Ugh, stupid fucking essay

I'm getting really tired of poetry, and writing poetry, and writing about poetry and everything else. *kicks stupid essay*. It's so frustrating. And you know what else is frustrating? Growing up. I hate the stupid reminders every single day that I'm an adult now, from bills, to grocery shopping, to calling my insurance agent. My mom can no longer pay my insurance and now it's my responsibility. In utah the coverage was $250 every six months...not bad, yeah? In California it's $530 every six months...see, we pay of the CCs to get a little bit ahead, and then we're kicked in the fucking head...and there's nothing I can do about it but shrug and smile cuz hey, at least I have a car, and it could always be worse.

I just hate growing up is all.

Ok, now I have to stop wasting time and get back to my essays.

Slash Essay Research Poll/Post

Ok, some of you may remember that I'm writing an essay for my Sex and Gender class about slash fiction. I need to do a bit of original research to get some stats on just who, in fact, reads slashfic. My (rough) thesis statement is Certain scholars are concerned with explaining and qualifying slash because it still seen as abnormal, or outside what is expected for women to fantasize about. In order to understand why this is, one must understand what slash is, who reads and writes it, and how it differs from accepted fantasies. Of course, for 'who reads/writes it" my hypothesis is normal women. But I'd like some data to back that up cuz it'll impress my professors. So I'm posting this poll. I have some requests though.

1) Could you, if you read slash and know several people who also read/write slash, post a link on your LJ to the poll? The bigger the audience, the more response, the better my stats are. I don't think I have a big slash audience looking at my LJ, so I'm going to need some help getting this poll some attention.

2) If you take the time to answer the questions, and you feel like it, could you reply to my post and give some thoughts on what you like about slashfiction? I may want to quote from a few people, so if you're cool with having your thoughts quoted, please post. Also, I would never use somebody else's words without their explicit permission, so if I think you have stunning insight, I will email and ask your permission.

3) I'm posting this in hopes that it will not cause a Kerfluffle. I just need some numbers to make my essay stronger.

I'm also going to put this in my memories so it'll be easy to find and link to. I think I'm going to leave it open for 2 weeks.

So, onto the poll!!!

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My poll is going swimmingly!

Oh my god! I'm so happy with the results and the numbers! Of course, it's not over yet, but this is just the first day and I already have so many pretty numbers to work with! This has seriously made my whole night. THANK YOU to everybody who answered, and to everybody who has posted a link in their LJ, and to everybody whowill answer.

Oh, and somebody--sorry forgot your name--pointed out my thesis statement is a little...surprising. So I said "hmmm" and I checked and realized I didn't post my actual thesis statement, I posted my first thesis statement that I later changed. I've had a lot of things on my mind lately. So yeah, the actual point of hte paper is that scholars are studying it becaues it appears to be abnormal,but it's actually not. Then of course, they reach the same conclusion. What interested me was the sheer number of studies and essays and justifications and defenses, and arguments done in the more scholarly circle. Does that make sense? Well, if not, don't worry. I'll make it make sense.