Comments on: Graphic Design, Feminism, and Me – Part 1

By: dani

dani — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:04:57 +0000

I hear you. I was really good at science in high school, and get really excited about it even now, but have always felt uncomfortable in science class rooms, which always had male teachers and it just seemed intimidating, so i stick with what i know i’m already good at! which i’m happy with, but i sometimes wonder what would have happened if i had decided to study physics or chemistry instead. it’s always inspiring to know and see women working in male dominated spaces, such as yourself and the sciency ladies i know.

you are in europe by now!

By: Tab

Tab — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 03:43:04 +0000

I have my calendar marked for a lecture on women in the transportation field happening in March. There’s also an odd tension between the “soft” aspects of policy and investigating social and environmental concerns, and that “hard” engineering and drafting aspects. Does conforming into the soft side, more typical of women, make one a less progressive woman? Of course not, but it could feel that way.

By: Victoria

Victoria — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:45:37 +0000

Comment!
Huh, that is kind of weird. I tend to have the exact opposite, since I dance and do psych/child development (a very female field).

Well, if it’s any consolation, when I think of graphic designers, I always think of you first. So for me, women are the best in the field!

By: Conor

Conor — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:21:56 +0000

What struck me while watching Helvetica was not that most (all?) of the typographers are male, but that they represented the senecense of modernism itself.

I don’t know Glaser, but it’s surprising that he didn’t get the memo. Kudos to Eggers for being progressive. The awkwardness of that exchange reminds me of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIUzLpO1kxI (except, somehow, I think historians have vindicated West, to co-opt Bush’s own mantra)

Incidentally, I saw this posted on the Slog yesterday, excerpted from AHBWOSG:
“This is a president that, fuck, we have some sort of crush on this man. He speaks like a president, not always authoritative or anything but he can form sentences, complex sentences with beginnings and ends, subordinate clauses—you can hear his semicolons! He knows the answers to questions. He knows acronyms and the names of foreign leaders, their deputies. It is heartening, it makes our country look smart, and this is an important thing, something we have too long been without.… Toph, I would say, Toph, this man is actually bright, could be brilliant. This man still read books; encyclopedic and charming and so seemingly real… and though we hope that he is real even if he is not entirely real he is more real, and smart enough to seem real, and wins both ways…”