Firstly, for perspective, I'm a female software engineer. That out of the way...
I attended a university that was in it's first year of allowing women as incoming freshman (they had had some transfers the previous year as a test batch and to actually have RA's and such for the freshman).
I had a friend who had a father who had an attitude like one you sited - why spend all that money on an education when she'll just get married and waste it all. Pathetic, and I've always thought she was to be admired for standing up to it. Now if only she hadn't been sick her freshman year a ton until her diabetes was diagnosed and dropped out.:/
Anyway... I think it's not about not caring what everyone thinks. It's about only caring what people you like thinks. Strangely enough, most of the people I were friends with were other Geeks, either academically or (gasp) the band variety. People that had no problem with intelligence, or if you dressed 'funny' or whatever.
I think I was really lucky between that and having a familiy and school that didn't try to shut down a female intellect.
I just remember downloading games for our TI99-4a (possibly the wrong punctuation) onto cassette tapes from bulletin boards. We did actually have a modem that just needed the phone LINE in, not the phone receiver.:) I was somewhere between four and six years old.
... So what's so wrong with "My Big Fat Greek Wedding"? I thought it was hilarious. I went to see it a bunch of times, AND told other people who went to see it AND brought along people to see it. It was wonderful. I loved the way people acted like real people, and the fact that it was a romance that didn't have two picture perfect Hollywood plastic people in it.
Someone else commented about Animated - Lilo & Stitch was one of the best animated movies I've seen. I hate Disney with a passion (okay, as passionate as one should get on such a subject) and I would rank Lilo & Stitch... hmm, say, fourth, behind The Last Unicorn, Shrek and Secret of NIMH. I think I've heard of Spirited Away - what's it about?:)
You want another series where no one agrees on which ones were the good books?
Roger Zelazny's Amber series. Several other similiarities: almost no one like the second half as much as the first half, and someone else has written a prequel (or more than one for Dune) of dubious worth.
I'm a programmer. I work nine hours monday to thursday, eight hours one friday and have the other one off. Sounds like pretty normal hours to me, AND because programmers and such are reliable and valuable, I have both flex time, so I can come in and leave when I want (within reason), AND I have comp time, so I can move time between weeks within a two week pay period. Sounds good to me.
Personally, I'm also considering seeing if I can get time off to look at a grad degree paid for by the company when we decide to have kids...
Hmm, I think you have a very shallow view of Tolkien's characters.
For example, you have a bubbly, stay at home hobbit (Frodo) develop into a very reluctant hero, and a gardener develop into an even more reluctant hero, and eventually a leader of his people. An elf and a dwarf become great friends. An elf with human blood decides to make a truly life altering decision and become mortal.
Saruman begins as a servant of Valinor and ends as a self-serving tyrant. But hey, he doesn't change or react to anything right?
There are changes in characters all over the place, but that's not the goal of the book, the goal is the story, so they don't reach out and choke you.
I suppose I should have realized that it would be difficult to find a common viewpoint when you said your favorite book is Moby Dick - a book that I couldn't plow through more than the first chapter.
Back to Harry Potter - I find them enjoyable little reads, kind of like the Oz Books but not as well written. They are childrens books that happen to be fantasy. For fantasy books that happen to be for children, check out the Young Wizards series by Diane Duane (first book is "So You Want to be a Wizard").
It is not sexist because she has big breasts; it is sexist because she blatantly has big breasts. She's wearing a skintight leotard top and biker shorts, rather than, say, a nice comfy, loosefitting, practical black jumpsuit.
Someone farther down made a comparison of a male hero wearing a thong or something with an oversized crotchbulge, and someone said that was completely different... but I don't see how. Essentially she is wearing clothing tight enough that she might as well be naked.
- Krilia, a female gamer
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Firstly, for perspective, I'm a female software engineer. That out of the way...
:/
I attended a university that was in it's first year of allowing women as incoming freshman (they had had some transfers the previous year as a test batch and to actually have RA's and such for the freshman).
I had a friend who had a father who had an attitude like one you sited - why spend all that money on an education when she'll just get married and waste it all. Pathetic, and I've always thought she was to be admired for standing up to it. Now if only she hadn't been sick her freshman year a ton until her diabetes was diagnosed and dropped out.
Anyway... I think it's not about not caring what everyone thinks. It's about only caring what people you like thinks. Strangely enough, most of the people I were friends with were other Geeks, either academically or (gasp) the band variety. People that had no problem with intelligence, or if you dressed 'funny' or whatever.
I think I was really lucky between that and having a familiy and school that didn't try to shut down a female intellect.
I just remember downloading games for our TI99-4a (possibly the wrong punctuation) onto cassette tapes from bulletin boards. We did actually have a modem that just needed the phone LINE in, not the phone receiver. :) I was somewhere between four and six years old.
... So what's so wrong with "My Big Fat Greek Wedding"? I thought it was hilarious. I went to see it a bunch of times, AND told other people who went to see it AND brought along people to see it. It was wonderful. I loved the way people acted like real people, and the fact that it was a romance that didn't have two picture perfect Hollywood plastic people in it.
:)
Someone else commented about Animated - Lilo & Stitch was one of the best animated movies I've seen. I hate Disney with a passion (okay, as passionate as one should get on such a subject) and I would rank Lilo & Stitch... hmm, say, fourth, behind The Last Unicorn, Shrek and Secret of NIMH. I think I've heard of Spirited Away - what's it about?
You want another series where no one agrees on which ones were the good books? Roger Zelazny's Amber series. Several other similiarities: almost no one like the second half as much as the first half, and someone else has written a prequel (or more than one for Dune) of dubious worth.
Anyone else think of the old computer game?
Um, who said anything about project management?
I'm a programmer. I work nine hours monday to thursday, eight hours one friday and have the other one off. Sounds like pretty normal hours to me, AND because programmers and such are reliable and valuable, I have both flex time, so I can come in and leave when I want (within reason), AND I have comp time, so I can move time between weeks within a two week pay period. Sounds good to me.
Personally, I'm also considering seeing if I can get time off to look at a grad degree paid for by the company when we decide to have kids...
Hey, example for a technically oriented TV rolemodel. Sam Carter on SG-1. :)
And frankly, I think that the rolemodels for both genders tend to suck these days...
Hmm, I think you have a very shallow view of Tolkien's characters.
For example, you have a bubbly, stay at home hobbit (Frodo) develop into a very reluctant hero, and a gardener develop into an even more reluctant hero, and eventually a leader of his people. An elf and a dwarf become great friends. An elf with human blood decides to make a truly life altering decision and become mortal.
Saruman begins as a servant of Valinor and ends as a self-serving tyrant. But hey, he doesn't change or react to anything right?
There are changes in characters all over the place, but that's not the goal of the book, the goal is the story, so they don't reach out and choke you.
I suppose I should have realized that it would be difficult to find a common viewpoint when you said your favorite book is Moby Dick - a book that I couldn't plow through more than the first chapter.
Back to Harry Potter - I find them enjoyable little reads, kind of like the Oz Books but not as well written. They are childrens books that happen to be fantasy. For fantasy books that happen to be for children, check out the Young Wizards series by Diane Duane (first book is "So You Want to be a Wizard").
It is not sexist because she has big breasts; it is sexist because she blatantly has big breasts. She's wearing a skintight leotard top and biker shorts, rather than, say, a nice comfy, loosefitting, practical black jumpsuit. Someone farther down made a comparison of a male hero wearing a thong or something with an oversized crotchbulge, and someone said that was completely different... but I don't see how. Essentially she is wearing clothing tight enough that she might as well be naked. - Krilia, a female gamer