Summarizer #3: Meghan

1. Pages 73-108 were focused mainly on sex and love. The reading starts out with one of Ned's many visits to the strip club. She talks about the women working at these clubs and how they seem to almost be "lifeless." She also talks about the men at these clubs and how she almost pitys them. Shame is a big part of strip clubs, and everyone inside feels it. In this reading, Ned gets her first lap dance. She describes the dance as awkward and no where near pleasurable. Also, Ned meets his first dancer who actually seems to have a personality. Her name was Gina and she wasn't like all the other dancers Ned had met. She would sit on Ned's lap and talk to "him" like she had known "him" all her life. Ned knew however that all this was designed to score a little extra cash from her clients.
When it came to love and dating, Ned, having more of an advantage over other men, thought the two would be the easy part. Ned was wrong. The rejection she felt when trying to talk to women was more than she had ever imagined. She would walk up to women and immediately feel that wall that they were putting up. It was interesting how Ned explained women's theory of past relationships and future ones to come. She said that all women have been hurt, and because of this, they put up a wall towards all men, when really, they are only hurting themselves. Since most of these women haven't been with other women like Ned has, they don't know that men and women equally do the hurting. A lesson learned by the end of this reading is that women need to treat men as individuals.

2. The reading section at first was written with a commiserating tone. When Ned talks about the men and women in the strip club she expresses sorrow for them, and almost pitys them in a sense. The second half of the reading was written with a biased tone. Since Ned is actually a woman, she can see and understand the reaction and thoughts of women as she approaches them in bars. She can't help but be biased because she is a woman! The images of this reading selection were also memorable, but not favored. In the first half she speaks of the strippers and their womanly parts very graphically. It was not the best mental image to get in your head but it really gave you an inside feel of Ned's thoughts and feelings.