Submitted by ptrainor on Monday, June 5, 2006 - 5:48am

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Patrick Trainor

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Journal 12

Journal #12

The book Self-Made Man got better to read for me in this last section that we read for Monday. It was very refreshing to learn of Winterson’s dealing with rejection. As a guy I could identify with that and feel her pain. Women in that situation are in the position of power. Society has dictated that men are to be the pursuers and women the pursued. This makes it hard on a man because when he approaches her he is at her mercy. Rarely is it the other way around because of how society is. In my experience it is much less nerve wracking when meeting women in a casual basis like in class or at the store or something because there is not the assumption that one or the other party wants anything out of it.

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