I’m Strumming On My Gay Guitar

I’ve just been reading The Glass Universe by Dava Sobel, about the Harvard women who supported the bulk of astronomy research there over the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While many of them did receive public and academic credit as well as pay - although the university always resisted making any of them faculty until the 1950s - almost all the male astronomers featured were married to accomplished women in their own right, many of them scientists, and you can bet their husbands weren’t putting them on all their papers. 

This reminds me of how early film history, it was always the male director’s wife who did the editing of the films, because the cutting and connecting of film strips was considered a lot like sewing. Of course, anyone who knows anything about film and editing can tell you it changes how good a movie is very easily.

^^^^^^ This is so true! And once film editing began to be recognized as an actual art form, women were shoved out of the editing room so that men could be artistic or whatever.

The “female editor” for Jaws was Verna Hellman Fields, who cut many other notable films, including American Graffiti along with Marcia Lucas.

You know what happens when women type? They EDIT. It is a service they are expected to provide invisibly - not to let a mistake or imperfection show to their husband’s audience, but also not to intrude upon his sense that this is all his ideas and his labor. Wives are the unacknowledged story and script doctors, and often co-authors for so many supposedly male-authored works.

“For example, if you’re trying to convince people to boycott a segregated store, your object is to convince them that boycotting the store will have a strategic effect, not that desegregation is morally important. For whatever reason, on a cognitive level human beings have a really hard time with this. Smucker cites an example of a Lefty roleplaying session where people were tasked with selling an action to people who agreed with them on principle but didn’t see the strategic merit of the action. Surprisingly, the sellers couldn’t make the conceptual switch to sell strategic merit: instead, they doubled down on THIS ISSUE IS IMPORTANT — even though it had been stressed to them that the people they were selling to bought into the importance of the issue. People react poorly to “this is important, so do WHATEVER I SAY”; they want to be convinced that what you’re proposing will work.”

Also from above:

Somewhat related, my favorite comic strip of all time:

ilya after learning that shane couldn’t stay hard during sex with any of his girlfriends:

ilya after learning that shane couldn’t stay hard during sex with any of his girlfriends:

FUTURE HOFer, MULTIPLE RECORD HOLDER, MULTIPLE STANLEY CUP WINNER, ASG ALUMNI, OLYMPIAN, 2OA DRAFT PICK, SICK BACKHAND AND A NASTY DEKE, GENERATIONAL HOUSEHOLD NAME LEGACY BUILDER, ORIGINAL SIX CAPTAIN SHANE HOLLY HOLLANDER DOESN'T EVEN HAVE AN A ON HIS JERSEY IN TLG OTTAWALAND ????????????????????????????????????//////////////////////////

FUTURE HOFer, MULTIPLE RECORD HOLDER, MULTIPLE STANLEY CUP WINNER, ASG ALUMNI, OLYMPIAN, 2OA DRAFT PICK, SICK BACKHAND AND A NASTY DEKE, GENERATIONAL HOUSEHOLD NAME LEGACY BUILDER, ORIGINAL SIX CAPTAIN SHANE HOLLY HOLLANDER DOESN'T EVEN HAVE AN A ON HIS JERSEY IN TLG OTTAWALAND ????????????????????????????????????//////////////////////////