Exercise

Daphne Spain's thesis focuses
on genered spaces; because women
have historically had limited access
to men's physical spaces, their access to knowledge
disseminated in those spaces
has been limited as well, ultimately denying
them polical position and voice.
Spain further demonstrates this
idea cross-culturally between both non-industrialized
people (as opposed to "pre"-industrialized)
and industrialized nations.


I'd write about watching _The Squid and the Whale_,
(which always sounds, quite appropriately, like
the "Sperm" and the whale to my mind)
but it would be redundant for me to do so
considering I wrote my reaction to it
in my paper-bound journal.
Yet, I'd like to follow the undertone
of second wave feminism
that tremors through its themes.
Quite a disturbing little flick.


Did I mention that I'm also reading Tan's _Saving Fish
from Drowning_? I'm quite tempted to put it down.
Her narrator is simply talking way over my head.
And it feels strained.
I wanted to get lost in Burma and forbidden romance,
not the pseduo French
vocabulary and name-dropping that Bibi, our narrating spirit,
enjoys bathing in. Sigh.
I suppose the work is good for me.
So I'll keep reading it--Webster in hand.
[Not.
I have a horrible habit of simply ignoring the word and moving on.
Perhaps that's why my vocab scores where never
where they should have been.]

How do you, my friendly reader, keep from living in the past?