Comments on: It’s a Guy Thing http://walt.lishost.org/2006/08/its-a-guy-thing/ The library voice of the radical middle. Mon, 20 May 2013 19:18:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: walt http://walt.lishost.org/2006/08/its-a-guy-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-17011 walt Thu, 31 Aug 2006 15:34:25 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=365#comment-17011 Daniel, Your last paragraph makes a good point. I’ve been working in libraries or for libraries since the second half of the summer before my sophomore year at UC. So it’s *all* of my adult working life! My best bosses (as measured subjectively) have mostly (but not all) been women. My worst boss was a man. I’d say that colleagues in systems at RLG have been about half-and-half, although most of the managers have been women.

I’m not sure what that all adds up to. Except that gender generalizations don’t seem to make any more sense than most other generalizations.

[I was going over a particular blog defense of generation generalizations within librarianship yesterday, and wondering how the writer would react if someone substituted gender generalizations for generation generalizations ("women are" as opposed to "Boomers are"). And no, I'm not going to go anywhere with that particular thought.]

]]> By: Daniel Cornwall http://walt.lishost.org/2006/08/its-a-guy-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-16954 Daniel Cornwall Thu, 31 Aug 2006 05:28:01 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=365#comment-16954 “What I realized in reading Dorothea Salo’s comments is that I was never really a “guy.” I grew up wrong (my parents never taught me that women were a separate and inferior species), I didn’t have a bunch of buds who exchanged dirty jokes, and in college I was in a coop with a bunch of engineers–who, actually, weren’t very strong on either dirty jokes or misogyny, at least not the ones I was acquainted with. I’m not a real social person and don’t go out with drinking buddies…and yes, I’ve been known to object to sexist humor, which hasn’t made me any more popular.”

Pretty much describes me, except I didn’t really hang out with engineers and did have drinking buddies in college – student library assistants who didn’t drag their knuckles and mostly treated women well.

I don’t know about you, but for me it might have come in part from working in a female-majority profession for most of my adult working life.

]]> By: Dorothea Salo http://walt.lishost.org/2006/08/its-a-guy-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-16702 Dorothea Salo Tue, 29 Aug 2006 13:17:16 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=365#comment-16702 Thanks, Walt, and rock on!

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