Five things

[julad]

A few drive-by notes while I try to find time to post something substantial:

1. OMG OMG White Collar was awesome yay!

2. It probably won't have escaped your noticed that the Candadian Shack thing is on again. I haven't written a new one, but I did put up my old ones on the archive: http://archiveofourown.org/users/julad (The remainder of my

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[eponymous]

Just before I read your post, I was reading this New Yorker piece on Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook. Whilst I don't agree with all her assessments on the realities of sexism, I do agree with many of her conclusions. She emphasises that women should "lean in" -- put themselves forwards for that promotion, ask for that raise, push their accomplishments, etc. You might find it interesting.

Also, hi. :)

[julad]

Hi! How are you?

I saw her TED talk a while back and it really influenced me. I've told myself to not leave before I leave - not to have a baby, just quitting - and told it to women who work for me.

In the case above, it really was a case of a multimillion dollar project that I probably really was not equipped to deal with, but man. If that fucktard can get a 25K fucking pay rise while being mind-blowingly unequipped, I clearly should have less regard for whether I think I can do something.

[eponymous]

I'm glad you recommended the TED talk, which I just sat down and watched. I came away with mixed feelings about Sandberg based on the New Yorker article, but I think she comes across much better in the talk, perhaps because the talk is focused on action.

(It's kind of ironic that she blames women for their insecurities without acknowledging that the insecurities exist largely due to the male-dominated society we're raised in. It's not like women wake up one day and say, Hey, I want to be insecure about my career! Yet even as she talks about the inverse relationship between success and likability for women, she doesn't seem to draw the connection back to why women are insecure in the first place. Nor does she offer any solutions for this problem, perhaps because that would mean she'd have to acknowledge that the problem largely is caused by men. Sandberg comes across as curiously reluctant to blame men for their sexism.)

I'm not bad at all, thank you! And yourself?