Ok this really helped put it all into perspective for me, genuinely thank you so much for taking an honest look and your feedback was really clarifying. I really struggle with reading tone so I may have read his feedback as more passive aggressive (autism strikes again). You're right that I took the queer reading as a given and it was overambitious for the assignment. I've been stressing about this all day cause I was so unsure about the situation and reading your feedback and talking through it has allowed me to take a step back.
I really appreciate the kind words and I'm genuinely looking forward to developing those skills. I'm the only person I know in university/college so reading this is really helping me to understand the norms and expectations and how to succeed. I've never even heard of the fundamentals of argument and fundamentals of interpretation so I will definitely be researching and practicing those skills going forward with my writing. Thank you again for taking the time and energy to do this!!
Thank you so so much!!! I sent you a DM, let me know if there's any issues 
They don't even say the word "werewolf" in the text, they only say the word beast 
Thank you for saying this its really validating to hear
That's horrible I'm sorry you went through that 
I've been lucky enough to have mostly good professors but I'm realizing that outside of their clique I'm starting to realize I might be in a more hostile environment. My part of the school has had recent problems with violence because of it but I thought it would mostly be just the STEM department with discrimination problems on the professor side.
His feedback was that everything else in the paper was good. He said he doesn't see how Bisclavret is an allegory for homosexuality and that I didn't follow the prompt of discussing how human nature is explored in Bisclavret.
I don't understand how talking about cis heteronormativity and monogamy and werewolves as an allegory for otherness isn't talking about human nature. Medieval Christian peasants, the people that created this story, were extremely sexually repressed like wtf.
He said that what I wrote wasn't related to the source material when the queer allegory was so dense I would end up quoting half of the text, and I had to consciously avoid accidentally plagiarizing other queer writers because it's the most common essay topic when googling Bisclavret. Notably literally none of his course materials mention queerness at all even though "werewolves are gay" is such a common take that even TERF Rowling uses it as a trope 🤢. To the point that it feels like a conscious exclusion or erasure of any queerness in his medieval studies curriculum.
Otherwise the default assumption is that they're asking you to think on it and produce a unique take.
That was my exact thought, I had never been given pushback from a prof before for queer analysis. I'm at a secular school in an otherwise very queer friendly department but after some digging after I got his feedback I found out this prof is from a religious oriented department federated in my college/uni.
anyways read Queer Bodies, Sexual Possibility, and Violent Misogyny in Bisclavret by Emily McLemore because it is the best analysis of bisclavret that i've read and she's right
well i think my professor is homophobic because he seems to have taken a huge issue with my queer analysis of bisclavret since this cishet man claims there is no possible way bisclavret's lycanthropy could be a queer allegory and yet when i look up "queer bisclavret" in a search engine multiple articles support this and go in such depth about it but whatever i don't know how to dispute his unprofessional feedback on my short essay when i'm anxious about escalation so fuck me i guess
i've just gotten into trials lately, they're fun but they can get stressful so fast especially when i'm learning the mechanics on the fly ;w; but i do my best either way and people are nice enough to explain stuff most of the time!
i love eso!!! i play it every day lol i didn't think anyone on hexbear played it :o
