And letting women have equal opportunity in a field doesn't just mean less opportunities for men, the pay scale tends to plummet too. So there's really a huge financial disincentive for men to be feminists.

That doesn't mean I think men aren't feminist. I know plenty of men who are, my husband and the folks here among them obviously. It's so interesting to me raising a son and watching him struggle with the dawning awareness of how systematic sexism, racism, etc work.

the pay scale tends to plummet too.

Yeah. I know that that is true but I don't understand why it happens so it's hard for me to take into account, but it bears consideration.

I dawdled too long and now it's time to watch football. Sorry, yard, maybe I'll get to you this afternoon?

Timelies all!

Just got back from the grocery store. Later we'll go out to meet Gary's mom for dinner.(We did dinner with Gary's dad and stepmom last night.)

Football!

I'm home! Actually got to watch last week's Saints game on the ship, on the big outdoor screen on the pool deck. It was a very dramatic game, and actually pretty chilly with the wind going, but fun to be out with other fans when the Saints won in such dramatic fashion.

Today's game is not going quite so well.

Anyway! I swam with dolphins! I did this thing where you stick out your feet flat behind you and two dolphins push you with their noses and you rise up out of the water almost to vertical. It was crazy and surreal. We also got to spend a few minutes in a pen with manatees, who are hilariously chill and seem to do nothing other than float around and eat and possibly call each other "dude".

Anyway, laundry going, and apparently there's some fucking rule that I have to go back to work tomorrow.

The whole 'driving women from the field' is a frequent topic in the women in astro forums I follow, but then, of corse it would be there.

My floors are taking forever to dry. Still damp in spots and I finished almost an hr ago. It doesn't seem that humid. In fact, not humid at all.

Later we'll go out to meet Gary's mom for dinner.(We did dinner with Gary's dad and stepmom last night.)

How are all the grandparents enjoying the new grandbaby?

Wow, that is truly awesome Dana, in the original sense of the word.

I have scrubbed down the kitchen, now I need to go clean the bathroom too. Then mop. Then done.

Anyway! I swam with dolphins! I did this thing where you stick out your feet flat behind you and two dolphins push you with their noises and you rise up out of the water almost to vertical. It was crazy and surreal.

That sounds incredible.

I am tuckered out! Too much fun this weekend, between dinner and karaoke Friday night, being out doing various things yesterday from 11am to 11pm, and just getting home from lunch out with my mother after going to church at 10. Now I need to plan out cooking, then grocery shop and cook, but I don't wanna. I guess I can plan, at least. Maybe I won't go to the office tomorrow after all. I can get some stuff done from here, I guess.

That's so cool Dana!

And letting women have equal opportunity in a field doesn't just mean less opportunities for men, the pay scale tends to plummet too. So there's really a huge financial disincentive for men to be feminists.

Yes...it's crazy. Dudes get paid more in male-dominated fields...and if they go into female-dominated fields they still make more than the women in that field!

That sounds wonderful, Dana! Now I want to chill with the manatees.