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Something from the Schweikart reading that I thought was really interesting was the different ways Rich, and in general how "feminist" critic, approaches a female subject and a male author. It's described as "primarily resisting...adversarial, or at least detached." To me, it was reminiscent of a sort of "us versus them" attitude. Schweikhert went to go on to describe Rich’s essay on Dickinson, but I was stuck on this point. While it’s true that a male writer can never get inside a women’s head and it might be more difficult for a woman reader to gain the type of intimacy with a man’s writing than with a woman’s, it is certainly not impossible. Our first approach to a men authors should not be resisting, but as open minded as anything else. Then if we have beef with it then, by all means, resist away.