Meanwhile, the 45th parallel scoots right through the heart of downtown Minneapolis.
Question: how did this thread devolve into another Canada thread?
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Sorry, not sorry?
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Artist’s impression of a sufficiently advanced thread becoming a Canada thread: 
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Shouldn’t the last one be wearing a toque?
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And a flannel shirt!
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I grew up pretty much on the 55th parallel and have probably seen less snow than you.
The gulf stream is about the only thing keeping the UK habitable.
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I guarantee you’ve seen acres less snow. 
A few years ago hear in SE MI, our record snow accumulation record was Hulksmashed by a 93" winter total.
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Is this a sort of a feminist song?
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I have no answers, and refuse to be prescriptive. I guarantee I will come up with the wrong solution.
At exec meetings women always add either impactful strategy (i.e. real leadership), tactical decisions, or nuance that was missed. Every. Time. Doesn’t matter if it is leadership, creative, support. It doesn’t matter.
If an organization ignores 51% of their talent and market… Isn’t that just simply stupid?
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Well, I don’t think it passes the Bechdel test…
It would be easy to argue either way, but it addresses the issue @MissyPants brought up:
So in the sense that the song denies that passivity and self-denial are desirable qualities in women, it qualifies.
This one carries the theme a bit further:
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But Ms. Sheridan is telling these girls to use their wiles and make themselves “part of the chase”, as well as to “lay a trap”.
I think it’s about feminism in the bedroom; why should women wait and slap wrists? To my ears, she’s singing about being sexual and not just being sexy.
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So much this
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I got through about 5 minutes before I had seen enough
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I can’t watch that show, and I’ve barely been able to do so in the past when it’s been on in someone else’s house. I’ve known and grown up with (me and my brother, for two) with science geeks and believe me you, we didn’t end up like that.
It’s like they tried to make a sitcom of …oh, I don’t know, Oppenheimer or someone like that, only let’s make it FUNNY! As in “The Fisher King” when the TV execs want to make a show about homeless guys who are HAPPY being homeless.
Oh geez, I’ve not taken my Effexor.
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I got through a bit of BBT – it was recommended to me by a friend who is a big feminist (really).
But the misogyny got to me, and that yes, for most episodes they’re not actually being science people got to me. Most of the time they act more like drama nerds. Even though there are plenty of articles about how much research the writers and set dressers do, it seems like they don’t use much.
It’s a show about nerds, at least the Hollywood version of them. It’s not for nerds.
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I know, the bit about Sherman being Asperger’s or at least in the ASD spectrum was to me so unreal because that’s just not how Aspies act, for the most part. They’re nearly never snippy on purpose.
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A female duet that isn’t about a man. Hmm. Any suggestions?
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I hate TBBT with a passion. Blackface for nerds. Nerd face. It’s like:
“I’m going to the comic book store”
[laugh track] HAHAHA NEEEEERD WHAT A LOSER!
Not laughing with us, not even at us, but at the fact that we exist.
The blatant sexism and homophobia are every bit as bad. I didn’t watch the video, but it will be a total shit show when I do watch it.
If you mean catty and petty and full of themselves, then yes. Otherwise, Drama nerds are cooler than that.
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Socially inept, yes. We come across as rude and unemotional and self centered, but we’re not catty and passive aggressive. That’s in the NT domain exclusively.
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I’ve never watched the show but the insights into the trope and the misogyny that it allows to pass has real fallout for men and women in tech.
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