Feminist Pub 15: The Bluestocking hangs up its, err, stocking and hopes for a chatty Christmas and a Feminist New Year

[YonicSleighdriver]

Festive greetings!

This is the 15th incarnation of the Pub and is meant as a place to drop by with random thoughts and meandering chats, on feminist or other related themes. Anything you want to mull over but not necessarily start a thread about. Alternatively, get some booze and snacks and hang out! Lurkers, newbies and oldbies welcome.

We have a pub goat, a feminist cannon for firing at crazy sexists and we cheer each other up when patriarchy grinds us down...

Last pub drinkie linkie:

Pub 14

Ah - too much to hope it was BBC or something! But it's nice to know it exists out there, even if I can't get to it.

buffy - oh, gosh ... yes. I really, really, really want to kill all forms of online assessment/teaching. I used to have to deal with this absurd system where I was required to set my class reading via the VLE. Which promptly fucked up the formatting of anything I uploaded, and wouldn't accept large PDFs.

Let me try that again -
Women in STEM

Just quickly, Bridget Christie (feminist comedian) has a new series on radio 4 starting today (on iplayer now)

Yay for a marking swap! Buffy's and Jeanne's sound quite interesting. I am validating a load of reports on the performance of local authorities in particular areas. There are A Lot of local authorities....

I thought I heard it last week... have I just been hearing too many trailers?

I think you can get it on DVD, Jeanne!

There's a troll but it's bee n a trying day so I;m just going to BOOM from here...

Jeanne

It's on youtube.

thanks scone

I discovered these a couple of years ago after re-reading Gaudy Night as a result of an MN thread. I love Harriet Walter as Harriet Vane.

I think marking ought to be swapped on principle, it's got to be more interesting.

Oh yes don't bother with that troll. I think it's the same one from yesterday, they're not even good.

I listened to Bridget Christie on my way back here and laughed too much to remember most of it. Her use of language is reminiscent of her husband, not that that's a bad thing, it could be dd2 minus the swears. It's just a shame it's only a 4 part series, she warrants more than that as does the subject.

If only I'd known we were up for a marking swap. I've just been reading 8th grade (year 9) creative fairy tales. Most of them fairly predictive, but one student had a character who was the only human and no-one (including the character) knew if the character was male or female. We had a really good discussion about how to use pronouns, and how to give the background info so the reader would know that the character was the only human, but without breaking the flow of the story.

I get geekily excited about those kinds of discussions.

I always set a choice of essay titles otherwise I have to grade 60 papers that are the same. SO much better when there's a variety.

Oh, and we had a 'too cold' day with all the schools shut. It was -5F (That's about -21C) before wind chill. My face when I had to go outside for 5 seconds.

It snowed today here in Florida. It has been years since that happened.

Well done Buffy.

We are having a "too grumpy" day here.

The thing I hate most about VLE is drop-down menus. I can input 60 quicker than I can drop the fucking menu and select 60 seventy fucking times.

Yes, grumpy here too (though thanks for alerting me to the Sayers DVDs, I might buy those to cheer myself up).

I can't get my mind around the book I'm meant to be writing, and I'm having an attack of imposter syndrome.

I'm writing a chapter for a book. I don't have imposter syndrome for this case - I know that I don't know anything about the topic. But neither does anyone else. At least I would write it honestly.

Do the Wonder Woman pose like Amy Cuddy, Jeanne!

at upto.

Thanks yonic. Will do. Virtually, I think, not really.

Jeanne. You are obviously very clever as I don't always understand your blog.

Unless I am very thick. Which is a possibility

Being incomprehensible isn't a sure sign of intelligence.

But thank you.

I follow the layman's bits. I just know astonishingly little about your subject area I am afraid.

Ergo you clearly know lots. and are Very Clever