- ABC
- Get it?! URINALS! Soooo funny.
So today is my last day at the Mercury offices*; my internship is over! I’d mock-up an exit interview, but I think I already did that. For what it’s worth, everything is the same, except they started paying someone else to do most of the intern work.
Instead, I present a one-off, one-night-only column that I will call LADIES!.
Today in LADIES!:
– In fake lady news, the excruciating and unbearably tone deaf Work It is set to premiere on January 3rd, but not if GLAAD has anything to do with it. The gay rights organization took out a full-page ad in Variety asking ABC to pull the show before it even airs, arguing that treating the idea of men trying to pass as women as laughable is damaging to transgender individuals. Beyond how baffling it is that a dated and significantly more offensive Bosom Buddies remake could have gotten green-lit to start with, can we talk about how the idea that women have an easier time finding work in a tough economy, and even getting paid equally for that work, is completely absurd?
- Gage Skidmore, via Wikimedia Commons
– In geeky lady news, actress and full-time amazing person Helen Mirren would like to be the Doctor, please.
- Fleshbot
- This is the Buffy skin flick. Willow really got the shaft. (BOOM!)
– And in even more geeky lady news, it sounds like the Whedon-less Buffy reboot movie that everyone was bemoaning last year might be DOA. Sources close to the project say the script was so terrible as to be scrapped completely; The Powers That Be are shopping around for a new writer, but it doesn’t look good. But don’t worry, slaying fans: there’s still that Buffy porn!
- Matthew Lewis, via Washington Post
- Rep. Reid received the pantsuit, with matching skirt, as a Christmas gift from her staff. How come no one buys me pantsuits?!
– And finally, in historical lady news, hey! Did you know that ladies, just like men, have two legs and can actually wear pants in public? But this was not always the case! In 1969, Rep. Charlotte Reid became the first woman to rock a pantsuit on the House floor. Everyone harrumphed a bunch and said cute things like, “I was told there was a lady here in trousers, so I had to come over and see for myself,” but she wasn’t sanctioned and life went on, now with pants. Incidentally, she wore them once, then decided pants weren’t for her.
You and me both, sister.
* Snark aside, I’ve had a great time here at the Mercury. Thanks to the entire office, especially everyone down in editorial, for making me feel welcome and putting up with my endlessly dorky blog posts. And thanks to all you commenters out there for never once making me cry. See you on Twitter!
Best Wishes and Happy Holidays to you.
You will be missed.
I could definitely see Helen Mirren as the Rani. I think the Doctor role is a lost cause now, not because she’s a woman, but because she’s over 40. As a recurring antagonist, though, she’d be phenomenal.
anyone who doesn’t think women make more money and have an easier time finding work doesn’t have a job in the engineering industry where that is definitely the case.
Good interning. Stop by in the comments section once in awhile.
Best of luck…I would ask what you learned interning, but given that staff I’m going to let discretion govern that impulse. I can understand your offense to this show (keep in mind its television, and it’s a comedy..you might be reading just a liiiiiittlllee to much into this), but employment according to gender typically does not favor women, however this is not always the case. I think we can all come up with a few professions where you are unlikely to see very many (straight) men. Granted these are exceptions. My ex fiancee was a biochemistry professor at a high level university in Portland…despite qualifications, and being a younger, attractive women(which may have hurt her), she was not treated equally by her exclusively male department
Concerning the treatment and pay of women in the workforce…
I think of what that woman Marilyn Vos Savont (?) had to say on the subject. Paraphrasing here, but she asked if men are being paid higher wages we should ask ‘why?’ In this highly competitive capitalistic workforce, why aren’t employers slashing payroll costs and hiring only women then?
There must be a reason…
Is that reason that women tend to take time away from the workforce to bear children – while their male counterparts continue to grow in their positions?
If you were a prospective employer that had to spend alot of time and money to train a new employee, would your first choice be a man – or a woman who may be taking time off for childbirth?
Good questions that often are not brought up when you constantly hear the stats thrown out that women are so very oppressed in the marketplace.
In my own personal experience in the Air Force and even in traditional ‘male’ blue-collar work, the women were paid as much as the men, and often my supervisor too.
Perhaps this is only my own experience though….
I’m sure discrimination based on sex, sexuality, race, etc exist.
But I just can’t say I’ve seen systematic bias.