Men:Default; Women:Other
I don’t need to look hard to find sexist shit to fill my day, but sometimes it’s just delivered to my mailbox for me.
I got a(nother) letter from Cambridge Who’s Who saying that WOOT! You are appointed as a candidate to the Cambridge Who’s Who Registry Among Executive and Professional Women. See that, only among the women. I know this is a scam, since to get on the registry that will do you no good, you have to cough up hundreds of dollars.
But what strikes me is that when you google this, you quickly realize that men get on the Cambridge Who’s Who Among Executives and Professionals. Not Executive and Professional Men…no, no, silly, just Executives and Professionals.
Because executives and professionals are by default, male. They don’t need a special category like us womens do, what with us being all cute by trying to work.
June 2nd, 2009 at 7:45 am
Don’t be TOO hard on them. The fine people at Cambridge realized that if they doubled their publications by printing two books, they’d double their revenue stream :-)
I toss all that stuff straight in the recycle bin.
June 2nd, 2009 at 9:57 am
Yeah, Women: the Other White Meat.