<p>I decided to take Women's Literature second semester and of course, was met with much criticism from the other guys. It just annoys me so much
Why is it that if you do something like this, your 'manliness disappears?' Or in other words, your castrated, or emasculated? I think it just reaffirms I am secure about myself. </p>
<p>Even when I would write nice poems in Creative Writing, the other guys would say they were g-a-y, simply because I was a guy and therefore couldn't be good at verse, according to some sort of subtle man law. </p>
<p>Why must we guys choose to be portrayed in such a picture? Just brawn and no brains... machismo and no creativity?</p>
<p>But wanting to learn something other than the regular baseball lit or war history is just .. not manly. It doesn't show society's image of what a man should be, strong, confident, not creative, not a sissy.</p>
<p>I talk a lot in that class and class discussions and when we were writing in class essays about women in our family history, I wrote a lot and for the whole period. I received criticism. </p>
<p>My main reason for taking the class was so I could have my old teacher again. Even then, so what if its womens lit. Why are guys so scared of it? In fact, we need a better understanding of women so we know what we are doing in the future :).</p>
<p>On second thought, I understand why in general, but why if you have known me the greater part of your life? You know I am not, yet you have this weird theory wired into your brain that doing something like that = gay.</p>
<p>Yeah, I can understand why they'd call you gay too. In fact, if I met somebody like you, I would think to myself there'd be a 60% chance you might at least be bi. HOWEVER, don't let others stop you from personal endeavors. Be unique, break free out of the stereotype (as you are doing right now haha).</p>
<p>Because people are closed-minded basically.</p>
<p>Stereotypically, that kind of stuff is enjoyed by gay men, but obviously there are tons of exceptions...Guys just like to call others gay to affirm there sexuality/masculinity.</p>
<p>If YOU know you're not gay, isn't that all that matters? Once you're out of immature high school (apparently people still haven't grown up in high school...and sometimes college too), you will get to college and be around smarter (and generally, more mature) people.</p>
<p>I agree. I think they're jealous that you're probably the only guy in a class of girls. Pft. Prove them wrong. Get the phone number of every girl in that class, akhmed. I'm sure that a guy that understands and respects women--and their literature would be quite popular with girls who might be feminists.</p>
<p>If you look a few posts up, I guess immaturity gave way
Its a class full of girls but I feel they all have an innate negative disposition towards me because I look scary with a goatee and... I'm Muslim.
I am just tired of it. People get so threatened </p>
<p>It's just a bit homotional, people who say you're gay are even more homotional for generalizing. Although I wouldnt take any lit class of any type unless forced to.</p>
<p>Ask these people who call you gay how many girls they actually know. </p>
<p>The first step to coming off better is by having confidence in yourself. I'm sure that they ALL don't think you're scary. I'm sure that some of the girls actually admire your bravery.</p>
<p>As a guy in an otherwise-all-female English class, I can empathize.</p>
<p>I'd like to mention, though, that my classmates do become irritatingly emotional on occasion. We spent half of today's class discussing crying and the cultural double standards of why men, but not women, are discouraged from crying. I mean, I these girls outside of class, and it's just uncomfortable when they go on and on about how much they like crying and when my only response is "uhh, there are better ways to relieve stress."</p>