Blog Post # 2

George Eliot, a woman who wrote about the negative aspects of woman's writing's when she in turn is a woman writer herself.  "Silly Novel's by Silly Novelist's", I found was a very rude response to the woman writers that were in that particular time period. I was not astounded by her writing or this piece but I chose to do my second blog on it to express the true feeling's about it that I have. George Eliot was bashing on lady novelists and about the stories with the girly feautures and basically making fun of "girly", "feminine", "fluffy" story lines. I feel that the romantic and the fluffy stories that women wrote were about true identity and that it was a way to say that yes I am a woman, and this is the stereotype, so I'm going to embrace it. I feel that if that's the way women historically speaking were looked upon as a stereotypically feminine person then they may as well embrace it. The way that George Eliot writes I feel that maybe she is ashamed to be a female but doesn't have a way to come out and say it. That she's embarassed to be classified in the same classification as the other women simply to get "the in" with the guys. To me, bashing other women when that is their own specific passion, is a way for her to hide behind how she truly feels. She covered up her real name to George Eliot...who knows else else she could be trying to hide from .