{"id":164,"date":"2008-07-22T23:56:56","date_gmt":"2008-07-22T23:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2008\/07\/22\/on_sexism_and_shiny_sports_cars\/"},"modified":"2008-07-22T23:56:56","modified_gmt":"2008-07-22T23:56:56","slug":"on_sexism_and_shiny_sports_cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2008\/07\/22\/on_sexism_and_shiny_sports_cars\/","title":{"rendered":"On sexism and shiny sports cars"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was going to write this as a comment on Henry’s post<\/a>, but decided it deserved a post of its own. Sorry Corie<\/a>, it’s only peripherally about science.<\/p>\n

\nTrue story.<\/p>\n

\nAt the GRC earlier this month during one of the ‘free’ periods, we’d organized to go to the lake and kayak (_is_ that a verb?) and swim and generally chill in the warm sun (the water was lovely, too). I’d made friends with a French-Italian chap (now working in the US) by the name of \u2014 well, let’s call him Giacomo, for reasons that might be self-evident \u2014 who had hired a car for the week. So I persuaded him to drive myself and three others, who all happened to be female, to the lake: even though he didn’t want to do anything so water-sporty he, being Giacomo, was happy to drive three ladies anywhere.<\/p>\n

\nSo the three piled in the shiny red Pontiac, leaving the front passenger seat free for me. A comment was made about the male\/female distribution and I did point out that I’d let them choose their seats. Giacomo would obviously have preferred someone prettier next to him. <\/p>\n

\nOne of the women said something complimentary about the attractiveness of a man+sports car combo. I felt it would be remiss of me to fail to remind everyone that whereas Giacomo had hired a shiny red sports car, I actually owned<\/em> one.<\/p>\n

\n“Oooooooo!” chorussed the back seat.<\/p>\n

\nOn the return journey I sat in the back, in the middle. A fun time was had by all, with the possible exception of Giacomo. <\/p>\n

\nPostscript. <\/p>\n

\nThe funny thing is that the following day, the weather being inclement, Giacomo and myself went to a pub in town. I ordered a couple of beers and some nachos + salsa, and was asked for my ID<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was going to write this as a comment on Henry’s post, but decided it deserved a post of its own. Sorry Corie, it’s only peripherally about science. True story. At the GRC earlier this month during one of the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}