Feminist Pub 14: The Bluestocking, a place for feminist chat and feminists to chat

I will stop now.

On whether it's worth using LaTeX if you only use words - I write my complaint letters in LaTeX too. But another chief attraction, apart from the best ever typesetting, is that it lets you label and reference almost anything with pretty much minimal effort.

And Beamer too! Does slides like nothing else. >

Copper is right - LaTex is the best thing since sliced bread!

I do love LaTeX although I haven't used it for...almost 20 years

Annie Sounds like a strange interview! But probably good that they are enthusiastic about the job? When will you know?

Buffy In most of the physics, maths and computer science world we use a document processing software called LaTeX, invented by the great Knuth. It's the best thing ever invented - certainly one of the best software ever invented. It lets you think about writing your document rather than make you sort out all the details like referencing and fonts and margins and stuff like that. And it's effortlessly professional-looking. Even when you write utter tosh. Most learned journals in our field ask for things in LaTeX.

Sorry for long paragraph. But I can spend all day singing the praises of LaTeX and its friends like Beamer which lets you do presentations without powerpoint.

Weird interview today. The interviewer seemed to be more keen on convincing me what an awesome job it was than actually asking questions. And when she did ask a question, I got maybe half an answer before she'd cut in and be off about the job again. I cut back in to try to finish my answers a couple of times but couldn't keep doing that without feeling rude!

I know this is miles behind now, but I teach business English and this crap is all over the textbooks. Most of the time I just pretend to know what it means.

No idea what those pressures are... I do know that sitting in the car/on the train for an hour on the way to talk to adults all day sounds like a dream compared to my crazy feeding/cleaning/dressing kids, dropoffs, and squeezing in my freelancing around it all.

Which might be why I'm looking for an out of the home job right now. I know that the pressures of work will be less arduous when someone else has sorted out getting them to school and feeding them dinner!

Women are never compromised by the pressure of work because of the following reasons:

1. The maternal instinct: the superpower that enables you to do every fucking thing.

2. Multitasking: another superpower exclusive to ones born with vaginas which enables you to do every fucking thing.

3. Women work? Does not compute. You must be joking. Hahaha. Good joke! Besides even if they do work they are only decorative and never have to lift heavy things. Not proper work, really. Now make me a sandwich.

Those apostrophes! Put them away before somebody gets hurt!

"compromised by the pressure of work" = cannot take interest in children or any household chore because too busy hunting woolly mammoths for tea while womenfolk sit around fire gossiping?

What does "compromised by the pressure of work" even mean?

Gah! They're at it again (this will out me, but if you're on this particular board I really don't mind)

Dad’s Night out – at school A special night for dad’s, granddad’s and male carers only. Men

as fathers and carers often have experiences of child rearing that are compromised by

pressures of work. There are some very special aspects about being the male role model in

the life of a child. We will explore these in manly fashion! Thursday 14th May

Ignoring the Grocer's apostrophes for now, I don't think he's really looked at his market. In the playground at dropoff/pickup there are always a number of dads (and yes, the occasional grandad), and every single mother I regularly converse with is either 'compromised' by the pressures of work (!) or is looking for a job right now.

I might just be being churlish, and that whole pressures of work thing getting to me more than it should though. Sod them and their 'manly fashion' I should send DP charged with derailing it.

Ooh I'll look forward to those Yonic thanks. I LOVE getting the Christmas issue of the radio times and getting out my highlighter pen!

Happy birthday puffins!

i've reported my post

It's probably not ok, especially in light of the recent AIBU pile on about what a bunch of gits we are.

I read the thread. I have a feeling I know which school this is. Nice to see nothing's changed in 20 odd years.