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Becoming The Loon Analysis
My response to Stacey Waite's Becoming the Loon: Performance Pedagogy and Female Masculinity is hopefully as she expected it- a renewed understand and deconstruction identity, and how it's been expected to be played out in our everyday lives. I enjoyed this reading, and it's intelligent and simultaneously intriguing wording. The "flashbacks" were well done, flowed together, and were creative in their comparisons to the main text. The paper was also easy to read, which made me all the more intrigued, and let me enjoy the philosophical statements and views portrayed by Waite, such as the construction of masculinity, and how that can affect a person's choices and thoughts. Masculinity, when not conducted by a man, is seen by the public as odd

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