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Thank you We sneak Of it the man who wrote

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the heroic d's i'll ashman some of the best writing

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comes from people writing about things they know really well

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But great writing comes from people writing that's if they

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don't know at all Yeah so why not have a

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dude tried to write like a lady Yeah there were

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in a lot of ladies who had the right to

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write things down right Like a lot of women were

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educated it all right If they were educated the likelihood

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that there stuff would be valued and preserved is like

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next to nothing In fact maybe nothing because there isn't

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a lot of stuff preserved It's a siri's of letters

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from women to their terrible deadbeat boyfriends and husbands Yeah

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i mean it's like retelling all of greco roman history

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from the perspective of the woman which is like pretty

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cool something you can imagine people doing now Even someone

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like margaret atwood in the penelope ad it's still something

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that people do like trying to reframe the stories we

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know and love from the perspective of someone who isn't

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normally represented all those women in creek and roman myth

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and history you just get like left over finally get

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their comeuppance by being able to write these like really

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angry tempestuous sometimes very loving also letters to these dudes

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it's kind of amazing that this is a set of

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text where women are allowed to be angry on not

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kind or giving or domestic they're not patients This isn't

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penelope in the odyssey is women who know what they've

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been wrong and i don't want to deal with it

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and have something to say about it They've had enough

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i think it's also kind of under place in history

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because ovid claimed when people actually debated whether or not

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this is the case but offered claimed it was the

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first piece of writing that was actually told from the

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perspective of someone that wasn't the writer him or herself

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So this is like the first speaker poem we can

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think about like later the dramatic monologue becomes a form

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with robert browning This is an early version of that

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We're imagining something being spoken by a character when you

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think about what was happening delia the odyssey or even

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some of office other works there usually told from the

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third person right like and then he came and said

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blah blah blah or thereabout the speaker's own experience They're

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not usually like i'm even truly prising a coup How

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should we react to women's literature written by men What

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is this speaker poem What aspect of women's lives did

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of it Express that hadn't been expressed before So they

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