I used to be an adventurer like you until I took a linkspam to the knee (23 October, 2012)

October 23rd, 2012 by spam-spam

  • Academic Men Explain Things to Me | Tumblr: “Are you a female academic, researcher, or graduate student? Has a man tried to explain your field or topic to you, on the assumption that he must inevitably know more about it than you do? Share your experiences as a mansplainee here.”
  • Gender and Science: Gender and Science Tumblr: photos of and quotes from female scientists.

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  1. Elizabeth G.:

    October 23rd, 2012 at 5:27 pm

    STORY ABOUT SWAG!

    A few years ago at the SWE (society of women engineers) national conference the parent company of Kotex, Kimberly Clark, was hosting the welcome ice cream social. At the beginning their team was handing out these little Kotex bags (I don’t remember if I used the product but I still use the little bag they came in). The team was all female except for one guy. I kind of felt bad for him because he was having to go up to women and hand them a baggie of brightly colored U by Kotex tampons and pads and ask if they had any questions about the products. You could just tell that this particular detail was not revealed to him until very late in the planning process.

  2. Minaria:

    October 23rd, 2012 at 7:29 pm

    I didn’t particularly like the gender and swag article.

    The high order message is that if you have not been to Grace Hopper, talked with the attendees, and experienced the event, you cannot even begin to comprehend it, so commenting on the appropriateness or inappropriateness of some of the details is risky.

    This year, those not in attendance found it “offensive” that some of the swag included nail polish, a sewing kit, and a whistle.

    I have been to this year’s Grace Hopper, talked with attendees (and even some speakers), experienced the event, and even went to the dance parties. I still found it offensive.

    I would like a world where men or women could wear nail polish… and where it isn’t assumed someone would like it because they are a woman. Likewise with the color pink.

    And about making science “a girl[ie] thing”, well: a linkspam from times past.

    Particularly head-desking comment when someone said, essentially, that a “girlie girl” complained about the nail polish and “It was almost too much to take.” I guess if you’re feminine you can’t complain when someone else arbitrarily decides that every single woman (at the conference) is feminine. Or something?

    I did like these comments, though: 1, 2

    I get it. I’m a woman. Please don’t pigeon hole me as a woman alone — which is what the offensive swag did. That is what I felt like saying as I looked at that stuff.

    I wondered aloud why a vendor didn’t just give out tampons.

    (of course, shirt-cut choice is a good idea, as has been discussed quite a lot around here)

  3. Tim Chevalier:

    October 24th, 2012 at 1:46 pm

    Why would you necessarily feel bad for a guy because he had to hand out tampons?

  4. Elizabeth G.:

    October 24th, 2012 at 5:48 pm

    I felt bad because he was obviously really uncomfortable with it. That is what I meant by him seeming surprised to be doing this activity. He wasn’t there with Kotex but Kimberly-Clark, he was uncomfortable handing women tampons and asking them if they had any questions about it.