The Bluestocking - the one with the Christmas stocking

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New thread here.

Former thread here

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5218621-bluestocking-the-one-where-boiled-gets-to-the-bar-first?page=1

Alas I’m one of those social scientists. Thankfully a reasonably sensible one but cannot add to the discussion on animal tetrachromacy. Very happy to sit in a comfy chair with crackling fire in my sight line listening to the scientists.

Not according to the (no doubt apocryphal) story about Guinness asking Brendan Behan to write an advertising slogan in return for a nominal fee and some of the company's product. Eventually he came up with "Guinness - it gets you drunk".

Those were the rowdy ones. The older ones were more sedate & had their own bar. Some dressed up on hearing they were going to the Bluestocking.

And don't get me started on the bandicoot bar. I much preferred it when Marie was an historical woman.

I like the straightforward approach. There was a cat food competition once & you had to come up with an advertising slogan. My best one was 'Fills their tum, comes out their bum' which surprisingly didn't win.

And then there's Ade Edmonson's effort for a Cornflakes competition in The Young Ones: "Cornflakes, cornflakes, cornflakes, cornflakes," etc.

As a social scientist you'll probably have a theory about why this happened when I asked the AI for an image of two scientists giving a talk...

Apart from the obvious sexism, wtf is your AI so fond of dark haired, conventionally good looking I suppose, bearded men?

Your photo below was obviously from early on in the evening!

At that point we were still behaving in an orderly fashion!

Hopefully there are no photos from later in the evening when we were behaving in a very disorderly fashion!!

Hello, can you see me?

Who said that???

Puffers, who are those Stepford creatures gazing raptly at that man thing? And why? And where are the Bluestockings and the gerbils?

I'm pretty sure the capybaras are living it up in the hot spring.

Go on Fuzzy, I feel there may be more to this story?

Clearly AI hasn't heard of this:
https://www.edutopia.org/article/50-years-children-drawing-scientists/

@ifIwerenotanandroid you probably know that social scientists have theories for everything including the obvious. So we’ll say that Goffman’s theory of dramaturgy can be applied to the gen ai images. Using Gorman, we’ll say that the male scientist is ‘performing’ in order to project a desirable image to his admiring female audience.

Isn’t that so much better than holding our head in despair at how bloody gen ai has been developed largely by sexist white tech bro’s?

Well, I expect it's named after Arthur Guinness, founder. But hey, it's just a factoid!

That's Crash Bandicoot from a video game, isn't it? the bane of a bandicoot's life when googling!
It's like Maltese - I was trying to find out more about the Maltese language [most interesting..] and google kept showing dogs.

Us Maries are very sedate, aren't we? Beetles look like a lot more fun, you wouldn't see a Marie climbing up the shelves to get at the drinks!
It looks like a blue wine is causing some raised eyebrows though...

This is so sad. I'm quite old and I went to an anomaly of a school that concentrated on, and produced scientists. An all girls school.
I feel we might well have drawn women if we'd been asked.

The copy for the toucan ads was written by Dorothy L. Sayers.

I occasionally get asked to draw a scientist at school science fairs when I visit as a governor. The amazement in the eyes of the asker when I say I AM a scientist is sometimes quite depressing.

The blue drink is probably Romulan ale, @MarieDeGournay

Goffman - I remember 'The Moral Career of the Mental Patient', was it? And someone using 'Goffmaniacal' where I would've use Goffmanesque.

Gorman - nope, I got nothing.

But my social science degree was a long time ago & far, far away (nearly in Scotland 😂). I didn't study with anybody famous, but I did meet an ex- & a future Archbishop of Canterbury. Not that that's anything to boast about these days.

Another school day. I thought that it was named after 'alf of Guinness.

I prefer the bandicoot bar to the moose bar any day 😳

From AI inspired artwork to a clay plant pot. With his own cobbled street saucer.

This is so sad. I'm quite old and I went to an anomaly of a school that concentrated on, and produced scientists. An all girls school.

The difference between girls and mixed schools in numbers doing physics a level and I'm sure comp sci and various other GCSEs is still marked and shows how much it's nurture not nature.