Over on the Men’s Rights subreddit, the lovely IHaveALargePenis explains that it’s not sexism holding back women in science and technology. No way! It’s just that women are inferior at science and technology. No sexism involved at all!
Maybe IHaveALArgePenis should have taken an English class or two and learned what “irony” is.
Also, uh, how exactly are security cameras supposed to guard against sexism? This is a new one to me.
Thanks to Wrecksomething on the AgainstMensRights subreddit for pointing me to this mantastic quote.
Spleeny – ha! My ladybrain’s pinker’n’fluffier’n’yours! I couldn’t do long division. I cant’ do mental arithmetic at all.
::blows raspberry::
I can’t always punctuate, either. 😛
@Kittehs
As long as you can understand what the cats want, when they want it, you are good.:)
This is true – all other knowledge is superfluous.
re Québécois: One of the things which (understandably) pisses off the Québécois I know is the idea they don’t speak “real” french. France didn’t either,until Napoleon forced it on them. Lots of france still does it only grudgingly (and the, “French look down on you if you speak it badly seems to be based on Parisians getting sniffing at people who don’t speak the Île de France dialect).
Because the settlers in Québéc predate this imposition, they retained a lot of the various dialectical patterns of the areas they came from (largely langue d’oil, not so much langue d’oc); because of the British conquest/French cession of Québéc they weren’t subject to Napoleon’s imposition of “modern standard” french.
But it’s still Real French the same way American/Scots/Indian/Australian/New Zealand/Canada/Wales/Ireland all speak Real English.
Or the same way the Texans/Californians/Massachusstans/New Jersians/Georgians/Tennesseans/Washingtonians all speak Real English.
As to Kentish/Yorkish/Midlands/Lake District/Londoners (East and West End)/Liverpudlians, etc. all speak Real English.
I’m reminded of something I read in a nineteenth-century English book on seventeenth French history – just a passing comment that French seemed to the author to have changed less in that time than English had, which I thought was interesting. Not that I’ll be putting to the test by learning French and trying to read Louis’s earthtime letters, though!
RE: Kittehserf
*snort* I’m sure Les Immortals would like folks to BELIEVE that, but I dunno that it’s actually true… especially if you think of French variants such as Quebecois and Yat.
Now, if you want a language that has stayed shockingly regular for a shocking amount of time, you want Icelandic. But see, they can get away with it, because they’re fucking Iceland and are out in the middle of Atlantic Nowhere.
LOL well, this was an English writer comparing seventeenth-century French with the French he was familiar with, and since it was documents from those at the top of the tree – letters between the King and his ministers, primarily, iirc – then it would be the language of the Ile de France and reasonably well educated (not something one can take for granted among the nobility in general at the time). This was before the Acadamie Francaise had any impact, though (and before its creation, mostly).
@LBT
A friend of mine is crazy in love with Iceland (like, to the point where we sometimes have to ask her to dial it back) and has studied the language, and she says it’s amazing to be able to read 900-year-old writings with the same ease that she converses with teenagers.
@ignotussomnium- That bio class actually sounds amazingly helpful. I wish every college offered something like that, maybe even made it mandatory.
I’ve been away for a few days, so sorry for posting in an old thread.
This is relevant to the post. Please excuse my face. I hope that this amuses you all as much as it amused me : Redditors can tell that I’m not a scientist because I’m not pretty enough (?!) and also I’ve NEVER experienced sexism in STEM because they knew a woman once.
http://www.reddit.com/r/INeedFeminismBecause/comments/1ff7l2/infb_the_local_science_factory_didnt_hire_me/
If we can steal blancmange, French can steal jogging. C’mon, people.
RE: Karalora
I’m a little curious about Iceland myself; while on a plane, I encountered a fellow guy from the States who was living and working there. He seemed quite happy there and it sparked my interest, since until then, my mental envisionment of Iceland was one of a miserable iceberg with sheep on it.
Falconer – the French are welcome to jogging, I’d rather have blancmange. 😉
LBT – not sheep, pure Viking horses!
I simply love how it is obviously a sign of women being inferior if they aren’t able to strive in a field BUT men and boys are being held back from sucess in school by their evil female harpy teachers who favor the girls!