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Seriously, when did I lose the ability to go for more than a couple of days on only 5 hours sleep? I know I used to pull all nighters doing my first degree, and that was only a few years ago. Ugh, is this what getting old is going to feel like?

Okay, yes, I'm totally procrastinating instead of reading for my seminar, but I swear, the words are starting to dance around the page, which, while kind of cool, doesn't help me with the understanding. Also, there is something truly depressing about reading sociological theorists from the 60s, one of whom is talking about people who lie about a 'major flaw', like being 'racially impure' or 'deflowered'. Leaving the first one alone, as I think we can all fill in how wrong that is for ourselves, and it really is sad to realise that this was okay to say less than 50 years ago, since when is being deflowered a flaw?! Well, 1959, apparently. Also, to the guy who talks about a hypothetical grouping of 'a man, a bisexual woman and a lesbian' - what, men are by default straight (which this one was, it became clear in the analogy) and lesbians don't have a gender? Also, since when do we spell lesbian with a capital L? It's hard to get behind someone's theory when you realise their view of society really doesn't bear a lot of resemblance to your own. And, guy who only talks about women as paranoid drivers, obsessed with the size of their feet (?!) and all nurses everywhere - I know you were writing at a time when feminism was a new thing, but do you really have to be so patronising? Can't you all just present your theories without making me want to write abusive notes to you in the margins of the book (not a good idea when it's a library copy)?

OKay, sociological rant over.

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Probably.