This is one hypertext that I thoroughly and truthfully enjoyed in the midst of many hypertexts which have evoked little, if any, emotional or insightful recognitions for me. It was so powerful and meaningful to me to read a woman that is so thoughtful about her body. It is interesting how she recounts specific memories about the parts of her body that I myself have experienced yet would have hardly have considered them as memories, or even experiences for that matter, until i read sections of her hypertext. I don’t think I ever even really thought about it as it happened, but as she tells the story of her arm hair standing up against the friction of the seats at school I can distinctly remember the yellowed crayola colored chairs of elementary school and the shocks the friction sent through my arm hairs.
I can see through her memories that there is a confidence in her being and the way she views herself that is near impossible to find in a woman. when she talks about the hair on her legs she tells the audience how she liked the hair on her legs and didn’t care about her friends reprimanding looks at her hairy legs. As a girl approaching or even beginning adolensence, she portrays a confidence, nonchalance, and sense of free spirit that practically no girl raised in a public school would exemplify. I remember as a lifeguard, just through being finished with puberty, seeing little girls running around with golden fuzz on their legs and thinking how cute it was and why I had become so mortified at something so, well just cute.
This woman shares experiences that almost all women, and most men can relate to having experienced. She writes about these body parts and memories in a unique and thoughtful way. Her eloquent writing skills portray a sense of cherished-ness about such simple aspects, beautifying things such as sexual exploration, feet, hair, etc, that society teaches us to feel ashamed or embarrassed about.
The format of the hypertext adds to this sense of unique ness and cherish towards these memories and body parts. She lends each aspect of her body its own individual section with its own thoughts and memories. She connects them by allowing her audience to click on key words that lead to other memories. This adds a sense of unity to the piece and relates the tone of each individual page, to her work as a whole.