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

Isn't he fab? What a marvellous woman you are, @AlisonDonut - your clay creations are so funny and clever. I think I'm in love 😁

Oh wow @AlisonDonut that's wonderful 😍

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I agree, Errol, and I think the nature/nurture thing is highlighted in the Edutopia article by the fact that 16 year olds show the effects of 10 years of 'nurture':

When asked to draw a scientist, 70 percent of 6-year-old girls draw a woman, while only 25 percent of 16-year-old girls do.

PS - I've been popping in to the Stockin' intermittently the past few days and have missed things - e.g. I now realise Deano posted a picture of Crash Bandicoot a whole day before I mentioned 'I think there's a character called Crash Bandicoot..' which deserved a 'Yes somebody said that yesterday, do try to keep up!' - but you're all to nice to say that🙂

Topics move fast in the Bluestocking, I don't always keep up🙃

Thank you.

In my haste I forgot to glaze the flower so will do that in bright red and refire him.

Love this! You're so clever, dear Donut!

BTW, my most-used version of the AI must be keeping track of what I do, because donuts keep popping up unasked for now. Or maybe @AlisonDonut is popping up in EVERYBODY's AI artwork, everywhere...

It's definitely getting better at spelling Bluestocking...

It is, isn't it?

Love Donut's work,

The bluestocking has been a bit odd over the last few days and I'm not surprised people are hanging out round the spring with the capybaras, or in the stables rehearsal space watching the gerbils practicing their high kicks and tap routines, or even going for long bracing walks in the fresh air.

Full declaration re: Crash Bandicoot - I've heard of him but have never watched or heard him in action and after reading about him and am prepared to keep it that way.

I agree, Errol, and I think the nature/nurture thing is highlighted in the Edutopia article by the fact that 16 year olds show the effects of 10 years of 'nurture':
When asked to draw a scientist, 70 percent of 6-year-old girls draw a woman, while only 25 percent of 16-year-old girls do.

I'm surprised by this. The younger girls are presumably influenced by Mum as primary caregiver & most infant school teachers being women, but in my day that was combined with the idea '... and the men go out to work & do everything else'.

Older girls would see a lot of female scientists in documentaries on TV, surely? Maybe they don't watch them. Is it the influence of studying with boys? Or what they see in films?

I should probably read the article.😬

Older girls would see a lot of female scientists in documentaries on TV, surely? Maybe they don't watch them. Is it the influence of studying with boys? Or what they see in films?

I'm guessing here, android, but I'd put the blame on social media.
Many girls are getting phones with 24/7 access to SM from a very early age, pre-teen, and you can be sure that the images of womanhood they are presented with are unlikely to include intelligent successful scientists😒

'I'm not surprised people are hanging out round the spring with the capybaras'

OK, I'll bite.

First try: Women & female android in hot water with capybaras (I guess it IS dangerous to put an android in water)

Try 2: Women in hot, etc

Try 3: English women in hot, etc

Try 4: English women of all ages in hot, etc

Pic #5 is also from try 4. I think that's as close as it's going to get.

I fed it "Depict a photo of women of varying ages and some capybaras enjoying a hot spring pool outside the bluestocking pub" and got one image only!!

Saying this with some trepidation, but see what it makes of Irish women.

That's not bad, Booiy , apart from the half a woman.

Boily. My spelling seems to have been taken over by AI!

There's a woman on the left turning into a capybara. Apart from that, I'm totally jealous of Boily's way with the AI.

For Deano, who was right to be worried, I give you 'a hot water spring in the mountains. Irlsh women of all ages & capybaras sit in the water up to their necks'. The AI took the easy way out with the second one: they really are Irish women, they're just far away.

These are Scottish women, according to the AI.

These are Welsh women. And a shortage of capybaras.

It wouldn't let me do French women for Alison. I blame Titanic.

I've never watched Titanic. Or 4 Weddings.

For one horrid moment I thought it had suggested that Irish women all have long white beards down to our knees. Instead it thinks we shun water. But are not as scandalous as French women. Not sure is that good or bad.

If Peak Woo is volcanic it stands to reason that we could have hot springs.

I think we should have an area for the gerbils. They need somewhere to relax and ease their aches and pains after putting in a shift at the Bluestocking. Not to mention all the dancing, etc. that they do.

I agree cake. Maybe a series of tunnels (gerbils burrow if i remember rightly) and some loo roll inners..

I've never watched Love Actually.