Comments | glazed_glitter: smart girls have more fun

glazed_glitter

smart girls have more fun

Mar 22, 2009 15:48

I recently discovered this: smart girls at the party. It's an online series by Amy Poehler that interviews a different girl or set of girls each episode. Each girl has a particular interest, or is super smart about some particular topic, and talks with Poehler about that topic. It's amazing. In every way. Poehler's interviews - and I should clarify ( Read more... )

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lovebettie March 23 2009, 02:21:45 UTC

I LOVE amy poehler & LOVE smart girl at the party- it made me so happy to see media that was really feminist & fun & smart for young girls, esp coming from a woman in comedy who has always taken a really critical feminist perspective.

Why didn't you like amy p before?

glazed_glitter March 24 2009, 00:04:32 UTC

well, now i love her too.

i'm not entirely sure why i didn't before. some combination of that awful looking movie "baby mama" and my dislike of snl and snl related folks (tina fey excluded, of course). it wasn't based on anything deep.

annaclaire March 23 2009, 13:06:15 UTC

I once read a study on "high-performing" women where the authors found that some incredible number of women who hold Ph.D.s or are in Ph.D. programs - I think at least a quarter, if not a third - think that their acceptance into their programs, or the job offers they received, are total flukes. Like, that they were supposed to have been rejected, but their files were accidentally placed on an admission pile. They spend their entire career thinking they're total fakes.

glazed_glitter March 24 2009, 00:12:39 UTC

yeah. i went to a workshop on the impostor syndrome a few years ago and that seemed to be a prevalent problem. i have my own version which is that i worry that i look better on paper or perform better in interviews than i can actually deliver on. so i'm convinced that people feel like i tricked them into hiring me or admitting me and they're disappointed. of course i realize that it's not rational and is rooted in a lot of internalized sexism, but i can't quite get it out of my head.

hunter0green July 23 2009, 21:42:09 UTC

hai

hi

xo -b

shibusa August 8 2011, 03:09:32 UTC

sorry if it's weird for me to comment on this... I saw you in the latest corgilove thread, and I was just intrigued by this ( ... )

shibusa August 8 2011, 03:13:27 UTC

if I haven't said anything completely horrible here, would you like to be friends?
I don't want it to sound like I'm demeaning online communities, and I realized it might come across like that. :p that would be ridiculously hypocritical of me. I guess was just trying to say that the power of the internet works best as a supplement, not as the whole diet.

glazed_glitter August 11 2011, 15:59:36 UTC

Yes, I'd be happy too. Nothing horrible at all. I definitely agree with your comments here.

I will warn you that this journal has become mostly about me processing things that are going on in my life, so it might not be that interesting to you. But if you don't find it too boring I'm happy to have you.

glazed_glitter August 11 2011, 16:07:24 UTC

I agree that there are some serious drawbacks to the internet. And ironically, at the time when I really could have used this show, I was staunchly anti-internet for a lot of the reasons you've mentioned. And I think if people limit their connections to the internet, that that can be limiting. But things like, say, zines, which circulated on paper, did kind of similar work to blogs, and sometimes helped people form real, important connections, either through letter writing or real life.

I definitely hear you that learning to deal with the situation at hand can be really valuable. It's just hard for me to not wish that things had been easier for the baby queer who felt so isolated, with no knowledge that not feeling isolated was even an option. I do think the internet can help with that by giving a sense of the possibilities that exist in other locations or social circles. And that would have been nice to know about.