Spamming F-lists: More fun with rampant ignorance...

[wordinista]

All right, so I'm grading.

And then I stumble across this gem. --Y'all know how much I love the novel Pride and Prejudice, and so you'll know why my response when I read this passage was a very loud, "WHAT?!?"

“As she had to support herself early in life, Wollstonecraft strongly felt the economic and social limitations that fell especially hard on women” (Women’s Studies 83). Women could never seem to be treated the way that they should have, and both Austen and Wollstonecraft portrayed this image. Even through the marriage of all five daughters in Pride and Prejudice, none of the marriages were for love.

I'm half tempted to ask if she read the entire novel. Because, dude. Jane and Bingley? Lizzie and Darcy? WTF?

*head explodes*

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The sad part is...

[white-death.livejournal.com]

She's kind of trying.
Kind of.
WHAT exactly she's trying, I'm not entirely sure.
I never understood those students who thought they could get away with not doing the reading when it came to discussing it or writing about it.
Du~h. Your teacher is not STUPID.

[evilpuppy.livejournal.com]

I feel I have missed something to not understand why in the seven lovely layers of Hell she's quoting "Women's Studies" for an essay/assignment on Pride and Prejudice.

[dawnsama.livejournal.com]

Even through the marriage of all five daughters in Pride and Prejudice, none of the marriages were for love.


If someone actually said this to my face, I think I might have cried. For now, I'll just bang my head against the wall instead.

[aoi-tsuki1.livejournal.com]

"None of the marriages were for love, 'cause the daughters used their skills of manipulating to get people to do what they wanted."

It should be legal to shoot certain people.

[karit.livejournal.com]

...what? WHAT? I'm... I don't... what?

*so lost and confused*

And Mary and Kitty didn't even get married... ^-^;

But... still... what? *cries*

[squeakyinuears.livejournal.com]

Aside from the fact that, of course, Elizabeth and Jane's respective marriages were purely for social and monetary reasons, the writer has obviously forgotten that there are six daughters, not five.

Morever, the sixth girl is still a child, and therefore cannot be wedded yet, for any reason. Much less for love. :p

[w0rdinista.livejournal.com]

Jane
Lizzie
Mary
Lydia
Kitty

...?

Who am I forgetting?

[squeakyinuears.livejournal.com]

Mary II, of course! Middle name "Sue" . . . ^_~

[mishakatt.livejournal.com]

*looks at screen and blinks repeatedly*

Ow. That made my head hurt consideirng I'm reading the book again right now.

*head asplodes*