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nightdog_barksSunny, beautiful day. Got the tomato seedlings potted; we'll see if they actually get big enough to produce anything before real winter gets here.
Second of the three Riververse fics coming very soon, possibly as early as Monday. :-)
Received a catalog from the Metropolitan Museum of Art store in the mail the other day (I've bought things like holiday cards and baubles from them in the past) and was idly paging through it until I noticed something in the kids' section (hey, I may not have any kids, but I do know some, okay? *g*).
There were four child models illustrating some items. Here's what they were doing:
1. A girl was dressed as a "fairy," advertising the Fairyland Butterfly Dress.
2. A boy was putting together a Giant World Map Floor Puzzle.
3. A girl was wearing some of the "removable play pieces" (a crown, a bracelet, a necklace, etc., all of which look like they're made of colored cardboard) from the Be a Princess in Medieval Times set.
4. A girl was wearing a bunch of necklaces and bracelets from the Pop-Arty Beads collection.
See it yet? Only the little boy was doing something active. All of the little girls were just standing there. The boy was the only one doing anything. I see in the online version, the Met has a girl working the puzzle, but in the print catalog, it's all "girls standing around being passive."
Hey, I thought it was interesting. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. :D
What else? I picked up my copy of Ulysses last night and read the first sixty or so pages. And ... I really liked it. Did I understand all the references? Nope, but I've got a guidebook I can look at later, and I understood enough. I like Stephen, and stately Buck Mulligan, and Haines who thinks people in Ireland should speak Irish, Stephen helping Cyril Sargent with his sums, how God is a shout in the street. We'll see if I can keep it up. *g*
Second of the three Riververse fics coming very soon, possibly as early as Monday. :-)
Received a catalog from the Metropolitan Museum of Art store in the mail the other day (I've bought things like holiday cards and baubles from them in the past) and was idly paging through it until I noticed something in the kids' section (hey, I may not have any kids, but I do know some, okay? *g*).
There were four child models illustrating some items. Here's what they were doing:
1. A girl was dressed as a "fairy," advertising the Fairyland Butterfly Dress.
2. A boy was putting together a Giant World Map Floor Puzzle.
3. A girl was wearing some of the "removable play pieces" (a crown, a bracelet, a necklace, etc., all of which look like they're made of colored cardboard) from the Be a Princess in Medieval Times set.
4. A girl was wearing a bunch of necklaces and bracelets from the Pop-Arty Beads collection.
See it yet? Only the little boy was doing something active. All of the little girls were just standing there. The boy was the only one doing anything. I see in the online version, the Met has a girl working the puzzle, but in the print catalog, it's all "girls standing around being passive."
Hey, I thought it was interesting. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. :D
What else? I picked up my copy of Ulysses last night and read the first sixty or so pages. And ... I really liked it. Did I understand all the references? Nope, but I've got a guidebook I can look at later, and I understood enough. I like Stephen, and stately Buck Mulligan, and Haines who thinks people in Ireland should speak Irish, Stephen helping Cyril Sargent with his sums, how God is a shout in the street. We'll see if I can keep it up. *g*
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Date: 2012-09-23 01:46 am (UTC)Seeing it now, it's interesting and a little unsettling (also fun; I do want to be clear about this). The gender roles are just so obvious, and so painful. The women are victims or nurses and their deference is always to the male EMTs or doctors, and ... it does make me wonder what my life might have been like if these were not the images I absorbed from the very start. I mean, I'm not a fan of Grey's Anatomy and I have had a lot of trouble with the treatment of women on House, where D. Shore's Id became too obvious too many times, but at least there, women are doctors, not just nurses or patients. And they can and do stand up for themselves and act independently.
It's interesting to see the shift.
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Date: 2012-09-23 02:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-23 04:20 pm (UTC)My parents had these binders for keeping track of your children's progress through school, with folders for their report cards and artwork. They had a page where the child checked off what s/he wanted to be when s/he grew up. There were boy binders and girl binders because naturally boys and girls couldn't have the same careers. Boys were given the options of astronaut, doctor, policeman, football player, fireman. Girls got to choose between housewife, teacher, nurse, secretary, ballerina.
My book club picked Ulysses a few years back. I tried, but at the halfway mark I accepted that there was no point in continuing because I didn't understand anything I'd read. No one in my book club finished it. I seem to recall euclase saying that she'd written part of the Wikipedia entry on it.
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Date: 2012-09-23 08:22 pm (UTC)