who are PROPER female role models

[Porcupine]

for your dds? not farking JOran please

yeah but have you seen her HAIR?

she's the enigmatic one on the right.

looks spookily like rosemary west in that photo

A wig of mystery, pph. All part of feminine charm and wiles.

Devoid of emotion, you mean? No bad thing.

PPH - I think I agree with you...What I objected to earlier on in this thread was the suggestion that just because Greenfield or Robert Winston are in the mainstream media, then somehow their research science is mediocre. I don't accept that argument, by the way, and, in any case, it has no bearing whatsoever on whether that person is a good role model or not.

Anyway, I'm not sure why I'm on this thread. I'm not a woman and I've got 2 boys!!

You a hamble fetishist?

Shit...I've been rumbled

I know Greenfield's ex Tutor. A real scientist's scientist. Greenfield has a superb grounding even if people argue over the detail. (I once worked with someone who disagreed violently with her on some aspects of Neurobiology)

They should be applauded, Rabbleraiser, just for the image your description just conjured.

I note that Hamble doesn't seem brave enough to show her legs though Pointy dog!

Modesty and decorum.

All good traits in a woman. Check her out. Seriously.

LOL. She is stuck in a Laura Ashley time warp. You know that all she thinks about is that bloody arched window don't you?

And I hear she gets up to all sorts of things with 'Big' (and I hear he is) Ted

You may mock and spread gossip.

But that girl's lips (and legs I warrant) are always tight shut.

What a role model.

She drops them for certain.

And she was caught in a three way with Bill and Ben!

Why do you think she went 'off air'?????

i do think that a role model must not wear crocs

PPH - no it was bitchy, sarcastic and nasty both in tone and in description. Of course she would agree with it, objecting to such a detailed description would have made her look like a fool !

Do you reckon C. Rice wears crocs?

Oh jeez, PPH, of course women shouldn't slag off women, and I don't do it anywhere where impressionable people might hear - but I kind of thought that the people on MN were sophisticated enough to understand that a woman who's an utter nonentity (that's me) can suggest that another woman who's eminent (that's La Greenfield) might JUST POSSIBLY have got where she is, IN PART, by being a supreme self-publicist AS WELL AS by being good enough at her job, WITHOUT ASSUMING that the nonentity (me again) is a misogynist.
I'm actually a bit concerned by this whole role-model idea - why does anyone need role models anyway? White men don't seem to feel the need.

Yes, another scientist can disagree, that's how science actually progresses, via attempts at falsification - but for a non scientist to attempt to refute or disagree..like Madeline Bunting, in all seriousness on a round table discussion recently, disagreeing with a neuroscientist about the results of his work, which she couldn't possibly know to any extent, never mind understand enough to challenge...

of course white men do!

I honestly think that a childs role model SHOULD be his/her mother and/or father or guardian. If you are a bad mother/father/guardian then this will affect the childs life far greater then 'famous rolemodels'.

They can still be role models of a mother has sons or a father has daughters. Its about teaching them important life skills and teaching what is right and wrong and setting a good example.