a couple weeks back in therapy i ranted on about how much it really sucks ass sometimes to be a female! especially when i get surprised looks by coworkers when i throw around words like ‘unix’ and ‘emacs’, get emails all the time (in my tech work) addressed to eri - C instead of eri - N, — or how i’m not allowed to be a pall bearer without a fight.
argh. articles like this one, which i originally thought just to email to hamster_grrl, really get my ire up. brests and a lower center of gravity might mean we do things like basketball and archery differently, but they sure don’t get in the way of doing them *well* and the sure as sugar don’t get in the way of our friggin *neurons*!
grumble, grumble, i haven’t had lunch yet so i’m a little pissy, and too tired to make coherent arguments.
read for yourself how second class we still are in academia/schools. my favourite at first glance is the f-to-m who remarks, “I can even complete a whole sentence without being interrupted by a man.”
July 15th, 2006 at 4:21 pm
i wrote about this as well in one of my essays for digital media and design–relating my experiences in high school and how i was specifically turned off from programming and science even though i was VERY good at it.
as a for instance, i know i passed my physics AP class mostly based on my skirt length and seat assignement in class rather than my grasp of theoretical physics. that man bumped me up to a B because i wore short skirts and put up with him looking down my shirt. and that was in high school. thank god he’s retired now.
i often wonder what would have happened if i had been more encouraged to succeed in “boys” subjects. as it is, i read my quantum physics and chaos theory books “for fun” and have a jolly good time making the boys jaw drop when they try to b.s. me about computers. *smirk* and the only e-mail i get addressed to me as a male is viagra and “make ur girlfrend cum” ads.