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For me, Allen's reading gave the reader a chance to be introspective. Because her essay was so personal-seeming, it was nice to be able to watch someone compartmentalize their life in the same was many people do. We see her as a feminist, in touch with her "tribality" (I made up that word). It was really great reading Allen, it was a very different experience than some of the other authors we read in class. It was also really refreshing to read the work of a feminist who is able and willing to point us in a non-westernized direction. I also really appreciate a feminist who is willing to validate her own experiences in the truths she comes upon.

 Kaufman, on the other hand was, not as pleasurable an experience. I got the idea from Kaufman's article that as a writers we are required to somehow exile ourselves from our contexts, experiences, feelings, and that there has to be a bold separation between one's truth from their experiences and truth from more critical evidence. Though I see the value of arguing (especially in situations where women are asked to prove themselves) however, her mentality shown in her essay, in my opinion disenfranchises the feminism of non-western cultures.