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Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own is what has inspired feminists throughout the 20th century and has shaped the way that women have taken a hold of the blogosphere. She writes in a very ironic and sarcastic manner. She thinks that it is funny that men study women so much and try to figure them out, when women in her time were not allowed to participate in any form of study, including writing. In chapter 2 of A Room of One’s Own, Woolf makes a very sarcastic comment, “the aloe that flowers once in a hundred years would flower twice before I could set a pen to paper.” This is saying that because of how society was, how society treated women, Woolf would face many difficulties in writing anything especially a feminist manifesto. Another exampe of her wit about how men are stupid is when she talks about Professor von X. This man wrote a work entitled The Mental, Moral, and Physcal Inferiority of the Female Sex. Woolf describes how Professor von X was not an attractive man so probably received little attention from women. This explains why he would write such a paper.