tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2164185959238733667.post6107816618930944922..comments2023-09-29T04:22:04.132-07:00Comments on Quills: undergraduate diariesFretful Porpentinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11165078003123517013noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2164185959238733667.post-26020283666170622832010-06-16T07:06:55.691-07:002010-06-16T07:06:55.691-07:00At least it sounds like you HAD female profs. As ...At least it sounds like you HAD female profs. As a chem major, none of the profs I had as an undergrad(that I can remember--even for english, history or culture)were female. In chem I ran into the opposite issue-women were expected to dress like sexless creatures. If you dressed nicely, you were clearly a secretary.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2164185959238733667.post-15956734591380833752010-06-06T10:03:26.006-07:002010-06-06T10:03:26.006-07:00Sorry--that should be "I remember thinking ab...Sorry--that should be "I remember thinking about them," not "I don't remember thinking about them."undinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05589384016564587214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2164185959238733667.post-63243889296005945372010-06-06T10:02:41.550-07:002010-06-06T10:02:41.550-07:00This is a great post. Although I didn't keep a...This is a great post. Although I didn't keep a journal, I don't remember thinking about my professors more in terms of brilliant and awesome--or not--than in terms of gender. (This sounds a little like Stephen Colbert's claim that he "doesn't see race," but it's true.)<br /><br />On the other hand, the one professor I recall as flaky and capricious was a female prof. Does that mean that she really was, or that (more likely) I had gendered expectations of how professors ought to behave?undinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05589384016564587214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2164185959238733667.post-47682324682779165132010-06-04T04:59:02.321-07:002010-06-04T04:59:02.321-07:00Tha's a slightly bizarre coincidence. I've...Tha's a slightly bizarre coincidence. I've kept an online journal in a private forum for a long time now, and much of its content, about now-lost loves mainly, I find very painful to read, not least because I was such a pretentious idiot (and seem to have been far more popular as a result, too). I resolved recently to cull most of it and take all that history out of view, but it's run through with academic observations from when I was just falling in love with my <i>material</i> that I was pondering reposting some of. So whatever it is you people have caught, it apparently made it across the Atlantic.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2164185959238733667.post-74064592680452833402010-06-03T18:55:29.179-07:002010-06-03T18:55:29.179-07:00This is a great post.
I'm terrified of readi...This is a <i>great</i> post. <br /><br />I'm terrified of reading my old journals, but although I'm sure they contain very few reflections on my professors, male or female, or on the profession as a whole, I know for a fact that they're filled with similar anxieties about self-presentation, as well as a similar mix of misogyny and nascent feminism. I spent YEARS hating the demands that were placed upon women's appearances--but more because I hated how I looked and felt unable to compete in that particular marketplace than because I fully understood or was prepared to overturn the double standard at work. (And, obviously, I haven't.)<br /><br />And like yours, my old journals also contain very explicit expressions of my wish that I'd been born a guy.Flaviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17832765671541392835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2164185959238733667.post-7445499414505191092010-06-03T18:04:02.960-07:002010-06-03T18:04:02.960-07:00Between this and Ink's posting of letters she ...Between this and Ink's posting of letters she wrote at various stages of education, I'm sensing a meme building.Dame Eleanor Hullhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06512884104691200975noreply@blogger.com