Gee Agree : Gee believes that Discourses are difficult to get into without being fluent, “. . . the lack of fluency may very well mark you as a pretender to the social role instantiated in the Discourse (an outsider with pretensions to being an insider)” (Gee 10). Gee is surely right about someone not fitting in to a Discourse unless they are fully aware of the different aspects of that Discourse. They can often seem as though they are trying to fit into a group that aren’t familiar with.
Gee Disagree: Gee states, “. . . Discourses cannot be overtly taught, and cannot readily be mastered late in the game . . .” (Gee 12). I disagree with Gee’s view that Discourses cannot be taught because as one learns new Discourses, they grow as a person. People are not constantly the same person with the same interests throughout their entire lives.
Cuddy Agree: Cuddy called her mentor frantic about wanting to quit, to which the mentor replied, “‘You’re just going to do it and do it and do it, even if you’re terrified and just paralyzed and having an out-of-body experience, until you have this moment where you say, ‘Oh my gosh, I’m doing it. Like, I have become this. I am actually doing this’” (Cuddy 16:51). I agree with Cuddy’s theory of faking it until you make it because it can be extremely useful in practicing the different parts associated with in Discourse in order to learn how to be a part of the Discourse.
Cuddy Partially Agree: Cuddy, while talking about the body language used in human interaction, states, “So if someone is being really powerful with us, we tend to make ourselves smaller. We don’t mirror them. We do the opposite of them” (Cuddy 4:44). Though I concede that this can be sometimes true, I still insist that some people may try to be even more powerful, almost trying to prove their dominance.
