rant.

Here is a question I pose not only to the English department at UCLA, but to all English departments everywhere and to Norton Abrams and his Norton Anthology:

Why do we focus more time on mentally retarded men than we do talented women in our English classes? Unless you take a Women's Lit class, English teachers glaze over amazing women authors like Aphra Behn and spend four sections discussing Alexander Pope and his humpback.

And I have a female teacher. Yet she focuses on quotations from Behn that include diction like "weak" and "indebted" when talking about female writing.

Fuck that.