cimorene

we're supposed to do a one-page essay-like composition on each week's lecture, incorporating the literature, the lecture and our own opinions, which is fine because it's like a response. thursday's lecture was nothing more than historical background. and it was as boring as hell, too.

she couldn't even fill two hours with it and we spent the second half of the class talking about the women's lib experiences of everyone who wasn't finnish.

the other american girl "didn't know anything" about women's studies or the women's movement (thanks so much, post-feminism!). there was an italian dude who had literally never heard of women's studies until he came to finland and two french people who didn't think there was actually any discrimination involved in prohibiting muslim girls from wearing their veils in public school. "if we let them do that, we have to let other people make religious statements, and we have a law separating religion and government," said the french girl. i don't know what the french guy said. his english was too bad.

ETA. i don't want to write this. mainly because first i feel obligated to read the fucking article again and it's going to put me to sleep.