Viewpoint

Definitions
Whiteness: white: quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (breading the least resemblance to black) wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

Marginalized: to relegate to an unimportant or powerless position within a society or group
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/marginalized
Another definition: (to regelate to a lower or outer edge, as of specific groups of people) "We must not marginalize the poor in our society"
http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=marginalized&sub=Search+WordNet&o2=&o0=1&o8=1&o1=1&o7=&o5=&o9=&o6=&o3=&o4=&h=000

Heterotypical: Derogatory term for attitudes and behaviors typical of straight people and straight culture. (Obviously a play on the world "stereotypical".) It can either refer to a gender-schematic view of the world or to conservative attitudes about sex and relationships.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=heterotypical

Dialectical Notebook

Response	Quotation
There is a struggle with men because as women have gained more and more in history, there has been that final goal that women are looked at as equal to men. For me it is hard to always see women and men equal in power only because I grew up in a home where the male is served first, the male has the power.	“I write this as a woman, toward women. When I say ‘woman,’ I’m speaking of woman in her inevitable struggle against conventional man: and of universal woman subject who must bring women to their senses and to their meaning in history.” (247)
I feel that this is a bit rash. I understand that she is saying that instead of writing as a woman that is trying to not write entirely like a man, a woman has to simply write as a woman, but it is not that easy, especially when much of what is written by women is written in a way to make sure not to sound like a man.	“I write woman: woman must write woman. And man, man.” (248)
I feel like since this article was published there has been a major turn for women in writing. Women have made a major impact with writing, for me when I think of a writer I think of a woman.	“It is time for women to start scoring their feats in written and oral language.” (250)
She is taking such a strong stance that it is almost hard to agree with her at this point.	“We musn’t leave them a single place that’s any more theirs alone than we are.” (254)
A woman does not have to be powerful to prove that she is not afraid, however, men do have advantages that women do not have so women may have to fear that they will have to work harder.	“The woman who still allows herself to be threatened by the big dick, who’s still impressed by the commotion of the phallic stance, who still leads a loyal master to the beat of the drum: that’s the woman of yesterday.” (258)