Your Ideal this week, HouseAuthors, deals with how you and your societies view the role of women. Some of you see women as your playthings, and some of you fight to prove that us women are just as good as men. A noble, noble crusade. Your challenge this week will “reflect” how you see women. Before you is a “selfie” of me. The “selfie” is an archaic form of self-portrait usually associated with the desire to garner attention to your most beautiful attributes. Silly notions of physical beauty are but a thing of the past here, but we felt the choice to the “selfie”. Behind you are eight dolls. Only one of these dolls is an accurate representation of my “selfie.” Through predetermined numbering, you will all, one by one, choose a doll and place it on the pedestal.

If your choice is correct, then congratulations, you’ve won! If you choose wrong, then I shall take it personally since you clearly aren’t noticing my face well enough to choose the right doll. Are you ready to begin?

Christina Rossetti: WRONG DOLL

Virginia Woolf: WRONG DOLL

Moliere: WRONG DOLL

Charles Baudelaire: WRONG DOLL

Franz Kafka: WRONG DOLL

Tagore: WRONG DOLL

Lu Xun: WRONG DOLL

Herman Melville: WRONG DOLL

Sor Juana: CORRECT DOLL

POWER OF REASON WINNER: SOR JUANA