Maybe "ungendered professionalism" sounds "homogeneous and unappealing"
to you, but not to me. I value good, deep thinking. Whether that
thinking comes from men or from women is irrelevant to me.
Cheers.
Fil
Fiona Jane Candy wrote:
> Hi Lubomir
>
> Yesterday I showed two prospective students around the Design Department where I work. I took them first into the textile workshop (where I teach). There were around 30 female students working in there (there are currently no males on our Textile Innovations degree). I went from there to the Games Design studio where there were 30 or 40 male students working (there are currently 3 female students on our games design degree, although I should explain that there are now two female tutors on the team).
>
> Gendered thinking was almost palpable as we moved from one room to the next.
>
> Can't let you get away with your ideology of the ungendered nature of professionalism. It makes professionalism sound very homogenous and unappealing.
>
> Cheers Lubomir, I know that your provocation is only an intellectual challenge.
>
> :)
>
> Fiona
>
> www.a-brand.co.uk
>
>
>>>> "Lubomir S. Popov" <[log in to unmask]> 01/19/08 3:31 pm >>>
> Hi Teena,
>
> Please do not make provocations. You know how much contentious is
> this subject matter. This can be the beginning of a major gender revolution!
>
> I am a proponent of non-genderized science and professions. In the
> professions, there should be no men and women. Men and women are in
> the bars and in bed. In the professions we have doctors, engineers,
> architects, planners, not men and women. If someone performs with
> his/her gender thinking on the workplace, that is too bad. That is an
> indication that this person is not professionalized. Professional
> thinking should be unisex and specific only to the profession. When
> professionalized, men and women have to give up their streetwise
> gender thinking in favor of professional thinking. Anything other
> than that indicates lack of professionalization.
>
> There are a lot of myths in the world. Some of them are about dumb
> blondies. Others are about caring women. And so on. The bottom line:
> there is too much ideology introduced in today's world and sadly, in
> the professions. All kinds of myths are disseminated in order to
> obtain a better position in the process of acquiring resources.
>
> I can talk a lot about this, but this is enough.
>
> Best wishes Teena, I know that your provocation is only an
> intellectual challenge.
>
> Lubomir
>
> At 04:44 PM 1/18/2008, teena clerke wrote:
>> Dear All,
>>
>> I have a question for the list:
>>
>> Q: If aliens were to abduct all the male design researchers from
>> this world, how do you think the field of design research will develop?
>>
>> Teena
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