@Ymelia_ it's an article on androgyny in Orlando and honestly i don't understand most of it it's confusing af and i can't figure out the author's position on gender or whether they're being offensive or not but this part is just ....... wtf

@punsandpotions Yeah, it's not just caus english in not my native language, there is something strange on the paragraph structure and logic.
Literature analysis are always tricky, but in this case they do what we were tell to avoid : giving intentions to the author instead of analysing the work

@Ymelia_ definitely ... like believe me i don't understand this article either it's hella confusing welppp

@punsandpotions @Ymelia_ as a native english speaker, I think you're right. definitely reads strangely, seems to be trying to argue that forced straight relationships are valuable and necessary for lesbian ones in this work, and that's just... uggg....

@nergdron @Ymelia_ honestly the whole article is nothing but confusing .... it's called "what phantasmagoria of the mind is": reading virginia woolfs parody of gender and it's just sooo much confusing stuff abt what gender and sex is (or really really isn't) and what virginia woolf things it is

@punsandpotions @nergdron
I'm a literature specialist so I can more easily tell what's bothering me this way
- I don't if I can translate it in a good way "un procès d'intention" "an trial of purpose" maybe, it's when you start with an idea and try to fit it by force to the text. Here the non-binary sexuality was forces to fit to the"phantasmagoria" analysis
- 2d The biographic lecture. When you explain the artistic choices by the author life. In french literature studies it's a big big no. It's artificial, and often the way to
misinterpretation. We have only clues and no certitudes about the "Why" she written this way

@Ymelia_ @nergdron very good point! that's definitely a problem with the article

@punsandpotions @nergdron hope i was clear, it's harder in english x)

@Ymelia_ @punsandpotions Yep!

@Ymelia_ @punsandpotions je suis Canadienne, et je travaille avec deux francophone. je comprende. 😄