Olivia Jackson

So, the Meduse show up, slaughter all of her friends and the guy she liked, and now she’s just chill with them? I understand she did a lot with them out of survival, but I’m shocked a how it changed to friendship at the end. I’d personally be traumatized seeing a friend’s chest burst open #BSUENG490

“Much of Western European history conditions us to see human differences in simplistic opposition to each other: dominant subordinate, good/bad, up/ down, superior/inferior.”This reading consists of many ideas I’ve heard before, but the author puts them in a way that hasn’t felt so stark. #BSUENG490

There’s a clip of a certain podcaster who’s asked to define what a man is and he said “assertive, dominate, maybe aggressive” and then when he was asked to define a woman he said “just everything that a man is not.” I thought about this clip a lot while reading this. #BSUENG490

Hate to say it, I don’t like Cassie. She’s a taken advantage emotionally of almost every character for her goals. Whether it be solving the case, staying undercover, or getting what she wants, it almost mimics “Lexie’s” performative/abandoning side. She’s complicated, not inherently bad #BSUENG490

I’m holding out hope for Cassie. She’s definitely invested but maybe her professionalism and ties to Frank and Sam pull her out. The situation with the fantastic four becomes a painful near-death story. #BSUENG490

Cassie is withdrawn enough to save the “baby story” to use against the guys in the house, yet involved enough to keep information from frank, mess with her mic pack, and do things that cater to the emotions of the roommates. I’m interested to see if her involvement becomes a hinderance. #BSUENG490

I was hoping for something much more straightforward from the red notebook. Like “I think Daniel is going to kill me in three days.” But I guess 11.30.N is interesting too. #BSUENG490

“Without a strong and vocal women's movement - with all the factions and internal disputes characteristic of a popular movement - the clock does indeed turn backwards.” #BSUENG490

I agree, trying to make sense of “what was actually happening” to Ada was difficult for me due to this reason. However maybe that was the point, to see from her perspective I need to loosen the grip on my own. #BSUENG490

I found the progression of Ada’s faith interesting. Specifically what it looked like for her as she changed the way she prayed and the conversations she had with Yshwa, followed almost directly with the priest, Leshi, who related with her self harming behavior and split identity. #BSUENG490

What does it look like from outside perspective when Ada goes into her mind to have conversation with Asughara? Is she staring off in silence? Is she still actively doing something and talking to herself. Like when Asughara fills Ada’s cup back up with “pink sludge” as they sit together #BSUENG490

“The cyborg is a kind of disassembled and reassembled, postmodern collective and personal self. This is the self feminists must code.” #BSUENG490

I wonder if reading this novel from another perspective other than western Christian would change my interpretations and initial feelings of the text. #BSUENG490

I appreciate the different perspectives we get while reading. The placement feels purposeful in the line of thought we are supposed to follow are read from. #BSUENG490

“Transformation of social relations becomes a matter, then, of transforming hegemonic social conditions rather than the individual acts that are spawned by those conditions.”I feel individual pressure to defy gender norms isn’t necessary, rather, a change in the perceived connotation. #BSUENG490

“Though your protectiveness is only natural’ he added more gently. ‘I suppose the duties of a nurse, especially with a patient so young, must stimulate the dormant maternal capacity. Your own infant didn’t live, I understand?’” Dr. McBrearty disguised a cruel attack as simple observation. #BSUENG490

“Finally Standish told the child to dress and shoved his instruments back into his bag. ‘As I suspected, a simple case of hysteria,’ he threw in Lib’s direction.” The whole interaction with Dr. Standish was abrasive and appalling and finished his visit “throwing” the word hysteria at Lib. #BSUENG490

“The organization and regulation of the time, space, and movements of our daly lives, our bodies are trained, shaped, and impressed with the stamp of prevailing historical forms of selfhood, desire, masculinity, femininity.” #BSUENG490

Lib reminds me a great deal of the women in my family, I found her almost comforting. Headstrong, a working woman who is determined to possible detriment. #BSUENG490

“She may recognize that in an essential way she has been defined simply by her purely biological usefulness to her species.” (Gilbert & Gubar 119) I feel like we see this this line of thought from extremists still today, affecting our political climate and messages to youth from media. #BSUENG490

Some analogies went over my head in “Fifty Minute Mermaid,” and I wonder if it’s because I lack the perception or context. But what was understood, was felt deeply. “This story is still being told, to this very day, to scare the living daylights out of the young females of the species.” #BSUENG490

Another woman affected by a man’s love for his gambling addiction over the women in his life. Or at least that was my first thought on the first line of The Tiger’s Bride. #BSUENG490

Yet, because our still dominant ideas have not kept up with the facts of life; and further because we do not freely accept and act upon even such ideas as are proper to our times; we are twentieth century people living in an artificially preserved environment many centuries out of date.” #BSUENG490

With "The Yellow Wallpaper" I wonder what the author was experiencing. What was the intention behind certain phrasing? References to a wife's "purpose" stick out to me the most: “He said I was his darling and his comfort and all he had, and that I must take care of myself for his sake,” #BSUENG490