and it is one of the coolest things EVAH to me.

All the best with the editing, referencing, intro and conclusion ♥

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

<333 Thank you! It's such a distressing feeling!

[aimeesworld.livejournal.com]

Tui, don't write about women in Maurice Gee for the next essay. Don't write about women in Mahy for the other essay. Choose something nice and different, like violence or historical context.

Good luck with your introduction and oonclusion and all that, you're almost there and then you can forget about it forever!

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

I am absolutely NOT going to write about women in Gee (I sort of am stuck with Mahy. :-/ That's what I told her I'd write about, so.) I just can't think of any other topics. *Are* there any other topics? Really? I think all this talk of writing as power and history and violence and the Depression are all making stuff up! There's no such thing! THERE'S ONLY WOMEN.

*gives you the crazy eyes*

[aimeesworld.livejournal.com]

I see there is no curing you.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

And occasionally, race. O

[wanderlight.livejournal.com]

10000 is a lot of words. *hugs*

(Not typically a big Barthes fan? :) I don't know much about him but we just read part of Mythologies in an English class about signs & discourses, & I found it quite interesting!)

[roadtomanderlay.livejournal.com]

Ah, Honours. If going to France doesn't work out, I'll be doing History. Topic for research essay? Handicrafts during the two world wars. BECAUSE I WANT AN EXCUSE TO WRITE ABOUT KNITTING.

Your post makes me think that I'll get sick of it towards the end, though.