{"id":5846,"date":"2010-10-14T07:49:25","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T11:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=5846"},"modified":"2010-10-14T07:50:23","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T11:50:23","slug":"old-stereotypes-still-thrive-in-niche-ecologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/10\/14\/old-stereotypes-still-thrive-in-niche-ecologies\/","title":{"rendered":"Old stereotypes still thrive in niche ecologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jocaird.blogspot.com\/2010\/10\/some-recent-correspondence.html\" target=\"_blank\">An exchange<\/a> that wouldn&#8217;t have been at all surprising in, say, 1950:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><tt>\"Jo,<br \/>\nAs much as I appreciate your reply, I think this manuscript is perahps [sic] too heavy for you.<br \/>\nDon't get me wrong, I am not remeaning [sic] your professionalism, it's just VERY profound and maybe too much for a female to edit.<br \/>\nA delicate mind I do not want editing this.<br \/>\nBest regards,<br \/>\nEtc\"<\/tt><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Jo Caird called on deep reserves of patience to respond:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><tt>\"Dear Etc,<br \/>\nThanks for your prompt reply.<br \/>\nThanks too for your candid (not to mention eloquently expressed - although I believe the word you were looking for was 'demeaning', not 'remeaning') appraisal of my intellectual and professional capabilities. It's reassuring to me, as a 'female' (again, I believe you mean 'woman') of delicate sensibilities and feeble judgement, to know that considerate gentlemen such as yourself exist to protect me from that which I lack the depth of character to understand.<br \/>\nAs to how you've assessed that I am too weak-minded to work on, or even indeed to read, your manuscript, given that we have never met, or even spoken on the phone, I can only speculate. I wish you, in any case, all the best with it.<br \/>\nHave a lovely weekend.<br \/>\nKind regards,<br \/>\nJo\"<\/tt><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>H\/T to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TimHarford\/status\/27323899349\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Harford<\/a> for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An exchange that wouldn&#8217;t have been at all surprising in, say, 1950: &#8220;Jo, As much as I appreciate your reply, I think this manuscript is perahps [sic] too heavy for you. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I am not remeaning [sic] your professionalism, it&#8217;s just VERY profound and maybe too much for a female to edit. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,73],"tags":[198,156,355,43,134],"class_list":["post-5846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-randomness","tag-equalrights","tag-fail","tag-prejudice","tag-women","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1wi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5846"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5849,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5846\/revisions\/5849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}