This is a follow-up post to Tuesday’s “Society vs. Individual Choice”.

It’s not entirely unreasonable to conflate ethnic and gender discrimination under a common term “genetic discrimination”—you have no control over your ethnicity or sex¹, and you may be discriminated against because of either. In the past, such discrimination was institutionalized, and your choices were limited because of the results of your birth lottery. In the present, such discrimination is…still practiced, and your choices are limited because of the results of your birth lottery.

Let’s take this out a bit farther: when would such discrimination be…

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Note: this article is about problems with the current way in which Literature is taught in primary and secondary education, but deals with the problems in a way that is biased towards strong readers like myself. Please accept the unpolished musings in this post as such.

About a year and a half ago, one of my friends put up a rather eloquent treatise, inspired by Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own, that discussed being a writer and being a woman and being a female writer. One of her points challenged readers (specifically male readers) to attempt A Room…

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The Social Network (also known as “The Facebook Movie”) was one of the most critically acclaimed movies of 2010. It has friendship, betrayal, sex, intrigue, and most importantly, it’s timely.

All of those things are true. But…why does this make it a great movie?

(TLDR: it was fun, but if you didn’t happen to see it, you honestly didn’t miss anything.)

The movie is set up so that important scenes from the creation of Facebook are interleaved with depositions from two major lawsuits: one by cofounder Eduardo Saverin, and one by the founders of ConnectU. At the end of the…

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