18 January 2005

Crap Editorial alert!!!

Shame on this person for writing trash like this:
"Men would rather marry their secretaries than their bosses, and evolution
may be to blame."

A new study by psychology researchers at the
University of Michigan, using college undergraduates, suggests that men going
for long-term relationships would rather marry women in subordinate jobs than
women who are supervisors.

What defeatist, unbalanced drivel. How come most of the men I know who are married wouldn't settle for anything less than a woman who they find intellectually inspiring? One could easily argue, from reading historical novels or biographies, that there ahs always been part of the male population who has sought intellectually inspiring women as partners. Why didn't author bother to interview these types of people? How can someone go to a dinner party and meet one successful woman who can't meet any decent men, see a few films along the same theme, and use this as a basis for writing a story as if it is a statistically proven trend?

Bah! Someone alert Media Watch!

11 January 2005

A small thing to get off my chest...

Sometimes I get cc’d in on emails in which I am the only female, and the first line is addressed: “Good afternoon, Gentlemen,”.

How rude is that? If you’re going to be all formal, is it that hard to insert “and Lady” at the end of your sentence?? Have not, to date, paid these particular men back with an email commencing with “good afternoon, Ladies”. I know I should make a witty comment about the somewhat dubious title of honorary bloke that seems to have been thrust upon me, but when? where? and will it be taken the wrong way by the generally male industry partners who are so generously funding our research?!! I usually end up getting on with things after a minute of private fuming! Think I’m possibly better off aspiring to be a competent female in a male dominated field who lets comments like that slide off her… BUT JUST BETWEEN YOU AND ME, IT GIVES ME THE S*&%$S!!