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Kansas children’s writer L.D. Harkrader presented at yesterday’s conference called Taking Care of Business - Marketing and Promotion, sponsored by the Kansas chapter of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI).
Harkrader’s middle grade novel Airball: My Life in Briefs was recently released in paperback. To find out more about her work, visit her website at www.ldharkrader.com.
Airball: My Life In Briefs,
Kansas SCBWI,
L.D. Harkrader,
writers conference
STRANGERS
(a silent play with no words spoken whatsoever)
By Eleanor Tylbor
GUY1 walks across the stage and is approached by GUY2.
GUY1 waves at GUY2 but GUY2 doesn't wave back.
GUY1 waves at GUY2 again, smiling.
GUY2 ignores him and turns his head sideways.
GUY1 rushes over to him and taps him on the shoulder, forcing GUY2 to acknowledge his presence
GUY2 turns to face him, pushes him backwards and attempts to rush away
GUY1 blocks his departure with an extended arm and moves his face close to GUY2's face, and points to his face
GUY2 backs up and attempts to flee
GUY1 chases after him but GUY2 moves too quickly.
GUY 1 drops his head and shakes it slowly and his shoulders droop indicating dejection
A FEMALE APPROACHES.
GUY1 lifts his head and focuses his attention on her. He scans her body with his eyes, taking in her figure. He smoothes his hair, fixes his shirt collar and adjusts his pants. She is reading while walking and he makes a point of bumping into her.
FEMALE, startled, drops book and takes step backward.
GUY1 smiles and bends over to pick up book. He glances at title and points at her - then at himself.
FEMALE grabs book out of his hand and attempts to move on, obviously leery of GUY1.
GUY1 extends his arm and touches her shoulder. She whirls around and hits him squarely across his face. He reels backwards and places his hand on his face, shaking his head in bewilderment and shrugs his shoulders
FEMALE removes her purse that is hanging on her shoulder and hits him on his shoulders - then focuses her attention on the book and moves on
GUY1 drops down on to the floor, drops his head and it's obvious by his heaving shoulders that he is sobbing. He shakes his head in frustration while pounding the floor with his fists.
He suddenly jumps up after spotting a CLOWN, who is puffing away on a cigarette. GUY1 jumps up and down in excitement, runs towards clown in an attempt to communicate with him
(END OF SCENE 1)
Hey, what do you call a male librarian? It’s sort of a joke but sort of not and the answer is either “librarian, duh” or “guybrarian” depending if you’re a feminist, or have been reading the New York Times, or just don’t get the question. I find this sideways swipe at the femaleness of the profession ever so slightly annoying, but it’s been fun to see some people take the silly name and run with it including this episode of Shelf Check which namechecks me and this episode of Penny Arcade.
female,
feminism,
guybrarian,
librarian,
sexism
Thanks for those two links! I love cartoons and certainly any that have anything to do with our profession.
Its interesting to me that you would see a “sideways swipe at the femaleness of the profession.” But then again you are female in a heavily female-dominated profession, and I am not. Instead, I find that it can actually be seen as an iconoclastic term, one that turns an overused stereotype on its head.
The more important question, for me, is - would I want to be referred to that way? Probably not, except by my co-workers. There are also too many opportunities to turn “guybrarian” into “gaybrarian,” which would once again reinforce a different stereotype.
Either way, I think its best to roll with it, and have a good laugh, and let it go at that.
I think the issue with ‘guybrarian’ is that is posits male librarians as not only somehow special, but also different to the ‘normal’ librarian. Which is unhelpful to both. Like librarian just isn’t enough for a man to be, it’s gotta be something that re-affirms his maleness and specialness.
I had multiple people send me links to the Penny Arcade strip and one friend posted it in my WoW guild’s forums with a “thought of you immediately!” note. It’s rather interesting how exciting other people find my career.
I responded by mentioning the “guybrarian” tag, but I’ve honestly never had a conversation with any men who thought it was a positive term. I guess I never thought of it as reaffirming maleness and specialness, but more like a term that treats them like they’re The Other (in a sort of Simone de Beauvoir way).
I’ve been called a guybrarian by friends for several years prior to the NYT article, so I’m not terribly surprised with the portmanteau. I am a bit surprised that other librarians are. I just don’t think it’s a big deal.
By the way, thanks for the links to the web comics.
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I’ve always been partial to ‘Information Stud’ myself.
The LCSH has a heading for Women librarians, but not not Male librarians.]
The closest match is Male livestock.
[…] Jessamyn West, surprisingly enough, sees it as a “sideways swipe at the femaleness of the profession,” although one commentator rightly points out that it doesn’t put the male librarian in a position of superiority, but singles him out as “different” or “The Other.” […]
Information Stud = Male livestock. Works for me.
I’m just a lowly school library media specialist, i.e., not even a librarian, but we have the same issues. My favorite story in this regard is the survey we were asked to take at some county meeting. It was from a media specialist in another county as part of her master’s degree program, and it was about “professional attire.”
It contained such questions as “How often do you wear panty hose?” and “How often do you wear a dress?”
To which I and the other Information Studs replied, “Only on weekends and special occasions.”
Now I’m off to change the signatures for my school email… Information Stud…
Thanks for the mention. If anyone’s interested, you can subcribe to or just view more Shelf Check cartoons at shelfcheck.blogspot.com, including today’s follow-up to the GILF episode. (Or if it’s not too much trouble, maybe you [JW] could change the link to the cartoon at ToonDoo to this link: http://shelfcheck.blogspot.com/2007/08/shelf-check-47.html …that way people will be able to see more and subscribe easily if they like it).
Thanks again. My little guybrarian character will be over the moon when I tell him he made librarian.net. [grin]
Folks…
This ain’t a new expression invented by a NYT writer. It’s been at least three or four years since I bought a (male) librarian friend a “guybrarian” coffee mug from Cafe Press (http://www.cafepress.com/librarian).
He thought it was funny and so did I.
Sure, there are lots of names we go by:
Testosterarian
Man-shelver
Circ-daddies
Information dude-rancher
Manformation professional
Biblio-playboys
just to name a few…
“I am the last of the informational playboys…”
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