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Gnomic Utterances. These are traditional, and are set at the head of each section of the Guidebook. The reason for them is lost in the mists of History. They are culled by the Management from a mighty collection of wise sayings probably compiled by a SAGE—probably called Ka’a Orto’o—some centuries before the Tour begins. The Rule is that no Utterance has anything whatsoever to do with the section it precedes. Nor, of course, has it anything to do with Gnomes.
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Date: 2006-07-31 03:13 pm (UTC)I came to my current position from a 'merged' library and computing environment where I felt that same pressure. I can't say it affected me per se, since I managed to offend and upset both sides, but I saw it happening to other women, and I could see that there was definitely a double standard on what was ok for the males to do as opposed to the women.
Nowadays I'm in a great environment, but constantly terrified because I don't know what I can and cannot do with respect to my computing co-workers; after a year on the job, I was deputed to replace a popular and knowledgeable woman who was popular with the computing staff but not with all the library staff (because of her abrasive personality). My library co-workers don't really have a good sense of what is reasonable to expect, either, though. It's a challenge.
The best weapon in the misogynist aresenal seems to be to accuse women of being oversensitive, since it's a double layer attack/defense.
I don't like the proposed solution either, especially as it means I have to rely on people like you who have a lot more social skills than I to educate misogynists...