Feminist Pub X: Regulars and new faces welcome, consciousness raising is a possibility.

[CaptChaos]

The old pub now has less than 10 posts to go, so I thought I'd start a new one. The old one can be found here

This is a place for feminist pom pom waving and talking about stuff which might not need a thread for itself.

Fill your boots.

but developers may be so overwhelmingly male then it would make no difference

Yep, that is exactly the point. There is a real and concerning lack of women in games development and (from what I've read) IT as well.

God he's fucking boring.

He's a fucking idiot and Mortifying Dickhead. He really seems to love seeing his posts in FWR though.

zazzles i was listening to a podcast of dame wendy hall, prof of computer science last night. she describes it as a glass wall - there are still lots of meetings going on that are all men that she does not have access to

glass wall

Yep that doesn't surprise me either. Although I work in healthcare, I've experienced that as well. In one company I worked for as a manager, the men actually stepped away from me so I couldn't hear the business discussion they were having, so I stepped in closer. And again, they stepped away! It was like something out of Benny Hill!

Wow, not so much "lean in" as "chase down the corridor". Sigh.

zazzles

It's a sad day when engaging an MRA troll is more appealing than thesis revisions.

It's kind of like wanting to finish a crossword.

Yep Petula, what can I say, I live in a backwards society [sigh].

And for Annie.

Oooh! Annie! What job? Lots of luck with that. And the thesis revisions. It's easy to get sucked into the vortex isn't it? I have about 5 boxes left to pack and I'd rather school a pillock than get my ass into gear

i missed job post - go annie!

inspire me. i'm trying to write an application now. desperately want to get out of current job but struggling to get supporting statement on paper!

and my shopping delivery is late

Thanks Capt. It's a molecular biology job using lots of techniques I'm good at . I'm still not sure whether to stay at the bench or move into publishing, but at the moment I'm applying for both - might as well keep my options open. The job I applied for is a maternity cover so being short-term is a good opportunity to see what I think about working in (kind of) industry.

Without wishing to get into the indyref topic in substance, I'm intrigued by Cameron, Milliband and Clegg going up to Scotland today. My overall impression of the discussion between Westminster and the Yes campaign (not between Yes and No Scots) has been:

Scotland: "I'm thinking about leaving you"

Westminster: "what's that dear?"

S: "I said I'm thinking about leaving you"

W: "Hmm"

S: "Did you hear me? I'm thinking about leaving you"

W: "well if you do that, I'll take all the money, you'll have to pay your share of the credit card, I'll put a lock on the garden and tell all our friends you can't join us anymore. Oh and I'll also take the telly. Really, you need to stay."

S: "Well if that's your attitude, I'm off"

W: "No please stay, look I love you really. See - I've just put your picture on the wall."

My DH (who is not Scottish) has commented that it's like the Westminster policitians don't know any Scottish people (although maybe that's just me he's talking about).

I know this isn't really FWR but I'm too scared to post this on the indyref thread

"lean in"

Yep, I do wonder if that phrase applied to women really means "Listen to the Wise and Godly One With Balls".

Annie Anything is more interesting than thesis revision. But hang in there!

zazzle at your colleagues but a bit at the picture ... You need comedy big ears. Next time they do that whip them out to make the point. And take a picture please.

And good luck with job application!

How was the meet up? Or are we not to talk about that?

Indeed LordCopper. I keep telling myself that the harder I slog, the faster the bastard will be over and done with, but it's not helping.

On v2 of the last chapter. Then it's back to the start with v3 (hopefully final) for all seven of the fuckers.

Meet-up was good, thanks, though I didn't talk to nearly enough of the fabulous women there. My mingling switch was off. I'll do better next time.

i think you're probably right flora

i don't dare post this on indyref threads (because it's basically whataboutery), but england's not just london, and it's pretty frustrating too being ruled by westminster when you're in cumbria, norfolk, devon, worcestershire, or anywhere else that isn't westminster really

Annie Our toilet was fucking gleaming when I was writing up. I hate cleaning.

Any further meet-ups? Would like to try again...

I would like there to be further meet ups. The last 2 were brilliant!

Wow. No way has it got bad enough that I'd consider "Doing the Domestic". In a most un-feminist manner I pay another woman to fulfil my female domestic duties.

Just saw this by Lily Allen. Ok there were issues with Bitch, but this one did make me laugh...

I think you should post this on the MRA thread with the question "Is this you OP?"

To Penguins that is