Wednesday, February 25, 2009
And Jacob Begat Data Analysis
Reading survey responses is fun. What's not fun is making charts about them, or writing those charts out in words. It's like the book of the bible that's nothing but "begat-ing". It's all like "And five people said this, and eight people said this, and another five people said this." It puts me to sleep writing it, who the hell wants to read that? I guess that's why academic=boring.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Irish vs. Thesis
So, I'm writing a masters thesis for my Masters of Science in Women's Studies. I'm the kind of girl who puts everything off until the last possible minute, needing a looming deadline to get anything done. The problem is, you can't really write a thesis that way. With two weeks before I have to have a complete first draft, and only having about 20 pages or so actually written, and needing to have at least another fifty... what do I do about it? Start a blog obviously.
I thought I'd keep a little blog about my trials and tribulations over writing my thesis, especially since I conducted a survey on the internet, I thought those who were surveyed might want to know how things were going. Also, as a writer of both original and fanfiction of male same-sex couples, I frequently mention "my thesis," and I thought some folks might want to know what that shit was all about.
My thesis, for those of you who may not know, is on women who write male same-sex couples in fiction. In layman's terms: chicks who write slash/yaoi. I've had some people suggest that this is a very narrow area to research, after all, how many women can there be who write gay men?
The answer: A TON!
I did a very brief count to get a general number for my thesis. I looked at just at Harry Potter fanfiction on fanfiction.net, and only counted the number of stories that cited the most common couples (Remus/Sirius, Harry/Ron, Harry/Draco etc.)I came up with 35,000 stories! As those of us in the community know, the majority of slash is written by women. Anyway, I assume you get the picture. Tons of women all over the world are writing slash, and I believe it is my sacred duty to bring the study of that into academia, and thus begins: Irish vs. Thesis.
I thought I'd keep a little blog about my trials and tribulations over writing my thesis, especially since I conducted a survey on the internet, I thought those who were surveyed might want to know how things were going. Also, as a writer of both original and fanfiction of male same-sex couples, I frequently mention "my thesis," and I thought some folks might want to know what that shit was all about.
My thesis, for those of you who may not know, is on women who write male same-sex couples in fiction. In layman's terms: chicks who write slash/yaoi. I've had some people suggest that this is a very narrow area to research, after all, how many women can there be who write gay men?
The answer: A TON!
I did a very brief count to get a general number for my thesis. I looked at just at Harry Potter fanfiction on fanfiction.net, and only counted the number of stories that cited the most common couples (Remus/Sirius, Harry/Ron, Harry/Draco etc.)I came up with 35,000 stories! As those of us in the community know, the majority of slash is written by women. Anyway, I assume you get the picture. Tons of women all over the world are writing slash, and I believe it is my sacred duty to bring the study of that into academia, and thus begins: Irish vs. Thesis.
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